Poor Cozy Glow? Really? · 5:56am Feb 1st, 2022
Okay this is one part me venting my being tired of hearing "Oh poor cozy glow, she's just a filly" or "You don't turn a foal to stone or send them to Tartarus" over and over and over in different story comments about her. And one part looking to know what others would try and do if they were in charge.
First off, I will admit she IS just a filly. However, she is also a legit psychopath, and not once but TWICE tried to take over Equestria, and the first time she very nearly succeeded something that would not have only doomed Equestria, but the WHOLE planet due the lack of magic. Now granted the second time around, you can assign partial blame to Discord who wanted to boost Twilight's confidence, but it does not change the fact it gave Cozy a second chance at her goals.
Now by this time I am sure some of you are saying "But Twilight Shimmer, they could have sent her for psychological help, or to her parents" to which I say. Like I said she's a psychopath, she could just as easily play the long game and tell pony doctors what they want to hear while making even more plans. And even if she WAS sent to wherever her home is there's no guarantee she'd stay put and accept any help.
That said, can anyone tell me if they were a leader, that they could come up with a better solution? One that keeps the populous SAFE from a known offender, while keeping in mind this is a filly who managed to TRICK Applejack, the Element of Honesty. Short of erasing the fillies entire memory (which could be considered worse than Tartarus or stoning) I personally CANT see any better options.
Now I do not wanna hear about what they'd do to Discord as this blog is not about him, it is about the "Filly" known as Cozy Glow. Now me personally I LOVE her as a Villain. The fact she was unassuming at first was pretty neat, as was the fact her psychopathic nature was SLOWLY revealed. So yeah what would you all have done?
Edit: While speaking to a friend in a discord group (the changeling of the guard) I have been informed Erasing the mind of a psychopathy would not nessacerilly fix their mind if the Psychopath was the result of Genetics. It would be rather akin to factory restoring an already broken OS
There's another approach to this issue. The only reason the children are not subject to full legal liability is because of the concept "they don't really know what are they doing due to lack of life experience and developing mental facilities".
But Cozy most definitely DID understand what she's doing, in detail, and by Equestrian standards, she's more developed than 90% of their adults mentally. Granted, it's not a particularly high bar, but still.
She is a filly so she likely could be reformed.
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lol indeed!