#helluva spoilers

[thewinterarcher]

[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.

[ruumiinlaulaja]

This is the most romantic shit I have ever seen I’m gonna throw up

[bearflock]

*birb sceeching noises*

*also supportive bf in the background* ♥

[angelshizuka]

#this has a whole new meaning now

HELLUVA BOSS 1.06 - Truth Seekers 2.11 - Mastermind

[anthurak]

Probably a minor detail compared to everything else this episode, but VERY cool that Kesha seems to have stayed on as Bee's VA.

[cookiesaddict]

Friendly reminder: this silly little red lizard is his light and this bird is his heart.

Okay, you can continue now. Have a nice day. 🥰

[demigoddessqueens]

Moxxie was down bad horrendously ill since the beginning

[helluva-hazbin-angel]

PEAK GREMLIN BEHAVIOUR SIGHTED!! BITE THE MAGIC LOVE LUST CRYSTAL TO GET IT TO WORK when has that ever not worked - wait

YOU’VE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME

[samsapo]

I NEED THEM INTERACTING

[manchicasanchez]

⚠️ Helluva Boss Spoilers ⚠️

I understood the reference...

[thewinterarcher]

[fuu9266]

I just need to yell about this moment here.

Millie, my girl Mills, bff, absolute queen! She was gonna keep looking at Blitz until he closed his eyes, she wasn’t gonna let him feel alone in this, not ever again. She couldn’t hold his hand, but she could give him the comfort of eye contact until the end, and my gosh, she’s so strong for that! (Not shitting on Moxxie and Loona here! Their not wanting to look is totally valid! Totally a normal response to such a thing!)

You can tell how thankful Blitz is to have someone to look at in the eyes one last time, as he says that he loves his found family. I just love how she wasn’t gonna let him ever go alone, she gave him the only comfort she could from where she was chained, and he appreciated that, so, so much! It’s all over his face here. (Imo)

[ruumiinlaulaja]

There really is no limit to his beauty 😭

[stars-around-scars-collective]

BECAUSE WHY IS THIS TINY DEMON ABLE TO CALM SATAN

ARE THEY LIKE, THERAPY ORDERED?

[angelshizuka]

Can the "what if Stella is actually a good mother" people shut up now that we have undeniable proof she happily emotionally manipulates Octavia for her own gains.