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I wholeheartedly agree with everyone who has pointed out that Stolas believing he would die in Blitzø's place highlights how oblivious he is to his own privilege.

But I also want to talk about how Stolas wasn't the only one who genuinely believed he, a Goetia, could die in Blitzø's place.

Blitzø's agonised cries are not the cries of someone who thinks their lover is making it out alive 👀

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One of the reasons why the flaws in Helluva Boss and Hazbin Hotel don't really bother me is because, to put it simply; you could show me the most amazing, most humanly possible perfect, flawless show imaginable, but if I don't feel emotionally connected to the characters, I literally will not care.

I'm not here for how "technically good" a show is (though, I definitely still think these shows are overall good, just imperfect, and haters can cry about it). I'm here to lose myself in getting emotionally invested, something I literally have no control over when it does or doesn't happen, and at the end of the day that's what these shows give me.

As long as I don't run into any hardcore dealbreakers along the way, that's more than enough for me.

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The fundamental tragedy of Stolitz is that, at least at the outset, both partners need the exact opposite thing to feel secure in the relationship.

Stolas needs Blitzo to stay with him absent any obligation to do so, because his entire life is founded on forces beyond his control dictating his every moment. This is why he tries to dissolve their arrangement.

Blitzo, on the other hand, constantly pushes everyone away because he thinks he isn't deserving of actual love. However, he still actually seeks it out, almost aggressively, because he wants someone to stay with him despite his unworthiness. The arrangement is almost a safety net for him, because it's a guarantee that Stolas won't leave him just for being him.

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Part of the reason that I hate the ‘Stolas is a bad dad’ discourse is that it taints Blitz’s character by association.

I’m sure Blitz has raised a brow or two at some of Stolas’ parenting choices (ie, let me introduce my kid to my situationship via hiring him to be a body guard, for example), but Blitz has never had any reason to doubt for even a moment how much Octavia is cherished. Her photos are all over the palace walls. Stolas talks about her enough for Blitz to know she likes music, taxidermy, and at one point, skateboarding. She’s free to express herself emotionally, even when it’s inconvenient for the rest of them. Stolas’ only concern in LA was Via returning home; he wasn’t even thinking of the grimoire!

One of Blitz’ primary motivations is to take care of his family, mostly his daughter. You mean to tell me that someone who holds being a loving father in such high esteem would want anything to do with someone he saw as a bad parent??

You really mean to look me in the eyes and tell me that Blitz would want anything to do with someone who he thought was seriously neglecting his kid? And I don’t mean a lapse in judgment or forgetting a promise or something Blitz might have preferred to handle differently if he could have. But do you seriously believe Blitz would want to settle with someone consistently neglecting and traumatizing his child? Are you stupid?

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Masking and the fake Princy affect

I just like how little Stolas masks in front of Blitz, that the first time he realize that's an option Blitz's horrified. (Prince's should cry. That's an ugly noise).

Think this is why he's so taken in by Stolas' act of being the royal dickhead Prince, with an impish little plaything, in truth seekers.

And I think this one of the reasons this hits so hard for me.

Because Blitz is kinda demanded the social mask.

The one that Stolas puts on as a role, to deal with being around the rest of the Ars Goetia.

For Stolas this is the social script.

(Yer, I'm not unpicking Stolas privage in this one. More just about how the social camouflage he'd developed looks like low grade mimicry of Paimon).

It's one of the things I really love about mastermind; is that Blitz can see through the Princy act now.

And that's makes Stolas able to bring Blitz into his soliloquy, and join it. A little bubble of understanding.

Cus Blitz was falling for the act for a second there. They haven't spoken since the 'break up' after all.

Stolas is playing this exactly how the rest of the Goetias would, if Andy and Stella are any typical behaviour guides. (Which to Stolas they are).

But then even when Stolas going ham, acting the cartoonish (lol) Mastermind behind everything; he stops to do something really familiar.

Stolas just has to check Blitz is ok.

Then has to quickly play it off as something else.

Blitz's little confused wtf expression, as he tries to work out the big tonal shift from what he knows is affectionate. That now seems to be being used to put him and everyone like him down.

Really think this little check in made it easier for Blitz to not just sees behind the mask; but also be on the same emotional page to join in the soliloquy.

🙂 Basically I was happy about how free Stolas normally is with his emotions around Blitz and Via.

He even gets to stim in public, and mostly just gets to be his slightly cunty self. (Yay)

Without having to put on the larger than life act, with added mwahaha™ musical hall villain. Like he does for the Courtroom, or the Dhorks.

Just getting to be himself.

Also Stolas' cadence is most like it was as a kiddo; when he was asking Blitz to stay with him.

Like it's little Stolas is asking asking wee Blitz to stay. Which is really sweet.

But Blitz assumes it's a request to another game together...😢

This why I love their get a little timeless moment of full understanding for once.

Same as with their dance. We even get Stolas fully laughing, without trying to cover his mouth at all. 😃

[Edit note for context: Yer ok, mostly this was prompted by conversations with fellow neurospicy lady I know in real life.

And her having to actively unlearn alot rich person roleplay, she did to survive her upbringing, now she's one of us plebs.

We're from completing the opposite ends of the wealth scales. (I might have had to explain that no-one who had ever had trust fund can be called middle class before😅)...

But yer, she had a very similar upbringing to Stolas, and now is thankful no contact.

Her social masking looks very different from mine.

Mostly she only now pulls it out to tell dickheads violating civil rights to spin on it. But it's scarily 'posh lady telling you how things are going to work' lol.

And well... you can see why I thought of Stolas right?]

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AHHHHH

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Wild that I've been having this whole conversation about transpeople under a helluva boss video about their pretty women... The OP understandably cut off access to commenting so I couldn't answer but I desperately feel the need to so I'm gonna.

I am a person who loves science, i really do. It's hella fascinating. But my god people use it in weird ways sometimes.

Yeah sure what we measure might not change.. We'll usually get a similar result if we measure again and what not.. But our "facts" are based on our understanding of what we measure.. And THAT changes all the time. Especially as we learn more.

Right now we have a definition of what we consider a human female.. It's based on what we've been able to determine so far about what's common. But definitions can change.. As we learn more we might need to categorise differently.. That's just how it works.

Sure, it might be "deformaties" that make females differ from each other but the point was that we STILL define them as female.. Even though their information doesn't 100% match our definition.. That's the point.

Intersex people might not have a clear sex to begin with so it gets decided for them... Meaning.. It's not that cut and dry in reality whether you want it to be or not.

And furthermore... Yes transgenderism is classified as a mental phenomenon. And that in itself makes it incredibly hard to identify. But not for the reasons they listed..

We don't yet understand the brain.. We don't understand where feelings come from and how they work fully.. Especially since we don't operate solely on instinct and reason. It's hard to treat mental illnesses for this reason.. We have been able to find some reasons to certain issues but there is no ONE way to treat it.. Not like when it's physical.. Cus the brain is complicated especially when it comes to consciousness and what that means.

We have no real proof AGAINST transsexuality.. Other than "this isn't usually how it works" and there are so many females out there with "this isn't usually how it works" - traits.. They're still allowed to be women..

The one proof we have to go on with transpeople is their feelings.. And if the treatment helps them. The reason it became a thing was cus it happened often enough for the need to classify it as something. We don't understand WHY it happens but we've lived with it in the world long enough that we shouldn't feel the need to question THAT it happens..

Cus the thing is, there might actually be biological differences that make these people feel this way. It's likely there is.. These anomalies that sometimes show up in cis people might've just happened in the brain for one.. And since that's the central part of us, it fucks up our perception of ourself cus our body isn't what we espected it to be. It could be that way.. WE JUST DON'T KNOW!

Like most mental problems, we base our treatment on what works for the individual.. We usually don't keep treating it with something that's proven to not work... Being allowed to live as the opposite sex has proven to help.. They feel better... THAT'S A MEASUREMENT MF! Take that as fact too, why don't you??

Treating transpeople the way that has shown to help them the most has no impact on other people.. No proven impact anyway. There's been no actual increase in crime or misconduct and no one is telling kids that they're trans.. Again.. Not measured anyways. I spend a lot of time within the community too and I've never seen it happen either...

So what's the fucking problem?

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Happy Anniversary to the most emotionally devastating episode of Helluva Boss I've ever had the pleasure of watching 🔶💔

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I can't remember that much Blitz hate either.. I mean sure.. I saw some from reactors who were frustrated with him.. But I've only ever seen people talk about hate instead of the actual hate.. I'm sure there were some but I just.. Never really saw it.. Maybe once or twice.

Stolas tho... It's on every corner nowadays.. :')

Apparently right after the release of full moon and apology tour, Blitzø got a lot of criticism, which caused an uptick in Stolas criticism, as fans were trying to “even it out”.

Well, that maybe true, but as someone who didn’t start watching the show until ghost fucker, I can confidently say y’all over corrected. Not only have I never personally seen a negative Blitzø take come across my dash, but every other TikTok or helluva boss tweet is about how awful Stolas is. You can see this on YouTube especially, where Helluva Boss criticism videos are disproportionately about Stolas.

Even fans who claim to see both sides or be stolitz fans typically reduce Blitzø issues to “he just needs to love himself” while demanding insane levels of accountability from Stolas. It’s actually maddening!

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You can really tell someone’s stolitz bias by how they describe each character’s room for growth.

They’re always like “Stolas needs to applogize and be held accountable for his privileged and oblivious actions 😤😤😤and Blitzø just needs to learn how to ✨love himself ✨🥹🥹🥹🥹

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Stolitz having to get more budget-friendly with the toys-post-trial : Nipple clamps.

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Seriously... God forbid queers are just people..

Honestly I love the rep in the hellaverse specifically cus the sexuality doesn't really matter. It's not the focus, it's not a conflict it's just there. The conflicts come from what they are besides that. What kind of people they are, and really queer people just like straights come in all shapes and forms.

They all have their own little batter of traits and experiences and genetics that form them and some of them are less good than others. Thank god there's finally some media who treat us like just anyone else tbff

Coming back to the "forced rep" argument.

My annoyance with it also comes from these people acting like queer characters can only exist to be "good rep" and "role models" and literally nothing else. To them queer characters aren't allowed to just exist, there always needs to be "a point" and they always need to be "a good example".

If we're talking about kids shows then maybe this argument could hold some water, but for an adult show it definitely doesn't. Mature brains can understand the nuance and complexity without the show spoonfeeding everything down our throats.

And one of the reasons I love HB's queer rep so much is because of how real it feels. The characters are queer because they're queer, that's literally all the reason they need.

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I audibly gasped at his beauty when ı saw this wtf stolas.💕💕

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I find it awesome and funny that in most shows, all characters are assumed to be straight until confirmed otherwise. Meanwhile, in the Hellaverse, all characters are to be assumed to be some flavour of queer/LGBTQIA+ until the show confirms that they are straight. I remember seeing someone on Tumblr who was annoyed about how straight was the default, talking about how one day they are going to make a show where straight is the minority and thinking that could be an interesting concept. And years later, it has actually been done. For example, I remember an argument where someone insisted that Lucifer was straight, and it turns out that they were wrong because straight is not the default of the show. Niffty is the only confirmed straight character in Hazbin Hotel, and we literally cannot assume any other character is straight unless it is confirmed by the creators. What a lovely reversal of fortune.

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It's one thing to be disappointed that a specific character is confirmed straight because you had a queer headcanon for them, but these people seriously need to stop implying it's bad for a queer show to have canon straight characters.

Straight allies are SO impotant, because it shows this isn't an "us vs them" thing and us queers are allowed to exist among cishets. Not to mention how important it is for straight allies to genuinely enjoy this show and characters, too.

THAT is how you normalize us queers!

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Yknow, as a fellow pansexual myself.. I really feel like Blitz is the most pan character that's ever canonically pan'd.

Obviously everyone's experience is different, but he speaks to mine. I talked before about how I think Blitz has a type. Stolas, Fizz and Moxxie are pretty similar in personality BUT different in appearance. Sure they're all twinky, but in different ways.

But, he often goes for the softer ones, the kinder ones, but also people who'll stand up to him. Anatomy is whatever, he can fuck anything, but personality is important.. It's THE thing that drives his romantic feelings.

The outlier is Verosika, so far.. But we also don't know how she was with Blitz. She seems to be bitchier, more vindictive than his usual type.. Even if all of them most definitely HAS a bitchier side to them. I can't imagine her NOT standing up to him tho.

Then again, while I also go for a specific personality type that spans over all genders.. There are certain things I find specifically attractive in certain genders too, even if it's no deal breaker (I'm nonbinary and tend to be drawn towards androgyny. But both long term partners I've had have been very cis. My girlfriend now is an average girl, not even supergirly just.. A girl, and she's hot af).

So he could also just be looking for something different in her. OR given the time in his life where he dated her, he could've been looking for something new and more chaotic to match the rest of his life. Who knows, i hope we find out.

Point is, his type is pretty obviously personality based romantically but sexually his limits are pretty high. If he says he's pan, it makes perfect sense to me.