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unfortunately this genre is so formulaic and cookie-cutter that by the time an author makes an effort to tell a story with complex characters everyone has already had their brains atrophied and lost all reading comprehension and ability to analyse/interpret a story. people act like the only MLs that can exist are "red flags" and "green flags" and cant fathom an in between or even sitting down and reading an unraveling mystery i guess
You guys cannot read for shit. Straight up jumping onto on conclusion that he is a red flag. Did you guys forget this is an apocalyptic world that they are in? There could be multiple reasons why he is duplicitous. There are theories that he might even be a zombie but definitely not a typical one. It was pretty clear from the beginning that ML is not what he seems or he is hiding something. Reducing such an interesting character into one red flag category for no reason