The Hive of Doubt

Primary Emotions: 

Doubt (including doubting one’s own abilities, thus inspiration) and a slight bit of fear.

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Occupations: 

Doubt Changeling's make extremely good assistants and friends. Many of them have been partners with great Zebra scientists and leaders as they have been able to instill doubt in the Zebras mind when they are about to do something stupid, saving many of their lives especially when it comes to testing out new secret herbs and spices or declaring things that are not in the best interest of a zebra leader. Some Doubt Changeling's who only like to play as the subconscious mind have also influenced lives for the better.

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Unique Abilities: 

The Changeling's of the doubt hive are considered to be Panther like in appearance. They are longer in length than most other hives yet shorter in height and have sleek bodies built for stalking around the forest lands of Zebrica. Like most Changeling's their main colour is black but their special fin and wing colour being grey to help them camouflage. Doubt Changeling's excel in the area of Camouflage and have superior speeds to most other Changeling hives particularly when it comes to ground speed and manoeuvrability. However this comes at the cost of their flight skills which are sub-par to other hives. They are also not the most powerful in the realm of magic especially for a Zebrican hive which usually thrive in the magical voodoo like arts. They can also see in the dark through a secondary eye lens that hides in their tear ducts. When appropriate they can activate their lens masking their eyes in a golden glow from the lens that moves to cover their eyes to help them adjust to the darkness. Sort of like goggles attached to one's eyes that can be slipped under the Changeling's skin.

 

They can pretend to be the Consciousness of others and trick them into doing or thinking certain things by doing so. In addition they are one of the only hives with claws allowing them to slice through opponents with ease

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Naming System: 

No naming system in place. Changeling’s are not named at all. At best they are numbered at borth. Otherwise a Changeling gets their name while disguised.

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Hive Structure: 

In terms of habitat the Changeling's live in catacombs deep beneath the ground like most other hives. However most of the navigation throughout the hive includes cat like climbing frames that makes use of the naturally superior climbing skills. They do have longer routes that are more simple to navigate through for the sick, injured or dying. Outside guards hide in the branches of tall trees guarding the entrances to the hive which mostly all use similar but differing methods of access. Mainly they are hidden in trees or rocks though.

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Queen Status: 

Name - Adesina

 

Name Meaning – Adesina is an African name meaning she opens the way. This name is powerful in that it places faith in Adesina to bring her hive forward and show her Changeling’s how to be better.

 

Approximate Age – 600

 

Summary - Queen Adesina is a little bit of a sly show-off. She knows exactly how to make her targets tick after years of experience and can easily get into the head of any target. In the past she has been an assistant to a number of ruling members of Zebrica. Currently however she watches over her hive as the Queen without any official role in the outside world. This is for three reasons.

1: Her recent Zebra form died due to it getting too old for believability.

2: She dislikes the current ruling party and is currently seeking employment elsewhere. Rumours of Equestria and the heroics of a few have caught her attention. She has not tried being an assistant to a hero before and the opportunity seems too good to be true. Maybe inviting one to her hive might be beneficial.

3: She currently has no heir to the throne and while she is not getting old for a Changeling Queen she also knows she is not getting any younger. Staying in the hive may be beneficial to her so that she can find a suitable Changeling.

 

She loves to show others her knowledge on topics and enjoys competing in sporting events. Her experience as an assistant can also be seen when she follows commands by her fellow Changeling's and helps them out in a pinch. Only the smarter Changeling's know the right words to get her to do things for her otherwise her sly nature comes off and tells them to buzz off. All of this can be attributed to her kinder, more inspirational side as a child which shines through every so often even if she does not intend to show it. While some may question if her assistant tendencies may lead to her eventual dethrone they are reminded that she is extremely good at creating doubt in any who to try to take her throne as well as the fact that her inspirational leadership stops her Changeling's from wanting to in the first place. Not to mention that dethroning a Queen is not a very common thing amongst hives for obvious reasons.

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Lineage Summary: 

No Daughter currently. Her sister and mother died a long time ago.

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Rise to Leadership: 

It is all about determination. To prove that you earn the spot of Queen you have to fight against the Queen herself. Generally in a battle of wits rather than a physical fight. If the Princess goes about this in the right way they earn the top spot.

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Public Relations: 

Not really liked and not really hated. They sort of do their own thing and not care about what anyone else thinks of them. As such the other hives have nothing really to say about them other than the fact that they are sneaky little cats.

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Historical Facts: 

Historically the Doubt hive has always been one of the less sophisticated hives preferring to live their lives away from civilisation in the jungles. This lead many of their kind to be used as slaves to other changeling's or to be classified as wild animals compared to sentient creatures. Eventually the slaves rose up and took the role of queen of the Doubt hive. This led to a revolution in the hive and their acceptance as sentient creatures.

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In terms of Adesina's past she was born as the second of two children by a few seconds (Twins. A very rare occurrence for changeling's). Her older sister Felicite was of course assumed destined to be queen leaving her as the one no Changeling cared about. Technically this was not true as if Adesina fought against her mother's rule she would have got the title instead. As a young Changeling she always felt alone, while her mother loved her and cared her she noticed that other Changeling's were ignoring her at social events for her sister and she never got noticed for anything she did. By her mother's words she decided that she would make a name for herself. She did whatever she could to be inspirational from the track to the mind but no matter how many awards she won she could never get the attention she wanted.

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After her sisters death Adesina spent a large portion of her childhood in a depressive state. She could never shake the feeling that her Changeling's blamed her for the event despite the fact that she had nothing to do with it. While her mother said that she trusted her words Adesina felt that her mother never truly believed her and only made her heir because she had no proof that it was Adesina's doing. At this point she gave up on being a goody two shoes. She started using her knowledge from all the kind acts she did to start inflicting doubt in changeling's. In her mind if she could not be inspirational then she would make every other Changeling so full of doubt that she would be the only inspired one. However inside she knew she was doing the wrong thing to harm all of her own Changeling's. After some time she instead turned their doubt against the Queen, Khethiwe. She also got her mother to doubt her own skills as ruler through recent hive records that showed poor results but only because of Adesina's manipulation of the data as well as general loss of sentient food after a recent conflict. With both the Queen and her Changeling's full of doubt Adesina put forth her placement as leader and the Queen and her Changeling's were happy to allow it (it had been some years since the death of her sister so Changeling's did not blame her as much for this incident by this time). In reality her mother knew of her plans the whole time and eventually put an end to Adesina's efforts and gave her the crown.
 

Extra Points of Interest: 

Doubt Changeling's are devious hunters who not only can survive for a good period of time on meat sources alone without the collection of doubtful emotions. This is a trait they developed over centuries as required of them considering that they live in the dense jungles where not many large tribes thrive until more recently with the slight modernisation of the zebra clan. To achieve this they hunt in packs and stalk their prey at night waiting for the perfect time to strike. They are not seen eating sentient life however as sentient life is much for emotion collection and is seen as inappropriate by most, if not all Changeling's of the hive (they would like to mention that they are not savages thank you very much).