Pink Panther Agrees!

My guess is the changeling queen is more like a traditional monarch rather than the brood mother

“well… yeah. that guy’s my brother and that guy’s also my brother. what, can ponies only have one brother or something? gotta say, that’s kinda weird…”

@Background Pony #87B6  

 
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@Nightweaver20xx  
@Scorpion  

@Nightweaver20xx  
sombra teaming up with chrysi hehe would be something for sure

@Scorpion  
Well, his horn is. The rest of him appeared to have been completely obliterated by the Power of Love™. Maybe the finale will be Chrysalis stapling the horn onto her head and she turns into an Old One or something.

@Delzepp
 
sombra is still out there also he was more like a shadow then a living thing

ITT: Begging the question.

@Scorpion  
why not? it happened with Sombra

@Delzepp  
we both know this wont happen in a kids show

@Scorpion  
or they can just kill her

@Delzepp  
yeah but in the end they will just make chrysi good and thats a big nope for me

ITT: People are desperate to hold on to their headcanon.

I”m adding to the count of those who think Changelings think of siblings as those born from the same clutch of eggs, rather than everyone they share a parent with.

Head-canon: Changelings are raised in separate communal groups, and may develop sibling-like bonds. An example of this in real life are the Israeli kibbutz.

@Stotter  
They died in the Canterlot invasion in season 2.

@Stotter  
They probably already turned.

@Stotter  
Now that is a good question. Then again I don’t think the writers are going to play that much attention to continuity.

@andrevus  
My question is what happened to the other broodmates? There’s eight visible in this picture alone.

Throax did mention something like “he’s my elder broodmate”, so maybe only the changelings among a single clutch are directly related as brothers?

It depends on whether changelings are like bees/ants/termites or more like other insect colonies. Some bee species and nearly all ants tend to have a single queen per colony, and only the queen can lay fertilized eggs which may become more queens, workers, or drones. Drones are always male, and they only have half the chromosomes of females. Workers are female, and they may lay eggs, but these eggs are always male drones. Termites are broadly similar, but they have kings as well as queens. Termite kings and queens mate for life, unlike bees and ants, which only mate once to fertilize all their eggs.
 
They don’t appear to be properly eusocial, since they don’t have reproductive division of labor, at least that we’ve seen. Even when they had a queen, she wasn’t like a regular colony queen, since she spent most of her screentime doing things other than constantly laying eggs.

Lier

that what I was thinking since he talk about his brother

@Scorpion  
well most likely, that’ll be the season ending, since chrysalis swore revenge, evil ones vs good ones