Chapter 20 - A Different Lesson
Dear Cozy Glow,
While I have tried to overthrow my father by becoming an indomitable force far more powerful than him, you are probably aware of how that plan turned out. Want my advice? Don't. Trust. Anyone. I thought my brother would never betray me and yet he considered his friendship with the ponies more important than my conquest for their power. Even Discord gave up his desire to turn Equestria into his own playground because of his precious Fluttershy and even then, all it took was the right words for hi and I to form a temporary alliance. Why the princesses of Equestria thought he was worthy of reformation and I wasn't is beyond me. He only spent a year as my cell-mate while I'm stuck in here for all of eternity. Not that I wanted him to spend all of eternity with me because, if that one year was anything to go by, he was the worst cellmate ever. How was it that he got to keep his chaotic powers and I didn't? And every time I tried to take his power for myself like I did last time, he activated the tickle belt he put on me. To this day, I still get phantom tickles.
You're probably bored of me rambling on about my misfortune so I'll pass onto you another word of advice. Don't form attachments to anyone. Unless you have a grandma who encourages your ambition. That is the only exception.
Sincerely,
Lord Tirek
While Cozy was annoyed that Tirek didn't give her any advice on how to get rid of her dad nor to overthrow Celestia, she giggled as she read about Tirek's misfortune in Tartarus. The bit about the tickle belt being her favourite. Who would have thought that the mighty Lord Tirek was such a loser?
Unfortunately, her entertainment was about to be cut short as her father entered the room.
"For Celestia's sake, would you keep it down?!" Facade irately asked.
"Ever thought of not drinking, Dad?" Cozy replied dryly, "Maybe you'll feel better."
Facade lifted Cozy into the air and slammed her into the wall, the impact leaving a crack in the wall. He pulled a knife out from the other room and held it to Cozy's throat.
"You know you can't talk to your dad like that," Facade said coldly, "And if I were you, I'd suggest you stop squirming unless you want to get cut."
Facade moved the knife even closer to Cozy's throat, "Let's make things very clear. I owe one of my friends a lot of money and if I don't pay up in a week, he's going to break my legs. So why don't you be a good daughter and help your dad out?"
"Is this why I'm having a day off school?" Cozy asked.
"Yep," Facade replied as he put away the knife, "And if you do your job right, then maybe we could go out for ice cream. Do you still like ice cream?"
Cozy pondered at her dad's offer, "What kind of ice cream?"
"Any kind you like."
"Chocolate with rainbow sprinkles."
"Done."
Facade released Cozy and trotted behind her, placing his hoof on her back, "Open wide."
"Wh-," Cozy tried to ask before having a book shoved in her mouth.
"I'd say this might hurt but you're probably used to it now," Facade said as he pushed down harder and used his magic to dislocate one of Cozy's wings.
As she was being trollied along by her dad, Cozy scowled at him. She knew the first thing he was going to do to her after her mommy was gone was to hurt her.
"What are you looking at me like that for?" Facade asked, "I'll pop it back in as soon as we get the money."
"You better," Cozy muttered.
"And if anypony asks, just tell them you were trying to do a Wonderbolts stunt," Facade said.
"Wonder-what?" Cozy asked.
"You don't know who the Wonderbolts are?" Facade asked, "Did your mother ever let you outside when you're not going to school?"
"No, because you used to beat the snot out of her whenever she spent anything on me," Cozy bitterly replied.
"Yeah, best not to tell anypony else that," Facade said quietly, "Otherwise, I'll break the other wing."
Facade and Cozy arrived at the house of one of their neighbours. Facade knocked on the door, to which he was greeted by a mare wearing a Prench hat and had a curly chesnut brown mane.
"Hi, Shining," Lotus said, "Did your wife tell you the good news?"
"What good news?" Facade asked.
"She finally finished her novel," Lotus replied, "I saw her bolting out the door last night. Don't think I've seen her that excited since she was pregnant with Cozy Glow."
"I didn't see her last night," Facade said, his lips trembling.
"Oh," Lotus said.
"That would explain why Cozy was all alone and there was a bookshelf on one of wings and she was screaming and there were books everywhere and my wife was nowhere to be seen!" Facade said rapidly before pretending to cry, "So if you have any money to spare for the medical bill, I would appreciate it.
Cozy watched her dad as he rubbed his eyes and bleated like a sheep in his attempts at crying. There weren't even any tears. She had seen actors in pantomime do a more convincing job at being sad than what her dad was doing. Whoever hired him to act in any of their plays must have been a chump.
"I'll see if I have any bits to spare," Lotus said as she trotted back into her house.
After he finished his performance, Facade turned around and faced Cozy.
"And that, little lady," Facade whispered, "Is how you get the lead role in The Trottish Play."
"Maybe if it's a version for foals my age," Cozy deadpanned.
"What's that supposed to mean?!" Facade asked.
"It means your acting stinks and our neighbour is a gullible weenie," Cozy replied.
"Well, it's a good thing she is gullible otherwise this wouldn't work," Facade retorted.
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In my opinion, Cozy Glow should of NEVER been made in the first place. They had a great opportunity to bring back the "actual" Grogar and make him the grand finale, but instead, they faked him out and made Cozy Glow. They honestly took a horrible turn for the show when they proceeded with the "not everyone can be saved" path.
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That's the beauty of fanfiction. You can fix the show's cock-ups. Though, what counts as "fixing" varies from person to person.
I disagree. Got tired of all the redemptions anyway.
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Yeah, i can see that. From my point of view, I was tired of the same thing, but I would've loved to see beyond a pony though. Seeing that algorithm play out upon a filly really took a tole among the fans.
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The irony is that although they started with mercy, they had already amassed a sizable number of villains who weren't on the path to redemption, including Chrysalis, Sombra (who actually was stated to be a unicorn in his debut), and others.
They didn't need Cozy Glow to be a nonredeemable villain, and having her be the only regular pony big bad that they couldn't reform in that scenario, would have required some suspension of disbelief if they had actually done it right.
If they had given her a good environment, and a socialized (yet terrible) personality from her inception, it still would've been a issue. The fact that what we got was the problem ridden mishmash that was the Friendship School, and the well meaning, yet slightly inept character that debuted in "Marks For Effort" makes the whole thing that much more problematic.
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Preach. They just didn't write her right. My problem is that if they were going to make her a non-redeemable character, they should've done it a whole lot earlier. Like I said, I see more of a reborn Grogar carrying out the biggest villians out there.
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Or at least established that formal punishment was a thing that could happen, as opposed to either letting every single villain off or throwing the book at them.
There was no middle ground for punishment, and that was just another thing (other than the ridiculously short time it took for them to come up with it) that makes Cozy's punishment just feel like it came out of no-where, and they just wound up throwing the book at her because it was convenient, rather than any actual effort to try and balance the way they treated her with any other villain.
I do like the idea of Grogar being a main villain for one of the seasons of MLP. The problem is we got a lot of talk about what made the character great, with no real showing as to how he did any of it.
If anything the guy struck me as being dependent on his bell, as opposed to actually having the talent to deal with issues without it, and this (his first downfall) was before juggernauts like Star Swirl and the rest were confirmed to have existed. Modern Equestria was chock full of them. The way they wrote the character, it was almost obvious in hindsight that he was merely a place holder.
Now if they had bothered to show what he could do early on besides being a fountain of magic, they proberbly could've made him into a pretty decent villain (if they had actually wanted to).
The character I wanted to see come back in a meaningful role, (as opposed to the one he got as a fall guy) was Sombra. The character's role as a magical trickster was well defined, and he was able to deal with three top level magical uni/alicorns with out much trouble. If they had bothered to utilize his character right, him working behind the scenes could've been quite interesting.
That of course would've required them to have utilized a interesting villain and not mess it up, and it is pretty obvious that between the Season 9 premiers and final that the writing staff was lacking in ability to do that, assuming they had ever possessed it in the first place.
(If you are interested in talking about this more, I don't mind discussing it over a PM.)