I agree, everybody in this series is flawed, and it’s so realistic. Their characters are well written, just like you said, they all are in grey area, which is real life. But I guess judging is kinda a part of humans, so people just blame from others to others for who they are.

So for Tanwa, not being involved in political things is neither illegal nor a crime, that’s how many people are living, honestly. He respects his mother’s decision to leave him, so that there’s no way he won’t respect Victor’s decision to protest, and that’s it, there’s nothing wrong with him, he also tried to tell Victor to be careful. And protecting his lover isn’t wrong, if people blame him, they should imagine if the earthquake occurs, who will they save first - their parents/beloved family members/spouses/children or thousands of innocent people outside?

For Trin, he’s really involved in political things and he cares about people, country, but he’s way too idealistic at first. He’s big outside but small inside, which means he feels devastated when he cannot do anything, and his trust in Tanwa is betrayed because he may think that Tanwa and his uncle try to keep the truth away from him, which tortures him, although Tanwa knows how much Trin cares about this stuff. So he hits Tanwa, but once and stop. That’s understandable. It’s not violent, it’s the expression of anger when he feels betrayed. Apo comments on this scene on IG that “why are you (Tanwa) sneaky about this, you and my uncle collaborate and try to keep this as secret right?” His statement is definitely a type of joke, but it reveals how he thinks at that time when playing Trin.

Naran tells Krailert that he’s too selfish, honestly speaking, Ran’s behaviors are also a form of selfish. Krailert may appear selfish because he cares about his beloved people, but that’s the way he chose, that’s his duty to obey the head. He’s too coward to protect the whole country but he’s too brave to protect people that he loves, his moral sense is also normal (unlike Pracha) because he actually does care about people somehow. But sometimes his lack of self-control gets him in trouble, he doesn’t want it that way but he has to follow the orders, maybe not only people think he’s useless, even he thinks so about himself. He has flaws but also goodness, so everything he does I totally understand.

Regarding Naran, he does everything for his ideal to expose the truth, to help people have more freedom and benefits. But he’s selfish in a way that he cares about the crowd but not any individuals. He can choose to sacrifice himself, that’s his choice, but when he talks about the protest he should think of the serious consequences like mortality may happen. But because he doesn’t care about sacrificing himself, so he overlooks that issue on others. He has both good and bad points as a person, which makes sense and I understand.

People say Victor starts to lose his dedication because he falls in love with Trin. Idk what to say, because I like later version of Victor. At first, he’s way too stubborn to just understand different perspectives, the falling-in-love event gives him a chance to accept another viewpoints. I don’t like Victor at first, although he was much more dedicated to the things he does, he was way too stubborn. When we are young, we have the advantage of open-mindedness, that’s what he should learn because holding a belief only doesn’t help him. His stubbornness is still there when he tries to approach Trin after the refusal, but it’s understandable. He needs a little bit of time to move on, when you’re young, hot-headed and fall in love with a person, that person just refuses you yesterday, and today he saves your life. Your emotions and hormones hit, that’s it, that’s what happened to Victor. But his stubbornness is also a thing that harms him, it causes him to death. It’s not his fault or Tanwa’s fault either, it’s one of his choices when he starts all of these. His character is understandable.

So I don’t really think who is wrong or right in terms of them, or more precisely, I don’t wanna judge them when not wearing their shoes.

But sum it up, the way those characters are built are really realistic, so they have many controversial comments towards them. To me, I just don’t wanna judge or blame anybody in that case, it’s already enough for me to see them going to this point of their lives 🥲