r/PlaceStolas

WARNING: I’m being extremely honest in this article, and you should be grateful I’m holding back on the swearing. This article is specifically aimed at a certain group of people I’m referring to, but obviously anyone can read it.

So, let’s break this down.

Stella has spent years publicly humiliating, verbally and physically abusing, and insulting her husband, has had him targeted for assassination multiple times, and laughs at his suffering. She literally says that she enjoys watching him suffer. She neglects her own daughter.

The fandom: “You have to understand her. She never wanted that marriage. She never wanted to be a mother. She was forced into it, and she probably had a difficult childhood.”

Striker — literally a hired assassin.

The fandom: He definitely had a tragic past.

Crimson — a mafia boss who abused his own son and quite possibly killed his wife.

The fandom: “He deserves a redemption arc.”

Blitzo — jumps from partner to partner like he’s changing socks.

The fandom: “It’s funny.”

And now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not saying I don’t want Striker to be redeemed, for example, or that Stella couldn’t have had a difficult childhood.

BUT.

Stolas — his only real wrongdoing is betraying his daughter’s trust.

The fandom: “He doesn’t deserve forgiveness. He should end up on the streets, and preferably die slowly and painfully.”

Like… have you people completely lost your fucking minds?

Octavia wouldn’t even want that.

Why do you think people like Striker and Crimson deserve the chance at redemption, but Stolas doesn’t even deserve to stand in his daughter’s shadow?

I’m not saying you have to love him. But why do you hate him this

I understand that just because someone has done less harm than someone else doesn’t automatically mean we have to like them or think they’re amazing. That’s not even my point. What bothers me is the logic that you want, for example, Stella to get a redemption arc, but when it comes to Stolas, the idea doesn’t even cross your minds.

According to you, he doesn’t deserve redemption. He doesn’t deserve forgiveness. He doesn’t deserve anything

And even if Viv did exactly what you want and had him die slowly and painfully, your reaction would probably still be: “She’s just trying to manipulate our emotions.”

And I deliberately brought up Blitzo too.

Why are you perfectly fine with Blitzo jumping between partners, but the moment Stolas kisses some guy who isn’t Blitzo, suddenly you’re reaching for a knife in your pocket?

And can I ask why, whenever someone suggests that Via might eventually forgive Stolas, you see it as an attack on Via?

People make a simple suggestion and you immediately go:

“Stop forcing Via to do something she doesn’t want! She hates him!”

Breaking news: she still loves him.

Yes, I know. Shocking.

You know what I think?

You don’t actually hate Stolas himself. You’re projecting your own fathers (or mothers) who abandoned you onto Stolas, and you haven’t been able to deal with that, so you take it out on him.

Maybe I’m weird, but my father abandoned me too, and I still like Stolas.

I completely understand why Via is angry with him. Via isn’t us. She doesn’t see or know everything that we

But you act as though you are literally Via — as though you only see what she sees and have none of the wider context.

Except you do know what’s going on.

And yet you still act like you don’t.

You simply suffer from a failure of judgment.

Writing things like, “Stolas needs to be punished so he realizes where he went wrong. He needs to try harder. He needs to grow up…”

Stolas should try harder. He should

But saying that he deserves to be alone and suffer for the rest of his life? That’s an entirely different extreme.

Especially when, according to you, Stella, Crimson, and Striker should all get redemption.

So I’m genuinely asking you: when the fuck are you finally going to be satisfied?

Okay, I’m done with the rant. Sorry, but I really needed to get that off my chest. It’s actually kind of a relief.

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So I just listened to the new Stolas song that they just released and did anybody else get a Freddie Mercury vibe from it?

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