Honestly, I've seen tons of comments here shitting on Tak and stuff for reasons that would make sense to many people irl (never forget this is a fictional story so it follows the rules or literature, not necessarily the rules of reality) but this entire time I've seen Tak as autistic or some form of neurodivergent.
Many people who have autism struggle to notice or understand their own emotions since they feel like they happen subconsciously where they can't easily pick up on them, including myself, so this entire I've just seen Tak as someone who doesn't recognise or process his emotions by instinct which I guess neurotypical/allistic readers would just take as being a shitty person?
This most recent chapter it just further solidifies the idea that he's autistic to me, since it feels like his brother has already picked up on Tak being autistic and has helped to set him on the right course of thinking to not only take notice of his actions with Sanho, but also address the fact that if it is just black and white then Tak's behaviour would be illogical, allowing Tak to now explore the reasons for his behaviour and explore the emotional side of himself more.
It does feel somewhat bitter to read these updates and see more comments piling up against Tak, saying he's bad or just kind of insulting him, when I can identify and sympathise with something that is genuinely a struggle for Tak. He changed his behaviour when Sanho confronted him about the stuff regarding sex because even though he can't easily see that he has feelings for Sanho, he does still want to do good for him.
Tak likely hasn't ever considered romantic interest for anybody due to the fact his emotions are likely subdued, so when Sanho suddenly and abruptly starts throwing words at him, telling him how he is supposed to be feeling when Tak can't recognise his emotions ARE like that, he would naturally respond in a way as if Sanho was lying to him since surely Tak would understand what he feels the best, right? Except he's likely undiagnosed and thinks he's neurotypical, so he thinks that "if I can't recognise I love Sanho, I clearly must not love Sanho" even though that isn't true.
I could probably keep going for ages since to me he's so obviously autistic, but I'll stop here.
Tldr; I think Tak is undiagnosed autistic or some other form of neurodivergent and he can't perceive what he feels towards Sanho. And as an aside, I personally feel iffy towards people who are so confidently shitting on him, as an autistic person, since I can tell they can't recognise he's autistic and to them he's just a bad guy since they can't see he's likely struggling a lot with this.
