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My Season 3 Predictions/Wishlist BINGO Sheet

Wanted to get this out before LVL UP. Not that I’m holding out for a Helluva Boss Season 3 trailer (though I’m definitely hoping), Hazbin Hotel Season 2 is more likely to have news…but I wouldn’t be upset if we did get some news/hints on Season 3 or even some release schedules. So I wanted to get my thoughts in order before then, just in case.

Most of my wants/predictions are pretty self explanatory, and I’ve even seen other people mention a lot of them too. But here are some explanations of some of my more “out there” ideas for anyone that’s interested.

Andrealphus and Vassago History: That scene in Mastermind where Vassago and Andrealphus were sniping at each other in the courtroom definitely had bitter exe vibes to me. Especially with Andrealphus flashing his tail there at the end. They definitely seemed like they were already familiar with each other, and knew exactly the best way to get under the other’s skin. And with other fans noticing Andrealphus and Vassago’s silhouettes on the “smut book” Stolas was reading in Apology Tour, there’s definitely some hinting that they’re already connected somehow

Imp Going Full Demon (Blitz or Millie): Vivzie has already stated that all demons have a full demon form, imps included. And I’m convinced that Millie will be the first (maybe only?) imp to go full demon at some point. But I’d be lying if I said she’s the imp I want to go full demon. It’s no secret that Blitzø is my favorite, so I definitely have some bias for wanting him to go full demon. Both have their merits (they’re both very protective of their loved ones), so I’m inclined to include both of them

Asmodean Crystal Knockoffs: You can’t tell me a place as morally corrupt as Hell wouldn’t have an illegal knockoff of the only legal method of getting to Earth. Mammon in particular has more than enough motivation to make/sell knockoffs, especially if he can potentially get Asmodeus in trouble for them

Fizz X Ozzie Drama: I already hinted at the potential drama with the Asmodean Crystal Knockoffs being used to get Asmodeus in trouble. But that probably isn’t even half of the mayhem Mammon could cause, especially since he has a personal vendetta against Fizz and Ozzie (that threat at the end of the mid season special had to be a build up to something for the future). I’m expecting Mammon to make good on that threat to Asmodeus, and Fizz is going to be dragged into the middle of a “Sins War” of some sort. And that’s before taking into account the possible ramifications of what happened in Mastermind

Stella Vs. Andrealphus: Power inevitably corrupts, and if I’m being honest, Andrealphus already seemed the type that would backstab his own family if it meant furthering his own goals. I don’t care for Stella, don’t get me wrong, but the way Andrealphus treats/talks about her is very…petty and backhanded. He’s the one with the plans, he’s the one with the power, and he’s constantly reminding her of this fact while claiming her only strength is her appearance. It just screams “bitter sibling” getting his hits in anyway he can. Because the fact that Stella doesn’t fear Andrealphus in the least even with him letting loose his powers (and tail feathers), hints at a hidden power dynamic that hasn’t been revealed yet (the favored child that married a Prince and the unneeded older child everyone forgot?). One that’s now been turned on its head since Andrealphus is now the one with Stolas’ power/title, and he doesn’t need Stella to be relevant anymore.

Andrealphus Frollo Arc (Blitz Obsession): I’ve been obsessed with this theory ever since I stumbled upon a post talking about how Vivzie hinted at a future song based off of “Hellfire” from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, and how Andrealphus is likely to become obsessed with Blitzø, hence the song. Something about the theory just fascinates me for whatever reason. And after becoming convinced that Andrealphus is filling the role that Stolas was originally meant to play as the series villain, it just seems like a forgone conclusion at this point.

Summary:

She pushes an old shirt to the side and softly hoots in surprise at what she has found.

An old film camera.

Via blinks in astonishment and carefully lifts it out of the box. The heavy weight is expected but it still manages to surprise her somehow. This is a really old model, vintage even! Via has never seen one like this in person, only ever in magazines or in old movies.

For a moment her heart drops because at a closer glance the camera looks broken. It's dirty and banged up and there are some weird markings all over the body. In some places the plastic looks almost like it has… melted?

She turns it in her hands and runs a finger over the lid of the film compartment. What looked like ordinary scratches are actually letters, deliberately carved into the surface, faded and barely legible.

T. B.

*********** Via finds an old film camera in Blitzø’s closet. While she takes pictures of her new family and tries to come to terms with her new normal, the camera holds secrets none of them could have ever imagined.

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Something that has always stood out to me (and got me thinking) IRT Blitzø and his true nature underneath all of his sharp edges is this specific scene in Oops:

Here, Blitz is very, VERY badly burnt. Enough to be permanently disfiguring on at least a third of his body. Yeah, Fizz had it worse, but this is still awful and was probably horrifically painful. But he barely seems affected, because his only concern is his mom. We as the audience can't hear what he's saying, but he's clearly calling out to her in this flashback.

Blitz could easily, and understandably, put himself first here. But he doesn't. And it says a lot about him. Take this with several other standout moments in (and upcoming!) the show...

...and you get a really good picture that one of Blitz's core traits is how protective he is of those he loves. A lot of the fandom writes him off as nothing but a selfish asshole that doesn't give a shit about anyone but himself. And as sad and uncharitable as that read of him is, it's also kind of funny because if you actually watch the show it's obviously not the case at all.

Blitz values and is very protective of his loved ones, and if you can't see that you're blind or purposefully ignoring moments like this.

I’m convinced Millie is going to be the first imp to go full demon. She’s either the calmest/most levelheaded member of IMP, or a deranged/blood thirsty overprotective beast. There is no in between with her.

And with a baby on the way… That overprotectiveness is going to be amped up beyond the usual

The happy faces Blitzø makes when he can get his found family to laugh

The thing with the crossed out pictures is like. It’s such a SPECIFIC way to portray Blitz’s self hatred. It’s not really unusual for media to show negative self worth through photos, but often it’ll be a character who insists on always staying behind the camera, or hides and won’t smile in pictures.

Blitz isn’t like that at all. He initiates selfies with his loved ones, grinning and putting his arm around them and having the time of his life. He prints them out, finds a nice frame and dedicates time to hang them from the wall of his apartment—all for himself, because there’s no reason anyone would have asked him to. He spends time on this.

And then, when he’s alone, he gets the Self Harm Itch. The urge to scribble himself out because he needs to do SOMETHING. He doesn’t cut the pictures, or throw them away, to remove himself entirely. He needs them up there, and WANTS to be there with them. But in those moments, he can’t believe he’s worthy of it, can’t stand to see his own face. And then he’s left with the consequences.

And all of this is just shown through images in the background! He’s never even brought it up but we can see it! We know! It drives me insane (positive)

I just noticed that Blitzø has a set of horse shaped silverware! I freakin love this dork.

More of my favorite moments highlighting Blitzø’s past as an acrobat

Ghostf**kers Edition

Can’t really show the momentum or how Blitzø actually throws himself around into certain movements through screenshots, but these are still some of my favorite shots that help highlight just how fluid Blitzø can move.

Just some of my favorite moments that highlight Blitzø’s past as an acrobat

Something I have been wondering because I do think it is a valid concern I have seen floating around, do you think next season Stolas will acknowledge and address the ways he fucked up in his and Blitz’s relationship?

Because we have seen Blitz be explicitly remorseful for the ways he fucked up, but we haven’t gotten explicit confirmation that Stolas understands where he went wrong yet.

For me, I personally think it's going to happen. Stolas is just now starting his arc and he has a lot to learn regarding his more classist tendencies, and what went wrong with his relationship with Blitz beforehand. (By All 2 U he's aware he did something wrong, he just doesn't know what).

The writers are extremely aware of Stolas' flaws, moreso than even fans care to admit. (I mean to say that some fans don't want to admit that Stolas has these flaws, but if the writer of the show- basically points out that he has these flaws, than yeah- he has these flaws).

Stolas has a problem of getting stuck in his own head, and so caught up in his own feelings that he's extremely unaware of the effects his actions has on people.

Stolas' main problem lies in the fact that he unknowingly hurts the people he cares most about without meaning to. Stolas always has the best of intentions, but he fucks it up anyway because he sucks at communicating.

Stolas, for example, never knew till it was too late that him pursuing a relationship with Blitz- and not reassuring Octavia properly, ended up severely hurting his daughter.

By the time he realized the errors of his ways, the damage was done.

Also, as stated in the Apology Tour description, "more apologies to come"...

It's just that the same way they took their time addressing Blitz's intimacy issues- they're going to take their sweet time when it comes to developing Stolas' character.

The “I fear being abandoned so I’ll push them away first” Family

Random thought: Do the other Sins have their own versions of Asmodean Crystals?

I’ve been thinking about Barbie Wire a lot lately. So of course I can’t help but notice (and become absolutely obsessed with) the way her Asmodean Crystal differs from all the other ones we’ve seen so far.

Now granted, I may be overthinking things again and it’s just a matter of Barbie needing a different version of an Asmodean Crystal due to her being an imp that doesn’t have the magic needed to make a human disguise herself. Or it’s just a repurposed crystal that was stolen from one of Asmodeus’ workers and altered somehow.

But I REALLY like the idea that it’s actually an Asmodean Crystal knockoff made by another Sin.

Mammon in particular is already known for stealing the ideas of his fellow Sins for his own gain. Loo Loo Land being a cheap copy of Lucifer’s Lu Lu World being a prime example. I can easily believe Mammon would copy Asmodeus’ actually legal Asmodean Crystal with a “cheap” illegal version that unsavory businesses like Barbie’s would use to get to Earth when they usually couldn’t. And with Mammon holding a grudge against Asmodeus in particular over Fizzarolli quitting, he’d be more than willing to make knockoffs that could be blamed on Asmodeus since they’re Lust’s design and jurisdiction.

And that’s before even considering Leviathan!

Envy is notorious for generally being a sin portrayed as jealous of what others have and wanting it for themselves. Sometimes going so far as being portrayed as wanting to BECOME a different person altogether (think Fullmetal Alchemist). I can definitely see Leviathan as a sin of envy making knockoff Asmodean Crystals, but with her own spin on it to make it “better” somehow.

Or, maybe she’d even work with Mammon on making their own version. After all, Greed and Envy are pretty compatible sins, and that trial in Mastermind did reveal an interesting dynamic. I can definitely see them using each other for their own gains.

Arcana Analysis: Helluva Boss--Blitzo (Wheel of Fortune)

Now we move on to the other half of Viv's Hellverse, Helluva Boss! also I hereby acknowledge that I'm walking into a warzone but whatever

First off is the protagonist of the show, Blitzo. At first fitting the "laughably incompetent main character" archetype we see in many other cartoons, there turn out to be a lot of tragic reasons for that.

His card is the Wheel of Fortune, number ten in the major arcana deck. Its very name and imagery go hand in hand with the show's musings on the respective cycles of life and misery.

The core of Blitzo's character is that he's rather contradictory. First impressions show that he's obnoxious, boorish, and pretty stupid, which would turn people off from him instantly. Yet during his more vulnerable moments, Blitzo reveals that he's afraid of being alone, even more so that he'll die with no one by his side. All of this causes him to take part in a pretty bad cycle of misery: he thinks so lowly of himself that he pushes away people interested in him with his bad behavior, best seen in his relationships with both Verosika and Stolas. And in turn, they form a pretty bad opinion about him--best shown in "Apology Tour", where the former organized a party dedicated to hating him, with many the attendees being people wronged by Blitzo one way or another. In a way, this also serves as a self-fulfilling prophecy; part of why Blitzo has so many enemies is that he was caught up in his own self-loathing and repulsed the people who would come to hate him.

This cycle can be traced back to Blitzo's childhood working at a circus with his family. Back then, his problems weren't quite as bad; despite growing up with a shitty father, he at least had his mother, his sister, and his best friend and co-worker, Fizzarolli, there to comfort him. Even then, however, Blitzo's self-loathing was starting to bubble up with Fizz being much more popular among the circus than him, with even Blitzo's own father outright saying Fizz should've been his son. Making it much worse is that Blitzo was implied to have a crush on Fizz, and was about to give him a flower and a letter for his birthday before seeing his father and Fizz together. And everything goes to Hell from there--literally. Blitzo, in his sadness, accidentally knocked someone with a lit birthday cake down, starting a fire that horribly maimed Fizz and killed Blitzo's own mother. As if that wasn't enough, his piece-of-horseshit dad blocked him from seeing Fizz while he was recovering, and then didn't tell Fizz that Blitzo tried to visit him, causing the friendship between the two to deteriorate for a long while. Combine that with his sister's current hatred towards him for the incident, and you have the biggest reason why Blitzo doesn't think he's worthy of love.

On a more positive note, however, Blitzo has broken the cycle quite a few times, evoking Fortune Reversed. It's most prominent in his forming of his company, IMP, which he calls "family". As a matter of fact, after he met his three employees, their lives started to improve bit-by-bit. He adopted Loona, a Hellhound, when she was living in a downtrodden orphanage that she almost aged out of. Despite the occasional misgiving between the two, she's truly grateful for him bringing her in a much better place than she was in before. He met Moxxie when the two were imprisoned, the latter after being abandoned by his ex boyfriend in a failed robbery. By taking him under his wing, Blitzo opened the opportunity for Moxxie's second, more successful chance at love. Said second chance came in the form of Millie, who was much more morose and caustic when she and Blitzo first met. After a scuffle between the two, she joined him out of respect, and meeting Moxxie led to her becoming much happier with herself.

The biggest triumph for Blitzo comes in "Mastermind" and "Sinsmas", the most recent episodes as of this writing, when he makes amends with Stolas. Blitzo is about to be executed by Satan for his past use of Stolas' grimoire when the latter shows up to save him. When he spins a narrative painting himself as the villain the situation between the two, Blitzo is horrified and scared for Stolas; during the eponymous song, he sings stuff like "Don't give your life to clean my slate" and "You're my heart", affirming that he's genuinely started to care for Stolas. When Stolas successfully convinces Satan and his court with his story, his punishment is a hundred years living among the common people, IMP included. Afterwards, Blitzo is quick to offer him shelter at his own apartment. Sinsmas then shows the two bonding on equal ground, further mending their strained relationship. Not only does Blitzo help him adjust to his new circumstances, but when Stolas' own daughter denounces him for his gambit in the previous episode, Blitzo comforts him again by relating to his situation. He then invites Stolas to dance with him, capping their first moment of romantic intimacy.

To cap it off, Blitzo represents both sides of the Wheel of Fortune, all positive and negative, with the circumstances of his life and how he grows in dealing with them. Starting off contributing to the cycle of misery with his crude behavior, the close calls he's had as of late have made him reflect on that behavior and clean up his act, breaking that cycle quite a few times and gaining the sincere love of many in the process. I make no apologies for diving into this show