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I go by SmilesThroughFandoms on Ao3. A blog for my stories and my own personal blog. I enjoy Lego Monkie Kid, Ace Attorney, Pokemon, Marvel, and all the Gay Stuffâąïž. I will post about anything and everything that I like, so if we share a common interest, sweet!
Hey guys! So the next chapter is being pushed back another week cause Iâm experiencing âšMental Health Issuesâš (nothing to concerning, just my brain doing dumb brain things and I just need a couple days to bounce back) Sooooo hereâs a final preview to tide you guys over! Enjoy!
âDo either of you have a computer I can plug this into?â
The old man leaned forward to get a better look at the piece of plastic while Sae-byeok tilted her head like a confused puppy. âWhat is it?â The old man asked.
âItâs-itâs a flash drive.â Gi-hun faltered for a moment.
âYou mean that subscription service that letâs people rent out fancy cars for a night?â Sae-byeok asked.
âNo, no. Thatâs FlashRide.â The old man corrected her. âI thought a flash drive was when a bunch of teenagers steal a car and take it for a spin.
Sae-byeok shook her head. âNo, that's a Joy Ride. Isnât Flash Drive that really, really old movie about illegal car racing and family?â
âNo, thatâs Fast and Furious. But I think youâre onto something! A flash drive is that really, really, really old movie about that one dance!â
âHe means Flash Dance!â Gi-hun suddenly shouted, startling the other two. âHeâs talking about the American movie Flash Dance, about a welder who works as a strip club dancer who wants to become a professional, accomplished dancer. A flash drive is piece of portable tech that allows people to move stuff off of one computerâlike videos and music and other filesâand moved to another computer!â
After getting over the shock of Gi-hunâs sudden outburst, and ignoring how he was red-faced and panting, Sae-byeok gently scooted closer to him to examine the flash drive herself. She didnât take it out of the bag and Gi-hun held the bag tightly in his hands, but she could still see it. âSo, this is basically ancient technology? From the past?â
Gi-hun exhales. With an air of melancholy, he nods, realizing that Sae-byeok is right. While common place in the twenty-first century, a flash drive was dead tech here in the thirty-first century. Something you see in museums or history books or those weird documentaries on the tv channel that says they talk about history but actually talk about alien conspiracies. If there was by some miracle, a way for Gi-hun to plug the flash drive into a computer and figure out what was on it, he didnât know of one. And judging by how clueless the old man and Sae-byeok were, Gi-hun reasoned his one final message from his daughter was going to stay a mystery to him. For now at least.
Sae-byeok let the bag (and Gi-hunâs hands) drop back down into his lap. âItâs cute.â
â⊠Cute?â
âYeah, cute. Itâs all tiny and plastic and stuff, but it can still hold files like you said.â
âDonât call my tech cute.â Gi-hun crossed his arms with an angry pout.
The Inhuns' daughter came home from daycare and was scratching her head a lot. But it wasn't until 7 days later that Gi-hun saw the note (which had gotten lost in her backpack) saying there was a lice outbreak at daycare and that parents should check their children
The problem? Now they both have lice, too
Gihun and Inho were raising their adoptive daughter Saehee and she was the apple of their eyes! She was so cute and energetic and bubbly and she loved her fathers, her uncle Junho and her big sister Gayeong!
She really loved daycare too! She made so many new friends! Her parents were happy she liked daycare and that she always had a good time!
One day, Gihun noticed that their daughter was scratching her head a lot but he didn't pay too much attention. She had spilled a lot of glitter on her head a couple of days ago and Gihun was STILL finding glitter everywhere in the house!
Inho didn't pay too much attention to it either, thinking that their daughter still had some hidden glitter in her hair that was annoying her.
But a couple of days later, both Inho and Gihun's head started itching like crazy! At first, they thought that maybe it was the new detergent they bought that was causing some kind of reaction!
And then, while cleaning out their daughter's bag, Gihun saw it--a note from daycare saying that they had a lice problem and that they should check their daughter for lice.
Gihun starts SCREAMING bloody murder and runs to Inho, scratching at his scalp and telling him they all have lice and that Inho HAS to go to the store and buy them all lice killing shampoo and lice combs NOW.
They spend the next few hours brushing and washing their crying daughter's hair who doesn't understand what's going on and stripping every single bit of bedding of the beds and washing it. Inho calls Junho who comes with a rented carpet cleaner and wearing what looked like a hazmat suit.
Inho and Gihun had him clean ALL the carpet, the curtains and the matress. They didn't go to seelp after 3am in the morning.
They kept up the shampoo treatments, the brushing, and vacuums and sleeping with bonnets until finally, all three of them were lice free!
Inho and Gihun BOTH kind of wanted to pull their daughter from the daycare because OH MY GOD LICE?! But Saehee threw a fit and wouldn't stop crying so they kept in the daycare.
They just made sure to ask the caretakers if there is anything they should know and maybe they check their daughter's hair every day for a few months, just to be safe.
Trying not to laugh aloud about the idea that just popped into my head of the reverse scenario of the Vegas Wedding AU. Vegas Gi-hun waking up in "canon" Gi-hun's body out of a post-s3 coma or whatever (handwaves canon away), and he's ready to drag canon In-ho off by his ear or beat his ass, one or the other, because no husband of his is gonna be doing all of this evil shit under his watch, no matter the universe. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU KILLED JUNG-BAE?!" Seriously, In-ho should be unsettled by how much this Gi-hun does not give a fuck. He's known him for years. He knows how In-ho takes his coffee in the morning. He's seen him spend the whole day on the toilet, it coming out both ends after they've had food poisoning. In-ho, you should fear the Gi-hun who does not fear you AT ALL. đ€Ł
As you can imagine, Gi-hun is In-ho's favourite worker. Unlike everyone else on the island, he's still sweet, goofy and quick to help others!
But no one knows that Gi-hun is his favourite (aside from the salesman, but that little freak always had a talent for sniffing out secrets).
In-ho is always coming up with excuses for having Gi-hun pulled back; once, In-ho said he messed up one of the game rooms, and since he couldn't be trusted, it looks like In-ho has to personally supervise him. But Gi-hun would then find a fancy bento on his bed.
And when Gi-hun heard about the organ trafficking ring, he reported it to In-ho straight away. Seeing an opportunity, In-ho told M.O that Worker 456 had informed him of the trafficking ring and that he should shut it down. Later, In-ho watches through the cameras and sees some of the triangle soldiers beating Gi-hun half to death for ratting them out.
In-ho waits for them to leave, then retrieves Gi-hun, scoops him up in his arms, bridal-style, and takes him to his quarters, where he nurses him back to health.
Two Games later, In-ho receives Gi-hun's letter of resignation! After some stalking, In-ho discovered that Gi-hun had found a new, legal job as an escape room designer!
Fuming, In-ho swore to himself that one way or another, he was going to get his favourite worker back!
Gihun really needed the money. He needed the money for his daughter, for his mother and to finally get out of debt. When he realized what the games really were, it was too late to back out but luckily, he was just a kitchen worker and didn't get to see any gore.
Inho met him by accident. His regular guard who delivered his meals got sick and Gihun started to bring him his food. He wasn't too afraid of Inho and always tried to make some kind of small talk and Inho just...kind of fell for him.
Despite the work he did, Gihun remained kind, upbeat and silly and honestly, Inho loved him for it. It was so refreshing, having Gihun to talk to late at night when they were both done with work, drinking and joking around.
Nobody knew, of course. They couldn't know. The only person who knew that worker 456 was Inho's favorite was the recruiter and Inho didn't know HOW the man figured it out and he didn't want to know either.
But hanging out with Gihun late at night wasn't enough anymore.
Inho started saying that Gihun was doing stuff wrong and needed to be supervised by him and him only. Gihun was worried at the start but then, he'd always find a beautiful bento waiting in quarters and Inho only talked to him about nonrelated work stuff while supervising him so Gihun realized Inho just wanted to hang out.
One day, Gihun finds out about the black-market organ trafficking ring and IMMEDIATELY brought it up to Inho who told MO that worker 456 let him know what was going down and to SHUT IT DOWN NOW.
And of course, the triangles and squares that were running the ring? They were NOT happy about that at all.
While watching over GIhun on camera, Inho watches as a bunch of triangle guards beat the hell out him. Shocked, he watches and when they're done, Inho immediately calls the MO and tells him which guards needs to be kill IMMEDIATELY.
He then takes Gihun to his own rooms and nurses him back to health, telling Gihun that everything is going to be fine and that Inho won't let anyone ever hurt him again.
Inho honestly thinks they have a something going on and he's thinking of maybe asking Gihun to marry him but two games later, Gihun hands Inho his resignation, saying that this will be his last game and he finally has enough money to get a real job! He tells Inho he's going to design panic rooms and he still wants to keep in touch!
Inho is DEVASTATED. He doesn't want to lose Gihun! Gihun was his one and only spot of joy in his job! Gihun can't leave!
He stays up all night and comes to a decision-Gihun won't leave. Inho is going to do everything he can for Gihun to stay-and not as a guard. Not as a worker-but as his husband.
I mean Gihun just needs the money for Gayeongâs child support and motherâs treatments right? Inho can afford that easily with the money he won during his Games, no need to dent the Frontman salary at all. But I wonder what Inho will do?
Maybe lure him in with a higher paying job? He wants to design panic rooms, so have him design games! Inho would love to see Gihunâs mind at work here, and maybe one day Inho can pop the question to Gihun while theyâre working? Itâll be grand!
(Never mind the fact that Gihun just thinks Inho is an incredibly kind and attentive boss. And he has no idea that his own boss wants him carnally. Itâll be fine, everything will work itself out)
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
Chapters: 1/1
Fandom: Squid Game (TV 2021)
Rating: Explicit
Warnings: Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
Relationships: Hwang Inho | Front Man/Seong Gihun, Ali Abdul/Cho Sangwoo, Cho Sangwoo & Seong Gihun, Kang Saebyeok & Seong Gihun
Characters: Seong Gihun, Cho Sangwoo, Hwang Inho | Front Man (Squid Game), Kang Saebyeok, Ali Abdul, Jang Deoksu, Han Minyeo, Kang Cheol (Squid Game), Oh Malsoon
Additional Tags: Deaf Character, Disability, Emotional Hurt/Comfort, Angst, Survival, Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence, Blood and Violence, Protective Seong Gihun, Trauma
Summary:
Gi-hun wakes in a strange room surrounded by hundreds of strangers, wearing a green tracksuit he doesnât remember putting on.
Thereâs only one problem: he canât hear them.
Deaf since childhood, Gi-hun has learned to navigate the world by reading lips, watching body language, and relying on the people around him. Including an old friend he thought he could trust and a quiet stranger who seems determined to keep him alive.
Also people being obsessed with Greek mythology as kids wasnât invented by Percy Jackson. My dad read the Iliad and the odyssey in high school because one of his friends was super obsessed with Ancient Greek lit and he was like âwell I canât let him be smarter and more well read than I am Iâve gotta catch upâ