Prologue And Chapters 1 & 2 Are Being Published Simultaneously So The Story Gains Some Momentum Before

She was only in 3 episodes but Ji-yeong really made such an impact for me. She is such an interesting and tragic character. Like we meet her and she is so casual and unbothered by the games where every round she could literally die. And she makes fun of the religios man and tells him that he can pray as much as he wants but he still did what he did and then we learn about her father and then it makes sense. And she asks about Sae-byeok and her family and she suggests telling each other their story because one of them is gonna die anyways but she keeps forgetting about that fact. And then she tells her story and we find out she got abused and was in prison for killing her father but can we really blame her? And she just got out of prison and I feel like she needed this. Telling somebody her story, what happened to her. She suggests they tell each other the things they could never tell anybody else and asks specific questions on purpose, like if Sae-byeok has ever seen a dead body because she knows in return she is going to be asked that same question and she listens and then she tells her own story. And then she loses on purpose for Sae-byeok. And at first she's like "come on let me have my cool moment here" but it's not cool because she's about to die and then in the end she finally shows her emotions and gets sad and says she has nothing to live for, no goals for what she's gonna do if she wins. Sae-byeok was probably the first person she got closer to in a long time and so she dies so that Sae-byeok can go on and I just think for such a small role that was only present in one third of one season making such a big impact is incredible writing and incredible acting too

thinking about how squid game uses food and characters eating/not eating symbolically. thinking abt how sae byeok barely ate in the feast scene with the final 3 as a way of conveying that she was in pain and dying. how her not eating was a precursor to her death. and following that up by thinking about how gihun hasn't been shown eating at all in season 2 despite the fact that he used to eat a lot in season 1, and has denied any food offered to him in the games...........

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WHY IS WRITING SO HARD

Kang Sae-Byeok. Player 067.

Episode I: Red Light, Green Light

Its so weird for me to see toxic!Se-mi hcs (no hate against anyone who likes it), because I cant see her as a red flag or anything like that

Like look at her, she is such a cutie pie and she would be such a green flag girlfriend giving princess treatment

Miloras (twitter)

me: meant to be getting ready to go to the big library to collect a book and then do some jibyeok fic work. the happy nice one

also me: what if I got sidetracked, started editing a different fic on my phone, and then burst into tears about it because it’s an angst fic and my heart can never handle seeing jibyeok suffer (she says. writing jibyeok angst)

coining the term ‘jibyeokkers’ because that is what we are

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