@AC97
Still, one thousend years alone in a cage and no attempt being made to try and help him?
And still, in both cases one attempted to talk down the other only to have them run away. You could argue that Starlight gave better arguments but its also worth noting that Chrysalis came very close to accepting it, unlike Starlight. You can even see it on her face at that moment so in that regard it did actually work better. I doupt she was in a state to be bluffing or in some ways trolling Starlight about it.
@gingerninja666
Again, Starlight’s approach clearily had more of an effect then Twilight’s. Problem is that they let her fly away to go mad with lonelyness. I think had they captured her and gave her a longer Discord style reformation attempt she could have turned over a new leaf.
@Brass Beau
But again, neither of them took it at first.
You could argue that Chrysalis wanted power to feed her subjects at first as evident by her line about it in Canterlot Wedding. Later on she wanted her throne back and you can clearily see her lonelyness when she started talking to inanimate objects.
And about ruining the world. Isn’t that what Discord was doing? Plunging it into a state of pure madness and brainwashing those that could stand against him? Based on what I’ve seen from his potential chaos world I wouldn’t want to live in it and the fact that we saw him happily tormenting Celestia and Luna in one of Starlight’s alternate timelines shows that he wasn’t misunderstood whatsoever.
Its the fact that he got so many chances despite his clear maliciousness while the trio didn’t is what gets to me. No one tried to reach out to Tirek in Tartarus even when he helped the Main 6 escape. Sure, he was power hungry but he also had an odd sense of honor like when he let Twilight’s friends go after his bargain with her or how at least some of his issues seem to stem from his father. Sure, its not much but its still more then what most other villains had prior to their final defeats.
Chrysalis was a queen and clearily felt that her ways of leading were supperior, just like Starlight and refused to change her beliefs again, just like Starlight. Despite averything she came close to accepting Starlight’s offer, but instead of being helped to finally get to that point, Discord teamed her up with two other villains.
Cozy’s a kid. Therefore her mind is still developing and might be easier to directly influence towards a better path then an adult’s. Yes, she’s smart but there are plenty of moments where she shows her immaturity. You can argue that she went to a friendship school, but that was not a reformation school. One can simply memorize words and get good grades but not understand their meaning. We can’t know if she could have been reformed or not because literally no one tried to do so with her.
Instead of getting help, Discord brought these three together, demanded that they work together to destroy Twilight and threatened them to do so while giving them the location of a powerfull magical artifact all to set them up for failure. I can’t be the only one who finds this to be an absolutely horrible thing to do even to villains. And the fact that he even got to pick their punishment and was so smug about it while not getting punished himself really put a bad taste in my mouth. Because of all of these I feel that the trio were treated utterly unfairly in comparison to him. Maybe I shouldn’t be writing so much on this, but I just feel so strongly about it that I can’t help myself.