A Letter to Cozy Glow's Parents
written by the dobermans
Notice of Conviction
The Royal Court of Justice
Third Lower Office of the Royal Minister of Law
6000 Manehattan Avenue, Magisterial District, Canterlot
10th day of the 9th New Moon, 1008 SS Notice of Conviction Addressees: Mr. Hickory Kindling, Ms. Citrus Vanilla This notice is sent in compliance with Section 3.22.1 (b) of the Equestrian Penal Code (revision 43c), which requires that immediate communication be provided to parents of minors convicted of High Crimes and Misdemeanors, in regard to the relevant details of charges, indictment, evidence brought forth in trial (if not cancelled by Royal decree), conviction, and sentencing. Upon reading this document, if it is your desire to appeal the decision of the court, correspondence may be sent to the above address within 30 days of conviction for legal review. On the 8th day of the 9th New Moon, 1008 SS , your daughter , Cozy Glow (hereafter referred to as the Convicted), was taken into custody on charges of treason, endangerment of children, grand theft, impersonating a Royal, inciting a riot, illicit use of magical artifacts, foalnapping, endangerment of a public official, wrongful incarceration, conspiracy, and magical pilfering on a large scale. The list of plaintiffs includes the following: 1. Princess Celestia of Canterlot 2. Princess Luna of Canterlot 3. Chancellor Neighsay of Canterlot 4. Princess Twilight Sparkle of Ponyville 5. Fluttershy of Ponyville 6. Applejack of Ponyville 7. Rarity of Ponyville 8. Pinkamena D. Pie of Ponyville 9. Rainbow Dash of Ponyville 10. Spike the Dragon of Ponyville 11. Starlight Glimmer of Ponyville The Convicted was arrested at what was determined to be her base of operations, the School of Friendship in Ponyville, following a large magical disturbance related to what was later found to be an attempt to steal and relocate all Equestrian magic for her personal gain. While no pony or creature was significantly injured, and the stolen magic was successfully restored, the Convicted showed no remorse for her actions, instead attempting to evade capture and continue her activities elsewhere. The plaintiffs, with the aid of the Royal Guard, were able to detain and subdue her peacefully. The evidence against the Convicted consisted of multiple eyewitness and victims' accounts of the perpetration of the above charges. No contradictory accounts were forthcoming. The Convicted was heard to openly admit to planning no less than the overthrow of the Equestrian Diarchy, to deny the elements of harmony as the sole means of obtaining friendship, and to proclaim her motive (the accumulation of power). Her primary co-conspirator, Tirek, also provided details concerning his involvement with the crimes, which consisted of communicating the means of constructing an artifact-driven force array to act as a magnet for magical energy. The self-proclaimed Lord Tirek is a notorious inmate of Tartarus, who was found guilty of magical pilfering two years prior. Due to the grave and far-reaching nature of the crimes in question, the Royal Princesses unanimously waived the right of the Convicted to trial by jury, declared her a Monster of Equestria, and summarily sentenced her to eternal damnation in Tartarus without possibility of release. The sentence has been carried out under the attention of Princess Luna, who has agreed to ply the Convicted with nightmares twice weekly as a final attempt at reformation. Nightmare therapy will cease if the Convicted shows signs of mental degradation or collapse. The Convicted will be monitored under the unending vigilance of Cerberus, Hound of Tartarus and Keeper of the Lost. The Court has deemed visitation rights to be too dangerous to allow at the present time, given the ability of the Convicted to influence others and win them to her cause, as well as the extreme risk to the stability of Equestrian peace. Communication in the form of letters, or verbally by third parties, is likewise denied. The personal belongings of the Convicted have been confiscated by the Court. These items will be shipped to you pending inspection for enchantment, poisons, or other hazardous materials. Monster of Equestria status imposes further regulations. The name and likeness of the Convicted will be distributed throughout Equestria and beyond to allied nations and friendly territories, thereby providing an early warning system in the event of an escape. Should a prison break occur, no attempt will be made to befriend or reform the Convicted; rather, she will be hunted by the appropriate authorities, and if possible, taken alive to be returned to Tartarus. Lethal force is permitted if required to protect the innocent. All friends and family members of the Convicted will be placed under surveillance to ensure no assistance is provided to the Convicted in efforts to escape confinement. For your protection, in the case of public backlash, consider relocating to an area at least 100 miles from your current place of residence. Finally, it is the opinion of the Court that you, as parents, have completely failed your child and the nation. Her scheme, had it succeeded, would have resulted in the death or permanent disability of millions of magical creatures, the loss of irreplaceable artifacts, weather catastrophes on a global scale leading to crop failure and starvation, and potentially, permanent day or night. The amount of damage that has so narrowly been averted cannot be overstated. The most revolting aspect of this affair, I am compelled out of disgust to convey to you, is that throughout the proceedings, your daughter exhibited not the slightest amount of regret, nor the most basic understanding of why what she did was wrong. It was agreed among the magistrates that Monsters are not born, but created, and that who else but this Monster's parents should be blamed for her moral failure? Perhaps, out of fawning devotion, you overlooked the signs of her growing depravity. Perhaps, out of pride, you denied the small crimes of childhood that become the great faults of maturity. Or perhaps your neglect was due to nothing more complex than the innocuous sweetness of her false smile. Whatever the case, it is strongly advised that you submit yourselves to the local hospital for a mental health evaluation. Shame on you. In service to Equestria, Rhetorical Flourish Assistant to the Under-Director of State Affairs Note: this is an official legal document. Destroying, defacing, or otherwise altering its contents may result in application of fees and/or criminal charges.
Under Sun We Thrive, Under Moon We Repose
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Given how utterly sadistic Cozy Glow turned out to be, I'd be more surprised to find out she does have parents than if it turns out she was the result of some freak magical accident.
Cozy has no parents at least not in equestria. SHe is from somewere else. I bet she will out do queen Chrysalis as villain next season.
Very well written. I almost thought it was real at one point.
BTW, why is it labeled unfinished? Is there more?
So... we reform Starlight Glimmer -- y'know, that mare, the one who... oh, I dunno--MESSED WITH TIME ITSELF and FUCKED EQUESTRIA in doing so multiple times -- but, yep, let's lock this young foal - this child - in a cage. Nope. Only sadistic mares who alter time itself, and Chaos Gods who do far worse get reformed around here, not children who may or may not have been manipulated by a CENTAUR WHO WOULD LOVE NOTHING MORE THEN TO SEE EQUESTRIA FALL. Damn... what a thing to teach children, these days...
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Thanks for the compliment! Yes, I'm working on the next chapter right now. Hope to have it out tonight.
9161755 Lack of evidence prevents starlight from being charged not to mention her childhood trauma while not perfect provides some credence to a not of sound mind defense considering it ponies,
Discord has never done anything out of pure malice and is generally just a pain in the butt, and it is cannon that Discord needs chaos to continue existing.
And Cozy contacted Tirek not the other way around.
9161755 As Agent J in "Men in Black" would say, "She's like 7 years old, those books are way too advanced for her! If you ask me, she's up to something. Or do I owe her an apology?" And yes, I would pay money to see Will Smith shoot Cozy Glow between the eyes.
Cozy Glow is a CHILD with knowledge and experience there is no plausible way she should possess. So, either she has a secret and isn't what she seems, or she's one of those really annoying child villain know-it-alls, and not one that we can take for the sake of comedy like Mandark from "Dexter's Lab".
I have no problem throwing the thing in Hell, because frankly, she doesn't act like a real child, and doesn't feel like a real child. She acts like somebody's bad OC child villain who knows everything she does because the writer wants her to be amazing. If we are ever given a backstory, I expect it will be even more ridiculous and incomplete than Starlight's. We now have a Sue in the works that tops even Starlight Sue herself.
9161725 The only thing that could work is she's some demon in the shape of a child that hasn't aged for centuries. Or is a pony trapped in an un-aging body, but lacking all the sympathetic attributes that worked for Baby Doll in "Batman the Animated Series".
I don't find her a good villain at all. She knows too much for a child, but we're given zero information about her. She's just a Villain Sue, who succeeds because, that's the script!
And what's worse, they spilled the beans on her too early. We've known she was bad for weeks now. This was the time to flesh her out somewhat, give her a backstory. We got nuthin.
Bad story structuring with a flimsy villain again. It's the PoS all over again. Only this time, they made the opposite mistake. The PoS never seemed like a threat because Starswirl drove it away on his own, then it hid out and was swiftly defeated. It never had the chance to demonstrate it was anything more than a generic boss-level monster waiting in a dungeon for the heroes... which is pretty much all it did.
In this case, Cozy achieved so much so easily... and we have no idea how the hell she knew anything because she's so young. We've got nothing to go on. How did a child contact Tirek? How can she know this much about magic? Even Twilight, who TRAINED WITH CELESTIA and Starlight Sue didn't know a fraction of this in foalhood. So, how does Cozy? Who is Cozy? Without a foundation for a child being both so educated in relevant knowledge and possessing such malevolence... it's doesn't feel plausible in the least.
Friendship corrupted her. Friendship can be use for evil. I’m just saying that not everything can be good forever
ooooooooooooooo cant wait for more heehee
9161808 Thumbs up for the MIB reference
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I like that we don't know anything about her yet.
It makes her that much creepier.
And even though we were told she was evil early, I like that that was the only thing we knew.
And I love how delightfully insane and smart she turned out to really be.
Because of that combination, she went from being a character I wasn't sure how to feel about to my third favorite character of the series.
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THIS! ALL OF THIS! Cozy Glow MAKES NO SENSE. I expected her to turn into someone/somepony ELSE. I thought, "oh, here we go, she's Chrysalis in disguise," but NO. She. Is. A. Foal. Foals / Children are NOT born evil. She wasn't just born one day and decided, "I'm going to do this; I'm going to take over Equestria."
So WHAT... THE FUCK... HAPPENED to make her like this?
I think it’s bizarre that they would lock her up like that. I would rather send her to Sunset in the human realm where there isn’t m... Oh right there’s magic there now.
But I do agree it did felt it was to early for Cozy to strike unless there’s a bigger plan happening behind the scenes. Sadly, I felt horrible for the parents because they probably never knew anything about this... Though the question is where does she live because it seems like she is from somewhere else.
I liked the formal method of writing out Cozy Glow's crimes and look forward to seeing what else is done with this. Also just a minor thing, but wouldn't it be prosecutors as opposed to plaintiffs since it's a criminal court?
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What is with the Glimmer-haters inability to comprehend acceptance of wrongdoing and rehabilitation versus obstinance and refusal to reform?
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Forget the timelines! Nobody gave a darn about the timelines!
You're welcome for favoriting your story; it is well-written, realistic and I like that intro!
Hey, maybe the CMC should be added to the list of plaintiffs!
Oh goodie. Equestria practices torture.
And it's wonderful to blame the parents when the author of the letter made it quite clear she knows absolutely nothing about them.
Nice. I Wondered how a Child could come up with this. I either had said having Lost parents to a Magic accident.
Bureaucracy at it's finest
Good shit, mate.
-Me
uhhhhh wat?!
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Pretty sure she keeps her mother's skull in that box...
This letter makes Equestrian Justice look rather fucked-up. No trial ffs...?
I don't exactly like this chapter, but that has nothing to do with the fact that I disliked it that they threw her into tartarus.
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I guess more or less this is equally bad, so yes I agree with you. I mean I disliked it that she was thrown into tartarus instead of getting some form of help for her mental health.
As long as they don't redo her whole personality. I disliked it a few times when characters changes 100%.
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As long as she doesn't turns out to be some kind of different weird creature, I agree with him that it was overdone what they did to her. Instead of throwing her in their, they could at least thrown her in a different prison and get her some help.
She is a good liar as far as I understood from the english episode, but she isn't a powerful unicorn.
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Meh next to Chrysalis she was one of my favourite Villains, I like the creative onces.
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I still need to figure out on which place to put her, but she is in my top five, now I'M not sure who I throw out Starlight or Fluttershy.
Starlight was one of my favourite Villains and never to bad as a character, but Fluttershy was the one that got me to watch the show.
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Just being curious since I don't understand everything in those reaction videos I watch, but what is the reason everyone expects her to be some kind of foreigner?
I liked her having that skull, mostly because it looked so untypical for a pony. I always image right away how everyone else would freak out by seeing that.
Well one possible reason she did what she did - was because she is a Grade-A psychopath in the literal sense. The five major traits of a psychopath are as follows:
1. They're extremely charming.
Psychopaths are almost always well-liked. They come across as delightful people great at making small talk. Their quick wit tends to draw people to them. They usually have interesting stories as well. Their convincing tales portray them in a favorable, yet believable light. People walk away from conversations with a psychopath feeling pretty good.
2. They don't experience remorse.
A lack of guilt might be the first red flag that signals someone might be a psychopath. Psychopaths aren't capable of feeling any genuine remorse. They don't accept any responsibility for hurting other people's feelings. Instead, they blame other people and deny responsibility. A psychopath may say that someone "deserved" to be treated poorly. Or, they may shrug off reports that they offended someone by saying, "She needs to be less sensitive," or "I guess he can't handle the truth."
3. They're really arrogant.
Psychopaths have an inflated sense of importance. Much like narcissists, they think the usual rules don't apply to them. They also tend to have grandiose ideas about their potential. They believe they deserve to be the CEO, or they're convinced they're the best at everything they do.
4. They take big risks.
Psychopaths have little regard for safety, especially other people's. They often lie, cheat, and steal to get ahead. This behavior can be especially toxic. While not all psychopaths engage in illegal activity, those who do plan their crimes well in advance. Their misconduct is usually well-organized, and they leave few clues behind. Psychopaths tend to be very intelligent, which makes them great con artists.
5. They're master manipulators.
They don't experience genuine emotions toward others. But they can mimic other people's emotions, and often they come across as very genuine. As a result, their loved ones often have no idea they're incapable of truly caring for other people.
Psychopaths are really good at manipulating other people's emotions. They flatter others in a subtle yet effective manner, and before long they persuade others to do things they wouldn't normally do. They also use guilt trips or gain sympathy to meet their needs.
It is very much possible that Cozy's parents had absolutely no idea that their child was a remorseless maniacal megalomaniac. As we've seen, she can pour on the sugar and act like the sweetest and nicest little filly around - but in truth, beneath that adorable venere is a cold and calculating monster.
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She's a bit like Palpatine from Star Wars. Charming, unassuming, and likeable. Beneath that facade is a remorseless monster.
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There's also a horn in that box, that looks like one similar to Mistmane's. And she keeps pictures of herself framed on the desk...? That's something a pony with a fuckton of narcissism and a total lack of empathy does.
Yeah. Classic psychopath.
Ladies and gentlemen, the bar for villainy has officially been obliterated. Cozy Glow truly is the most dangerous of them all.
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"Is it... control?"
I knew then that something was very wrong with her.
Wow. Very well put. Still, it must be hard for the parents, learning that their daughter is a monstrous psychopath.
That us too fricking cruel!! It should have chancellie Neighsay who did all those things! He's the one who corrupted her, not Tirek!
I have a question. How did you get this first chapter done in the courier format but then the other in a standard font?
So official sounding. I don't think I can ever think of that many crimes.
Except for the last part, that's personal. In my opinion, that's rubbing too much salt in the wound when (as of this moment) we don't know what happened, though I'm sure others would disagree.
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What would be done if this worked?
Holy double-plus-ungood, Batman!
I would write my own opinion about locking a child in Tartarus but eh, she is out anyway, and I stopped believing in mlp writing a long time ago so why bother to rage over it
Boy, that would be quite a shocker, sending your daughter off to school to learn about friendship only to later recieve a letter that she's been incarcerated in Tartarus for trying to take over the school and stealing the whole world's magic.
...Good cripes. If I was reading something with such a form letter sort of tone, you bet I'd be shocked to see that.
I love the aesthetic you went for here, going for official notice documentation of criminal charges. As an aspiring criminologist, I find Cozy Glow to be an absolutely fascinating character and this work is a wonderful example highlighting why.
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Glad you enjoyed it, and thanks for faving!
Agreed, Cozy is endless fun trying to figure out.
Holy fuck that is some sexy af formatting.
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Thanks!!
Probably would have come in handy, yeah.
Also once again,
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And yet, no one recognized her, not that guard on the mountain, and no pegasus in Canterlot, either.
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I know, right? You'd think that they would have taken that basic precaution in the show. I think maybe Celestia and Twilight were just too embarrassed about failing to teach Cozy that they wanted to sweep the whole thing under the rug.