Editing Changelings

'''Changelings''' are [[fae]] that look like a baby to an extent. They can control doll-like  [[vessels]] as "mothers" to move around,<ref name=11.3e2/> presumably with an application of [[Glamour]].
==Appearance==
They look like babies that were far from perfect. A little too hairy, with ears pointed at the tips, a little too intelligent in how their eyes moved. Eyes like a cat’s or a dog’s, with barely any whites.<ref name=11.3e2/>
==Notable changelings==
*Pack hunters<ref name=11.3e1>There were a group of Others on the approach.  Female figures with a range of body types, with babies strapped to their chests, backs, swaddled in slings, or in strollers.  Six in all.<br><br>What caught my interest was the lack of communication between them.  They moved with an urgency, like they had a ''mission'', silent.  None of the babies cried.<br>[...]<br>Another mom was coming down the street from a block over.  I saw her pick up her pace, approaching the ‘mombie’ group.<br><br>She said two words, cooing and adjusting her own baby, as if ready to present it to them, when the lead mombie bumped her with one shoulder.<br><br>Completely ignored.<br><br>She said something in response, offended, and left in a bit of a huff. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/11 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.3]]</ref>
==Trivia==
*According to common myth the child was removed from the crib, often by the faerie, for something resembling a baby, so the faerie could put one of their spawn among humanity and have a human baby to raise themselves.<ref name=11.3e2>I stood two feet away from them, separated by a pane of glass and a degree of reality, and I watched them.<br><br>Dolls.  Their skin was too perfect and even in complexion, their makeup painted on.  Their babies, by contrast, were far from perfect.  A little too hairy, with ears pointed at the tips, a little too intelligent in how their eyes moved.  Eyes like a cat’s or a dog’s, with barely any whites.<br><br>Changelings was the first idea to pop into my head.  A myth that I remembered learning about before, from some movie or another.  The child was removed from the crib, often by the faerie, for something resembling a baby, so the faerie could put one of their spawn among humanity and have a human baby to raise themselves.<br><br>I watched as the remainder of the group passed.  Each changeling was scanning its surroundings from its mommy-doll perch, each positioned to look in a different direction. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/09/11 Excerpt] from [[Malfeasance 11.3]]</ref>
*In real life the myth of changelings evolved from an attempt to understand why perfectly healthy children suddenly develop illnesses or become uncommunicative or numerous other maladies. 
*In story the closest to literary changelings would be [[Joanna Duchamp|Joanna]] whose identity was usurped by the local fae for their own purposes.<ref>[https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/11/29/gathered-pages-arc-13/ Interlude 13]</ref> 
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