Talk:Discord/@comment-4861270-20160902160133/@comment-10390252-20160902162517

Discord is so old, so powerful and so alien that it is difficult to attribute recognisable pony emotions and motivations to him. That said, yes, I believe that he regards her as something special and unique in the universe. She was the only one who beat him in his introductory two-parter, after all. The only soul that he could only corrupt by force. Then she outthought and outmanoeuvred him when he was released from his stone prison for the second time.

Whatever his feelings, I have no doubt that Fluttershy is his friend, first and foremost - the first being who regard him as such in who knows how many eons. For that, he his her friend in turn and restrains himself for her sake, even though he can only barely restrain himself with others (as Three's a Crowd and Dungeons & Discords proved quite worryingly.

She is the One True Friend of the God of Chaos. Tremble the being who dares to contemplate doing her harm for Discord would have no mercy on them at all.