The last surviving CHU² fan

"tired of people headcanoning characters as autistic to excuse their shitty actions like grow the fuck up"

Like, how delusional do you have to be to genuinely believe "excusing Stolas' actions" could be the only possible reason the autistic Stolas headcanon is so common in his fandom, instead of... oh, I don't know... a lot of us literally being autistic ourselves and recognizing our own autistic traits in Stolas!?

I believe Stolas is the best character in Helluva Boss. His character just brings such emotional rawness. Idk if that's the right phrase, it just feels right. I will never understand why people are constantly trying to find a way to criticize him.

I just want to say Virtual Celebrity, this video made me lose all respect for you as a content creator. Both Stolas and Octavia deserve the world. We don’t need videos unfairly bashing on the poor girl she’s already been through enough. I don’t approve of this video and no one else should. Do better like seriously dunking on a poor teenager with like that, WHAT HAS THIS FANDOM COME TO!!!!! 😭

Stolas fan out.

#Octaviadeservestheworld

#Stolasdeservestheworld

#Blitzødeservestheworld

P.S. You know what’s ironic, for someone who claims to be Pro Stolas, he would absolutely hate this video if he was real.

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But anyways, I agree with all of you here, I will not be accepting any Stolas or Octavia slander over on my blog, and I want to take this chance to remind you all of this wonderful little post that I feel like everyone should see at least once:

BUT ALSO I can’t help but think the animators must have been waiting FOREVER for an excuse to give him pupils.

Think about it, it must be so much harder to draw facial expressions without ‘complete’ eyes. Eyes are really effective communicators of emotion and all that. And the animators do a really good job, but since they designed him as a villain originally, the missing pupils were probably originally a choice made to make him look a little unsettling.

(Remember this guy? Lol)

One thing I noticed is that sometimes they use his eyeliner to indicate where he’s looking as a sort of “substitute” pupil which imo is really clever

This is also why we see his pupils show up more and more as he has these bigger emotional moments. They help communicate a more specific feeling to the audience.

They’ve honestly done a remarkable job with his facial expressions over the past two seasons considering this hurdle. But I think that’s also part of why Stolas feels so different in Sinsmas. Like, yes the character just had his life ruined and is going through a depressive episode, but also I feel like his emotions are that much more specific and present now that the animators have pupils to work with

I could be completely wrong here, maybe it’s not actually as big a deal as I’m making it out to be. But all this to say I’m a fan of the pupils as well and my guess is that they’ll stay because I’m willing to bet at least one of those animators was going rabid when they were drawing this

A playful little eye roll. They can give him expressions like this now.

And the way Blitzø sees Octavia:

His depression was also presented through various emotions/emotional states.

Lethargy

Crying

Anger / frustration

Self-blame

Not wanting company and being emotionally drained and unable to reciprocate

We even see him Smiling / Laughing which is so important because we see that he is still in there behind the sadness and tears. His laugh is not as lively as it once but he is still capable of smiling and finding joy.

Stolas quickly figuring out that this is literally a bed for him specifically, and Blitzø plans to sleep on the couch again, and he is very not okay with this because he feels like a burden anyway. It turns into a minor disagreement and eventually Stolas caves because the more he refuses, the more Blitzø is convinced something's wrong with the bed that Stolas doesn't want to admit, and now he feels ungrateful. He spends a couple nights in that room but it's isolated, foreign: it's a bed but not the bed he had literally his entire life. This must be what people feel like when they're at an unfamiliar hotel. Eventually one night Blitzø crashes early, and Stolas carries him to the bed, tucks him in, and goes to sleep on the couch himself.

He wakes up at 2 am with Blitzø sitting on the arm of the couch, lizard mode/barely alert and looking like he's had a mild panic attack. Once he realizes Stolas is awake, he tries to swap sleeping spots back. Another, very groggy disagreement ensues, until Blitzø just slumps over and falls asleep against Stolas' legs. This situation occurs a few times, and half the time Blitzø falls asleep so hard he's purring and can't be woken up. The last time it happens, the reason Blitzø mumbles for not wanting the bed is, 'It smells like you.'

The next day Stolas surprises him. He finally figured out how to work the washer and dryer - he had to clean up the spilled detergent, and there might be some bubbles clinging to the ceiling, sorry. And he's pretty sure the fitted part of the bedsheet has some kind of magic that made all the sides short sides, so it's not on correctly- but he has all the sheets and pillows and even the blanket washed and dried. He fidgets. "I'm sorry, Blitzø. I didn't realize I had a ... smell... You should have told me. I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable."

Blitzø badly trying to explain that no, that wasn't what he was trying to say. The problem was he woke up in a bed that smelled like Stolas, but Stolas wasn't there, and it made him panic, and it got worse when he realized that Stolas was instead squashed onto a couch in the next room feeling like he wasn't supposed to be there.