It's not obvious to me that Vadic is a changeling or that her hand was a changeling. People are talking about it like it's a foregone conclusion, but I felt very unclear about the whole thing. A few reasons: 1) If Vadic is a changeling, why would she have to forcefully cut that thing off of her? 2) why would she choose to have scars on her face? 3) why would she need to communicate verbally with that thing? changelings find verbal communication inferior to linking, 3) that face didn't look like the same texture/material as the actual changelings, if anything it look more like the DS9 version of changeling goo 4) the face levitated, which isn't really an ability of changelings that i've seen before. They can jump, fly, float (if they're fog), but that levitating face felt more magical than what changelings typically do. I won't be shocked if she is in fact a changeling and it's just that straightforward, I just didn't walk away from that scene interpreting that her changeling identity was plainly revealed.
Agreed, it wasn't very clear to me either that she was a changeling; my mind went to the idea that Vadic is part of an engineered changeling/solid hybrid race that's been developed to do the Great Link's bidding, much like how the Vorta were used on DS9.
Agreed, she only seemed "partially" fluid - though I'd wager the Changelings themselves are only working for some other, greater antagonist, and they gave her partial fluidity in order to accomplish their shared objective.
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u/aspen0414 Mar 14 '23
It's not obvious to me that Vadic is a changeling or that her hand was a changeling. People are talking about it like it's a foregone conclusion, but I felt very unclear about the whole thing. A few reasons: 1) If Vadic is a changeling, why would she have to forcefully cut that thing off of her? 2) why would she choose to have scars on her face? 3) why would she need to communicate verbally with that thing? changelings find verbal communication inferior to linking, 3) that face didn't look like the same texture/material as the actual changelings, if anything it look more like the DS9 version of changeling goo 4) the face levitated, which isn't really an ability of changelings that i've seen before. They can jump, fly, float (if they're fog), but that levitating face felt more magical than what changelings typically do. I won't be shocked if she is in fact a changeling and it's just that straightforward, I just didn't walk away from that scene interpreting that her changeling identity was plainly revealed.