Stolas's Backstory Is HORRIBLY SAD 

Well okay. I don’t think it’s entirely Blitz fault for being the way he is. Most of his interactions with stolas have been sexual. So that’s all he see’s it as. Is stolas only talking to him and being friendly with him for sexual gratification.

@@Adude420but it kinda changes things when Blitz was the one who started it. Blitz was the one who set the cards up the way they are. Stolas was the only one showing anything last sexual interest. But due to blitz’ own issues he doesn’t think Stolas really cares about him. Blitz who thing is that he thinks know one can love him. Tbh most of this is on blitz since he’s just making things worse for himself. It’s a lot of self sabotage on his end.

@@Adude420 I agree - I'm not blaming blitz, just laughing because Danny started thinking Stolas was strange and rather unlikeable, but now is fully in his corner.

​@@JelliesStarBlitz started it but Stolas continued it by making it transactional in ep1 season 1.

Tbh thats how I felt too. Without context, his introduction as a character does not give you the full picture of who he is and what he's really about. I thought he was overbearing, slightly predatory, and (clearly) incredibly obsessed with filthy, kinky sex. It wasn't really endearing at first. I felt similarly about a few of the characters (and the show itself), tbh. They all grew on me pretty quickly though. One thing HB excels at is developing nuance and fleshing out it's characters' motivations and flaws. Makes for a really compelling story where you absolutely do fall in love with and root for them.

He really did a Ranpo 2.0 XD

@@hoshisan3370 FR

​@@hoshisan3370 Fr 😂

Hope it won't affect his perception of Blitz TOO much.

@@masido443 I'm waiting for the episode 6 reaction

that was NOT A FUN FACT 😭💔

STAWP AJIAN8WSYHS8QYHSQ 😭😭🙏🙏

Thanks for the trauma ​@@pabulumm

Youll be hearing from my therapist

Ngl, makes me happy because I rlly rlly like Blitzo and Stolas. I’m waiting for Blitzo’s lightbulb moment that he realizes Stolas ACTUALLY LOVES him

ayo sameee that & stolas asking blitzø if he remembers moxxie’s phone number are both excellent comedy imo 🥲🥲🥲

One of my favorite Stolas lines

I know! Maybe he didn't find it funny?

Lol I love that

S2 stolas always go for the THROAT and i am HERE FOR IT. He's gotten so much more sassier and confident, especially in defending himself from anyone's verbal abuse✨

DAMN

that makes his whole situation 10 times sadder

“Was it the floating eye for this one??? No no, it was the goat, wasn’t it? Or the owl?”

*looks at photo of stella* “I’m just going to assume it’s some kind or bird”

*remembers a different Paimon.* wow she can get it

kim dokja pfp?

Cursed statement

Stolas should use that as a comeback sometime 😂 it was genius.

You could say it was… “fowl.”

Aren't you black? Talk about- huh? _oh uh huh. Ok._ *clears throat* My lawyer advises me not to finish that joke.

nerd

That is such a fantastic detail

I love this

Noooo stop it hurts

Possibly more than anyone else does, too

✨️🎉 *~~I AM IN MISERY~~* 🎉✨️

@@anokartist2352 REESES PUFFS REESES PUFFS! ATEM UP

So true! Every time I see that scene, I'm like "That says more about you than it does about him. He is NOT into you."

Deadass. Like, wow, congrats lady. Your husband so DOESN'T want to have sex with you. This is not the burn you think it is.

She is that stupid!🤣

I know right

@@darkredeemer8Fr

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing 😬

STOPPPP, I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT

i was just about to write that

I just sat here like, "Oh my sweet, summer child..."

😂😂

I would watch that moment on repeat.

@@filmfangirls9163 id bring the popcorn for that one.

​@DarkCT heck yeah! 🍿

Thrown! Preferably

I agree, child stoles is soon cute. So is child blitz and fizz.

real

See my underdeveloped lizard brain read this as the voice of jarjar and was left really confused.

Jonathan Freeman is amazing.

He also voices Cash, Blitz's dad.

And Stolas was actually there for Octavia. Paimon didn't even bother to (physically) go.

My most important distinction was that when Via told Stolas how she felt about him bringing her there, he heard and understood and even apologized. His dad wouldn’t have done that.

That’s true

​@@autumnmarieharper3923And its then that they leave, when he realizes that he can't give her that moment. Except he doesn't fully realize that he can't give that moment because he's a decent father, and his own father set the bar so low that any genuine from anyone attention was life changing.

Also there's the homicidal Beetlejuice robot

Because thats exactly how he is. Just when Stolas was a kid they didnt have Ipads in hell yet. So he shoved books and the circus in Stolas's face hoping that would be enough to shut him up.

Because he is, you don’t need an entire damn paragraph to understand that (👆)

@@trixiebewitched yea it's really sad honestly how he doesn't even care about Stolas

@@Six_piece_nugget he cares. Just in the way an emotionally absent father would. He doesn't care about how stolas feels as long as he does his job as an Ars Goetia by the end of it.

Thats exactly what he'd do

Maybe he doesn’t reciprocate with women but he does with men ?? Idk

​@@AmyAberrantblitz doesn't reciprocate with anyone. He just pushes everyone away once they get too close

@@AmyAberranthe’s pan!!

​@@AmyAberrant nah, he's pan, that's not it. Mostly my guess is they were super toxic when they were together?? Like one second they're super lovey-dovey and sexed up, the other, they're fighting and screaming and throwing things at each other, constantly trying to throw verbal barbs at the other etc. When she might want him to reciprocate, he doesn't and vice versa for her too. Maybe she wanted him to reciprocate her FEELINGS? And he didn't? Idk

There are theories that his mother was part succubus. It'd explain why he is physically built different than most imps, crossbreeds are rare but exist. And it'd explain his level of horny as well as why some people are attracted to him no matter how poorly he treats them, and why he winds up getting frequently objectified.

Actually, Stella's a harpy eagle, which makes her behavior all the more punny, since she is literally a harpy of a wife. 😉 Just google the image of a harpy eagle and you'll see what I mean. It's actually brilliant!

Ooh that's clever, and also ties well into him being interested in the games that imp children play, as well as the general classism thing Stolas struggles with. He thinks he sees them as equals because he doesn't see them as different than him, but because imps were naturally in positions of servitude to Stolas, he grew to expect that behavior of them, all while still believing they were equals. Then as an adult it starts to finally click that this is not how equals treat each other. His needs aren't the only ones that matter.

he also has a little imp stuffie in all his portraits as a kid

@@47ratsinahoodie👏🏻Great analysis!

True

I WAS LOOKING FOR THIS COMMENT LOL

I thought that the song was called "Owl in a cage"

@@WaltDevil060 Its what most people call it. But on helluva boss official Spotify thing its Stolas sings, and on yt too I think.

Same… I remember I just said, “wow” when I first heard it. That is a good line for the scene.

First time I heard this line, I started to tear up because the line is so relatable & heavy

OH that's why??? I just assumed he was a witch from Wizard of Oz lmao

@@plazma0325SAME HELP

@@plazma0325same here but it took me a second to

​@@plazma0325Yep, when they emerge from the portal the posters are on the wall, as well as other points!

THANK YOU! I'm so blind so unless Danny points it out, I don't see it. I was so confused why it wasn't explained XD Thankyouthankyou!

I thought that he makes babies with many different kinds of furries, Stolas is a bird, so the dad probs had to become a bird to conceive Stolas. Maybe he becomes other animals to conceive other furry babies

@@echostar7395 idk about other furries specifically, just other types of demons, like he's clearly a shapeshifter of some kind, so he's probably got children of different species of demons.

This is actually wholesome. His intentions aren't there but he's legitimately a halfway decent dad in this episode lmao

But does he CARE that much?

@@cam_luong I wouldnt go that far, maybe quarter way decent, he isn't completely horrible, and shows some compassion, but he's kind of an absent father, he didn't even remember his name

Butler?

Nah I think he got it with "intern"

Intern sounds right

I fucking lost it at "distructo-nookie"

he's like 10ft tall I wouldn't say little

​@@WhiteNoBeard471 he was definitely little as a child

How would one birth a 10 foot child ​@@WhiteNoBeard471

@@WhiteNoBeard471he was the same height as blitzø my guy

​​​​@@WhiteNoBeard471 most of his height in adulthood is his feet. Like his feet are almost Blitz's height. He is basically double Blitz's size like that. But human's height is mostly legs anyway, so it fits..

Truly thats exactly what literally everyone he's done his entire life up till now hard to unlearn that

That’s why he’s my favorite character, I want him to heal and realize Stolas does truly love him

Oh gosh he is gonna hate ep 3 and 4. I hate 4 too tho so I'm gonna skip that one but I'll watch him react to 3!

​@@filmfangirls9163What?! That's one of the most important ones???

@@filmfangirls9163I can understand ep 5but hating the 2 best episodes of the season is craaaaazzzzzy

Tbf, Moxxies life now IS pretty good. His past was awful, but most of the time in the current time, his life is pretty good. Some unfortunate moments for sure, but he's happy, he has a job he's good at that he seems to like, he's got a good and loving wife who loves him for who he is...

@@filmfangirls9163hating the 4th best episode in the show is crazyyy 1st - MAMMON’S MAGNIFICENT MUSICAL MID-SEASON SPECIAL 2nd - Ozzie’s 3rd - Exe’s n’ Oos 4th - Western Energy

Yeah, he probably only just got his first nomination.

Right! Like Blitzø PLEASE stop acting like you aren't the problem here! Even if Stolas was just using him for his body Blitz's was the one who broke into his fucking house, stole the book that he needs to do his purpose in life, but ONLY turned back to sleep with him because he felt a little guilty about leading Stolas on so much. You could even argue that Stolas is so obsessed with sex with Blitzø because that was the only time he gets to feel wanted, but even then he's willing to just be normal with him too after all that. Like damn Blitzø, stop making your own life hell.

Womp womp

Does no one actually understand that Blitzø's whole issue is avoidant attachment? He hates himself so much he KNOWS he's the problem but doesn't believe he deserves to fix things. In every picture ONLY BLITZ was scratched out; he knows he's the issue. He just isn't ready to deal with that fact head on.

Blitz has a lot of his own issues to deal with. He’s not just being a jerk.

​@@xyrkzessome people don't know what nuance is, so when one person is being the jerk openly, then they HAVE to be the bad guy. People tend to forget that STOLAS is the bad guy here for making this a transactional relationship. With strings attached. That was all STOLAS. Danny seems to have forgotten that too.

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@@emyrodriguezzzzI mean he also didn’t have to cheat on his wife, he could have divorced her first but he was being too much of a pussy.

Yeah but his depression is his fault

@@arthurmiles3776 I cannot tell if this is satire

​@@StingingNettle47 oh it is, this joke is made on every channel. By the same person? Who knows, maybe it's a bot

Exactly. It's wild to me how people are not seeing both sides. Some like Danny see nothing wrong with Stolas and some I know see Blitzø as the victim and Stolas as an abuser. To me its too men who entered a consensual contract with selfish gain but feelings got in the way. I have a feeling Danny is not going to like Look My Way cuz Stolas is very apologetic and in pain. I'm definitely gonna skip his Western Energy reaction cuz I just know he's gonna be mad at Blitzø for choosing to stay at the hospital with Loona. Many do. But I am gonna click like and leave a comment to support him!

I'm not saying I disagree with you totally. I just do feel the need to point out technically Stolas did not hold anything over Blitz's head. Blitz STOLE his grimoire prior to S1E1. Blitz still HAS it in S1E1. Stolas has made no effort to get it back, although he could have easily on his own, or chosen to be a real bastard and gotten Blitz in a TON of trouble. Technically, that phone call is Stolas negotiating the return of the grimoire and giving Blitz an out so that Stolas does NOT have to make a THING out of it. Does he also use it as a way to get something he wants? Absolutely. You're 100% correct in that Blitz's options all sucked: Take this deal, or gimme the grimoire back, or I'm going to TAKE it back/get your ass arrested. But Blitz left himself open to trouble when he stole from an Ars Goetia. So I respectfully disagree that anything was held over his head, because he didn't have a right to that book in the first place. He was given an out and he took it. Now, you are ABSOLUTELY CORRECT about Stolas' behavior towards him in s1. He demeaned him, he objectified him, he was dismissive of objections. That's 100% on him. And he did...choose... to have an affair, although one could argue his decision making was impaired at the time. He'd downed an entire bottle of absinthe, not to mention numerous glasses of champagne. He was extremely angry at Stella, and was suddenly being pursued in a way he'd only read about. Probably dreamed about. And Blitz was not giving him a lot of time to *think*, as pressed as he was to get the grimoire. Every time Stolas tried to slow down to think, Blitz escalated. So honestly, that one's a bit iffy as well. And while not free from flawed decisions or behaviors, it can't be overlooked that Stolas is 100% a victim of spousal abuse. Verbal and emotional, at least. Physical, possibly. One "on-camera" attempt to backhand him does not make a pattern. People tend to handwave a lot of his flawed behaviors due to this... but I think it's more interesting to see characters as both. Especially since we're actively seeing Stolas try to correct and change.

@@filmfangirls9163 Two men who entered a consensual contract for selfish gain is EXACTLY what they are. And both caught more feels than they meant to. XD And I'm not sure Danny sees nothing wrong with Stolas. Like, last video he said "I don't think Blitz would run off for a booty call if his daughter was in danger. He's not Stolas." But honestly, S2 has been a HARD one on Stolas fans AND Blitz fans because Stolas has taken a lot of hits and Blitz has made some REAL fucked decisons (*coughChazcough*) and lord forbid you're a person who still wants them to end up together and oof.

​@@saralovelace7219good points!!

@@saralovelace7219Per their first phone conversation, I have a different take on it: Stolas mentions to Blitz that they already had a discussion about the book and he already knew they were using it illegally. And it's established in this episode that he stayed all night. So while it was his intention to steal, he ultimately did get permission from Stolas to use it. While we know Stolas was drunk and abused, Blitz may not have known that. Stolas was the one who mentioned sex first - he didn't know Stolas well enough to know that his social skills are terrible. Their entire initial encounter started as Blitz being self serving and mean, later growing to like Stolas enough to stay all night. But he was fine to keep their sex as a one night stand - Stolas chose to make them have sex monthly. Stolas also could have offered to have IMP do other things, like bodyguard work or other jobs, in order to use the book, but kept his payment as sex only. I do agree that he's an abuse victim. I absolutely pity him give him major credit for trying to fix things. But I wouldn't consider either one more innocent in this than the other. I'm also not sure that Danny has paid close enough attention to Blitz's character. Yes he's an ass, but he's very traumatized and currently his self hate is his biggest enemy. So people do need to give him some slack for his behavior, too.

It’s so cute

He co wrote the show?? Ohhhh that… makes so much sense

Standing next to an 8ft owl twink: "Your honor, I must ask that you give my client the world because he is _just a widdle baby_ and I like him."

​@@conspiracypanda1200that's adorable 😂

Me too

although I agree, chronologically that music video takes place after episode 6 since it has that plot beat at the start of the song where Stolas receives the plot related thing.

@abbysol5812 right. But Danny in current day is caught up. These are all prerecorded, so I just wanna make sure current day Danny watches 🤣

Ironic considering that Brandon is one of the show writers. XD

they liked him enough to upgrade him from an antagonist to shipping him and letting him be an absolute unit. ~

Yup

He becomes genuinely emotionally invested in the characters and their journeys. It indicates he has a healthy capacity for empathy. Which is objectively good and something humanity-- in general and as a whole-- desperately needs more of. Anyways, rant over bye.

Yeah she was already bad enough, but like- Girl strangled puppies as a child, what??😭

NOT EM CHECKING AND HOLY SCHMOLY YOUR RIGHT,

Fr

Same

SAME

Same

And then you remember that Stolas is perfectly capable of wrecking house, ruining lives, slaughtering his enemies, etc... he just chooses not to. Viv and Brandon read the "pacifist" descriptor about Stolas in the Lesser Key and went "ah yes. Trauma pinata." I mean I'm not mad about it. There's a very compelling story to be told about potentially pushing a pacifist to the extent of their patience, kindness, and strength in their belief. So far, Stolas has held on to that in the face of Stella's cruelty. Will he continue to? Especially with Andrealphus coming into play? We have a Chekhov's gun hung on the wall from Western Energy-- the only time we've seen Stolas ACTUALLY threaten another demon was in response to a threat to Octavia. ....We'll see what happens.

@@saralovelace7219 given how utterly terrifying Stolas was versus the men in black who'd kidnapped Blitz, pretty sure Hell is going to need a whole other Ring to run to if they succeed in making him that mad. 🤔

@@saralovelace7219 Heck Stolas was so much a pacifist that he didn't even kill the Agent when he twisted her head around during his summoning. Dude was just "lemme just spin this back in place. there we are". He also still turned a Imp to stone and had no issue with Blitz killing Imps at Loo Loo Land. Its a neat way to show Stolas isn't quite as innocent as he lets on. But he's also not that bad of a dude even in Hell.

yes!! you put this so well, i see so many people ‘picking sides’ (especially, it seems, when it comes to blitzø) which always just feels like they’re completely missing the point (that you’ve articulated so well here !!) ❤

I remember hearing the opposite, that he didn't need many takes before the one they used but he was literally crying while singing it and that's why it sounds like genuine distress

Wow

​​@@musicisum0405He did it many times considering the fact that he did the entire song for a while, so when he started recording actual takes it sounded raw already. If I remember right, it only took him 4 takes, but he had sung himself slightly raw before that perfectly imperfect take.

@@grey8288 I mean that's probably true too, I'm just going off what I remember from their livestream a while back, they said he was actually crying while recording

I laughed too!! He never thinks he's funny but he is hilarious!!

All Hellhounds have human disguises. Vortex also had one. I don't think Loona got it from the grimoire. Tho the official lore on how demons disguise themselves (at least, magically) is still up in the air.

​@@The1nvisibleJeevasmy theory is that Hellhounds have a natural affinity for magic and thats why theyre pushed to the bottom rung of social class, to keep them from uprising and overthrowing the order

Hellhounds are just slightly more powerful than Imps so they have access to things Imps don't have. Tex has one too.