Thread:Fruity Treeze/@comment-1031724-20170319232533/@comment-1031724-20170320184035

By the way, I might actually have a headcanon for Chrysalis I can go by unless she does get destroyed or reformed, though I won't go saying this to anyone I'm not really good friends with.

Maybe the reason it took Chrysalis four seasons to return is, she and most of her changelings did fall to their deaths (except Thorax, who wasn't as affected by the blast due to his less sinister nature). And, either changelings who landed in water or on something soft, or changelings who were left behind at the kingdom, searched Equestria for their queen, found her body in the Badlands, took a hair from her tail, created an identical clone of her somehow (retaining her original's memories like in The 6th Day), and she spawned more changelings. All of which took the entire four seasons, then Chrysalis II began her next plan. (Then the graboid headcanon for her)

Probably not what the writers had in mind, less so than the Tirek damnation theory or the Dazzlings' No Immortal Inertia, but I can still go by it as a headcanon, and ditch it if she ever gets death or redemption