While both Mannat and Vikrant have made fair share of mistakes, their mistakes can’t be equated because Vikrant has been far more problematic to the extent of being vile. So expecting equal understanding and sympathy for both their characters would also be unfair. An appropriate equivalence of their mistakes would be both stabbed the other but one did it probably with a needle while the other with a butcher’s knife! If Mannat’s mistakes were hurtful then Vikrant’s were life threatening 
So while both can be considered crimes, the extent of punishment awarded can never be the same. Hence it’s bound that people will sympathise more with Mannat because she was the biggest loser in this entire mess. She gained nothing out of it but did whatever she thought she has to just so she could protect Vik. While Vikrant has mostly left her to sharks when the time came to protect Mannat.
That’s why people get triggered and struggle to comprehend when the it comes to understanding Vikrant’s perspective. He’s committed far more grave mistakes that he did good that whatever goodness he had got overshadowed by his kaands. And what’s more even triggering is forget self introspection, he’s still playing victim and blaming Mannat for this entire mess. O top of that he’s still Vikrant Saluja and not Aman Kumar while enjoying all the privileges associated with the name. If he had so much self respect, he should’ve changed his name and decided to cut ties with anything related to Salujas. But he chose the convenient way out. This makes him a morally grey character
No wonder despite ACPs own set of mistakes, he’s being considered a better alternative when it come to Vik. Frankly Vik’s vileness is now paralleling Rat and that’s something which is very hard to come to terms with!




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