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just got shot 99 times

When you suddenly remember that Ali had a wife and baby, and nobody ever told Gi-hun about them. Sang-woo was the only person who knew about Ali’s family, and he didn’t say anything, so they never got any help.

Excuse me

You look like you love me

You look like you want me to want you to come on home

ao3, oneshot, 1.5 words

the sangihun cowboy au that no one asked for

so good omg

Leaving this here and running away to hide in my bed because I'm scared

https://archiveofourown.org/works/64290790

sobbing AGAIN

This is a continuation of the cliff scene in which the Hwang brothers face each other on the same cliff again - and Jun-ho "pew-pews" himself

@crazyhappycat requested this

(trigger warnings: guns, violence, suicide, blood)

❛ ━━━━━━･❪ ○△□ ❫ ･━━━━━━ ❜

In-ho lunged.

Heart in his throat. Legs burning. The world narrowed to the sight of Jun-ho’s finger beginning to tighten on the trigger –

“Jun-ho!”

And then –

The shot.

It cracked through the air, sharp and merciless, echoing off the cliffs like the final word in a conversation they never finished.

Too late.

The recoil snapped Jun-ho’s head back, his body jerking once before crumpling like a marionette with its strings cut.

“No!”

In-ho reached him just as he tipped backward, just as gravity began to drag him toward the cliff’s edge. His hand shot out, grabbing Jun-ho by the wrist, fingers wrapping around cold skin as the rest of his bory crumpled.

“No. No, no, no –”

The wind roared around them, cold and merciless, howling over the crashing waves below. But In-ho didn’t hear any of it – not really.

All he could hear was the ringing in his ears. The echo of the gunshot.

The silence that followed.

He gritted his teeth, muscles straining as he hauled Jun-ho’s body back, dragging him away from the ledge and into his arms. The sea roared below, indifferent.

He collapsed to his knees, cradling Jun-ho’s limp form against his chest. His hands were everywhere. Desperate. Wild.

One clutched at the blood blooming at Jun-ho’s temple. The other searched blindly – his throat tightening – fingers trembling as they pressed against his neck. His wrist. His chest. Desperate for a pulse. Any sign. Any hope.

“Come on. Come on, please –”

But there was nothing.

No pulse. No breath. No flicker of life behind Jun-ho’s eyelids.

Just stillness.

And blood.

So much blood.

In-ho let out a sound that didn’t belong to any language – broken, raw, and guttural. A noise ripped from the part of him he’d buried so deep he thought it would never surface again.

“No,” he gasped. “No, no, no –”

He pulled Jun-ho into his lap, cradling his head with shaking hands. One palm pressed uselessly against the wound, trying to stop blood that had already stopped flowing.

His other hand cupped Jun-ho’s face, thumb brushing gently over a cheek that was already growing cold.

“Don’t do this,” he whispered. “Please, don’t do this. Not like this.”

He rocked back and forth, holding him close, forehead pressed to Jun-ho’s.

“You’re okay. You’re gonna be okay,” he mumbled over and over again, like if he said it enough, it would make it true. “I’ve got you. I’m here. I’m right here.”

But Jun-ho didn’t move. Didn’t speak.

Didn’t breathe.

In-ho’s arms tightened around him, curling protectively as if shielding him from the wind, the cold, the finality of it all.

He’d done everything – everything – to keep this boy safe. Raised him. Carried him. Loved him harder than he ever allowed himself to love anything.

This was the boy who had clung to his pant leg at five years old. The boy who waited by the window when In-ho came home late from night shifts. The boy who used to fall asleep with his head in In-ho’s lap during movies.

And now…

Now he was gone.

“Come back,” In-ho begged, rocking him gently. “Please… please come back.”

But there was only the wind. The sea. And the weight of the body in his arms.

The weight of failure.

The weight of the one thing he couldn’t save.

He rocked him gently, like it would do any good. Like it would pull the life back into him. Like he was five years old again and just needed to be held.

But Jun-ho didn’t stir.

In-ho sat there, knees scraped from the rocky ground, arms wrapped tightly around Jun-ho’s lifeless body. The blood had soaked through his sleeves, staining his chest, his hands, his skin.

It would never come out.

Nothing would.

He didn’t know how long he stayed like that. Minutes. Hours. It didn’t matter. Time didn’t exist in this place anymore – not when the person who made it mean something was gone.

sobbing

Finished this art of young In Ho and kid Jun Ho. I love the Hwang brothers so much ahahdvdhhd I imagine this is just In Ho walking to or picking up Jun Ho from school. 🥺

i'm making another tragic sang-woo post because this poor man is slaughtered by the fandom senselessly

i don't see many people discuss this, so i wanted to hop on here and give my own personal thoughts.

flash forward to episode 7! for some context, player 069 begs the other players to leave the games. sang-woo stands up against 069 and yells at him for considering giving up after everything that's already happened.

i will provide the words from the transcript here.

"so what if we stop now? you think your wife will stop being dead if we all go now? and she'll forgive you for letting her get murdered?

if you can't keep going, then why are you alive right now? you should have been the one who died in there instead.

[points to the piggy bank.] see that? that's the price of being in here. and your wife and the others paid it with their lives.

and you wanna go and leave? you wanna start from the beginning again? you ready to do all that, huh? starting over again from nothing with that guilt."

----

from a surface level, this looks like an asshole move. which, to be fair, it sure as hell wasn't coming from a place of love.

from my perspective, however, this entire conversation feels like:

A) a projection of sang-woo's guilt

B) him internally trying to justify his own actions (aka killing ali) to himself

i honestly feel like this conversation is a mix of both. sang-woo obviously feels guilty for killing ali - his horrid thousand-yard stare and flinch as the gunshot goes off, as well as other subtle reactions after are very telling of that. i feel that might be the moment when he internally realizes he's too far gone. but he's trying so hard to justify and push that guilt down.

most importantly, i feel like a part of him isn't just talking to 069 and the other players.. but himself as well. trying to scold the part of himself that feels horribly guilty. the first part of the monologue especially.

anybody who says sang-woo doesn't feel guilt for his actions is very much wrong. but he's so desperate and focused on survival that he tries his hardest to abolish that guilt and justify the things he did. i don't think it ever works.

reading this while listening to are you satisfied by marina and the diamond LORD

It's certainly interesting to think about the fact that Gi-Hun and Sang-Woo envied one another.

While it might be obvious to see why Gi-Hun would envy Sang-Woo given his credentials; Pride and joy of Ssangmun-dong, top of his class, SNU buisness graduate, valedictorian, etc. It might not be as obvious to think what Sang-Woo envy Gi-Hun for.

I think the answers relies on what society considers a "successful man"

This is usually measured by these factors: finances, career and family.

While certainly on a superficial level, Sang-Woo reach far greater than Gi-Hun in terms of career and finances, Gi-Hun had a title that Sang-Woo didn't.

Husband and father.

They shared the experience of both having success in their careers and having that taken away from them, and their finances were fucked over because of it.

But, unlike Sang-Woo, Gi-Hun was a "complete" man. Even though they both "failed," Gi-Hun had a daughter that would thrive regardless of the bad decisions he made. His legacy would live regardless if he had a career or not.

Sang-Woo only had himself and his achievements, and he lost everything.

Even though he seems quite disinterested with the idea of having a girlfriend (more than likely he is a closeted gay man) it's the fact that Gi-Hun build something everlasting, even if it didn't require any special titles. Just the will and the love.

If instead of reaching for something beyond his league as it is to become a multimillionaire, he focused on the "small and trivial" things, he might have built something of importance, something that wouldn't die along with him.

He envy the fact that Gi-Hun, with the contrasting careless attitude, could build that for himself. Could be materially more successful than he is.

reposting bc novocaine was amazing !!!! omg can’t wait to watch it again fr

after i watch any movie, i feel like a whole new person

PARK HAE SOO as CHO SANGWOO Squid Game | 오징어 게임 (2021)

I think that sang-woo is pretty much canonically gay but like closeted. "My son doesn't have a wife yet because he has really high standards" so you mean he likes men?? If he had high standards him and gi-hun wouldn't be doing all of that

There's a scene in S1, before the riot, where Gi-hun tells Sae-byeok that he and a few others are gathering together for protection and she is welcome to join them.

Sae-byeok tells Gi-hun that she doesn't trust him.

And I love Gi-hun's response. Gi-hun doesn't list off reasons for Sae-byeok to trust him. He doesn't get offended or annoyed with her. He just tells her, "You don't trust people because you know they're trustworthy. You trust people because you have nothing else."

To me, that sums up the core of his character so well, and it's the perfect example of what makes him the necessary hero to stop these games.

When the world tries to crush you down and enforce an ideology that trust is weak and foolish and must be stripped away through violence if necessary, the strongest thing a person can do is to trust other people anyway.

The only thing a person can do, if they want to keep any humanity of their own, is to trust other people anyway.

Did Sang-woo ever have his glasses again after he returns to the games in S1? If not, does that mean he wore contacts for games 2-6, or that he flat-out couldn't see for shit for games 2-6?

Either way, I feel like more Sang-woo analysis of his behavior in the games should take into account that either: a) this man was partially blind for the remainder of S1 after he returns to the games, or b) this man thought he'd be 'smart' by wearing contacts instead of his glasses when he returned to the games, only to then spend multiple days either burning his eyes out wearing the same contacts for 5 days straight, or was partially blind for the remainder of S1 after he took them out the first night and realized he still had four games left that he now had to play while only partially able to see.

And you know what, I might be ready to kill people, too, after a few days of living with a decision that seemed so smart in the moment had turned out to in fact be that bad of A Mistake.

smosh mention ⁉️

Queer little creatures, and gay to be certain too

squid game no debt au where sang-woo and gi-hun adopt sae-byeok and sae-byeok coerces them to listen to charli xcx

so cuteeee

hi i feel really fucking mentally sick for some reason tonight do u have any fluffier sangihun hcs 💗 (sending this to multiple moots i swear im not like a hijacked bot lol)

yes of course my dear moot!!! I hope these make you feel better.

--Sangihun Fluffy Headcanons

-imagine sangwoo and gihun sleepy daysss. they just lay in bed glued together. They don't talk, just lay peacefully.

-okay but with all of this talk about them getting dressed in the bathroom together, what about when they are not in the games and they dress each other. idk i just find a cute image in gi hun putting on sangwoos shoes or sangwoo buttoning gihuns shirt.

-also i thought of a cute thing about if their moms lowkey knew about them. honestly they would support. i think sang woos mom would not push but kind of want them to be together so bad. she probably has said some weird vague shit about accepting sangwoo for who he is and that he should stay close friends with gihun forever. mal-soon however is tired of their bs. she aint going to do a thing if they aint going to do a thing, ya know?

-imagine their dates too!! i don't think they would do anything too extravagant. I imagine a lot of the dates are things they wanted to do together as kids but they were either vaguely or fully meant for couples or people who were crushing on each other.

-also them sharing things if they live together??? they only know whos clothes are whos by size but everything is pretty much put together. also sang woo teases gihun about his stupid dad clothes. its okay though because gihun bullies him back about the business smarty pants shit he wears.

sweethearts

jungbae !!!

jungbae things i like:

when he votes O and immediately feels so guilty and awful about it + scared of gihun being mad at him, so he goes and puts himself in the naughty corner and daeho has to drag him back over lol

the one scene where he's crying and apologising to his wife in his sleep (WHY DON'T PPL TALK ABT THIS MORE. WHY DON'T I TALK ABT THIS MORE MYSELF, FOR THAT MATTER)

how he immediately cups gihun's face and grabs his hands to make sure he's real when they first meet again

the scene where he gives his bread to junhee and is like "take it..... i don't deserve to eat :(" but then when daeho is like "well in that case can i have your milk too" jungbae just fucking glares at him

in general the way that him and daeho are a comedic duo. ppl often characterise them as having a father son type dynamic but that's wrong imo. they're more like a younger coworker and an older coworker comedy duo from a sitcom who are constantly slacking off and getting into shenanigans together. they would get matching tattoos and shit i think. brothers 4 lyfe

how he was 100% the more normal, calm, serious and emotionally well-adjusted friend in the gihun + jungbae duo pre squid game (i feel like jungbae often gets characterised as the silly sunshine one and gihun as the serious one bc of their dynamic in s2, but i think that jungbae was 100% a kind of rock/steadier calming influence for gihun pre squid game, from what we see in ep1)

please add your own thoughts

please just talk to me abt jungbae

Jungbae

"i love this character and i hope they get nothing but peace and joy for the rest of their life"

vs the

"i love this character and i hope they get shot 57 times"

-fan backwards

my honest duality

so real

I was rewatching s1 and I don’t think ppl talk enough about how it was SANG-WOO that suggested they band together and fight back (ie protect others) if anyone got attacked in the night. It’s probably already been talked about but also the fact that he walked to a convenience store at 4am solely to buy a charger so Ali could use his phone. And then of course the ramen and the bus fare. AND ALSO him being the first and only person (besides Gi-Hun) to try and help the guy that got beaten to death.

Ik the point of his character is to be “morally grey” but I don’t personally consider him to be that grey. I think he is a good person placed in a life or death situation. Gi-Hun shows that he will also choose self-preservation when the situation calls for it (E.g. Il-nam and the marbles situation). Yet somehow Sang-woo is painted to be this monstrous, evil person. It drives me nuts!!!

hello! you’re very right anon!!

like everybody else in the game, he was a desperate person willing to do anything to turn his life around/get the money.

he is genuinely a nice person (you’ll see he as well tries to deflect that)! and he does genuinely care about the people he cares about. (i’m really not sure where the “he’s egotistical and only cares about himself” characterization came from-)

likewise, other characters show self-preservation as well,,,, as you mentioned, gi-hun (which is not brought up a lot mind you, “hot” take but i feel the cause of that is because il-nam isn’t a popular character, but also he is genuinely evil (gi-hun didnt know that at the time tho, he was just trying to survive))

while ofc, killing should not be the usual response, it was very much a life or death game and sang-woo (among the others) were thrown into a circumstance that was designed to bring out the worst in people. proven with the lights out fight, and further proven with marbles: designed to make people play against, and kill, their closest partner.

but ofc, people wanna put all the blame on sang-woo because he killed their favorite characters. they do this with others as well: a big example of this being myung-gi killing thanos and “killing” young-mi (even tho he literally didn’t).

well guys, guess what? sang-woo killed my favorite character too. himself.

cried so hard during the last episode of glee my nose started bleeding

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

i miss him 😔

‘ SOMEBODY THAT I USED TO KNOW ‘

- Gotye + Kimbra

Inhun AU!Notre dame de paris