#Western Energy

[blitzwhore]

Never forget that in this moment we don't just hear the first note of Stolas Speaks (Stolas' theme song). We also hear the click of a camera as it takes a photograph.

And, sure, this makes sense, because dozens of reporters are documenting this moment, and more clicks can be heard moments later as Stolas is taken into the hospital.

But the reason we hear a click right at the same time as Blitz sees Stolas' feathers is the same reason time suddenly slows down for a split second. It's because this moment, this instant of realisation, is etching itself in Blitz's mind, and he will never forget it.

It's the moment he realises he's failed Stolas.

He's failed to show up. Failed to protect him. Failed to be there when Stolas needed him.

Just the same way he failed Fizz, and his mom, and Barbie. All moments that have haunted him for 15 years. Their photo going up in flames in his mind, over and over again every time he remembers the accident. And now this photo, too, will be tangible proof in his mind that he is doomed, that he is tainted. That he can't stop failing the ones he loves. That he will always make things worse.

He will never forgive himself for failing Stolas. It will never not haunt him a little bit. And, hopefully, he will never, ever let it happen again.

[geekgirles]

We don't deserve Stolas 💖💖💖

[the-irreverend]

I'm sorry, but I just love this little moment between Loona and Blitzo.

It's just that moments like these are sadly few and far between in this show, and I do hope we get more scenes where Loona doesn't act cold towards Blitzo.

[fatboychedda]

Blitz cares about Stolas, you can’t change my mind.

[daddyhoothoot]

People who don’t find Stolas funny: 🤡

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

Pain.

What is pain?

[petitprincess1]

Love the banter here, but I need to know who did it. Who hurt Striker! Why does he have such rage against the Royals! WHO HURT HIM! WHO TOOK WHAT HE CARED ABOUT AWAY!

[poison332]

Someone said on the twits bird realm that in the hospital scene, there was a flower losing petals and they were thinking it supposed to be a “loves me, loves me not,” thing, so I played along and…

“He loves me”

“He loves me not”

“He loves me”

“He loves me not”

…it doesn’t look good.

Oh Stolas! My precious, my baby!🥺😫😩

[this-fine-day]

Bro really had a legit "gay panic" moment.

[stolasspeaks]

"Maybe you can say mean things to me too the next time you come over" if this man doesn't dig up some self-esteem soon istfg

[ifwebefriends]

A detail I haven’t really seen brought up/mentioned from the new episode:

When Stolas opens the message app it doesn’t start where the new message is like it usually does (at least in our world). He has to scroll a bit before we see the new message. That’s obvious, but why is it like that? What reason is there for the messages to open there aside from extra context for the audience? My theory:

Stolas was rereading old messages between him and Blitzø.

[geekgirles]

'Nuff said

[oversensitiveandoffputting]

I cannot stop watching the first four minutes of Apology Tour because it’s so well-acted and animated (especially Bryan Pinkham, oh my god he was told Stolas was a cunt this episode and he delivered).

Stolas admittedly got petty when he brought up Striker and reminded Blitz that Blitz wasn’t there when he was being tortured and was almost murdered. But I think he knows Blitz was prioritizing his child and while it may hurt, as a father himself, he doesn’t actually hold it against Blitz for not being there.

What I think is actually cutting him up is that the guy he’s in a situationship with and in limerance with (meaning intense, obsessive crush), never showed up to see him at the hospital and kept making excuses to to not talk to him after he was tortured and almost murdered.

Like, fuck man. That has to hurt. That has to feel like a stab to the gut. We know as the audience that Blitz is keeping himself at a distance because of his self-hatred and complicated feelings and guilt, but Stolas doesn’t.

And shoutout to @timkontheunsure for finding this:

To be very quickly followed up by Blitz admitting he already knew Striker was trying to kill Stolas, even if he didn’t take it seriously (I take it at face value that Blitz didn’t think of Striker as a threat to Stolas. He took the assassination attempt itself seriously but had no reason to think Striker would attempt a second time and especially be successful. He seemed genuinely shocked that Stolas could be killed in Western Energy).

So, from Stolas’ POV: you’re have this intense, obsessive crush on your situationship. The other guy does not take it seriously that you were badly injured, never saw you in the hospital, is avoiding seeing you after you get out of hospital, sent you pictures of your torturer’s horse as memes, and then admitted that he already knew your torturer had plans to murder you while calling your a racist. Stolas probably believes Blitz does not care if he lives or dies. And while we as the audience agree that Stolas has racial blindness to work on, I’m sure the first time he’s ever had to think about race/class dynamics being when he’s being tortured is not giving him any motivation to check himself on it. I wouldn’t be surprised if the whole topic throws him into a PTSD episode. This is especially heartbreaking because Stolas is making an effort to hide an injury he still has from Striker, most likely because he’s royalty and royalty have to appear strong at all times.

Sometimes I wonder if Blitz knows if Stolas wasn’t a pacifist, he would have murdered him ten times over by now.

And Stolas’ little drunken speech at the end is so fucking sad. I think he’s being literal when he says he wants someone to care if he stays or goes, but also euphemistic. He wants someone to care if he leaves the morning after, but he wants someone to care if he’s fucking murdered or not.

My sad birb, the bar cannot be this low.

And I think it’s going to be another thing that makes things very complicated and vitriolic between them. On Blitz’s end, you have the racism/classism and the power dynamic. On Stolas’ end, you have the knowledge that your situationship only wanted to see you for your access to the human world (there’s no way he didn’t figure that out after months of being left on read, which he mentions in S1E1) and probably wouldn’t have known if you passed at the hospital because he had no intention of seeing you. And Stolas deserves to have that hurt acknowledged. All the birb wanted was a “hey I’m glad you’re not dead here’s a little kiss on the forehead and a horse movie to keep you entertained.” That’s it. The bar is so low it’s six feet under Hell and it still wasn’t met.

And Stolas’s response was to get a little petty one time when they were already arguing? My ass would be using this to win every argument from now until Armageddon.

“Stolas did you do the dishes?”

“IDK Blitz. Did you come visit me in the hospital after Striker tried to gouge my eyes out?”

[araminakilla]

Same (western) energy

[daddyhoothoot]

I hope we get more eldritch Stolas in the future

[tranquil-slaughterhouse]

And yet those guys hired him...