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This roughly lines up with my own numbers. 25 - 17-ish = 8-9 years after Stolas meeting Blitz, Via was born.

I expect Stolas could have been 10 at the time he met Blitz as it was a special 'becoming old enough to get his assignment' birthday.

I originally expected him to have been even younger based on his design/height/behaviour, but that would have the unfortunate implication of becoming a parent as a minor.

It's a huge freaking feat for Stolas to have given Via as much as he has, namely *a safe, reliable presence that looked out for her* while growing up, while presumably having had no parental guidance or comfort himself. He had zero sound role models to learn from, and he's been winging it practically solo since he was barely a baby adult himself.

Any flaws in his parenting and the fact that he 'dropped the ball' on some aspects seem so trivial, so inevitable if you keep in mind that every single parent in the world has their faults, and no child grows up 100% happy and perfectly well-adjusted about everything. The 'worst' of Stolas failures are... really damn tame if you consider that it's impossible NOT to screw up in at least some ways, and everything he did for her came directly from the heart with no guidance and no support system to help him.

Via growing up into a healthy teenager, sheltered and with some personal anxieties but overall pretty damn 'normal' for a young person, did not happen by accident.

He stepped up and did what he could to give Via what he never had himself, and he did a baller freaking job imo.

One of my fave parallels centers around that ~

If we clock Blitz as roughly the same age, so ~35, this gives us more insight about his timeline, too.

Loona's 22, adopted at 17, so Blitz was about thirty when he took her in.

The fire happened 15 years ago, so he would've been about 20 - this checks out with him and his sister having made a name for themselves as young performers by that time, and Blitz being old enough for Cash to 'get a pass' for casting him out as no-longer-a-minor.

This is probably why he understood so well that Loona being about to be booted onto the streets as 'a legal adult now' was a very real threat to her safety. Without shelter, resources and support, and carrying a heap of psychological baggage, she would've been in deep freaking shit out there. He's *been there*, he knows exactly what kind of things can happen and how hard it is to get back on track. Being legally an adult doesn't mean shit if you have *nothing*.

Just like Stolas, despite or even because of having the *worst* example himself, Blitz devoted himself with his whole heart to giving Loona what he didn't.

He gave her his material and emotional support, sparing her from having to go through what he did at a critical time in her life of having to find her way in the world as a young adult. She was about to fall through the cracks, and he got to her in the nick of time before she had to experience first-hand what kind of horrible shit could've happened to her otherwise.

And he did so unconditionally, without taking advantage of her being reliant on him in the way many other people could have.

QED Loona was right, all parents have their issues, but Stolas and Blitz are trying their damndest with what little tools and support they have themselves to give their daughters what they deserve:

the chance to remain clueless about the kind of suffering and challenges their fathers have gone through, and take the essential things they were given pretty much for granted.

THAT is the fundamental security that allows someone to proceed with confidence - to not even truly know what there is to fear. To not grasp the worst-case scenario, and to not have the experiences that make you wary for the rest of your life that everything could 'go back to that'.

Via may be going through understandable struggles right now, but her bond with her father is not in any real danger. She hasn't lost him, and we know he'll make sure to keep it that way with all he's got.

Really un-fun Helluvaboss fact: The timeline shown in The Circus is very depressing.

Depending on how old we think Young Stolas is in The Circus, and how long a time we think has passed between the “25 years later” and the “Now.” segment in that episode it… Stolas had Octavia when he was *Super* young.

So, assuming that Blitzø has had the book and been running IMP in it’s current office for at least one year as of Ozzie’s, because Millie and Moxxie met at their work, and have recently celebrated their one year anniversary, let assume they fell in love when IMP was still killing people in Hell, and married about the time they moved into the New Office, which we know was right after Blitzø got the book, and so the office move is presumably the same day or a few days after the “Not divorced yet party” from “25 years later". So that means that Octavia is 17 in the present, and the present is around 26 years after the child segment of The Circus.

Or, to put it another way, Octavia is born nine years after the child section of the circus.

How old do we think Stolas is in that segment? 9? 10? 11? 12? He’s clearly meant to be a pre-teen. That would mean that Stolas probibaly had Octavia between the age of 18 and 21.

Our Owl boy is between 35 and 38 years old, and has been a father for half his life.

If what Stella says about her being thankful she didn’t have to sleep with him after Octava was born is true, then he’s not had sex in sixteen years at the point he re-connects with adult Blitzø (so no wonder he was astronomically thirsty).

The song “You will be okay? Where he sings about how his life hasn’t turned out how he hoped, he hasn’t found Love to be fun, and how he accepts that his stories have all been told and his life is basically over exept for his draughter? How old exactly is Octavia supposed to be in that? A lot of people seem to think that she’s five based on the “I’m not five any more” line for LooLoo land, but If we’re generous and assume Octavia is eight in that sequence, he’s between 26 and 28 when he sings that song. If she is five, he’s completely given upon everything but his daughter at between ages 23 and 25.

Our boy should be in the club therapy.

#stolas #octavia #blitzo #helluva boss

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becausegraf · 1 month ago

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Yes! Yes! Yes x1000 to these additions, this is exactly the kind of elaborations I would've made on the topic :D

Blitz genuinely didn't see Stolas for who he really is for a long time, because he legit struggles to tell apart what'd real and what's just shallow 'roleplay' . If Stolas minimizes and hides what he really thinks and feels (exactly as he was trained to do his entire life), Blitz' social intuition won't pick up that there even is anything to miss. 'If the bird really wanted me to come he'd just say so, but instead he texts me it's fine if I don't, so...'

Your summary really adds a super useful angle.

Blitz learned that he has to fight for what he wants.

Stolas learned there's no point and 'suggesting' things is how you can try to nudge someone into going along. I wonder how often he's had to gently manipulate Stella into sensible choices by 'making her think it was her idea', because his own won't opinions don't get a lick of respect from her.

All 2 U truly makes for a nearly fairytale-esque sort of 'perfect solution' in terms of allowing Blitz to see the bare-naked truth, with no reason at all to be sceptical about what he was being shown. Like you said: Stolas has no reason at all to fake it, let alone admit in song that *he still genuinely cares so much it would be far easier not to*.

What better way to flip Blitz' understanding of their dynamic entirely upside-down - suddenly Stolas is no longer the bored 'just playing pretend' weirdo to whom Blitz doesn't really matter at all, and instead, it's Blitz himself who coasted along keeping things shallow while someone was desperately yearning for his interest and affection.

Talk about an 'oof' moment, and I love that they show how this really got to him emotionally. By the end of the song, he's full of *regrets*. He's showing compassion and empathetic sadness over how heartbroken Stolas is, and anger at himself and frustration at the situation being so not-fucking-okay.

It's at that point can finally clearly see that, for all his flaws, Stolas' intentions were almost tragically pure, and this lovely soft kind fellow didn't deserve basically going splat like a sparrow on a window on the piece of work called Blitz.

Blitz didn't think it was real. He didn't think there was anything to damage. He didn't think 'he could get hurt'.

And then, at that moment, he realises that Stolas can absolutely bleed in an emotional sense. Having been so blind to that lead to Blitz pretty much shoving a dagger into his chest entirely unintentionally, which is basically what he did to a bunch of his exes *but somehow even worse* because *this one* especially didn't know the name of the game - it's like sucker punching a child coming for a hug in the middle of a bar fight.

...

Blitz being so visibly deeply affected by thay song really does beautifully illustrate that he truly can't stand to see his birdie be hurt and upset, can'e.

There's real empathy and care for Stolas' wellbeing there, that finally gets to see the light of day while nobody's watching now that Blitz' whole self-deception just got nuked from orbit.

Shower thoughts moment about Stolas and Blitz' communication issues.

Something I haven't seen in these discussions before myself (beside the matter of how wishy-washy and overly accommodating Stolas tends to be):

Stolas is *overly polite*, to a degree Blitz simply can't decode the intricacies of it anymore.

His politeness is such an obvious, on-brand part of his behaviour that it gets overlooked as a source of communication issues, and their difference in social 'rank' is connected to this, too.

Tl;dr Stolas' usual cordial manner, overly restrained by the upper class code of conduct he was raised with, makes it very difficult for Blitz to take what he does and says at face-value, and this results in a fundamental unease and distrust on his part.

I was rewatching 'Ozzie's' again, and something occurred to me about their conversation after.

Stolas gets out of the car, probably after quite the long awkward silence. Blitz is clearly stewing in displeasure.

And then, what does he say? What's the kind of message he chooses to send, in-between his invitation?

'Hey Blitz, *thank you for asking me out, this was nice.*'

He doesn't completely skirt around the obvious issue that things ended on a sour note, but he skips over it quickly, in a hurry to avoid seeming unhappy or ungrateful or upset.

Now, after the whole debacle, Blitz knows damn well this was a mess from start to finish. He invited him out on a fake date, couldn't be arsed to really pay attention to him because he was still caught up in his Original Plan of spying on MnM, and not even minutes later, being unable to keep his gob shut, he ends up attracting the attention of everyone and their mama to him and Stolas, to get them both sublimely roasted in public.

'I enjoyed spending time with you', says Stolas.

'Bullshit', thinks Blitz.

No, he didn't. He got dragged into a sassy rogue's hare-brained scheme like the naive princey he is, tidily sat aside while Blitz thoughtlessly treated him like distraction at best, got publicly humiliated by the top dog of the Lust ring to the point of cringeing and hiding away, and got carted on home in a cramped messy car with a thundercloud in the driver's seat.

Stolas' intention isn't to bullshit Blitz. He knows his friend knows he knows this went terribly awry, but in his social circles, something so obvious doesn't have to be stated aloud. It'd even be incredibly unbecoming to complain openly, let alone to have a bitch fit and express frustration the way 'a lower class person' with no filter might.

He can tell Blitz isn't happy with things, and it's perfectly understandable and thoughtful of him to try to think of a way to salvage the evening, rather than to get hung up on whatever the fuck that whole mess just was. He knows Blitz isn't likely to be eager to talk about 'it', whatever 'it' might be, but they don't have to - if they can just spend a bit of time with each other to ensure things are alright between them, they can part ways with some peace of mind.

So that's what he does: he sidles around the unpleasant elephant in the room, like any properly behaved Goetia would, and extends a courteous, polite invitation to wave it all off and have a pleasant evening regardless.

Stolas spent his entire life 'on stage'. He's an actor, both due to a genuine, benign penchant for dramatics, and out of pure necessity to get by when surrounded by high society folk, and living in a household where conflict would be never-ending if he doesn't go out of his way to diplomatically calm things down. He has more than two decades of active training in 'how to ignore the ever-growing pile of crap, and put on your tidiest smile'.

By comparison, Blitz is *explicitly* vocal about what he thinks. The day they met, he wasn't shy at all about telling little Stols that his books are boring, and as an adult he's still impulsive and bluntly honest. He's used to open conflict and butting heads with people, and expects others to 'come and give it to him' if they have a problem.

From Blitz' perspective, Stolas' earnestly motivated behaviour has to come off as a bit 'fake', like an actor walking through a script.

Calling Stolas out by going 'oh come off it, you and I are just sex and nothing else' may sound incredibly blind, or deliberately obtuse, but I think he may have partially meant that to say 'can we not with the whole pretend-nice play acting right now, let me remind you of what's real here, and I'm not in the mood for messing around with whatever you think you're doing here'.

He really doesn't think Stolas inviting him to come in and hang out like friends is genuine, and in a sense - why would he? They just had a disaster of a night, and this weird prissy owl isn't starting a shouting match or crying or bitching about it - clearly he's up to something, but it's for sure not 'in earnest'. If it was, they'd be having an argument, or at the very least be talking about the whole thing.

Heck, the very first time they met was a whole mess of confusing communication, with the very first thing Stolas says to him after closing the door to his room being something straight out of a sexy roleplay. Talk about making a brand new first impression on Blitz as someone who apparently just Does That Kinda Thing like the massive nerd he is.

I really think Blitz struggles to interpret some of Stolas' behaviour correctly, or at least, in the way Stolas is going for. Their social surroundings and habits are so vastly different there really is no meeting in the middle at times. They're not just not on the same page, but reading a whole different novel.

And hey, this goes the other way, too.

During Full Moon, Blitz goes after him when Stolas withdraws from the interaction( wich is what you would do if in the middle of a fancy party, your emotions start to boil over - you excuse yourself to have a breakdown where nobody has to be annoyed over it).

Someone following him when he departs can either mean they cares about what's going on and are invested enough to want to be there while he's upset, OR it's a case of someone like Stella just not being done ripping him a new one. The way Blitz comports himself does *not* make it one bit clear that him chasing after Stolas is 'because he cares', not when mister hot-headed 'I turn fear into fury' Blitz is going off on a hostile tirade.

'LET'S GO!!' he shouts.

It's literally a case of someone screaming to be engaged with. 'Get back here you bastard we're not DONE.'

This is Blitz 'being real' with people, as unpleasant and aggressive (and in its own way a defensive front) as it is. This is Blitz ready to tear through the haze of indirect, vague communication, expecting, wanting Stolas to stop running, turn around, and give him a piece of his mind properly. If Stolas is upset, angry, hurt... he should just say so, damnit!

That's the social rules he lives by: you throw out a provocation, and the other party responds in the same way, clapping back with whatever crap it is that's got their panties in a twist, and whatever comes out of such a tiff would at least register as 'honest' to someone like Blitz.

This is how he interacts with Verosika. It's how he interacts with Fizz during their conflicts. It's how Barbie interacts with him. It's just 'how you do things' by Blitz' script.

*None* of that aligns with Stolas' expectations or understanding. To him, acting like that is just rude, aggressive, and mean, and he's not the kind of person to match that energy in kind.

And this is where in Apology Tour, there is a noticeable and critical change in Stolas' behaviour: for the first time, he gets *snarky*.

He shows Blitz his disapproval, his impatience, his frustration. He blocks him off, pushes back, argues with him. He legit gives Blitz 'a bit of a hard time', well-deservedly, even if for the most part he's still aiming to cut communication short and go back to handling his feelings in private.

Later at night during the party, when he's drunk off his ass and his usual patience and self-control are running on fumes, Blitz approaches him rather demurely, ready to at least try to make amends. It's at this point that Stolas' communication turns into a style Blitz understands: blunt, expressive, and unrestrained. He finally stops holding back, and lets his feelings, notably anger and hurt, show plainly.

Snark and sarcasm, immediate clap-backs - that's the language Blitz speaks fluently. That's what, to him, registers as 'honest', as real, as true. That is the point at which he no longer has any instinctive reason to think Stolas is just putting on a fancy show, because that's how 'normal people talk'.

I very much think that as much as Blitz already had intense latent feelings for him, it's the point at which Stolas showed him something 'real', something relatable and understandable and trustworthy, that the imp fell even harder for him.

It broke through the distortion caused by Stolas constantly holding back, and Blitz being quite aware that Stolas, in a sense, constantly put on a performance for him.

In short...

Stolas claims Blitz is the person he can 'be himself with' the most, but I truly think it took until Apology Tour before he started breaking down his own walls of reticence and distance. They've only *just* gotten started, but this tiny bit of change that already started before Mastermind is a sign that things can absolutely go into a better direction with them.

#helluva boss #blitzo #stolas #Blitz loves him so fucking much #and those wibbly eyed distraught looks and the clenched teeth of god damnit this is not okay #are shouting it from the rooftops

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becausegraf · 2 months ago

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2 genres of fanfiction:

1) put that guy into situations

2) take that guy OUT of situations for the love of GOD let them REST

#both #always both in rapid succession #bouncey bounce goes the blorbo

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becausegraf · 2 months ago

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what do you think of stolas having blitz in his arms in truth seekers?

Love it.

It's shows just how much they tend to understand eachother, even at this stage of them getting to know one another.

Stolas knows Blitz will be fine with being picked up in front of his family.

It shows this is just something they do together.

And that they switch off who carries who. With Stolas dropping into subspace when Blitz dose it at loo loo land, and staying blindfolded till Blitz say.

This is something that they do without thinking, showing how much they love having eachother in their arms.

Even at this point when they're trying to claim it just sex, they feel safe when holding or being held.

They're doing some cute cuddly shite. And it likely that do this was a standard part of their aftercare with eachother.

I also love that while Stolas is jokily asking about a reward, he's actually asking for a kiss here. He'd probably have been happy with just a kiss. (He definitely hopes for more but hey). It's sweet.

And I love Blitz's hairing pull, and threat to use the the bear trap to rebalancing the power back towards him.

Showing Blitz is still in charge, after this☝️

And this 👇

Because otherwise everything would feel way too vulnerable right then. Admitting to himself that he's afraid to fall further in love with Stolas.

The idea that they picking eachother up as part of aftercare. It kinda itches my brain right. 🙂

And it works well as Blitz got put through the emotional wringer,

he does need some amount of aftercare.

And I love that he gets a some of that.

Still find it funny that Stolas has the 'dad' reaction to seeing someone he cares about doing something dumb and dangerous. Checks Blitz is ok, then yells at them for being flipping idiots.

(Literally reminds me of my mum after me and sib nearly got hit by a car).

Think Blitz and Stolas would have had the exact reaction to their daughters getting themselves in this sort of real danger. (Via was near really in physical danger during Seeing Stars).

It makes me smile that Stolas was already treating Blitz as his family. Even if it a dumb way of showing it.

#this gives me all the gleeeeeee~#stolas #blitzo #helluva boss

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becausegraf · 2 months ago

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I am having that feeling of desperately wanting to read a fic but the urge is becoming so specific that I know I'm going to have to write it for it to exist

#they're ridiculously compatible your honour #may the plot let them have it all and more

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becausegraf · 2 months ago

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Stolas is not Blitz's first rodeo - the case for Blitz' potential history as a de facto sex worker

(Okay, whoop de doo, here we go, if I sit on this essay any longer I won't get around to having dinner.)

Imagine someone you're into knows you've been struggling to make ends meet, and they approach you with this:

"Hey there, I've been thinking, how about we meet once a week to get giggity and have a good time, and in exchange I'll pay your rent, no strings attached."

Since 'this is hell' and not real life, also try to imagine what for example Moxxie or Millie's reaction might be to something like this. How would you envision this might go?

'What the FUCK' would be a completely sensible response. Even if someone agreed to this, you'd expect some reluctance, unease, nervousness, internal conflict... from most people.

And yet, this is basically what Stolas offered Blitz, and even in a hurry, his reaction wasn't at all shocked or confused. We see no hint of awkwardness in his behaviour around or during his monthly visits, not a lick of it.

There's a simple explanation for this: Blitz has done this before plenty of times.

He's quite literally 'used to it' and accepts this as a fairly routine type of agreement, without even questioning the concept of 'that horny head-in-the-clouds dork of a prince had a good time with me, and wants me to keep servicing him enough to offer me precisely what I want'. Stolas is far from unattractive to him, sure, 'why the fuck not'. Of all the ways this situation could have played out, this is one of the less difficult ones to deal with - satisfying people using his body is pretty much a 'shrug' to him, as opposed to having to come up with some kind of manipulation, or negotiating a different agreement, or keeping the grimoire against Stolas' will and earning himself the wrath of a Goetia.

The premise:

There is a long, long list of clues, many of them hiding in plain sight as 'haha crude jokes oh Blitz u so silly' moments, that Blitz has a history of providing sex as a service.

I also believe this is something most of the fandom already implicitly expects or wouldn't be surprised at all if it were confirmed in the show, but a lot of the implications are entirely invisible, and the effects on Blitz' behaviour are VERY easy to read as 'it's a comedy show, they write him this way because it's supposed to be crude and funny'.

Parts:

1) A hoard of hints

2) How this contributes to the massive disconnect between Blitz and Stolas' understanding of their arrangement

3) Some notes regarding the 'stage persona' of a performer, and recognition of achievements - a connection to his VA and co-writer

1) So, let's look at some contextual evidence first. This list is mostly constrained by my limited capacity to rattle off more examples on the fly, I'm sure you can easily find more of these everywhere you look.

- 'It's your night', and other such flat dismissals

This can be read as him just being cold and apathetic towards Stolas, as obviously 'Blitz is an unempathetic jerk-ass boyfriend'. However, if you read this through the lens of Blitz truly handling this arrangement pretty much like a professional, it makes perfect sense.

'We can do what you want, you're the client here buddy. This isn't about my preferences or wants, my job is to please you and not the other way around.'

- 'You know, I'm not really fussed when stuff like this happens' about Stolas rescheduling

Kind of a funky thing to say about your lover asking you if you have time to meet a bit earlier than originally planned, isn't it? Again, this makes sense if you read this arrangement as Stolas being like a client with a monthly appointment, and Blitz as the accommodating professional. The customer is king, if Stolas wants to move their appointment date (for something Blitz can do during his off-hours that aren't likely to conflict with other plans) then sure, it's not like he's going to charge a damn cancellation fee.

- 'But I thought you like it when I talk all dirty and fucky and shit'

The start of Apology Tour is a rough one, but it reveals a lot about the hidden reasons behind Blitz behaving the way he does with Stolas, and why we shouldn't take everything at face-value.

During their encounters, Blitz is in work-mode: h's very deliberate about how he comports himself and how to play to Stolas' tastes, for as far as he thinks he understands them. Stolas responded well to the aggressive stuff upon their first meeting as adults, and from Stolas' POV he had no real reason to clock that as *not actually really what Blitz' own personal preferred style is*. For as far as the owl knows, Blitz truly is unforcedly, naturally just 'like that' - scathing, dominant, rogueish, confident, bold and brash and adventurous in bed.

I think it's likely that Blitz probably *isn't*, maybe partially but not entirely, but trial and error quickly showed him Stolas is into that so... sure, he can accommodate. Whatever the fancy man wants of him, he can stay 'in-character' in that kind of exaggerated role pretty effortlessly.

Blitz glomming to MnM is a pretty big tip-off that he does have a sense of what true close intimacy is like and he absolutely does have a yearning for that. His 'I'm just here for the sex' bad boy attitude does not truly convey who he is as a person in his entirety.

The rowdy sexy assassin-cowboy-imp is the role he plays for Stolas, under the assumption that that is what he's into, and as a way to shield off his own much more vulnerable and conflicted real feelings. When it seems as if Stolas is no longer satisfied, he tries to 'get his shit together' and dial up the intensity, taking the whole sexually aggressive act to a level where it majorly crosses Stolas' boundaries.

Blitz at that point is just SO confused, so in turmoil with himself, and so terrified of losing the one point of connection he has to Stolas (which at that point really is pretty much their sexual compatibility plus a dollop of mutual je-ne-sais-quoi) he gets frustrated and just slips into a blind defensive rage.

(...yeah, that sure went over well, didn't it. 'God damnit Blitz', thus spoke the entire fandom.)

- Blitz' encounter with Chaz

This is a very interesting one to me. This set of scenes shifts very rapidly from one impression of Blitz to another, a triple pile-up of 'lol gotcha'.

'Oh ok , Blitz gets that it's kinda iffy to bang your friends' shitty ex' immediately gets subverted to

'...welp I guess his weird fixation is enough to disregard that entirely', and shortly after to yet another twist:

'-aaaaand welp, he took advantage of the situation without even blinking, because his instinct made him catch a whiff of something, and he took the first opportunity to poke into it a bit more even if said opportunity is banging the airhead randy shark'.

Blitz 100% uses his body like a tool. Any personal pleasure or bonuses that suit his whims he gets out of it is only part of his motivation. His played-for-laughs fling with Chaz is really much more functionally motivated: diving into bed with someone is just one of the several items on his list of things you can do to slip past someone's guard, shmooze them up, get up-close and even have them dead-asleep to create the perfect moment.

Watching this unfold, I personally very much did have that moment of 'oh dear that's a little concerning', that he made it look like he's 'just kind of a morally questionable ass', so casually making it seem like he was having some fun for his own sake when he was clearly going into this with the plan to slink out as soon as he had the shark where he wanted him.

This example also shows that Blitz clearly understands that sex and intimacy and trust are connected, but for him personally, that's pretty much optional (or even explicitly to be avoided).

- 'I've spent too much of my time, energy and holes on getting us set up', (so maybe don't get lame about this Mills)

File under 'haha Blitz so crude' and the easy interpretation of this as referring ONLY to Stolas. This likely concerns all the work he's done over the many years, starting long before the short time he's had the grimoire at his disposal at the time he says this.

He also does note himself as a) business savvy and b) sexy as fuck as the two major assets he has that he thinks of first in this scene. Blitz knows he's capable of capturing 'that kind' of attention, and he's clearly willing to make use of that.

- Finding out later in the series that he has a whole slew of exes that are still upset with him

This 'reveal' aligns with the general impressions we have of Blitz by that point pretty well. I wasn't surprised at all about that one - 'Oh, of course he does'.

Blitz dodges truly close personal intimacy, but he hardly avoids getting into situations that most people would experience as explicitly intimate, vulnerable and personal. His idea of 'boundaries' are very different from those of most people he deals with, and it's truly no wonder he ended up attracting quite a number of people to him only to ditch out once it became clear they were expecting some kind of romantic commitment.

With his natural charisma and easy charm and his *actual* innate kindness, combined with his well-practiced capacity to flirt and fluster and flatter, people that get to know him may very well be tempted rather quickly. They then easily misread his intentions when he's not one to say no if they make a pass and he's passingly interested. Of course, as soon as they let it show they're falling for him in earnest, *WHAM* goes the door, with no warning and often a sound 'fuck you' to seal the deal and ensure they don't come back.

'Why would he go and get intimate with me, if he didn't want to be with me?!'

The sheer confusion only adds to the offense at that point, and it's that lack of a sensible explanation that contributes to the pattern of people struggling to 'get over it'. We want to know 'why', we need the story to make sense, but Blitz does not give people that closure easily.

'Sorry I have a warped relationship with sex and it doesn't mean to me what it means to you as a baseline, AND I have massive hangups about people getting the feefees for me because everyone who does gets torn to shreds, so if we get giggity that's all you're gonna get from me' isn't really the kind of thing Blitz tells people ahead of time or after the fact.

- I may add more later or in a reblog, I could go on for hours honestly...

2) All this is far, far removed from Stolas' entire world

We all understand pretty well that our beloved well-intentioned dork of an owl has had a pretty sheltered existence (albeit frought with its own problems), and has *very* little experience in the realm of actual sexual activities.

If someone more worldly were to encounter Blitz and regularly interact with him in the way Stolas does, I think it would very quickly begin to raise questions.

You know, if someone so consistently treated your 'sexy date nights' the way Blitz does, I think quite a few of us would start to catch on that maybe he's got some, eh, 'circumstances' that inform his behaviour. Stolas however has nothing to go off off - Blitz is the experienced one, and he certainly acts like everything they do is pretty par for the course. Blitz is the role model, the example Stolas learns from about 'how things work' and what the rules are.

The issue is that Stolas is trying to learn how to have a fulfilling intimate relationship with someone, while Blitz is, in some fashion, actually trying (rather frustratedly at times) to teach him the code of conduct around just-business sex work. Over and over and over we see Blitz try to remind him of these rules, and from our POV, this comes across as Blitz being kind of cruel and mean because he's bluntly brushing off every earnest attempt Stolas makes to forge a connection.

Stolas doesn't understand what's going on under the surface, and for the most part, *neither do we as the audience*. We're here for the fluffy love story, and the hilarious impish shenanigans of our kind-of-a-dick of a protagonist. *Neither we as the audience nor Stolas take Blitz' behaviour and push-back seriously* as we don't get to explicitly view things through his eyes with the full understanding of what the world works like for him. He's either acting like a douche, or being erratic and hilarious, all just meaningless funny bullshit - right up until the moment where he snaps and suddenly it's no longer charming.

Stolas hapless persistence with trying to move past these 'walls', as he truly does desire something very different, eventually leads to Blitz giving up on getting him to cut it out, and it really seems as if he desperately tries to interpret he situation as an unruly spoiled but harmless client getting way too into the 'playing boyfriends' roleplay.

After all, what else could it *possibly* be? Love? Ha ha ha fuck you, of course not. What kind of asshole would even suggest that, that's just hurtful, inconsiderate and stupid - don't play with his feelings like that, it's JUST BUSINESS and Blitz needs to keep his head on straight. He's got a job to do and if he fucks this up and lets himself get attached and it all gets too real holy fucking sh- just drop the sky on him while you're at it, why don't you.

NO.

3) There are some themes here, as per the person who plays a big role in shaping Blitz' character

As 'the sassy crass youtube dude' in reputation I wouldn't be surprised if Brandon Rogers himself might be kinda familiar with the effect of people mistaking your 'on stage persona' for who you really are. People at times approach performers like him under the assumption they're always 'like that', and they tailor their behaviour according to that, too, instead of taking a step back and treating them like a regular person with regular boundaries.

At some point Brandon also said one of the things he relates to the most with Blitz is how much it irks him when people low key look down on what he's achieved.

'Nobody just handed him stuff, he and the team put in a fuckton of hard work into getting to where they are now'

This echoes Blitz' derision towards Fizz as someone who seems as if he's being given privileges, resources and support on a silver platter, just for existing as the person Asmodeus has a special interest in.

I will let that lead into my concluding comment:

I'm pretty damn sure we don't officially know the first damn thing yet about everything Blitz has put himself through to make it out of his twenties alive, just for starters, and to then become successful and reliable enough to provide a stable home for Loona and get his business off the ground.

#helluva boss #stolas #blitzo #stolitz #graf analyses the shit out of media

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