#prince stolas of the ars goetia

[theplushiefox]

HAVE SOME MORE OF THESE DUMMIES 🦉❤️‍🩹🦎

I love them your honor

They love each other

[guilty-hb-stolas-simp]

*realizes Stolas losing everything means he's probably lost his meds/any health care he did have so he's really going to be at rock bottom*

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

"Stolas isn't wrong for choosing his own happiness for once after years of abuse and depression"

and

"Octavia isn't wrong for feeling betrayed by her father and fearing she's been only an obligation to him"

are two concepts that can and should coexist.

[angeldustfanatic]

Love to see that, despite what has happened, Stolas is viscerally uncomfortable with the rabid hatred towards Blitzø. To the point that you can see his pupils.

[ssminosblogs]

[n3felibata]

Incredibly powerful demon prince, practically immortal, capable of turning people to stone, commander of 26 legions... playing dress up with his daughter

[helluvathings]

Could just be the dialogue hasn't had room for it, but I've been thinking about Octavia's line in the trailer about Stolas never having loved her (or Stella, though that's a separate thing); just Blitzø.

And unless I'm missing a moment, we haven't actually heard Stolas use the word love in the show. Not to Octavia, even when it would've been appropriate in the episodes focused on them, when he was comforting her at Loo Loo Land, or after they reunited in LA. He promises to be there, he definitely feels love, but he never uses that word. Even when he's putting her to bed as a child, where it'd also fit, no l-word.

He doesn't use it with Blitzø either. Pretty jarringly, because Blitzø has thrown it around a few times in the past two episodes. Which could be Stolas being emotionally intelligent enough to recognize he doesn't know Blitzø well enough to love him, but I wonder if that's not also a symptom of growing up the way he did. All the repression. The being told to hide his emotions. Paimon being Paimon.

Not like 'love' is a magic word or anything, and Stolas has been communicating his feelings very well. He doesn't need to say it for his words and actions to matter. It'd just be ironic if Blitzø, who we know from Verosika is allergic to 'I love you,' actually has less difficultly with saying it than Prince Rom Com. And if Stolas is particularly shy about verbalizing love, despite being such a romantic, because it's something he's always wanted so badly, whether in a familial or romantic sense, that he instinctively dodges the term. (Which is a hangup that maybe contributes to Via's feelings, as well).

[chocolatepyrusart]

Art collab with @vagabond-art who did the sketch⬇ based on an outfit I designed 🦉✨💜🍷

[sweetest-starlight]

“Stolas has depression and that ultimately affects some of his choices and he is not a terrible person or irredeemable because of it” and

“Stolas has neglected Via as a person throughout his time raising her and her actions are ultimately justified because of his repeated instances of breaking his promises” AND

“Stolas is still LEAGUES better than Paimon or Stella in the parenting department” are all opinions that can coexist and should

[ckuhhh]

a sad star prince 💫

[angelshizuka]

"I mean out! Out of this palace. Out of my life. We are getting the divorce!"

HELLUVA BOSS 2.01 - The Circus

[writing-write-now]

man everyone begs for impulsive and complex characters until characters are impulsive and complex… 🧍‍♂️ then everything is actually moving “too fast” and they are just “toxic.”

it’s almost as if the definition of complexity is fucking nuance…

[stearleart]

This might be my new favourite scene from Helluva Boss

[a-little-ray-of-fantasy]

Blitzø made a mistake and lost his family and previous life in the fire...

...Stolas made a mistake and lost his family and previous life in the ice.

[theadhddimsenion]

You know something I find ironic about stella defenders and vivis critics? They love to talk a lot of shit about how bad vivi supposedly is at representing male victims of abuse all while defending and regurgitating arguments that are used to condemn and vilify male victims and defended his abuser!!!!

"Cheating is bad!! So stolas is bad!! And they just want to silence us into thinking that this is ok!!!!" No you brain dead peon! Cheating isn't always universally bad especially when it's been on someone who has done nothing but abuse them and actively talked shit about their performance as a way of disrespecting them!! And let's be very clear the only reason stella was upset is because it was an imp and stolas had finally gotten the Courage to stand up to her!!! And let's not forget that stella had been treating him like crap for years before this happened!

"He's a bad father!!" No he's not he's a struggling father. Neither he nor his daughter are bad people and neither of them deserved to be in the situation they were in. Should he have paid more attention to octiava yes. Is he a bad person and never cared about her because he didn't? Fuck no!! He messed up and he suffered the consequences and is trying to learn to better what more can you honestly ask if someone!?

"He's shouldn't have saved blitz because that showed octativa he was willing to die without caring about her!" Bull. Fucking. Shit!!!! How the fuck was he supposed to make a life or death descion and think about every possible situation this could result in when he had about 12 seconds to make sure the love of his life's head didn't go fucking choppy choppy!!!

"He's a coercive rapist reeeeee!!!" Look pal that agurment relies on a lot if's when it comes to bltizs ability to find a alternative means of getting to the human world so this argument is flimsy and relies on circumstances and speculation at best and is outright bullshit at worst. Even if this so called argument had any real validity then it should be clear to anyone with any brain power whatsoever that stolas never meant to coerce anyone!

"He is evil blueblood and deserves the guillotine" no stolas is as bout as much of a noble prick as a thumbtack and he had never once intentionally looked down on anyone and when he did it was never hateful it was simply out of ignorance unlike his wife who you constantly defend!

"Stella was made evil to justify his actions!" No you fools she was clearly always going to be a villain and contrary to what your pitiful Brains think females don't need to be sympathic or even competent and vivi isn't sexist for writing stella this way and for what it's worth I think stella serves her role quite well.

[blackdemonfoxshayerahart]

Some Stolas art to start the year! I didn't spend as long on this as I did for my 2023 and 2022 peices, but here is my 3 hour peice!