So I thought I’d throw up an excerpt of an upcoming Helluva Boss post on how Loona and Octavia already seem to represent a very interesting platonic foil to their fathers’ relationship. And more specifically to this point, why Loona’s actions in Seeing Stars hit way harder than I think a lot of people are giving her credit for:
I’ve seen a lot of people make the inference that Loona deciding to go looking for Octavia was this case of a ‘crisis of conscience’ where she realizes she ‘has to go find Octavia like Blitzo told her to’ because it’s ‘the right thing to do’.
And I think that interpretation really don’t give Loona herself enough credit. Or illustrates just how significant her actions her are. Because simply put, there was no reason Loona HAD to track Octavia down simply because Blitzo told her to. She’s completely blown him off before, and in fact we see her doing exactly that prior to stumbling across Octavia’s Sinstagram.
The blaring lyrics ‘Don’t wanna do what my daddy told me to!’ coming from Loona’s phone don’t exactly make this point subtle.
It’s clear that something spoke to Loona about Octavia when she found her Sinstagram. And I have a feeling that it had nothing to do with Blitzo. Most likely, it was something that made her realize that this girl is a LOT like her and going through a LOT of the same shit as her, and that she needed HELP. And Loona clearly could not bring herself to simply blow that off.
Loona didn’t need to put in literally all of the legwork in finding Octavia, spending what clearly seems to be all day tracking down Octavia through her sinstagram posts while Blitzo, Stolas and the M&Ms got caught up in various shenanigans.
She didn’t need to sit down with Octavia and give her the emotional closure and comfort that Octavia so desperately needed.
She didn’t need to be a FRIEND to Octavia.
But she DID.
