A young filly looks to her mother for love. But her mother’s vacant eyes can see no more, as she is lowered into the ground. Her mother says nothing. And she doesn’t know what that means.
A growing filly looks to her father for love. But her father’s hooves across her face are not what she is looking for. “You must take what you want,” he says. And she doesn’t know what that means.
A teenage princess looks to her childhood friend for love. But the colt’s heart is not meant to be hers, and his eyes are focused on another. “I can’t give you what you want,” he says. And she doesn’t know what that means.
A young adult mare looks to confide in her old foalsitter about her problems of love. But she is shocked to discover that her one true compass was always the object of her flame’s affection. Too late the foalsitter realizes the younger’s affections, too late to reassure her, to say “not getting what we want happens to all of us sometimes.” And the younger starts to think she knows what it all means.
A brooding adult mare looks to a strange creature to solve her problems of love. He laughs and offers her a deal: she will have all the power in the world, and an army to back her, in search of the love she was always denied. Her figure might change to be unrecognizable, but perhaps that would be for the better. “This is what you want,” he says. And she knows what it means.
A new changeling queen looks to her followers for love. But they remove all the purity of intent from her heart, until all she is is a shell with a single motivation. “We want,” they say. And she’s starting to forget what it means.
A changeling queen looks to conquer for love. And she is thwarted by a love uncorrupted, none of the players knowing or remembering the irony of it all. And nobody knows anymore what it means.
A defeated, limping changeling queen looks inside herself for love. For an instant, she feels the spark, the reason for it all. “This isn’t what I want,” she sighs, as she curls her mutated legs into her chest. And as she closes her own eyes for the last time, she finally knows what it means.
by btown_brony
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