Bargaining
“It’s not all bad,” Chrysalis intoned as the three made their way down the mountain, Chrysalis’ new wings buzzing a completely unfamiliar buzz as she flew rather than walked. Cozy had taken to riding on Tirek’s shoulder. “I mean…okay, yes, Cozy, you have a point. I won’t go hungry anymore. But I’m sure I can still steal love if I wanted to.” She looked at Cozy, who had tucked the bell securely under her hat. “Think about something you love.”
“Don’t listen to the changeling, Cozy,” Tirek said. “She’s in a mood.”
“You’d be in a mood too!” Chrysalis objected. “What if you…what if you’d turned blue?”
“I wouldn’t let it bother me,” Tirek said imperiously. “Oh, sure, I prefer being red, but blue has its charms. And it doesn’t change who I am.”
Chrysalis huffed, brushing her voluminous new mane from her eyes. You could lose a boat in the thing. “There must be something I can do to change back,” she said, trying to bend her vast and incomparable and regal thousand-year-old intellect to the task. “In fact…ha-ha, yes! Cozy, think about something you love!”
“You already asked me to do that,” Cozy drolled.
“Yes, but that was to see if I could still eat love. I’m sure I can. But if I eat enough love, if I steal love like a proper changeling, then maybe I’ll Dereform!”
“That’s not a word,” Cozy pointed out.
“You’re just a kid, you don’t know.”
“I think the term is deform,” Tirek ventured. “Or maybe revert might be better? Cozy, you were in school most recently out of the three of us. You should know this.”
“I never went to school…” Chrysalis said
“Seriously?” Tirek and Cozy both asked, eyes wide.
“Hang on, what about that pony that lived at the bottom of this mountain?” Chrysalis asked. “Ha! Yes! Him! He’s my only hope! All I have to do is completely drain him of love, then I’ll turn back! I’m sure of it!”
Chrysalis flitted off down the mountain with all the speed she could muster. Tirek and Cozy watched her. “Two bits says this doesn’t work,” Cozy said.
“You’re too young to gamble,” Tirek said. “But…I’ll take that bet. It might, you never know.”
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...I..Actually pity Chrysalis, sorta.
Ah, so Chrysalis is a millennium old here, like Tirek...The dialogue is funny.
9653310 She's in a dark place. And the halfway point of the 5 stages of grief, no less
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I accept the comics as canon except where they grossly violate the show. In the comics, Chrysalis is a contemporary of Star Swirl (who actually accidentally played a role in her creation). So, yeah, about 1,000 years old, or actually slightly older.
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Yeah that's my feelings about comic canon too, good unless the show says otherwise...or is really stupid (I'm looking at you, cattle bandits story whose proper title I can't remember).
Well, Chrysalis can't dereform... but the way she's acting, she's definitely tsunform.
You know, Tirek, if I didn't know better, I'd say that you like Chrysalis this way.
It seems to be affecting her mind too, making her more agreeable and nice...
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I think he just delights in watching her squirm.
Narrator: "it won't."
Oh, is Tirek being protective? Cute.
Chrysalis' grumpiness is funny.
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Eyup, I like it cause her voice is funny
Ha!
Well I mean you’re okay with growing to Godzillataur so...
9653759
Ah, yes, Starswirl- the wizard who DID IT
9653759
Wait... Starswirl MADE Chrysalis!?!
Best. Line. Ever.
Do they even have bits? It's not like they ever worked a day in their lives, so - apart from theft - how would they have two bits?
9896551
For the sake of the joke.
I love how Tirek is acting like a protective parent with Cozy.
“Don’t listen to the Changling, Cozy. She’s in a mood.”
“You’re too young to gamble. ... But I’ll take that bet.”
They're enjoying it much too much.
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Chrysalis part-timed as a photographer.
Cozy Glow possibly got a stipend from her brief tenure as Twilight Sparkles 2nd Assistant at the School of Friendship that she might have secreted away somewhere.
And Tirek was previously a crown prince of the Land of Centaurs and Gargoyles: he would be the obscenely wealthiest of all three of them with his own riches and private vault somewhere back home away from his father King Vorak.
This has me happy and sad for her only a little those.
1,000 bits to it doesn't.