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mightbeagod's squid game sideblog | he/him | toxic old man yaoi enjoyer

[lazzf]

So, my friend, our time is done You and I could’ve had so much With ropes for the bucket Of luscious black gold nuggets, yeah

Glass Animals – Wyrd

[jemyyyl-on-ao3]

I'm still here.

[timetopractice]

I can't. He's literally this emoji:

🥹

[scapegoat0821]

Homophobic cat but it's the officer watching his boss get sidetracked

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[honeyed-half-truths]

more from the harem

[midnight--sadness]

the harem's responses to gihun saying "i want a baby"

[lunaticguy2]

squid game au where instead of the games its a building a building ment to house broke people and stuff like that is owned by oh llnam but the catch is its placed in the most shadey place ever theres constant gang movment violant drunks on the streets and stuff like that and our gihun is a mix of the post game gihun and season 2 gihun hes a recovering gambler and hes trying to move to america to see his daughter and hes roomates with inho a cop whos clearly mentally unwell and probably a lil shadey idk if theyre roomates who crush on each other or just straight up bfs i havent decided yet but they enjoy each others company and junhee and seabyeok also live in that building and theyre baiscally gihuns daughters and the other players live there like 120 is you kind hot lady neighbor with lore 144 is probably a cult leader of old women and 100 is the homophobic neighbor who everybody dislikes

[yellowwwcrayon]

I genuinely think Inho would have killed all the VIPs and burned that island down to the ground if Gihun let him have a taste of that Gihussy. Just once. Doesn’t even have to be the insert A into B kind of interaction. Sit on his face or something. Like Gihun could have saved so many lives if he just let the lonely little freak tap that puss—

[foxett]

Go my slop

[hwang-inhos-fish]

Okay hear me out. I ADORE our old men but imagine... imagine a time travel / time reset AU where Gi-hun and In-ho both die at the end of S3 and then wake up in like the year 2000 - each of them remembering everything. They seek each other out immediately to see if the other remembers too.

In-ho is gobsmacked by THIS:

And Gi-hun is SPEECHLESS when confronted by THIS:

Obviously they immediately have to fuck.

(Then they can get to the plot of taking down the games together with their future knowledge.)

[notheretodayl]

Okey i had to draw them bc of an amzing ff by ruerei on ao3 im so exited for next chapter love your work 🩷

Fic Accidentally in Charge by Ruerei on ap3

#squid

[alas457]

big fan of fics that have the frontman giving gihun unfair advantages so he'd survive the games. the only form of nepotism i approve of

[once-in-a-blue-moon-rising]

Let's talk about why No-eul was able to rescue Gyeong-seok, but In-ho wasn't able to rescue Gi-hun, because I think it's really interesting.

1. No-eul doesn't believe in the games/her belief is much narrower

No-eul was brought to the games under the impression that she would be helping people who felt hopeless by putting them out of their misery. When she finds out about the organ harvesting ring she knows she's been lied to, but it's likely she was having suspicions before, after seeing Gyeong-seok there for the first time (who she knows may be desperate, but not hopeless). Therefore, her actions are not affected in the slightest by trying to uphold the system.

In-ho, on the other hand, does still believe in the games (even if his conviction wavers over the course of the 2024 games) - he sees them as inextricably linked with the state of the world, impossible to change until the system outside does. Unlike No-eul, this belief means he has to work within their structure.

2. No-eul took her job to save someone who is alive

No-eul has very clear motivations for taking her job - the hope that she can find her daughter, who she desperately believes is still alive. Later, after interacting with Na-yeon, we know that she wants to help her, too. Because these two children are alive, it's vital that No-eul (and Gyeong-seok) also remain alive - if they die, their ability to help the kids die with them. She therefore has an extremely strong reason to fight for her own survival, and for Gyeong-seok's. Failing isn't an option.

In-ho, by contrast, took his job after losing the person he was trying to save. This job represents his hopelessness. And his connection to Gi-hun, while important, is different. He's not trying to save him. Or, at least, he doesn't think he is. Which brings us to...

3. No-eul is not conflicted about her motivations

After realising she's been lied to, No-eul's only motivation is to save her daughter and Na-yeon (and the latter means she needs to save Gyeong-seok too). This means that when an opportunity presents itself, the choice is simple. There's no choice.

In-ho is incredibly conflicted, however. He believes in the games. He wants to corrupt Gi-hun. But he also believes in Gi-hun, likes Gi-hun, sees in Gi-hun a version of himself that he didn't have the courage to become. So, when opportunities for rescue/escape present themselves, he's not like No-eul. He hasn't fully decided what he believes. His world view is cracking, but it's not cracking fast enough to make such a monumental decision. He wavers, and the opportunity passes him by.

4. Her role lets her operate more secretly

No-eul might have less power within the structure of the games, but in terms of conducting a clandestine escape, this actually works in her favour. Guards can go missing without it being noticed, and the only reason she ended up being pursued was because she needed to involve the Masked Officer.

In-ho, on the other hand, can't disappear for very long (although he can move through the facility more easily than No-eul). His role is much more integral, and his absence would be noticed not only by his staff, but also by the VIPs. He could orchestrate an escape, but it would mean giving up the role that has become a part of him, and because of his importance and knowledge of the games, it's quite likely he'd be pursued aggressively.

Additional notes

I feel with every relationship in Squid Game, there's often some discussion around the amount of time the involved parties have known each other, and invariably doubt that they'd be sufficiently motivated to take such huge risks for a virtual stranger.

In terms of the No-eul/Gyeong-seok and In-ho/Gi-hun relationships, I think they are sufficiently similar to say that if you believe one pair to have formed an attachment, then it's a little silly to try to argue that the other couldn't have.

Of course, Gyeong-seok doesn't really interact with No-eul at all, so the attachment is one sided in their case, but her attachment to him (and maybe more importantly, Na-yeon), is similar to how In-ho forms his attachment to Gi-hun - by watching, and by imposing onto that person feelings for a loved one who is out of reach. That is, In-ho definitely sees some of his wife in Gi-hun, while No-eul sees her daughter and maybe herself in Na-yeon and Gyeong-seok. The only additional development In-ho and Gi-hun have is those few days in the games together.

Therefore, I think it makes sense that No-eul was able to rescue Gyeong-seok, when In-ho couldn't rescue Gi-hun, and it boils down to the fact that she was motivated to do it, and In-ho, no matter what we might wish, wasn't.

[helpmeimblorboing]

Anyone else absolutely consumed by the fact that just as Gi-Hun was betting on horses the first time we see him, In-Ho is - by acting in his role as the Front Man - betting on people ?

By the fact that when In-Ho told Gi-Hun that the Games were his way of “betting on horses. Horses on a racetrack”, it was him - in his own twisted way - trying to reach out ? To justify his own actions to himself, and to validate his own beliefs ?

But Gi-Hun shot him down, shot down the vague hope he had of retaining some form of moral self-image. And then he returned - not for more money, but to make sure he couldn’t hurt anyone ever again.

And that, that proof that his ideology was wrong, fascinated In-Ho. So he joined the Games. To watch this man who intrigued him, so, who seemed willing to die before compromising his beliefs

And for a while, it seemed like that was the way it was. That Gi Hun’s faith in humanity was genuine, and unshakable. That In-Ho was going to be proven wrong, and that this amazing, moral, spark of a man would win their little battle of wills

And then… he compromised his beliefs.

He suggested killing a few of the X team to facilitate their rebellion. Perhaps he would have changed his mind and tried to save them. Perhaps he justified to himself as saving them from an even more undignified death in the Games

But it was enough. In In-Ho’s eyes, 456 had failed, and the Front Man had won. And, like all other losers of the Games, only one fate awaited those who lost to the Front Man

But it didn’t await Gi Hun. Despite coming face to face with the man who so fascinated him, whose ideology he had - in his mind - soundly defeated, the Front Man didn’t kill 456. Perhaps he couldn’t bring himself to. Perhaps he wanted to grant his fascination another chance to prove him wrong

So, the failed rebel returned to the game, and for a long while, it seemed that he would fail yet. He killed Dae-Ho, after all, not even trying to sidestep the games the way he would have before

But then… the baby was born. And 149 died trying to convince everyone to show it and it’s mother the very same humanity Gi Hun had once championed, died ashamed

And the Games changed again, and all of a sudden, the spark that had burned so bright that fateful day in the limo across from In-Ho, that had heatedly told him that humans weren’t horses over the phone, was back. And In-Ho found himself falling into fascination all over again

He survived the Jump Rope, survived, and made sure the child did, too. A living embodiment of Gi Hun’s ideals. His spark made flesh. In-Ho couldn’t bear to see them die

So he gave them a chance to escape the games once and for all, to kill the people who wanted him and the baby dead. He had made sure the next game would have two winners - he had made sure his fascination would survive, and the baby that embodied everything about him that made him so fascinating

In-Ho had been faced with the same choice, once. He had chosen to kill off those who threatened. That was his ideology. And this was its test, as much as Gi Hun’s. For years, he had told himself that he had no choice, that they would have killed him, that humans were inherently selfish, horses fit only to be bet on

Gi Hun had lost this test once before. But not this time. Not again. No one dies that night, and the Front Man relaxes, equally distraught and relieved at the sight, at the realisation that his ideology had lost, that humanity was still worth putting faith in

And the next day, as Gi Hun was faced with what the VIPs seated beside him called “a difficult choice”, the choice to sacrifice the baby or himself, In-Ho knew it was nothing of the sort. Because, as he met Gi-Hun’s eyes through the camera, he knew what kind of man he was looking

And because he knew

“We are not horses. We are humans. And humans are…”

[grathead]

In fics I often see some AUs where Inho replace Il-nam and I like it, s1 cinammon Gihun meeting jaded Inho. Nice, classic, amazing.

BUT just imagine the crack idea of Inho AND Il-Nam joining the games, straight up just this old man pretending to have dementia and Inho keeping an eye on his boss while getting hit with s1 Gihun's sad puppy eyes and curly hair. Inho's just juggling making sure Il-nam doesn't break his back in these games while eyefucking the tall optimistic bastard that somehow still is naive in this death game, all while Il-Nam's lowkey pretending to be Inho's grandpa in the games, making up ridiculous childhood stories, telling Inho he should totally keep player 456 because he knows Inho's type. Just make Inho suffer juggling Feelings and his boss having the time of his life.

[nazbruhh]

Both of them were killed for being the kindest players in the games.

[bl1ssfulelleon-deactivated20260]

Protective omega❤️