It's going to be hilarious whenever the next episode comes out where Octavia finally tells Stolas off, and seeing the countless Yaoi-tards all of a sudden shit on Octavia or claim she's being unreasonable or misunderstanding, though knowing Viv I'd be shocked if the way the scene is framed actually follows what we've seen and sides with Octavia.
After all, Stolas promised her he wouldn't leave her for Blitzo no matter what in Loo Loo Land but he didn't hesitate at all to try and trade his life for Blitzo's, and said during his song (That Octavia certainly watched on the TV) that he didn't want to live without him.
Even if Stella is only pretending to care about her daughter, Stolas still claims to care about her but every action he does shows he puts Blitzo above Octavia.
We need to wait for the new episode for that? Dude, there are youtube comments, claiming she needs to get out of the way of Stolitz and let her father be happy, and be happy that he’s happy like today. Now, that’s not really how a parent-child relationship is supposed to go, but these people are delusional and treat children as accessories in stories then as characters. There was a (really melodramatic, just awful) fanfic I read that Stolas has a panic attack over some note Blitzo leaves him, and it’s his 17 YO Daughter that needs to get him through it. Let me say that again. The powerful demon prince needs his underaged daughter to help him through his accurate panic attack. That is where their minds are at. Thinking about it hurts my head.
No one can infantilize this guy more than his own fans, while also making him the most pathetic, weak, and frankly selfish version of himself. The worst part is that Anti-Stolas fics aren’t much better, because they use a ton of Tumblr buzzwords and arguments to infantilize Blitzo instead, and it’s just, no, this guy is also scum, he literally opened the trial with “Is this about the orphans, because they were already sick to begin with.” Like, if anything, Ars Goetia would just want to use Imp to either Kill stolas, or kick him to the curb because he sucks at his job. If anything came to light regarding sexual transactions unfair or not, the response would more likely be “Okay, he did that. So what? You were good for something then, you filthy imp.” They can’t even get their class warfare bullshit right, and that’s supposedly a huge theme for them.
As for the last point, I think I read on Tumblr, that someone with access to a patreon thing Viv did, stated that Stella was a decent, if not good mother to Octavia. So with that in mind, though I do take it with a grain of salt as it was not stated in the show, she does love her daughter, she also just really fucking hates Stolas, and for good reason.