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Is it weird if I think Blitz has better chemistry with Fizz over Stolas?

Not at all. If anything I think Fizz and Blitz have more grounds for a compelling relationship than Blitz and Stolas. Two childhood friends who made amends after a traumatic incident split them apart and fell in love.

Granted the execution of them making amends in canon was poor but I’d take that over Stolitz any day. I’d rather have Blitz with Fizz than have him anywhere NEAR Stolas.

What the show wants to communicate: Blitzo realizing his mistakes and how he hurt Stolas

What it actually comes across as: Blitzo gets gaslit into apologizing to his abuser

Stolitz is NOT Based on a Lack of Communication

I just want to debunk the idea that Stolitz is only toxic due to a lack of communication between Blitz and Stolas. It is not. A lack of communication between partners is when one of the partners doesn’t properly express how they feel or when they outright hide information from the other partner.

When you try to apply this to Stolitz, it doesn’t work. Blitz FREQUENTLY expresses how he feels towards Stolas, he makes it VERY CLEAR that he feels uncomfortable and tries to set up boundaries to Stolas, however, Stolas doesn’t show any care for Blitz’s boundaries and continues to invade them. The problem isn’t a lack of communication, the problem is Stolas is an abuser.

Blitz deserves better (me)

Stolas’ Abuse Tactics On Blitz

Viv clearly does not want you to see Stolas as an abuser. However, there is a strong disconnect between how a writer may want you to interpret the story vs how it actually comes across, and how Stolitz comes across is disturbingly different from how Viv wants you to see it.

Out of curiosity, I decided to look at some abuse tactics online and see how many lined up with Stolas’ behaviour and. Holy shit. Viv is actually writing an abuser without realizing it. Let’s go through every tactic that Stolas uses, shall we? Sexual Abuse

This one is very obvious and I don’t feel the need to explain it.

Threatening

Again, another obvious one; Stolas is directly threatening Blitz by taking away the thing he needs for his job, so Blitz wouldn’t have a choice but to accept the deal.

Gaslighting

Throughout all of season 1, Stolas repeatedly belittles and dehumanizes (or dedemonizes…? Idk) Blitz by treating him as a toy, his “impish little plaything”, and gives off the impression that he looks down on the imp. Blitz clearly feels uncomfortable by this and tells Stolas to stop, but he doesn’t.

However, once we get to Apology Tour, Stolas actively the denies the idea that he ever looked down on Blitz and claims that he never did. Stolas says that Blitz just has this idea about Stolas in his head that isn’t true despite the evidence saying otherwise, and claims that he always did his best to support Blitz.

This is gaslighting. Gaslighting is a form of manipulation used by abusers to make the victim question themselves and their own sanity, which is what’s happening here.

(I forgot to mention the “I never realized you though to low of me” in Full Moon but that line absolutely comes across as gaslighting as well).

Playing The Victim

In that same episode, Stolas sings a whole song about how hurt he was by Blitz, how he “let Blitz get too close” or how he’s a motherfucker, framing Blitz as a horrible person and him as the person he hurt. Given the context here, this reads as Stolas playing the victim, making Blitz out to be a horrible person and singing about how hurt he felt, which again, given the context, this can be read as that.

Criticizing

Stolas accuses Blitz of being like Striker of all people in the first scene of Apology Tour, and says that he didn’t even bother to come save him when Striker captured him (even though he literally sent Millie and Moxxie to save him cuz he was busy).

He then paints and treats Blitz as someone too up his own ass to realize Stolas has true feelings for him, given the context Blitzo doesn’t come across as in the wrong in this scene like the narrative may want you think.

This is criticizing, which is an emotional abuse tactic that abusers use to assassinate the victim’s character as a way of demonizing them.

Stolas is an abuser