Cozy Glow Cozy Glow is an anomaly, a cartoonish villain in a world where ponies’ motivations are typically more complex. However…there’s a reason for that. Not many know, but Discord is actually a huge comic book nerd. His favorite series is the Power Ponies! Or at least it was his favorite series…until they ruined it with the worst villain EVER. I mean come on, she’s clearly a child! Why aren’t the Power Ponies concerned about this foal? Where are her parents? Months, years go by and Discord can’t get his mind off that horrible little filly. How she RUINED his favorite comics….he just couldn’t let it go. Eventually, he decides to take matters into his own paw and claw. Discord yanks Cozy Glow out of the Power Pony universe right before she meets the Power Ponies for the first time. After his victorious return to his home universe he realizes…huh. Now he has this…kid in his house. Cozy Glow had many talents, but among the greatest was making her presence known. Discord quickly got sick of her and one morning she woke up in the middle of Ponyville Town Square.Ugh, back to square one I guess. Cozy Glow is a wildcard. She’s not really malicious, but she’s EXTREMELY dangerous to other ponies. This has to do with the fact Cozy Glow doesn’t belong in the universe of Equestria. She doesn’t understand the laws of this universe, and it’s hard to abide by laws you don’t know. While Cozy might be an antagonist in her universe of origin, she’s not exactly evil. In the universe of the Power Ponies (PPverse), death and injury work much differently. Deaths are almost never permanent, and most ponies who die reappear within a year or less. Sure, sometimes they return with different personalities or appearances, even different backstories or motivations occasionally, but they still have the same names and are, more often than not, pretty similar to their last form. Huge rewrites are pretty rare and characters typically “evolve” from one significantly different iteration to another over several forms. Actions, even drastic ones, carry much less weight in the Power Pony universe because the world is regularly “rebooted”. Rebooting can revert the world to a previous version or create an entirely new world, though always including the same characters. It always happens after a world-ending event, which is why so many villains in the PPverse want to “end the world”. So when Cozy Glow tried to steal all the magic in Equestria, she didn’t think her actions would last forever. Honestly, Cozy was surprised Twilight got so mad at her, at least she’s trying to do SOMETHING big! What’s the point of all this slice of life horseshit, where’s the action in that! Cozy does seem to be adjusting to the new universe in some ways though. She’d never aged naturally in the PPverse but after a year in Equestria, she seems to be aging at a slightly slower than normal rate. She also has to eat and sleep more often and can’t withstand as much physical or mental stress. Whether or not she can adjust mentally is another issue. Cozy still doesn’t see anything wrong with any of her actions and has no shame or guilt over them. Although she is starting to feel a little lonely. Power Pony fans swear they can remember this one villain that they’ve never been able to find in any issues…at Power Pony conventions there’s almost always a panel discussing the mysterious character. Most consider it a result of misremembering or confusing another comic book’s villain as being from the Power Ponies, others chalk it up to the Maldiscord effect, the popular belief that Discord maliciously meddles with the details of their universe.
 
 
Extra Notes:  
Cozy Glow still teams up with Chrysalis and Tirek. The reason Twilight threw her in Hell Prison Tartarus after discovering her plot was that there was literally no where else to put her, they couldn’t put her in regular prison because she looks like a kid, and they couldn’t leave her out in the world because she still doesn’t understand it’s wrong to kill people. Twilight can’t send her back to her home universe because only Discord has the ability of interdimensional travel. She asked Starlight to try and see if there was any spell that would allow them to help her in some way but before they were able to Cozy escaped with the help of Tirek. Cozy, Tirek and Chrysalis weren’t actually turned into stone at the end, that’s more of a folk tale than anything. In reality, Chrysalis formed a truce with Equestria in the form of her political marriage to Luna as well as her offspring Astoria. A small addendum to their treaty included a full pardon for Cozy and Tirek contingent on….if not good at least decent behavior. The pardon also stipulated that if either of them broke the terms of their parole they would BOTH get sent back to Hell Prison Tartarus. So Cozy and Tirek were handcuffed together in a sense, given the previously impossible task of managing the other’s behavior. It took some time to figure out but in the end it worked out as well as anyone could have hoped, especially after Tirek met Iron Will in Las Pegasus. The two entered into a somewhat shady business partnership together and soon after that a less shady regular partnership. Cozy Glow is their evil little protege…if they could only get her to focus on more socially acceptable villainy like venture capitalist schemes and multi-level marketing instead of world destruction and domination. The three live a luxurious life of opulence in the penthouse of Tirek Tower, one of the tallest buildings in Las Pegasus. Huge!  
I hope you all like my take on the undeniable Cozy Glow…I always try to do something different because there’s less competition in stories no one else is doing. If you like it check out some of my other headcanon stuff, leave a comment if you got any questions or thoughts on the story!
 
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OH also I recording myself drawing this one. I’m thinking of trying to do some youtube content where I record myself talking about things over speedpaints. It’ll be more interesting than it sounds I promise, just stay tuned especially if you’re a fan of long form youtube videos talking about random topics like I am.