It was hard hiding them at first, but once the truth came out most Equestrian's just seemed to forgot about them anyway. Cozy had been caught right after the Loss and was trapped in Canterlot's dungeons when the riots began. When it became public knowledge that she'd been the one to cost our world it's magic there was no way to stop the mobs from getting to her. There wasn't much left of the filly when the masses were done with her. There wasn't even enough left of her body worth burying.
Such an idiot.
That stupid brat had it coming.
Does she really expect to be the new "empress of friendship" when she took the very important magic that everybody heavily relies on!!??
Since we couldn't expand outward due to a lack of land and the threat of murderous gangs, we were forced to build upwards. Little homes and small buildings were replaced with apartments and skyscrapers. It was super convenient and we were able to build even faster with so many new citizens joining us.
When Ponyville started getting really large bands of troublemakers started attacking us more often. Because Canterlot had fallen so quickly and the castle was immediately ransacked, most of the weapons the Royal Guard had stored away were already being used by the roving gangs. It's not easy to fight against real weapons when all you have is some farming tools and everyday items like brooms.
We'd been so preoccupied with creating that we'd completely slacked it on the destroying side of things. Twilight put an end to that deficiency real fast when a crazy changeling almost killed Celestia. It hadn't been able to transform, it was just a rogue changeling spouting crap about this never happening if Chrysalis had taken over.
I honestly thought all the changelings were dead. Didn't they use magic to feed? Guess nature had taken some mercy on them. Luckily, we hadn't run into Chrysalis again. That bug queen and her hive were a serious menace.
Anyway, back to the topic at hoof. What started out as crude weapons like iron swords and crappy shields quickly changed into... The Lights getting creative. With the old magic they used to utilize and study as a base for ideas, they started thinking up some seriously insane stuff.
Things like swords and crossbows were a normal part of war a long time ago, but our nerdy overlords (Twilight and Starlight, obviously) pushed things to the next level... or maybe more like twenty or thirty levels.
It started with weapons they'd called guns. Much like crossbows, they could be used to shoot at a creature from a safe distance. Unlike arrows fired from a bow, the things guns fired could rip a creature to pieces. As they developed newer models over time, they could be used over greater distances and deal even more damage.
Ponyville initially had a monopoly on the tech, but as time passed we began encountering raiders with less effective versions of the stuff the eggheads had invented. Someone out there was trying to emulate the inventions, but they were moving at a snail's pace while Twilight and Starlight were already on to the next thing.
They called them augmentations. Those got out of hoof super fast too. By performing some pretty invasive surgery, they claimed to be able to... improve any creature, be they unicorn, pegasus, earth pony, or anything else. They kept their ideas in the family at first, not making anything public knowledge.
I know that magic is gone, but I didn't expect for Ponykind to go technological advanced that freaking quickly!!??
So, what even happened to the OTHER nations then? Did they bother to step in and offer aid, or did they seem to do the usual "Let Equestria go into chaos and watch the fireworks from afar"? More importantly, were the Student Six forced to leave or did they stay behind to help out?
11639981 Very good questions that will be answered in time. Dash isn't exactly the type to care about that kind of stuff l, I think, so she didn't really address it.
I know right? I still don't know what she was expecting, everyone to just love her for some reason?
Either that or Cozy just assumed that having friends made her powerful by default. Which isn't totally wrong. Except that Twilight was already a powerful unicorn before she ever had friends. Having them just bumped her powers up considerably.
Cozy didn't, being a Pegasus and all that. Children are also stupid like that, to be fair. Not always thinking things through.
It was hard hiding them at first, but once the truth came out most Equestrian's just seemed to forgot about them anyway. Cozy had been caught right after the Loss and was trapped in Canterlot's dungeons when the riots began. When it became public knowledge that she'd been the one to cost our world it's magic there was no way to stop the mobs from getting to her. There wasn't much left of the filly when the masses were done with her. There wasn't even enough left of her body worth burying.
11644031 This is true. The ramifications of what Cozy could have accomplished are insane. Unicorns become useless. Alicorn's become useless. The very fabric of Equestria changes.
11644046 Starlight could have destroyed everything but had the wherewithal to pull back. Sunset literally almost destroyed another reality because of bringing magic to it. If the Dazzlings had taken over the human world and turned it into a mess, yeah Sunset might have deserved pretty bad punishment.
But I do agree with you. Cozy is hard to judge cause she's just a stupid child. Children should generally be punished a bit differently.
This is really interesting so far, I like this darker approach to the ending of the show!
I will point out though that you misspelled "weird". It's supposed to have the 'e' before the 'i'.
That stupid brat had it coming.
Does she really expect to be the new "empress of friendship" when she took the very important magic that everybody heavily relies on!!??
I know that magic is gone, but I didn't expect for Ponykind to go technological advanced that freaking quickly!!??
I like the idea of ponies being so used to magic they felt there wasn't a need to delve into science all that much.
But it was always laying dormant, ready to be applied when magic couldn't do the job.
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Still, a child getting lynched and torn apart by a mob is still pretty horrifying.
I seems Equestrians lost more than their magic.
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Thanks for the comment and interest!
Also, I'm a doofus. Thanks for pointing that out, I'll run through and correct.
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I know right. I still don't know what she was expecting, everyone to just love her for some reason?
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I may have cheated a bit lol. I'll just say it's due to how ridiculously smart Twilight is.
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Agreed. A sort of complacency that they had to move on from once they were forced to.
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Yep. Little itty-bitty bits. There was a lot of anger there.
So, what even happened to the OTHER nations then? Did they bother to step in and offer aid, or did they seem to do the usual "Let Equestria go into chaos and watch the fireworks from afar"? More importantly, were the Student Six forced to leave or did they stay behind to help out?
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Very good questions that will be answered in time. Dash isn't exactly the type to care about that kind of stuff l, I think, so she didn't really address it.
More good
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Thanks so much!
Nicely written
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Thank you! I really appreciate you reading and commenting!
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❤️
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Either that or Cozy just assumed that having friends made her powerful by default. Which isn't totally wrong. Except that Twilight was already a powerful unicorn before she ever had friends. Having them just bumped her powers up considerably.
Cozy didn't, being a Pegasus and all that. Children are also stupid like that, to be fair. Not always thinking things through.
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Lol yep I'll definitely agree Cozy was a stupid child... much like most kids.
Thanks for reading and commenting!
Yikes, poor cozy.
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Maybe they were always like this and losing magic was the straw that broke the camels back.
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This could be true. Their true nature's finally came out.
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Either that or just stress.
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Lmao yeah, one or the other.
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Dude, I sometimes worry about you.
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Why do you think like that? Remember, Cozy's maybe a kid/brat. She made a very, very bad decision, and screwed pony society as they know it.
And she is still stupid to think that after what she did, she expect everypony to like her!?
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Villains have done worse. Plus she’s a kid. By your logic sunset shimmer, starlight glimmer, and other villains deserve the same treatment.
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This is true. The ramifications of what Cozy could have accomplished are insane. Unicorns become useless. Alicorn's become useless. The very fabric of Equestria changes.
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Starlight could have destroyed everything but had the wherewithal to pull back. Sunset literally almost destroyed another reality because of bringing magic to it. If the Dazzlings had taken over the human world and turned it into a mess, yeah Sunset might have deserved pretty bad punishment.
But I do agree with you. Cozy is hard to judge cause she's just a stupid child. Children should generally be punished a bit differently.
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Honestly, people just like treating sunset shimmer as a mary sue so much that I had to use her as an example.