changeling

That metaphor of the outcast changeling, rejected for who she is at her core by a rigid society, earned a loyal following — and accolades, including an Eisner Award and a National Book Award nomination.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 15, 2023

Worf, acting on a tip from Odo in the Great Link, has been — secretly, apparently — working for Starfleet to expose an incoming changeling attack.

From New York Times ● Mar. 2, 2023

A New York Times review of the film said Oberon had "perfectly caught the restless, changeling spirit of the Brontë heroine".

From BBC ● Apr. 15, 2022

Gretel may or may not be a fairy changeling, although given the fact that she has two pupils in each eye, she probably is.

From Slate ● Mar. 6, 2019

It was as if he were a changeling, a troubled child not so secretly adopted by the Icelanders, but with love and without foreboding.

From "Endgame" by Frank Brady

Unless the Founders themselves chose to withhold the cure from certain changelings.

From New York Times ● Mar. 30, 2023

Although Starfleet eventually came up with a cure — thanks Dr. Bashir! — it radicalized some changelings along the way.

From New York Times ● Mar. 23, 2023

“The Changeling” by Victor LaValle uses as its inspiration the stories of changelings, false doubles left in place of human children who are stolen by fairies.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 16, 2020

O changelings of the world: we go up and down the ladder in this circus called life, and we are more entertaining than clowns, more grotesque than freaks.

From The New Yorker ● May 1, 2017

Neither man nor woman, neither and both, cyclic, lunar, metamorphosing under the hand’s touch, changelings in the human cradle, they were no flesh of mine, no friends; no love between us.

From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin