For some ponies, friendship is magic. For others, it is a curse. Chrysalis, Queen of the Changelings, is freed from stone, to find herself once again the Queen of nothing. She flees her captors, and finds her thoughts turning once more to her errant children.
A one-shot speedwrite, completed in 40 minutes, written for the Quills and Sofas contest FiM 10th anniversary panic fiction contest, on the theme 'friendship is magic'. (update: won second place!)
The word I sounds like a cliché... Every beginning of a sentence try to use more here I am or there I was. I in the begging of a sentence is like saying... I did this I did that... that sort of thing... it could be There I was ... etc....
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I interpreted all of the 'I' statements as a deliberate choice - the point is that Chrysalis is a massive narcissist obsessed with herself.
Mmrmm
Me: "Yes! I wrote 2500 words one-shot in one week! And it only took another week to proofread! Yay !"
Me: "... ... ... whaaat ? But that ... that's ... ... ... I need a drink "
Nice story and Chrissy should really see a shrink
Rather dark and a great insight into her mind. Macabre. Great writing!
Allow me to demonstrate how to prevent the return of ancient, unrepentant evils: ALONDRO SHOOTS CHRYSALIS IN THE FACE A LOT!!
I believe in the firm application of the old, tried-and-true TV Trope of "Why Don't We Just Shoot Them?"
Only when that fails do I move on to... other methods. Which tend to involve planetary explosions.
What does that mean?
Wow, mother of the year, everyone.
Absolutely love this one. You have a very interesting and complex way of portraying a villain.
I find Chrysalis to be a very interesting character. I mean in canon she's nothing more than an irrational evil witch and Thorax and the rest of the love bugs are her poor misunderstood children. In the realm of fanfictions however we find a myriad of possibilities. Here are some of my favorite ideas: A) Chrysalis isn't the only changeling queen, and there are queens both better and worse than her. B) The love bug look is how changelings are supposed to look and the scary black insectoidal thing comes from severe malnourishment. C) The changelings were originally flutterponies corrupted by black or chaos magic.
10481702 cordially inviting her to cavort with the cordium, are we? pixeljudge.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Project_Wingman_R_19.jpg
10516722 Funny you should mention flutterponies corrupted by chaos magic... https://www.fimfiction.net/story/348029/metamorphosis
I'll never be finishing it, cuz I got finished with the most interesting part and then was like, "Oh, now I have to spend twice as much time explaining how they learn to use their powers, and their hunger for love and blah blah blah... BORING!!"