People often wonder why Type hits Tharn first instead of San. What they forget is that Type is still in the middle of his own metamorphosis here.
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It’s important to understand that Type’s character development is a long, complex process spanning over all the 13 episodes of which 90% focus only him and Tharn to make this process as realistic and authentic as possible.

When Type feels vulnerable,his temper gets the better of him and he lashes out because he doesn’t want to confront his feelings.Until this moment,he’s been having trouble admitting to Tharn and himself that he’s jealous.He simply refuses to admit this sort of weakness in himself:

that he is actually jealous because of another man and publicly acknowledging that he has a boyfriend, the result of his residual homophobia. However, then he witnesses San kissing his lover and something shifts and breaks inside him.

Seeing Tharn being kissed by someone else hurts. It hurts so damn much, like a knife piercing his heart. He doesn’t know how to deal with the pain, he only knows that he feels betrayed by Tharn, thinking he lied to him about San and that there is something still between them.

HE WANTS THARN TO FEEL THE SAME PAIN HE DOES SO HE HITS HIM. He’s never been hurt by anyone like this before because he never loved anyone like he loves Tharn which makes the pain so much more intense and brutal.

He’s mad with anger and heartbreak. It the same reason why he wants to make Tharn jealous later in the bar - he wants Tharn to feel as desperate and out of control as he does. He doesn’t want to be the only one who can’t control his feelings for his lover in this relationship.

After hitting Tharn he wants to beat San, but Tharn stops him: placing himself before him and San, holding him, keeping him in check, soothing and reassuring him. While listening to Tharn’s speech to San, Type realizes that Tharn is actually standing up for him

and protecting him and that he definitely hasn’t been cheating on him with San.Even when he’s livid and despite telling Tharn to let go,Type never stops clinging to Tharn, clutching onto his T-shirt and holding onto him for dear life,not wanting to let him go and gaining support.

Tharn’s fierce defense of him and their relationship gives Type the strength to publicly claim Tharn as his man despite his previous statement that their relationship needs to remain a secret forever. He wants to let San know that Tharn is taken, that he is his and no one else’s.