This has given me yet another opportunity to post my fan-theory/head-canon regarding the “look” of the Founders–particularly the leader. Some say that the leader (the “Female Changeling” which I guess is all we get for a name for her) chose her “look” to resemble Odo, but my theory is that this look is the “default” form they use when dealing with humanoid solids because they once encountered the Progenitors and found them to be an inspiration. Which is why the Founders did things like evolve the Vorta and create the Jem’hadar. So they choose to look like a Progenitor when interacting with solids (it’s also a fun way to acknowledge that the same actress portrays both the Female Changeling and the Progenitor in the above image)
I like that take. Clearly, the Founders continued to make some malicious choices thereafter. The Progenitors merely impressed upon them a basic template for solid bipeds.
That’s to be expected.
This has given me yet another opportunity to post my fan-theory/head-canon regarding the “look” of the Founders–particularly the leader. Some say that the leader (the “Female Changeling” which I guess is all we get for a name for her) chose her “look” to resemble Odo, but my theory is that this look is the “default” form they use when dealing with humanoid solids because they once encountered the Progenitors and found them to be an inspiration. Which is why the Founders did things like evolve the Vorta and create the Jem’hadar. So they choose to look like a Progenitor when interacting with solids (it’s also a fun way to acknowledge that the same actress portrays both the Female Changeling and the Progenitor in the above image)
I like that take. Clearly, the Founders continued to make some malicious choices thereafter. The Progenitors merely impressed upon them a basic template for solid bipeds.
Solids are ironic