#hb

[ameliathetadclover]

for some reason, these two screenshots I took from 2x11 of HB really scratches my brain in all the right places

[jubileemon]

Regarding Octavia's song I Will Be Okay:

The line "I'll just get older and you'll only know my name" implies that Stolas had trouble keeping up with her interests when he began his affair with Blitzø. Now that he's estranged from her for the entirety of his sentence, he has no way of finding out what she’s doing or who she's becoming unless some news about her gets out to Hell’s general public. When he reclaims his crown in a hundred years, the daughter he knew at the start of his banishment will be a distant memory, replaced by a stranger he won’t even recognize or know anything about except her name and the fact she was once his beloved child.

Stolas realizes the inverse of this too, mournfully telling Blitzø that he’ll be a stranger to her by the time he's allowed to regain his title. Why? Because his experiences during his century living as a commoner will inevitably shape him into a different person than he was before his banishment, meaning that all she’ll know about him is his name.

Nearing the end of the song, the scene begins a cataclysm of meteors showering from above and the ground exploding beneath her. Back in the episode "Loo Loo Land", she listens to a song called "My World Is Burning Down Around Me" by 'F*ck You, Dad' (the band) while her mom Stella is screaming at her dad Stolas about the affair with the imp Blitzø. The song title serves as a pun that her dad has supposedly ruined the family structure and she doesn't feel comfortable at home anymore and, when they reconcile at the theme park, Blitzø's fight with Robo Fizz results in the place burning down around them on their way out. Stolas tries to keep her world together that is their own relationship as father and daughter. Unfortunately, that falls apart in "Mastermind", which Stolas was willing to die for his lover after he previously promised to "never leave her". Her song tells how she's questioning if her dad's love ever existed. Now that he has left, her world is now burning down around her with no one to support it and she contemplates carrying on in her life without him. It takes a look at the box of her father's antidepressants before she decides to unironically say "F*ck you, dad" without actually saying it by the end of this episode, misguided as it is without knowing the additional context of those pills.

When Octavia asks Stolas if she was just an obligation to him, it hits harder when you remember that she actually was since it is usually a parent's duty to raise their child. On the political and aristocratic side, Stolas and Stella were arranged for the sole purpose of birthing her as a precautionary heir. As her father of that family, it's his obligation to raise her enough to be worthy of his legacy. When he saw how precious she turned out to be, it gave him a new sense duty out of love to raise her less as an heir and more as his pride and joy of a daughter.

The scene where Octavia decides to leave Stolas - it wasn’t because she hated him, or even Stella and Andrealphus’ manipulations. It was because she believes it’s her fault that Stolas is so miserable that he had to take antidepressants, and that he stayed in a miserable marriage purely out of obligation towards her. Octavia believes it’s better that Stolas be with Blitzø and be happy for once, which was why she also asked beforehand if it's why Stolas didn't hesitate when the chance to "leave" her appeared.

There is the fact that Octavia accused Stolas of choosing Blitzø over her sounds like jealousy, but then there were all of his efforts to protect her and make her happy over the years before the series began. Especially in "Loo Loo Land", none of the imps who attacked Stolas ever connected Octavia as his daughter because he was the bigger target. What's more, when they are alone, the prince is shown capable of protecting them both. With portraits in the mansion of them both being happy, it is possible that there hasn't been a single moment so dangerous that it actually required Stolas to risk his own life for Via like how he did for Blitzø in "Mastermind", and hopes that will never happen. For all of his actions that drove them apart, it is shown in "Western Energy" how much he would still be willing to sacrifice his life to protect Via if he ever has to, just by threatening someone like Striker.

[sennerixx]

I normally go on Tiktok to see cool edits or helluva boss but I came across a post victimizing Stella and normalizing Stella's constant abusive behavior.

While I normally respect many opinions people have on characters, the show, and ships even ones I don't agree with this is one I can't.

I refuse to get behind someone who is vindicating domestic abuse.

They were saying "she was also a teenager" and was "forced to have a kid" Yes, true, she was a teenager like Stolas and had to have a kid, he was told clear as day he was "destined to sire a precautionary addition to the Goetia family"

Yet, it still doesn't provide her the right to abuse and torment Stolas and as seen in earlier episodes, throw things at her husband even if he did sleep with an imp and he did make a "mistake" but it still doesn't warrant for her to assault Stolas, not to mention she literally tried to kill him by hiring an assassin (Striker). Twice.

I know Stolas isn't innocent, far from it but from what we've seen but not once has he laid a hand on Stella in an act of violence out of pure villainous intentions like Stella had.

Stella also said in "THE CIRCUS", "I like tormenting you." While they argue and Stella brings up wanting him to remember the affair, Stolas says "I would feel bad if I hurt you but we both know I didn't do that," Stella isn't upset that he had an affair, she's more concerned about her image than anything in my eyes.

"The only reason I have inured your constant insults and cruelty was for that girl to have a normal life."

We can see her rasing a hand to hit Stolas and we can infer its probably not the first time shes done it or tried too.

I understand Stella hasn't had it great never being able to have the chance to find love on her own and being shoved into a marriage but people forget, so was Stolas.

The circumstances for her were shit, I know, but I refuse to let people just justify domestic abuse. Abuse is still abuse. Stolas was also in that boat she was, being thrown into a forced marriage, his life laid out for him, He even said he "tried to make it comfortable for us, but it was never enough."

Stolas tried, very hard to have some sort of a normal life, especially for his daughter and a woman who he had, let's not forget with a woman he reciprocated now a physical attraction for.

The show wouldn't be interesting without proper villains, because who wants a villain with no backstory, nothing for us to get attached to or dislike? and that's fine to like a villain character, I have quite a few villain characters I like.

But these characters are meant to have flaws and be sinister, It's what makes villains... well, villains but to show a just cause for years of domestic abuse and then villainising Stolas and portraying him as some kind of horrible monster, the victim of the abuse is where I draw the line.

I may sound rude to Stella lovers but it's not Stella's character I'm hating on, it's the fact people want to defend and justify domestic abuse or any kind of abuse for that matter. No matter how hard people try to, Stella has no excuses for her actions and I refuse to believe she does.

[unedited, i mainly just wanted to get my thoughts out]

[localfandom]

the squid game director saw the girlies cry over doomed toxic old man yaoi stolitz and so he decided to create 457

[battimamacikarim]

Maks 3 güne sileceğim o post

[alastor--altruist]

oof ow my heart!

Love working on multiple Stolitz fics at once because these two idiots never communicate the same way twice.

In [redacted fic wip 1] it’s Blitzø being the insecure denier-of-feelings, but in [redacted fic wip 2] Stolas gets to try his hand at not communicating in a Different Flavour! Then in [redacted fic wip 3] they both communicate perfectly well…. but only because they’re fucking about it lol.

[blitzos-horse-ranch]

LOVE IT WHEN HE 🦎!!!!!

[evilist]

♱‎‎‎‎‎‎‏‏‎ ‎

[littlebunno]

[cipher-club]

he's adorable and he hates andrealphus, this guy is all right 😊😊

[nvvr]

[enemywasp]

"Oh her design is so cute! I'd really like her if she wasn't such a freak!" FOOLS. COWARDS. I LIKE HER BECAUSE SHE'S A FREAK.

That's a selfshiping, cringe, fanfic writing monster fucker right there. The representation we deserve.

[duhaerith]

i wonder what kind of relationship vassago and stolas have,.. i love them (let me know your headcanons besties)

[sizu-p]

Scary dog privilege

[pawzofchaos]

small therapeutic goat bf