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i feel like whitaker just… doesn’t yell. like he can obviously yell when he’s scared or it’s like necessary but he just doesn’t really raise his voice. if he’s frustrated he just grits his teeth, sighs through his nose, and carries on.

santos — because she is the way she is (and i love her for it) — keeps trying to get him to break. it unnerves her how he just doesn’t seem to get mad at her. oh he definitely gets annoyed and exhausted, but he doesn’t raise his voice. when she won’t stop kicking him in the ass when he’s fixing the clogged sink drain he just… lets her do it. if she’s being lazy and wants some ice cream from the freezer but doesn’t want to get up she only has to whine for a few minutes before he groans and gets it for her.

she’s trying to see his boundaries. to see how far she can push until he proves that he’s just like every other man she’s met and the fact that he won’t fold irks the shit out of her. idk i don’t think they’d ever really talk about it, but whitaker is a smart cookie and would probably figure out what she’s trying to do a few months in. he’d probably casually drop that his older brothers yelled at him all the time and then his poor mom would yell herself hoarse trying to get them to quit and oh here comes his dad yelling for everyone to shut the hell up. so he’s just always been quiet. quiet little dennis who once walked on a broken ankle for a few days because he didn’t wanna bother anyone.

and santos learns to live with that. to live comfortably with a guy who won’t scream at her or hurt her even when he gets mad at her. she learns to relax. to stop waiting for the other shoe to drop.

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little sang-woo crying his eyes out because he thinks he's dying (he has a cold) and gi-hun reassuring him and holding him "i'm going to infect you, hyung" "shh.. you already would have done so."

sang-woo getting absolutely abysmal headaches and gi-hun kissing his forehead trying to "kiss the headaches away" and sang-woo pretends it works so he can get more kisses

in high school: gi-hun getting into a bad fight at school like the rebellious little shit he was, later knocking on sang-woo's window with bruises. sang-woo calls him a fucking idiot while icing his wounds

baby sangihun kissing each other's bandaids when they'd scrape their knees

young sang-woo being afraid of thunderstorms because of their loudness and struggling to sleep and gi-hun attempting to make him feel better

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

i’m gonna do it. PATHETIC MAN ALERT 🚨

His ass likes going to prison

Word of god says santos was a gymnast which is interesting in terms of her backstory but I get soccer vibes from her tbh

just looked it up and yeah, former gymnast. not what i was expecting but i can see it now. also the second soccer mention. she really does give soccer vibes, huh?

"I guess things haven't been easy without me."

Karma Episode 5: Rewind

Specific sensory experiences I think Gihun would find triggering from his time in the games:

- Hearing the endless ticking of a clock. Imagine it wearing on him with each soft sound, filling him with panic as the seconds pass by, convincing his nervous system that something awful will happen when time is up.

- Losing his footing. Have you ever walked on glass or ice or another slick surface, especially on your socks? It’s easy to slip. He also lost his footing during tug of war and was hanging off the edge for a terrifying moment, so I think that moment of adrenaline when he slips would be hard to recover from.