Raskolnikov

In universe I agree that probably some kind of rough childhood is the most likely scenario as we were never given any indication of anything more outlandish and it seems the most 'grounded' scenario. Her being an adult in a child's body in reality is curious and fun as a theory but maybe too outlandish for something not alluded to in the show. (And honestly psychopathy IMO is itself traumatogenic - I think the reason why clinicians may not find trauma in those with diagnosed with ASPD is (outside of specific medical cases of brain damage) because they have a narrow view of trauma and do not see more invisible forms of emotional abuse/neglect/abandonment as severe enough. So Cozy Glow could hypothetically display 'psychopathic' traits but that's because of something in her past, or something ongoing.) The meta explanation I think is more boring in that they just didn't really think about her character that much. Perhaps I'm being harsh to feel justified in thinking as such just from that tweet alone because of course you won't think of every detail of characters you write, but from how absurd it was that she was shown to act so cartoonishly evil for no discernible reason, then she, a literal child, was deemed more irredeemable than e.g. the literal God of Chaos... something just isn't right. Her character made 0 sense and did not fit into the show's themes of friendship to have her punished the way she was when way worse villains were treated with more grace. Any fan explanations for her behaviour would be simply theories trying to patch up the show's lack of care regarding her writing. We just weren't given enough explanation.

... Annihilate this sad, gross little pone.

Ohhhh are we shitting on Fluttershy's brother? ME TOO ME TOO!!! Gosh, it was hard to watch him act like this. I cannot believe his parents were so spineless as to never set a single boundary with him, but instead made him Fluttershy's problem. No wonder he was so out of control!! They clearly never were good role models if they are so diminished themselves. They seem to have their own mental issues that prevented them from raising strong, confident children: Fluttershy was so timid at the start of the show, and had to learn a lot on how to be confident in herself. That's not to let Zephyr off the hook. He's an adult responsible for his own choices and he still chose to never self reflect, and others enabled him and essentially blocked any possibility of him doing so. I get what they're going for - these kind of personalities tend to lack a lot of self esteem and their outward behaviour is a cover for that lack. But it didn't make it any easier to watch... I felt so bad for Fluttershy. My bad for double posting so soon, but could you remind me where and when he's being a creep to Rainbow Dash? Must have been a while... God, my reasons for hating him grow each day