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"I tried so many years to make it comfortable for us; to have this family, but it was never enough. The only reason I have endured your constant insults and cruelty was for that girl to have a normal life." - Stolas S2 E1

"Also, son, you are destined to sire a precautionary addition to the Goetia family." - Paimon S2 E1

Some of you all are completely misunderstanding the second half, I am not downplaying the love Stolas has for Octavia, I am not saying that at all, what I am saying, is that Octavia is 100% going to think she was a 'obligation' when she finds out she was born to be a 'precautionary addition to the Goetia family'.

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Absolutely losing my mind at the amount of people who think the trial in Mastermind was Stolas choosing between Octavia and Blitz, and that Octavia’s POV in Sinsmas is also the viewers POV

Octavia

・Likely does not know that their marriage was arranged

・Does not know that Stolas was required to have her (but that she became a genuine light in his life)

・Absolutely does not know that their sex life consisted of Stolas just laying there while Stella’s (admittedly, mind you) had sex with him anyway

・Doesn’t know the extent of Stella’s abuse; likely thinks her attacks on him were in retaliation to his infidelity

・Doesn’t know Stella doesn’t actually care that Stolas cheated and has been pining for his assets for years

・Doesn’t know that Stella tried to have him killed, and put Blitz on trial in the first place

・Thinks he was on antidepressants because she was a burden

I will admit, I’m getting frustrated with the Octavia arc, but she is oblivious to much of Stolas’ plight. He’s never had his needs met, how could he meet hers? He absolutely did this to himself, but how could I not sympathize with him? How could I not understand why he would get tired of playing pretend.

Whether he stayed miserable, whether he divorced, whether he cheated, Stolas was never going to win.

Stella is in the same situation but she gets a kick out of making Stolas miserable. Stolas didn’t ever love Stella but Stella absolutely hates Stolas more than she cares about Octavia. Via is only a chess piece to her, something to dangle over Stolas’ head.

The difference in how they take back control of their lives is clear as day. where Stolas finds solace in romantic fantasies and midnight trysts, Stella punches down on someone in the same situation as her and strips him of everything he owns and loves.

That trial wasn’t Stolas “choosing” it was Stolas taking accountability for once. Blitz stole the Grimoire the first time around but it was Stolas who willingly gave it to him thereafter.

And, sue me, but I think Stolas deserves good things too. I absolutely do not think it was selfish of him to cheat on Stella.

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Now that I think about it...

Stolas really fucked himself over in the romance department, like seriously and genuinely fucked himself over in the romance department.

Stolas, our neurodivergent ex-Prince literally manipulated the entirety of Hell into thinking he was some "mastermind" that used an imp to do his bidding...

As a result, the moment he was banished, Stolas found himself in the bottom of the barrel, and an object of scorn hellbornes can openly inflict their resentment towards.

Stolas (no offense) cannot protect himself, let alone take care of himself without using what he's always known to his advantage (money, power, influence).

Because like, even if there was a situation where Stolas doesn't want to be with Blitz anymore romantically, platonically, or whatever...

He somehow found himself in a situation where he has to rely on Blitz in some way shape or form, or at the very least, rely on his connections...

Because no one is better qualified to care for Stolas right now than your:

Ex-situationship who just so happens to be a very skilled assassin

Your ex-situationship's employees who also happen to be very skilled assassins (who you for some reason don't know the name of yet)

Your ex-situationship's connections with the King of Lust's boyfriend

Your ex-situationship's connections with the Queen of Gluttony (that for some reason is really chill with the guy after he beat her at her own game)

Your ex-situationship's ex girlfriend that threw a hate party dedicated to hating his ass but has somewhat made amends with (possibly)

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I'm calling it. Stolas and Blitzø are gonna fuck in missionary and then get emotional about it

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Regarding Stella,

I do genuinly think it is terrible writing to have her be evil for the sake of evil; it is a tired female villain trope and I do feel that even Stella deserves more depth beyond 'evil ex-wife'

It is not good when you intend for your audience to dislike her as a person but end up making her a bad character on a fundamental level for lack of better characterization.

I would have loved to see her circumstances turn her into the wicked and maligned glutton that she is, in the same way we see how those same circumstances ushered Stolas into subservience, repression and passivity, living vicariously through romantic novels and films and then running into the arms of the first man that would have him.

what does Stella want beyond all that Stolas has? What does taking from him mean for her, and could she be fulfilled through more positive outlets?

Of course, Stella was forced into an arranged marriage and made to raise a child while only one herself just the same as Stolas, and from that we can infer that the control she has over Stolas acts to veneer her own sense powerlessness.

This is something you, the viewer, must clip chimp for. Stella as a person is never dissected in the actual show.

In canon, Stella is evil because she is evil. Our first glimpse of her as a child is her angrily shredding a stuffed animal, and what are we supposed to take away from that besides "oh... she's always been that way"?

You have a good foundation for some standard social commentary; two people who take diverging paths in address their trauma and feelings of isolation, but only one of these characters is given any sort of dimension.

They are just ignoring the nuances of being a Shitty Guy. your antagonist can be sympathic and it doesn't have to excuse anything they've done. In the same way Stolas didn't mean to hurt Blitz, but it's still something he needs to apologize for.

Wrapping up, I don't think stella is evil simply to make Stolas look good, contrary to popular belief. despite it being born of ignorance and his own rose-tinted view of the world and Stolas meaning well, he still has classist tendencies. His juvenile understanding of love and trial-and-error way of expressing it made Blitz feel used and then abandoned. I am a Stolas lover, a Stolas apologist even, but he does not have a clean record and Stella does not distract from that, el-oh-el.

I'm still holding out hope for a Stella-centric episode, but it seems like the focus will be on Stolas and Blitz for a while. I'm hoping for lots of talks, some I'm-sorry's and Blitz's long-awaited confession.

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really hilarious argument i had with this person trying to claim Stolas is as bad as Stella

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Who is the BOSS

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Cringetober day 14: incorrect quote!!

Did do this one right just simply wanted to redraw this meme finally LMFAO

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I’m so excited for October I’m so excited for October

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“Stolas looks down on Blitz”

no he doesn’t

“he called him his “impish plaything” though”

a rather crude estimation of dirty talk. Stolas doesn’t know how to express his attraction to Blitz, much less to an Imp, as he’s very sheltered and inexperienced, especially so considering the class difference.

this was likely gained from the romance novels, films and erotica he can be seen reading and watching throughout the show. he has an extremely artificial view of relationships. Stolas just thinks that that is how you flirt

“okay but he hid behind his menu at Ozzie’s”

right

“so he’s ashamed”

well yes

“so he looks down on Blitz”

well he’s ashamed here, but not of Blitz

“why would he be ashamed if not because Blitz is lower in status than him then”

well the focus of Asmodeus’ comments was never specifically that Blitz is an Imp; it was about how Stolas cheated on his “hot wife,” destroyed his family and threw away his reputation “for a thrust.”

Stolas is ashamed here, but he’s ashamed of himself, of being an adulterer, of having broken his family apart, of being “easy.” he is hiding here. hiding from Blitz. he doesn’t want to be seen like that by someone he loves. i think he’s more embarrassed than anything

and, like, Stella was physically and emotionally abusive to him and the only good to come from their sexual relationship for him was Octavia— and here Asmodeus is singing a song about how he “threw it all away.” he wasn’t wrong to leave that abusive environment but it isn’t uncommon for victims to still feel some shame over doing so, especially when kids are involved.

are we really faulting him for not having the courage to stand up for himself and defend his feelings for Blitz here?

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very long day of watching stolitz critical videos on youtube and typing up angry responses in my notes app. i think my next essay will be on Stolas’ relationship with sex and why their “business relationship” is a natural extension of that

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Art I commissioned from @re-unknown for my fic Theoxenia.

(Which in turn was inspired by @nekophy's comic lol)

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Ring ☎️

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he slays and he knows it.

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some thoughts about Blitz’s feelings for Stolas throughout the show

the idea that Blitz’s feelings for Stolas in Apology Tour are unfounded is interesting to me. Blitz is very much afraid of love. his feelings would’ve never manifested any way as flagrant as Stolas’

you first have to acknowledge that Blitz is simply not aware of his feelings, nor does he want to be. you then have to believe that his feelings can be found in his rejection of Stolas

their relationship beginning as transactional is important; what is initially give and take, a familiar and digestible dynamic that Blitz can easily navigate, is gradually becoming something more unbeknownst to him

he stumbles over his words when describing what should just be a business relationship to Striker while Millie and Moxxie giggle in the background

at Ozzie’s, Stolas gives Blitz the impression that he is ashamed of being with an Imp when he shrinks behind his Menu at Asmodeus’ comments. and Blitz has always made it a point to refer to their class differences— Stolas is a pompous asshole, a rich bastard, a spoiled brat, he degrades himself as being just his little Imp boytoy, and Stolas’, frankly cringey, idea of dirty talk really only affirms that thought. He expects Stolas to look down on him, he expects Stolas to be ashamed of being with him fully clothed. he has primed himself to see Stolas in nothing but the bleak light of his social status. He’s convinced he’s nothing but being used and he himself is using Stolas here to spy on M&M. and yet he can’t help feeling betrayed by this

when Stolas clumsily asks him inside to do chaste couple-y things to make up for the night, Blitz dismisses him and says Stolas already made it clear that he only wants sex with a pained expression. it’s not just that he thinks Stolas has ulterior motives, he feels further betrayed by what he sees as Stolas veiling his intentions under the guise of spending time with him. because in his mind, Stolas has just affirmed his belief that he is incapable of being seen as an equal

blitzo isn’t the kind of person who takes transparency in the form Stolas gives it, he needs things to be spelled out for him, bold, italicized, underlined and highlighted. he needs to be able to see himself on your level, which might involve breaking down and exhausting yourself. his stubbornness isn’t the kind to be yielded by a night of cuddling because there will always be impure intentions behind those actions for him. because he is always comparing himself to people, always operating under the belief that no body appreciates him for what he is and scrutinizes him only for what he lacks (which is not entirely unfounded but i digress)

this is why it takes Fizzie breaking down during their kidnapping in OOPS for the pedestal Blitz places him on to crumble, for him to cry and admit to his faults and apologize and to tell Fizzie the ways in which the fire weighs on his heart too. it’s why it takes Stolas crying in The Full Moon for Blitz to realize he’s misjudged his intentions, and drinking so heavily in a debauched and unprincley manner in Apology Tour for Blitz to see just how hurt he is

following Ozzie’s, Stolas attempts to give him space. up until that point he’d believed that Blitz was enjoying their arrangement as much as he was, and despite the terms of their relationship being predicated on Stolas’ fantastical idea of romance, i think Blitz did appear to respond well to Stolas’ fierce attraction to him, at least to the point where nobody believed what they had was purely business. Stolas putting a hold on their monthly trysts, to Blitz, meant that Stolas had finally grown tired of him

my favorite display of this though, is in The Full Moon. Stolas’ confession is fundamentally flawed and dismissive of Blitz’s feelings in how he begins by just asking for “his grimoire back,” let’s be clear

but when he gives Blitz the Asmodeus crystal and tells him Blitz doesn’t have to stay if he doesn’t want to, he asks Stolas if it’s because he’s not good enough, tells him he can “do better.” he hates Stolas seeing him as a living dildo but abhors the idea of not having been able to please him. when Stolas then properly confesses and acknowledges the iniquities of their arrangement, Blitz then sexualizes the situation, causing Stolas to feel he is being mocked

this is all while he has already been given the crystal. despite constantly telling himself, telling everyone, that Stolas is just his meal ticket, that he fucks who he wants when he wants, he is extremely unwilling to just accept the crystal. and he would rather carry on with a relationship that made him feel used over both acknowledging Stolas’ sincerity, that his own feelings for Stolas are more complicated than he wants to admit and taking the out?

if nothing changes, he can keep “just” fucking stolas, which is as close as he’ll allow himself to get without the emotional intelligence it takes to work through why he wants that in the first place when he’s already been given the means to run his business without Stolas, without having to re-examine their relationship with this new understanding of Stolas as not being as fake as he’d believed. but he only wanted to be rid of him right? right…?

this all culminates at the party where Stolas is sucking faces with BTB guy and Blitz is very explicitly angry at him for stealing his bird. Blitz has never been so overt about his feelings for Stolas, but he’s also never seen Stolas with anyone else. for all the issues their situationship had, Stolas was loyal to and exclusively seeing Blitz, and examining why your “transactional fuck buddy” getting frisky with some dude makes you angry when you haven’t exactly been faithful yourself would naturally come with many self discoveries, realizations and regrets. which was what Apology Tour was all about for Blitz! realizing! realizing that he is loved, realizing his commitment issues, realizing the flaws in his character and how he’s hurt the people who actually gave a fuck about him. realizing he loves Stolas. even if he’s not ready to accept the implications of that yet

well that is my rant. i have been in Stolitz hell recently

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wanted to give them a more tender moment, god knows we stoliz nation need it 😭