Why was Cozy Glow evil?

[Yotes 158]

I'm imagining Diamond Tiara but with worse parents.

[Toastypk 923]

You know with her, she's so mysterious and creepy, it almost feels like a "less is more" sort of thing.

Maybe it's creepier not to know.

[dead account 2,711]

It seems she really was just obsessed with power. They could have done a lot more with her, she even has the rook as her cutie mark, which is considered the most useful towards to end of a chess game. I have many ideas when it comes to this character, I enjoy her as a villain and I saw a lot of potential.

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

2 hours ago, Sven Seelenherz said:

It seems she really was just obsessed with power. They could have done a lot more with her, she even has the rook as her cutie mark, which is considered the most useful towards to end of a chess game. I have many ideas when it comes to this character, I enjoy her as a villain and I saw a lot of potential.

She's the reason why I got into the fandom..... 

[ExplosionMare 18,079]

She probably took "friendship is magic" too literally since she had interpreted it as a means to obtain power rather than to have an improved quality of life. She had probably tried making friends in the past but couldn't keep them for long since she didn't have a purpose for them.

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

39 minutes ago, ExplosionMare said:

She probably took "friendship is magic" too literally since she had interpreted it as a means to obtain power rather than to have an improved quality of life. She had probably tried making friends in the past but couldn't keep them for long since she didn't have a purpose for them.

She was influenced by tirek if you recall.

So she was influenced from the start. 

[Splashee 28,566]

One day she woke up with a talent tattooed on her flank. Now she was completely evil.

MLP has this purpose driven thing with the cutie marks. What if she was just born with that talent, to be evil, to always be the bad guy? That's why she is (hopefully) in jail or set in stone or something. Very dangerous mastermind twisted on what "Friendship" could mean.

[Rosy Moonlight 369]

She was evil because she was created to be a twist villain (with a lot of foreshadowing) and she was created for the penultimate season which left no time to give her a proper backstory.

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

5 hours ago, Splashee said:

One day she woke up with a talent tattooed on her flank. Now she was completely evil.

MLP has this purpose driven thing with the cutie marks. What if she was just born with that talent, to be evil, to always be the bad guy? That's why she is (hopefully) in jail or set in stone or something. Very dangerous mastermind twisted on what "Friendship" could mean.

Everyone hates the rook it was a no brainer

[Ring Team 123]

Because the writers never thought about it.

[Sparklefan1234 172,082]

Maybe, Cozy Glow was really powerful and was shunned by the other ponies around her...Or maybe one of her friends moved away and she went mad. 

[Rosy Moonlight 369]

I like to imagine that Cozy was the result of an experiment gone wrong, created by a lonely and reckless colt. 

The colt was so awkward and lonely that he decided to make a friend of his own with dark magic, and the attempt went so wrong.

The accident took his life, and Cozy Glow ended up evil.

Cozy Glow still gave him a proper burial as she understood that he created her and she had actual respect for that.

[Theautisticrebel 306]

https://www.deviantart.com/momo-malt-gern/journal/WHY-is-Cozy-Glow-so-EVIL-815838245

[Evil Pink One 13,507]

Because shes adorably cute

[Gale Wind 82]

I wondered about that a lot as well. Also glad I wasn’t the only one thinking sociopath or psychopath tendencies.