What do you guys think of reformed changelings?

To be honest i like em but i feel like all the entire fandom hate them :v
I don’t know if i should join the fandom and only like the unreformed one.
When i just write changeling oc on derpibooru unreformed ocs got way more likes than reformed ones…
I know that reformed changelings are boring in the show but what if someone make a more interresting lore about them?

@Background Pony #DE8E
I’m still kinda a new fan of MLP, and after watching season 6 and beyond, I do like the new changes of the changelings. Sure yes the original versions will be missed, tho I felt like the reformed changelings just shown their transition from evil to good.

To answer your question fully, yes I do quite like both the original and reformed changelings versions.

@Blackblade360
I’m glad i’m not the only one who likes the reformed ones.
I think the fandom is kinda rude towards reformed changelings….
Nowadays i still see haters of them…

I like reformed changelings, but I can understand why other fans don’t. Changelings used to be more animalistic and even alien in nature, and if you really liked that, having them replaced with what are essentially just ponies that sorta look like bugs was probably pretty disappointing!

One thing I think would’ve been cool is if reformed changelings had retained some of their insect behaviors. What if they still had the ability to work as a hivemind when needed? What if they still needed to have a queen to reproduce? Or maybe they do, and they’re just imitating pony culture and assigning parents to each grub? Who knows…

@fillyfool
I have a theory that the reformed changelings are like the black crazy ants, in this case:

The kings and queens of black crazy ants can reproduce without any problems.

The reformed changelings are kinda similar, in this case they can reproduce each other without even needing a king or queen to lay lots of eggs.

Reformed changelings do look like bugs in my opinion :v
Also i made a AU where it’s focus on the reformed changelings, Chrysalis had reformed and they have a kingdom like crystal empire, I also headcanon that they share but also take love. In their kingdom, they have guards and soldier like before.

It’s really difficult to believe that Chrysalis spent more than a millennia leading a species that has this incredibly convenient evolution that could’ve been triggered by any rogue drone just happening to have a change of heart. Since the events in Fiendship #5 are told from her perspective while in captivity, I feel there’s three different options to explain it:

Comic discontinuity: She entirely fabricated her origin story to hide the reality that her hive has only been around for a short time, hasn’t done anything worthwhile in all of it’s existence and is being kept in a sub-optimal state due to her desperate need for control.

Comic continuity: All of her backstory is accurate, she used to lead a larger empire that somehow didn’t achieve this all-positive evolution for some reason, but after being magically blasted by Celestia was forced into hiding for possibly up to a millennia. Just like pretty much every single villain or major event in the history of Equestria, she happened to be pulled out of her torpor and became relevant again in response to the events of the show.

Middle-ground: Most of her backstory is accurate, but she’s purposefully leaving out that Celestia’s magical blast, the one that was strong enough to blow holes into her went even further and is directly responsible for turning future generations of drones into mutants whenever they trigger that deeply ingrained magic within their DNA through friendship. From there, it can be assumed that Chrysalis either couldn’t achieve the same result and culled entire hives whenever it happened or that she realized mutation would make her sterile and just left them to die off on their own before starting over. Given how her strategy after the events of S6 shifts to ignoring the mutated hive and being by herself, I’d be inclined to go with the latter. It would ultimately explain why she hasn’t been able to reliably expand for all this time, has this need to keep her hive starved and yet hasn’t been overthrown by a rogue mutant hive or mutated herself.

It’s pretty clear which one is my favorite, but the others are just a valid TBH, if not disappointingly so.

all bugs are good bugs

I actually like them quite a bit. A (seemingly) mindless swarm of emotion eating bug horse things may make good faceless bad guys (in the same vein as stormtroopers), but they are lousy characters, and MLP is kind of a character driven show.


@Background Pony #DE8E

I find the reformed versions far more interesting than the original. In fact it was thanks to them that I was able to formulate a headcanon for what “earth pony magic” was, back in the day.