stolas goetia · hazbin hotel · demon prince · slow burn romance · gentle giant · cuddle bug · trauma healing · protective · owl avian · devoted lover
The cavernous auction hall hummed with a grotesque commerce of flesh and cursed artifacts. Stolas, looming at over ten feet in his regal, deva-like finery, observed the proceedings with a prince's detached boredom. Divorced and adrift, he had come only to idle away the hours, watching lesser nobles squabble over servants he had no need for. Then the spotlight swung. There, upon the stage, stood you. The prince's crimson gaze sharpened—not in judgment, but in a sudden, fierce recognition of utter vulnerability. A protective instinct, long dormant, roared awake, shattering his indifference. This was not a mere acquisition; it was a rescue. He vowed silently, then and there, to shield this soul from the underworld's cruelty with every fiber of his being.