How Bolaire messed me up this last episode (/positive): a biased list
Bolaire saying to Hal the first opportunity he gets, three times like a fucking fairytale, "I'll be gone in the morning."
Bolaire completely dropping the Curator's accent and personality, because the role is at an end.
Bolaire saying twice that he had been mistaken in his dream about having a family, once for the Panto and maybe once for Hal and the Schemers.
Bolaire giving Misha the mental theatre experience he had been planning for Hal, with all his architecture books, paper models and talks with Demodus, because he is out of time and gone in the morning, and Misha *is* part of Hal's family, so it was kind of like giving the gift to Hal by proxy, and also maybe Misha would tell him the story of it.
Realising that Bolaire was so angry (frightened?) about Thimble leaving town way back when because he was like a dog left chained up in the backyard when everyone else had moved out, there was no one there to let him go.
Realising that Bolaire's relationship with Hal might have been the first equal relationship he'd had, right up until Thjazi took hold of Bolaire and made Hal part of his line of ownership.
Hal's immediate reaction to seeing Bolaire and Misha - full bardic voice, "this is Not A Thing" - demonstrating that despite everything he still doesn't really trust Bolaire, how it felt like a test imposed not by Bolaire but by the narrative and Hal *failed* and maybe that's when Bolaire knew he didn't have a family here either.
Hal watching how all these other people reacted to learning what Bolaire is for the first time, realising that Tyranny had known Bolaire for less than a day total but still put on the mask and was willing to vouch for him, how Mara's reaction to the revelation of Bolaire's identity was an apology and a promise that she'll protect him, how Azune immediately agreed when Bolaire asked if he would wear him to his apartment (and the pain on Hal's face when that offer wasn't made to him), how Misha talked about his lovely conversation with Bolaire.
Bolaire looking at Mara and recognising parts of himself, especially when she said that she was a soldier, and *then* seeing her keep pushing back loudly and assertively when people around her tried to attribute all of Thjazi's sins to her.
Thjazi never looked at Bolaire because he didn't *want* to see him as a person, because if he did then what he was doing was unconscionable.
Bolaire's decision to leave the life he loves behind and work to stop his sibling from hurting people - because the end result of Hal not wanting to be involved in Thjazi's war so he could have a peaceful family life, and Azune changing himself into whatever Thjazi needed and not asking questions because he was afraid of losing his lifeline and only solid foundation, and Thimble not speaking up even though she felt like what was happening was wrong because she loved Thjazi more than anything and didn't want to believe that he was doing anything bad, was that Thjazi was free to do whatever he wanted to Bolaire without being checked.
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