History Characters / CodexEquusTheChangelingCourtsSpringCourt

Also known as the "Court of Roses", the Spring Court is one of two 'official' Changeling Courts. and by far the largest among all the Courts. Their Hives and Swarms are ruled by Changeling Queens, of which Chrysalis had been one of them until recently. Ironically, unlike Chrysalis they are among the most benevolent and fairest of Changelingkind. Yet though they are among the best of Changelingkind, they are not without skeletons in her closet...

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheHighQueen. While most Changeling Queens are benevolent, they tend to act superior and patronizing, and they don't hide their hatred for Dragonkind. Their flaws and biases later played a huge role in the creation of [[TragicVillain Apterus]], as they were so racist against Dragonkind that they didn't help Apterus or her parents, Queen Acherontia and Dragon Lord Vulcan, in any way. However, it's reconstructed in Queens who don't share this racism, and rightfully objected against family members who participated in the aforementioned incident.

* HolierThanThou: Benevolent as they are, most Changeling Queens and even the Empress herself aren't safe from this attitude. While they're willing to be lenient with dissenters, they still believe that being Changeling royals automatically makes them entitled for the right to rule, and only ''they'' know what's best for their subjects. Anyone who decides to leave their Court is "ungrateful" because they're rejecting their rulers' love and protection, and they undermine their legitimacy simply by existing.

* TheAce: She is not only [[TheArchmage one of the most powerful Changeling psychics of her generation]], but she's also the most intelligent and capable Changeling Queens of her generation, being a skilled psychologist and neuroscientist in addition to ruling her own Hive. Said Hive, Hive Chiron, also serves as an academic center for everyone to come and learn about various subjects, including how to use PsychicPowers. She was also a capable spellcaster, having learned under the Tauren priesthoods of Ilios and Thelgossa, among others. However, it was [[BrokenAce deconstructed]]; in her early life, the Old Orosian Pantheon's pettiness and the loss of her birth father's kingdom left her vulnerable to Changelingkind's worst flaws, causing her to act like them. With help, she gradually realizes how she and her people acted was wrong, pushing her to be better. Her efforts eventually pay off when she Ascends to true godhood and breaks her racial curse by forgiving her mother, whom she previously hated, for her sins. Now enlightened, she seeks to not only spread knowledge and learning to all races, but also help improve Changeling society/culture so her people could become better like she did.

[[folder:Blackrose[[spoiler:/Rosedust]] Titania Avalon, the Changeling Empress]]

[[folder:Blackrose, the Changeling Empress]]

Empress Blackrose (her entry [[https://www.deviantart.com/brutalityinc/art/Codex-Equestria-The-Changeling-Courts-Part-1-658742263 here]]) is the matriarch of the Spring Court, the Mother of Changelingkind, and one of the most beloved and benevolent figures among her people. She is notably the mother of Chrysalis and her siblings, whom she loved very much -- but as Chrysalis demonstrated, even her love and patience has limits and she will neither hesitate nor tolerate if any of her daughters goes too far down a dark path. Has a past and relationship with Discord and her counterpart in the Summer Court that is best described as... complex.

-> ''"I'll be watching over you."

* BoomerangBigot: They were largely responsible for Apertus becoming a TragicVillain because they detested her for being the hybrid child of a Changeling Queen and a Dragon Lord. This makes ''every'' Spring Court royal that did so hypocrites, since every single one of them was sired by Blackrose and a member of a different race, making them hybrids themselves. They also bullied Queen Odonata for being half-Kirin, since she retained enough draconic traits that she reminded her siblings of a dragon, and would have repeated the cycle of hate had Puck, Blackrose, and other kind family members intervened.

* DeconstructedCharacterArchetype: Of TheHighQueen. While most Changeling Queens are benevolent, they tend to act superior and patronizing, and they don't hide their hatred for Dragonkind. Their flaws and biases later played a huge role in the creation of [[TragicVillain Apertus]], as they were so racist against Dragonkind that they didn't help Apertus or her parents, Queen Acherontia and Dragon Lord Vulcan, in any way. However, it's reconstructed in Queens who don't share this racism, and rightfully objected against family members who participated in the aforementioned incident.
* FantasticRacism: Deconstructed. Like the Kings of the Summer Court, the Queens of the Spring Court loathe Dragonkind for the atrocities they have inflicted upon Changelingkind. When they forcibly separated Queen Acherontia from her dragon husband, and sealed away both of them as punishment for daring to fall in love with each other, it led to the rise of [[TragicVillain Apertus]], who was traumatized by her parents' disappearances ([[AbusiveParents among other things]]). Likewise, they also hated Apertus for being a dragon-changeling hybrid, [[BoomerangBigot despite being racial hybrids themselves]]. Of course, this bit them in the ass later when even ''the gods and goddesses themselves'' called them out on their racism, with Luminiferous stating how petty they were in trying to fulfill their revenge instead of trying to break the Curse that's plaguing their people. There are exceptions to this belief, including Queen Odonata who utterly ''despises'' racism due to being a target of it and Queen Zoraptera Avalon also went out of her way to make cures for the dragon strains of the Crucible Virus for no other reason than it was the right thing to do for example. Also, when Queen Odonata was born, many of her sisters shunned and bullied her out of disgust for resembling a dragon, to the point where one of them ''physically tried to harm her''. Fortunately, Puck, Blackrose, and other kind family members intervened so Odonata wouldn't become another Apertus.

* TheHighQueen: All of the rulers of the Spring Court are very benevolent people, give or take a few [[GodSaveUsFromTheQueen bad apples]]. However, it's deconstructed that their benevolence doesn't extend to certain races, as most of the Royal Changelings are very racist towards Dragonkind to the point of separating and sealing one of their own for falling in love with a Dragon Lord. Racism aside, even the more benevolent Queens aren't above [[HolierThanThou acting superior and patronizing towards their subjects]], especially if they decide to leave their Court for reasons. It's reconstructed with Blackrose - while she wasn't perfect, her brief stint in tyranny before and during the First-Spawn Rebellion ended when a dying daughter's ArmorPiercingResponse caused her to realize what she had become. She also tried toning down her racism in the presence of dragons [[spoiler:and reincarnating Apertus back into a Changeling egg so her parents would be able to raise her this time]].

* LaserGuidedKarma: The trauma of the "Burning of Amorea" made many Changeling Queens extremely racist towards all Dragons. When they learned Queen Acherontia fell in love with a Dragon Lord and sired a hybrid daughter with him, they attacked the innocent family out of hatred, and essentially abandoned the then-infant Apertus to her fate. This ends up biting them in the collective flank when a grown-up Apertus, driven by hatred and revenge, went on a destructive rampage to reclaim what she believed was rightfully "hers". Those Changeling Queens who didn't buy into the racism were appalled by their siblings' cruelty, with Queen Pentatomidae avoiding her family for 500 years, and Princess/Captain Mimetidae ''punching'' her mother, Empress Blackrose, for her cruel actions.

* WomenAreWiser: Unlike the Summer Court's tyrannical, cruel, and scheming Changeling Kings, the Spring Court's Changeling Queens are benevolent, wise, and fair, and thus enjoy a much better reputation with the outside world than their Summer counterparts. However, it's deconstructed as even the Changeling Queens have made their own fair share of mistakes, and it's noted that the "Burning of Amorea" event affected many of them so badly that they became racist towards Dragons, and deeply obsessed with survival. The "Revenge of Apertus" event is a prominent exampe of this, as the Changeling Queens' cruelty towards Queen Acherontia's family later made them targets of Princess Apertus' vengeful rampages. Their collective unwillingness to let go of the trauma stemming from the "Burning of Amorea" event also stunted them psychologically and physically, to the point where [[https://www.deviantart.com/comments/1/890177827/5042794291 many Changeling Queens were unable to grow past their "sub-imago" phase]].

* CallingTheOldManOut: She was on the receiving end on this by Queen Pentatomidae, who was completely disgusted with how she and her other daughters treated Queen Acherontia for falling in love with a dragon, to the point where she shunned her family for 500 years. [[spoiler:It stuck, as Blackrose, wanting to atone for her actions, proceeded to release Apertus's parents from their sealing and reincarnate Apertus into a newborn egg after she was put down]].

* {{Hypocrite}}: As shown with her mistreatment of her daughter Queen Acherontia, her husband Dragon Lord Vulcan, and their daughter Princess Apertus, she is deeply racist against Dragonkind and has similarly low opinions of Changeling-Dragon hybrids... but she's perfectly fine with her other daughters being hybrids, having sired them herself through fathers from various non-Changeling races. It's deconstructed during the 'Revenge of Apertus' event, as not only some of her more benevolent family members are disgusted and angry with her (with one daughter outright ''punching her in the face''), the public reveal of what she and her more racist family members had done to Apertus and her parents has provoked both deities and mortals alike into [[WhatTheHellHero calling out the entire Spring Court]]. To her credit, she has recognized this and is making personal efforts in atoning for her sins, including [[spoiler:forgiving both Tiamat and Bahamut for their children's horrible actions during the 'Burning of Amorea' event]].

** She also has [[FantasticRacism a huge grudge against Dragonkind]] ever since they instigated the 'Burning of Amorea'. This gets deconstructed as, while already internally conflicted, her antipathy for Dragonkind caused her to make the objectively cruel decision against one of her daughters, Queen Acherontia, for falling in love with Dragon Lord Vulcan by separating them and sealing them away, while she did not do much to find out what happened to their child Apterus, unwittingly leaving her hybrid grandaughter to be abused by a Changeling King in gods-knows-where. All this later bit her in the ass when her actions alienated a few children who were rightfully horrified and angry with their mother, and Apertus came back years later to enact a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and get what's rightfully 'hers'. It got so bad that [[spoiler:Blackrose had to release Acherontia and Vulcan to deal with her. After Apertus was killed, Blackrose tried to make amends - first by reincarnating Apertus into an egg so she could be raised properly, and recorded it in literature and plays so no one would repeat her heinous actions again]]. It is mentioned after Toxikon and the Crucible Crisis that she is noticed correcting herself in her use of racial slurs against Dragonkind. [[spoiler:She eventually chooses to forgive them entirely after realizing her FatalFlaw of Wrath.]]

* PleaseSpareHimMyLiege: Pentatomidae begged her family to spare Acherontia's family, but sadly, they didn't listen. They would come to regret this, as Acherontia's hybrid daughter Apertus would return many years later on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge to dish out karma for what the Spring Court had done to her parents.

* SilentTreatment: After calling out her family for their treatment of Acherontia's family as well as Vulcan, she pointedly continued to express her displeasure by avoiding her relatives for ''500 years''.

** It's implied she was the "Cain" to her half-sister Queen Acherontia, who was the "Abel". Ganglia was racist towards Dragons and hated them for what they did to Changelingkind, whereas Acherontia fell in love with Dragon Lord Vulcan and sired the hybrid Princess Apertus with him. However, the Changelings and Dragons' actions in tearing Acherontia's family apart horrified Ganglia, setting up the circumstances that led to her realizing that her FantasticRacism attitudes were wrong. She later apologizes to Acherontia for what she and her family went through, factoring into her Ascension to true godhood.