#but she and stolas are rebuilding their relationship

[uselessalexis165]

some demons with daddy issues 👿

[chaifootsteps]

Thinking about how interesting as a character Verosika is and how her past with Blitzo clearly still affects her and what an interesting plot thread that could've been

But instead we're gonna get a Verosika who hears Stolas whine and cry about Blitzo standing up for himself and sides with him and writes a diss track or fucking something for him I guess.

We could've had Stolas try to fish sympathy from her and at first she's on board because fuck Blitzo but then he keeps telling her shit he did and she does a complete 180 despite what Blitzo did to her, calls him out for his bullshit and throws him out before calling Blitzo to forgive him and rebuild at least some kind of kinder relationship

It's ridiculous because Verosika's one of the few people in the show who Blitzo has unambiguously and intentionally hurt and there are no two sides to the story. He straight up stole from her and put her into debt, but of course she's a woman and this is Helluva Boss, so that's going to take a back seat to the fact that Blitzo told Stolas "no."

[stories-and-chaos]

Tarnished pt 32

[Helluva Boss AU where Blitzø’s childhood theft from Stolas’ palace is discovered and major consequences ensue for everyone involved.]

[Part 32/?? Word count: 978]

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Blitzø waited for Barb after group therapy as usual, iced coffees ready. His twin had been quieter when they met up after the Harvest Moon Festival and he was worrying that he’d fucked things up again. How he didn’t know but that didn’t stop the anxiety. His leg wouldn’t stop jiggling unless he focused on staying still. But when he did that his tail whipped wildly instead. Eventually he started pacing around their usual bench as he tried to keep the thoughts of fucking up creep into his head. They had barely rebuilding their relationship and the idea of Barb hating him again was terrifying.

“You good Blitzø?” Barb’s question made him yelp and jump into the air, landing on all fours in a defensive crouch.

“Fucknuggets Barb! Gimme some warning before you spook me like that!” Indignant, Blitzø straightened up and dusted off his jacket.

His twin, the brat that she was, just laughed at him. “Not my fault you can’t pay attention. How the fuck do you play bodyguard when you’re that oblivious?”

Blitzø glared at her as he held out her coffee. She was joking around with him, which eased some of his nerves. “Hey, I’m super fucking focused when I’m working. Not working, so I don’t gotta be crazy alert.”

Barb waved a dismissive hand as she sipped the drink. “Ah, that’s the good stuff. Better than the artificial sweetener crap they make in Greed. Though they make a fucking awesome hot black coffee that’ll wake up exterminated Sinners.” She took a lounging seat on the bench, gesturing for her brother to join her.

He did so, his stiff posture a sharp contrast to her relaxation. She raised an eyebrow at how rigidly uncomfortable he looked. “Seriously, you good there Blitzø?”

Best to get this over with. Though her being pissed off at him seemed less and less likely. “You’ve been super quiet lately so I keep thinking I fucked up somewhere.”

“Ha! Blitzø, you really think I wouldn’t say to your face if you had? We’re doing okay so far, but I’m not gonna let you off the hook for any fuckups.” Her bluntness made him sigh in relief. “Just had something on my mind. But maybe you can help with that. Make up for your mopeyness.”

He agreed to try, feeling all his muscles go to jelly now that he knew she didn’t hate him again. Barb was quiet for a few moments, drinking her coffee as her eyes looked into nothingness. She pulled out a small notebook, scraps of papers stuck between the pages. After she flipped through a few pages to get her thoughts in order, she looked into the distance again.

“How hard is it to get angelic weaponry?” was her surprising question. At Blitzø’s confused look she elaborated. “I’ve never seen any until recently. I thought they were pretty pricey…”

“Pricey is an understatement. Stolas’ sperm donor passed down at least one blessed knife to him.” He rubbed his neck, trying not to remember that night. “There’s Carmine, an Overlord that deals in the stuff but it comes from what Exterminators leave behind. I hear it’s a pain in the ass to remake angelic steel into guns and bullets without offing yourself. So yeah, shit’s expensive. Why’d you ask? I can’t get you any, if that’s what you’re hoping for. I don’t even have any and that’s with access to Floof’s money.”

Barb’s face twisted into a scowl as the implications of an imp owning more than one blessed weapon sank in. No ranch hand needed that sort of firepower. And she highly doubted ranching would pay for that. “Not for me dumbass, what would I use it for?” She flipped to her sketches of Striker’s pistols and knife grip. “That imp from Wrath, Striker? He’s got at least a blessed knife and two pistols.” Barb handed the notebook to her twin adding, “don’t you dare flip through it.”

Blitzø, about to do just that, froze with a guilty expression. He confined himself to just the open pages. The wing motif on the gun grips definitely looked like Carmine weaponry. Moxxie would know for sure. His employee could probably tell him the caliber, production run, and all sorts of useless information from the decal alone.

“How’d you find this out? I didn’t see anything like this on him at the festival.” And if Striker had these during the Harvest Moon, he'd have been a major threat to Stolas. Blitzø had a chilling realization that he hadn’t been as proactive a bodyguard as he needed to be.

“I got a couple glimpses of the knife during the Pain Games. A cowboy with angelic steel seemed fishy so I went out with him. We fucked and I saw the guns in his jacket.”

Blitzø gave her an approving nod and a fist bump. “He’s pretty hot, possibility of hit man aside. Nice score sis.” With her permission, he took a picture of the pages using his phone. “And yeah, doing ranch work in Wrath can’t afford these. If he’s packing these at public festivals and date nights, who knows what he’s up to.”

Standing up, he handed Barb her notebook. “Hey. Uh… thanks. For… finding this out. You stuck your neck out for me. So, yeah…” Blitzø trailed off, mentally kicking himself for the awkwardness of his thanks.

“You’re welcome.” Barb tossed their coffee cups before giving him a light punch. “I just got my brother back. No one else gets to fuck with you. Doesn’t make up for the mediocre lay, but whatcha gonna do?”

Blitzø punched her back. “How about we get Loona and Dina and I treat you to dinner? Your pick.”

“Oooo, there’s a place that makes a ‘better than sex’ cake a couple blocks down. Get a couple blowjob shots, I think that’ll cover things.”

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[fanthirtheen]

When you talk about love languages, do you consider it how a person/character prefers to receive love or how the prefer to give it? Or both? I know it's an incredibly subjective thing, it isn't a precise set of language to describe loving someone, and it often times isn't adequate at all, but it is a useful method of describing something that is very hard to describe.

People need to give/receive love in many different ways, but everyone is different in that.

I'm talking specifically about characters here because they aren't as complex as real people and also I am disconnected from my own inner world, which would be the only place I could pull from with any ethos for the real world.

When I'm writing two characters who love each other (because relationships are the driving force of my interest in story telling, not specifically romantic BTW there are more platonic relationships under my belt than romantic at this point), I have found myself giving them the same love language for giving and receiving, but still disconnected because the person with whom I am focusing their relationship with typically has a different love language.

Anyway.

I typically give Blitzo a primary love language of "Acts of Service", mostly in how he gives love because that's how he is most satisfied and comfortable showing it. Receiving it, however, I find myself making him more satisfied receiving "Acts of Service" but more comfortable receiving "physical touch" or "gift giving" because of his feelings of burdening people, hurting others, and how his view of himself as ruining everyone rose's lives.

Stolas, on the other hand, I'll preface by saying he craves pretty much all of them and gives indiscriminately because he has such little experience in loving anyone) I typically write with a focus on giving/receiving physical touch (because that's what Blitzo allows mostly and this is the majority of his exposure to giving or receiving love). But I think Stolas (in my writing) may lean more toward quality time in the satisfaction range, he just has such little opportunity to figure it out, and that's probably what Blitzo runs away from most, after maybe "Words of Affirmation" (I typically write Blitzo as being most scared of "the talking part").

***Stolas has plenty of experience loving Octavia, but I'm not counting this because she is a child, and that HAS to be a more giving than receiving love. The burden is on the parent, whether they know how or not, because the child is learning and for the majority of childhood they have a very self-centric view of the world. This is just developmental psychology. She is currently a teenager, and at a phase where she is figuring herself out, and she is a different person than she was years ago, and that fucks with love languages. There is a difference between an adult relationship with your family and a child relationship with your family. I am taking this from real life. You have to rebuild/redesign your relationship with your family when you're an adult, and then I would count it in this analysis. She isn't there yet.

This is entirely just to get my thoughts written down somewhere because of some stories I'm working on. I'm trying to make conscious developments in my writing style and characterizations, and putting my thoughts into writing always helps.

I'm also a little curious to see what most people really mean when they talk about love languages, because I get the impression some people only mean receiving, some only mean giving, and some clearly are talking about both. And, I think one of the best dynamics to be conscious of when writing characters in a deeply satisfied relationship is when the characters learn each others' love language. Not just to remember to buy your "receiving gifts" partner a present occasionally, but really learning to derive a deep satisfaction from picking out the perfect gift for them because you love the look on their face so much. Or someone who didn't previously care about physical touch learning exactly how to make their partner shier with just a touch and deriving deep joy from knowing they can do that.

Just, loving each other so much that you change how you love to fit together like a puzzle piece.

(Stolas realizing how much Blitzo loves acts of service and starts going out of his way to ask Blitz for help with things, and Blitzo realizing that spending the day with Stolas in his green house listening to him talk about plant facts he's never going to remember is actually really nice and it's BECAUSE it's them, because they care about the other so much their love language becomes infectious)

[prof-ramses]

Sinsmas prediction (I'm really hoping this one is right!)

Something I've seen a lot of people talk about is that fact that Blitz fixing his relationship with Fizz and Stolas now being able to give Blitz a crystal means that they'll have less reasons to see each other and thus have a harder time working through the issues between them.

But I think this chain of accidental self sabotage will carry over to Stolas, I think The Full Moon, Apology Tour and possibly Mastermind might help rebuild the trust between Blitz and Stolas, but at an unseen cost.

And now we finally come to the actual season finale prediction I promised. I believe Sinsmas will show Stolas planning to spend the (un)holiday with Via only for her to not show up and him thinking Stella and Andrealphus are behind it. The twist being is that she herself chose not to spend time with him since he basically focused his entire life for a while around his boy toy and virtually abandoned her. The ending will leave Stolas to wallow in the consequences of his shortsighted actions as Octavia spends Sinsmas with her mother and uncle. This will set her up as a central character in season 3.

[enigmaincrimson]

What's hard about developing character relationships in advance is that even if you have a strong idea of how they'd work, you can't actually use them as it's pretty often that people don't want to read muse information or discuss finer details.

_

Like... Astaroth being so busy behind the scenes and being forgotten randomly like a waiter in a restaurant would humorously play into the whole backstage side of the theming.

Sure... the Deadly Sins and close individuals are more likely to remember that Astaroth isn't some figment of the public consciousness, but she doesn't make personal appearances all that often, even if her presence covers all seven rings of hell in some form or another.

It's a bit tough to explain.

_

Aveline's relationship with different factions would depend on how long they're aware she's out and about, the frequency, and the nature of the interactions.

Although I am having a rough time trying to simplify those factors into a few easier to articulate segments, it's not for a lack of trying.

Like... there's the more private aspects, like the deadly sins and Astaroth would have seen her coming and going for thousands of years at this point. You could say that it's like a girl and her weird aunts and uncles when it comes down to it... unless it's work related.

I mean... there's the public and private side, work and social... but even that doesn't cover everything. There's just so many parts.

Like... Stolas might see a different side of her than say... Asmodeus, even if they both have occupations that bring up the more business-related side of matters.

I mean... there's the whole gate keeper deal, her wrangling Astaroth's affairs, the pop star career, and who knows what else she's been up to.

Like... to someone that's been around for a long time would know the whole... pop star career was actually a side hobby, but anyone who hasn't been around for that long would likely think that was everything. Of course, you can probably get two parties to agree they like her music, but not agree on which genre they like the best.

It's also pretty easy to jump to the conclusion that she's working for Ozzie if she shows up somewhere to check on someone authorized to use an Asmodean Crystal.

Although she does check on Stolas and his grimoire on occasion, there's something of a disparity between being how him and his close family sees of her and the rest of the Goetia family.

The public "rivalry" between Aveline and Verosika when it comes to music is entirely marketing fluff to sell more albums. However, her lecturing Verosika about what happened on the beach trip... that's not fluff.

Considering that she's known to do what we'd call "Humanitarian" work in the various rings, her presence at the aftermath of the portal breach caused by D.H.O.R.K.S. tends to be regarded differently than what's actually going on. Sure, she's helping with the rebuild and the memorial service... if they have those, but she's inspecting the breach site and reporting on it to the deadly sins and Astaroth.

Portal breaches are sorted by a system somewhat inspired by how they classify natural disasters. No idea if they're announced like Hellquakes though.

In any case, if Aveline showed up at the Hazbin Hotel, there would be a wide range of reactions... and I lost my original train of thought again.

[blitzwhore]

Not only do I not mind, I have the same theory! I didn't put it in the original post because I didn't want it to be too long, but I also think Blitz was the one who got Barbie in rehab. I have this headcanon that he took care of her for years when they were teens and her mental health started to worsen, and then, after the accident, when she spiralled really badly and wouldn't let him help her anymore, he finally admitted to himself that she needed professional help. I think she probably hated him for getting her into rehab, especially if he did it against her will, but I don't think Blitz regrets it. I think he was faced with a very hard choice, and ultimately decided that he'd rather save his sister, even if that broke their already damaged relationship beyond repair. He's trying to reconnect now, but I think even if he can never rebuild his relationship with her, he'll never regret getting her into rehab, even if it hurts. That's all just my headcanont/theory, though 🙈

I would love to see Blitz bringing up rehab to Stolas once he realises just how much Stolas is struggling. I think Stolas might break when he hears that, realising that Blitz is right and he really is struggling a lot more than he's allowed himself to admit. But I think Stolas will eventually admit that he needs help, and will let Blitz help him. And I would love to see Blitz being extremely supportive and loving throughout the whole process, no matter how bad it gets for Stolas. I think it could bring them together in such an impactul way.

Gah, I can't wait to see where canon takes us!

So. Stolas is an alcoholic. That much is very clear at this point in the show and has been for a while now. He binge-drinks to cope with depression and with his life problems at large.

What's interesting is that he's far from the only character in Blitzø's life who is an alcoholic. In fact, substance abuse seems to be a recurring theme in the show. At least three other people Blitzø was or is really close with (potentially four, if we count his father) have struggled with substance abuse: Verosika, Barbie, and Fizz.

And the show has made a very clear point that both Verosika and Barbie have been in rehab. Not just that, but it's also emphasised that they're both still struggling with addiction (Verosika still drinks at her concerts, "clutches onto Beelzejuice bottles like they're the last cock in hell", and writes magazine articles about binge drinking being sexy; Barbie still peddles heroine, though not H8). Clearly, for both of them, this is an ongoing issue presently in the show.

So, with all of that being said, I recently saw someone theorise that, in a future season, Stolas is going to go to rehab, too.

I thought it was certainly a possibility, and one that I would personally love to see explored. So I've been thinking about it... and I remembered this:

The beginning of Unhappy Campers, and Blitzø breaking into rehab to go visit Barbie.

Now, I think a lot of people (myself included) felt surprised and a bit disappointed the first time we watched this episode, because our initial assumption was that Blitzø was trying to visit Stolas. It just made sense! Stolas was hospitalised right at the end of the previous episode and texted Blitzø that he could visit if he wanted to. (At this point, we also didn't know Blitzø had trauma surrounding visiting loved ones at hospitals). And suddenly they hit us with Blitzø seeking out Barbie out of the blue? So many of us were left wondering... why? Yeah, people have mentioned that maybe feeling like he could've lost Stolas prompted Blitzø to try to mend a different broken relationship, one that he felt he had more chances of fixing. But the timing, as well as the non-immediate revelation that it's Barbie he's looking for, is still... strikingly suspicious, isn't it?

And just now, after all this time, it hit me.

What if this is foreshadowing?

What if, all along, they were telling us Blitzø will visit Stolas at the hospital in the future... when Stolas is in rehab?

[meltthefrozenheart]

WILL WE SEE OCTAVIA 18th BIRTDAY IN THE FUTURE?

(Maybe in S2?)

For some time now, after Episode 2, I've wondered if we will canonicaly see Octavia becoming an actual adult, making that essential step in her life.

Even if we didn't actually see her turning 17 in the show, we now this fact thanks to the artists themselves, through Stolas Instagram account ...

and also thanks to Octavia's account, which was originally made "avaible" because she was "older enough" to be trusted by her father.

Now, after the "Loo Loo Land" episode, we were actually able to see Octavia in the show and know her relationship with Stolas, an important aspect of his character, which not only puts him in a different light, but also gives him an actual development as a character, and clearly allows us to see a lot of similarities between him and Blitzo (also thanks to the "Spring Broken" episode)

Now that Stolas and Octavia are starting to rebuild their relationship, it seems clear to me that the situation will evolve in some way, and when the episode set in the Lust Ring will be avaible, we will have a proper idea.

But why putting in consideration the possibility to see her turning 18? Because she won't be simply the grown girl that Stolas finally reconised as such, but also someone that can finally start to make some personal choices to define her own destiny. Maybe she will be able to confront both her parents regarding their crisis without closing herself in, maybe she will make some personal experiences outside of the castle walls (she actually feels lonely, considering also that she is royalty, and her mother Stella seems excessively classist toward the lowest classes of Hell). Maybe she will interact more with Blitzo and I.M.P., considering that their business dependes on Stolas's Grimoire, and it is the reason in the first place of the Goetia's family crisis.

For those that maybe have seen my preview post about Octavia and Loona semi-canonically know each other (thanks to the Instagram accounts), this whole post is obviously also related to the hope of actually watching them interact with each other and becoming besties. The whole romantic "Loona & Octavia" dynamic is not a necessary element, but surely they seem to actually share the need to have some friends, at least someone toward their age, and a 18 years old Octavia whould actually have the chance to experience that kind of freedome.

Surely, for Stolas himself, watching his little owlette becoming a woman would be an important part for his character

[chaifootsteps]

the only way I'm interested in s3 of hb at this point is if something like this happens:

mastermind involves Stella and Andre's master plan, which goes like this: expose Stolas to his peers, the other goetia, for breaking demon law by lending out his book. (and extorting a lower class demon for sex while they're at, please show let someone call it for what it is)

Stolas is of course all shock, gasp, that's not what happened but it doesn't matter - he gets his book and powers revoked.

sadly I think it's unavoidable the writers have Stolas hook up with Blitz again because Blitz pities him, not loves him (where have we seen that happen before?)

whole stupid plot point goes down with Via. Stolas has lost everything and it is completely his fault.

season 3 - Stolas is still a tumor on the plot but at least now he has no power or privilege. this is a golden opportunity to have him see what it's actually like living in poverty and wise up, rebuilding his life from the ground up. a way too late apology to Blitz fits in here, as does rebuilding his relationship with Via.

of course I don't like a lot of this outline myself - I really don't want Stol!tz to happen as they're currently handling it, tbh, and it means having yet another season where he's essentially the main character - but if they wanted to actually develop Stolas this is how I think it could be done.

of course, season 3 is actually likely to be him telling Via she's just a dummy who fell for Stella's tricks, gaslighting her the same way he did Blitz, while he finds a way to get all his power back and it's framed like some victorious moment even though he wasn't good at handling his responsibilities as a goetia the first time around

(my other idea for season 3 is just Striker drops a piano on Stolas, problem solved)

I wholeheartedly agree with the piano plot twist, or failing that, an anvil.

[nethersonq]

random stuff about my ocs

-mina, webster and mal pretty much have an ella,oscar and hoo relationship

-the only person Candy won’t actually hurt is Aki

-echo thinks she’s a bat sometimes (she isn’t)

-ASCII is good at coding

-Nocturne has a virus (she’s a TV head)

-Alister IS the virus

-Mina will pose for LITERALLY anything

-Candy owns quite a lot of various weapons

-and she’s the kind of person who pins everything up on her wall with daggers

-Stolas WILL blast heavy metal at 3am

-carmen is innocent baby

-Zelena once “accidentally” set Caspian’s shop on fire

-Mina can disintegrate and rebuild herself with minimal issues

-Mal used to be Shuck’s most trusted servant, but betrayed him to help Mina and the gang

-Zelena, Caspian and Regina are triplets

-ASCII and Aki are brother and sister respectively

-Regina is drunk most of the time, and the rest of the time, she’s either sleeping or drinking coffee with reckless abandon

-Candy is slightly depressed

[witchoflegends]

"Oh, it's not that bad!" He quickly backpedaled. "We texted a little while I was in the hospital, and I still call him on occasion to ask about his day..." Who was he kidding? It was as bad as it sounded. He was hopeless. Now that he was finally free to do as he wanted, he didn't know how to go about any of it. Stolas sighed and dropped his face into his hands.

Sure, there was that time when Blitzø helped him get Octavia back home and they ended up lost and dealing with the chaos of humans together. But he was more concerned with Octavia after that than to pull Blitzø aside to talk. It seemed like he had to work to rebuild all his relationships. He was exhausted.

Removing his head from his hands, he reached for the tea in front of him. To give himself something to hold. "I'm not the controlling type. The closest I've ever come is with Stella and our divorce." That awful, bitter woman. No longer letting her walk all over him and talk to him however she wanted. "How do I even go about taking control like that? Especially in such a heartfelt way."

"Oh. Not even—oh, Stolas."

Maybe Asmodeus hadn't accounted for just how difficult things might be between these two. Although, he supposed that situation at his club wouldn't exactly have helped things, either. He cleared his throat softly at the mention and took a sip from his cup.

"I'm always a proponent of givin' each other a little healthy space, but there's a limit. You can't just let him sit over there and stew in his feelings. Or, Heaven forbid, throw his whole self into his work to avoid them. He's gonna run himself into the ground." What a strange connection they've found with each other. A passing thought as he worked his way through this conversation.

"Sometimes you have to intrude. He can't be busy 24/7. I mean, shit, if that much time's gone by since the last time you two really talked, maybe he just feels too awkward to break the seal himself. You go over there, you get him to sit down, and you talk to him. No ulterior motives, no accusations, no blame, just an open, honest discussion."

[hazbincalifornia]

Actually that imp disguise Stolas got me thinking- sneaking out to escape from a boring royal party and finds himself going to an club full of partying imps and meeting blitz who teases him about being “really dressed up” for a club, first time? He is pretty cute after all. The idea they meet up a lot besides that and it’s like they’re dating and both so happy, blitz kind of being mended in his self hatred. Comes crashing down when blitz gets pregnant and Stolas must come clean 1/2

About being both married (very unhappily) and not even an imp, blitz would be so furious and hurt thinking he was a side piece, a toy to lie to to get his rocks off with then go home to his family but Stolas wants to fix this and show he’s loved him more from the start- dunno how he mends it over the pregnancy but they’ll make it work!

Honestly... I don't know if he could really convince Blitzo to keep it other than with outright bribery, at least at first. The only reason Blitzo agreed in OT was that he knew/trusted Stolas would come through on his half of the deal after knowing him for a while, even though they aren't together yet- he knew Stolas wouldn't lie about something like this, especially with a deal to seal it in.

Here? He thought he knew Stolas, but everything has been shredded and tossed out. The marriage thing didn't matter as much to him in canon since he "knew" from the beginning that he's a side-fuck, and didn't think he'd get a real relationship out of it. Married, not married, in his eyes Stolas isn't serious about him so it doesn't matter either way, and I don't think he's bothered by cheating if he's not the victim considering how he reacted to Mayberry. (His literal first line is 'Was she hotter?')

In this au though, where he thought they had a real relationship, it would hurt a lot worse because his expectations are totally different. Whatever trust he'd managed to build up is cratered, and considering his already-existing trust issues... yeah, anything short of twenty grand in unmarked bills probably isn't going to keep him around, and Stolas would be desperate enough to do it just to get a chance to explain himself. They had the schmoopy romance stuff he wanted so badly in canon, so losing that when he knows what he's losing? That'd destroy him.

Even if Stolas turned into the most attentive boyfriend in the universe, Blitzo wouldn't really be able to trust him again for months, so the process of rebuilding would be incredibly slow and cautious. It probably wouldn't get very far unless Stolas made their relationship public, because after all this he's not going to settle for being a secret that Stolas can just drop if he wants.

[helluvahotmess]

ough i've been slain

another thing to consider: stolas in the aftermath rebuilding his garden and blitz helps (maybe the rest of i.m.p too) and octavia (assuming shes (hopefully) realised her mother is the one who tried to assassinate stolas) also joins and stolas is surrounded by a support system finally

alternatively: stolas goes to rehab and blitz tries to repair the garden during that time, despite being very out of his depth (him and octavia have a talk that they probably both need) and she helps because she loves her dad and something something healing relationships metaphor with plants and growth and stuff

@helluvahotmess Noooo but what if like, his plants get destroyed and Blitz gives him one to restart his garden. Or goes and finds a tiny little sapling that survived in the aftermath and puts it in a pot.

[mages-pandoras-box]

Stolas thinks about the queen's question, "No…" he finally admits, "Not really. There are maybe two of my many siblings have remained neutral in this endeavor, so maybe I can rebuild my relationship with them. But for the rest…no,"

Stolas sighs, "Via is close to a few of them, though, so I don't know if I can cut contact with many of them. Ironically, the ones who are the most vocal about this are the ones who are closest to Via,"

At Lilith's second question, Stolas smiles, "She's doing well. She's growing up to be a strong heir to the family. Her magic lessons are going a bit slow, but that's alright; she's only 17,"

"Love is wild, isn't it?" Stolas mumbles in thought.

At the mention of his family, he sighs.

"They don't care," his voice is low, "They've never cared that I didn't love Stella, that I wasn't attracted to women. They wanted an heir in case the worst should happen to Father's eldest,"

Stolas rubs his eyes. "I hated being married to her. The only good thing that came out of it was Via,"

Stolas smiles sadly at the mention of his daughter; it is clear he loves her very much.

[stolasgoeita]

Stolas looks at his Mother. “To be fair, I haven’t told him about that yet. It got a little…messy when I gave him the crystal. Like I said before, we are still in the rebuilding process of our relationship.” He was slightly annoyed that this is how she wanted to start things by ridiculing his boyfriend, but it was better than how Paimon would have reacted.

"Stolas?" a sweet and decidedly female voice called.

The prince picks up the phone to an unknown female voice. “Hello, who am I speaking with?”