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Do take note, this is all based on a headcanon/au described down below, so reading the description is very vital for tis doodle. Enjoy!
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So in case the 3% of you all don’t know, Season 8 has ended with Cozy Glow as a revealed villain. I didn’t like that, nor the finale in general. I like Cozy Glow as well as some friends do, but I like her pre-season finale.
I thought the way they handled her as a villain was bad and very questionable, with her somehow having control over the students and running the school despite no one questioning it due to her being a kid, her wanting to drain magic and gain power via friendship to rule Equestria, again, despite her just being a child and nothing planned after, and her having no motivation or backstory to justify anything she does, just the generic ‘I want power’ story. There’s other questions and problems I have, but that might be for another time.

So! I thought it would be interesting to do a different take on Cozy Glow, a headcanon/alternate universe/whatever that personally I think would have made the finale stronger. Probably not the best, it might raise questions on its own right, but it’s something I thought would have been better in my opinion. Instead of making her a full-on villain, she does what she did in the finale like draining magic and whatnot, but she wasn’t doing it for pure evil intentions.

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The story behind her is that Cozy herself was quite a lonely pony. We don’t see her with any parental figures or guardian ever since her introduction, so it can be best to say her guardians were never around much or she doesn’t have them, she’s an orphan. Whichever way you go with it, she is lonely and has been enrolled into the school. There she meets the CMC and the Student Six, having a bunch of friends and having wonderful times being with them as well as the Mane 6. However, some paranoia gets to Cozy and she grows the fear of her friends leaving her behind, the idea of her being lonely again just being too much for her to handle. Everything overwhelms her and she goes over her head, especially when she learns of how influential and powerful friendship can be and the location of the Tree of Harmony. She gets the crazy idea of having the magic of friendship be the only form of magic existing, so it can be strengthened and influence her friends to stay with her. She was hesitant to go through this, but her fears drive her onward. How she finds the spells to drain magic is up to you, maybe she does write to Tirek like in the official canon, but without knowing who he was, he makes it anonymous and reveals it to the Mane 6 for his own amusement being locked away for years. Everything has been set and pony magic drains, but the Student 6 manage to stop everything, returning things to normal. Cozy is deeply hurt by all this with her fears finally taking over her, maybe bursting to tears and explaining why she did it, but only to be told by the Mane 6, Student 6, and CMC that they’ll always be her friends and stick by her, no matter what as it’s how it’s done with friendship. Cozy just took it the wrong way. With things back to normal, she and the other students go back to learning, with the filly happy and confident knowing she has great friends by her side.
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This is how I think would have made the finale better, adding some motivation to Cozy and her actions, and maybe some emotion aspect to it all, I dunno. Some friends liked this idea of her still being a good pony, since again they do like the cute Cozy Glow and some redemption to her sounded nice through this. You could say this clashes with Chancellor Neighsay and the idea that he learns not all creatures, especially ponies, are like he says they are, but do note that there are endless examples and moments that completely countered him since day one. But again, that’s for another time maybe.

Do you agree or disagree with this alternate canon I made? Does this make me look more desperate than I already am? Feel free to comment what your thoughts are, I’m curious to see them.

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Posted previously at: 2018-10-18T04:50:47 | Posted previously by: SnakeyThingy