"No one calls us home anymore," Sang-woo says, and he means it as a justification. An excuse. His life is empty, he is no longer a child to be cared for, no one calls for him and he has no home to go back to.
Gi-hun could have offered the obvious answer. He could have pointed out that Sang-woo's mother still calls him, that she talks to Gi-hun about her son whenever she sees him. We as the audience know that she asks if Gi-hun has heard from him, later, when she can't reach her son and worries if he's okay.
Gi-hun could have heard the excuse, the plea to give up, and he could have argued with Sang-woo or let him give up.
Instead, Gi-hun sees a reason for hope. He sees an opportunity. He hears, "No one calls us home anymore," and he holds his hand out immediately and says, "Let's go home."
Even if no one else will call Sang-woo home, Gi-hun will.
But Sang-woo doesn't take his hand. Sang-woo grabs the knife and takes his own life, instead, because the truth isn't really that no one calls him home anymore.
The truth is that Sang-woo is the one who stopped listening when they called.
just tapped out of a fic bc the first two mentions of sae-byeok’s name had been autocorrected to ‘sad byeok’ and ‘save byeok’ and I couldn’t take it seriously after that
Jung Ho-yeon as Kang Sae-byeok in Squid Game (2021-)
scored a first-time volley in training tonight
I don’t care if no one knows what that means pls just be impressed 🥺
you need to develop obsessions with strange niche content
people don’t talk about ji-yeong enough i fear
she was a child forced to succumb to her father’s physical and sexual abuse, as well as likely witness her mother being abused by her disgusting father. had to witness said mother get stabbed by said father.
then, after killing her father (rightfully so), ji-yeong wasn’t given a second chance at life — she was immediately incarcerated until being released and later sent into the games by the recruiter.
she quite literally had nothing to live for. the only person she could have lived for was forced to kill her due to the games.
honestly, she had one of the saddest stories in my opinion. she wasn’t even given a chance to live happily.
people who’ve rewatched squid game enough to notice minor details, I have a question that’s pivotal to the fic I’m planning; does anyone feel able to help and I’ll message with more info?
it’s somewhat speculative and I feel like I need multiple opinions, because if I get this wrong then a major plot point ceases to make sense
it’s about jun-ho’s arc, if that helps! tbh you don’t have to know every tiny detail because actually not everyone who reads it will, so any and all help would be rly appreciated!!
The pattern is there 🤷♀️
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