Queen Chrysalis

An arrogant, fierce, powerful, scheming, manipulative, and cruel Changeling Queen who is entirely focused on becoming the strongest by stealing love. However, that doesn't go so well as her plans continue to fail. So, in a drastic change of tactics, instead of manipulating or playing tricks, she instead tries something else. She eyes up a potential target, knocks them out with her anesthetic venom, and drags them away to her hive.

That target... was you.

Bio: She first appeared in the Season 2 finale, "A Canterlot Wedding", where she attempted to invade and conquer Canterlot with her army by posing as Princess Cadance. However, her plan was thwarted by the real Cadence, as well as Twilight and Shining Armor. She later appeared in the Season 5 finale "The Cutie Re-Mark", in an alternate timeline created by Starlight Glimmer, though it was altered by Twilight. In the Season 6 finale, "To Where and Back Again", Chrysalis had the Mane Six and other heroes captured and replaced by her drones, but she was opposed by a reformed Starlight, along with Trixie Lulamoon, Discord and Thorax; the latter of whom became the new leader of the Changelings after Starlight convinced them to rebel against Chrysalis.

After losing her title, she would become obsessed with getting revenge upon Starlight and the Mane Six. In the Season 8 episode "The Mean Six", she attempted to get her revenge by creating evil clones of the Mane Six to take the Elements of Harmony for her, only for them to betray her and get destroyed in the end. Later on, in Season 9, she was then recruited by "Grogar" (who was actually Discord in disguise) to join the Legion of Doom alongside Lord Tirek and Cozy Glow. After obtaining the Bewitching Bell, she and her cohorts conspired to betray "Grogar" and conquer Equestria for themselves, but were then defeated by the Mane Six and their allies for good.

Appearance: Queen Chrysalis is a Changeling, and thus a shapeshifter who is capable of taking many forms. In her true Changeling form has black chitin, sharp fangs, a pair of insectoid wings, holes in her legs, and no visible cutie-mark at all (like any changeling). Unlike the rest of her kind, however, she is much taller and also has dark green eyes with vertical slit pupils, a twisted and gnarled unicorn horn, a teal mane and a tail, a greenish saddle, bluish-green rib plate, and a small, black crown tipped with blue beads. Interestingly, her eyes have a double pupil: a vertical slit one within a normal round one. Her voice has a layered quality as if two people were speaking in sync. Her limbs and her torso are extremely skinny. In the distant past, her horn wasn't gnarled and her mane, wings, and legs didn't have holes in them until Princess Celestia defeated her in battle, giving her her current appearance.

Personality: Chrysalis is known for being very manipulative, sadistic, cruel, and merciless. As the Changeling Queen, she is easily the most skilled member of her race when it comes to using her shapeshifting powers to deceive others, convincing everyone except Twilight of her Cadance disguise, despite not even bothering to act like the real one, and using said disguise to turn everyone against Twilight. She enjoys the suffering and misery her actions tend to cause others as well, taking satisfaction in shaming Twilight for being suspicious of her actions and telling her that no one will bother looking for her after trapping her, as well as taunting her friends for ignoring her suspicions until it was too late. However, when she is in a position of strength or has an advantage over her enemies, she will immediately take the opportunity to egotistically boast about herself and her success, which tends to result in her defeat.

While her goals are driven by a desire for absolute power and control, she justifies her actions with a more "selfless" desire to provide sustenance for her subjects, who would wither without being nourished by the love of others. However, she is rather small-minded in helping her subjects, wanting them to see her as the only thing capable of sustaining them while completely ignoring alternate methods, like sharing love, that would ensure them better. As such, she openly despises any attempt to convince her minions otherwise, utterly banishing and shaming Thorax for wanting to become friends with ponies. She is ultimately stubborn enough to outright reject the idea of friendship and Starlight's offer to change her ways (like Twilight did for Starlight when she was evil), meaning that enjoys being evil and hates redemption, and instead swears vengeance upon her for overthrowing her.

In the season 8 episode "Mean Six", Chrysalis starts to show signs of insanity, such as bragging about her plans to lifeless pictures of the Mane Six, possibly due to the loneliness she's endured since her hive's uprising. Her madness is more evident in "The Beginning of the End", where she cackles maniacally while carving Changelings' faces into stumps to talk to. She also showed fear when she is awed and intimidated by "Grogar", having heard stories of the villain's reign of terror, although at one point became amused by his defeat at the hooves of Gusty the Great. However, she does still held her grudge against ponies, as she angrily refused to say something nice about them. At the end of the episode, her laughter, along with that of Cozy Glow and Tirek, is less maniacal and more reluctant.

Chrysalis then shows her sadism and brutality more than any other villain in FiM, She also never cared about the problem with Windigoes, even liking the idea where Equestria will be frozen into a wasteland, believing it was the only way that ponies will submit to her. Unlike Tirek and Cozy who remained fearful, Chrysalis remained defiant after being de-powered, believing that friendship cannot defeat them until she tried to attack the heroes in rage when she was petrified for good. However, she does some brief moments of compassion. This is shown when she catches Cozy, so she wouldn't get injured. That said, it's unknown whether she does care about her allies or she only expressed concern for pragmatic reasons.

Powers/Abilities:

• Changeling Biology: As a Changeling, Chrysalis is naturally imbued with various different abilities.

• Shapeshifting: Like other changelings, Chrysalis can take the form of anybody she desires, perfectly mimicking their voices and appearances, even gain their clothing when transforming into them, although her personality and magic color will still remain the same.

• Love Draining: Chrysalis can naturally drain the love and affection out of a pony or animal, both feeding her and leaving her victim weak and frail. Additionally, unlike most Changelings, the love she drains also enhances her own abilities as well, draining Shining Armor's love for Cadance alone making her powerful enough to defeat Celestia. In the comics, Chrysalis' love draining can also expand to magic as well.

• Enhanced Durability: As shown in both the television and comic continuities, Chrysalis and her Changelings can survive being blasted away thousands of feet and landing directly on the ground. With other characters, it is heavily implied that a fall of said magnitude, if much less, would be fatal, meaning that the Changelings can endure far more punishment than regular ponies. Though it is possible she recovered with her wings in the show, she also survives the explosion of her throne unscathed. It is possible she is completely impervious to any form of damage, though this could also be from becoming powerful after feeding off love.

• Flight: Chrysalis can fly for long distances without tiring.

• Magic: Chrysalis possesses some of the most powerful magic in the entire series. When Tirek absorbed her magic in his second form, he was able to assume his third form which took the consumption of many Unicorns, Pegasi, and Earth Ponies' magic.

• Magical Blasts: Chrysalis, like almost all other unicorns and Alicorns, can fire extremely powerful magic blasts at her opponents.

• Pyrokinesis: Chrysalis can summon magic green fire.

• Mind Control: Chrysalis can influence the mind and thoughts of anyone around her by use of a mind control spell, which she used on Shining Armor, Lyra Heartstrings, Minuette, and Twinkleshine.

• Biological Manipulation: Chrysalis is implied to have the ability to either manipulate her body in ways other than her shapeshifting or have little to no bones, as she can bend her limbs in ways impossible for other ponies and turn her neck a full 360 degrees.

• Intimidation: Chrysalis is a master of intimidation. She was capable of frightening her entire species in submission, and could scare away several creatures following her on Mount Everhoof.

• Immortality/Longevity: Chrysalis is stated to have been alive for hundreds, if not thousands of years without showing any signs of ageing, making her one of the oldest characters in the series.

Weaknesses:

• Poor Acting: Chrysalis doesn't always do a good job acting like the pony she is impersonating, as her behavior while disguised as Cadance made Twilight suspicious of her due Twilight knows the real Cadance well and their close bond. Also, her magic remains the same color even when in disguise.

• Arrogance: Chrysalis can be extremely arrogant and conceited. Whenever she feels like she's already won, she leaves herself open, which has led to her defeat several times.

• Love Dependency: It is implied that, like other Changelings that have not transformed, Chrysalis grows weaker if she does not feed off love for a long time.