Azune's little arc of realizing that this attempt at mending was a mistake is very special to me, but also oh god he heard that Thjazi treated him like an object and started touching Bolaire without permission and then tries to "mend" Bolaire without his consent to see if he IS an object.
Like it's so important especially that Azune was doing this to see if it would HEAL him but mending repairs objects? Why not see if casting lay on hands points into the mask repairs the damage to see if he counts as a creature? Why not tell him that's what you're trying to do when he's confused about you touching him?
And it's obviously in large part because Bolaire is so insistent on being a Thing not a Person, but also Azune not realizing that's what he's doing right away, and then being able to realize it and apologize unprompted and it being one of the first times that someone has gone from treating Bolaire as a Thing into treating Bolaire as a Person rather than the other way around is so important for Bolaire's character growth. Up until now, a bad reaction has always been "reality crashing in and the play ending" and a sign for Bolaire to shut down. Now it's something to apologize for, even if he is a thing, and something that Bolaire *gets* to stand up for himself about.
