Cute and sweet family

@NavelColt
Yeah, that makes sense to me.

@Jonny Manz
I realize this is an old thread. No one replied to you though, so…

These changelings went in for Ocellus’s parent-teacher conference in A Horse Shoe-In. Then, they were officially referred to as her mother and father on the MLP Wiki, Gameloft game, and trading card game. Spiracle and Carapace, respectively.

In the end, Chrysalis being every changeling’s mother has more evidence against than for. The only scenario that takes all canon events into account, and still holds up the colony method for reproduction is that Thorax held mass-scale adoptions of nymphs after he took power, which seems like a hell of a stretch. I would think something like that would’ve been mentioned in Triple Threat, when Thorax was venting to Spike about his issues.

Judging by the scene we saw in Thorax’s flashback of Chrysalis overseeing newly hatched grubs, I’m inclined to believe that she pulled off an Ancient Rome militia move. She didn’t birth the eggs, but she did force all the eggs in the hive to be raised together under her direct supervision, to ensure they were raised as loyal warriors for her mass-scale personal army. That’s the best explanation I’ve thought of that explains how Chrysalis oversaw eggs but didn’t apparently birth them, according to Ocellus’s canonical parents.

@Jonny Manz  
The staff most likely to care about things like that would be the layout artists, I think. They set everything up.

@Mr100dragon100  
Exactly.

@Jonny Manz  
Well that is the beauty of making our own canon

@Mr100dragon100  
I genuinely doubt Jim Miller (or any of the other former Friendship is Magic crew members) have thought about, or would care about thinking of, that particular aspect of changeling biology, for 2 big reasons:  

@Jonny Manz  
Eh who knows someone needs to ask for a more clear explanation

@Mr100dragon100  
I suppose that’s also possible. Maybe they had the biology to reproduce, but Chrysalis, being queen, produced a pheromone that sterilized them so they couldn’t - and now that she’s gone, there’s nothing stopping them.

@Jonny Manz  
Eh idk maybe all can reproduce but chrysalis was the only one to do it because she’s queen but now she’s gone all are free to reproduce

@Mr100dragon100  
Eh, I like to imagine that, because of the bug portion of their DNA, they have a bit more flexibility with that until the generations in the future that are sufficiently distantly related enough to each other where there aren’t any worries about in-breeding (and again, this is assuming that the reformed changelings form distinct family units with a mother and father who breed to produce offspring, rather than one queen at a time responsible for all reproduction like an insect hive).
 
tl;dr I suppose, is that I don’t imagine incest being an issue.

@Jonny Manz  
So what could the changelings reproduce with each other with out any sort of incest or what?
 
Because unless thorax marrys a reformed changelings queen idk what is going to happen to the changeling hive

@Sanagi 蛹  
“It be easier counting which days aren’t holidays.”

@Sanagi 蛹  
Lmao related.
 
“How many holidays you ponies have?!”

@Jonny Manz  
I saw “A Horse Shoe-In” once and I can’t remember for certain. I’ll see it again soon enough.

@Background Pony #944C  
I mean, there is the Gameloft game, where they’re named as being members of Ocellus’s family. Do they show up in that episode? I haven’t seen it yet.

@Background Pony #944C  
Oh, that’s where we see these changelings again, right?

@Jonny Manz  
Not sure how much weight Jim’s words will have once everybody sees A Horse Shoe-In, lol

@thps48  
Prolly, lol

@Jonny Manz  
When it comes to either forme of changeling, the answer to every question is “Yes, probably”. XD

@Ardashir  
Kind of. As far as what Jim Miller said, he did confirm that the changelings here are related to Ocellus (though he kind of walked it back a bit by saying that since they’re bugs, they might all be related), and then to muddy the waters, when asked if Queen Chrysalis was Ocellus’s mom (or it might have been if she was mother to the changelings in this image, I can’t remember the exact question), his response was “Quite probably, yes”.

@Ardashir  
So far, it seems probable but not certain.

Has the fandom settled yet whether or not those other Changel8ings are Ocellus’ family?

Now, I want everybuggy to know that if you are lacking in such items or tools to help celebrate your festivities, you can compromise and construct your own tools OR add in your OWN traditions to make it unique from Equestria’s Hearth’s Warming!
 
Remember, there are NO judgements over how you want to celebrate these holidays!

@Otterhand  
So Chrysalis works in retail? (Kidding, mostly.)