#yelling is ALSO pretty unproductive. characters are allowed to make mistakes of course

[sludgekludge]

always bugged me that blitzo basically has a breakdown in front of stolas, crying about how he can do better, how he needs the book, not believing stolas can love him, and stolas doesn't show concern even once. blitzo's screaming and crying, in hysterics, because he just went from 'i thought i was going to lose my business' -> 'you're abruptly telling me you love me after being distant' and we're meant to hate him because stolas, the one who never once asks if he's ok, not even in apology tour when emotions have settled a little...stolas got his feelings hurt a bit.

stolas wasn't the only one crying and breaking down. helluva boss pushes the 'perfect victims are the only ones that matter' mentality so hard. its why blitzo doesn't matter, why stella doesn't matter. because they're more abrasive than soft boy stolas.

i had a similar thought process when watching that scene lol

i think you're spot on about the perfect victim thing, though. there's a reason stolas is the saddest guy in the whole world, he's soft and waifish and nice and has only ever experienced being battered. if your trauma response is fight over faun, that's brutish, and you're undeserving of sympathy. miserable