CORDZ2000 
Draconequues Lover zcord
precious noodle
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He shouldn’t have partied before the guest of honor arrived.
Discord sat curled up, holding the egg in his tail as he looked at it dejectedly. The baby had seemed to be growing nicely; he was fairly certain they would soon even be able to survive outside of the egg, if he got them into one of those glass-cages he’d seen ponies keep their early babies in.
But…
Discord walked up to himself and sat down.
“Do you want to talk about it?”
“No.” Discord curled up more so he couldn’t see his own face. “I was stupid to think this would work.”
“Seems to be going quite well to me!” Discord grinned, leaning in closer to his turned away face. “Growing along in there and all.”
Discord huffed. “Oh, really? Look at their stupid magic then.”
He frowned, and turned to the egg. Staring through the shell and flesh, he didn’t-see-but-that’s-the-best-word the swirling magic of the small body, shifting in sleepy patterns.
“Oh! That is a fascinating blend of pony and chaos magic. Didn’t even know that was possible! Chaos never plays nice with other magic… But that’s chaos for you, never does what you expect.” He turned back to himself. “So what’s the issue then?”
“Do I remember the first time I tried to use magic while wearing a meat-body?”
He tried to think back. It was hard, because… well, for one, it had been so long ago that the actual sun had still been alive. And for another… he’d been a baby. Well, not literally a baby, but his mind had still been very young and early in its development. It might be made of energy, but it could still change and grow more complex as time went on.
So, after spending a minute to really recall, he tried… “It exploded.”
“Yes!! It exploded as my stupid magic went everywhere at once!” He jabbed a claw at the egg. “So what do I think will happen to them when they use their magic??”
“…I can’t be sure it’ll be the same.”
“Yeah! Who knows, maybe they’ll even explode twice!” He buried his face into his paw. “They’re a stupid small unfinished creature with no way to control and direct their magic. Even if they don’t explode, they have no way of knowing what their magic will do; and seeing as they can’t direct the magic away from themselves, then their own body is the closest thing that will be affected.”
“…Like how I kept messing up my own body for a while, even after I learned to have the magic exit at a reasonable pace.”
“Except, my body isn’t necessary. I could just grab a new arm if I turned mine into jellybeans. But they….”
“They’re made of meat, not just wearing it.” Discord slumped forwards, mirroring his own dejected look. “Can I control it for them?”
“Do I really think I’ll manage the attention span for that?”
“Fair.”
“And it’ll be worse to give them to Fluttershy for just a little while before they explode than to just not give them at all.”
“… Can I make something that controls the magic?”
“I can control my magic ‘cause I’m chaos and chaos magic likes me and does what I want ‘cause what I want is chaos. But things that control magic… those are all orderly. I don’t even know where to start with that. And even if I could steal something, everything that exists works with magic pushed or directed into it. They won’t be able to control where the magic exits for a while. Too long.”
“Right.”
“Right…”
Discord sat with himself in uncharacteristic silence and stillness, listening to the heartbeat of the doomed creature which floated gently inside its egg.
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