jupotmachine35's avatar
Oh please, they're horses . . . it's like they can use hooves to grip objects or find some functional use for them. I'm pretty sure those holes are more of a cosmetic purpose... but maybe it's kind of gross.
LadyFoxling's avatar
Nah man I mean it's like, ponies clearly have bones, but do the changelings? The thing weirding me out about it is how that would translate into a baby pony, and if they would even be able to stand and walk around. Maybe they would end up having the physiology of the mother, so it would have to be one or the other but not as much a mixture of both.
jupotmachine35's avatar
:iconlunaisayplz: Thine theorem is of great interest to us, changelings hath chitin as means of body form, organ and structure retention . . . dost thou mean these creatures hath 50-50% of thine mate's composition?



Pardon my old English, I'm just starting to practice :iconfluttershyshyplz:
LadyFoxling's avatar
I would say yes, since 50% of both parents' genetics goes into the child, though the child may bare more resemblance to one more than the other. If you look at changelings and ponies, they are both clearly equine, so mating should theoretically be plausible. It is about the same with all the races of us--humans! If you have a mixed racial pair (ex. caucasian x african) the child borne is usually mixed race, bearing traits of both races. If we assume that holds true for ponies, we would want to mix the changeling features with the pony features to make something of a blend of both, with one parents' genetic traits a little stronger than the other's due to dominant genes. If we think of it that way, we want to mix the most prominant features. Let's consider an earth pony x changeling cross. The child, we would want to give holey legs, perhaps a stunted holey horn or beginning of one like a bump on the forehead, and maybe or maybe not some feeble buggish wings that may be useless for flying capability. The child may or may not be able to use magic to change its appearance for shortened periods of time, and it would (beginning the more earth ponyish half of its genetic line) be stronger and fast despite its feeble looking frame. It would also bear the bright colors of the parent earth pony, though perhaps darkened to a muddier tone because of the mostly blackish frame for its body, with stripes of bright color in the mane and tail mixed between the parents' mane and tail colors.
Of course there are numerous combinations that could genetically occur, perhaps meaning the legs would be solid and not holey at all, while the horn and wings are retained but perhaps not at all or fully usable and look to be so. My biggest problem in thinking about this is the body chemistry itself though--the holey legs, because I feel like they wouldn't support a heavy mammalian body, which I'd assume is a dominant trait for ponies that aren't pegasi.
jupotmachine35's avatar
:iconsomuchpony1::iconsomuchpony2::iconsomuchpony3: 
:iconsomuchpony4::iconsomuchpony5::iconsomuchpony6: Watcha say sugahcube? Pega-whut?

:iconprincesslunaummplz: Ti's confuses us . . . 





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