@TheBridge  
Arguably, that might make him too predictable to be a “chaos god.” Then again, I suspect the real reason is that people liked de Lancie’s voice acting.
 
But I do agree that when he was introduced, he was basically Nyarlathotep, if you’ve read your Lovecraft. He was an cruel and insane alien god from another dimension, playing a game with rules only he understood. They were able to turn him to stone because he permitted it, and he did not sit in the garden one second longer than he wanted to. He was an awesome villain, intelligent and more than competent, genuinely menacing, genuinely frightening, to the point where I wonder how much the writers toned it down for the intended audience.
 
They ruined him when they brought him back and made him into a regular character. Nyarlathotep does not attend tea parties, at least if he’s not playing some kind of monstrously cruel prank.

@Anonymous #CA9C  
Mace: the Gdark age?
 
@office mare  
Then it zooms out and you see that he’s about three inches long and being viewed through a high power magnifying glass.

discord irl woud be like

This looks like a crazy MtG card.

There’s only one thing that can calm the chaos beast!
 

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I SAID CALM!!

@Anonymous #FE0C  
On a thematic level, no. On a story level, maybe I honestly enjoyed a good bit of his post reform antics and fan service, but it is something that on some level has never fully sat right with me, at least the way it was done. It would have been nice to have persevered that dynamic and it would’ve given more order to the series over just sometimes ill defined dark magic forces and magic users who are simply bad actors 100% of the time. I understood why they did it, at the time thinking season 3 would be the last season and all, they wanted to make one more episode with Discord.

@TheBridge  
When you put it that way, it really didn’t make sense to reform him, did it?

In my head, Discord and his chaos is still not merely a whimsical force alone but the opposite of harmony embodying envy, hatred, cruelty, sadness and lies like how he originally was portrayed, this fits that Discord.

If I didn’t know better I’d say this was peeled straight off the cover of a metal album.

Now we’re defenseless  
In the land where dragons rule

That’s just awesome. Makes him appear like a proper threat.

This is the most badass discord image I’ve ever seen.