Stolas' theme in major key is both heartbreaking and beautiful, reminds me of an enchanted forest, I want it as a track
Stolas looks so good! I am so happy that we get to see his pupils now, it really adds to his look
why does Blitz's insert character... look like that lmao
Blitz would 100% be down for this role play
"my father's stables" but the sigil on the stable door is Stolas' lmao
Watch Blitz dip Stolas with their massive height difference is always amusing
"Baron? That's a stupid name, change that later" what a writer's mood Stolas
Making sex noises in the booth has gotta be fun (for legal reasons this is a joke it's season 3 and they're professionals)
Stolas having PTSD from Striker 💔
And even worse that was the face of Blitz, the man he loves, morphing into Striker's face
Minor thing that I don't now whether or not is significant but the blood Stolas envisions is red, not demon black
The clock says it's five minutes past four, am or pm??? Blitz's phone call makes it sound like it's the morning but what the fuck are they doing in the office in the ass crack of dawn
Millie throwing up because she's pregnant
The contrast between youthful, happy dream Stolas and depressed, tired Stolas recovering from a panic attack 💔
You can actually read Stolas' writing, and damn not bad. Wish I could read the panicked part under the ink spill though
Blitzø's final stage in his journey of and healing and self worth.
Now I have been detailing blitzø's journey for a long time and we all have seen how he and stolas have made slow but steady progress on learning to be open with each other and those around them but one thing they have to do is learn to put their feet down with those close to them.
Now i know that this is going to sound weird and blatantly incorrect but from what I have seen for far blitz has been kinda a pushover. Not with random demons satsns asshole no! But rather with his inner circle and while yes he's certainly abrasive with them or at least m&m but we've never really seen him actually put his foot down with loona, really tell m&m no unless you count sinsmas but the point i'm trying to make blitz has done very little to push back against anyone he truly cares about. He's been rude and abrasive but that's not really establishing boundaries is it?
What i'm getting at is that i believe that what blitz and to a lesser extent stolas (as he has been through charater development regarding this already i.e Stella sort of.) Is learning to establish boundaries. Blitz has struggled with boundaries his entire life and despite he and others might claim is selfless to a fault. He has learned to respect others boundaries and the people they are attached too he's never stalked m&m since ozzies, he laid off loona with the affection and has in general been rather respectful wouldn't you say?
My next point is that if this arc is going to come to completion is that this respect has to go both ways. Now dimension what are you talking about? I hear you ask. Well I am going to come out and say it but I'd say everyone of the i.m.p staff are as guilty as blitz for their poor relationship with their boss. What was it they called him in full moon? "Idiot boss"? Ouch. Now ask me how is that any better than him being calling moxxie a bady dick or overly cuddlingly loona? And even his best friend threw a fit over him playing ghosts. Speaking of loona let's not forget that she kicked him in the nuts over trying to hug her and beat him with a painting and while they have all drastically improved especially loonie who is being much more reasonable but that doesn't change the fact that the other 3 imp founders need to suck it up and accept that they need to put away their fragile ego (moxxie), unreasonable standards (millie) and bad attitude (loona). Respect is a two way street and it would do no good for blitz to be a more respectful person if no one else returns the favor.
Now more importantly than any occasionly disrespectful employees is the the real one blitz needs to face and that's his rat shit father cash the weasel buckso. Finaly putting his foot down with his father and giving the bastard a long over due beating is a nessacity for the next two seasons.
so i just had a fridge moment... er, fridge thought-- er, shower logic-- er.... FRIDGE LOGIC moment lol
Ozzie wasn't there at the competition. when Fizz runs off and panics in his dressing room, he doesn't text or call Ozzie (he's too busy panicking).
then Ozzie suddenly shows up at the door. he couldn't have known what was going on, himself.
Blitz called Ozzie.
all day, Blitz had been trying to convince Fizz of his worth, so when he realized he wasn't going to get through to him and saw Fizz spiraling toward an unstoppable total breakdown, he immediately reached out to the only other person he knew could help. Blitz didn't just give up because he couldn't fix the situation by himself.
Ozzie was right. Blitz really was the next best thing.
anyhow i just love these two besties and their character arc, that is all. <3
When rewatching Barbie's Bad Day I notice that Ricky appears to have the same forehead mark as Blitzo, Barbie, Fizzarolli and Cash Buckzo. Making me wonder if Ricky and his dad could have been from the circus Cash ran, but sometime after the fire the circus troop got disbanded and it's members looked for other means to support themselves. In other words, Blitzo wasn't the only former circus troop member who opened their own business.
Octavia's character is actually so well written like
The first time we see her is her having a nightmare about not being able to find her dad in the palace no matter where she looked. Her fear is already clearly shown in her first appearance, and from then on every time we see her is her having that fear re-instilled
In loo loo land, Stolas is unable to understand how she is feeling, that she doesn't want to go to the circus with him (this is a trait Stolas has throughout the series where he cannot tell what other ppl feel, and viv has made posts hinting at this being an intentional character flaw). So not only is he dragging her somewhere she doesn't want to be but then makes it worse by inviting blitzø becuz he wants to spend time with him. We know Stolas could defend himself, it's clear he wants him there not as a body guard but becuz he genuinely wants him to be, ignoring how via may feel, ignoring why he was doing this to begin with. He just invited the guy he cheated on vias mother with to spend time with them while they went somewhere to try cheer her up, and via puts up with it the whole time.
And remember, she was awake when Stella was screaming abour Stolas cheating, she knows what's going on already. They didn't do anything to try and hide what happened from their daughter.
It's also implied that Stella has always yelled and been like this, since we see a picture of younger her in s2ep1. This is important to show how via has always been living in a dysfunctional household. Her mother reacts to issues by yelling and throwing things, potentially physical violence too, and Stolas has needed anti depressants since before he met blitzø again. While Via doesn't know about that, his depression is going to have affected the way he raised Via.
Both her parents are unable to cope with emotions in a healthy way and that will have caused her to struggle as well.
When she finally has enough during the ep and runs off, Stolas goes after her and talks to her but isn't able to tell her the real circumstances for the marriage, she doesn't know why her parents act the way they do, or why they don't love each other. she doesn't know why Stolas cheated with some other guy or why he invited him just to flirt with the whole time. She's scared her nightmare will come true, she always has been due to her unstable environment and now there is someone Stolas could leave with. That is terrifying for her, that is where she starts to hate blitzø.
And all Stolas can do is promise he won't, but he repeatedly fails to change his behaviour. It's shown in all episodes we see via play a large part in: Stolas does something wrong without thinking about via, ignoring her feelings, forgetting important dates, he apologizes but then goes on to do the same again and again.
That is not enough, that makes via lose trust in him, makes her wait for the next time he fucks up, for the next apology, for the cycle to continue. It is meaningless if he doesn't change.
But that's all Via has, Stella is shown to be mostly absent, not wanting anything to do with Via. If her dad leaves then she will have no one and she constantly feels like he could leave at any moment.
In loo loo land, he paid more attention to blitzø than her.
In seeing stars, when she saw him again after running away becuz of the divorce she was also now having to cope with (which she could easily blame on the cheating and blitzø), blitzø is there, and had been with Stolas the whole day
In sinsmas, blitzø is there when she went to find her dad, blitzø who was the reason this was happening to begin with in her mind, was the one Stolas was now spending all his time with
And let's talk about the divorce a bit more.
For 17 yrs she has had both parents present, even as toxic to each other as they are, Via had always lived with both of them. And now she won't. Now she has to get used to both of her parents separating, living away from each other, all the moving their stuff out, the arguments, procedures and the legal side.
Suddenly everything has changed, her fears are getting worse, nothing is stable in her life anymore. And at 17 too.
When a divorce happens when the child is young, they get used to it, their memories of it get vague over time, even if having seperate parents will always have its own issues, they get used to it and adapt better since young children are overall better at adapting to changes like this, they haven't developed their emotions properly yet and are unable to understand what's happening.
But she is 17, she has always had 2 parents, she isn't used to it, and by that age she is old enough to understand, to feel those emotions. She is dealing with a lot and her fathers continuous issues are getting to her.
And then mastermind happens
Stolas thinks he is going to die when he goes to save blitzø, when he claims to have committed crimes he never did.
Via watches him do this, she probably saw how they were about to sentence blitzø to death, and now her dad is taking the blame, believing he would die; she believes the same.
Her father, after promising he would never leave, after repeatedly messing up and leaving Via last, after prioritizing blitzø and getting carried away with him and focusing on him so much, after being unable to do anything but apologize only to do the same again until those apologies mean nothing.
He is going to permanently end his life, leave his daughter behind forever, for the guy Via was always scared of losing him to.
Her nightmare that she has always has is coming true.
Her dad is leaving her for someone else, we dont even see him think or speak about her while he is doing it, she doesn't cross his mind.
Her not being able to find him was her fear all throughout her life and she had told him multiple times, ask if he would, and he was still going to die for someone else.
And then he doesn't even remember to call her till the next day, and they can't even speak becuz Stella doesn't allow via contact with him.
She has to deal with not having her dad there, for a month. She is with Stella and Andy and unable to speak to her dad all month. He tries to call her but she can't answer and she feels more abandoned than ever. Her mother still seems uninterested in her. The only one who cared even a little bit about her is gone and she's all alone having to cope with how she feels, how much has happened.
She was right, after everything, after all her fears, after constantly feeling like he was close to leaving, the insecurity she dealt with her whole life became true and she was proven right. All her fathers promises mean nothing, they were empty and his actions never reflected what he said he would do.
She clearly misses him, but she expected this, she was just waiting for it to happen.
Then she finds the pills, realises how unhappy he was in the relationship and she goes to find him.
And when she confronts him, this is what she says.
"You lied to me, you said you would never leave me, you promised . . . It was your choice. You chose him . . . You don't love mother, you don't love me, you love him . . . So does that mean you just stayed miserable because of me? Was I some fucking obligation? Is that why you didn't even hesitate when you got a chance to leave?"
When Stolas asks to explain she just says she can't. This isn't her genuinely blaming him, she isn't mad at him really. She just can't handle that conversation. So much has been changing, her life's been more unstable than ever, she never had ppl in her life who could manage their own emotions and she is a teenager and struggling to manage her growing emotions already, and that lack of guidance only makes her ability to worse. She was never taught how, she cannot deal with how she is feeling and simply cannot stand to hear the explanation. Seeing Stolas is hard for her.
And what I think makes this scene even sadder is what Stolas says in s2ep1 to Stella:
"You and I were arranged for one reason, to birth a precautionary heir to the Goetia family . . . The only reason I have endured your constant insults and cruelty was for that girl to have a normal life . . . And the only thing the Goetia family wanted out of our marriage is already 17, so it's over, I'm done."
Via wasn't even wrong. Stolas said exactly what she is accusing him of, even if he didn't mean it like that, even if she didn't hear. Even if it was for him to explain to Stella why he was finally thru with it, why nothing she did could change his mind. He still said those things, he still left once he had a chance, he still chose blitzø.
He didn't leave Via once he got the chance, he left Stella, but in the end his actions still had an affect on Via, one that he once again failed to realise.
And Via doesn't have the full story either.
All she knows is her parents never loved each other and it always seemed like her dad would leave and she was always scared of that happening. Then suddenly he cheats and starts spending more time with the guy until he eventually almost dies for him without even thinking about her. And she finds out he needed pills, that he was miserable. And she's just so upset over it, so scared over the fact he almost did die, the fact everything she thought would happened did happen. She almost lost her dad and he didn't even say anything to her before going to get himself killed. He admits to being sad in the marriage, to Via being the only good thing, but Via's grown up in such a toxic environment, she misinterprets what he said, she feels like it's her fault he felt this way, and she doesn't even wait for any more apologies.
She's heard his all her life and they never meant anything, they were never a sign he would change, so why should she listen to another one while knowing it was just another lie?
That short did something to me… something a lot of us go through in different ways. Family issues, parents, that deep sense of unfairness… And the fact that Millie didn’t say anything, didn’t try to give advice in that scene was just perfect. I love these two so much. This is what true love looks like… I’m not ok ~
So, I’ve been rewatching some of my favorite Helluva Boss episodes lately (as you do, the cope is real). And to add some variety to each rewatch, I’ve started to focus on watching reactors and seeing their takes on those episodes. It’s been a blast! Seeing the different reactions and perspectives that they bring to my favorite episodes. Some of them have even pointed out things I never even noticed while watching the episode on my own. It really adds a freshness to each rewatch, as if I’m seeing the episode for the first time all over again.
Hower, it’s not always a matter of new insights and enjoyable new perspectives. Which is understandable, and expected honestly. It’s the internet, afterall.
What I don’t understand is how every reactor has had almost the exact same response to the scene from “Mammon’s Magnificent Mid-Season Special” regarding Fizz’s stalker “fan”.
Every reactor’s initial response is excitement at Blitz’s timely arrival in intercepting Creepzo, eagerly anticipating Blitz doing what he does best and assassinate the creep. But then Blitz decides not to shoot, opting instead to just smack Creepzo with his gun and leaving him to slink off. Every reactor I’ve watched was flabbergasted by this, not understanding why Blitz didn’t just kill the creep. But then, the whole event is put to the back-burner and ultimately forgotten due to the drama that immediately follows afterwards.
Heck, if I’m being honest, I had the exact same response when I first watched the episode myself. But I’ve been obsessively rewatching my favorite episodes back to back ever since “Sinsmas” aired, so of course I noticed something I didn’t pick up on that first viewing.
Blitz’s reaction to Fizzarolli’s panic says it all. He knew that Fizz wouldn’t be able to handle it if Creepzo got shot. Heck, he was there when Fizzarolli himself admitted that he does’t handle dangerous situations.
Blitz was listening. And he handled the situation in a way that he thought wouldn’t agitate Fizzarolli any more than he already was.
And it doesn’t end there! Here’s another interesting little detail that I don’t see people mentioning.
Asmodeus arrives just in the nick of time to support Fizz and help talk him down from his panic attack. But here’s the thing. How is he there? It was stated multiple times that Asodeus wasn’t supposed to be at the event in Greed. And the whole fiasco that took place in “Oops” shows that he doesn’t keep tabs on Fizzarolli when he’s outside of Lust. So, how did he know?
Simple, Blitz told him.
Blitz was working with Asmodeus to convince Fizz to quit the clown pageant in the first place. But, when everything Blitz said went completely ignored or was outright rebuffed, he simply stood by his friend to act as support. Until he realized it wasn’t enough. Blitz actually assessed the situation and determined that Fizz needed Asmodeus more than anyone else in that moment. And he took a step back and left it to Asmodeus.
Showing yet another instance of Blitz caring about his found family, and showing his love by being considerate in such subtle ways that people don’t notice.
