Thread 42587196

Hypothetically, you're a changeling and need to steal the identity of someone in Ponyville to live in secret for the foreseeable future.
To survive on your own while disguised, you need to have a steady source of love, but you also have to make sure no pony gets too suspicious of you. You also have to actually get rid of whoever you're trying to disguise as without anyone discovering you in the process.
You have one week to prepare by stalking and learning while in an unassuming disguise of an out-of-towner.
Who'd be your target?

>>42587196 (OP)
easy Parcel Post he should have a steady route to follow most days catch him while he’s at a secluded house and easy take down
>love
I think we should get some emotion from the ponies we deliver to that should be sustainable

>>42587196 (OP)
A week is more than enough to make new connections from scratch using the fresh identity. The dynamics you're talking about only gains relevance when you only have a few hours to find a steady meal source or face oblivion, or when you have to bag somepony for other purposes anyway.
But to answer your question, Dinky. Or, with more risks but funnier, hide the secret within a secret and pretend to be Pinkie's pool clone hiding from Twilight: in any community there are always people who would knowingly help a stray clone.

Zecora.

>>42587942
This might be the best option or the one that spells your demise. Zecora would more than likely be the first out of any of the ponies to notice a changeling since she has her special bug detector goop. Even if it was supposed to be some alternate dimension slop I have no doubt she can whip it up in the prime dimension just as fast. Taking out the main source first and foremost would be a smart decision, but if you are going to take your chances with the shaman you have to watch out for her witch doctor magic, or whatever the fuck she does.

On a side note, you have to watch out for the changeling soup anywhere and everywhere. It could be mixed into a drink, dusted on doorsteps or even pollinated through the air. Ponies can get inventive with their shit, and are bound to catch on the very second you start to slip up, no matter who you choose to impersonate.

Logically, some background pony we see basically nothing of. There's gotta be somepony who has minimal friends and doesn't spend a lot of time around others.

>>42587196 (OP)
Well in this scenario I'm not going to be retarded like my mother and I will simply ask someone in Ponyville to cover for me as I live in their house, I'll pose as their nonexistent aunt or cousin or whatever and get my fill of love by tending to them in a sexual manner.

This wouldn't be viable due to lack of knowledge, but it'd probably work great
>disguise as zephyr breeze
>claim you're visiting for the indefinite future
>everypony will be too annoyed by you to notice any occasional character-break moments
>get immediate vetting from fluttershy and rainbow dash via them being miserable around you

Pre-S6 Trixxer. Few interpersonal connections, and she mostly acts under her stage persona, so nopony knows the 'real' her well enough to spot anything uncanny about my behaviour. Easy to subdue, if I can dodge a couple of fireworks. She travels, so even if she's not too popular in Ponyville, there's probably a lot of other bumpkin towns full of big Trixie fans. Parasocial fan love counts, right? Even if I have to operate mostly out of Ponyville, I can always take a trip out of town and grab takeout.

>>42587196 (OP)
>I need to avoid attention if I'm going to survive.
>I know — I'll murder someone in this small town!
This is some my-brilliant-plan-is-to-shoot-myself-in-the-dick thinking.

>>42587558
>A week is more than enough to make new connections from scratch using the fresh identity.
See? That's how you do it.

>>42587248
This guy came the closest to something viable, but is taking the wrong tack.

You make up a new pony, get a job at the post office, and then get all the love you need form your rounds. Do any of you brainrotted overgrown tykes know about the old "your dad is the milkman/mailman" meme? Those bored housewives will be all over you. Or househusbands if you're in an RGRE world

>>42588046
After being married to Starlight for 40 years, I wonder how she'd react learning about me not being the real Trixie, the real Trixie being trapped in a changeling pod this entire time as a conduit to siphon love, wasting away while I enjoyed the life she deserved to have.

>>42588046
>Parasocial fan love counts, right?
It opens up so many weird tree falling in a forest kinda questions. Can I sustain myself on fans if I wear Batman's mask in the comfort of my home and nobody but me knows I wear it? Were it the changelings who invented art in Equestria millenia ago for this exact reason?

>>42588043
>disguise yourself as Zephyr Breeze
>put in less than the bare minimum
>it's an improvement
>actually start acting decently
>fluttershy will be glad you got a job
>rainbow dash will be glad you stopped being creepy
>both will be so thankful for the change they won't question the why
>sustain yourself off of Fluttershy's familial love
>one day the disguise drops
>fluttershy stares at you
>"please put the disguise back on"
>do so
>carry on
easy peasy