Something I think people fail to take into consideration when talking about Stolas antis is that pretty much everything they complain about stems from the fact that they wholeheartedly believe that Stolas raped Blitz and trapped him in a coercive sexual relationship. The fact that the narrative explicitly states otherwise doesn't matter to them, that's the big sin that all of their other complaints build off of.
They tend to have really gross ideas about sex workers in general to start with, like thinking they can't consent or like their job no matter what, which makes them genuinely believe there's no way Blitz could have agreed to the full moon deal of his own volition or enjoyed it in any way. Blitz gets turned into a poor, helpless victim who has no other way of financially supporting himself and Loona (who they treat like a young teenager rather than an adult who can get a different job to help support their income), and who is so scared of Stolas that he can't deny him anything, despite him literally telling Stolas no multiple times and standing up to the likes of Mammon with no issues and even Satan once he got incensed enough.
So in their eyes, the deal has to be rape by virtue of it being sex work, and to them sexual abuse is the worst possible kind of abuse there is. Which then makes Stolas a monster compared to everyone else in the show and thus worthy of their contempt in a way that literally no one else is. Torture and murder are lesser crimes to them when compared to sexual abuse, so no matter what anyone else does it doesn't hold a candle to Stolas' supposed crimes.
That's why they think he plays the victim when he gets sad and work themselves into a rabid fervor over it, because they think he's sexually abusive towards Blitz and thus shouldn't be allowed to be shown in a sympathetic manner. That's why they're so quick to jump on the idea that he abuses Octavia (neglect is abuse), because if he's abusive in one way then he must be abusive in other ways as well. That's why they think he fetishizes imps, despite only having shown sexual interest in one. That's why they don't care about any of the abuse directed towards him and want him dead and mutilated, because they think he deserves it as punishment. That's why they think both the narrative and fans are babying Stolas and that his flaws are being swept under the rug, because those things are denying that any abuse happened in the first place and that runs counter to their own beliefs.
Their disgust at everything else he does is nearly performatory in a way, because they likely wouldn't care about it in any other case. Very few of them would give even the slightest shit about his classism/racism nor would they have noticed it at all, if it weren't for the fact that they were actively looking for reasons to hate him. The majority of them wouldn't care about how emotional he is or that he doesn't always give Octavia (who, remember, is only a few months shy of being an adult and not a young child who requires constant supervision) his full attention at all times. They wouldn't say he's being babied or turned into a "misunderstood uwu crybaby" or that he'd be better off as a villain again. They wouldn't turn him into an evil caricature who uses and abuses everyone around him, or think he deserves to die a horrific, violent death at the hands of Blitz and Striker and Octavia.
It does sometimes take on an undercurrent of homophobia and ablism, but it all boils down to them thinking he's a rapist. I have seen an ungodly amount of Stolas hate in my time within this fandom, despite my best efforts to avoid it, and all of it can be traced back to that core belief they all have.














