i find it interesting how 069 and sangwoo had a convo full of despair before he killed himself, and geumja and gihun had a convo full of hope before she killed herself
FYI: I left out insta dead characters, 2 line characters, or characters with zero personality
This is my definitive list and yes I put them in order in each teir.
Minus 007 and 333 accidentally switched them
MY SQUID GAME OC!!!! I'm actually proud with how she turned out... and yes, she is a oc that will be an oc x canon ship (making oc x canon is my guilty pleasure)
I have a question about Squid Game and how they keep track of Players but first:
SPOILERS AHEAD . . . . PROCEED AT OWN RISK
Okay, single question. So there are 80 people participating in Game 3: Tug of War, then there are 40 people left to participate in Game 4: Marbles. Player 111 is executed and thus only 38 people will participate in Game 4 (Mi-Nyeo being escorted back), in which the population will again be cut in half. So 19 players survive Game 4, adding back in Mi-Nyeo gives us 20 players going into Game 5: Glass Bridge. Player 069 hangs himself in the night over the guilt of killing his wife. Thus 19 players should enter Game 5. But Game 5 is conducted with only 16 players . . . what happened to the other 3? They don’t appear to survive Game 4 but that doesn’t make sense mathematically. Help? Numbers breakdown/timeline below:
Players Starting Squid Game: 456
Players Surviving Game 1, Red Light Green Light: 201
*all remaining players go home*
Player Returning to Squid Game: 187 (14 remain in normal life)
Players Surviving Game 2, Ppopgi: 108
Players Surviving Riots: 80
Players Surviving Game 3, Tug of War: 40
*Doctor (Player 111) dies, Mi-Nyeo (Player 212) bypasses Game 4*
why don't people consider sangwoo's anger/emotional dysregulation issues enough? within the span of multiple days in a high-stress situation, we see him lash out BADLY. he literally grabs ali and 069 by the throat, threatening them/borderline physically harassing them. thats not normal thats why i think hes quite severely emotionally dysregulated. like. uh. like me!!
and if that's what high-stress situations do to his brain, then imagine him during college entries and high school exams. imagine him and gihun getting into a fight when theyre younger and sangwoo lashing out badly at him because of how stressed out he is my babies :((
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."
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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.
