This story is a sequel to The Hero: Cozy Glow...?
In the last story, Cozy Glow became a super hero, mostly due to severe brain damage. You should probably read that before you get any further into this description, because spoilers abound! Part of the Cozy Hero continuity.
Living with Luna's been going pretty well for the filly the past few weeks, but with Hearth's Warming coming up, Luna urges her to go out and make some real friends. Cozy has her hooves full between that, her studies, and her super heroics, but to make matters worse it seems destiny has decided to get involved and dump even more responsibility on her.
Can't a former megalomaniacal psychopath catch a break?
No?
Well, you know what they say. If you can't catch a break, make your own. By breaking things. What? It works for Dash!
If you want more Cozy after reading this, check out The Mirror.
Oh no. She's becoming attached.
Oh no. She's become attached.
"Are you sure you don't want to live somewhere nicer?" "I spent a year in literal Hell. So, this place already meets all my standards!" [Internal Oof Intensifies]
Gotta be honest, when this line dropped, I felt Luna's response.
Huh. Someone's gone and splashed my face with liquid pride. Weird.
Huh. I'm laughing but there's still liquid pride everywhere. Ah, what a terrible day for rain.
ummm wow
this sequel is gonna be interesting
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Glad you think so. And welcome to the commenter's club! Sometimes I feel like only the 3d6-2 people who comment on my fics read them; it's cool to see a new face show up on the sequel (unless you made a comment on the previous fic that I've forgotten was by you, in which case I apologize)
You ever just have one of those days where the context of how fucked your life is leads you to have a panic attack over having called someone who offered to adopt you "mom?"
No? Just me and Cozy? Okay.
... Wow.
I mean, yeah, sensible, but wow.
Oh dear. Oh no. Oh, we're going here.
Ahaha. Haha. Ahahahaha.
Solo. Why are you doing this to me? Is this about the crack I made about you drinking my Monster Energy drinks at Bronycon? Is this your revenge?
I was gonna save this for the end of the comment, buuuut- it just seemed too appropriate:
Gotta admit, the repressed self-hatred Cozy Glow has dissociated from to the point where she's basically hallucinating voices in her head is pretty fucking sharp.
This paragraph got a hard "D'aww" from me right up until the finale clause, then it went back to kicking me in the soul.
First story not even out of the feature box and the sequel already has two chapters already...
I must have done something really good to deserve this late Chrismas gift.
man, it's 4 pm here, but there is always time for Cozy!
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I actually wrote these stories as a late Christmas gift to FIMfic, I'm really glad someone took it that way! Have another chapter!
This is how I make up for missing Jinglemas this year.
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Damn right.
Man, the Dapple-Luna headcanon has gotten legs.
Also: So many perspectives.
Gotcha, bitch!
This got a hearty silently giggle from me.
Awww. Feeling for Purple Smart, here.
Man, the use of "oof" as a short hand for "this sentiment both made me empathize with these characters and their suffering and made me reflect on similar events on my own life, causing a stab of wistfulness/bittersweetness" is gonna run thin fast at the rate that you keep putting me in that position... but still. Oof.
This is why Purple Smart gets to wear the pointy metal hat!
Even Celestia agrees with me!
Also: Get out of my head, fic!
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Will be interesting to see the differnt perpectives in this story.
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I'm glad you appreciate that aspect. Not everyone does.
... why you gotta do me like that, opening paragraph?
Man, I wonder what it says about the degree of her self-loathing that this is actually decent, completely non-sinister advice delivered in a morally neutral way, but Cozy still thinks of it in her Villain Voice and beats herself up over it.
Haha!
This fucking sucks!
Man, this all hits too close to home, but the Cozies cyclically dunking on each other is hilarious.
And then it got sad again. Woo hoo.
Oh no... could it be...
Also, her whole interaction with Cozy leading up to the "reveal", up to and including Old!Cozy's cutthroat sense of intrigue and deception, was fucking golden, you magnificent bastard.
I have nothing to add. This line is just funny.
Sunset has always been a logical candidate for helping Cozy. Nice to see her here. I wonder if she can use her powers to restore your memory.
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Bad Idea! Suddenly getting all of her memories back could cause a complete personality shift, and make Quillion/Cozy Glow into Cozy Glow/Quillion!
A gradual restoration, like the one already happening, is much better in this situation.
sunset shimmer? that explains why she didn't cringe or run away from the evil deeds of cozy glow.
their sins are similar
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nah i didnt comment on the previous story cause i read it in one go so i didnt have time to but it was an awesome story
THERES ONLY ONE PONY THAT HAS A MANE THAT LOOKS LIKE BACON AND THAT IS SUNSET SHIMMER
It's rare to see pony Baconbutt in a story! Now she will have to make friends with two Cozys! Cozies? Cozy² !
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You'll notice Cozy hasn't exactly gone to any lengths to ask anypony to restore her memory.
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Dangit, I hate the bacon joke. I've even seen serious stories refer to her as bacon-haired. It was funny for the first week or so, but she's been called that for years when her hair clearly has a fire/sunset theme. Ah well.
I do hope her inclusion was a present surprise for everyone.
Great! Now, all she needs is to befriend Discord, Starlight Glimmer, Trixie, and Tempest Shadow, and she could form with them and Luna a club of reformed villains.
Looks like Cozy has a new friend already! Her inner monologueing does suggest that she may need a therepist though, and the ursa thing is pretty strange.
Such wuwei very dao wow
Inner monologues with an opposing voice in your head and judging if something is good or bad are not that unhealthy. It's called conscience.
Fun stuff begins if there's more than one voice and they are all hostile. Cozy's inner Cozy is... messed up, but rational.
Sorry this update took a lot longer than others. I got a truly awful neck cramp today, couldn't hold my head up for a while.
Oh boy... The Cutie Map is calling her? What kind of friendship mission will she be sent to?
cutie map calling her.... HEROES NEVER REST!!!
Ah, sorry about the neck cramp.
oh umm
this ought to be an interesting next chapter
Nice to see Celestia using her wisdom to try and help Cozy. This multiple perspective thing really helps flesh out all the characters.
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Take your time if you need to. This and the last story was more then I could ask for.
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It's alright. Once it went down a bit, I did a little light swordfighting to loosen it up, then took a hot shower. Think it'll be gone by tomorrow.
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It's all good, don't worry. I'm glad you're having such a good time! I was basically delivering all of this as a late Christmas gift, but of course I had no idea if folks would really appreciate it.
As to the multiple perspectives, I'm glad that landed well. It's a mechanism that really defined The Queen and I, one of my older works, and I'm enjoying bringing it back to the fore (though I'm not putting nearly as much work into it here as I did there). It does make writing this story a lot easier; I feel like I can just jump into writing whatever I am interested in writing about at a given point in the story rather than being married to a particular thread.
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Ah, good. :)
Cozy learning from her past mistakes? How nice.
Seriously though, she really needs a therapist at this point.
i think they found their friendship problem
Jesus!!
Oh.
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At the risk of sounding too much like DBZA!Cell, are you sure there's a shrink qualified enough to deal with that hot mess?
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Frieza maybe? He did help Chichi, Broly and Lord Beerus after all. XD
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My thoughts exactly. No, really!
Ha.
Woo.
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I read your comment and the one you replied to before I started reading the story, and thanks to that when I read the italicized 'you're stupid' from Cozy my mind immediately supplied 'stop being stupid!'
Ehh. The Elements of Harmony can’t be applicable in every scenario. That pony brought it all upon himself ah’ reckon.
What Twilight should be asking is why did the Elements of Harmony remove Cozy Glow's memories? What were they trying to accomplish? Just give Cozy Glow a fresh start? Just to take away her justification for being evil? Or... was there something wrong with those memories, that had to be destroyed? What isn't Cozy remembering, and why?
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Fixed.
Ah, but sunset can't be bestpone when she's a hyoomahn!
Checkmate, atheists.
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She can; that is the power of her bestponyness
Checkmate, Youtube guitarists
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AHA! you said PONY, but everypone knows it is spelled PONE!
Checkmate, Changeling!!1
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You caught me, but it's too late. I already have all of your love from reading this story.
You sleeped; you weeped.
I think you nailed Starlight's clueless antisocialness here. No idea what's causing the strife though.
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Honestly, I just focused on writing lines in her voice; stuff I could imagine her saying in the show. The rest usually comes naturally.
Everyone in this room is a former villain, this is like the ideal think tank for this right now.
Or maybe the issue has nothing to do with any one person being terribly evil. Maybe we're looking at residual tensions coming out with hearthswarming now that families are getting back together digging up arguments from a month ago. In that case, we've got the three people most likely to misread the situation due to past experiences.
I'd be surprised if that was the solution, but not unpleasantly so.