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saying that Stella is based on Beatrice Horseman to this day remains the stupidest thing Vivzie has ever said
Is that so? I would love to tell you if I agreed or disagreed with you, but I’ve never seen that show, so I cannot give you my thoughts. Glad you got it out of your system, however, it seems like you needed it. <3
Stella is NOT the Mastermind 😭😭 she is just a dumb idiot bitch, EVERYONE on staff has confirmed this!
ooooooooor, check this out, what if they just want us to believe that 😱
lol, just kidding. Whatever turns out to be the case, it will be enjoyable to watch. I am just a big fan of theories and pulling conclusions from every and all (possible and impossible) angles. 🤓
Hey, Stolas's crippling depression and passive suicidal thoughts aside,
That, "DO IT. PUSSY". Hot. HOT.
Literally unbelievable.
To everyone who keeps complaining about Stella “once again being portrayed as pretty and dumb” and saying she needs a better character representation: are you serious?
Didn’t “Mastermind” just show how brilliant Stella’s writing actually is? Just that one scene when she hugs Octavia and shows how much of a cold c*nt she actually is.
Andrealphus verbally abusing her EXPLAINS why she is the way she is. She plays into it because her brother is the actual dumb one and she’s probably known this for a long, long time. She lets him do all the public work, stand before Satan and the court and spill lies after lies, even allows Striker to take the stand. She will watch it all burn from the shadows, and she thinks five steps ahead.
She’s got everything she wanted in this episode— almost. What’s left is just to set up her dumb, self-centered brother next, to frame him, use Striker for it, get rid of them all, twist Octavia to her liking and RULE. And now, she has space of 100 years to do it before Stolas gets his powers back. She managed this much during Octavia’s short 17 year-old-life, who says what this bitch can’t cook in another 100?
Stolas’ life is in danger now, every day, for every minute, because of her. We already heard Octavia crying and telling Stolas he never loved her or Mother. She already had that smirk on her face while Andrealphus was ripping his shirt off like a horny football fan on live TV for all Hell to see. She wanted to stay unnoticed because that’s how she succeeds.
She IS the actual Mastermind behind all of this mess, and all it took was for one imp to fall into her cake and staining her dress after fucking her husband she never cared for.
She is an absolutely great villain, and she IS horrible. There are reasons for it, as the show keeps pointing out, but she is and always will be horrible. And a part of good writing is that we do not have to see that in detail to figure it out and feel it. I don’t need another Disneyfied “poor little mew mew, everyone misunderstands you and here’s a why song” excuse of a villain. I want to see an unapologetic, evil bitch of a villain who owns her own backstory and doesn’t need anyone to understand her because that time has long passed. Helluva Boss is giving us exactly that, and I love it.
This theory is sooo insane… There are two moments that make me doubt that she is a mastermind, however.
One, she really tried to Kill Stolas and only backtracked after Andre did a very good convincing. Stolas very nearly died, so, why go on with the full plan so hard when she could have faked everything to play dumb? I think she trully didn’t thought that through and she really just wanted to kill him (of course, her plan may involve manipulate Octavia later to let her have power over everything, but Andrealphus convinced her that the other way was better and I think she genuinely didn’t consider that).
Two, why she didn’t told Andre about the Grimoire before? Of course she could be playing dumb, but, if that was true this would mean that the moment it happened should have been strategic, and I don’t see how that makes sense? Like, they could have done this before or later and I don’t see why it is different after the breakup. Probably she knew that Stolas would be more likely to sacrifice himself in the pain of the breakup? I don’t know what your thoughts are on this one.
However, that smirk when Octavia was crying clearly frame her as a true villain, and I really want to know what it means to the future and I also agree that she is more what she has shown.
I took it as a confirmation that she doesn’t care about Octavia’s feelings at all and that she is willing to do everything to have power over her daughter too. Octavia is probably in danger and I am trully concerned because she is going to reject Stolas.
For me, it seems that Stella wants to take Stolas out of the way between her and Octavia (this may also be the reason why she has been taking her more with her now) and that could be a plan she has. Maybe she had this plan before, but didn’t knew exactly hoy to proceed better, and this is why the first thing she tried to do was to kill him? Later, Andrealphus guided her through the process in some points and now that she is only with her daughter try to manipulate her further for some other end that only she knows? Because now she cannot manipulate Stolas.
Oh I love this, let’s go full fantasy villain mode.
Here’re my thoughts (and by no means do I believe them to be unbreakable, so feel free to poke, dig, discuss. This is all just good banter and fun):
Firstly, Mission Kill Stolas is an excellent point, glad you brought it up. Let me stretch it, for the fun of it.
Stella hires Stiker to shoot at Stolas during the festival in Wrath. Shoot AT. Just scare him a little, or even wound him, as a warning and as a message to always be on edge. To make him isolate himself. But, Blitz ruins that.
Blitz stops that and Stolas remains non-the-wiser. So she decides to try something else: Call Striker to come to a very public place, where she meets her brother and Stolas. If she really wanted Stolas dead right away, she could have let Striker into the mansion and kill Stolas in his sleep. Shoot him in that restaurant. Stop his horse anywhere, literally anywhere and put a bullet in Stolas’ head.
Why did Striker take Stolas all the way to Wrath, and allow him to CALL Blitz if the idea was to Just Kill Stolas? Why torture him if the idea was to have him killed and be over with it? Time. She needed time.
Because she needed her brother. She needed him to see this “clumsy maneuver”, to go “guiltyyyyy” all puppy-eyed so Andre can finally get in the game. And she must hate him for the freedom he has, for not being the one to have to merry well, for always talking down on her. So she does what she does best, embodies the stereotype Andre is sure she is, and lets him come to the conclusion of “We need Stolas alive”. As soon as that happens, Andre is hooked. Striker has no idea what is happening, but Stela doesn’t need him to know. She just needed him to stall, and inflict damage because, again, she is petty like that. But not kill him. Not yet. She would have called it off anyway, and nobody needed to know that.
The problem is, if they just acted soon after, it would have been suspicious. Sure, blame it on Blitz and his book, but what if Octavia got suspicious? What if Striker, out of fear, told everyone she hired him? So what does she do? Stella waits. She waits for the inevitable crashing of Stolas’ emotional state, because she, no matter how much we hate to admit it, knows her ex husband. She knows how little Stolas needs to be miserable.
And then it happens— the breakup. Of course she knows. At this point, her relationship with Octavia is maneuvered in such a way that she hears all about Stolas from her. She knows what happened, and she probably heard the “talk of the town” how Stolas went to Versika’s party.
Stolas is alone, desperate and miserable - perfect state for him to make a fatal mistake — and she goes to see her brother. Again. Slips it in so casually, “Ah yes, the book.” Again. Plants seeds and watches Andre burst into icy flames. But now Andre is all too excited, he is so convinced that THIS IS IT. So he acts, rashly. He “takes the reins” and flaunts in front of Satan, makes his bold statements, lies, acuses, makes a show.
And Stolas makes a mistake. He falls into a trap by rushing to save Blitz, he is not thinking about Octavia at all because it’s all very impulsive and fearful and — she has Octavia exactly where she wants her.
“Dad doesn’t love me.”
“I am so sorry, sweetheart…. Come here.”
Bam.
Meanwhile, Striker already took the stand and lied, never mentioned her at all, Andre already became the public face of Stolas’ punishment. Stolas just risked his life for Blitz.
Bam.
She’s a grieving, loving mother rushing to aid her child. She is victim of a scandalous relationship between her royal husband and an imp. She is a clumsy, pretty sister of a “mastermind”, a sister who can’t even remember what she had for breakfast let alone how to hire an imp assassin — how could she?
Bam.
So as the chips fall and the dust clears, Stella hugs her daughter, away from everyone’s eyes, and smiles.
Literally unbelievable.
To everyone who keeps complaining about Stella “once again being portrayed as pretty and dumb” and saying she needs a better character representation: are you serious?
Didn’t “Mastermind” just show how brilliant Stella’s writing actually is? Just that one scene when she hugs Octavia and shows how much of a cold c*nt she actually is.
Andrealphus verbally abusing her EXPLAINS why she is the way she is. She plays into it because her brother is the actual dumb one and she’s probably known this for a long, long time. She lets him do all the public work, stand before Satan and the court and spill lies after lies, even allows Striker to take the stand. She will watch it all burn from the shadows, and she thinks five steps ahead.
She’s got everything she wanted in this episode— almost. What’s left is just to set up her dumb, self-centered brother next, to frame him, use Striker for it, get rid of them all, twist Octavia to her liking and RULE. And now, she has space of 100 years to do it before Stolas gets his powers back. She managed this much during Octavia’s short 17 year-old-life, who says what this bitch can’t cook in another 100?
Stolas’ life is in danger now, every day, for every minute, because of her. We already heard Octavia crying and telling Stolas he never loved her or Mother. She already had that smirk on her face while Andrealphus was ripping his shirt off like a horny football fan on live TV for all Hell to see. She wanted to stay unnoticed because that’s how she succeeds.
She IS the actual Mastermind behind all of this mess, and all it took was for one imp to fall into her cake and staining her dress after fucking her husband she never cared for.
She is an absolutely great villain, and she IS horrible. There are reasons for it, as the show keeps pointing out, but she is and always will be horrible. And a part of good writing is that we do not have to see that in detail to figure it out and feel it. I don’t need another Disneyfied “poor little mew mew, everyone misunderstands you and here’s a why song” excuse of a villain. I want to see an unapologetic, evil bitch of a villain who owns her own backstory and doesn’t need anyone to understand her because that time has long passed. Helluva Boss is giving us exactly that, and I love it.
“One day, I am going to fly one of those things.”
I will die on this hill, this is her. This must be her. <3
They uwufied Cthulhu, I can’t…
I think its funny that people genuinely don't believe Stolitz is canon/endgame when OFFICAL ART ON THE OFFICAL WEBSITE like THIS exists
lets be fr for a moment y'all
STOP GIGGLING AT HOW SMALL HE IS, HE WANTS A KISS!!!!!
(dw, he got it eventually <3)
shout out to spooky shadowy figure with glowing eyes stolas. gotta be one of my favorite genders
Now's your moment
My babies!!!!! 😭😭😭 This is all Stolas wants!!!
The swearing made me giggle, this was a lot of fun to make :) getting the hang of drawing them I think
warms ♥️
I love how even though Stolas isn't in the short, he's not even mentioned or brought up at all (at most the crystal is, but not the connection it has to Stolas), we still managed to get some nice Stolitz ship fuel out of it!
Do not underestimate our power!
Random headcanon that's definitely my delusion speaking, but what if Blitz's ability to give head is based on his confidence and how comfortable he feels?
Like, why he failed giving it to Verosika and wasn't able to do it right with the crystal because of the stressful situation. But when he still had the deal with Stolas and they were able to "lose themselves" in it as he calls it, he was genuinely good at it. It came to him naturally, because he felt comfortable (wheter he wanted to admit it or not) and didn't have to think about it.
And especially if we're supposed to assume this short takes place after Apology Tour, is it really that weird to assume all Blitz's sex life confidence went down the drain?
I'm probably talking out of my ass, but just let me have this...
Imagine if, in a future short/episode, Moxxie makes a passing comment about how Blitzø is a top in front of Stolas, and Stolas just laughs and goes "is that what you've told them, darling?", killing Blitzø instantly
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