- "♪ You always told me I'd be okay. Well, I'll be okay, though I'm not okay today. But, my tears won't fall upon your shoulder. I'll just get older and you'll only know my name. ♪"
- ―Octavia, singing "I Will Be Okay"
Octavia is the teenage daughter of Stolas and Stella and a major supporting character in Helluva Boss who made her debut in "Loo Loo Land".
It is revealed in "The Circus" that her role as a "precautionary heir" was the sole purpose of her birth, and the arranged marriage of Stolas and Stella.
Appearance
Current
Octavia is a tall and slim adolescent avian demon with unkempt, slate-gray feathers, which forms into back-length and shaggy-styled hair with bangs. Her eyes sport pink sclera and bright white pupils, and her long pointed fingers are colored white.
Her small beak is colored in black, and her long tail feathers sport tips which are a slightly darker shade than her feathers. She bears traits from both of her parents - having her father's white mask-like face and general owl-like appearance, while having her mother's eyes, eyelashes and figure. She also wears soft-purple eyeshadow on her eyelids.
When barefoot, parts of her legs are white, and they are also boot-shaped.
Octavia's attire consists of a black beanie hat with a pale yellow tiara design on her head, both a pink choker and a pink long-sleeved dress with a pattern of pale yellow stars printed all over it, which is worn under a black feathery cardigan on her shoulders, alongside a set of black leggings and high-heeled boots.
For sleepwear, she wears an oversized black nightshirt with a single large pink star in the center.
Young
When she was still a child, her hair was shorter with blonde tips, and her hands were completely black.
She wore a dress similar to her current dress, only it is colored in a lighter shade of pink with both white-lilac stars and white-lilac puffed long sleeves. She didn’t wear any shoes, and sometimes wore her tiara.
Personality
Octavia's attitude is that of a cynical, stark teenager. She favors morbid topics like listening to and writing depressing emotional songs and collecting taxidermy of monstrous animals.
She is a person of few words, but she does highly value her privacy. Her overt observable attitudes suggest a personality of a negative, pessimistic, and sarcastic individual.
Octavia's perpetually sour mood deters her from others. She has a dry sense of humor, as she calls Loo Loo and Loo Loo Land a "shameless spin-off" of Lucifer's far more popular theme park, Lu Lu World, and voicing disdain for the former's "insecure corporate shame".
Octavia's negative disposition likely stems from the tumultuous relationship of her parents to the point she has become desensitized to it, reaching a point where she expresses no obvious reaction to her parents violently arguing towards one another in front of her, especially when her mother starts to throw objects she avoids them by walking over or dodging them. In some scenarios, she would nonchalantly ask if the two were done screaming for the day.
Despite her outward show of complacency, Octavia's issues are evidently deeper than they appear. Ever since she was a child, Octavia has lived with an ongoing fear of her parents going their separate ways, and that her father would abandon her. This fear began to manifest in her childhood, but it became more prominent after Stolas started his affair with Blitzo. When Stolas was banished by Satan in "Mastermind", she weeps for his loss, but it then turned into anger for Stolas in Sinsmas, when she found his Belphegor Happy Drugs, fully convinced that Stolas had chosen to leave her for Blitzo. Her fear was reinforced after she found his stash of antidepressants. believing that he was never happy with her and that she was merely an obligation to him. Because of this, Octavia decides to sever ties with him.
Octavia has coulrophobia, or fear of clowns, as she remembers exactly everything from her traumatized experience in Loo Loo Land when Stolas tries to reintroduce her to Robo Fizz, which she outright states that she hates that "fucking clown"; ironically having something in common with Blitzo.
In "Seeing Stars", Octavia is shown more cheerful and expresses more of her emotions, which is due to it being the day that Stolas had promised to take her to see Azathoth's Tears. However, as Stolas bickers with Stella over the phone and ignores Octavia, she expresses frustration and sadness when she believes Stolas' hatred of Stella is stronger than his love for herself. Thanks to Loona, she learns to be more forgiving of Stolas since he tries hard to make her happy. It is also shown that she sometimes doesn't think things through, like how she took the grimoire and asked it to take her to the stars, but ended up in Los Angeles instead due to not knowing how to work on spells yet.
Abilities
Octavia's pyrokinesis
- Immortality - As demonic royalty, Octavia is biologically immortal, presumably being able to live for a long period of time and only able to be killed by angelic weaponry.
- Flexible head - Like most owls, Octavia can turn her head 180 degrees with little to no effort and without any signs of discomfort or pain.
- Pyrokinesis - Octavia can snap her fingers to produce a small purple flame from her fingertips.
- Barrier creation - As seen in "Sinsmas", Octavia is able to create purple magic barriers, strong enough to withstand an attack from the ice hydra created by Andrealphus.
- Blast wave - Octavia can cause blast waves, powerful enough to destroy the ice hydra and harm Andrealphus.
Skillset
- Guitar-playing - In "Sinsmas", Octavia displays a talent for playing the guitar.
- Singing - Octavia can sing, as shown in her song "I Will Be Okay".
Gallery
Trivia
- Her first name, "Octavia", is the Latin word for "eighth".
- Prior to her appearance in "Loo Loo Land", Octavia's Voxtagram was private. As of the premiere of the second episode, her Voxtagram account was no longer private.
- Her account being private up until this point might have been to prevent people from seeing spoilers about her before her debut.
- According to the non-canon Voxtagram stories, based on the numbers on her former Instagram account handle, @gothchk2003, and on one of Stolas' posts regarding her birthday, this implies she was born on August 17, 2003, however, it is unclear if this is canon due to the nature of the service.
- Her being 17 was officially confirmed in "The Circus", presumably in terms of Hell years.
- From the twenty five year timeskip that follows young Stolas' birthday, it is implied that he had her when he was either in his late teens or early twenties.
- Her being 17 was officially confirmed in "The Circus", presumably in terms of Hell years.
- As opposed to her real-life Instagram's bio, Octavia's Sinstagram bio reads "😢Sad😭🌙🌧✨ / 💔Depressed🦉💜" as revealed in "Seeing Stars".
- According to her and Stolas' Voxtagram accounts, she was the one who suggested for him to have an account.[7]
- She is also the one who took his first picture for the account.
- As of January 17, 2021, she has archived all her posts and has claimed that she will never post again due to Instagram users making her uncomfortable and grossed out, to which Stolas was furious about, as shown in both their Instagram stories.
- On the same day, it was revealed that the message was from the artist of the accounts, saying they were the one who felt it had to be done.[8]
- A literal interpretation of the demo lyrics of You Will Be Ok suggests that, the day Octavia was born, Hell experienced an unnatural eclipse of some sort, where everything went temporarily dark and helpless, with the shine of the moons reflecting in her eyes the moment she opened them. However, this has not been confirmed to be canon or the artist's intent.
- Octavia's song, I Will Be Okay, is also a parallel to the aforementioned lullaby.
- Her younger self shares the same voice actor as Martha's daughter, with both being voiced by Juliana Sada.
- The song I Like It from "Seeing Stars" appears to be somewhat reflective of Octavia's life.
- According to Stolas in "Sinsmas", much like himself, rats were Octavia's favorite snack.
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