@Fwelin  
She put her own sister on the moon for a thousand years, turned Discord to stone for who knows how much longer, and blasted Sombra into over a thousand years of ethereal torment…
 
Celestia might not have ill intentions, but her definition of temperance and proportionate retribution might be a tad skewed, and her go-to, for when she finally raises her rump off her dais, is “blast the fuck out of it with the strongest shit available”.

@DAPLR  
She might not seem the type to individually do it to every changeling there, but she’s also not the type to put a curse on a defeated foe and her entire race, either.
 
The picture is clearly showing Celestia blasting the holes into Chrysalis using pure force.

@Fwelin  
She is attacked by Celestia, and she and her changelings (all of them at the same time) are afflicted by the same wounds. There are a LOT of changelings, and Celestia doesn’t seem the type to systematically do it to every changleing she encountered that day individually. Makes more sense for her to do it to Chrysalis (and any nearby changelings who got caught in the blast, I suppose) and it effect all her current and future Changelings.
 
Curses can come from magic, look at what Sombra did.

@DAPLR  
The comic where that happens calls the holes the result of “permanent damage” from the laser depicted in the illustration, not a curse.

@Fwelin  
MAGIC!!!
 
Also, it could have been a curse, dude. Cursing families to look awful is a pretty standard curse,

@DAPLR  
Which makes absolutely no sense, because getting blasted doesn’t change your DNA, and changelings born after that event have holes in them.

@Background Pony #C026  
Or…they got blasted to high Hell by Celestia centuries ago…

What wrong with your face?

Do you think this is how changelings get the holes all over them? It’s not genetic it’s just the little ones start nibbling on the older ones while teething. Like adorable moths on a dress. :)

Cute widdle grubbies~<3

Big ol’ muzzle. :3

@Blissey1  
I think she just has a very large muzzle and a wide mouth. It’s kind of squarish!

Look at the one nomming on mummy’s horn

@Blissey1  
Ditto, what exactly is in her mouth?

@Blissey1  
She’s very nonchalant about them crawling on her.

the changeling grubs are totes adorbs… but… what the heck is going on with chryssi’s mouth?

And all of them belong to Shining Armour. :)

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