@AC97  
Could be. Of course, in that case taking one of them out to try reforming them would horribly freak the other’s out.

@Latecomer
 
Perhaps the intent was to create a self-sustaining dreamscape where they may or may not be aware of what even happened to them, but they’re cursed to be together throughout their time in the world.
 
So if they got freed, they’d be sick of one another, so they couldn’t harmonize as a team anymore, on a conscious or subconscious level. Unless they became friends, which probably isn’t happening.

@ElCid  
Proof? It wan’t the rainbow blast that stoned them.

@Latecomer  
You’re naming two VERY different things here. The same thing that was done to Discord was done to them. They’re conscious.

@AC97  
Given Discord’s line, I wondered if perhaps their awarenesses were turned inwards, within a shared mindscape.

@Latecomer
 
Also, Rockhoof was going to get “stone sleep,” as portrayed in A Rockhoof and a Hard Place.
 
So yeah, very possible to be unconscious. Discord is an outlier, probably.

@ElCid  
That he did when petrified by the Elements. Conversely, Twilight didn’t seem to remember being stoned by the cockatrice. Who knows if they’re awake of not?

@Latecomer  
Actually yes, we DO know she’s conscious, because Discord has outright stated that you remain conscious while petrified.

@Copper Knight  
Okay, and what else? That’s literally all we know. My point still stands.

@ElCid  
When questioned by Twilight, she said it was because “power”. That’s it. She wanted power.
 
@Smart Heart  
The one to recognize just what was happening and all three of them hated the idea.

@Background Pony #6ED7  
Indeed.
 
 
@ElCid  
We don’t really know her motives, or whether she was always evil, or even if she’s conscious.

@Latecomer  
And what do we actually KNOW about Cozy or why she acted the way she did? Do the writers just want us to assume she was just born evil or something and thus it’s perfectly okay to keep a literal child imprisoned in stone while still conscious for decades?

Hopefully the stoned stasis thing is a temporary thing. The Mane 6 could always try to get to the bottom of WHY they’re like this, and once they find their answers, they can test it out. They don’t need to be in stone forever.

@Smart Heart  
Oh yes - but a) it would be an evil father and daughter, and b) there’s room for Mommy Chrysalis too.

@Latecomer  
True. But don’t you find the idea of Tirek and Cozy being like father and daughter kinda cute?

@Smart Heart  
Well I really don’t see Cozy, let alone Tirek, renouncing their villainy or revenge just because they became friends with each other.

@Latecomer  
Not how I meant it, though.

@Smart Heart  
They thought twice about working for Grogar anyway.

@Latecomer  
And there you have it. If it weren’t for her convincing the other two to deny their feelings of friendship and teamwork, they might’ve thought twice about working for Grogar.

@Smart Heart  
Chryssy - after all, she had lost her hive to that kind of thing.

@Latecomer  
But who was the first to reject those feelings?

@Smart Heart  
They did all seem like they might be touching on friendship there - but they also rejected it quickly. And even if they had tapped into it, that would probably have just made them more dangerous.

@Latecomer  
How about that scene in Frienemies after Tirek gave Chrysalis her magic back?

@Smart Heart  
Really? Because I didn’t really see Tirek or Cozy as interested in that in the first place.

@Latecomer  

 
I’d say that’s due to Chrysalis’s influence.