Hollow Wing

Name: Hollow Wing Age: 23 Species: Changeling Sex: Male Color: Black, with teal eyes Personality: Inquisitive, Stoic, Philosophical, Pragmatic, secretly Lonely Special Talent: compensates for his seeming inability to experience love or passion by carefully observing how those characteristics are produced and stimulated in non-changelings, then using his acting skills to induce these feelings in as many creatures as possible. History: Hollow Wing was once your average changeling, frequently stealing love from whatever creature was most convenient by abducting their loved ones, getting his fix and leaving them to pick up the pieces, but one day he had a revelation of sorts that shifted his personal mission. "If love is the most desirable, good, and beneficial thing, and if it can be created when living beings act in a certain way," he reasoned, "then I should work to create as much of it as possible!" Thus, Hollow Wing began acting to produce as much love as possible even in cases wherein he did not intend to stick around and feed on the results, operating off of the hypothesis that injecting love into the world will cause a sort of snowball reaction wherein love will beget even more love, and thus there will be more love for him to feed on in the long run. At first, this project was difficult due to the extreme demands on Hollow's acting ability, but over time he found that he was able to spread massive amounts of love around certain areas by impersonating the right ponies/griffons/what have you at the right times after doing a bit of research into their mannerisms. But even with the ability to create fertile feeding grounds in this manner, Hollow began to feel a strange sense of envy for the creatures that he manipulated and preyed on. He resented the fact that they seemingly had the ability to produce love naturally in endless quantities if exposed to the right stimuli, an ability which Hollow greatly desired for himself but was unable to figure out how to emulate. More and more Hollow's self-esteem diminished as he stopped seeing himself as a natural predator of inferior creatures and started seeing himself as a parasite so limited that he had to steal what others could easily produce on their own. Increasingly he started trying to shapeshift into completely original beings in order to earn some legitimate love for himself in the manner of non-changelings, but found this impossible due to his lack of experience with real social interactions not based on lies and manipulation. Now he grows gradually more disillusioned with both the changeling way of life and the world in general, still trying to spread love everywhere he goes, but no longer sure why he does it. Is he trying to secure a food source, or trying to find a way to become that upon which he feeds? Or is he just trying to make himself feel like something meaningful?

I feel that this depends on whether a pony that gets zombified is able to use the abilities that it would have in life. Like, can zombie unicorns remember the spells they used to be able to cast, and can zombie pegasi remember how to use weather to their advantage? If not, I have a feeling that the ponies would be able to contain the infection, for the same reason that in a real zombie apocalypse human military weapons like napalm and gatling guns would seriously hamper the spread of zombie virus. I mean, when you think about it all zombies can really do is shamble towards things and try to get within melee range. They can't use stealth or tactics, so even in a city they might have a difficult time spreading before everyone gets evacuated.

This is my favorite out of all the fan songs I've come across so far: