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This story is a sequel to Chiaroscuro
Cozy Glow can't remember the last time she'd felt the need—or had the ability—to blink. But with Stygian, a pony she vaguely recalls, standing in front of her and saying that she's Equestria's only hope? That definitely deserves a blink or two...
An entry in the 2023 May Pairings Contest, this story received one of the five "Judge's Prizes" in the final results.
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Holy crap, a new Augie story?!? Neat!
Nice story
I dig it.
this version of Stygian quite the masochist
Terrible ponies, in a terrible situation, teaming up against an even more terrible pony, with terrific results!
Rarely has the word "frenemy" been as accurate as it is with Stygian and Cozy here.
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Thanks, folks!
My original thought was to pair a relatively elderly character with a relatively young one and see what happened since the rules specified that the relationship didn't have to be romantic. That led me to Starswirl and Cozy Glow, but that quickly changed to Stygian and Cozy Glow since they'd have so much more "in common."
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I'm remembering:
An old Jules Feiffer cartoon. A man and woman are facing each other and taking their clothes off over the course of six panels while the woman says, "Insult me. Degrade me. Humiliate me. Abuse me. Beat me." And in the last panel, the man says, "Yes, dear."
Mike
I like this
Its cozy but she aint exactly reformed nor pure evil
This feels like a prolouge for a much grandier story.
But by itself, quite mediocre.
I'm assuming that she's still a kid since she was stuck as a statue for a long time
Maybe because of the effect of that Bell she's probably still has the magic inside of her somewhere
Great story with an interesting pairing! I liked how you showed Cozy's intellect as well as how she could have been outsmarted. I would love to see a sequel of sorts if possible. There is plenty of potential for it.
Its sad that they kept her in stone so long let alone try to make the case for putting her back. Hypocrites.
An interesting character study for all three of them, this was.
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Its almost as if They knew she was a dangerous sociopath with a long history of violence and low cunning, who would have immediately attempted to break free of her bonds And wreck bloody vengeance as soon as She was capable.
Cosy Glow is the single most loathsome and conniving threat to equestrian the Pony race has ever produced. Infinitely more vicious and ruthless than any of her fellow Legionaires, she is by *far* the greater threat than either Tirek or Chrysallis, and would have given Sombra a run for his money. All three of whom have rivaled Alicorns.
Her only weaknesses are physical frailty (a Non issue given her propensity for avoiding a fight And Equestria in generals inability to meet brute strength with brute strength.) And inexperience. Her lack of Magic is not a weakness but a strengh: it is not a crutch to her. She can envision and even flourish in a World Without Magic. She is Equestrias answer to Darth Traya. To her, magic is a weapon and a tool. Not life itself.
Come into her wisdom and age, Gozy Glow is a ticking WMD. She is the Lex Luthor of Equestria. Twilights Ozymandius.
That they attempted to return her to Stone, is evidence of nothing but that they remain sane.
Oh wow he tricked her clever dude
Of course she's a kid they always think of desserts sometimes
Oh wow this was a pretty interesting story so stygian free cozy glow from her statue prison and asking for her help despite that her reputation against Equestria and the power that she wanted but apparently he told her another threat even greater than cozy glow and she's been thinking about that when this is over she will game the power that she deserve and she went for it after a couple of few hours the shadow creature was about to attack them but they tricked it and got out of flurry heart and cozy glow got the power of the Alicorns again and she was going to release all the ponies and creatures who got stuck in limbo and luckily the princesses and stygian kind of pulled a 360 on her and return the magic belonging to Twilight and the other princess basically he tricked her which again very clever and now he made an enemy for himself knowing for a fact that cozy will get even with him sooner or later again a very interesting story and interesting pairing as well keep up the good work
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Wow, nice vendetta. It seems that you are trying to interpret Cozy as some sort of overkill dark fantasy version of herself.
There is no proof that she was ever a sociopath as we hardly ever got to see anything from her private life. And frankly, her goal was not to kill, but to subjugate.
Overestimating her much? She is no worse then any other major villain, reformed or otherwise. Neither her actions nor her personality suggest that she would be worse. In fact, considering that she's a child, I'd argue that she's less of an upfront threat.
And childish naivety. I do recall that she always needed help to even get close to succeeding in her plans.
Considering that ponies in G5 did manage to survive just fine without magic, that's not really that evil of a thing.
She really isn't that smart. Again, she needed Tirek's instructions the first time and she did not come up with the whole dividing thing the second. Also, she couldn't even manipulate some old pony living in the mountains to help her.
No, it's just evidence of their lack of moral integrity and utter hypocrisy. Good on Stygian in this story to stop them.
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Well then
I wonder if the populace will hail Cozy as a hero? I mean, I would be grateful to have been freed from a decades-long-limbo sentence, even if Cozy is...ya know, Cozy.
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That's the "Catch-22" of Limbo:
Time doesn't pass there. So for the entire population of the world, there wasn't even a blink between "Hey, what's that crack in the sky we're being swept into?" and them all stepping back out into the world. I'm currently working on a sequel to this story called "Juggler Vain" that'll get into the specifics of things a bit more. Here's hoping I actually finish it!
Mike
“Oh, yes. And she'd have to see about getting him to buy her a triple-scoop cone of chocolate, strawberry and vanilla once she was up and about.”
Maybe this will be the beginning of love
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It's the beginning:
Of some sort of relationship certainly...
Mike
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Will there be a sequel to this story? I'm looking forward to it!
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I'm:
4,400 words into a sequel called "Juggler Vain" that I thought was just going to be a short story, but it's looking like it'll be longer than that. I've also written a brief prequel called "Chiaroscuro" over on my Baal Bunny account, though Cozy's not in that one since it happens before she gets depetrified.
Mike