Changeling Lulavi [Ready]

[Elderflower]

Name: Lulavi, goes by Lula or Vivi depending on her mood.

Gender: Female

Age: Mare

Species: Changeling

Eye colour: Orchid pink which fades into a dull fuschia.

Character colour: Charcoal grey.

Mane/Tail/Other: Lulavi’s tail is an extension of her smooth exoskeleton and maintains its grey tones, however her flimsy, flowing mane is a very dark and dingy pink.

Physique: Feminine and curvy!

Residence: Though her permanent residence is within her Queen’s hive, Lula has a tendency to wander off on her own for months at a time to satisfy her thirst for a nomadic lifestyle.

Occupation: Professional layabout, occasional changeling army grunt. Lula’s not one for consistent, hard work. She prefers to wander about, charming ponies and feasting on their love as she pleases. That said, she is terribly fond of her beautiful Queen, so when she calls her changeling army into action the lazy-but-loyal Lulavi gladly steps up as a grunt. After all, her glamours are terribly convincing and she really can pack a punch. She just…prefers not to most of the time.

Unique Traits: Lula’s vavavoom looks and personality are what truly set her apart. She does have a knack for mimicry that helps her pull off a very convincing doppelganger, but it’s her artful capacity for charm that lays the foundation for her individuality. Unless you count her…“talent” for singing. One could say it takes talent to sing quite so painfully as Lula. Her vocal prowess rivals banshee’s wail, with complex layers that mimic the clacking and vibrating of an insect!

History:

Lulavi was a brat from her earliest days. With two hard-working, loyalist parents and a brother who was the apple that barely even fell from the tree, she was doomed to a life of nagging. They always wanted so badly for her to worship the Queen, do this for the Queen, do that for the army, learn how to fight, stop making eyes at the soldiers! It was endless. But Lulavi hated to exert herself any more than she needed to, especially when she didn’t want to. She just wanted to bat her big eyes and see how many changelings she could charm no matter what her family said. They had no patience for her manipulative games, however, so she started making attempts to run away from home as far back as she can remember.

It started off with short sprints to her freedom that were immediately cut off by her father or brother. Then, as she grew older, her little escapes turned into full days away from the hive. Eventually, the more her parents gave up on keeping her rebellion under control, Lulavi was going on trips away from home for days on end. Sure, she found her Queen to be beautiful and worthy of her greatest respect, but the last thing Lula ever wanted was to dedicate her entire life to serving the Queen every hour of every day. When would there be time for fun or indulging herself in games and schemes?

So Lula joined the ranks of changelings who snuck into everyday pony life, summoning glamours and wandering from place to place. Part of the reason was a desire to wander and see all that the world outside the hive had to offer, but mostly she liked finding new pony victims to charm and channel feelings of love from. The power rush was delicious and satisfied her arrogance quite well. While she traveled, though, she always kept one ear to the ground. If ever the hive readied itself for battle, which she knew the Queen planned on doing, she wanted to be part of the action. After all, constantly preparing for war was a bore, but fighting the battles and pulverizing ponies would surely be fun! Of course nothing would please her more than seeing all of those disgusting, sugary-hearted ponies squirm beneath the might of changeling fury.

When she joined the battle in Canterlot, however, Lulavi was humbled. Briefly. She had never expected to lose to ponies. Ugh! To think such soft, squishy creatures could put up such a fight! One of them even bruised Lula with a hoof to the jaw. Well, that only fanned the flames of her distaste for ponykind.

With her hatred ablaze, Lula’s current ambitions involve continuing her same nomadic routine as before, but with a twist! She has a newfound taste for befriending and bewitching stallions and mares alike until they trust and love her, then using any knowledge of their insecurities to torment them. Whether it’s through a string of hurtful comments, taking the shape of somepony or something they fear, or even luring her victims someplace where she can bring their nightmares to life: Lulavi takes great pleasure in crushing her pony prey!

Character Summary:

Lulavi is the epitome of layabout living. She travels around as she pleases and everything she wants or needs she gets through her sumptuous looks and charms. She achieves this through charisma, her appearance and a silky voice! Speaking voice, not singing voice. She can win a meal with a wink or blow a kiss and get herself a brand new dress. Lula’s even been known to convince a chump or two to give up their home for a few nights so she could have a place to stay – just with a few choice words and a sweet little smile! Few things are out of the changeling mare’s manipulative reach and she takes full advantage. Changelings and ponies alike are at her mercy, since she only takes on the loveliest shapes available to her.

Despite her laziness, Lulavi’s also something of a thrill-seeker. She loves to get herself into trouble with petty crime or picking fights that she shouldn’t: she’ll run away with every intention of getting caught, then charm her way to sweet, unscathed freedom! If her plans fail, though, she’ll hold a grudge against her foe for the rest of her life. In fact, she holds a grudge against anyone who doesn’t fall for her charms. She takes it as an affront to her own beauty!

None of her grudges have ever really gone away. Every one she’s ever held she’s still hanging onto very tightly. Lula is viciously spiteful; she’s positively acidic to any creature she deems an enemy and will harm them on the slightest whim. She’s constantly planning revenge against every creature unfortunate enough to humiliate her. Sometimes she’ll take her revenge schemes into her own worm-eaten hooves, but more often than not she’ll rope an unsuspecting victim into doing her bidding.

Unicorns are her favourite for those schemes. Their magic can be terribly useful, so she’ll work as long as she needs to in order to build a solid relationship with a mare or stallion. She’ll make them love and trust her, then ask them to join her on a romantic vacation conveniently located wherever the object of her spite lives. When they get there, she’ll have her gopher work some evil and get her revenge for her. Only then will Lula’s grudge be sated, if only temporary. She has a huge capacity for pettiness and hate.

With all that selfish, self-absorbed nastiness to her name, however, only those who know Lula well (and particularly keen strangers) can see through her fair façade. To every other creature she is a vision of loveliness. Her looks are always stunning and her personality winsome. Few can resist her curves and her innocence: how unaware she is of her own beauty. The final arrow through the heart, however, is always the “look.” All she has to do is look straight at her target with eyes that say “You are divine, and I will love you and only you eternally” and they cannot resist her. The key is to make it genuine.

It’s such a simple act, one that comes naturally to Lulavi, made all the more delicious by how easily it enraptures her targets. Most ponies find it hard to resist a pretty little mare who captures the very essence of true love.

Her tactics for winning over changelings, however, is quite different. They don’t fall for the sappy pony nonsense, so she simply takes on the same vavavoom in her personality that her physicality possesses. That confident, feminine swagger with just a touch of deadliness and venom tends to work better on her villainous comrades.

Few things in Lula's life will ever be more precious than her little love games and her scheming. She does have a healthy respect for all things beautiful, however, and the one thing within her hive and beyond that she finds more beautiful than her arrogant self is her Queen. Tall, thin, evil, vicious, and power-hungry: nothing could please the eyes or the heart more than Lulavi’s black-hearted Queen. From her tattered mane to her shiny carapace, all the way down to the pretty holes in her hooves, Lula’s Queen is an absolute vision to behold. And so, when the Queen calls, Lulavi answers. It is the only sense of loyalty that she has, but it is loyalty that is very precious to her nonetheless.

[Bellosh]