Bevendre

graphite-doodles-draws replied to your link: Should Papi and the changelings of her hive adopt…

You should do to the story what you want to do, not what we want you to do.

That’s generally the plan, but I still like to get feedback from the followers now and then.  I’ll be taking the concepts, but altering the designs by hive so they won’t be as offputting as the canon designs from Chrysalis’s hive.

I think people might be looking at the new changeling designs too literally.  Think for a moment of the possibilities!  Before all changelings were kind of just generic buggy ponies, but now we have a hive with blatant beetle characteristics between Thorax’s horns and the shell covering the wings.  All that the finale has done is shown that changelings can be colorful, compassionate and more heavily influenced by insect characteristics.

Who’s to say that all changelings have to be beetle-y?  Why can’t there be a hive with spider leanings that further develops them?  Or bee?  Or dragonfly? There are tons of possibilities now that don’t detract from the old ones.  Even then, the new designs are different, but they grow on you over time.  At least they did with me.