Spike and Thorax have been living together for a while. One day, Thorax comes home and seems just a little bit different. Spike has a conversation with him about colors.
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Written for the M/M Shipping Contest 2022!
Cover art and Older!Spike design by me.
I feel like this works better without being a metaphor at all -- changelings can turn into anything they want but so many of them stick with a "main form", which could be because of some limitation (e.g. costs too much energy to be out of the main form too long), or maybe it's because they need to stay in their main form to avoid confusing
the kids watching the televisiontheir friends. I can easily imagine a schoolkid changeling getting bullied for not sticking with one look. Good on Thorax for wearing whatever form he wants on a given day.But you could of course carry that to any kind of LGBT fluidity you want.
Thanks for writing!
I read it as a metaphor for genderfluidity, but that's possibly my own genderfluidity getting in the way. Certainly, there's some mileage in the metaphor beyond that simple answer.
It's a good story.
This was a cute little conversation, and the way Spike reacted says a lot about their relationship. In terms of the metaphor, I think it could be a lot of things in the queer space depending on how it's read. Nice work.
Spike having an independent life instead of just continuing to be Twilight’s ambiguous assistant/younger brother/son/pet, love to see it!
aww, clawholding! and it does explain why unicorns don’t use their horns for literally everything
aww yeah that is a very Twilight line! though Spike had been doing that kind of sarcastic aside throughout the whole canon, so it’s also a very Spike line
ooh, love the poetic way Spike sees Thorax’s coloration
the most romantic thing…
hehe so true
definitely read this is as a metaphor for genderfluidity of some sort, which is always great to explore through Changelings. thanks for writing!