| Flamma_Man #1297359 2 months ago |
Hello, felt like posting this little theory. Hope I didn't do anything wrong with the tagging. |
| dragonSpike #1297368 2 months ago |
Take a look at Cadence. In the past, she had purely pink wings. Now they're turning purple. Maybe she's got the disease that effected them??? |
| Littlecabbit #1297372 2 months ago |
Hmm, they kinda look like they're rotting away, the land they came from looked like it was already dead. This is an interesting theory. |
| Skarkdahn #1297375 2 months ago |
Holy... Fudgemuffins...
This actually works. It's a stretch of an idea, but it most certainly works, provided a source if this corruption can be found. |
| Anonymous #1297377 2 months ago |
When did the minions use magic other than to change form? When they were fighting the mane 6 the real twilight was the only one that used magic.
Unless I derped and missed something. |
| Flamma_Man #1297386 2 months ago |
Discord? I mean, this makes me feel MILES better about Cadance existing. Maybe they might expand upon it.
Heck, I just can't wait until Discord shows up in the Third Season. (John De Lanci confirmed that he did more voice work. Obviously for Discord.) |
| Littlecabbit #1297388 2 months ago |
I kinda like the Flutterpony theory better, since aparently, the Flutterponies lived off of love, so the lack there-of for them is causing their bodies to slowly rot away, but this could work too I guess |
| CottonTales #1297394 2 months ago |
they did the green fire thing 7377 |
| Anonymous #1297398 2 months ago |
Fallen Alicorns? |
| Flamma_Man #1297400 2 months ago |
@ Anonymous #1297377
... Did you not she the picture of them preforming magic as they charged the ground? Looked a heck of a lot like magic to me. |
| Anonymous #1297401 2 months ago |
I like this theory.. I like it alot |
| Flamma_Man #1297422 2 months ago |
@ Littlecabbit
Totally understandable. Yours might work better too if what you say about them living off of love. However, it's a bit confusing why they have horns. Hm... Doesn't really matter! Hooray for head-canons! |
| HotFuzz #1297426 2 months ago |
That sounds quite good actually... |
| Flamma_Man #1297431 2 months ago |
Opps, made a REALLY obvious typo at the end. Should be THEIR and not THEY'RE.
Gosh I'm tired. |
| Cgeta #1297465 2 months ago |
And they got called changelings because they started to magically change their appeareance to look normal again. Over the time they got quite good at it, which is why they got called that.
But it drains power, so they mostly stay in their basic form. |
| Gentle_Coltte_of_Leisure #1297480 2 months ago |
I dunno, I'm still subscribing to the Flutter Pony theory. |
| Cgeta #1297495 2 months ago |
Perhaps Flutterponies do have horns in this universe |
| PonyRIG #1297500 2 months ago |
someone can tell me what is a flutterpony? |
| Flamma_Man #1297561 2 months ago |
@ PonyRIG
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Flutter+Ponies |
| Anonymous #1297562 2 months ago |
^It´s a fae pony. Basically a Seelie version of our ponies. There´s just a rumor and so far only mention in fanfics.
FO:E has them i think. |
| Anonymous #1297571 2 months ago |
Can someone screenshot 2:48 of episode 26? The one where we see half of Twi´s face with her own magic light shined on?
Thanks in advance. |
| Anonymous #1297597 2 months ago |
they have horns to disguise as unicrons, and wings to disguise as pegasi, but they're not either and they're not alicorns. They are being's who feed on the 'love' of others, they are a parasitic species, equine in origin, but not a member of ponykind. |
| CogWeaver #1297610 2 months ago |
CogWeaver(1296837) said: GET YER OWN HEADCANON, YATCH! Lol, I'm kidding, excellent deductions |
| Anonymous #1297628 2 months ago |
Are the minions even capable of speech? Do they have free will? Or is it restricted to the queen? |
| Anonymous #1297677 2 months ago |
I suspect most are females as in most insect colonies. Then again most characters in this show are female.
The Changelings shown are probably all female worker/soldier types and males, which are not shown, remain in the hives as drones. |
| Zincy #1297700 2 months ago |
Corrupted by tapping into the power of love the wrong way. We've seen the effects love and friendship have when used properly, maybe it has negative effects when its feed on improperly. |
| Zincy #1297709 2 months ago |
The old mage adage, don't consume an energy force you don't understand/is bigger then your own head. |
| CottonTales #1297710 2 months ago |
@Anon7628
they seem to have free will since that one playing with Pinkie decided to comply and shift form while the others were fighting...they never spoke so not sure about speech |
| CKSM96 #1297712 2 months ago |
Stealing this headcanon thank you. |
| Anonymous #1297857 2 months ago |
inb4 more Changling OCs. |
| Anonymous #1297905 2 months ago |
LIVE FOR THE SWARM!
Kerrigan!Celestia sounds scary as all hell. |
| Anonymous #1298262 2 months ago |
You're all wrong, the Changlings are Alicorns the Reapers converted into their slaves! |
| Anonymous #1298388 2 months ago |
They've gone lambent! |
| Anonymous #1298628 2 months ago |
I say Changelings are bugs that evolved a pony shape so that they could easily mimic the dominant sentient race, being ponies, without contact breaking the facade. |
| Karthek #1298833 2 months ago |
So sinister!
I like this theory more than any other. |
| Bronyboy #1299477 2 months ago |
@1298262
Changelings confirmed for Collectors Assuming Direct Control! |
| Rinnosuke #1299710 2 months ago |
Didn`t read all thread.
But they are changelings after all. They can look like they want. |
| Flamma_Man #1300345 2 months ago |
@ Rinnosuke
Yeah, just thought I'd share my own theory, just my own head-canon. If in the end they aren't, oh well, they'll still be an awesome race regardless. |
| Anonymous #1302752 2 months ago |
Makes sense. I guess if you compare MLP to high fantasy;
Alicorns are elves, while the Changelings are the deceptive Dark elves. Especially the way Celestia acted with fierce hostility, rather than sitting back and growling at most. An age old foe maybe? |
| Anonymous #1303747 2 months ago |
Changelings as corrupted alicorns, eh?
How about we take another look at Nightmare Moon, Luna's "corrupted" form? Black, green slit-pupil eyes, shapeshifting powers, armour, wants love... |
| Sindri #1303763 2 months ago |
I'd guess it to be a case of convergent evolution rather than corruption of an existing race. The changelings are physically weaker than ponies (Rarity could beat them up), don't have all that much in the way of magical power without love to support them, and are much weaker fliers than pegasi, but simply possessing characteristics of all pony types allows them to masquerade as any of the three, so they can infiltrate society and feed. Lacking a horn would make them unable to pass as unicorns, lacking wings would make them unable to pass as pegasi, so they developed both in order to widen their potential food supply. |
| JJ_Malcolm #1303963 2 months ago |
The changelings....
Are victims of The Smooze! |
| Anonymous #1305888 2 months ago |
The changelings are changelings. What's wrong with them just being a different kind of creature? |