Yes, changelings can have completely black eyes in their true form, often described as solid black or white orbs lacking pupils, sometimes with dark rings around them, fitting their pale, featureless appearance in many fantasy settings like D&D and Critical Role. While white eyes are common, black eyes are a recognized variation, emphasizing their alien look alongside pale skin and silvery hair, though artistic interpretation allows for customization.
Appearance. In their true form, or their form "at rest", changelings have pale skin, colorless eyes that can be completely white or completely black, and white or silver-white hair.
The Archive of Disease in Childhood notes that the changeling is ``characterized by unresponsiveness, resistance to physical affection, obstreperousness, inability to express emotion, and unexplained crying and physical changes such as rigidity and deformity. Some are unable to speak.''
Shiftling Tell: Changelings cannot change their eye color, and many have a tendency towards unnatural colored eyes or heterochromia. Low-Light Vision: Changelings can see twice as far in dim light as other races.
A changeling can change voice but might default to learned speech patterns under stress. Habits and motor memory: handwriting, favored gestures, learned idiosyncrasies (knife-handling, musical fingering). These are often the easiest real-world giveaways.
Among the diseases or disabilities with symptoms that match the description of changelings in various legends are spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, PKU, progeria, Down syndrome, homocystinuria, Williams syndrome, Hurler syndrome, Hunter syndrome, autism spectrum disorder, Prader-Willi Syndrome, and cerebral palsy.
Due to their unique biology Changelings do not have active fertile cycles. Instead, a Changeling actually makes a conscious decision to begin a fertile cycle that lasts for two days, but repeats the cycle every fifteen days.
Unlike ponies, changelings do not have cutie marks. Following their metamorphosis in To Where and Back Again - Part 2, changelings have varied coat colors and insect characteristics, such as Thorax and Pharynx's horns, and they no longer have fangs or holes in their bodies.
Powers & Abilities
In their human forms, the Changelings also appear to be immune to the effect of sunlight just like Stalklings, thus making them the perfect spies for the Gumm-Gumms. Some of them, like Stricklander and Nomura, are accomplished warriors.
Ageing slightly faster than humans, changelings are considered mature at around age 15 but have roughly the same lifespan as a human, typically up to 100 years and as much as 110.
A changeling eats the same food as humans, but possess a stronger fortitude and are able to eat rotten food or raw meat (though most prefer not to).
Protective charms against changelings often including placing iron by the cradle, keeping a watchful eye on the infant, or using fire and holy water to drive away fairy magic.
Having said that: while changelings CAN mate with other humanoids, I'd say that it is RARE for them to impregnate creatures of other species. It can happen, but the fertility rate isn't that high. It's quite possible that humans and other human-compatible species are the most viable.
The two rarest eye colors are generally considered violet/red (due to albinism) and heterochromia (different colored eyes), both appearing in less than 1% of people, with green and gray eyes also being exceptionally uncommon, usually around 2-3% of the population. Red/violet eyes result from a severe lack of melanin (pigment) where blood vessels show through, while heterochromia involves two different iris colors or patterns, often benign but sometimes linked to conditions.
Changelings can look like anyone at any given time though they do have a true form. Their natural look is that of an asexual humanoid with ashen skin, light grey hair and milky white eyes. Their bodies tend to be long and slender, more so than elves but beyond they lack any distinctive features.
Originally we all had brown eyes, however, according to researchers at the University of Copenhagen, it appears that a genetic mutation in a single individual in Europe 6,000 to 10,000 years ago led to the development of blue eyes.
Changelings are a race of insect-like equines in Equestria that first appear in A Canterlot Wedding - Part 2 as the minions of the episode's antagonist, Queen Chrysalis. Able to feed off love and take the shape of other lifeforms, Changelings have been depicted in both a positive and negative light within fan works.
Absolutely. The whole changeling thing that they were vulnerable to "cold iron" (cold iron and regular iron are two completely separate things) was something from an entirety separate game system based on also on some traditional Celtic lore.)
The Traveler is the patron of all those who welcome change, in body and in philosophy. Its worshipers include changelings, shifters, doppelgangers, and lycanthropes, who see it as the greatest of gods, but only doppelgangers and lycanthropes routinely revere it.
Yes, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic (MLP: FiM) features several LGBTQ+ characters, with background ponies Lyra Heartstrings and Sweetie Drops (Bon Bon) getting an on-screen wedding in the final season, and Scootaloo's aunts, Holiday and Lofty, confirmed as a lesbian couple by staff, appearing in the show and comics. The franchise also has implied relationships, fan headcanons for characters like Twilight Sparkle (bisexual) and Rainbow Dash (often shipped with Applejack), and introduced openly gay characters in the newer Make Your Mark series.
The official explanation from the comics is that the holes were burned through Chrysalis by Celestia, and that was passed down to the rest of the Changelings.
46,XY pure gonadal dysgenesis (Swyer syndrome) is characterized by normal female genitalia at birth. It usually first becomes apparent in adolescence with delayed puberty and amenorrhea. Rarely, patients can present with spontaneous breast development and/or menstruation.
In Changeling: The Dreaming, Changelings as well as True Fae are weak to cold iron, in the mechanics of the game, cold iron does "aggravated" damage to Changelings and True Fae, meaning it cannot be healed with any supernatural means or accelerated healing powers.
Changelings mature slightly faster than humans but share a similar lifespan—typically a century or less. While a changeling can transform to conceal their age, the effects of aging affect them similarly to humans.