Funny enough, everytime the topic of Stella comes up in terms of even giving her slightest positive spin, sympathetic or not, all of the fandom immediately clutch to this exact opinion and they put wools over their eyes and want to do the same to others by expressing it. Nevermind the fact that Stella's role in life put against her will was to be a literal child bride and broodmare decided by others higher in the Ars Goetia food chain, including her own family, and her arranged owl partner was too much of a homo degenerate to even try building a loving bond ("I tried to make things comfortable for us, to have this family"? Uh, sure thing, Stool's Ass, look how well that turned out to be). "bUT sTEllA SA'D sToLaS"! It's called a fucking arranged marriage, for the explicit purpose of a precautionary heir for a fucking reason, you retard monkey niggers. They could have delayed it, but none of the two could have refused sticking their dirty ass cloacas on each other forever. I personally headcanon that Stella did the complicated duty of maintaining fake relationships and status with the rest of the nobility to make sure her estate, and particularly Octavia's place in Hellish food chain, could be made secure... meanwhile, Stolas probably stuck to jacking off to imp porn or some shit, who the fuck knows. It's not like Vivz ever bothered portraying what the fuck he actually does other than swoon for his little sex slave or fail to build an actual relationship with his daughter (and I don't really count the Harvest Moon Festival as anything other than him proving how much of a condescending classist he actually is towards imps, lmao). Anyway, TL;DR: Someone save Stella's character from Vivz' hands already. Thank you for attending my TED talk.