Talk:Keep Calm and Flutter On/@comment-33425320-20180406114654/@comment-10390252-20180406121111

That early, I don't think anypony knew if it was possible to reform Discord of his own free will. He had demonstrated psychopathic behaviour traits and had boasted of being the physical incarnation of Chaos, so there was good reason to believe that there was no prospect of him being willing or able to change. What Twilight was basically proposing was to use the magical equivalent of antipsychotic medication to at least leash him.

It is to Fluttershy's eternal credit and the thing for which she will doubtless become a legend in generations to come that she was able to reach Discord's heart and, whilst not change his nature, at least motivate him to be less destructive in his manifestations.