Stella

**Stella** is a recurring major antagonist in the *Divine Comedy*.

She is the wife of Stolas and the mother of their daughter Octavia. Stella is ambitious, cunning, and takes her status as a noble very seriously which is all the more reason as to why she utterly detests Stolas for not only his infidelity but one he committed with an imp no less. As a result, she becomes an antagonist towards Stolas and by extension Blitzø.

## History

### Background

Like almost all hellborn nobles in Hell, Stella was born and raised to act the way her parents expected and demanded for her to act. Stolas himself states that she grew to the conformism of the elites' high society and such mannerisms were practically nailed into her mind. Stella, however, was overshadowed by her sister who was the more favored of the siblings which made her highly insecure about herself and not seeing herself to be quite up anyone's expectations.

Like any aristocratic family that cares for their image, Stella's family would marry one of their own to a member of the Ars Goetia to have hold over a region of Hell by proxy of marriage. Stella's sister would be married off to Andrealphus which only made her more desperate until she was introduced to Stolas himself. Unbeknownst to Stella at the time, Stolas was under pressure from the rumors of him consorting with an imp and subsequently gets into a marriage with Stella to put an end to the rumors and to clean his image once again.

### Marriage with Stolas

Stella presumably lived a relatively normal life of any infernal noble family until she eventually bore a daughter with Stolas. However, Stolas never truly recorpricated Stella's feelings although it could be argued that Stella herself did not hold any genuine feelings towards the prince, either. Moreover, Stolas' detachment from Stella coupled with the comments she receives from her family led to her venting all her insecurities on Stolas, venting about her failing relationship to her friends, and even to her daughter Octavia.

Things only took a turn for the worse when Stella found out about Stolas relapsing into extramarital affair with Blitzø once again. His affair with an imp made all her dreams and ideal royal family life crash down. The fact that Stolas would cheat on her with an imp has everything her family and others said about her come back to haunt her becoming a laughingstock and a joke of an aristocrat. And this of course leads her to violently lash out at Stolas ending in her anger and temperament clouding her judgment so much that she resorts to assassination attempts at Stolas's life without knowing of the great risks posed.

Stella's irrationality led her to putting a hit on Stolas during the Harvest Moon Festival in the Wrath Circle. However, Striker's activities in attempting to take Stolas's life only to be thwarted by the I.M.P. crew was beginning to draw in too much attention from the higher-ups which would result in an investigation and possibly lead to severe punishment for attempting to kill a royal demon that is part of Satan's court. As a result, Stella resorted to more discreet measures where she would hire a blue imp photographer named Milo to spy on the I.M.P. crew and expose their illegal activities to the emperors so to properly take her vengeance against Stolas by stripping him of his position and throwing him in Tartarus.

## Trivia

* Stella's theme song would be "Hit Em Up Style" by Blue Cantrell.