Blitz #1 Defender & SIMP

Ro' | 28 | She/Her | Blitz | Stolitz AO3: Lost_Romantic Everything I do in this blog, I do for Him.

[lost-romantique]

Stolas - Five Stages of Grief (Sinsmas)

One thing I don't hear many people talk about is the fact that Sinsmas illustrates Stolas learning and accepting his new reality that he's thrusted into, and through it he goes through the Five Stages of Grief. I think it's also important to note that Stolas' grief is due largely in part to not having Octavia around, and the fact that he's been off his antidepressants the entire month.

Denial- A temporary response to loss, where you might not fully comprehend the reality that your in.

Day by Day illustrates the very first month Stolas is spent living with Blitz, he goes about the day(s), living life with Blitz and while he's happy to be with Blitz, you can tell that he's also struggling.

Listen to the lyrics:

Keep it calm, life goes on, and on, and on Nothing's wrong, nothing's wrong So why do I still feel this way?

Stolas is living life with Blitz domestically, going out on dates here and there, seeing how he lives, seeing how imps live, and he's just at a loss, confused, not really knowing what to do. But he pretends that everything is okay, everything has to be okay.

Anger- Stolas letting all his anger and grief from the current situation he's in out and about.

Stolas has what is essentially a mental breakdown in the span of a minute: breaking Blitz's phone (Stolas sweetie don't break your bfs phone, that's his job), ripping and tearing stuff apart, blaming himself for his stupidity for having ruined his life in order to fulfill his fantasies.

Note: When Stolas calls himself stupid for fulfilling a fantasy, I honestly think he's talking about the context of him and Blitz and their transactional arrangement. Remember, during the very beginning of their transactional relationship, Stolas was very much chasing a fantasy.

Bargaining- Making promises to do better or be better whether it be to a higher power or to yourself.

Stolas begging Octavia to listen to him, to what he has to say. Stolas is extremely desperate to get Octavia to listen to him, to get Octavia back in his life.

"No! No! Never Via, sweetie please, you have always been the only good thing in my life." "I love you Via so, so much. Please sweetie let me explain..."

Depression- A feeling of dread that feels like it will last forever, but is a necessary part of the healing process.

Stolas, immediately after getting home from the palace, sits down on the couch just to process everything. Stolas spends, what looks to be hours, sitting on contemplation- occasionally resting his head on Blitz's horns.

Note: I love how Blitz stays close to Stolas the entire time, never leaving his side, except to help decorate for the Sinsmas Party and to change into his Sinsmas sweater. Even when the Sinsmas party starts, and he starts looking content, he's always with Stolas the entire time.

Acceptance- You learn to live with the loss and acknowledge that both sorrow and joy can coexist.

Blitz helps Stolas learn to accept this new way of life, and for a moment he helps him forget all the pain as he leads them into a very romantic dance.

Stolas, for the first time since losing his daughter, is able to laugh freely and find joy in that moment, and it's all thanks to Blitz.

Stolas looks out into the sky as he realizes that this is his life now. From now on, he will have to live life of a commoner with his only solace being Blitz. The moment Stolas closes his eyes is the moment he accepts this new reality of his.

I love the tragic irony of Stolas spending the entirety of Season 2 pining and chasing after an emotionally constipated lizard to the point that he is unknowingly hurting his daughter in the process. But by the end of that season, he gets the unconditional love of the man he's in love with, only to lose the one thing he thought he would never lose- his daughter's love.

I do want to point out that I do feel bad for Stolas, but I also understand very well that this was his choice in the end. And from now on he has to live with that choice, to live with the consequences.

[prysmyr]

A little bit of M&M to brighten your day

[prysmyr]

After getting Fizz kidnapped, it's the least Blitzø can do to escort him home after helping find Fizz's dear pet queives.

[hellamews]

you knew that answer was coming, stolas. you can't be upset

[sokennsss]

[helluva-jester-nonconforming]

btw. never forget. Blitz had the chance to choose his last words. in front of a giant audience. and they were “i love you guys”

[helluvalaura]

Something that I think about a lot with Mastermind is the significance of Stolas taking responsibility.

Like yes obviously politically it's a huge deal and obviously it's this dynamic shift in the whole course of the plot, yada yada yada... but like. the personal significance is huge in a way I don't see talked about, specifically because of Blitz's personal history.

Blitz is consistently in a protector role with those around him. That's not news. It probably started with Fizz (and perhaps Barbie?) and continues with Loona, with M&M... he's the guy who is putting himself on the line to take the fall when shit goes wrong.

The implication is pretty clear (and I suspect will become clearer as we get more information about the Buckzo family) that Blitz has been The One Responsible, for better or for worse, since he was very young. We see his father placing responsibility for the family finances on his shoulders when he's only grade school age. He is just as heavily parentified as Millie, although from a rather different angle, and the echoes of that abuse (and it is a form of abuse) are loud in Blitz's behavior throughout the series... and it shows up elsewhere, too.

Notably, it shows up in Barbie. I was hesitant to make any sweeping statements on her based on Unhappy Campers alone. One episode where she only appears for a few minutes at the end isn't enough to base major analysis on. But after the most recent short, I feel more comfortable saying that Barbie is very reluctant to take responsibility for her own actions... but all too happy to place blame on Blitz.

If it weren't for this, it would be easy to assume that Blitz probably spent his youth sharing the blame for childhood shenanigans with his twin. But Barbie is never responsible for anything that goes wrong, and Blitz? Blitz is always responsible for anything that goes wrong, in perception if not always in fact.

There's a lot we still don't know about the Buckzo family and how Barbie fit into the circus trio dynamic with Blitz and Fizzarolli. But I would wager that Blitz, who was very clearly The Idea Guy even as a kid, was the one taking the heat every time the circus trio got into some kind of trouble as children. That's a bit speculative, of course, but there's a very strong implication showing in his present-day dynamics with his loved ones that he has a history of being the one falling on the sword, taking the blame whenever anything bad happens.

But here's the thing: when Blitz was a kid, even if he was the one with all the fun, crazy ideas, he wasn't actually responsible for his sister's actions, or his friend's, even if he was likely punished as though he were. And when it comes to the grimoire... well, that wasn't all on him either, was it?

Which brings us back to Satan's court:

This would have been Blitz's final act— one last chance to jump on yet another grenade for the people he loves. He was fully prepared to take all the blame for the whole mess with the grimoire onto his own shoulders to spare his friends and his daughter from sharing in the punishment.

Whether or not an imp having access to a powerful spellbook is actually wrong is a whole other question (I would strongly contend that he and Stolas did nothing wrong and it is the laws of Hell which are wrong), but even with that in mind, it was technically illegal, and it was a crime he and Stolas committed together.

And for what might be the first time, someone who created trouble alongside Blitz stepped up to share the responsibility. Not just share responsibility, but wholly lift it from Blitz's shoulders, even though there was absolutely no obligation to do so.

How long has it been since anyone did this for Blitz? Has anyone ever done this for him? Has anyone ever planted themselves between him and blame or consequences and said "no, I had a share in this too, don't blame him alone" and taken the weight off him?

One of my earliest posts when I first started actively blogging about HB was about how symbolically and emotionally significant it was that Stolas faced the literal fire in Blitz's place, but it's so important that he took the metaphorical heat as well, because Blitz hasn't had anybody willing or able to do that for him in who even knows how long.

[elleapdraws]

DTIYS prize for @ zero_lawliet! Theme: Regency, eloping, dragsona! 💞 stealing his prince away from royal nonsense 🌹

Don’t use without permission, don’t repost, please. Ok to reblog! Thank you! 💛

[z00zoo]

I have drawn Blitz many, many times, but I haven't studied how to draw him in a long time. I wanted to take some time to learn how to draw him on-model in the shows style to be able to draw him more accurately.

Helluva Boss' style is very line and shape based. Movement, flow, elasticity, expressiveness and appealing drawings are favoured over form and consistency. This is something great for the show! The characters being able to survive being off model is great for the animators, aswell as for fan artists and generating fandom. But, makes it really hard for me to learn how to draw the characters! During this exercise I constantly struggled with discerning Blitz' proportions and his graphical lines and shapes, because there is very little consistency in the show. For example, Blitz is supposed to be about 4 heads tall, (minus his horns) but he can range from 3 to 5 heads tall! That's about this much difference:

That is huge! Most shows wouldn't allow that type of flexibility. So as I was doing this exercise I was like, what shape is his torso? I don't know. How long are his legs? I don't know. What shape are his boots? I don't know. His proportions are just vibes. 🏖️ Compare this to Knights of Guinevere. That show values form, consistency and quality drawings over more frames. HB and KOG have opposing animation styles, but that's because their are both very different shows with very different tones, and their animation reflects that. Anyways, this was a really great exercise. Learned a lot, especially about line in character design. I was wrong about a lot of things, particularly the graphical shape of a lot of his body parts.

[lost-romantique]

So I wanted to see your opinion on the recent news about season 3 part 1 trailer possibly dropping at lvl up expo and Brando saying Blitz will go through the hardest time he’s ever had i think around season 3 episode 11 and what your theories are what he could mean?

Some fans just now referenced that Blitz’s broken heart that stolas was holding in the valentines merch could have hinted to his pains he’ll experience in season 3.

As a fan of the ship I’d like to think anything dealing with stolitz isn’t the worst he’s been through in the show so hopefully that knocks it off the possibility. He was nearly executed and saw stolas makeout with a random guy thinking he blew his shot.

I think he may lose IMP somehow, or something bad happens to Barb. Or we see what he went through after the fire.

So what are your theories?

When Stolas mourns the loss of Octavia- the very first thing Blitz opens up to him, is in regards to his sister.

He states and I quote, "You know my twin sister... she hates me too... for something that I did, and I miss her everyday, we were so close and– it's a shitty feeling, but... you just got to keep trying."

Throughout Sinsmas, Barbie is present everywhere, especially in the photographs of the bedroom. I find it so funny that in all these screenshots, you can clearly see Barbie's face everywhere, perfectly highlighted and in view.

Anyway, yeah, I think Barbie Wire is dying.

[lost-romantique]

You posted a basic layout of Blitz's apt and I was wondering if I could use it for my stolitz fan fic

I am so sorry for not responding to you sooner. Yes you can.

[blitzwhore]

Gotta love how Stolitz is like... childhood friends to strangers to transactional fuckbuddies of the kinky kind to exes to *almost fucking die for each other* to roommates to "omg omg are we about to kiss rn 😳"

[caldella]

"Pretty sure we're soulmates or something but we took the wrong directions on that trip, and now we're hitting all the major landmarks in the wrong order, and also I'm pretty sure we just drove off a cliff, but we're also pulling each other out of this wreckage and crawling to our destination if we have to."

[fuzzandfeathers]

This bit of prose hit my brain so hard it created a fever dream of a road-trip metaphor so here you go! I was going to fully line and clean this, but the further I got the more I felt the sketchiness suited the vibe I was going for, so enjoy the mess!

You made it to the end so now I ramble!

I am not a comic artist. And the thing about comics is, if you aren't accustomed to the process of laying out panels in an effective way, it is extremely tough to tackle. So for anyone wondering 'why didn't you just make it a proper comic, it'd be less space!' I hear you and you're right, but my illustrator brain simply did not have the energy 😅 But overall, I loved making this! It's always so fun to have little projects to chip away at and this made me eager to sit down everyday and work on it.

my favorite Stolas:

my favorite Blitz:

my favorite thumbnail:

(and my favorite overall panel is the first one) Thanks for enjoying!

[fuzzandfeathers]

May I offer you some wet creatures in these trying times

[fuzzandfeathers]

"Oh relax. I'm sure your big royal chicken ain't gonna let anything happen to his peppy lil' fuck doll." You already know the drill, rambles under the cut 😌

As much as I want them to eventually find out about it, I'm glad Blitz didn't know about Stolas' involvement in resolving the kidnapping situation in Oops. With the level of denial he was in, Blitz absolutely would've found a way to spin it into something negative. This art originally started off as an observation on how hard Blitz is projecting his own feelings about his relationship with Stolas onto Fizz's relationship with Oz. That if Blitz had known, the above line probably would've summed up what he'd think of Stolas' actions. The more I worked on it though, the more I realized it kinda went the other way as well, with Fizz doing a bit of his own denial and projection. Fizz wasn't wrong about Blitz missing the mark on Stolas' feelings, but his viewpoint has always struck me as having a bit of the rose-colored tint of exceptionalism, Fizz believing he earns his treatment (good or bad) via performance and separate from being an imp. That if he's good enough being an imp (and disabled) doesn't matter.

(spoiler: you can't succeed your way out of systemic inequality, sorry) Fizz and Blitz (pre-Mastermind) are both in relationships with unequal power dynamics and while I wouldn't consider Fizz and Oz's relationship unhealthy*, there's a sense of push-back against the inequality that isn't present for them but is for Blitz and Stolas. Despite their rocky start, Blitz and Stolas clearly see any inequality between them as something to resolve or address, whereas Fizz and Oz seem more resigned to it (or content to ignore it). Blitz is wrong about Stolas, but his dissatisfaction with their relationship isn't wrong - and Fizz could stand to learn a bit from that. So this piece ended up being more of a two-way conversation than I initially thought (and this post ended up being a lot longer than I planned 😂) *obviously it has room for improvement, but it's imperfect in ways that are realistic and non-worrisome. Even if I'm hoping for a bit of conflict between them going into season 3, I have absolute faith their relationship is solid and would make it out intact. Anyways, have this fun and relevant screenshot:

[fuzzandfeathers]

Was thinking about Octavia and Stolas and got sad about it 😭

Feelings and junk under the cut~

This one's been sitting awhile and in that time I've gone from feeling relatively certain about what I'm trying to express, to no longer having any idea what I'm expressing, to once again feeling kinda sure about it! It was meant as hopeful but I can't fully say it ended up that way; the little perspective shift at the end was originally intended as optimistic, because without it things felt to 'final', but in retrospect I might've just made it worse 😂 I had all kinds of feelings going into this, thinking about all the little private ways we try to measure our worth in other people's lives and how badly that can miss the mark, but more than anything I think I was trying to ask myself something from Octavia's perspective. When someone goes through something life-alteringly traumatic, eventually they always find a new normal. No matter how devastating something is in the moment, given time, things will always settle. So what does that feel like when you are the thing someone you love is 'settling' from? It's not fair to assume that someone's life is better without you in it just because they're still out there living. But what does it feel like, to see first-hand that they have either somewhat healed or hidden a wound that you carved in them yourself. Because you don't want them to hurt (well, you kinda do a little) but you also don't really want them to forget (even though you told them they should) and then it all becomes a jumbled mess in your head. Thankfully, I don't think Via and Stolas are going to be estranged long enough for this to become the kind of obstacle I'm portraying here. Pretty sure I accidentally stumbled into some of my own old teenage angst there - always a fun time 😂 I handled this a little clumsily, I think, and I have a few nitpicks with the formatting (beefing with past me's approach is a time-honored tradition for these things 😌) but it's sincere and I'm still happy with it~

[fuzzandfeathers]

Request all of IMP and Stolas eating takeout food together

🤩🤩🤩 Yeeees here you go! IMP eating takeout on the office couch!

This was such a fun one! Ensemble pieces are always a little intimidating because drawing more than 3 characters on screen together and properly managing their composition and interactions can be a challenge - especially since I'm a fan of a 'casually all over each other' vibe when it comes to found family, which means a lot of overlapping 😂

So to that end I decided to color code this sketch, just to make sure no one gets lost! The thumbnail for this was terrible btw 😂

[fuzzandfeathers]

Was re-watching Queen Bee a few weeks back and thought it'd be fun to quickly recreate the 'Loona driving Blitz home' scene with Blitz and Stolas so enjoy these silly doodles 😂

Also bonus panel because that one face Blitz makes in the car window as they're driving away kills me so I tried to put it on Stolas 😭