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Im rewatching s1 ep1 rn (in dub bc i dont have the capacity to keep up with sub rn) and i just wanna yap about rlgl when Sangwoo says in that sweet, soft, tender voice to Gihun;
“Hey, Gihun, don’t look back, just listen.”
AND THAT SHIT MAKES ME WANT TO CRY BC HOW MANY TIMES HAS HE HAD TO TALK TO GIHUN LIKE THAT FOR HIM TO JUST NATURALLY BE THAT CALMING TO HIM???????
HAS HE COACHED GIHUN THAT CALMLY THROUGH OTHER THINGS BEFORE??? PANIC ATTACKS?????? FIRST AID????? HOMEWORK????????
HOW OFTEN DID GIHUN USED TO PANIC FOR SANGWOO TO JUST NATURALLY KNOW HOW TO GET HIM CALM????????
“Dont look back, just listen” is going to ring in my ears like a fucking sickness for the rest of my LIFE now
"sang-woo didn't feel any remorse for his actions!!!!!" (rant incoming hi guys)
okay. im NOT an expert in facial expressions at all. but compare these images, during the later games (1: on the glass bridge, unsure of when; 2: after marbles before glass bridge, eating the consolation potato)
to these. (before marbles)
although he's still quite distressed (in the death games, wow! who would have guessed!), after marbles was when he genuinely started to lose his mind and spiral downward. i like to imagine in his head he’s fighting a battle between the overwhelming, harrowing feeling of guilt, and the need to win the games/being so desperate and willing to do anything to get out with the money.
in the first couple images, his eyes have that glassy, faded kind of look to them.
i do also want to take into account that sang-woo very visibly felt and looked guilty during the dalgona game. not because he lied about the game exactly, but because he nearly sent his best friend into death.
while i think it likely fucked with him self-consciously, i do think he was able to deflect it with "well he survived anyway" instead of wallowing in it like later.
(another thing i noticed (credits to @degenerata69 for pointing this out, i forgot where they said it but it made me do some deeper diving) is that sang-woo was one of the last triangle-shaped cutters to finish. i do think he was taking his time to ensure it didn't break, but i also do think his thoughts of guilt slowed him down. also his hands are shaking before the gunshots go off (seen more towards the beginning) poor guy.)
now look at his face after killing sae-byeok.
still a heartless monster with no remorse?
squid game no debt au where sang-woo and gi-hun adopt sae-byeok and sae-byeok coerces them to listen to charli xcx
okay guys sgtwt is pissing me off so i’m coming here to rant instead because that place scares me 💔
THEYRE EXTERMINATING SANG-WOO STANS IM NOT JOKING. THERE IS A LITERAL BUNKER
so the people are fighting over sang-woo and gi-hun’s fight in season 1. some people are saying gi-hun was too mean (??) while others have said sang-woo was heartless in general, only looking out for himself and that he didnt care about gi-hun.
[screenshots of how it began attached]
after that, everything went to HELL
so i’m going to talk about this discourse and give my opinions here instead of twitter because i will get FLAMED.
here’s the questions we’re ultimately going to be diving into:
1) were sang-woo’s responses heartless or justified?
2) was gi-hun’s reaction and clap-back justified?
3) who was in the ‘right’?
everybody knows i love and cherish both of my babies intensely, but you know what ELSE i do? i understand and pay attention the flaws they have without letting it diminish my love for them.
why? ive said it once ill say it 400 more times. BECAUSE. THEY. ARE. HUMANS. IN A DESPERATE SITUATION. THAT. BRINGS. OUT. THE. WORST. IN. THEM.
we need to look at both sides of the coin here.
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SANG-WOO
going back for a moment.
sang-woo was very visibly LOSING HIS MIND in general past episode 7. everything that happened fucked him up BAD, especially after ali’s death. we see him snap at player 069, (which i still believe was a subconscious manifestation of his inside feelings toward himself at the time fighting with the mindset of "i need to win the games" but that’s not on-topic rn) and later we do see the first time genuinely he kills a man.
(i find the lighting choice here, where he’s backlit by darkness, very fitting. he’s pretty much lost his mind atp)
but without him pushing the glassmaker, EVERYBODY would have died. gi-hun especially; he was at the very back of the line!
not to mention, sang-woo constantly repeats the “it was necessary” or, to gi-hun, “he was just somebody you knew for a few days” mantra, almost like he’s trying to justify his actions. (that’s called rationalization. a defense mechanism.)
i hope this is enough proof that, while yes, sang-woo had completely lost himself, he wasn’t just some heartless monster who felt no remorse.
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GI-HUN
gi-hun, on the other hand, just VISIBLY witnessed his childhood best friend kill somebody. OF COURSE he’s going to be shocked and upset. we forget he’d never actually witnessed sang-woo kill ali, nor was he aware of sang-woo manipulating him — he likely just assumed ali lost the game in a fair fashion.
no wonder he questioned sang-woo; he wasn't expecting him to do that. he didn't find it necessary either, and from his perspective it looked like sang-woo had just killed him to get rid of him.
not to mention, that's still his childhood best friend! somebody he cares about a lot. it's very... off-putting to see people you love do bad things.
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(one question i also see people contemplating on sgtwt is this: if the roles were somehow reversed, and gi-hun had pushed the glassmaker, how would sang-woo have responded? would he have been shocked, or would have have not cared? and would have have confronted him?
my simple answer to that is: i don’t think sang-woo would have confronted gi-hun at all, but i do think he would have definitely been shocked because of how gi-hun is as a person. it probably wouldn’t have affected him as much, but it would have likely shaken him up.)
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now, about the actual confrontation.
(although translation is a large factor here, the words said pretty much boil down/summarize to this.)
gi-hun: “why did you kill him??”
sang-woo: "you got lucky at the back of the line, he was wasting our time, he would have killed us all"
gi-hun: "but he would have moved eventually, there was no need to push him"
sang-woo: "he watched ALL those people die and yet didnt do anything about it"
gi-hun: "he's the only reason we made it out"
sang-woo: "no. i made it out because i worked hard to make sure i stayed alive"
gi-hun: "stop making excuses. you killed him, his blood's on your hands."
sang-woo: "well it's almost like that's how this works"
gi-hun: “and if it were me on that tile, would you have pushed me?”
sang-woo completely ignores the question.
and then the boys started fightingggg 💔
sang-woo: “your life is so pathetic because you’re a nosy dim-witted moron, that’s how you got into this mess” (pretty much just throwing words around)
gi-hun: “well you’re in here with me, aren’t you? why is the pride and joy of ssangmun-dong who went to SNU in a shithole like this? hm?”
i find it interesting how gi-hun uses the very things he praised him for against him.
some people think sang-woo was mad because he shattered his ego. however, i think he was more affected by it because he knew gi-hun was right.
see, contrary to popular belief, sang-woo doesn’t think highly of himself. he gets visibly uncomfortable when people address him higher. [examples: his constant distaste of gi-hun ogling him , him constantly requesting ali to not refer to him as sir , telling mi-nyeo that he’s not the leader of their group and that they’re all equal.]
he’s not some egotistical bastard that thinks super highly of himself — he visibly LOATHES himself. it's implied in canon he’s had to put so much effort into (he’s an only child, and an INTELLIGENT CHILD in a poor household, so a lot of the responsibility surely fell on him growing up to make sure he could help their family get out of poverty) and now he’s fucked that up (i have another psychological theory on this but it’s off-topic and for another day)
so, do i think gi-hun's response was too harsh? no. i do, however, think he gave sang-woo a harsh reality check that likely fucked him up even more.
BUT. i do also want to just. bring up one thing; a major factor in the argument that people seem to be forgetting.
uh. it was an ARGUMENT.
some people don't always mean 100% of what they say when they fight; mainly because of the heat of the moment. (this is targeted more at sang-woo, considering he was literally just. throwing down insults like it was a playground schoolfight.) not to mention they were very obviously trying to strike a nerve to prove their points.
and im not saying this was some kind of freudian slip where they're revealing their unconscious beliefs on each other. i dont think they hate each other or some bs like the tweeters are saying, i just do think that tensions were heightened overall because they were trying so hard to prove their point that they started tearing the other down. etc. (however i do think gi-hun's rhetorical question was likely genuine: what is sang-woo the genius doing with him)
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FINAL VERDICT
now to the final question. who was in the right?
..sorry for the anti-climacticness of this but uh. neither of them were in the right nor wrong. that's something a lot of people fail to understand. this was a fair argument. they both had fair points.
at this point sang-woo had lost his mind in the games, yet he still wasn't wrong: if he hadn't pushed the glassmaker, they likely all would have died, and killing is how the games work. morals are twisted in death games.
and gi-hun wasn't wrong either. obviously sang-woo shouldn't have killed the glassmaker, and he wasn't wrong about the fact that sang-woo fucked up bad to be in a place like this.
anyways. i hope ive fed you all. yes this is what ive been writing for the past something hours free me from sangihun jail i miss my shaylas 💔
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SAD SANGIHUN THOUGHT OF THE DAY
Do yall think that when the guards approached Gihun to take Sangwoo’s body away that his fire burning instinct was to snap at them and yell something like “DONT FUCKING TOUCH HIM” so they had to pry him off of his body before he let them take him away??
Im about to admit myself into the psych ward bc of these two i swear-
he gave you people a choice
this extends to 99% of the squid game fandom btw. i see you
romeo and juliet if romeo killed more people and they were both traumatised middle-aged men and juliet was the victim of ongoing psychological torture <3
Seong Gi-hun's relationships and how the Squid Game affected them.
Jodi Picoult, 'Vanishing Acts' / Catherynne M. Valente, 'Deathless' / Zeke Russell, 'Wintered Over' / Zora N. Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God' / Anne Carson, 'H of H Playbook'
Absolutely no one is ready for this conversation but tbh I think the reason people (particularly film bros on YouTube) devalue Gihun’s character and call him stupid etc is bc he has emotional intelligence and internal strength and those are stereotypically feminine attributes
Said film bros will often go to bat for Sangwoo and say he ‘did nothing wrong’ and was the most ‘realistic’ character and that speaks volumes to me lol. To ppl and society in general emotional intelligence + kindness = feminine = weak, while harsh logic + physical strength = masculine = strong. So naturally that bleeds into our media analysis as well.
This attitude is everywhere but it strikes me as particularly funny wrt Squid Game S1 bc Gihun FUCKING WINS. Sangwoo LOSES. Gihun wins almost every game simply by being a good fucking person lol (I just reblogged a post discussing that not too long ago) and these same idiots just say it’s ‘plot armor’ LIKE DO U MEDIA LITERACY AT ALL. Not only that but Gihun wins against Ilnam too at the end like the series goes out of its way to show us that Sangwoo’s approach was WRONG. Also the series is not over yet u guys s2 was only half a season so we have no idea if Gihun’s rebellion will be ultimately futile or if it’ll end up actually changing things in the end.
Also P.S. Gihun is a regular fucking jackoff. He is not a superhero or a warrior or a fighter in any capacity whatsoever he is a regular jackoff who has spent over half of his entire projected lifespan being a regular jackoff. He doesn’t have any special training, at least not when it comes to armed combat or espionage. I’m gonna need ppl to give him a break and instead give him his goddamn flowers for having the ovaries of fucking steel required to launch a full scale rebellion while being a regular fucking jackoff.
TL;DR at this point whenever I see ‘lol Gihun dumb’ posts it’s actually just ‘tell me you completely missed the point of Squid Game without telling me you completely missed the point of Squid Game’
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“Remember when we used to play this game on a field like this”
What Sangwoo said: “Who cares about all that?”
What he meant: “You have no idea how sorry I am for what I’ve done and what I’m about to do, hyung. But I’d do it all again and again if it meant saving you and me from this wretched hell hole. I love reminiscing on the past because you were a major part of mine. And I wholeheartedly want you to be part of my future too. If I had the choice, I’d tell you to run away with me. So when I come at you with this knife, I promise I’ll be as easy as I can be. Just pretend it hurts so that they’ll let us go home. Please.”
crack baby you don't know what you want
but you know that you had it once
and you know that you want it back
crack baby you don't know what you want
but you know that you're needing it
and you need it bad
When you're so doomed by the narrative you lose two people you thought would become your everything
(and yes i did this same type of post with steddie and stancy however long ago but listen....mitski is so angst and so them...)
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“they could never make me hate you sang-woo,” i say proudly.
you know who agrees with me?
SEONG GI-HUN.
- cho sang-woo, s01e09
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