#blitzo is DEEPLY messed up

[anthurak]

A little while ago, I floated an idea for a future-fic of Helluva Boss wherein Blitzo quits the assassin business and leaves I.M.P. in the hands of Loona. The funny thing is though, the more I’ve thought about it the more I’m starting to think this may be a very likely endpoint for Blitzo’s full arc and the show as a whole.

Because I think the show has already outlined or at least strongly hinted at what Blitzo’s murder-buisness really represents for him, and it might not be a good thing.

Remember this exchange all the way back in Loo Loo Land?

“Does anybody love you, BLITZO?”

“No. But I’m really good with guns now!”

Think about that for a minute. Blitzo matter-of-factly states that he believes no one loves him, but that’s okay because he’s good at killing people, ie; his job now. And taken in context with what we’ve learned about Blitzo since this episode, I think this line really paints a dark, depressing picture of Blitzo’s relationship with his work.

Because we know that under the surface, Blitzo craves emotional connection and intimacy. He is actually desperate to be loved. While at the same time being terrified of being hurt if he lets himself be open and vulnerable to another person.

Which of course brings us to what we learned in this latest episode: That Blitzo has been living with the guilt of accidentally maiming his best friend and outright killing his mother. Blitzo states outright in this episode that Fizzarolli should hate him for what he did, and very nearly admits that he hates himself for it too.

So taken together, I think we can safely say that Blitzo’s whole ‘badass hitman’ act and even his whole fixation on the assassination business may very well be part a coping mechanism. A way for him to bury his trauma, guilt and whatever other baggage he’s constantly on the run from. A way that he can say he doesn’t need love and intimacy because he gets all the fame and respect he needs by being this badass hitman.

And even more unsettling, Blitzo’s being a hitman could very well represent him INTERNALIZING his intense guilt and self-loathing. That Blitzo sees himself as a killer and a destroyer of lives because that’s what he did to HIS mother and family. We know that Blitzo tried to reach out to Fizz in the aftermath of the fire, but was blocked by some unnamed ‘they’, likely the other survivors of the circus and particularly Blitzo’s father, Cash. Imagine if they pushed Blitzo away, calling him a killer, of his own mother and everyone else who died in that fire. And Blitzo wound up just… accepting that moniker.

Also, does anyone else remember how in the first episode, I.M.P. took a job to kill a mother, who just so happened to have a son and daughter who look about the same age?

A killing which Blitzo was going to do with zero hesitation whatsoever? In hindsight, much like with Moxxie’s comments about ‘a mob family’ in the same episode, I can’t help but feel this might be giving us a hint at just how deep Blitzo’s repression and internalization of his guilt really runs.

As we dive further into Blitzo’s background and learn how he got into the hitman business, it’ll be interesting to see just how beneficial or outright toxic Blitzo’s hitman career path actually is for him? ie; Does Blitzo get something genuinely positive out of the assassination business? Or is it something actively blocking Blitzo from forming healthy relationships and facing his problems? For a potential contrast, look at Moxxie and Millie: Both seem to be in the assassination business because they like it and they’re good at it, but they don’t seem to have based their lives around it like Blitzo seems to have.

Which brings us back to my original concept: We may reach a point eventually in the show where Blitzo has to give up the assassination business for his own good. Let go of this fixation he has on the whole ‘badass hitman’ persona in order to face his real problems and move on with his life.

But instead of dissolving his company outright, Blitzo instead passes leadership/ownership of the company onto someone else. Hence my idea of Loona, after her own personal arc over the course of the show, inheriting the company.

[gartenofbanny]

Time to talk about a tweet Viv made and give my own take on them, borrowed this screenshot from @showtoonzfan because Viv blocked me on Twitter.

First of all, the fact that a Helluva Boss fan had to make sense of Loona's behavior in Seeing Stars when Viv herself didn't bother to do so is a pretty huge red flag because once again, the fandom of this show is doing the job for the writers and Viv is just..not doing the writing.

I don't get what "understanding" that Loona and Blitzo reached in Queen Bee. Loona saw Blitzo being a drunken mess, it was negatively affecting him, and she took care of him as a result. What "understanding" did they even come to?

How was Blitzo ganging up on Loona when all he wanted from her was to be nicer to clients? And let's not also forget that Loona literally gave Blitzo the idea to fire her. She literally says "Why don't you grow a pair and replace me?" Loona was guilt tripping Blitzo and insulting his manhood at the same time. If anything it was Loona who was ganging up on Blitzo, not the other way around.

Vivziepop says that Seeing Stars Loona was acting out of deeply rooted anger and betrayal. My brother in Christ, Loona gave Blitzo the idea to replace her and she should know damn well that Blitzo wouldn't replace her on a whim.

This just makes me dislike Loona even more because now the creator of the show is essentially confirming that Loona gets angry over some constructive criticism...reminds me of someone else if I'm being honest.

[chaifootsteps]

shoutout to pinknpurple for single-handedly getting me to like blitzfizz as much as blitzstrike

I get why some might not like it since Blitzo was sorta responsible for the fire that hurt Fizz so badly (but seriously, him bumping someone carrying candles it the lamest possible way they could have made the fire happen)

but there's just so much Potential in the mirroring going on. both are deeply scarred imps, physically & emotionally, but where Blitzo closed off emotionally Fizz ended up with the embodiment of Lust but had to deal with the drawbacks of becoming a commodity to Mammon.

both are in relationships to Hell royalty with some drawbacks (like Ozzie is a saint compared to Stolas but he is pretty overprotective, and Fizz is pretty dependent on him financially, or so it seems)

we could have had a story about two actual, genuine childhood friends reconciling from a traumatic event, and then either ditching their respective royals for one another, or Fizz helping rescue Blitzo (intentionally once he realizes what's going on, not just granting his blessing for the asmodean crystal) from Stolas and into a loving throuple.

and then we get the resolution of the 'Blitzo fears intimacy' plot line, because Fizz eventually realizes Blitzo didn't just envy him as a kid - he had a crush on him. and Blitzo might flirt a lot with him now but he does have genuine feelings for him that matured as the two got older.

and Fizz also always admired Blitzo, seeing him as a protector - a perspective that only grew with knowing how Blitzo is an assassin now. Fizz either reciprocates those feelings or not, but he helps Blitzo be emotionally open again and he gets his friend back in his life as either a partner or an occasional bodyguard as he goes independent as an entertainer.

Blitzo's childhood dream of his own circus is sort of realized, too, as he maybe becomes Fizz's manager and handles the security/admin side of their new business, leaving the assassination business and messing around on Earth behind for good

so now we can have a Childhood Friends ship that wasn't awkwardly retconned in! and it has the bonus of Blitzo having always loved and admired Fizz, Blitzo wanting to be around him and no one being stuck in a power-difference-coercive relationship

All ships that save Blitz from Stolas and give him the love he deserves are good ships!

[mythicaldemigoddess-of-deltarune]

Helluva Boss Theory: Blitz Is Verosika, Fizz and Barbie’s Scapegoat...Part 1

[Note: Reading This Is Optional, also gonna put “not for kids” and “mature audience only” for this, just in case...] 

because of how I’m feeling right now, I will be breaking this into parts, possibly just two parts...

it might be possible that Blitzo, isn’t fully to blame for his bad luck in relationships, he just ends up in toxic-relationships that end up breaking his heart.

and what ever went down with Verosika, Fizz and Barbie, it might not of been fully Blitz’s fault, and yet he is made the scapegoat and all the blame is placed on him...

we only know some of the story between him and Verosika, and we do know that Blitz and Fizzy use to be best friends until something caused them to fall apart. 

we don’t know much about how Barbie and Blitzo were together during their childhood, but for all we know, Barbie’s poor relationship with her brother, could not be fully his fault and she doesn’t want to take some of the responsibility as to why it had become broken.

also I want to say, that I decided to check the AO3/Archive Of Our Own again, and it seems there is something different now. it says "We'll be back soon!" and even has some info that says it is currently offline due to a DDoS Attack.

and they are working on the mitigations and hope to return to service soon, and to stay tuned to the AO3 status on Twitter or on Tumblr for updates. well, guess things are looking up.

I am gonna make sure to keep a eye out and even if it might take time for AO3 to fully get better, I still hope it gets better soon, but how long it will be, well it might not be right away, but I’m gonna wish those who are working on the problems, some luck.

I hope no one was trying to update their story when that mess started, that would really suck....I know I brought this up before, when I posted that one post some hours ago, that talked about a bit about whats going on with AO3, and well at least we got a bit more info about it and hopefully it will be fixed soon.

anyway, back to the theory about Blitzo being made as Verosika, Fizzarolli and Barbie’s scapegoat, it is possible that there is more to the stories between Blitzo and those three, than just him being bad at relationships...

the problem with those three, is that they seem to want to pull that scapegoating, and make it seem that Blitz is to fully to blame for why their platonic and romantic relationships with Blitzo had broken and fell into pieces.

it is possible those three, had did some emotional damage to Blitz, which would explain how he acted at Bee’s Party, and once again it might be the Embodiment Queens that have more sense and possibly more empathy than the Embodiment Kings.

Bee might feed on the energy of some of the gluttony of others, but it might only be the positive side of it, and not the really bad negative side of it.

Bee could see that Blitzo was in emotional pain and know he was gluttonying in the wrong way and for the wrong reasons, and she wanted him to get some form of help and she possibly wanted him to feel better and could sense something deeply hurt him to the point of him drinking and kissing strangers for the wrong reasons.

(feel free to skip some of these parts and skip down to where it goes back to talking about the whole Blitzo being Verosika, Fizzarolli and Barbie’s scapegoat to their broken relationship with him. keep a eye out for the bold.)

I think the songs that would fit my feelings are "Monster" by KIRA, 2018 Song Called "Bulletproof" by Godsmack, "Bulletproof" by La Roux (yeah they both have the same name, but different lyrics.), "Break Me Shake Me" by Savage Garden, Undertale Parody Song Of "Stronger Than You" from Steven Universe....it would be the Chara Version of the Parody.   and the song "F*** You" by Lily Allen.

I like those songs, and well I think I had just learned about the Bulletproof by Godsmack, it is pretty good.

hopefully things can become a bit more better, and one of the things I can hope for is that I'm NOT Jesus's Descendant, don't mind if we are distant cousins (because we are both descendants of King David, but my being a descendant of King Solomon & His Son Rehoboam, still ain't a curse....it's a blessing, because I don't have to take that throne...)

I'm pretty sure that being Jesus's Descendant & Cain's Descendant, would be not so great because of some info I had found before....

and yeah, just because my blood type is O RH D Negative doesn't mean it is proof that I'm Jesus's Descendant, plus that blood type might of been around way before Jesus was born into human form...

also if it were possible and if I was allowed to by both the Heavenly Father & Earthly Mother, I would punch Archangel Samael so freaking hard on his arm....

I think I should try to do some stuff to make me more happy and do some healing, cause I am so tired of Male-Angels crossing lines they shouldn't freaking cross.

and there is possibly only a few I can trust not to push me to the limit...I want to try to hope things can get better, but even if it does, it doesn't change anything.... I don't think my trust issues with some Male-Angels (not just the Fallen ones...) can just be "fixed", not after some damage has already been done...

oh yeah, another song that would fit would be "Apologize" by OneRepublic... and I want people to try to understand my feelings and not tell me "you should give your full trust to them." and "I'm sure they have their reasons."

yeah, like I said....even if I can trust some Male-Angels.....but my trust for all of them, is not likely gonna be for a very long time....not after the messed up stuff that has been going on.

maybe with any luck, there are some Male-Angels & Female-Angels that are trying to fix things, and try to get more trust back....cause this Earth Angel Enbirl, will need to see some form of improvements...

a weird thought pop into my head just now, and it has to do with the Goddess calling Lucifer "Morning Sunshine", like it is a cute nickname....like a Mom would give to one of her babies...not sure if she would really call him that or if that is Lucifer's nickname, another thing that pop into my head is the word "Little Morning Sunshine", and "Sparkle Star"....

ya know, even if he still shouldn't of done it, but Lucifer could of waited to do his little rebellion until AFTER the balance between the Masculine & Feminine energies were fixed....

if the Earthly Mother Goddess allowed me to, I would slap Lucifer over the head....it is possible because it wasn't fixed during those times, the Masculine energy has been all infected with toxic energy...

and yeah, some of the toxic energy is in the feminine energy now, but lucky for us, it isn't as high as the masculine one...

it is possible that the energies has been trying fix the damage done to it, after some idiot human ancestors back in the days of the Indo-Europeans, had foolishly dethroned the Goddess...

lucky there was still some humans keeping the faith of her alive and well, and can we NOT use the word "woke" the way some people have been doing so...

it's bad enough some humans misuse that word, so please don't say I'm being "woke".....also I know it is possible I have been a bit bittersweet at times lately, but with the bull slag that has been going on for me, and the other stuff that is going on, I can at least try to do stuff to make me happy to help with those bittersweet feelings.

I mean I had to put up with some bull slag stuff in 2015, and I ended up a mess and at some point I couldn't take it and ended up in a depression, and oh let's not forget that even after I got better from that, it was either in 2016 or 2017 that I ended up falling into another one, and this time it wasn't because of family stuff going on in real life.

and it took time for that second depression to fully heal, and it felt maybe a lot more worse than that first one, even if I still had stuff and people to make me feel a little happy, but that not so great feeling was still there.

and when watching Boss Baby, I had laughed in a way that was a sign I was getting better, it was possibly one of the good signs that I was healing.

my personal space wasn't being respected enough in 2015, I couldn't even write or draw in private without one of our house guests coming into that room and invading my personal space...

it got so bad, that when I ended up showing a type of look, my much older cousin got on to me for it, and I had to go to the bathroom and cry....I was living in a personal heck...

if I was giving a "dirty look" or whatever, it's because you all wont stop coming into that room and just leave me the frag alone, I need my personal space, and I don't like people looking over my shoulder when I'm trying to draw or write, and I'm the "bad guy" for wanting you to stop invading my personal space?!

everyone needs their own personal space when they need to be left alone, and I hardly got that when we had some people staying over and they wouldn't stop coming into the room I was in.

I can still talk to others when I'm able to, but that stuff that happen before, I just can't stand how it went....I just like to be alone at times, like family can still be in the house...

but I rather be in a different room, by myself when I really need it....and it can suck when you do get that full happy energy back, it is once again taken away from you, and you be lucky to just have some happy energy left.

it can also suck when you are talking to someone, but they give off the whole "they are just looking for attention.", talking about another person....

and you might feel you can't truly tell them some deep and troubling feelings you have at times, because the thoughts you might get is that "they might think I'm just looking for attention as well."

like even if I can talk about some feelings, but maybe there are some things that I shouldn't talk about.....and there is some stuff I do keep to myself.

anyone not just me, would need time to be alone, and it can be to heal.

anyway, we might get more of the story between Blitz and those three in the future, from what we seen in a flashback in one of the episodes, it did appear that Blitz and Fizz were really close like brothers, but something happen between those two that cause them to hate each other. 

Blitz not hating Barbie, might of shown that he still held some form of hope to patch things up with her, but he might can do better than her...

he has a new family, even if it isn’t perfect, at least he found a kindred spirit with his daughter, Loona.

it might be possible that Blitzo, has emotional trauma, and one of them being his bad and toxic-relationships that involved Barbie, Fizz and Verosika.

the other emotional trauma, might have to do with his Mom, and we don’t know what happen to her or if she is still alive. 

there could be other emotional traumas that Blitzo has been hiding from everyone around him, and not just about his Mom or his Sister, or even Verosika and Fizzarolli. 

something must of happen in Blitzo’s past that had did some serious emotional harm, and we might find out more about it in the future, but it might be a while before we do so.  

it might be possible that Blitzo, had romantic feelings for Fizzarolli, if that hallucination he had has anything to go by....

each of those who showed up in his hallucination, were these characters...

Striker, Fizzarolli, Verosika and Moxxie.....and lastly, Stolas. 

those five were love interests, Blitzo possibly had formed feelings for Moxxie before Millie and Moxxie met each other, but Blitzo never really got to form a romantic relationship with Moxxie, but he still seems okay with Moxxie and Millie being together, and they might be viewed as his OTP.

Striker might of notice that Blitzo had formed a small crush on him, and used that to try to talk him into working together.

and it might be possible that Verosika was only with Blitzo, for just one thing...

which if her little solo song at Ozzie’s has anything to go by...

it is lucky Blitzo wasn’t a human, or else she would of sucked the life right out of him, even if it does turn out that Blitzo is a quarter succubus...

it is possible that the succubus, well the full succubus and not the hybrid ones, will be a bit more dangerous, if they take too much lustful energy and life force from humans, and if they take too much, it could cost the humans their life.

for demons, like hellborns and sinners, it only drains them enough to make them tired and make their stamina low.

also there might be a reason why Blitzo couldn’t please Verosika, and there might be a reason why he took off, and it wasn’t originally just to max her credit card on horse riding lessons, and it was originally to get away from Verosika and how she has been treating him. 

and if it is because how Verosika had treated him, and he only left to get a break from her and how she had been treating him...

even if she might be upset with him, but she could at least try to see from his point of view and how he might of not been happy with how things went between them, like he could of really loved her, but she made their relationship all about the physical love, and even if Blitzo might view Stolas’s actions being like Verosika’s....

it could turn out that it not fully true, because unlike Versoika, Stolas does care about Blitzo, and knows to treat him like a person with feelings.

Stolas would be willing to just sit with Blitz and just talk and maybe even talk about their feelings, that is how much he loves Blitz.

Blitz might of got use to being treated a certain way by those he formed a romantic relationship with or one-sided feelings for...

while it might be possible that his feelings were one-sided for Striker and Moxxie....it might be unknown with Fizzarolli, if it was one-sided on Blitz’s side or if it use to be mutual or if it was just platonic on both sides.

the weirdest thought, would be if Barbie might of had a Brother Complex, but the chances of that are VERY small, so it might not be likely and there could be other reasons as to why their relationship might not be the best.

Barbie didn’t appear in that hallucination of Blitzo, and those who did, appeared to be those that Blitzo had formed romantic feelings for, but they had ended up in heart break....and since Fizzarolli was in there, then maybe it was at first platonic and in time, Blitzo had formed feelings for Fizzarolli but something happen, and he possibly never got the chance to tell Fizzy how he truly felt.

Blitzo’s feelings to Barbie, is the family type of love and he does seem to care about his sister, even if things aren’t really the best between them right now.

and this theory might be debunked and I don’t really mind if it does, but my theory is that Barbie had formed a brother complex, which would mean that she saw Blitzo as more than just a brother, and I don’t mean just a friend....it is possible that the rehab place she was send to, wasn’t just for those who get hooked on beezle-juice, it might also be a type of rehab that helps with other problems as well...like those who form complexes...

it could be possible that Barbie could have formed her brother complex sometime before Stolas went to the circus with his Dad-Butler and his Bio-Dad Paimon...(still gonna view that Imp Butler as Stola’s True Dad, even if he isn’t his biological dad.)

before rehab, the feelings could of been small, and Blitz’s Mom had been taking Barbie to some form of therapy, possibly in the Sloth Ring, to help her daughter get over her small yet unhealthy crush on her brother.

but as the years went by, it only got worse and they had no other choice but to send Barbie to rehab.

Barbie might of got over her Brother Complex, but she could still end up placing the full blame on Blitz, even when he rejected her feelings.

but it could be possible that Barbie doesn’t have a brother complex, but something else was the cause of her and Blitz’s family bond breaking.                

fans could come up with different theories about Barbie and Blitz. 

and well, with any luck, the brother complex wouldn’t be canon, but I would be surprised if it did turn out to be true.

Blitz does love Barbie, but only as family and not anything beyond that.

and that theory about Barbie, having a crush on Blitz, might be incorrect.

and the broken relationship between those two, could be in the platonic zone.

while the broken relationship with Fizzarolli and Verosika are in the romantic zone, and Blitz could of had romantic feelings for Fizzarolli, who was possibly his first love, at first his feelings were platonic love for Fizzy, but over time it had grew into romantic feelings, but something happen to cause Blitz to resent Fizzarolli, even his Robotic Fizzarolli Copies...

Blitzo might not want to form a romantic relationship, but at the same time he still wants to, but because of bad experience and fear, but that might be only some of the reasons, and we might find out more about it in the future besides what we have seen so far.

Blitz might not be fully to blame for his relationships with Verosika, Fizzarolli and Barbie had broke and fell apart.

and yeah, even if not everyone has to agree on this theory, I think it could still be possible that that those three have been scapegoating Blitzo, and not taking part of the blame on why their platonic and romantic relationship with him had fell apart, and even became a toxic-relationship.

anyway, I will talk more about this theory about Fizzarolli, Verosika and Barbie scapegoating in the Part 2 of this...

I’m going to check out a few more stuff on here, and then watch some show or movie...or both, like watching a show first and then a movie...

also if by chance some didn’t skip some of the off topic stuff...

I hope some can understand why I feel like punching Archangel Samael on the arm, and if if the Heavenly Father & Earthly Mother allowed me to do so...

I would gladly punch him in the arm, like REALLY hard....

also I hope friends and other people, understand and respect on my feelings, like how I at times need to be alone for some time to myself.

anyway I think I am a bit tired, maybe after checking out a few more stuff on here, I will go to sleep...and it might not be today, and maybe not tomorrow, but I will try to find time when I can to write the part 2 of this, that has to do with Verosika, Barbie and Fizzarolli’s scapegoating Blitzo.

not everyone has to agree on that theory, but I still think it is possible that Blitzo isn’t the only one at fault for the broken relationships that involve those three.

maybe I can try to do some form of meditation, which just has me closing my eyes and listening to music, and I think I will listen to the song “Release Me” by Agnes. and maybe after listening to that song, I can listen to “don’t go breaking my heart” by Agnes.

not all meditations have to be 100% the same, not even the music that is listen to during it....and yeah, it might be weird, but those songs are great to listen to for meditation, and if I want to close my eyes and do some form of meditation that has me listening to them, then I will. I can try that later...

and with how some toxic-humans have been triggering me in the wrong way, maybe it be good to do some meditation and listen to some music at the same time, it might help a lot and well that, and reading some of the books I have, as well as watching some episodes of some shows I like and even a movie...

but if it turns out I am not able to to find a movie to watch today, I can try for tomorrow....anyway, if I’m not able to make a part 2 of this theory about Blitzo being Barbie Wire, Verosika Mayday and Fizzarolli’s scapegoat this month.

I will try to make part 2 maybe next month instead...                                                                     

[hevulla-mpreg]

Hot take on Stolas/Blitzo- they aren’t a perfect couple nor are they are perfect parents.

More explained beneath the cut.

TW: heavy mentions of parental and spousal abuse.

So let’s break this down.

First off: Stolas had Octavia as what I’m assuming is a teenager (or young adult, I am not 100% clear on the details), from a forced marriage. I believe that he did not want her (refer back to the scene of Stella making fun of his poor sexual input and how it took them a long time to even have Octavia).

While he loves and cares deeply for his daughter, I am sure having her so young definitely effected his way of what love is like. Especially since Stella pushed all the parenting duties off onto him. Along with that, add in her constant abuse.

In almost every episode that opens with Stolas, we see him taking some sort of medication. I’d say this has something to do with anxiety and/or depression.

Now fast forward to full moon episode and the following episodes, he’s clearly shutting out Blitzo. Throw a child into that mix? A damned nightmare for the two of them.

I feel as though if they ended up being parents, there would be quite a bit of tension, secrets, fighting, and emotional turmoil.

While Stolas is not a abusive parent, he is a very nervous and fragile soul, which in turn makes parenting and relationships hard. He cannot phantom someone actually loving him after all he put up with Stella. Especially after Stella tried to fucking murder him.

Now onto Blitzo

There’s a lot to unpack here tbh.

Between his fathers abuse and his mothers absence plus what happened to Fizzarolli, Blitzo is a hot mess. It’s clear he is, having no real functional family and being sold to Stolas on Stolas’s birthday all those years ago.

While he wouldn’t be abusive either (we see how he adores and loves Loona), he would def struggle with the thought of sharing a space w/ Stolas 24/7 and having to care for something so small and needy. Quite frankly, it would probably cause him a lot of tension.

He’d be a mess, especially with how he’s trying to hold IMP together on top of that.

Honestly my whole take away is that they’re not perfect parents, but they at least try despite all the hellish trauma they’ve been through and how much they may fuck up.

This’ll probably either delete or edited later when I have a bit of a clearer mind set too.

[thesilent-o]

Blitzo watched him rushed off without a word. Honestly his excuse had been a bad one and he knew that. But what else was he supposed to say? It was bad timing and his reckless behavior that often messed things up. And this was a prime example. He sat there for a few moments staring at the bar after Fizzarolli had disappeared into the bathroom and silently hating himself for everything that happened. Both for the mistakes he made fifteen years ago and the time lost to everything that was happening in his current life. He hadn't been exaggerating when he indicated to Fizz that he'd had a great deal of loss in that fire. It had promptly ruined his whole life. And the only thing that Blitzo seemed to be good at was making it worse.

"This was a fucking mistake." He muttered to himself.

His hands curled into fists atop the bar and he did all he could to push back the tears that pricked at the corners of his eyes once again. It was so easy for him to get emotional over things like this. Mostly because he hadn't allowed himself the time he probably needed to move on and heal from his past. And everything that had just happened wasn't doing him any favors. At least that was how it settled in his mind. So what was he going to do in order to better this? He intended to do the one thing that he was good at. The very thing that he had been doing for the better half of his life. Maybe after some more time apart they could revisit this, who knew? But he couldn't sit here in this distress anymore.

Slamming his fists on the counter, Blitzo pushed himself away from the bar and headed for the door that the jester had disappeared in. Once he reached it, he hesitated. Something in his chest ached at where his decision had led him. And for a long moment, he clenched his jaw and bared his teeth, his hand hovering just over the doors surface. Everything in him was telling him that he should just turn tail and run. But not without giving Fizzarolli a fair warning this time. What would happen after that? It pained him to think that he'd done enough damage to end their relationship.

"You always fuck shit up, Blitz..." He said softly to himself. Rehearsed words that echoed from the many lives he had interfered with. The original owner of those words being his own father. Maybe he was right, he thought. Blitzo sighed deeply and finally forced himself to give the door a weak couple of knocks before he called through it.

"H-hey Fizz...? Listen, I think I-I'm gonna take off. It's.... probably for the best."

"Dont act like you weren't thinking the same thing." Defensive as always. It was as though he hardly knew any other way to be.

Perhaps that was because he had spent so many years defending himself for something he knew had been his fault. A deflection of his own guilt and a means to push away any unwanted emotions whenever they came up. In this case, those old unresolved feelings had bubbled to the surface after he had finally done what he hadn't been able to all those years ago. Admit that they existed. While it wasn't exactly what they had come here to do. He felt it was justified in the manner of moving through them for closure. Realistically, the imp didn't fully expect anything to come out of it. He just wanted the moment for his own peace of mind. Perhaps a little selfish, but that was partly who Blitzo had become over the years. Whether it was another defensive mechanism or not.

Standing beside his old friend now, he brought his arms to cross over his chest. As though physically already preparing himself for the inevitable rejection that would follow. At least he could say that he had a moment before it was completely gone. Maybe rejection would be better for him at this point and help him to move on with his life. Even develop something real with someone else. A concept that had eluded him for over a decade now. And just another problem that he had yet to really address. The only thing he didn't want to happen was for this to become another big deal. A reason for the two of them to stop talking again. So, he decided to preface whatever form of rejection would come next.

"It was just a kiss, Fizz. Its not like I'm asking you to ditch this place to go fuck." He heaved a sigh and paused a brief moment before adding, "I just wanted to know what it felt like."

It was probably the closest thing he would get to an apology without dragging it out of him. Because the reality of it was that he wasn't sorry for it. The only way that Blitzo could be sorry was if it had pushed Fizz right back to where they have been for the last fifteen years. It didn't help matters that while he had many insecurities, Blitzo still retained a sense of pride. The kind that made it hard for him to admit he was wrong even when he knew it to be a fact. Those emotions were uncomfortable for him to handle and just served as another reason why he evaded his past so often. Of course there was more to it than just that. It was the fact that the example he used would also be a suggestion he wouldn't turn down if given the opportunity. Something else that he wasn't going to admit to, in case it never happened.

[hazbincalifornia]

Stolas Analysis

An addition to this post about the ‘you’re so cute when you’re serious’ thing, I don’t think it’s just a Blitzo thing for Stolas. Yeah, Stolas definitely does condescend to him, and I think some of it is unintentional, and, here’s the thing, part of the the conflict of Loo Loo Land was that he’s doing the exact same thing to Octavia in seeing only what he wanted to see. 

He clearly cares deeply about her, so this isn’t just some prejudice against imps/Blitzo in particular. (Although yeah, he 100% does know there’s a power dynamic here considering how he dangles use of the book over Blitzo’s head, and is probably teasing him about it a little more on purpose.) With Octavia, he brushes off her clear discomfort both for his relationship with Blitzo and the fact that she really doesn’t want to go to Loo Loo Land. ‘I’d rather kill myself’ isn’t exactly subtle.

Part of it is that he still sees her as his little girl instead of the young woman she’s growing into, one that’s (in my opinion, at least somewhat rightfully) resentful for the fact that he went out and cheated. In her mind, a lot of the problems at home are because he stirred the pot, no matter how miserable it was before the cheating anyway. People have noticed that she seems to have been closer to him as a child, both because he was the one to comfort her and because she drew pictures of the two of them but not of her and her mother. He was the one she trusted, and he broke that trust, but he doesn’t want to acknowledge that he messed up, so the resentment boils over while he’s still trying to pretend that everything is fine.

Inviting Blitzo to be their bodyguard was a colossally stupid move. Even if she’d wanted to go to the park, which she didn’t, this was just completely rubbing the affair in her face even more than he already was by talking about Blitzo so thirstily in front of her. Stolas’s train of thought was almost certainly ‘Oh, I want to get out of the house, and Via probably does too. Oh! Let’s go to a place she likes! She likes that theme park, right? Right! And I’m feeling pretty down too, maybe I’ll invite Blitzy along, it’ll be fun!’

He’s trying, but he didn’t for a second consider that Blitzo being there would completely suck for Via, who’s not upset because of some abstract teenage angst reason but because she has to watch her mom be vicious at her dad for her dad cheating and made that clear with ‘you two done screaming for the day?’. Blitzo’s a walking reminder of at least part of why her home life is shit right now, and the park itself is a reminder that he really, really doesn’t know her anymore, not the way she wants him to. (She does seem to spend a fair amount of time with him if you go through his insta, so she still does like hanging out with him.)

It’s not just the typical parent ‘oh, my baby’s growing up’ thing, although that’s part of it, it’s him not understanding why maybe bringing his affair along on a fun day out when that was literally what Stella was just pissed about would be a bad idea. 

I think that Stolas clings to the things that make him happy in Octavia and Blitzo as an escape from general unhappiness. He’s been sort of depressed since Octavia was very little considering just how somber his song is if you really listen, and he’ll do anything to keep what joy he manages to get. He doesn’t understand fully just how to get out of his own head, though, and understand how they feel. They’re the roles he’s assigned them because he wants something to be simple, and it’s difficult to break through to him that they have feelings that can be inconvenient to his view of the world. 

It’s Hell, and he’s royalty. He probably doesn’t have much experience trying to empathize with people who aren’t his equals, and his child and his lower-class fucktoy don’t exactly qualify. He cares for the both of them, but ‘care as an emotion’ and ‘caring and respect as an action’ are two different things, and while he’s made some progress with Octavia (by her feeling safe enough to finally open up about what worries her) there’s still a while to go with Blitzo, who definitely doesn’t feel comfortable enough to do that yet without risking lost access to the book.

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

hazbin hotel/helluva boss

Ok, so since both are technically different series (one is a spinoff of the other), I shall do one for each, if that’s ok.

Hazbin Hotel

my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave: Charlie is truly too good for this world, she’s just adorbs!

my trash-shit fave: That would be Angel: he’s got so many problems, and is a jerk, and he deserves to be loved.

my I love to hate them fave: No one, I think?

my I hate to love them fave: No one.

my I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire non-fave: Valentino deserves to burn. ^^

my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave: No one, really.

my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave: No one.

my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship: Vaggie and Charlie are precious together, ok? It’s clear they’ve known each other for a while, and costantly have each other’s back. ^_^

my dirtybadwrong fave ship: Dunno. ^^

my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship: I’ve seen people shipping Sir Pentious and Niffty and you know? It’s cute! ^^

my I didn’t care about this ship either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about it now I can’t stand it non-fave ship: No one that comes to mind.

my MAKE IT STOP non-fave ship: I’d say any ship that involves Valentino: so many signs about him make it clear he’s a plain toxic person, and neither Angel nor Vox should stay near him.

Helluva Boss

my beautiful cinnamon roll too good for this world fave: Ok, maybe not too good, but Millie, for a murderous imp, is just a bundle of sugar and sunshine, and deserves the world! *_*

my trash-shit fave: Blitzo is a mess and a jerk and I love him! XD

my I love to hate them fave: I’d say Fizzarolli: being voiced by musical Beetlejuice does that to you. ^^

my I hate to love them fave: A very light-hearted one sentiment I have with Stolas. I like going all “you stuipid bird, being so depraved yet so wholesome!”, but truly, I’ve come to care deeply for him.

my I wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire non-fave: No one likes you, Billy!

my I didn’t care about them either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about them now I can’t stand them non-fave: No one.

my I could take them or leave them kinda non-fave: Can’t think of one.

my I will go down with this ship and I won’t put my hands up and surrender, there will be no white flag above my door. I’m in love and always will be fave ship: Moxxie and Millie are just the most precious impy couple in the world: they remind me so much of Mickey and Minnie, in a way. ^^

my dirtybadwrong fave ship: I ship Blitzo and Stolas together: it has potential, it can grow, but right now it has a long way to go. I’m a fan of the possibilities, stilll. ^^

my they’re cute together and I dig them but I’m not all that terribly invested kinda fave ship: I see people shipping Loona with Octavia: personally, I see them better as being sister-like figures for each other. ^^

my I didn’t care about this ship either way at first but the fandom makes such a big deal about it now I can’t stand it non-fave ship: Can’t think of one.

my MAKE IT STOP non-fave ship: Nothing

[marithlizard]

I don’t think “in love” is the right word yet, and I don’t know if you’re asking as a serious question or just ranting, but it makes a lot of sense to me and many others why Blitzo has a strong conflicted attachment to Stolas,   The show has been building this core relationship since the very beginning.  Consider:

1. Blitzo is a complete mess of a person whose problems center on attachment.  He desperately wants to love and be loved. Even before he saw Loona he was eager to adopt a hellhound orphan, someone who he could take home and love, someone who would need him and not leave him.   The way he stalks M&M and insists that they are family is pathetically hopeful behind the perviness.  Every one of his interpersonal relationships is fucked up or destroyed and he knows that it’s his fault.  Fear and self-loathing drive him to seek attachments and then destroy them before the other person can reject him as unworthy.  This isn’t speculation, it’s explicitly laid out in more than one episode. He’s SO lonely.

2. But Stolas wants him. Insatiably. Unshakably. Affectionately. Every crass phone call and public display reassures Blitzo as much as it annoys him. (He grumbles at the festival, but it’s the same way he grumbles at Loona.  When Blitzo is actually mad at someone he gets loud and violent.)

Having one of the more powerful beings in Hell dote on him, save him, drop everything to come when he whistles has to be an ego boost!  (But he never brags about it, interestingly.)  The hallucination where he crawls up steps to a powerful Stolas of his own free will only to be chained and drawn in shows us his ambivalence. There’s real longing on his face in that scene. He hopes for this affection to be real and fears it isn’t. And so one moment of  public rejection in Ozzie’s cut him deeply.

3. They have amazing sexual chemistry and have from the beginning. Blitzo doesn’t seem bothered at all by Stolas’s kinks and clearly enjoys dominating him. These people may not be in mutual love but they’re having some great sex.

4.  In the “Seeing Stars” episode the two of them finally spend time outside of the bedroom as equals working together. And it goes well!  When Stolas worries over Octavia’s safety in the van, Blitzo’s eyes widen in sympathetic realization: it somehow hadn’t clicked for him before that here is a fellow father who loves his daughter just as much.  From that moment on it’s not “find the book and get me out of trouble”, it’s “find our daughters”.  

Stolas treats Blitzo as an equal all day: saying his name right, sniping comfortably back and forth with him, and most importantly providing support and praise when it’s really needed.  It clearly means the world to Blitzo when Stolas laughs at his jokes and watches him raptly.  

Blitzo isn’t in love with Stolas as of this episode. But they’re on the way to becoming real friends,  

Why is Blitzø in love with Stolas? It's confusing.

Most of their interactions look like this:

As far as he's concerned Stolas is someone who's making him sleep with him and constantly harasses with zero regarded to what he wants and feels comfortable with.

An example of a romance that got this right is How I Met Your Mother. (Even though I think Stolitz should be treated more like BoJack and Anna). Why does Barney love Robin? Because she holds many of his values and he likes her attitude. They're a lot alike and it attracts Barney.

Meanwhile Stolas's treating Blitzø like a pet. What's there to like? There is never a moment where we can see just what does he see in him. Why doesn't he hate his guts?

[anthurak]

So I’ve been thinking lately about how Blitzo and Moxxie both have abusive fathers and clearly a LOT of personal baggage and childhood trauma thanks to those fathers. And that’s led me to a certain hunch:

I think Blitzo and Moxxie having both suffered under abusive fathers is going to wind up being a significant dramatic point. Specifically, in that there is going to be a deliberate thematic contrast in how Blitzo and Moxxie DEAL with their respective childhood trauma relating to their fathers.

To begin, from what we’ve seen of them, I think we can already see the clear similarities in Blitzo’s and Moxxie’s childhood trauma and abuse at the hands of their respective fathers, but also a few notable differences:

For one, I think we can all agree that for as shitty a father as Cash Buckzo is, Crimson manages to somehow be even worse. Specifically, through the respective forms of their abuse: From what we saw of him in The Circus, Buckzo’s abuse of his son seems to have been mostly in neglect and constant belittlement. Buckzo saw his son as having very little worth compared to Fizzerolli, and likely Barbie Wire, and seems to have basically wrote him off as a lost cause. By contrast, while Crimson is also highly belittling of Moxxie, he was also far more active in controlling and manipulating his son’s life. Seeking to mold Moxxie into whatever he needed him for.

Now where this gets interesting is when we look at how Moxxie is dealing with his childhood baggage, and how that could very possibly contrast with Blitzo. Because despite how terrible his childhood clearly was, we can also see that Moxxie is actually making some pretty big strides in dealing with his childhood trauma. Most notably, it seems that by Exes and Oohs that Moxxie has made a clear and decisive break away from Crimson, physically and emotionally. By the end of the episode, we see Moxxie full on reject his father, holding him responsible for all the terrible things he did, and showing that Crimson has NO control over him emotionally anymore.

I mean, given Moxxie’s ultimatum to Crimson, I think going forward that Moxxie is fully prepared, physically and psychologically, to outright KILL his father if Crimson were to come after him or Millie (and maybe Blitzo) again (more on that possibility later…)

Flipping over to Blitzo, this is admittedly a bit of a guess on my part given how Blitzo has only mentioned his father in the present barely more than once. But considering Blitzo’s track record of desperately trying to repress and avoid his past trauma and guilt, I think it’s a safe bet that unlike Moxxie, Blitzo has NOT dealt with any of his trauma and baggage related to his father at all. Like if asked about his father, I imagine Blitzo would brush it off with some quick, casual response like ‘Yeah, he was an asshole. Moving on…’ that clearly represents Blitzo wanting to AVOID this train of thought as much as he can.

And when we put these two points together, we get a clear contrast and foil between Blitzo and Moxxie. Where the latter is confronting and processing the trauma and abuse he suffered at the hands of his father, while the former simply ISN’T. A contrast that would certainly become very significant when or if Blitzo has to confront his own father in the present sometime in the future.

Now I say ‘if’ specifically because there is one particular theory I’ve had for a while about how messed up Blitzo’s past might really be…

See, it’s pretty clear at this point that Blitzo did something VERY bad to his family in the past, something that has made both Fizzerolli and Barbie Wire absolutely HATE him in the present. And I’m fairly certain that THIS is the thing that Blitzo has been emotionally and psychologically on the run from ever since, trying his hardest to repress the trauma and guilt this event created for him.

So what might this be?

Well, what if Blitzo accidentally killed his parents? An act which also maimed Fizzerolli and deeply traumatized Barbie?

Now I stress the accidentally part, because that is a key aspect of both Blitzo’s crippling guilt and trauma, as well as how this acts as foil to Moxxie. See, what if in contrast to Moxxie’s initially meek and browbeaten relationship with Crimson prior to leaving the family, Bltizo grew to hate Cash in his teenage and young-adult years, though not in a way that would allow Blitzo to really come to terms with all the abuse his father inflicted on him. So what if at some point into his late-teens/early-twenties, Blitzo decided he was going to get back at his father? Blitzo would come up with a scheme which would ruin Cash, and possibly the circus he was so fixated on, something that would hurt his father forever.

A scheme which would go HORRIBLY wrong. A scheme which would wind up doing far more damage than Blitzo ever wanted. A scheme which would wind not only killing Blitzo’s father, but even his mother as well, not to mention maiming his closest childhood friend.

Imagine if Blitzo was planning on simply burning down the circus when no-one was present as a final, spiteful ‘fuck you’ to his father. Only to be caught by his family inside as he’s about the set the fire. And in an ensuing argument/fight, the tent is set ablaze. Despite suffering burns on his face, Blitzo is able to escape with a horrifically burned and maimed Fizzerolli, but his parents are not so lucky. Leaving Blitzo forced to watch or perhaps simply listen to his father and mother burn to death in a blaze that HE started.

THAT is what Blitzo could be on the run from this whole time. What he’s been trying to bury all this time. It could be why he’s so desperate for emotional intimacy (to get back the family he lost) yet is so terrified of opening up to people (crippling guilt). It could also by why Blitzo seems incapable of acknowledging how he has hurt the people close to him; because admitting any of that would almost certainly require Blitzo to face the reality of the truly horrific mistakes he made.

Going back to the point I started with, this is where Moxxie can really serve as a foil to Blitzo in how the two have dealt with and are dealing with their respective abusive fathers. In that whereas Moxxie has been able to fully process what his father did to him, recognize that it IS Crimson’s fault and not his own and make a clear and decisive break away from his father, Blitzo never got the opportunity to do any of that.

And going forward, Crimson’s further role in the show could playing into this foil into a very interesting fashion. After the ending of ‘Ex’s and Ohs’, I think we can all agree we haven’t seen the last of Crimson, and that he’ll be coming after his son and I.M.P. as a whole at some point. And I think it’s very easy to see this story beat ending with Moxxie outright KILLING his father.

Not by accident either. Imagine a beaten and injured but still alive Crimson being held at gunpoint by Moxxie. True to his character, Crimson rails against Moxxie, calling his son weak and how he knows he doesn’t have the guts to kill him. Only Crimson only barely gets a few words out before Moxxie pulls the trigger and puts a bullet through his father’s head.

For Moxxie, I think killing his father will be framed as a good thing. An act of liberation. By killing Crimson, Moxxie is truly FREE of his father and finally able to move on with the life he really wants with Millie.

But imagine what witnessing such an act might do to BLITZO?

[burning-fcols]

 ✩ { @shining-stxrs​​​ } ✩ - Continued from ★

{ ☆ } Honestly, the name had slipped out without warning... but Angel finds that he doesn’t mind it. Not in this context, at least. If Blitzo starts getting a big head out of the sack, then Angel would be quick to refrain from using it. But for now... Yeah. Boss sounds— and FEELS —pretty damn great. Claws dig into the other’s back at the quickened pace, Angel crying out in pleasure as the forceful thrusts slam into him with newfound fervor. DAMN. If this is how Blitzo gets with just a little bit of positive reinforcement— rather than his usual method of cursing out the Imp and challenging him at every opportunity —than it might actually be worth it to change up his strategy... At the very least, he certainly plans on doing it right now.

Meeting the kiss eagerly, tongue laps at the Imp’s as he shamelessly groans into Blitzo’s mouth. Invading as deeply as he can, lips remain parted and panting throughout the exchange, hot and desperate as Angel feels his mouth coated with Blitzo’s taste. Purposely-playing up his sounds, moaning whorishly into the pleasure as if he were filming rather than simply getting fucked against an Office wall— although if there are security cameras around here, it could be utilized as some scandalous ‘office-style sex tape’. Stuff like that sells pretty fucking well, especially if an Imp is in it... not to mention one being IN CHARGE during the exchange —every sound and movement meant to further rile up Blitzo.

Breathing heavily as he pulls away, tongue flits out to break the string of saliva, the strand dripping down to rest against Angel’s chin and fall across his fluffy chest. Not that the spider minds... With the heat roaring between them, he can already feel himself growing slightly dampened with sweat, the smell of sex thick in the air between them. With how things seem to be progressing, this 'incident’ looks like it may be a messy one... Good. Not to brag, but the spider KNOWS that he manages to look hot as Hell even during a desperate fuck. Even when fur is mussed and coated with another’s juices— be it saliva, sweat, or otherwise —Angel could turn someone on with just a look... And at the moment, the thought of being messed up, of being marked and covered by Blitzo, it’s kinda exciting.   

Fur fluffed and reeking of pheromones, a blush has already spread across his cheeks and down to the top of his chest, practically glowing in the dimmed light as he lowly moans,  ❝  Ooooooooooh, Capo~  ❞  Gaze heavily-lidded, rose hues glitter with devious desire as he lays on the praise THICK,  ❝  Ya feel sooooooo good~ ... SO FUCKIN’ GOOD~ ... So much betta’ than th’ limpdicks I gotta take care of.  ❞  A hand raises to stroke and caress one of the Imp’s horns, voice a enticing growl,  ❝  They ain’t SHIT compared ta you, Daddy~ Can’t get me off nearly as good as you can...  ❞  Another sharp intake of breath as his nerves are set alight, eyes squeezing shut and a drawn-out moan escaping,  ❝  Aa-AhHHH~ Th-That’s right... Show ‘em how it’s done~ ... Hghgngnnn... Show ‘em what a real man can do~  ❞

A hand lowers to stroke at his dick, throbbing with a demand for attention and already glistening with pre. Slickened movements pick up the pace to match Blitzo, Angel groaning at the added stimulation from his own hand,  ❝  Ma-Make me scream yer name... Make me scream ‘til my fuckin’ voice gives out...  ❞  Cue a yearning grin, eyes opening a slit to meet the other’s gaze as he softly moans,  ❝  I KNOW ya can do it~  ❞   { ☆ }

[ambrial-blog]

The Serpent’s Mate Part 2. The waking Nightmare.

Blitzo awoke with a sudden jolt, and a stinging sensation between his legs. He groans in pain as remnants of a dream trickled away. His mind clears, he could feel Striker spooning him from behind, felt the weight of his head resting on the crook of his neck, the soft trickles of breath tickling his skin.

The Boss imp closes his eyes. How long had it been since they were like this? Just the two of them, twisted in each other’s arms. Blitz couldn’t honestly remember. Blitzo purrs, feeling Striker’s tail coil around him. His leg draped around Striker’s, his tail hung loosely over the cowboy’s waist.

Blitzo snuggles in close, slightly wincing in pain. “Too bad this can’t last,” thought Blitzo, feeling a slight chill slither down his back as Striker’s tail squeezes his thigh.

“What the!”- Blitzo thought, feeling the grip on his shoulder tighten, as Striker turns him around, pulling him closer, mud oozing, dripping off his naked body. His tail kept rubbing against Blitzo’s inner thigh. Pulling the boss imp flush against his growing errection.

Blitzo was trying to claw his way out of his muddled mind, but he kept sinking in deeper.

Stryker moans into his ear, his voice a high-pitched parody of his usual southern comfort., his swirling eyes dull and colorless as clay rake over him as he continues to rub himself against Blitzo.

“I wish you could see yourself Blitzo, the way I do a hot mess, unable to tell reality from fantasy, no matter darlin I don’t care if you're broken, I’ll still play wit ya,” he purrs seductively into his ear.

  Blitzo grimaces, feeling uneasiness as he recoils against him.

“So long as you give me what I want and do as I ask, there will be no problems”. Stryker hisses, ripping open his nightshirt. His clawed fingers splay out across his chest and stomach.

Stryker could feel the imp below tremble at his touch. He bent down, kissing his stomach, nipping a trail from his sternum to his belly button.

Blitzo struggles.

“Oh, I know, you’ll give me exactly what I want, won’t cha Blitzy?” he purrs

“No one can reach us here.” He hisses, “No one will hear your screams, as I tear into you, BlitzO,”

Blitzo screams being flipping over onto his stomach, by Stryker, who has Blitzo’s tail wrapped around his hand and his knuckles are deep into Blitzo ass, his claws scraping the inner walls as he scissors him open with his fingers. 

Blitzo whimpers, his body burning as he shivers against Stryker as the snake imp licks the contents off his fingers, his claws digging into Blitzo’s spine, creating small rivulets of blood. He keeps the squirming scarlet imp embolized by placing pressure onto the fire imp’s neck, watching him squirm and writhe in fierce agony as he presses his face into the pillow to quiet his desperate cries. Gripping his hips, he slams into Blitzo’s, digging his claws into Blitzo’s thighs, thrusting deeply as Blitzo's body jerks around him.

The crimson deil claws, thrashing and tearing the surrounding sheets, his vision blurs with unshed tears, his voice cracks, growing hoarse as he sobs into the pillow.

The Cowboy took what he wanted. Blitzo cranes his neck, gasping for air, hearing a snarl of disgust from above. He grimaces, wincing in pain as Stryker reaches up, gripping his horns to get a better leverage. The boss imp could feel his insides split as the cowboy’s tail wraps around Blitzo’s neck.

Choking him, the city imp struggles, but Stryker has Blitzo’s arms pulled behind his back. As Stryker continued to thrust, Blitzo cries out, pain ripping through his body as Stryker set a punishing pace. Feeling his insides ripping with each forceful thrust, screaming as Stryker’s long claws scraped down his back, splitting his skin open. 

The hallucination chuckles darkly. Lapping up the blood with his forked tongue, Blitzo hissed, feeling Stryker’s seed fill him as he continued to thrust, sinking his teeth into Blitzo’s neck.

Blitzo jerks in pain, wishing for the nightmare to end, all the while hearing domineering laughter echo all around him.

He made a sad little pained noise.

-

The Boss imp panted, bucking into Striker’s touch, as the hand that cupped him kneaded him from behind. His eyes flickered behind closed eyelids, caught between a lucid nightmare and a waking dream. He was being held down, his arms were at his side, someone was yelling at him to wake up.

But he just couldn’t.

Goosebumps ran down his spine, his eyes shooting open, gazing up at the shirtless cowboy who had dressed him before falling asleep himself.

The Outlaw gave him a worried look. “Sleep well Darlin” spoke Striker, caressing Blitzo’s face. Blitzo was caked in cold sweat, his body trembled and quaked, his mouth opened into a silent scream.

As a searing pain cleaved his body, Blitz curled up on himself, feeling a pool of warmth at his backside. He made a subtle move to get out of bed, to get away from the imp, lying next to him, reaching out for him. His rear end throbbed and twitched, as a warmth slid down his leg, pooling at his feet. He looks down at the pooling blood at his feet and then back at Striker.

He crumbles to the floor, clutching his head, blood staining his pants. His body is shaking. The hit man was out of the bed as quick as lightning and at his mate’s side cupping his face, tilting his head, trying to get Blitzo to look at him.

Blitzo’s voice cracks as panic and fear ensnare him. Striker catches a few words, and what he hears chills him to the bone. For a moment Blitzo seems to chant something. “P- please no! NN- no more Stryker, you made your point. Please stop!” he cries, clutching onto the cowboy’s biceps.

The Boss imp burrows his head into Striker’s chest. He can no longer stand seeing those eyes. He feels dirty and used. Swallowing thickly. Unsure of what to do, Striker looks around for the unseen enemy Blitzo flinches upon hearing the frightening sound of Striker’s hiss and his tail rattles off a warning before wrapping an arm around Blitzo’s waist and hauling him up towards the bathroom..

He would call Moxie as soon as he drew a bath for Blitzo, but who was he kidding? The specialist would just jump to conclusions. The blood was coming from somewhere and that frightened look upon Blitzo’s face was directed at him.  

The way he said his name sent shivers down his spine. He could feel the tremors going through Blitzo’s body as he turned off the water. He faced his mate.

“Blitzy, can you hear me?”

Blitzo was catatonic on his feet.  

Striker licks his lips before continuing, “I’m going to undress ya darlin, there is nothing I haven’t seen,” he reassures.

 I know every curve of your body, the taste of your lips, you're going to be alright Boss man, your number one is here to help ya. I’m going to fix ya up real good sugar-cube. The cowboy reassures, slipping his hands around Blitzo’s waist. With steady hands, Striker peels off Blitzo’s clothing, pulling towards him.

“You still with me, Blitz,” he whispers, moving the imp towards the tub. I’m going to put you into some hot soapy water and everything is going to be okay. “I’m not going anywhere, Blitzy,” he cups Blitzo’s thigh, rubbing his mating mark, trying to rile him out of his stupor.

Blitzo whimpers, pulling away. “Will find a way around this, boss man, hopefully without Goleta interference,” Striker growls to himself, causing his mate to wince.  

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The Bathtub bubbles with the sweet scent of milk and honey. Candles were lit, flickering, licking at the shadows cast in the room.

The Bathtub wasn’t as big and extravagant as the Goeita’s but int was deep and inviting, with sandy chrome color that reminded Blitzo of hot desert nights. The country imp places Blitzo onto the lip of the tub before stripping off his own clothes and locking the door behind him.

Striker felt a soft pang of guilt swell in his chest as he looks at his mate, who was bleeding into the tub. Striker slips into the tub, taking Blitzo's hand. The imp shook his head as he pulled back, his throat aching Blitzo could barely make a sound as Striker pulls him into the tub..

Blitzo rubs his sore, tired eyes. It was getting harder for the city imp to tell them apart.  

The Boss imp knew he couldn’t keep this up, that if he kept going the way he was treading now, he was going t Wined up blacking out somewhere and risking the lives of someone he cares about. But he couldn’t form the words.

Blitzo braces himself against the lip of the tub, as Striker took the scrubby to his backside, washing the residue away from the red-skinned imp. His back grows rigid, and he pauses as Striker places his claws into the grooves of his skin. Blitzo hisses in pain, biting back a scream.

The savage rawness of his mate’s backside made his insides knot, sending a ripple of anger sweeping through his body. A perfect match, but he couldn’t remember scratching him to the point of drawing blood. And certainly not to the point he was crying out, begging him to stop.

“If only I was there when you needed me, Blitzy, then May we could’ve avoided this entire mess. I forced you to depend on that filthy Goeita,” he growled.

“Blitz, what happened that night you disappeared?”

Silence…

Striker swallowed the past the lump in his throat. Whatever, whoever had done this- had turned Blitzo silent, and that troubled the cowboy. “Sugar-cube overlord slaying can wait, I’ll let me client know later on today I need to take care of you first, I’m sure she can clear things up,” Striker tells him.  

The Cowboy’s stomach soured as realization slowly dawned on him. Something was attacking his mate, and it was using his face to tear them apart. Whatever it was, the hellish cowboy knew it had originated in the human realm and had stuck with Blitzo.

This only solidified his resolve not only to put an end to IMP, but to do the same to Stolas.