Stella Johnson

> Was it a bad lie though? Sometimes you need to lie to yourself in order to do what you want. I'm not saying that's what you should do everyday but.. when it's needed, you can forgive yourself for lying. After all, we're humans, right? We can be wrong and do mistakes, if the Lord do exist, he won't punish us for being hopeless souls who're trying to achieve things if.. we do become what we hoped for.
>
> **Stella Johnson** to Roméo Grriatz, Dangerous Woman pt.2 (Ch.11), Arc 1

Stella Johnson is one of the secondary characters of the Arc 1: Welcome to DrugCity also known as a rebel American girl who got tangled with Roméo Grriatz on the order of Théo Perrier and Nick Carter.

## Appearance

Stella is a short and very skinny woman with a awfully pale skin. We can see bright red marks of drug's injections covering the most parts of both her arms but her bones are also visible through her skin. She has dark brown eyes with dark rings under. She has a black wolf cut and don't wear any accessories in her hair or on any other parts of her body.

She tends to wear punk rock clothes with freedom slogans, ripped jeans and shirts and dark t-shirts. She doesn't wear flashy clothes and other colors than black, brown, dark blue or any other dark colors. Stella likes to be unnoticed and always chooses outfits where she is invisible in the crowd. Her taste in clothing is categorical: she won't wear colorful clothes, dresses, crop top or any girly clothes and on top of everything she hates purple.

## Personality

Stella is a very relaxed woman. She tends to joke around a lot and enjoys teasing her surroundings. Even if her personality looks warm, she remains a loner just like Michael Blake. During her fight with Jackie Jarcko she displayed a new aspect of her personality; her ruthlessness. Despite being friendly and comical most of the time, Stella hides deeper faces, a suicidal one, a merciless one and a depressed one.

She seems to enjoy nonconformism, she has faith and looks ambitious. Stella has also a soft side, during her meeting with Roméo at a restaurant, she shows a friendly and almost innocent side revealing her affection towards Roméo which make us wonder if Stella is starting to open up to him, even consider him as a friend.

## Story

**Early Life**

Firstly, Stella is the big sister of Sonny Johnson and also the daughter of the so-called "drunkard raper" like many of her classmates would nickname him. As revealed by Stella herself in Chapter 28: Kept by a Collar, she used to be a loner in high school, always rejected by all the groups she tried to enter. She was trying hard to get accepted by them, to be acknowledged by at least one person but knowing who her father was, nobody wanted to do anything with her.

In this period of her life, she was in a desperate need to be part of something to cure her from her suffocating loneliness and yet no one would answer her call for help. It is said that she knew Nick Carter and Danny Fidga back in high school but they weren't friends or anything, barely acquaintances.

**Debuts in Prostitution**

After receiving countless rejections from all of the groups she tried to enter, she chose by herself to prostitute. It was for her the only way she had to draw attention and to receive what she needs from the others; love. Even if it's for a short period of time, she liked to be taken care of. She was searching for a quick and easy way to get attention.

As she revealed, she used to use the money she received from her performances to buy all sorts of stuffs. That being said, she was always lonely wherever she went. But these small jobs with unknown customers was her only reason to feel happy for the day. Apart from that, she wasn't going to school very frequently and preferred to spend time with her regulars.

**Fall in Drugs**

One day, one of her most frequent customers asked her to try something new. He showed her a drug syringe and injected it in her. That was when she discovered drugs. She was willing to try a new experience but she unexpectedly became an addict soon after whereas she never touched drugs before that.

It became essential for her to get her drug dose of the day, without it her life would be meaningless to her. Nevertheless, on one of the rare days she went to school, she lost it. She went on the gymnasium rooftop and started to shout things to her classmates, that was when she truly fell for the drugs. But, her large consumption of drugs became a huge problem once she got into debts. The money she earned from prostitution wasn't enough anymore to afford her drugs.

### Ties with David Martinez

Somehow, David discovered about Stella's various addictions and decided to trap her. He met her one day and told her he had an offer to propose. He asked for sexual services from her in exchange of free drugs. Of course, she agreed as soon as she heard his proposal and as she stated, this idyllic situation only lasted for a short time.

David was becoming more and more violent and persistent towards her which had the effect of scaring her off completely but even if she tried to avoid him, he always found a way to find her back using his men. She didn't like having sex with him at all and she noticed that his hunger was growing bigger each day.

After that, she became used to hanging in DrugCity alongside David himself.

**Kidnapping of Sonny Johnson**

One day, she decided that it was enough, that her pains needed to take end. She chose to finally flee from Boston but she received a call from David himself showing her little sister, unconscious and surrounded by ten men ready to rape her. She's not very close to Sonny but as soon as she saw that, she had to go back to save her. She felt like she didn't had the right to involve her innocent sister in her issues.

When she arrived and fought with every man, David was more than satisfied to see his favorite pet coming back home.

**Under the Hand**

In the meantime, Stella fell under Théo Perrier's control after Nick Carter's gang was took over by him. Nevertheless, she chose to ask Théo for help; she wanted him to help her kill David Martinez. At first, when she asked Carter before Théo arrived, he said a direct no but once Théo arrived, he immediately answered yes. He then lend a few partners to Stella to try and kill David but all of them failed.

During that time, she fell more and more into Théo's filthy hands and now she can't break free of his control on her.

**Before Meeting Roméo**

Stella Johnson's story was partially revealed, it is said that she was a fighter in David's arena multiple times, even though she lied to Roméo that she's never been on the ring before. She knew Joshua (The beast of the depths) and Jackie Jarcko, they were supposedly friends or at least acquaintances but according to Jackie, because of issues she had in the past with them, she chose to fight them, almost to death, in David's arena for vengeance. Later on, her drug addiction was eventually found out by Roméo after his fight against Ava Mackat.

### Arc 1: Welcome to DrugCity

**Chapter 3: Debt**

**Chapter 4: Comrade**

**Chapter 5: Unwanted Ceremony**

**Chapter 6: First Fight**

## Relationships

* Roméo Grriatz - He is considered as Stella's friend even though a gap remains between them. Stella seems to care a lot about Roméo even though she keeps on hiding deep secrets to him. She was ready to switch her place with Roméo during their first mission with David (Chapter 15: Infiltration). She looks like she enjoys talking with Roméo but does not ask any information about him.

* Nick Carter - He may be one of Stella's enemies. In their private conversation (Chapter 9: Explanations?), it is implied that he and Stella known each other for a long time and Carter knows many of Stella secrets especially her past. It is not clearly said why they are linked but Carter seems to put high hopes on Stella. In the same chapter, she says she tried to suicide but got saved by Carter of his gang which implies he needs her in some ways to complete a job. We can't know for sure whether they're friends or rather enemies but we do know they have history in common.

* Théo Perrier - He is Stella's biggest enemy. She despises him and is kept under his control just like Carter. It is revealed (Chapter 14: An Ally?) that Stella's phone is being tracked by Théo or his subordinates which confirms the balance of power between him and Stella.

* Michael Blake - He cannot be considered as Stella's friend but she seems to take a perverse pleasure to tease him about his relationship with Roméo. It is revealed later (Chapter 10: Dangerous Woman) that Michael knew about Stella whereabouts however it is not said they met before, we can't know. Stella seems to be playing with him when he threatens her about telling Carter's hiding place and tries to get something from him in exchange of this information.

* David Martinez - Her relationship with David is complex and toxic. She hates him from the bottom of her heart and wishes to kill him with her own hands. After everything she went through with him, all she wants now is revenge for taking away her life.

* Jackie Jarcko - He is Stella's enemy on the ring during the tournament (Chapter 8: Second Round) but during their fight, a part of Stella's dark past is unveiled. According to Jackie, she chose to fight him and Joshua on purpose to get her revenge. Which implies they used to know in the past, maybe they were friends, but Stella doesn't deny his theory and choose to drug him to silence him.

## Attempts of killing/harming

**Failed**

* Roméo Grriatz (in training)

**Succeeded**

* Joshua [helped by Roméo] (by set up)
* Jackie Jarcko (by drug injection)
* Alban Carrucci (by head shot)

## Trivia

* Stella is mentally inspired by Chloe Price from *Life is Strange* and Loona from *Helluva Boss*.

* Taido stated that Stella was physically inspired by GothKasa/Mikasa from *Attack on Titan Spin Off*.

* She was meant to be a stereotype of the typical rebellious American girl often saw on TV series but instead of simply going through mere cliché, Bleakeas deepened her character and her personality to be a perfect mix between the typical American girl and struggling soul.

## Poems

Unnamed Poem:

"Here we are once again

I want you to let me go

Don't stop me from

and let go of my hand

Please I want to go

and I don't want you to be

The last one I'll ever see."

'Fine' Poem:

I don't where I am

And I don't know what I aim

It's dark but yet I see a light

It says:"It's gonna be alright"

But I closed my eyes

I heard:"Don't die!"

I said:"It's gonna be just fine"

'Freedom' Poem:

Hands up to the sky

Chin up to the light

Eyes to the Sun

Tied down with chains

Broken down tainted wings

Corpse lying down.

## Gallery

Illustration of Chapter 13Official chara design of StellaStylish draft of StellaFirst Draft of Stella (February 2022)Official PFP of StellaOfficial chara design of Stella for Arc 1Christmas Special drawing (background)