#smolas

I haven’t seen anyone pointing this out so I felt the urge to write this down because it’s a small detail but I think it is important.

As I already pointed out in a previous post upon seeing the preview of the Stolitz duet we had a glimpse of Stolas nesting the Asmodean crystal between two very specific books, Pirates and Botany, the very same books that represent him and Blitzø as we saw in The Circus. 

During their exchange at the end of The Full Moon, we get a closer look and I couldn’t help but notice how the Pirates book is stained and ruined somehow. 

Stolas is a nerd owl who “loves words” [Quote from Oops!], he cares for his books religiously so how come this particular one is so worn out while we can clearly see that every other book on the shelves is perfect and cared for?

What I suspect is that little Stolas lingered in his childhood crush on Blitzø way longer than we know. He probably spent his lonely childhood daydreaming of his First Ever Friend coming back to play with him and as much as a little child could care for his belongings, he was probably clumsy and maybe he spilt something on it while reading it for the hundredth time. Did Blitzø ever go back to his palace for another playdate? Or was he banned after someone realised he stole? (did they even notice??). From the trailer, we have a glimpse of little Blitzø and Stolas playing, but we still don’t know if this is only an idealisation of that one playdate they had or if it happened more than once. What seems unlikely to me is that, if they had only met once 25 years prior, they reached such a deep level in their friendship to go around holding hands as shown in the clip. But who knows? We didn’t really see the whole day so it might be. After all, when they met again as adults their dynamic is pretty much the same as the one in their first encounter as children: Stolas crushes hard on Blitzø, Blitzø is there for “nefarious reasons” and he’s not thrilled about spending time with Stolas, but ends up enjoying it deeply in both occasions.