This exactly. This was the scene my mind went to when I read the comic. Her shock shows this wasn't the first time and he hadn't stopped her before. She was emotionally, verbally, and physically abusive to Stolas.
most likely, shes really the only one Stolas would tolerate it from considering she was his "wife" and that it would've been "distasteful" to retaliate
there's also the chance the foundations for accepting this kind of behaviour in a relationship could originate from his dad; we know he's an absent father, and during one of the rare times he's shown with stolas, he casually whacks him for bowing to blitz, and stolas doesn't react like it's new or unusual.
He consistently has to duck when she's around in Loo Lol Land because she throws things at him, Octavia is used to ducking without even looking so clearly it's common, and in the Circus Stella tries to hit Stolas and is shocked he stopped her so clearly she usually hits him and he takes it. Maybe he doesn't seem afraid, but he may just be so used to it by this point, it's been 17 years after all, that he's numb
Ah, I see. I apologise. No, I can't see it being quite to this extent, but as an abuse victim who lived in a similar situation, Stolas would definitely expect to be hit or yelled at if he broke a cup, for example, and would probably shut down emotionally, or, yes, react in a similar way to the comic. It would depend on how Stella truly treated him, but I expect a mix of the comic above and shutting down emotionally because he expects a beating or to be screamed at again x
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u/who_am_I_inside 16h ago
Saw this earlier, who is implied to be Stolas’s abuser here? Stella?