Talk:Queen Chrysalis/@comment-186.222.150.92-20120421221537/@comment-166.205.138.238-20120422000241

Maybe neither.

She's changeling. They are shown as ponies here because in real mythology, changelings bare similarities to humans as they take on the form of them. There is a queen changeling here because there is a mother changeling of groups of changelings in real mythology.

There's no theory behind any of it. She just looks like an alicorn so she can both fly and use magic, as do all the children changelings. It's just how she was designed.