Cozy Glow (Shining Bonds)

**Cozy Glow** is a female school-age Pegasus pony who first appears as a supporting antagonist of the *Shining Bonds a la Mode* series.

## Appearance

Cozy Glow has a pink coat, curly light blue mane and tail, scarlet eyes, and a cutie mark of a rook.

## Personality

Cozy Glow is power-hungry and unscrupulous, willing to request help from Tirek (one of Equestria's greatest enemies), and use and discard anyone to get what she wants. She thinks little of the true virtues of friendship, believing she can easily make more friends without them, and cares for no one but herself, seeing friendship solely as a means to gain power. She holds prejudice against non-ponies, passive-aggressively taunting most of the Young Six about how friendship seemingly isn't in their nature. In SBALM017, she mockingly labels Smolder as a "scheming dragon".

While locked up next to Tirek, Cozy annoys him with her attempts at familiarity, such as addressing him simply as Tirek and creating a "friendship sculpture" of the two of them. After they are freed by Grogar, she stays close to Tirek, regularly cowering behind him whenever she gets scared. She also claims to know "everything" about friendship and attempts to get both Tirek and Chrysalis to say something nice about each others' species.

In season 2's second part, Cozy Glow displays her arrogance by bragging about draining Equestria's magic and cites it as the reason why she should lead Chrysalis and Tirek. She is also shown to be very short-tempered and spoiled, yelling at Rusty Bucket when he refuses to let her attempt to reach the top of Mt. Everhoof. She claims that the "real" her is "cute and loveable", despite Tirek pointing out that her true personality is anything but. Near the end of one episode in said part, she finally agrees to work together with Tirek and Chrysalis, and briefly realizes that when the three of them helped each other, it felt better somehow, showing a degree of cooperation.

In the Season 4 finale, Cozy Glow shows a distinct vicious side, revelling in her newfound Alicorn powers, and suggesting more than once that the Mane Six and their allies be immediately destroyed. She also shows a desire for more power than her comrades, wanting to take Discord's chaos magic from the Bewitching Bell, even after her first attempt resulted in her being unable to control it.

After she reforms, Cozy becomes genuinely sweet, cute, innocent, and naïve. As a student of the School of Friendship, she often fears of failing class and being expelled. She even loves being around with Nina due to her being the one who made her think twice with her actions and change hearts. Like Diamond Tiara, she also learns to use her Cutie Mark's special talent (manipulating others) for good by instead using it to *convince* others of her ideas. Like Katrina (who wasn't evil by choice), she regrets her past actions immensely and often believes she doesn't deserve to be forgiven, but is very happy with her new friends and her new life.

## History

Cozy is a previous student of Twilight Sparkle's School of Friendship, imprisoned in Tartarus for attempting to destroy all magic. She is released from her imprisonment by Grogar to join his alliance, along with Queen Chrysalis and Lord Tirek, to defeat Twilight and her friends and conquer Equestria, and the three eventually team up with Queen Vera to help conquer the Multiverse. After she realizes the error of her ways, Cozy accepts whatever punishment that Twilight and her friends give her. Instead of punishing her, however, Twilight and her friends decide to teach her about the magic of friendship, and Cozy Glow feels reinvigorated with her new life. Nina's mother Kynim even takes her in as an "honorary pet," something that slightly bothers even Nina herself.