Chapter Bonus (version: 1.10)

Contains: facts

I often shorten Erotic Life of the Smallest Changeling to ELotSC

I originally planned to write a pure clop story. But then I got caught up trying to give Chrysalis a motivation and keeping things believable. You know, if a war is coming up no intelligent nation is just going to wing it. But if Chrysalis had to be at a bunch of meetings, what was going to stop Alex from running away? And so on the story came together from me trying to plug all the plot holes only after I had started writing.

Apple is in fact dead, but she was a rapist. Although Chrysalis could be considered a rapist too.

You never see King Milkweed or General Firethorn even though they are in the hive "somewhere"

Oleander is the only changeling with fake limbs

From Chapter 1 to 21 is a 10 day period + the one week skip in chapter 22, the entire story takes just 17 days.

Oleander is the name of a poisonous flower

Alex does not have a last name

The office where Alex first meets Nightshade is supposed to be in the Shadow Hive. The portal Alex went through took him across the ocean! The hospital room is back in the Whistling Hive.

ELotSC was the first fic I ever started writing and publishing

No one on the internet knows my true name. (It's not Alex)

Podzamite is a play on a species of fern that went extinct with the dinosaurs. It is unknown if it could have had any medicinal purposes (for obvious reasons).

Erotic Life of the Smallest Changeling took over 2 years to write... I am a douche bag... :(

The idea for a shrunken changeling came from another writer on fimfiction named Nightshade745 (who is now retired) and his story Worth Less than a Fly, which was never completed.

When I originally started this fic, Alex was 17 years old because I liked the idea of a kid who had no experience in sex becoming a slave to a sex craving queen with high standards. However, there was a legal issue and his age had to be bumped up to 18. It's not beyond reasonable that he'd still be a virgin at that age, but I don't know. I had chosen 17 originally knowing it was below the line but I didn't expect anyone to be that picky.

It was hinted that every time Alex had sex with Chrysalis he enjoyed it

There was going to be a chapter where Oleander and Bell argue over the price of Alex's amulet. But I decided to cut it because I couldn't decide what the final price was going to be myself and the chapter was never long enough to qualify as anything more than a single scene. Also, it pulled the story away from the hero, Alex.

The word "bell" is found in the name of many types of flowers

During the final edit, more than a 500 words were cut throughout the entire story

Alex only ever levitates a feather and a "small" book in the story

Before the final edit, chapters prior to 12 all mention Alex being 2 inches tall. But from chapter 13 and on, whenever his height was mentioned, it was 3. This has been corrected. (He is supposed to be 2 inches tall)

Nightshade is a poisonous, pink flower. And the name of the first author I ever followed on fimfiction.net

At one time, people thought tomatoes were poisonous

Originally, the dual between Oleander and Apple was going to be much longer, but I shortened it to save time... and to keep the story focused around Alex. You can't afford to pull a story away from the hero for too long you know.

I was going to have other changeling hives in the story, but I couldn't think of any new names or defining characteristics. Why have other hives if: one, they don't do anything, and two, they aren't any different from those already mentioned?

Alex speaks up against Nightshade not once, but twice, despite Nightshade being of an even higher rank than Chrysalis!

The elements of harmony are never mentioned in this story nor their wielders. But Nightmare Moon and Discord are.

When I was writing about the size and power of the Shadow Hive, I had a picture of Russia in my head, but it is supposed to exist in Zebrica.

Behemoths are massive changelings, four times the size of normal changelings or twice as tall as Celestia and Luna!

There was going to be a final scene where Nightshade runs into Milkweed in the hallway, but I cut it because it was awkward, made the chapter even longer, and was just another character you had to get to know when the story was ending.

It is never mentioned if the changelings have pets

You can't spell Alex without at least one X

It is never specified if Nightshade destroyed the Firefly Changelings in The Battle of Podzamite. (I didn't intend that if you inferred it)

There are only two points in the story where Alex eats anything

Alex never entered Chrysalis's primary bathroom, only the washroom with the tub.

It was entirely intentional for Nightshade to be far less intimidating than the Shadow Changeling that came to get Alex. His hive is supposed to be the strongest, so his children try to maintain the image, but their own ruler, Nightshade, thinks his hive is this adored benevolent force that will protect everyone. Not a feared empire. His intentions don't quite match the image his children have crafted. (I'm not sure if that was easy to infer or not)

I have never met anyone named Alex. Ever.

I met an Apple once though

I have no idea what Operation Silent Songbird would be. I just felt like I should throw in something to explain what Nightshade is going to do about the ponies. Nightshade's decree at the end is meant to wrap up every loose end in the story.

It is never specified what color Chrysalis's tongue is, but her vagina is pink and her nipples are described as green. This was never corrected because I wasn't sure which color was more appropriate.

Apple had sex with Alex before Chrysalis did.

It is never explained how Chrysalis got the Spell Book of Nightmare Moon

It is never explained how Oleander stores poison in his body. I was going to, but I somehow skipped over it... sorry

After a few chapters with Apple, and all the fans who made fun of the uncreative name, I considered going back and changing it just to make them shut up. Then I thought, "screw them. It's my story, the characters can have whatever name I damn well want them to."

Chrysalis and Alex are the only changelings to transform in the story and only to alter their physical qualities in some small way. (Chrysalis making her legs solid, Alex making his horn appear and disappear)

The Firefly Changelings are living amulets and they became extinct during the Feudal Era, when the numerous hives were at each other's throats. I wonder why they died out...

I had always planned for Alex to stay, but I began to feel like I had hinted at it too strongly earlier and that I needed to mix things up a little in the last chapter.

There are NO PLANS FOR A SEQUEL. I wouldn't have a clue where to take the story from here so it's best I not try.