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but what seemed really obvious to me about his demeanour shift in the last episode doesn't seem to have been floated yet? which is that most of the blaming thjazi that he's doing at this current moment has very little to do with what thjazi may have done or not done in the past

what's happening with bolaire right now is he's having this panic

(for anyone who hasn't seen the good place, this is a millenia old demon being forced to reckon with the concept of his own death for the first time and yes this breakdown is also the source of "birth is a curse and existence is a prison")

bolaire has been a soldier for the better part of 73 years (until he decided not to) and he's never really been in danger? he might have been in the first couple days of his existence, if anyone could destroy him it would be rauwyn, but mortals in mortal wars? that's just his boring soul-killing day job. the worst that happens is his body dies and no one picks up the mask for a while so he misses out on some history, but he'll find a new wearer eventually. he knows in theory he can die, he knows termina did, but that's not really something he's had to reckon with ever? certainly not since he decided he was going to make his own life to his own specifications (and yes he is childish about that, it's the overcorrecting of feeling like he had no agency, now he wants control of his entire little world and hasn't really learned to regulate that)

until termina in amariya cormoray's body (and borrowing the magic of a powerful sorcerer, so this is new to bolaire) fired a disintegrate at him. if a single die roll had gone worse, bolaire would have been gone. not just dormant, not just waiting, not even shattered - gone. with no recovery

that's a new concept! and one he's finding he really doesn't like. he put a lot of effort into building this little world of his and you were just going to take it and unmake it and unmake him? that's not supposed to be an option on the table! (also it is physically impossible for him to hide from termina when she's nearby, which takes out so many of his survival strategies)

so yeah he's more terrified than he's ever been in his life. he has no idea what termina can do now except that it's more dangerous than he had any frame of reference for. who brought termina here and helped her wake up? thjazi. who treated bolaire like an object, walking all over his nice little world he worked hard on? also thjazi. what else has been threatening that little world and putting everything in bolaire on edge? termina!

and so he has his little crashout and vents a lot of old stuff about thjazi bc he is so scared and it's what's already tangled up in there. and people are perfectly valid to say "hey, the world doesn't revolve around you, bolaire". but like in his mind it did because he deliberately built a world that revolved around him (and those he finds inspirational) after getting tired of building worlds for other people!

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