Stanley Goetia, the Forgotten Son of Stolas Helluva Boss spin-off by Victor A. Ryan.

1. Stanley at home

The Goetias are known in this ring of hell to only have one daughter, but what if I told you their first child was a son? His name was Stanley, he was a very rebellious offspring. Stella, wife of Stolas, never bothered to deal with him, and downed a whole bottle of wine every morning before daybreak to avoid responsibility.

Stolas was the only parent to take responsibility and deal with him. Stolas was cruel and heartless at the time, he didn't have the heart he had for his daughter Octavia so he punished Stanley harshly. The punishments varied from verbal abuse, to physical abuse, and even left him in a stone cell underground for days, weeks, or even months without food or water. A demon as young as him can survive five years without food or water, once he's grown to about his fathers age, he can survive generations so though starving him was cruel and Stanley bared no joy out of it, it is a popular punishment among goetia families with misbehaving children. Yet, despite all of this torture Stanley grew more and more rebellious.

One day, Stolas woke up on a seemingly normal morning. Stella was drunk as per usual, so as to not fall into responsibility for Stanley, but Stolas realised something was wrong. His book was gone, he went to Stanley's room and noticed he was gone too. "That arrogant little child", he yelled, realising he had stolen the book before he woke, the seemingly empty mansion of the morning light spoke back to him in his own echo. He started Asking the locals of hell if they had seen Stanley. With no luck, Stolas assumed that he somehow used the book to transport to earth. "No worries", he thought, "He'll come crawling back to his mummy and daddy, for we have the riches to feed that leach".

2. Stanley's new Morning Routine Earlier, before Stolas woke.

Stanley woke up early in the morning thinking, "I should get back at my bastard father for all the things he's done to me!" his thoughts continued, "running away won't help, it's not like he would care if I'm gone, plus even if I did run away, I can only stay on one of hells rings as long as i'm young, him and his guards will find me eventually". he kept thinking further, " maybe I could steal that fancy book from him! I've stolen it once before and read almost all of it so I know almost all of the little spells he uses on occasion, especially the spell that summons you to earth!"

He began quietly searching his father's room while he was asleep, "where does he keep the damn thing?!" he said. After looking for what felt like hours and after many close calls, he finally found it under the bed. "Finally found the blasted thing!" he said. He was going to run out the door as fast as he could but Stanley was smarter than that. He didn't see his mother in bed with his father, which to him, can only mean his mother is awake and draining numerous glasses of wine and champagne.

He quietly started walking towards the entrance and out he went. Stanley let out a sigh of relief, "that was close!" he said, "to be honest, I don't blame my mother for draining glasses of wine for the sake of avoiding me, but she's still a lazy bitch! At least my father put effort into controlling my ignorant ass!" He ran from the palace in search of a secluded place to perform the ritual.

3. Stanley on Earth

After performing the ritual, a portal emerged. Upon going through it, Stanley was fascinated by this new world, the circular sun, the blue skies, and the greenest grass he's ever seen. Though this place was beautiful, he quickly realised that the locals would not just accept him in his original form so he used a spell in his fathers book to turn him human. "Well that's about all I need this book for, I think i'll start looking around for a place to dumb this thing", said Stanley. Then Stanley began thinking otherwise; "actually, maybe i'll sell it somewhere! Some measly cult might have use for it, or a museum!"

As Stanley walked down the unusually lively streets, he noticed a local gas station that's hiring and thought, "well if I want to start living in this place I might as well earn some money. Upon arriving at the gas station, he stopped under its shade and thought, "this gas station is protecting me from that damnable sun and it doesn't even know me. I bet my life that if this gas station were my father, it would collapse on me and crush me until I die."

Stanley was going near the gas station door then suddenly saw an out-of-control car speeding toward him. He tried to move out of the way but he was too late, the car hit him and broke his face. He immediately opened the book and summoned a portal right before an explosion erupted.

3. Stanley Returns

After stanly successfully entered the portal to hell, his body began healing itself, all except the deformities in his face after he broke it. Stanley realised that the book took him to a lake near his father's palace. He started running, and as he ran, he saw his reflection in the lake, and frose. His face was so broken his beak was twisted sideways and his left eye went down on his cheek, he couldn't fix it, for the bones healed in place.

He started running faster in hopes that he could get as far from the palace as he could before his father found him, but it was too late. His father appeared in his tracks, pushing him off of his feet. He began to speak, "I knew you would come crawling back!'' he said, "how dare you try to run from me- wait…" he firmly grabbed his cheek, pulling his head closer to him, his face grew angrier than Stanley had ever seen him, "what the hell happened to your face!?" he scolded.

2. Underground Makeup Chamber

Stolas grabbed him by the arm and rushed him into the palace. "Father please! I'm sorry!" said Stanley, crying, for he knew the consequences would be much worse than anything he's grown used to. "Butler!" stolas called angrily, "yes master?" asked the butler. "Prepare this monstrous boy a room where he can fix himself." said stolas, "yes master, i know what you speak of, consider it done." said the butler.

After the Stanley's' cell, dubbed the makeup room, was prepared, Stolas ordered the guards to take Stanley there. Stolas followed behind. When they made it to the room, Stanley thought, "well this is quite familiar." It was familiar, this "makeup room" was in the same stone chamber that he was starved in many times, but it consisted of makeup and different tools neatly placed on a desk in the middle of the room and there were mirrors for almost every angle of his face emerging from the chair. It was like a surgery room.

"You will stay in this room without food or water until you know you have fixed yourself." said Stolas, "I don't care if I have to wait years, you can starve for all I by all means, as long as you paid the toll for disobeying my demands, whatever happens to you does not affect me.". Stanley tried to run towards the door but Stolas slammed it on him and locked it tightly.

2. Blades and Makeup

Stanley was desperate to get out of the room, so he knew he had no choice but to start fixing himself, so he adjusted the mirrors and picked up a blade, and started cutting through his own face, breaking his jaw and even his skull, screaming in pain, begging his body to work with him so he can get out of this room.

Days went by, but Stanley never noticed, he was busy bloodying his own face to bring back his original form and the chamber had no windows to see the sun so days didn't exist to him anymore. A whole month went by, then a year, he kept on cutting and breaking with no luck, only a bloody face, and agonising pain.

Three years went by and Stanley grew insane, he couldn't take this torture any longer. He banged on the chamber doors, "father please!" Stanley cried, "nothing is working!" his face was covered in blood, and only his tears rinsed off his cheeks. Stolas fired back, "if nothing is working then I guess you'll starve to death, besides, stop your crying, you're lucky I still remember you after three years." After that, Stanley gave up, and he lay in the corner of the cell.

2. Anniversary

Five years have passed, Stanley wasn't quite dead yet, but he is very weak, so weak, he never moved from the corner in which he gave up. Stanley started contemplating life and died the next day with these final thoughts; "the day in which I've entered this cruel cell has echoed back at me for the last time, it is useless to pray, I've tried many times but god never answered. What is on the other side of death for a demon such as myself? I might have a slight clue, for I've lost my sense of touch and smell, the feeling of hunger is gone, and my energy has ceased. Honesty, I'm looking forward to the abyss. If I feel nothing, I don't ever lose my sanity, or grow bored. I have no regrets, why would I regret hurting a man who deserved every second of it? The only thing I regret is keeping my damn mother unharmed, unscathed, and unaffected. That's my only regret, but it matters not, even so I am at peace. If there is a god, I beg of him to accept a demon just this once."

2. When a Stone Heart Melts

It was morning in the unusually quiet palace, Stella stopped drinking, and Stolas had been calmer since they locked Stanley in the cell chamber underground for five years, Stolas knew his son would be dead, so he felt nothing when walking to the underground chamber, its when he saw his sons mangled body after opening the cell doors that started his change of heart. Grief slowly melted his stone heart, he tried to stand strong and resist it, but the same thought orbited his mind, "he is my son, yet I barely recognize him, that boy's hands are mine. Everything I've done to change his behavior only fueled his fire and made him hate me even more so. I created his hatred, his hatred created this. What have I done?" Stolas bursted into tears, holding his son's mangled body, knowing full well he's lost the right to hold him, or as little as touch him. This is the day Stolas surrendered to his empathy. "When a stone heart melts, the burn is worse than the fires of hell." thought stolas. "The only way I can repay my son is with a proper burial, but that's not even enough to get this guilt off of my shoulders".