So the thing that always, always gets me about Stolitz is this:
They were friends first
It's so important to me that that is the foundation of everything. The cornerstone that everything else was built on. The one unshakeable truth is that before they were anything else, they were friends. Everything else derives from that.
We don't (yet) know how long they knew each other as children, whether it was just that one playdate for Stolas's birthday or whether (as I rather suspect) they spent more time together after that. So much of the time they spent together on those full moon nights happened offscreen, and we haven't yet been given the insight into how they went from favors-for-favors to falling in love. There's so much about how this relationship evolved and how it will continue to grow that is still a mystery to the audience.
But what's not a mystery is the fact that it all comes back around to the fact that they just... like each other as people. That bond, that foundation of friendship, that's so critical that it's loadbearing to the plot.
It's Stolas's invocation of their friendship that gives Blitz pause. It's that sincere emotional connection, the fact that they were friends first, that draws him back in and sets them on the path that leads to where they're at now.
Literally none of this happens without the fact that they were friends before they were anything else.
