A changeling is the child of a fairy that has been secretly left in the place of a human child. Sometimes the term is also used to refer to the child who was taken. The complex status of the play's 'changeling child' gestures toward the mercantile culture of Elizabethan England and to both traditions of fairy lore.
For a character with no name and no speaking parts, the Changeling Boy is a lovely little boy from India who has been spending all his time with Titania as well as a character who's actually vital to the plot of the play. King of the Fairies, Oberon, is driven by jealousy.
A changeling is typically identifiable via a number of traits; in Irish legend, a fairy child may appear sickly and will not grow in size like a normal child, and may have notable physical characteristics such as a beard or long teeth.
The changeling boy is "the object of desire. He represents, in effect, the powerful irrationality of desire itself" (Garber 220).
The new child—the changeling—is characterised 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.
Personality. Changelings are commonly harmless, passive people and are uninterested in politics and social affairs.
Unlike doppelgangers, which are entirely genderless, a changeling does have a default gender that manifests in adolescence, but each changeling can adapt his or her form to be of either gender, hermaphroditic (both genders simultaneously), or entirely genderless.
Changelings born from two changeling parents are born in their natural form: pale, slender, with colorless eyes and white hair.
Obviously, a changeling's appearance can change at any moment, but they do have a true form. Their true skin is usually grey or pale white, and their facial features are blank slates to an unnerving degree. They're typically thin and gaunt, and their hair is usually silvery with an occasional green or pink tint.
synonyms: cretin, half-wit, idiot, imbecile, moron. type of: simple, simpleton. a person lacking intelligence or common sense.
Changelings are bad. The person who leaves infant Bloom in the human world does so knowing it is at minimum, culturally unacceptable, and possibly breaks some laws. The way kids treat Bloom when they find out she's a Changeling is similar to the way kids treat Harry Potter when they learn he can speak Parseltongue.
There seems to be a consensus that child changelings disappear before they can reach adulthood, but if they manage to grow up without disappearing, they have the same traits as both in their childhood and those taken as adults - a consistently horrible attitude towards others, a voracious appetite that never resolves ...
In Ireland long ago it was believed that children were sometimes taken by fairies and replaced by a sickly fairy child called a 'Changeling'.
Jason Butler Harner plays Gordon Northcott. While Christine feels vindicated that the imposter foisted upon her by the LAPD was not her son–and the boy even admitted that he only lied about his identity so he could travel to Hollywood to meet his favorite actor–she doesn't get the kind of closure she's hoping for.
Why won't Titania give up the changeling to Oberon? She promised the changeling's mother that she would take care of her child. So, it is her job to take care of the child.
The true form of a changeling is a bit paler than a typical human with slightly elongated limbs. Their eyes are colorless and ringed by black as pictured in the artwork above by Julia Zhuravleva. They have no body hair, but the hair on their head can be platinum, white, or silver.
changeling, in European folklore, a deformed or imbecilic offspring of fairies or elves substituted by them surreptitiously for a human infant. According to legend, the abducted human children are given to the devil or used to strengthen fairy stock.
Changeling Traits
Age: Changelings reach adulthood at the age of 16. Their fey heritage allows them to live much longer than humans, up to 200 years.
Changelings don't inherently recognize each other. If they don't want to be recognized then when they do something suspicious it would be an insight check against the changelings deception, which the changeling has advantage on. A changeling could have expertise in insight from divergent persona.
Changelings were fairies who had been left in place of a human child or baby who had been stolen by the fairies. The child was taken for one of three reasons; to act as a servant, for the fairies to receive the love of a human child, or for malice/revenge.
The short version is that a Changeling can shapeshift to a form that can produce sperm to impregnate someone, and can shapeshift to a form with a uterus and eggs to get pregnant, but a pregnant Changeling cannot shapechange to a form without a uterus without ending the pregnancy.
DS9: "Chimera" suggests Changelings have a lifespan of at least two hundred years, although if Odo was indeed two hundred years old when he traveled back with the USS Defiant in an alternate timeline in DS9: "Children of Time", that would indicate Changelings could live for at least four hundred years.
Changelings are humanoid creatures with discolored, slimy skin, hollow eyes, and a round mouth with many teeth. They can appear human, but their true nature is revealed in their reflection.
Changelings have red blood like a majority of the other races. Bleeding around others may alert many that the Changeling is not of the same race (should the blood color vary). For this reason, a Changeling will usually choose to take the form of a race with red blood.