Who's Off The Island So Far?:

why are we sleeping on sang-woo’s puppy dog eyes. HELLO????

i’m gonna do it. PATHETIC MAN ALERT 🚨

THE PITT (2025-)

@tinkerbelldetective requested Dennis Whitaker

SQUID GAME 3 COUNTDOWN — Question 21 / 96

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wish the admin luck; they have their first big swim meet of the summer season!

What’s a minor Squid Game detail or scene you think is underlooked?

au where sang-woo takes gi-hun’s hand, and they go home without the money.

during the ride home, nobody speaks. gi-hun still isn’t ready to put everything beside and needs time to think.

they go their separate ways for a few weeks, to process what had just happened to them.

finally, gi-hun visits sang-woo’s apartment, with the hope they can sort things out, finally heal, and work their lives out as they were meant to.

he calls through the tiny apartment, but is given no answer.

he looks through the rest of the house. no return when he calls out sang-woo’s name.

the only answer he’s given is a body, hanging from the bedroom ceiling.

sang-woo’s body.

even in another universe, he wasn’t enough to stop sang-woo from taking his own life.

sorry guys!!!!

yep, looked it up because an anon beat you to it. however i'm definitely keeping casual boxer santos as a headcanon. because of course.

hey, santos nation, what sport(s) do we think she played (since she's canonically a former athlete)?

trinity santos + dennis whitaker: roommates || post-canon headcanons

whitaker wakes up around an hour before santos does. it's an old habit from when he used to work on the farm. he makes breakfast for the both of them, usually.

after a month of living together, santos started stealing whitaker's hoodies. they're around the same size and she tells him that it's part of his rent. javadi is the first one to notice.

santos practices martial arts after a long shift. when she's back home, she can hear whitaker reciting scripture in his room.

they watch a movie together once a week. sometimes it's horror, which santos is pleasantly surprised to know does not affect whitaker—despite his "really needs a xanax and a weighted blanket" aura.

all of santos' sincere compliments are in filipino. she knows he doesn't understand shit.

since all of whitaker's friends/family are in nebraska, santos is his emergency contact.

anything abt inho. lets talk abt inho. IM INSANE ABT HIMMM.

HI FINLAY 💗💗

okok i have sm thoughts on in-ho. some good and some not

let's start with the good!

he is INSANELY well-written. his backstory is so so intriguing to me, especially the circumstances that factor into his downfall. he was a police detective, who likely saw horrible crimes day to day and therefore likely grew desensitized. this is a factor in his present cynicism and general ignorance.

he genuinely cares for jun-ho, with that being an achilles heel of sorts and one of his final strings of humanity. he likely raised jun-ho in a sense, and the two had a very strong bond that seemed to last, not dissipating until in-ho's disappearance/presumed acceptance of the frontman position. he aims to protect jun-ho, even now, when he's lost his touch and trust in human nature.

i also want to know more about him and il-nam's relationship. i really do. i wonder how they met in the first place - was it similar to how in-ho and gi-hun first interacted? and what were his original thoughts towards il-nam? how did he loop him into working for the games?

also, i want to know how his games were. what happened? how did it get to this? did he have to make any betrayals? i REALLY want to know what his experience was likeeee godddd,,,, that intrigues me so much. i've read multiple fics that write this so well (what remains by @everwhovian is AMAZING!!!! as well as some other various ones on ao3) and it just leaves me so damn interested in MORE.

yet ANOTHER thing i find so interesting is how he willingly pits loved ones against one another. it is stated that jung-bae was possibly thrown into the games for gi-hun, as yet another psychological torture device. this is also seen with the husband 069/wife 070, yong-sik/geum-ja, hell, even one could say jun-hee/myung-gi. agh.

i personally have a headcanon that in-ho was the one to switch the marbles game from being a "you play against your partner" instead of "you play against a team" when he became the frontman. out of pure spite and enjoyment.

now for the bad.

the fucking mischaracterization is INSANE. i see it daily. it's godawful. IN-HO IS A HORRIBLE, SICKENING PERSON. people really need to stop overlooking that for yaoi and pretty privilege purposes.

in-ho is implied to be indifferent to rape as well as the other horrible things that happen in the organ trafficking ring. he did not do anything when it came to protecting his brother from that nasty vip. he is NOT a good person whatsoever, and people who write him like that confuse me quite heavily.

i don't fw 457 at all, but to me as an outsider of the ship, it feels like some people mold in-ho (and gi-hun) to fit their yaoi fantasies. i have no issue with shipping them, but the problem lies when you are unknowingly mischaracterizing and tossing aside a very problematic person for, what, gay sex? there's plenty of that to go around anyway. sometimes it just feels like he's been reduced to 457 content and it's quite saddening to me. he has so much more potential.

anyways. this is a long rant. i have uh. many feelings on this man.

everyone. i don't know how this just clicked for me.

this is langdon right now:

addict (in recovery, by season two at least)

loves his kid(s)

complicated relationship with other parent

you know who's going to notice this? MCKAY. mckay is going to notice this and when she looks at him, she'll see a 30-year-old cassie in his place. and they are going to have a heartfelt conversation about it. multiple even. walk with me.

sang-wii (2021 edition)