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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.  
 
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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redweasel
Duck - "someone befriended them, saved them, coaxed them out of their shell, and showed them that sex is nothing to be afraid of. I’m kind of envious of that rape victim"

Fuzzbutt
@Selaphiel
 
nopony guided starlight to form a crazy cutie mark hating cult so she could force everypony to be friends with her.
 
it’s true that starlight is a much higher functioning psychopath than cozy glow.
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Her mother was Celestia, just two days before Nightmare Moon would return Celestia had a prophecy telling her that if Cozys’ heart was pained by Magic she would bring about a dark future to Equestria. Celestia acted on it prematurely and had Cozy transformed from an Alicorn into a Pegasus; along with erasing everypony else’s memories about Cozy Glow. Cozy tried to argue against this only for Celestia to pull a Starswirl and have her daughter banished and disowned.  
SELF-FULFILLING PROPHECY! Celestia figures out that she pained her daughters heart with Magic when she took hers away, but is too ashamed to admit the truth to apologize or find Cozy and decided to replace her daughter with Twilight and Luna to fill the void and never reveal her daughters existence ever again.
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redweasel
Duck - "someone befriended them, saved them, coaxed them out of their shell, and showed them that sex is nothing to be afraid of. I’m kind of envious of that rape victim"

Fuzzbutt
admittedly everything cozy glow did was solely for the purposes of having friends. though you might argue she wanted power—not friendship—in her mind, they were the same thing. so she did want friendship, and just didn’t understand what it was. and admittedly… she is right. friendship is power… the most powerful evil monsters in the world are fabulously wealthy because of who they know, and the rest of us can get singled out, when we don’t have friends to support us.
 
@Chopsticks
 
I’m under the belief that everyone is naturally lazy, selfish, and therefore instinctively born evil.
that depends on whether you believe that laziness or selfishness is evil.
 
my thought is that evil people with a lot of power started bullying people into agreeing with them, and they made things like laziness, greed, wrath, and lust as unforgivable evils, because it got their victims to work for free, give up their hard-earned savings, smile and forgive the thieves doing it, then push away our friends and isolate ourselves for the evil act of having biological urges.
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Rice pone
“@Background Pony #93A1”  
That’s pretty messed up. No one ks born evil. Good or evil behaviours are learned. Why watch a show about friendship if you disagree with its base premise?
 
I have a feeling (just a theory) that Lauren Faust doesn’t hold the same standard as some of the other writing staff, namely I think it was Amy Keating Rogers. But I still love the show more than just about anything in the world.
 
That said, we are all born evil; its in our genetics, instincts. Evil can be defined with laziness and selfish; by doing anything for your own survival especially at the expense of someone else. Babies are evil. When a baby wants something for its own comfort or personal need, it cries to get attention from a caregiver, asking for fulfillment.
 
You survive well, and you survive better, the greater the buffer you have between your life’s survival and everything else around you, including a feeling of superiority. It’s the driving factor for most human behavior.
 
Society carries on normally mostly because we fear authority and repercussions. We know that’s generally better for our survival, so we as animals usually, willingly submit to that system out of that fear. “Good”, “acceptable”, and “cooperative” behavior has to be either instilled by fear, conditioning, or teaching in order to combat the instinctive, animalistic, born-drive for evil.
 
We have to discipline and teach kids to be nice and kind to each other; we have to teach them morals. It’s why shows like MLP exist in the first place. We have to teach them this because nobody needs to learn evil; we enter the world with it.
 
 
The opposite of evil of course, is unconditional, complete self-sacrificial love with absolutely no ulterior motives and nothing wanted or gained in return.
 
But Equestria is also a different universe of course but even we realize that Twilight’s school is essentially a church, and the concept behind the Magic of Friendship is a necessity to be taught to improve society.
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@Chopsticks  
Just the nature of MLP G4, complex motivations and origin stories to villains are always left to the comics. Almost none of them had any good backstories or justifications given in the show. So we might see it there. We know that key things she found important were Intelligence and Control.
Sunset Shimmer, Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, King Sombra, and Discord (to a minor extent), Tempest Shadow, the Dazzlings… all of these characters had greater depth given to their past and motives in the comics, and in the case of Tempest, shouldn’t have even been left out of the movie. Starlight Glimmer was an exception as her past dictated the necessary information for her defeat.
I am perfectly ok with Cozy Glow’s end and how it played out. Having children partake in any heightened form of villainy is extremely rare in entertainment and only just now being tapped into and explored in multiple bits. The show’s team hear a lot of complaints about villains reforming, there would’ve been more complaints about her being sorry in the end than if not. It’s not only a huge step forward into new content, it’s extremely entertaining to see. I think they should’ve made it less obvious that she was evil from the get-go, but I have a feeling a lot of people claiming she seemed evil from the start were just tipped off by others who had spoiled things.
As for some of the concerns, characters did question it. The story lampshaded it very well. She wasn’t supposed to be left in charge. And we know that she had a lot of motives and misunderstandings behind going to the school in the first place.
To add, I’m under the belief that everyone is naturally lazy, selfish, and therefore instinctively born evil. This concept that we have “good inside” is a dangerous mentality to a society. Evil is lined in our genetics and it’s passed on to generations as our inherited instincts towards personal survival.
As such, in stories of the past it was very rare to have any of these motives turn out good (since it was obviously known everyone has a dark side that can be tempted and the triumphant overcome their inner evils and be exemplar heroes). Even when poor decisions are made, in the name of good will and judgment, it was just automatically understood and forgiven. Anything that builds or exemplifies that smartly is a plus to me.
But having a motivational explanation behind villains allows the audience to sympathize and connect with them more (ideally IMO due to the social shift deception towards trying to portray everyone as inherently good). As society is more complex and developed however, it’s understandable. Technology has extended time and education, which allows everyone to be capable of philosophy and thinking. We would like to see more than just the mustache-twisting, snickering villain easily giving in to his most base desires, putting the lady on the train track and hauling off with the money loot.
 
 
That’s pretty messed up. No one ks born evil. Good or evil behaviours are learned. Why watch a show about friendship if you disagree with its base premise?
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Chopsticks
Silly Pony - Celebrated the 13th anniversary of MLP:FIM, and 40 years of MLP!
Shimmering Smile - Celebrated the 10th anniversary of Equestria Girls!
Solar Guardian - Refused to surrender in the face of the Lunar rebellion and showed utmost loyalty to the Solar Empire (April Fools 2023).
Betrayal! - Betrayed their team for a badge. Shame forever!
Crystal Roseluck - Had their OC in the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Flower Trio - Helped others get their OC into the 2023 Derpibooru Collab.
Non-Fungible Trixie -
Verified Pegasus - Show us your gorgeous wings!
Preenhub - We all know what you were up to this evening~
Philomena - For helping others attend the 2021 community collab
Twinkling Balloon - Took part in the 2021 community collab.
A Really Hyper Artist - 500+ images under their artist tag
My Little Pony - 1992 Edition
A Really Classy Artist - 250+ images under their artist tag
A Tale For The Ages - Celebrated MLP's 35th Anniversary and FiM's 8th Anniversary
An Artist Who Rocks - 100+ images under their artist tag
Friendship, Art, and Magic (2017) - Celebrated Derpibooru's five year anniversary with friends.
Artist -

Rice pone
Just the nature of MLP G4, complex motivations and origin stories to villains are always left to the comics. Almost none of them had any good backstories or justifications given in the show. So we might see it there. We know that key things she found important were Intelligence and Control.
 
Sunset Shimmer, Tirek, Queen Chrysalis, Nightmare Moon, King Sombra, and Discord (to a minor extent), Tempest Shadow, the Dazzlings… all of these characters had greater depth given to their past and motives in the comics, and in the case of Tempest, shouldn’t have even been left out of the movie. Starlight Glimmer was an exception as her past dictated the necessary information for her defeat.
 
 
I am perfectly ok with Cozy Glow’s end and how it played out. Having children partake in any heightened form of villainy is extremely rare in entertainment and only just now being tapped into and explored in multiple bits. The show’s team hear a lot of complaints about villains reforming, there would’ve been more complaints about her being sorry in the end than if not. It’s not only a huge step forward into new content, it’s extremely entertaining to see. I think they should’ve made it less obvious that she was evil from the get-go, but I have a feeling a lot of people claiming she seemed evil from the start were just tipped off by others who had spoiled things.
 
 
As for some of the concerns, characters did question it. The story lampshaded it very well. She wasn’t supposed to be left in charge. And we know that she had a lot of motives and misunderstandings behind going to the school in the first place.
 
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To add, I’m under the belief that everyone is naturally lazy, selfish, and therefore instinctively born evil. This concept that we have “good inside” is a dangerous mentality to a society. Evil is lined in our genetics and it’s passed on to generations as our inherited instincts towards personal survival.
 
As such, in stories of the past it was very rare to have any of these motives turn out good (since it was obviously known everyone has a dark side that can be tempted and the triumphant overcome their inner evils and be exemplar heroes). Even when poor decisions are made, in the name of good will and judgment, it was just automatically understood and forgiven. Anything that builds or exemplifies that smartly is a plus to me.
 
But having a motivational explanation behind villains allows the audience to sympathize and connect with them more (ideally IMO due to the social shift deception towards trying to portray everyone as inherently good). As society is more complex and developed however, it’s understandable. Technology has extended time and education, which allows everyone to be capable of philosophy and thinking. We would like to see more than just the mustache-twisting, snickering villain easily giving in to his most base desires, putting the lady on the train track and hauling off with the money loot.
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