Stolas/History

Past
Much of Stolas's past remains shrouded in mystery, however, it is known that he is one of several children of the Goetia King known as Paimon.

When he turned old enough, Stolas was informed that his duties in Hell would involve studying the skies of Earth, the stars, and various prophecies engaged with them; he was then given a book granting him access to the living world to study and raise an army of followers. While Stolas was excited about learning his new duties, he was less than pleased about hearing he was betrothed to an avian demon named Stella. After his father and servant took him to a carnival to calm him, Stolas saw a pair of imp clowns and was mesmerized by one of them, who he learned was named Blitzo. After Paimon paid Blitzo's father to have the imp spend time with Stolas for his birthday, the two spent the day enjoying each other's company before Blitzo returned to the circus and disappeared for over two decades.

Stolas would eventually follow his father's request and marry Stella, and they had a daughter named Octavia.

One night when a child Octavia began yelling out for her parents, Stolas is forced to go check on Octavia alone. Stolas sings to Octavia a lullaby to calm her worries about him disappearing from her life.

When Octavia was young, Stolas told Octavia about Azathoths Tears and promised to take her to see them one day.

As the years went by, Stolas' family life started to fall apart, despite his sincere efforts to make things work for the sake of his daughter.

One day during a party hosted by Stella, Stolas learned that an imp had been trying to break into his home. Seeing it was Blitzo, Stolas took him away and assumed his old friend had come back for sexual purposes, and due to several miscommunications, Stolas eventually found himself blindfolded and tied down to his bed. The next morning, Stolas was awoken by Stella screaming about Blitzo, where then Stolas then screams back that "that was the sound of a fucking divorce", rips a banner and laughs triumphantly.

Even though Blitzo abandoned him and took the grimoire, Stolas immensely enjoyed the experience and began to lust after the imp.

Helluva Boss pilot
NOTE: The events depicted within the episode are confirmed to be not canon to the main Hazbin Hotel franchise by the creators. At an unknown period of time, Stolas called in a favor to Blitzo and commissioned him to assassinate a political candidate on Earth.

"Murder Family"
Stolas, in the middle of a bath, makes a call to Blitzo while hiding from Martha, and unaware of Blitzo's current situation, asks for his grimoire back, as he needed it to perform his duties.

Stolas then offers to let Blitzo keep the book as an exchange of services, requesting he and Blitzo regularly have sex on the full moon of every month, and in return, Blitzo can keep the book for the rest of the time.

Blitzo hastily agrees to the deal, and Stolas goes off on an elated and obscene rant about his sexual fantasies with Blitzo, which continues long after Blitzo loses the phone.

"Loo Loo Land"
Stella finds out about Stolas' affair with Blitzo and has an emotional lashing out at Stolas; Stolas himself does not express any regrets or apologize over the incident, making things even more tumultuous. After Stella storms out of the room furious, Stolas decides to get himself and Octavia out of the house by visiting Loo Loo Land.

He calls Blitzo again and hires his group as bodyguards to guard himself and Octavia during their visit to the park. However, despite trying to bond with Octavia, Stolas starts flirting with Blitzo and even allows other imps to attempt kidnapping him just so Blitzo can save him.

Things take a turn for the worse when they visit the FizzaRolli 'n Friends attraction Octavia despised as a child, which aggravates her even more. Eventually, Octavia can no longer tolerate it, and she runs off to the fun house with Stolas chasing her.

During the ride, Stolas and Octavia talk about their current situation. Stolas finally realizes that Octavia was not having a fun time, being upset at him for ruining their family. Stolas tries to tell Octavia why he cheated on Stella but couldn't find the right words.

Once he finds out that Octavia is afraid of her father abandoning her, Stolas reassures her that he would never do that, and their relationship is reconciled. Departing the ride together, Stolas and Octavia exit the park, where the park is in flames due to the antics of the I.M.P.

Stolas asks Octavia what she would like to do, and she requests if he can take her to Stylish Occult. Stolas is perplexed about initially, but agrees, and Octavia tells him he's not so bad at times.

"The Harvest Moon Festival"
After a night of sex with Blitzo, Stolas takes back the grimoire so that he could summon the Harvest Moon and fulfill his hosting duties at the Harvest Moon Festival. He also invites Blitzo and I.M.P as special guests at the festival, which Blitzo accepts.

During the festival, however, he is targeted by Striker, an imp hired to kill him. Blitzo and Moxxie intercept Striker before he can assassinate the prince and thwart his attempt on Stolas' life, despite Striker managing to escape.

What Stolas doesn't know is that he was being targeted by Striker on Stella's behalf, as revenge for his infidelity. Stolas can be seen eating dinner with the rest of his family while Stella is on the phone with Striker, apparently unaware of her or not paying attention to the phone call, before turning his head briefly when he notices her glaring at him.

"Truth Seekers"
A short time after, Stolas appears, in his full demonic form, at the D.H.O.R.K.S. Facility in the human realm to rescue the members of I.M.P after they were captured by Agent One and Agent Two.

Stolas lets the two agents live, dismissing them as kooks who weren't to be believed by the public.

"Ozzie's"
Later on, Stolas was spending a depressing evening alone at home, eating cereal and binge-watching telenovelas due to Octavia being with her mother for the weekend.

Then he receives a call from Blitzo inviting him out to Ozzie's, much to Stolas's surprise. Unaware that Blitzo was really only using Stolas to get through the door and spy on Moxxie and Millie, Stolas excitedly agrees and prepares for what he believed was he and Blitzo's first date.

Stolas arrives in the Lust Ring through a portal to where Blitzo is. Once seated inside Ozzie's, Stolas attempts to make small talk with Blitzo, but the latter is distracted by his spying on the couple. Stolas briefly becomes concerned upon Fizzarolli mentioning Asmodeus was in the audience.

Later, he watches Moxxie perform onstage, but when Fizzarolli and Asmodeus interrupt Moxxie's song for Millie and turn to humiliating Blitzo instead, Asmodeus recognizes Stolas as Blitzo's date and calls him out for sleeping with Blitzo instead of focusing on Stella and Octavia, causing Stolas to become greatly embarrassed.

Blitzo also feels embarrassment and although Stolas tries to comfort him, Blitzo decides to leave the club, taking Stolas with him.

Blitzo drives Stolas back to his mansion, and when Stolas tries to invite Blitzo to stay awhile, Blitzo frustratedly refuses, stating that their relationship was nothing more than Stolas wanting to have sex with him. Upset but conceding to his request, Stolas bids Blitzo goodnight, and as Blitzo pulls away, Stolas sheds tears and sits on his front steps in a lonely depression.

"Western Energy"
At Richest Cup café Stolas is meeting with Stella and her brother Andrealphus to discuss about his upcoming divorce. When Andrealphus tries putting Stella in a sympathetic light about Stolas cheating on her and deserves some compensation, Stolas interjects that cheating involves a betrayal, but since Stella never cared about him or the marriage, then there was no betrayal and the divorce was long overdue.

Suddenly Striker breaks through a window and begins shooting at Stolas, and when attempting to escape Stolas is lassoed by blessed rope and kidnapped. On Striker's horse Stolas calls Blitzo asking to rescue him, but as Blitzo was taking Loona for her Hellbies shot he was unable to.

Striker takes Stolas through a cavern to the Wrath Ring and into Striker's lair where's he's tied up to train tracks. After Stolas comments on Striker's cliché and the statue, Striker gets angry and cuts Stolas down from the tracks and proceeds to torture him, but becomes increasingly annoyed by Stolas' comments on how Blitzo handles him in bed.

Just as Striker was about to kill him, Stella calls to tell Striker the hit is off, leading to Striker sparing Stolas but deciding to cut out his eyes as a trophy. Just in time Moxxie and Millie arrive to battle Striker and save Stolas.

After Striker flees, Stolas goes unconscious from his injures and is taken to St. An's Hospital by Moxxie and Millie.

In his hospital room, Stolas receives a text from Blitzo telling him to get well soon. Touched, Stolas texts back saying he will be in the hospital for a while and can visit anytime he wants, but when Blitzo doesn't text back, Stolas looks sad and puts his phone back on the table and fell asleep.

"Oops"
Outside Asmodeus' office Stolas sits waiting to meet with him. After Asmodeus welcomes Stolas inside the two sit and discusses Stolas' feelings for Blitzo where the he requests an Asmodean Crystal to give to Blitzo for his job on Earth, but Asmodeus sympathetically rejects Stolas' request on behalf of Fizzarolli who hates Blitzo.

When Asmodeus' phone receives a message, Stolas and Asmodeus view a video from Crimson who had kidnapped Fizzarolli for ransom, which enrages Asmodeus and Stolas tries to calm him down.

Stolas and Asmodeus meet with Crimson's lawyer for the contract. Despite Asmodeus wanting to sign it immediately, Stolas stops him and after reading the contracts contents informs that it would give Crimson all of his factory assets, and permission to use Fizzarolli's head as a wall decoration. After the lawyer brings out a larger contract Stolas claps happily, eager to read it.

Later, Stolas discusses the draft of a new contract as Asmodeus sits angrily in silence and then yells for the lawyer to hurry up reading.

After Fizzarolli returns to Asmodeus safely, Stolas puts on his hat and proceeds to leave Asmodeus' Tower.