I choose Tirek. I can rule with my own fist (or hoof).

Had no idea this thing I put together shiwed up on Derpibooru.

Queen of the changelings

Size and might of tirek, that combined with my inability to be emotionally manipulated would mean the changeling army would be nothing to me, especially if I could absorb magic

@Double Pendulum  
#hugabug!

Be the leader of the Changelings so I will have all the love and hugs I desire from them!

probs ’lings

@Legioner8  
Fuck, I’ve read it all with an accent.  
But, yeah, we will need a bigger gun.  
Big enough to bath em in iron

@Diego”Dio”Brando  

Keep on being human. Take a shotgun and plug in some anti bug shit. Get rid of both.

@Background Pony #C410  
As stan lee once said “Nuff said”

Leader of the Changelings.
 
The rebellion can’t fight who they can’t pick out.
 
Control all sides, win every battle, dominate the war. Then sit back and utter, “Checkmate”.

Be the leader of the changelings

We are the swarm!

how about having the power of both, but without having to take the responsibility of ruling your own people

Changelings. I love swarms.

@Background Pony #2308  
But that’s where you live.

Tirek, definitely. I could use all that power to destroy the multiverse

I’d rather be the leader of the changelings.

@redweasel  
Missed your second part of the original post, my bad.
 
In the very end she was undone by her hubris, I would never debate that.
 
“but even there, the best you could say is she was pressed for time. she already screwed up infiltrating the city, the princesses were on high alert, and her invasion date was coming up, so she just used a desperate delaying tactic.”
 
But think about this: Shining is the only one who can project the shield around Canterlot. The Elements of Harmony and vanilla Celestia are the only powerful enough counters against her. She makes the threat on Canterlot clear to the princesses in some way (don’t ask me how, ‘cos I thought about that, all I could imagine was a “Sunbutt stinks!” letter written in crayon.) She needs to mind control Shining, lest he cut off their one good attack in one go, and gain his powers. That takes time. Mind control indoctrination gives him headaches. They explain that with the strain of shielding. She mindbucks Twilight turning her against the rest of the mane six by the wedding. Twilight’s missing for the attack (she figures a way out, but she is too late to stop Chrysalis anyways).

@Smudge_Proof  
as I said, that’s not when Chrysalis showed she was dumb as rocks.
 
but even there, the best you could say is she was pressed for time. she already screwed up infiltrating the city, the princesses were on high alert, and her invasion date was coming up, so she just used a desperate delaying tactic.
 
what was she gonna do, pointlessly snipe at ponies until twilight came out of the mines, and then scram the fuck out of there? I think she just didn’t see the elements of harmony as a threat.
 
if she was smart she would have played the part, easily gained twilight’s trust, and drained her too, either leaving her passed out in the mines, or enthralled like the bridesmaids. as-is, she was… adequate, but then went full retard when those two showed up to spoil the wedding.
 
don’t get me wrong it’s awesome that she’s a dumbass. a smart chrysalis is actually quite terrifying…

@redweasel  
You mean when she sent her for the mines?  
She was eliminating a key component to the Elements of Harmony superweapon. Twilight’s absence during the ceremony was completely justified given how others felt about her previous behavior towards fake Cadence.  
Everyone else was completely fooled by her.

@redweasel  
Yep.

@Pagan  
well maybe the lovebirds succeeding where the ruler of the sun, and the elements of harmony failed, was just a natural progression to well established character development that led us to expect that those two had the power to save the day.
 
nah, they were pretty much monkey wrenched in there and made op because weddings

@redweasel  
Uuuuuh okaaaaay…