It's been 20 years that Cozy Glow has been encased in stone. She has had plenty of time to herself to think about the things she's done. Is she going to better herself from them?
...The answer is a big fat NO! Why would she ever wish to redeem herself? She could've had everything and in days it was stripped away from her, stuck permanently rooted in cold, hard stone. And through the last few decades, she's been all by herself, and has been perfectly capable of plotting her gruesome revenge... Luckily for her, she has a good idea of how to get out of this eternal prison, with or without her 'buddies.'
Regardless of how every pony thinks; Cozy Glow is going to come back. And when she does, may Celestia have mercy on your soul.
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Story takes place before Marching Towards Harmony.
This is what happens when you lock up an already troubled filly instead of trying to help her. Really, Twilight and her friends will partially be at fault for what Cozy is about to do,
No, they were just hypocrites.
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True tbhhh they've tried to redeem every other villain including Starlight (who literally almost destroyed the timeline as we know it), but they didn't try to redeem Cozy Glow who... didn't destroy part of the universe. Mane 6 really got some backwards logic.
Are you going to do a squeal?
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If the readers want it, I just might make one! But it'd have to take place after Marching Towards Harmony, so I'd need to finish that before working on a sequel to this.
Shiver me timbers, shit is about to go down
Yes! This needs a sequel so we can see Cozy's revenge on all of them. Including Discord.
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Rocky writing choices aside I'm glad she wasn't redeemed. She's a unique villain, and weaponizes not just friendship but cuteness itself, things the show otherwise saves for protagonists. She was the type of villain mold break we needed after so many Big Bads.
Anyway, this was interesting! I'm curious about your greater fanon, now. Might take a look around.
Ohh! I love Cozy Glow stories!
Yeah. They look for magic, like the kind pricks like Discord have. You didn't qualify. Sorry!
And that's why you'll lose.
Because your one and only tried and tested trick is your ability to avoid villain cliches.
And when you disregard it, you fail, pure and simple.
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Poor Cozy!
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Well first off, basically every villain transition to hero was extremely spur of the moment, and Discord in particular is a far better actor than Cozy Glow is.
Second off, they needed to do more to sell us on her whole dangerous and remorseless thing.
Making her more more emotionless and calculating would have been a better way to go, then giving her the exact same tantrums that everyone in the show seemed to have.
Don't even get me started on how bad Frenemies was for setting up her character's competency and menace for the rest of the series.
Between her weakness to cold, emotional outbursts, and dismissal by her teammates, it was all I could do to try and take her seriously in Season 9.
She had some good villian moments, but not nearly as much as there should or could have been.
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She definitely was a pretty interesting villain! I really wish they expanded on her more. If I do make a sequel to this, then I'm going to bring out her maliciousness a lot more. I definitely do not wanna underplay her like the show has, but I understand it was probably only done because by all means, it was still considered a kid's show. Thank god for fanfiction!
I'm glad to see you're interested! Trust me, I'll happily write up more fanon things when I've got the motivation to.
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One way or the other, she's gonna be defeated and she's just gonna have to deal with it!
You gotta just love how Cozy's mind works. To be fair, she is basically still a child at heart, so of course her methods are a little unorthodox or outdated. And stupid.
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Eh.
You write her how you want, and as long as she isn't too dumb or obnoxious, I'll probably read it.👍
I can always use some more good Cozy Glow stories.
Awesome story. If there was a follow-up in the future with her actually pursuing her plan for revenge, I’d definitely read it. Awesome job ^^
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Thank you!! I'm glad to know there's so much support
Hm.
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I hope this time Cozy will be wiser because she is alone this time, no one to trick and no one by her side
Interesting, you say she has been stoned for 20 years, but you said
which the "Prequel" said which took place 30 years ago
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look like Twilight intends to trap her there for many years long.
DIscord got it easy because He is powerful, and Celestia thinks she can "use" him as an ally
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but an average Pegasus? not so much
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That is incorrect: they didn't try to redeem Tirek, King Sombra, the Storm King, the Tantabus, the Mane-iac, the Mean Six or the Flim Flam brothers, and even with Discord wasn't he redeemed until a season and a half after he was first turned to stone.
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And there are reasons for that, the reformation always came *after* the initial asskicking.
As for why the following didn't get a chance at reformation:
King Sombra - ded
Storm King - ded
Tantabus - more of a magical construct than a villain
Mane-iac - not even a real pony
The Mean Six - magical constructs again, also they weren't even aware of their existence
cozy glow is my favorite character but i like my version of this character
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...which is exactly what I said about Discord.
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The timelines go hand in hand! My current timeline is up to 2059, but it starts in 2019. Cozy Glow breaks out in 2039, and the important event that kickstarts my Next Gen happens in 2029. So, in other words, Cozy Glow's era of plotting revenge begins 10 years after that event. That means that Marching Towards Harmony takes place 20 years after Cozy Glow's escape.
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Its been a while since i watched the show but how were they hypocrites exactly?
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Up until this point, they always went for redemption with their villains when possible. Starlight Glimmer for example, got the Sixth Ranger treatment (sort of) despite forming what was essentially a communist cult, stealing the Cutie Marks of hundreds of ponies including the Mane 6, tried to alter history, and even damn near destroyed time and space. She gets the woobie treatment, because her friend got his Cutie Mark and he had to move away. (For the record, I like Starlight Glimmer. She's one of my favorite characters, but still...)
Meanwhile we get Cozy Glow, a young Pegasus filly, who formed an alliance with Tirek, damn near stole all the magic, kidnapped Starlight Glimmer, and took over the School of Friendship briefly. Surly they'll sit down with this literal child, and figure out what her deal is, right? Maybe find her parents, or learn she doesn't have parents, sit her down, and truly teach her the Magic of Friendshi-
NOPE! She gets thrown right in Tartarus, locked up beside Tirek and everything! Didn't even try to redeem her!
Oh, and when she comes back, now working with Tirek and Chrysalis (another villain who got the shaft imo), do the Mane 6, the Student 6, or even Princess Celestia and Luna try to appeal to her at least, because she's a pony like them and again, A CHILD, and get her away from the scary bad creatures who are actual monsters?
Cue Cozy Glow being encased in stone along with Tirek and Chrysalis.
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I, for one, see her as mere Mary Sue (she had all information and skills she needs without any research or practice, not to mention luck and charisma cheat) Sociopath. And she had been offered chance to redeem herself after she almost killed all pegasi in Cloudsdale and other cloud settlements (without magic they would just fall from fatal height) without even considering that it is bad thing.
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Now that I remember, you're right
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Even Gen 5, which is otherwise better about the consequences of the Ebb of Magic on non-Unicorns than the Season 8 finale was, still had pegasi cloudwalking.
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Indeed, because Friendship and rehabilitation are clearly about who could be the most useful ally. Really puts Cozy's views on it in the right.
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Because those villains got defeated before there was an opportunity to reform them or try to talk to them. Cozy, meanwhile, was just a powerless child. Turning her to stone or sending her to Tartarus was not a matter of self defense as she was already beaten and rendered powerless at that point.
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And lets not forget that the encasement came after Discord's shenanigan's, which he just got away with scot free.
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I'd hardly call her a mary sue. She got her information and research directly from Tirek, not on her own, and the teachers themselves made the magical artifacts that she used for her plan known to the whole world so its not like she automatically just knew about them. As for practice, she was most likely corresponding with Tirek as he directly called her his protégé.
No she isn't. If she was, she would not have felt remorse for getting the CMC almost banned from the school and she would have killed a few guards when assaulting Canterlot Castle.
She literally wasn't. No chance or any sort of help was offered to her. Everyone just immediately gave up on her. Even Chrysalis was at least given an extended hoof.
Considering that all pegesai were still capable of flying at that time, that is doubtful and frankly, I find Starlight's universe tempering, Discord's mass chaos and Tempest directly helping secure the regime of a crazy evil overlord to be just as, if not more dangerous. Funny how none of their characters cared about what they did until they started getting actual help to reform.
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You're cherry picking and dismiss all other evidence.
"She got her information and research" - that's how it works for Mary Sue, including magic formulaes and skills, aim, etc. Does she have at least hobby that isn't plot devise to teach her needed skill for deed? No.
"No she isn't. If she was..." - sociopaths are very good at creating apperance of emotions when they deem it needed. Whatever their current goal is. No, she not even once had genuine complex emotions, except boredom, glee, fear and rage.
"she would have killed a few guards" - she would, had their armor been really heavy or some of them didn't know how to swim. Neither of which she knew or cared for.
"She literally wasn't." - she had, by Twilight, before Cozy outright rejected offer to explain herself and proclaimed that she don't have any slim of remorse. Then tried to escape.
"Considering that..." - that I said "almost". She didn't know nor cared. Also she almost certainly knew that her classmates were at excursion at cloudsdale.
"Starlight's universe tempering" - Starlight created several alternative universes. If you eliminate paradox, of course.
"Funny how none of their characters cared about what they did until they started getting actual help to reform" - it seems, you have forgotten that Starlight started caring when she was showed concequencess of her actions, Discord was never evil, and Bearers was given task for taming his merriment and redirecting it into something good, and Tempest considered Equestria as foreign country that turned its back at her.
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Oh yeah. Never mind that he kinda sorta almost screwed over Equestria, giving Cozy Glow, Chrysalis, and TIREK ultimate power!
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Cozy made her "deal" quite clear during her rant. She'd decided that friendship is power, and she wanted all that power for herself.
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It didn't. There was no cloudwalking from the magicless Pegasi in the movie.
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She only regretted losing some valuable sources of friendship knowledge. As for the guards, they weren't the reason she was there. They were small fry to her, unworthy of her full attention, so she toyed with them for a while, then just removed them from the battlefield.
And that "powerless child" had almost brought Equestria to ruin once before.
He didn't. He had to earn his friends' forgiveness by freeing Starlight, risking his powerless life to do so.
Not really. By the end of the third day, that ability would have been lost. So even if they didn't fall through the clouds, they would very well have dropped out of the sky mid-flight. And even if they somehow avoided all that, they would have never been able to return to their home ever again, all because of Cozy. Considering she's a Pegasus herself, that just makes this eventuality even worse. She knew full well what removing magic from Equestria would do to her fellow Pegasi, and she just didn't care.
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Except in the instance he's referring to, there was literally not a single soul around. So who's she trying to decive?
Except Cozy laid out all of her reasoning. Then Twilight was unable or unwilling to make a logical rebuttal, like she did with Starlight Glimmer.
Because with Starlight Glimmer, Twilight actually bothered to ask why she did what she did, and tried to explain to her what she was doing wrong when she got a answer.
(Arguably because she was getting her ass kicked, but that's neither here nor there).
Cozy Glow is a screwed up kid with issues, attending a school that on a good day is a summer camp teaching about pony Harmony.
On a bad one, it's a horribly miss manged death trap.
I must have missed the part where manufacturing and enforcing mental and emotional illness onto others for your own amusement wasn't evil.
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So why did she risk her reputation to defend them in subsequent scenes?
When he was in the same boat as the rest of them and his life was on the line anyway. Hardly selfless.
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To regain those valuable sources of information, obviously.
It was, actually. He was genuinely regretful of his actions, and determined to make up for them, which he did by enacting a life-threatening gambit. Then he stayed behind to help keep the villains busy while Spike and the Mane Five went to find Twilight, all while still powerless. What part of that wasn't selfless?
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Seems like a unnecessary gamble to risk her reputation, on the possibility of Twilight punishing her less severely than the CMC.
Plus her teachers are the initial instructors of friendship.
To say nothing of the other inhabitants of Ponyvile, including Spike who has access to the curriculum, and is more than a bit suggestible.
The CMC are not irreplaceable if all she wanted was knowledge.
The part where he only did it after being captured, and hid behind Fluttershy and her friends, rather than face Cozy Glow when she first attacked.
Of course as much as I enjoy sparing with you (and I do)* prior experience has told me we are unlikely to see eye to eye on this.
So in the interest of not cluttering up the comments, can we call a ceasefire?
I'm game if you are.
*Seriously, you've not treated me terribly as far as I can recall, and I usually have a long memory for that sort of thing.
It is deeply appreciated.
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Her teachers (and Spike) wouldn't just give her all the answers. That's not how school works. Nor did she have the time to conduct a thorough sweep of Ponyville for replacement friendship tutors. Ensuring the CMC could stick around was the most efficient solution. Not to mention she ended up not being punished at all for that.
First, he had no powers, and thus no way to fight effectively, so that's hardly something he can be called out on. Secondly, even in the final moments of the battle, he still urged Twilight to save herself, then helped everyone else in holding back the trio's attack. He could have run away himself, but he didn't. He stayed to help give Twilight time to get away.
I agree that this doesn't have to go any further than it should. Just wanted to put my final two cents in.
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*Squeals* Yayy!
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Adding on to you - good points!
Flim-Flam were just scammers
Plus they ran away so...yah