Changeling Snively [Ready]

[Bellosh]

Name: Snively

Gender: Male

Age: Adult

Species: Changeling

Eye color: Light green with a white middle, lacking an iris as per non-royal changelings.

Character color: Light gray

Mane/Tail/Other: Snively's frills are entirely rotten away except for the bony supports. His gray tail, blue dorsal shell, and translucent blue wings remain mostly intact.

Physique: Shorter and thinner than the average changeling adult.

Residence: The hive of Her Magnificence, Queen Chrysalis.

Occupation: Hive bureaucrat

Unique Traits: Because he's never done strenuous physically labor in his life, Snively is relatively weak as far as changelings go. He has hardly any ability to push his body to its limits, possesses no idea on how to fight, and only has sub-par infiltration skills. If Snively does have one magical talent though, it would be his ability to operate far-seeing crystal balls. Such devices can be rather finicky to use, but this drone knows how to use them most efficiently without having to constantly struggle to get the right thing to show up in the crystal ball. This comes quite in handy when Snively's briefing his masters.

History: Snively did not have the most enjoyable childhood ever. Owning to his diminutive size, the young changeling found himself picked on by a number of his fellow larvae. Fortunately, Snively could count on his far larger brother Whiplash to stick up for him at all times. And while he wasn't the fittest of budding drones, the youngling had a knack for what passed for academic pursuits in a changeling hive. It was clear from an early stage that Snively would be destined for a position greater than that of a simple worker or soldier.

Yet rather than letting his bullying experiences teach him how to be the better-mannered changeling, Snively took a different lesson from his youth altogether. Namely, that a changeling will get pushed around by others unless it knows how to make their lives even more miserable in return. Fueled by ambition and smugness, Snively when he completed his physical development started servicing his hive as a low-level manager leading around a modestly-sized group of drones.

Snively would not be content with this lowly position. Armed with both administrative acumen and a tendency to betray his fellow colleagues, the twisted soul earned promotion after promotion. Year after year, Snively rose through the ranks of the administration until the present day. Now he is among the chief bureaucrats of his hive, overseeing a swarm of subordinate drones and obeying orders from his superiors. So unless Snively somehow transforms into a queen, then there is hardly anymore he can do to advance his rank and station.....

Character Summary: The first thing others will notice about Snively (other than his relatively small frame) is his voice... his awfully hard-to-withstand voice. Whenever he speaks, the changeling does so in a grating high-pitched sneer that can sometimes be likened to nails scratching a chalk board. Snively sounds nasally on all occasions, but he does make efforts to speak to his masters in a pleasing manner. Underlings are a different matter entirely; the bureaucrat has no qualms with deliberately sounding as grating and long-winded as possible to make a point of who's the boss around here.

On that note, there is hardly anything Snively loves more than to throw red tape in other changelings' way. Should a fellow member of his hive ask anything of him, Snively will have them go through every hoop and hurdle in order for their request to even be taken into consideration. Even then, the bureaucrat will usually end up denying the request anyway as a demonstration of his authority. The only times Snively actually does the opposite is if something is of immense importance to his hive or if he's been sufficiently bribed; rare goods from Equestria and gemstones will do to please him.

Snively doesn't think much of most changelings whom he sees as nothing more than dull-minded workers and soldiers, and so treats them with scorn and contempt. Underlings under his authority have it even worse, for the administrator always fears that they'd try to supplant him through treachery; it's what he would do in their situation, anyway. However, this changeling is also extremely adept at kissing up to bosses and stroking their egos when situations call for it, so Snively can be tolerable sometimes. And for all his cunning, the sniveling coward quails in fear over any sign of displeasure from his superiors, and he'll also be the first to turn tail and run at the first sight of any perceived danger.

For all his paranoia and thirst for power, there is one being in the whole world Snively would never betray (not counting the unquestionably benevolent queen of his hive). That changeling of course would be his hulking brother Whiplash, who Snively to this day regards as his closest confidante. Aside from ranting to Whiplash about the goings of his day, Snively also uses his sibling as a pre-reader for his private original fiction. Snively uses his writing talents for more than filing reports, and while he's never publicly revealed his work, the drone prides himself on his storytelling abilities... even if his word use is incredibly simplistic and his characters one-dimensional. Perhaps Snively should find a better-read pre-reader.

All in all, it is extremely hard to make a friend out of Snively. Just about the only changelings he'll give the time of day to are those he grovels to and those that he deems useful. For any attempt to gift him with an act of kindness, he'll treat it with the uttermost suspicion. Maybe if he got bailed out of a serious jam, Snively may come to genuinely like someone else. Yet due to the poor way he treats other changelings around him, such an individual may be extremely hard to come by.....

[Armony]

How is this application coming along?

[Bellosh]

Not very well, on account of being on vacation for the last week. Expect me to finish this app during the weekend, so there's no need to ping me between now and Monday.

[Bellosh]

It's finally finished! Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

[QuickLime]

Oh wow this guy sounds like a evil steve urkle XD

[Bellosh]

*insert evil laughter here?*

[starswirlthebearded]

You asked for this...

[Armony]