Actually, The First Show In The Trilogy, "A Very Potter Musical" Has A Duet Between Quirrel And Voldemort

Actually, the first show in the trilogy, "A Very Potter Musical" has a duet between Quirrel and Voldemort that sounds almost like it was written for Series!Stolas and Pilot!Stolas. LINK

I'm not sure how familiar, if at all, you are with Team Starkid. There a musical theatre group who got their start with a trilogy of Harry Potter parody musicals while still in college. I bring them up because I recently rewatched a bunch of their shows and started thinking about a potential HB fan-musical with the basic premise of Stolas NOT getting woobififed and also some other changes to characters, either to make up for the flaws in the series writing or to mock said flaws.

One idea I had was Stolas using his higher rank to force Stella (and Octavia, when she chooses to be with her mother) into hiding, possibly with Striker. Partly for character exploration potential between the three and partly for strella because I'm am feral for them.

I was hoping to get some ideas, even if individual or running gags, from you :)

Of course hon bounce ideas off me anytime :3

I haven’t heard of that before. Nothing better than some cathartic satire. I am also interested in the Strella but I wouldn’t want to keep pushing the Goetia x Imp thing it seems a bit excessive now

I imagine Moxxie being the first to point it out and Blitz tells him off but later tells Stolas that Mox is right and they need a proper gig soon but Stolas just gives him a bunch of money and gaslights him about it.

Also, you know that I wrote this right before going to sleep when I forgot that the word "fulfillment" exists. The fuck is wrong with me?

Now Some More Stuff!!!

Every time Octavia tries to talk to Stolas he interrupts her before she can finish a sentence and reacts to what he assumes she was going to say, which is, of course, something that assumes she agrees with his self-pitying view of his life.

An inverse of the ending of Seeing Stars, as in, Loona's occasional aggression towards the rest of the team is resolved (at least partly) through her interaction both with Blitz and with Via.

I'm still working out the Harvest Moon Festival/Pain Games equivalent, but the idea is that Striker participates to act as a diversion for IMP and potentially someone else who could be after Stella and Octavia, speaking of them, they could be disguised as imps in this segment. Maybe Blitz and Moxxie compete together since Striker taunted them both (I like the idea that it takes Striker some time to respect either of them, making him slightly more dynamic and helping with Moxxie's arc and his dynamic with Blitz)

To clarify the last one, the mid segment of the show would have Blitz slowly realizing he's being exploited while he and the team search for the mother daughter duo since Stolas passive-aggressively threatened and/or guilt-tripped Blitz into feeling he has to find them.

Also, to give Mills some actual characterization and more chemistry with Moxxie, she has MAD shop skills, customizing IMP's weapons and later her family tell her she can't be in the Pain Games... Because she' been chosen as the lead organizer, which in Wrath's super rugged nature, means she literally constructs all the event courses herself.

More Song Ideas!

A comedy ensemble number with all of IMP in act 1 with them doing a regular hit.

Another comedic song with Blitz, Moxxie and Striker in the pain games, maybe Millie's family joins in during the chorus. While still comedic, this one would mainly develop Moxxie and to lesser extent, the other guys.

Of course, Stolas has a proper villain song (one that starts with him pouting that Via is mad that he forgot something she was excited for, Azatoth's Tears or otherwise). The song itself would have Stolas lament relatively small things in his life while saying that "Blitzy" makes him forget them, tacitly admitting that he views Octavia as a problem, and how he's happy that Blitz is his and his alone, and that that's perfectly just since it makes up for his own personal suffering.

Both a song and a joke, Moxxie tries to sing to Millie multiple times and gets interrupted each time. However, he only starts the song once, every other time he sings it it's actually the next verse, a non-live viewer could piece it together and the song could be a bonus on the soundtrack.

Rest assured, there will be more to come.

More ideas for "Helluva A Rewritten Musical":

Jokes, Running Gags and Story Moments With A Comedic Twist :

After the Ozzie's equivalent Stolas' actor would wear a different wig after every two scenes, with each having more grey feathers than the last, until, by his final scene, all his hair/feathers are grey

The first time we see the M&Ms is their morning routine, Millie enters the scene first, with curlers/rollers in her hair, then Moxxie enter with curlers/rollers in his hair AND in his sideburns.

Wally appears a few times, he's exactly the same as in the show but has a much deeper voice to contrast with the high-pitched, scratchy voice Don Darryl Rivera does in the actual series

We only see Andre once, during a half and half split of the stage to show his phone conversation with Stella, later, in hiding (Yes, I'm going with that idea for the time being), Via asks why they could ask him for help and Stella reveals he got in hot water for drunkenly hitting on one of his cousins.

If we go down the Strella route, we could have some early bonding when Striker hisses at a minor frustration and Stella very obviously finds it attractive, because both snakes and swans hiss as a defense mechanism. In response to this Octavia let's out a sharp exhale that ends up sounding like a hoot.

A member of IMP pointing out how little actual hits they've been carrying out since getting pulled into the divorce drama, poking fun at the show abandoning it's original premise, maybe build on it by having Stolas be the only character who doesn't seen an issue with that.

Song Ideas (The Good Stuff):

An opening number or at least early song where Blitz sings about how, by running his own business, he has freedom to make good life for himself. The song would immediately be followed by some form of bad news.

A flashback duet between young Stolas and Stella, meeting for the first time, promising to make their situation work. Stella's lyrics make it clear she hopes that she will find some form of personal fufilled-ness in the relationship, while Stolas' make it clear that he plans on taking every chance to distract himself from what will be his family.

Striker having a song where he tries to console Via, because he can tell that she is in no way personally responsible for the shit she's going through, big stepdad energy, slightly more comedic elements towards the end of the song. This would play into Striker's arc, realizing that not all royals ae truly malicious and finding sympathy for them because he comes to view them as too sheltered for their own good.

A climactic duet between Striker and Blitz, after Blitz realizes that Stolas is a complete shitsack, during the song they're fighting over a blessed revolver to see who gets to kill the jizz-soaked feather duster.

That's all I got for now, more to come :D

Very beautiful. Your mind. Your vision.

Especially the meta commentary I NEED that scene to happen

HOLY FUCK!!! I never thought about how awful that would be for her. Poor Stella... :(

I think the root of Stella's more toxic behaviors is that, with the possible exceptions of Andre and Octavia, literally no one has ever valued Stella as an actual person. I'm pretty sure if Octavia ever hugged her and told her she loved her, Stella would just started bawling.

And if Stella really was a fussy kid, it's possible she's so bratty because her parents were so emotionally detached and neglectful that they just gave her whatever she wanted to avoid provoking her temper instead of teaching her to manage it and channel it into something positive.

Fuck it imma be the one to say it Vivi you can use as many excuses as you want try and justify it as much as you like but it wont change the fact Stolas still cheated !!!

Meditating on my Mammon obsession

Sometimes I have to remind myself that (at least some) other Mammon fans love him in a very different sense. I see a lot of people who talk about Mam as someone they want to hug and stab at the same time, whereas I adore him so thoroughly that I need him to be happy and am fiercely defensive of him.

I relate to Mammon in several unique ways that genuinely made me reconsider my earlier claims of kinning characters, since none of them speak to me in the same way.

Mam is such a fascinating and compelling villain that he effectively turned me against the two characters who oppose him, though, to be fair, I never particularly cared for Ozzie or Fizz. They're just not my cups of tea.

"Two Minutes Notice" pissed me off more than it did Mammon, simply because he means THAT much to me.

ALL HAIL MAMMON!

Helluva Rewritten Musical

I may not talk about it much here, but I am a massive fan of Team Starkid, there musical's make up basically my entire top 10 list and ever since I discovered them through Twisted I thought about the prospect of chipping away at an idea for a musical of my own.

However, it wouldn't be until recently, after several asks exchanged between myself and @pinkandpurple360 that it would occur to me how perfect HB could be if reimagined as a musical, or rather a series of musicals.

It all started with the simple idea of a stage adaptation that would use Stolas as the villain he was originally conceptualized as, with a focus on the episodes involving his affair, rewriting most of them to adapt the story to the plot shift and to make the production flow better.

Now, this is, at present, a purely hypothetical venture, an elaborate writing exercise being done by someone whose writing experience extends to a private, skit-based homage to British comedies from the turn of the millennium. (There is a non-zero chance I will refine that into something more substantial in the future) However, I would like to eventually realize HRM as an actual stage show.

For now, I'll be posting about individual aspects of it that I've thought about and discussed with others so far. If you're interested in what ideas have been developed so far, I suggest you start with these threads: one , two

Beyond that, I'm am more than willing to answer asks pertaining to the project, so if you have a specific thing you'd like clarified feel free to ask away!

Time for some Mammon HCs! (No, not the ones with the backstory I teased in my analysis)

Mammon genuinely gets a jolt of pure joy when a new venture takes off, just the feeling of a plan working out and getting something done is extremely precious to him. When it comes to business he enjoys the thrill of the chase just as much, if not more, than the actual money that comes from it.

Building off the last one, that mindset reflects in his personal interests too. He is absolutely into speedruns and watches them in his free time.

His guitar isn't just for show, he's actually a great player and frequently wrote and performed songs early in his career. However, he slowly started losing the love of performing music and now mostly just plays it in private to unwind from work or general stress. He will actually play it publicly at celebrations of large milestones or anniversaries, though.

Mam finds it frustrating that no one wants a heavier Fizzie after he went through the effort to have Ozzie give them a size changing ability, like we see in the ad. A lot of people mistake this for insecurity about his own weight, which couldn't be further from the truth, he has great confidence about his appearance and frequently scares some sense into anyone he hears dissing heavy-set people in general.

Even in his regular form he has spider like needle feet, both the curls and heels of his shoes are completely padded. This also means he has great balance.

Sometimes, instead of sleeping under actual covers, Mammon just makes a really big and dense web that he drapes over himself.

On the topic of his webs, they're slightly electric. While your touching one you'd feel slight electric static tickle. Mam himself, loves this feeling and that's why prefers sitting in his webs as opposed to regular chairs, or at least putting a web over a chair.