Love Bombs — A Changeling’s Bane

 

Love Bombs are quite simply a special blend of herbs mixed in carefully with high amounts of concentrated love, typically gathered in locations such as strip clubs, romantic restaurant, idyllic beaches, and similar locations filled with plenty of love to go around. The herbs would be added in order to amplify the amount of love tenfold, and in some cases also ensure that the only targets of the potion’s effects were insectoid in nature.

 

The intent of the Love Bomb is to quite simply cause changelings to be filled up with extreme amounts of amplified love; the potion would simply need to be opened (or thrown and smashed against something), releasing the aerosolized contents within. A billowing pink cloud of pure concentrated love would then emerge, forcing its way into any nearby vessels (such as changelings.) As changelings are known for feeding on love, the results usually end up quite disastrously for their waistline. The luccky changelings caught in the radius of a Love Bomb are usually those found in a group of other changelings, resulting in the love gas being able to “spread out” to more vessels. Unfortunate ones may find themselves alone, ballooned to ridiculously large sizes, possibly even to the size of a cabin if conditions are right.

 

The original intent of the Love Bomb was to be used for self-defense when attacked by changelings, as it was created within two weeks of the notorious Changeling Invadion of Canterlot. However, after Thorax rose to power, the Love Bomb quickly found itself classified as a Class 3 Illicit Mixture by the Equestria Board of Achemists, due to the ability to turn normal healthy changelings into bloated mockeries of themselves, leaving them with hundreds of pounds of fat that would take many months, or even years to work off through normal exercise (if said changeling was still capable of basic locomotion after exposure.)

 

Even though it lost its original purpose, there was still a demand for Love Bombs by several ponies. The majority of those who intended to use it had nefarious purposes in mind, such as intending to use them in biological terrorist attacks in response to the newly forged peace deals created between changelings; after all, what could be more embarrassing than being the size of an entire train car, helplessly belching out love while dozens look on in shock and awe? However, a few ponies would find a use for Love Bombs that is much more intimate, for those who not only had a changeling partner but also found love in seeing how many rolls of fat said partner could have on their fattened body.