Cozy Glow (Theautisticrebel)

## Personality

Prior to the Chess Club's betrayal, she was a sweet, naive, and nerdy filly who loved chess and often used it as a distraction from the awful homelife she had.

After The Chess Club's betrayal however, she became more cynical and disallusioned with Friendship, during this time she also became more infuriated with how her dad was abusing her mom, as she now has no real distractions and thus, she saw how bad it really was.

With Tirek's influence however, she became more and more manipulative and determined in her goals of providing her and her mom a better life with no abuse, this increased after she was defeated the first time and she also became more spiteful towards the Mane Six as they 'ruined' her goals of giving her mom a better life.

After being freed from stone, however, her vengefulness was no more and what replaced it was a new found gratitude towards The Mane Six (Twilight especially) for giving her a second chance, and while she was pretty shy when she was first released, she overtime became that sweet and nerdy filly again.

## Backstory

She was born to Lightning Fire and Rose Glow in Stratusburg and while her mom was well-meaning, her father was a raging alchoholic who took out his anger on both his wife and daughter. Since Rose worked long hours at a dead-end job at The Weather Factory as an assistant, it was often just Cozy and her dad, who abused her over the smallest things like making too much noise or for no reason at all and when Rose would get home they'd argue and the arguments would often get physical. They didn't have that much money due to Rose's job not paying well and her dad's drinking habits, so they'd often worry about not having enough food to eat.

School wasn't any better as she was often bullied by the popular kids for her nerdy nature and her only friends were the equally nerdy Chess Club, whom she joined after beating one of the members of the club in a game of chess and getting her cutie mark, but not even that was meant to last as one of the most popular girls in school, Stella forged her handwriting to make it look like she cheated in the tournament they'd had won, that day that the club discovered the forged handwriting and kicked her out, she got into a huge fright with Stella which caused The Principal to call both Cozy's and Stella's parents and while The Principal was talking to Rose Glow, she noticed some pamphlets for The School of Friendship and she tried saving enough money for her daughter to go and when she did, she took her to her sister's hair salon who gave her a free haircut for this occasion and she then sent her to live with her aunt and uncle in Ponyville.

At The School of Friendship, after learning about how The Mane Six had defeated countless villains using the power of friendship, she realized how powerful friendship is and that she could use that power to give her and her mom a better life, and sometime later, she enrolled into The School's penpal program, so she can have a penpal that could potentially help her with her goal and luckily for her her penpal turned out to be Tirek himself, who taught her a way to suck up all of the magic in Equestria and to manipulate other ponies. If your reading this you probably know what happens next.

A few days after being turned into stone, Rose visits Canterlot to tell Twilight about Cozy's past and Twilight, sympathyzing with what she had to say, frees Cozy from stone, hoping that with her mother by her side, she can help her reform and when she does get realeased, she immediantly hugs her mom, apologizing for what she'd did and her mom also apologized for not getting a divorce earlier, from then on, she lived a pretty peaceful life, with her being reenrolled to The School of Friendship, her mom getting a new job at The School of Friendship as a librarian, and as an adult, Cozy became a well renowned chess player.