The creature spent many cycles of the sun inside the yellow one's tree building. The yellow one kept it from doing much other than lie in the big soft thing, but that was OK. It was probably to help the creature's injuries heal faster, as it had been feeling much better as time went on. Soon enough the creature was following the yellow one around, curious as to what it did while outside the room with the big soft thing. The yellow one protested at first, motioning toward the big soft thing, but the creature could move around very well now. So with persistence the yellow one allowed the creature to follow. The downward slope with lots of platforms was a bit scary at first, but the creature managed to get the hang of moving up and down them eventually.
The yellow one did all kinds of things around the tree building. It tended to the creatures wounds, it looked at strange blocks that opened up in the middle and had lots of black marks on them, it gave food to all the animals (which were warming up to the creature slowly but surely), it even went outside the building every now and again, but the creature wasn't allowed to follow it out there, no matter how many times it tried to follow.
Sometimes the yellow one went outside for long periods of time, which made the creature really anxious and frightened. There wasn't much to do during those times, and the creature couldn't help but worry for the yellow one. what if something happened to it outside? The creature shuddered at the thought. The yellow one's demise was likely the creature's demise, and it could do nothing about that.
But sure enough, every time the yellow one left the tree, it returned some time after. The creature was very happy when the yellow one came back and was sure to make it known.
The purple one and the colourful one often came by to visit the yellow one and the creature, among various others. They always talked a lot, and the creature didn't really know what was being said. It liked having new things to listen to anyway. They never came by together, and the purple one seemed to come for the sole purpose of examining the creature. It would look over its body, cast spells on it and make little black lines on the weird square things that opened up in the middle. The colourful one seemed to visit only to protect the yellow one. The creature could feel the bonds that tied those two together, like the strongest stone wall imaginable. Impenetrable without a large and very powerful thing, or a small thing with a lot of time. Perhaps they were companions? The colourful one was still distrustful toward the creature, but it was becoming less so each time it visited.
One day the yellow one got the creature to try eating some slightly yellow stuff, that the creature had seen it eat many times before. The creature was excited to try the same things that the yellow one ate, but was disappointed to find that the yellow stuff was dry, thin and tasted very bad. How could the yellow one eat this stuff? The creature even threw up a small while after, much to the yellow one's distress. The creature wasn't asked to eat anything other than the delicious pink stuff it usually ate from then onwards, which the creature was very happy for.
Perhaps the yellow stuff was only for the yellow one. It ate many other things but maybe the yellow stuff was more beneficial to the yellow one. It made enough sense. But why would the beneficial thing for the creature be pink? the creature's body was not pink. That was likely part of why the colourful ones were so distrustful of the creature. It knew it was different but had yet to figure out the extent of that difference.
The creature's thoughts swam at the possibilities of this, the purple one would likely eat those small round things on the bushes the creature saw in passing and the colourful one would eat all kinds of things! There were so many different colours that the creature had to stop and think of other things. Its head was starting to hurt.
The colourful ones were very protective of their own kind. The creature could tell just by feeling. It knew that it was different, plain as day, but it was obviously similar enough to bring out some nice feelings. The yellow one was just so amazing, if not for its actions the creature would have perished without any doubt.
The creature could still scarcely believe how fortunate it was with its current situation. There were no predators to worry about. There was no more hurting and fear. The steady stream of nice feeling from the yellow one kept the creature from feeling sad or lonely, and there was a clear view of the sun at the start and the end of the day out some of the various holes in the building. The creature may have been given many other comforts, but it never forgot the sun, with its glowing warmth and its yellow light.
Yellow.
When night fell and the sun was out of the sky, gone to some place the creature could only dream of, it could sometimes see another presence in the sky from its resting place. It was just as big as the sun, if not bigger, and it was pure white. It cast a much less intense glow than the sun did, and was always a different shape whenever the creature spotted it. Sometimes it was round like the sun, and sometimes it was only half that size. It was quite mysterious to the creature, and it wondered if the sun and this 'night sun' were related in some way. It would have to try and find out from the yellow one.
The creature was sitting on the floor watching the animals go about their business. They still mostly kept their distance from the creature but it didn't really mind. The little white one with the long things on its head was a bit more brave around the creature, and seemed largely protective of the yellow one. The creature didn't know what to think of the little white one so it did its best to ignore it.
The yellow one had finally taken the white wrappings off the creature's body after so long, and it was enjoying the freedom of movement it now had in its wings. It hadn't tried to fly with them yet as it had before crashing in the huge group of colourful things, but it was getting a little closer to that point every day. It was actually a little scared to try.
The creature was startled from its thoughts as it heard the front door click, signalling that someone was coming in. the creature knew that the only one who came in when the yellow one wasn't home was the yellow one! The creature got up as quickly as it could and rushed toward the door, excited that the yellow one was back.
The yellow one was pleased to see the creature, making that one noise it always did when it saw the creature, or wanted the creature's attention. The creature liked that noise. The yellow one didn't use it with any of the others and that made the creature feel special. The creature couldn't help but feel like that one noise had some sort of meaning. It had vague memories of creatures using different sounds to tell each other things, and the noises all the colourful ones made sounded very organised.
Perhaps it was some kind of communication? Perhaps that noise was a greeting!
The creature tested the waters with small noises, trying to replicate that noise that seemed to hold so much importance. The yellow one was confused for a moment before getting really excited. The positive feeling radiating from it was elating to the creature, urging it onward. It was a bit hard to practice sounds with so much excitement! With coaxing from the yellow one and plenty of experimentation, the creature eventually made a sound that was as similar as it could get to that sound that was used so much by the yellow one.
"Rose."
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Can you give me a quick explanation as to how much influence can a Queen according to your headcanon have to a drone?
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We already know that the hive-mind is not cannon. So it's safe to say this story is not 100% cannon. Please don't start arguing your own head-cannon or FiM cannon. You'll ruin the story.
Just take it for what it is. Read it how it's supposed to be read instead of how you think it should be read.
This chapter looks unfinished. I'm guessing you publish chapters and then work on them afterwards, or maybe you just hit publish by mistake?
5429827 I am not. I just want to determine whether I should read this or not.
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I feel as if the 'hive mind' premise, to me, is more of a bestial primal thing, which is why I prefer it. Not to the level of 'Kill the queen and you kill the swarm.' because that isn't the case, even in nature.
I feel that in the case of changelings, they have advanced enough cognitively to speak and think and have personal opinions and such, but much of that infrastructure still lies on the queen being the 'top dog' in a way. The queen is the most important member of the hive, to the level that you never see any changeling without a disguise speak.
I don't think that makes them animals, but I think it's more interesting to leave most of it to the one on top. In almost every conflict ever, fictional or not, there's someone or something up the top, making a lot of the calls. How much power that individual holds, and how their presence and/or death effects the populace they are controlling varies hugely. In the case of changelings in my headcanon, kill the queen and the swarm is severely crippled to the point of complete disarray. Which is a major flaw, but one that is necessary by nature in a society that has one individual controlling almost everything that happens.
In a war an assault would be expertly choreographed by one incredible mind, but take out that mind and it all crumbles. Like the most important beam in a structure. The structure wouldn't hold up without it. A major advantage with a major flaw.
In a land of magic, the notion of unspoken orders isn't too far fetched.
It's honestly up to the writer on what they want the story to have. Neither is right of wrong.
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That was a mistake, holy crap. I didn't hit save before hitting publish, I'll work on it now.
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From what I can tell, there is mention that the hatched drone received some sort of lesson about Twi and the princesses. If that were over the hive-mind then it is likely the hive-mind is a way of giving orders, and is not great for complex verbal communication. Just simple concepts and ideas portrayed.
'If this happens, do that.',
'If you see this pony, act like this.',
'When this time comes, do this.'.
That sort of thing.
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I don't get this.
I am sorry for the assumption but almost no writer that uses the hive mind even BOTHERS to explain his shit to anyone. It's a major sign of lack of creativity, worldbuilding, and originality. Most fanon interpretation of the hive mind is a species-wide propaganda directed by the downright evil queen tyrant who uses it for the purposes of world domination.
I will tell you one thing. I HATE THAT. The complete lack of originality, the staple hive mind and hive thing... they annoy me. Especially when it is clearly stated by the comics that the changelings are a kingdom and not a hive.
This time despite my comment actually being annoying ((i deleted the thread against the hive mind thingie cause i don't want bs nagging about it)) I actually cared enough to ask this question in order to see if the writer (you) actually had a legitimate explanation about it without blackwashing the notion of a union of thoughts and what it has to offer. I personally use the hive mind differently ((to the point I don't name that)) with its' main characteristic being empathy.
I just am tired that someone would assume the hive mind so naturally, the next thing is the ease with which bronies correlate changelings with zerg which i equally hate. In any case I have said my part. When next you respond to this I will proceed to read this, as there might be a few more things to be cleared.
Also correct me if I am wrong but you just said that Chrysalis is... dead?
5429870 Please rephrase what you said because although I might get what you are saying I do understand what you are writing.
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I did not say chrysalis is dead.
I'm not equating changelings with Zerg. It isn't that paper thin.
What I replied with is as much as I'm going to reveal as to what I want this to be, part of story writing is revealing things slowly and methodically, branching into a much larger narrative.
I was making comparisons. I don't really want to debate it. As I said neither option is right or wrong, and there's a definite spectrum with how things can be. Nothing is 'pro hive mind' or anti 'hive mind'. There is so much in between.
5429890 I see. Well then as a writer you just gave me a reason to read this.
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Since the hive mind is not a physical thing, everyone is going to view it differently so don't worry if you don't understand.
5429917 I am currently making a thread on some groups where I can discuss this absurdity that is the hivemind and give people the chance to actually explain it. You are free to join once I complete it. Which is soon.
I should have known about this story sooner, I'm glad I found it now.
I am SO happy to see this story updated! The ending of chapter three was freaking adorable!
I'm loving this. I can't wait for more.
yay, my prayers have been answered.
This story is good. I shall wait for next chapter.
I love this story so much. Thank you. Please do continue it.
5429890 If i'm allowed to I think this style quite fits what I'm trying to portray with a birth of a changeling. I mean what I'm trying to say is I'm trying to describe things from the point of a changeling being born, the development within the pod, and all that jazz. So... I'll send you my piece on it that I have ready and you can tell me your opinion on it.
Ples continu te stry er i wil nvr spek n prpr wrds agin