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Name: Heartless

Gender: Male

Age: Young Stallion

Species: Changeling

Eye colour: Pale blue that completely encompasses his eyes.

Character colour: Very dark grey, near indiscernible from black. The plating on his back is dark blue in color.

Mane/Tail/Other: Like most Changelings, Heartless' mane and tail are slightly transparent and full of holes, appearing more like gossamer webbing than strands of hair. They both boast varying shades of blue, with the very tips trailing off towards white.

Physique: Slightly taller than the average Changeling, Heartless bares a sturdy and lean frame that belies the seemingly fragile appearance of his hole-filled exoskeleton.

Residence: None. Heartless travels wherever he pleases, needing only love to sustain himself on his long voyages.

Occupation: 'Imperial Vanguard to the Hive and High Queen Chrysalis.' In reality, the failed invasion of Canterlot turned Heartless into a self-proclaimed scout, who took upon himself the task of scouring Equestria for high densities of love.

Cutie Mark: N/A

Unique Traits: Given his affinity for one specific pony mask, Heartless felt it necessary to master the Changeling art of illusions and disguises, so that this talent not fall to the wayside thanks to that tendency. Several years of practice has culminated into an expertise that is not commonly seen among Changelings. Heartless is able to shift disguises in a literal blink of the eye - and moreover, has been able to downsize the telltale green glow of a Changeling illusion into only the barest hint of green that dissipates as quickly as it appears. Heartless' ability to change his disguise without giving away his Changeling nature has saved his life in the past, and it is a skill he continues to practice when he is away from prying eyes.

Strangely enough for a Changeling, Heartless tends to display some deeply innate issues through his personality. True to his given name, he literally has extreme difficultly feeling any remorse or regret, both for his own actions and the actions of others. He has trouble comprehending punishment and reward stimuli, ergo translating to an innate trouble understanding why something is wrong or something is right.

Despite this - or perhaps because of it - Heartless remained a master manipulator and actor, able to accurately mimic and portray emotions that he himself does not feel. His ability to act out whatever emotions he needs makes him a particularly potent spy and scout, though he rarely has a chance to use his skills for any Hive-specific purpose nowadays.

History: Like most Changelings, Heartless' history revolves almost entirely around his Queen. Born into the Hive of Queen Chrysalis during a particularly difficult Love drought, Heartless quickly learned that becoming strong and useful was the only way to remain within the Hive, and remaining within the Hive was the only way to survive. Heartless became aggressive and competitive at an early age, youth and spirit spurring him to strive towards the unreachable goal of the Queen.

Like most of his kin, Heartless grew independent at an early age and began work as a tunneler, though an accident digging out a new shaft had him incapacitated for a short while. Perturbed at the idea of being discarded from the Hive, Heartless quickly learned to compensate for the lack of a wing, and despite flareups of the old injury from time to time, he grew into an acrobatic and agile Changeling. His abilities to perform even at less than full capacity eventually earned him respect, made him stand out from the otherwise myriad of nameless faces. Soon after, Heartless was made into a vanguard, a Changeling to gather feedback and intelligence on any potential areas primed for Love harvesting, and he was one of the first to step hoof onto Equestrian soil to prepare for the invasion.

Unfortunately, despite the overwhelming odds that signaled a happy ending for the Hive, the invasion ended in failure, the Queen defeated by two mere ponies. Heartless couldn't understand how the Hive had failed, and was even more reluctant to leave such a rich source of Love with the fleeing Changeling army. In the end, he also returned back to the Hive, but only to deliver words of goodbye. From that day on, Heartless made it his mission to continue his reconnaissance of Equestria, determined to find a weak spot in the country's Love-fueled defense.

In truth, with the homelands nearly deprived of stable sources of Love, Heartless' real goal was simply to surround himself with Love and eat his gluttonous fill. As he is still loyal to the Queen however, Heartless still keeps eyes and ears out to watch for weakness, all too eager to usher in the next Changeling invasion.

Character Summary/Personality: Living up to his name is a mere afterthought for Heartless, and a more perfect example of a creature lacking any capacity for love could not be found anywhere else. Impersonal, apathetic, and ruthless, Heartless is near incapable of feeling remorse or regret, making him at his core a selfish, indifferent, and utterly savage Changeling. He does not understand emotional pain or pleasure like most ponies do - therefor, he is unaffected by either. Anything he does serves only to fuel his feeding frenzy or further the cause of the Hive and his Queen. Everything, and everypony else, simply gets caught in the middle.

Heartless is not, however, completely without emotion. What he does feel and understand are primal, instinctual urges, uncoated and unburdened by social niceties or flowery prose. Anger and aggression are what Heartless was raised on, and as such, what he understands best - everything else tends to fall into a grey area he is unsure about. Heartless, too, knows the value of patience, having outgrown the fervid years of his spirited and competitive youth. He can shut down even his blackest of rages, controlling it into a calm so serene that one would think him completely at ease. Very little is capable of breaking through his exterior.

Though calm and serene might be what he forces himself to be most of the time, that is only on the inside, an act all for himself. For other ponies, Heartless is a master at mimicking emotions and feelings that he himself doesn't fully understand. For the most part, he adopts the mannerisms and personality of his favorite disguise, stolen from a scholarly stallion far away from Equestria. This persona is fairly laid-back and casual, amiable and humorous, and with a penchant for light flirting covering up a simmering passion for the pursuit of knowledge. All these Heartless is able to imitate with ease, especially as the stallion's close friends and family are all removed in a different country. But even beyond this particular persona, Heartless can cry, act embarrassed, lie, pretend to lie - even love.

Heartless is not capable of feeling love, not for another pony, and not even for himself. It is a fate that, perhaps, only another Changeling can fully sympathize with, and perhaps only another Changeling can understand why Heartless chases down Love so relentlessly. The Changeling is seemingly obsessed with finding Love, especially in high concentrations, but his handsome disguise makes it fairly easy to experience for himself, often to the detriment of whichever unlucky mare falls for his empty charms. It is possible that, were Heartless to meet a pony so full of Love, he might forever be satiated - but as that has yet to happen, he is content to roam Equestria, latching himself onto Love-filled ponies to get even a small taste of the same.
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The app's been edited. I changed one of Heartless' unique traits into a paragraph about his ability to swap disguises in the blink of an eye, without a huge flare of green light (unless he chooses to change disguises slowly for dramatic effect, because that's totally something he would do).

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