(kicks Down Door) HEY

I regret to inform you all that after consulting with a friend I WILL be adding a doomed lesbian to this fic, in keeping with the traditions of this series

ok squid gang help me out here!!

I’m planning a fic set during a hypothetical future edition of the games, which means I need to come up with a new cast of characters to interact with the existing ones who’ll be involved

can anyone think of any believable reasons why people would be joining the game, which haven’t already been done repeatedly? I’m trying not to inadvertently copy canon characters but there are only so many ways I can think of to get into vast amounts of debt

I’ve got a couple of ideas but if anyone feels creative and has any thoughts please let me know!!

update; her name is gonna be min chae-yeong and she’ll go by min for short

this is great because both ‘yeong’ and ‘min’ can mean jade spending on the hanja used, and that’s an important part of her theming and design. ‘min’ can also mean ‘clever’ or ‘agile’, both of which also suit her

squid game fic readers, how many characters with -yeong at the end of their given name is too many?

my upcoming WIP features gi-hun’s daughter ga-yeong as the main POV. I have an OC who I’ve been trying to find a name for, and research has given me the name chae-yeong which for a number of reasons fits her perfectly, but she’s going to be part of the core trio with ga-yeong and I worry it’ll be confusing to keep up with

do koreans ever go by the first part of their name only? we call sae-byeok ‘sae’ but is that a westernism or is it actually the done thing? because I could introduce the character and then shorten her name to chae immediately

Idk gang anyone have any thoughts

Im gonna check SGreddit!

SGreddit:

Im never checking SGreddit again

Squid Game (2021) dir. Hwang Dong Hyuk

first football (soccer) training in months tonight, missed the last game due to injury and I am SO rusty and unfit rn so let’s see how this goes

rewatching squid game,,,

Little AU where it's Sae-byeok that runs into Gi-hun in Seoul in S1E2, instead of Il-nam, and Gi-hun gets to apologize for hassling her about the money and she shares her Ramen with him. He asks her if she's old enough to drink and she scoffs and pours herself some soju. They play the bottle cap game.

They talk about the games.

Sae-byeok says she's going back. She reluctantly sums up her situation, without any real details, and Gi-hun returns the show of trust by telling his story too.

They make their agreement early. If one gets through it and the other doesn't, they'll help each other’s family.

She's even more of a daughter figure to him in the games and her death is that much more devastating.

are you.. super duper silly?

watermelon

i've barely thought in depth abt this so it very likely doesn't actually work but squid game au where gi-hun notices sae-byeok's injury sooner and tries to get help for it like in the scene in the show and sang-woo still goes to try to kill her like in the show but gi-hun manages to stop him and either he or both of them try to help her with her injury or the game staff do smth abt it (probably unlikely tho) and they do end up voting to leave (maybe they vote to leave while sae-byeok is still injured but because they decided to leave they treat her injury then or smth. i imagine they treated gi-hun's injuries after the final game before taking him home in the show but maybe i'm being too generous) and the 3 of them just have this thing going on that's kind of like found family but not (worse) but is mostly just them trying to cope with their experience in the games and sang-woo still having resentment to both of them for having them leave without the money and gi-hun kinda feeling that way toward sang-woo for trying to kill sae-byeok and prioritizing the money over their lives (among other things he did) but also they still care abt each other (and of course gi-hun and sae-byeok care about each other too (and maybe over time sae-byeok and sang-woo grow to tolerate and then care about each other too)) and idk where i'm going with this i just want the misery and resentment and something that's kinda like found family but more fucked up than that