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Hello, my dear daughter…

I’m ashemed but I forgot to upload this for weeks
Okay, soooo there’s a bit of a head-canon with this one and it’s connected to the ‘What Lies Beneath’ episode.
In it we saw Ocellus fear was that changelings can’t change. But what I found interesting that in this illusion she had the form of Crysalis…soooo, why was’t she simple in her old, pre-metamorphed form? And from there my head-canon formed. Simple what if Ocellus have a stonger connection to Crysalis.
So basically, while technically every changeling are the off-springs of Crysalis, they are not her, well, “children”. They are just drones, in serve of the hive. But there’s a point the hive can’t extend anymore and sub hives needs to be made. And these hives needs their own ruler. Like a “princess”. Stronger than the drones, but not as much as the queen.
And one of these “princess” was Ocellus. She born just a few years before Crysalis plan to take over Equestria. She was so sure of her success she needed to preaper to have a heir, but off course her plan failed. So for Ocellus, Crysalis really is a mother like figure hence why part of her fear, not just that she and changeling can’t change, but she will be like Crysalis when she’s older.
Or so in my head-canon😉

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Burt R. the Pony Guy
Solar Supporter - Fought against the New Lunar Republic rebellion on the side of the Solar Deity (April Fools 2023).

QC: I finally found you, you little deserter. You just made the fatal mistake of deserting your queen. And you know what Changeling Law says about those who desert their queen, right?
OC: D-drawing and quartering?!
QC: Yesssss…
GadenKerensky

I always took it as Chrysalis being a representation of the evil of the Changelings. So, in her fear, she assumed the form of Chrysalis, the image of Ocellus’ fear.
Ohvist

@chubbyninja89  
Due to the overabundance of Love and lack of hunger, the Changelings underneath Thorax are no longer entirely infertile, however due to Chrysalis being ousted and most the rest of the Hive splitting up and scattering, Thorax has very few Changelings overall. The subgroups while many are weaker overall and are led by Proto-Queens that survived Chrysalis’ violent Ascendance to become the next Queen. With Chrysalis gone, these Proto-Queens have taken the opportunity to try garnering power on their own and adhering to tradition, yet due to the inherent Proto-Queen mentality of Survival of the Fittest; these Proto-Queens were still very much open to fighting one-another for the chance at power. Many of these sub-Hives ended up destroying one-another because one Proto-Queen was encroaching on the set territory of a rival Proto-Queen. By the time Pharynx is introduced, the rest of the Proto-Queens are already well-hidden or dead; leaving young Ocellus the very LAST of the Proto-Queen Caste in the entire Hive.
chubbyninja89
Duck - I love arguing so much I don't know when to stop!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

@Ohvist  
I agree, it does sound like a kinda interesting headcanon theory.
 
Though I always prefered the idea that the changelings reproduce like ponies, that is a mommy and daddy changeling being able to just have children on their own, but they have a very “hive” mentality where they all work for the good of hive as a whole, including the raising of children.
 
But I don’t know how to exactly explain the entirety of what I’m trying to get at.
 
I’m tired at the time of typing this.
Ohvist

@chubbyninja89  
it’s never truly established how the Changeling Society as a whole operates on, its been left open to multiple interpretations over the years that nearly everyone has came up with their own headcanons to how the Hive functions: with only the Infiltrator Caste of Changelings being the only universal agreement for Fans as a whole.
 
One such headcanon that this theory is modeled after is the Honey Pie series: in it, Changelings aren’t just split into Castes like Gatherers, Infiltrators, Caretakers, and Lesser Queens; but also that they are further split between the Fertile and the Sterile: with Fertile Changelings like the Queens and Lesser Queens being in control over the day-to-day activities of the Hive, and the Sterile Drones being treated as lesser Changelings that do not have an open name that they speak with through the Hive Mind.  
In this setting, all of the Drones that we have seen in the show are biologically female, they do not treat gender with the same degree that other species pride themselves with: the Drones use it as a form of preference when disguised as other Ponies with the Drones having an inclination towards one gender as their default form to disguise as for effectiveness. The only truly biological Male Changelings are all kept deep within the Hive and are treated fairly by the Queen and Lesser Queens to be used for breeding and creating other Changelings.
 
With this in mind, Thorax and Pharynx are both Brood Males that were hatched by Chrysalis’ predecessor with Chrysalis merely being a Lesser Queen at the time of their hatching and had already physically matured. Years would pass and Pharynx would be at the age to breed and found himself available to Chrysalis who was enamored with Pharynx that he was made into Chrysalis’ exclusive: to keep him from being bred by other Lesser Queens while Chrysalis sought out a means to overthrow the original Queen and take her place as the Hives’ new Queen. To help validate that claim, Chrysalis needed only to have herself breed and give birth to another Lesser Queen that would serve as a means of indisputably challenging the original Queens’ power (think of this as something similar to the Rule of Two from Star Wars where there can only be two Sith: “A Master to Embody the power, and an Apprentice to Crave it.”), To protect her claim of ascendancy as Queen of the Hive, Chrysalis had Pharynx hidden away as an Infiltrator and made Ocellus’ birth secret to the others Changelings except for the original Queen until Chrysalis had her killed. Chrysalis would then place her daughter among the Caretakers without telling Ocellus the truth as a form of familial love for her daughter to help keep her safe until she dealt with the other Lesser Queens on her own accord (many of whom were just as if not more ruthless than Chrysalis herself was). Only when she had the other Lesser Queens assassinated and Chrysalis was victorious in a major campaign for the benefit of the Hive would she have the complete implicit trust of the Hive that her leadership would be validated and both Ocellus and Pharynx be brought back out of hiding and stand by her side in the open as a family.
chubbyninja89
Duck - I love arguing so much I don't know when to stop!
Lunar Supporter - Helped forge New Lunar Republic's freedom in the face of the Solar Empire's oppressive tyrannical regime (April Fools 2023).

@Ohvist  
Actually. Isn’t Queen Chrysalis like a hive mother or something? And if so, wouldn’t Pharynx be her son?
 
It is a little dumb that they never established if female changelings give birth to their own eggs and put them all in a hive “egg room” or something or if Chrysalis is like an Xenomorph Queen and is making all those eggs herself.
Dragonchick
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@Wechselpony  
Traitor? Oh boy, chrysalis could be able to make a new army of changelings, sure she doesn’t have a hive, but atleast there can be a place to make more new changeling cocoons.
OtherFritz
Lunar Champion - Led the charge of major battles for the New Lunar Republic, bringing swift and crushing defeat to the forces of the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).

In Treue fest
It would be great to see these two stumble upon each other! I’m sure they’d have some interesting interactions.
 
@Wechselpony  
I wouldn’t judge her too harshly. It’s the usurper that has corrupted her young mind.  
She can be brought back to the proper path, with her true queen’s guidance.