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i miss gi-hun.

that's it. thats the post

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writing / notes:

writing

p1: *shuffle* *shuffle*, tap, swoosh, shuffle, *step* *step*

p2: n/a

p3: click!

p4: n/a

p5: gi-hun: young-il!? are you okay? did they hurt you-?!

p6: gi-hun: we need to go, young-il! / in-ho: gi-hun, where is your veil?

p7: in-ho: shhh... / it's in-ho. i told you it's in-ho.

p8: shove *tap* *tap* *tap*

p9: where are you going, gi-hun?

p10: in-ho: you remember what happens when you run right? / sfx: BANG / in-ho: there, that's better. don't you think so, gi-hun?

notes

this took forever because i kept changing panels + ran out of layers, so i needed to shrink it down. also, i would have taken a year on this if it was more than 10 pages.

the dialogue was originally going to be gi-hun / in-ho arguing, gi-hun pleading for in-ho to let him go / not do this. i changed it midway through because i thought it would be interesting if gi-hun, upon seeing in-ho's face could only think of young-il and immediately just wanted to know that he was okay before remembering who "young-il" really is. also, i'm sorry if some of the dialogue seems stilted. i realized what i had written down was choppy and changed it several times.

i know they need the masks to get around, i just liked the imagery of a door knob more. also, i am lazy to redraw and i am not hdh lol.

if i made more mistakes... it's already too late...

thank you to @/headless-doe, her idea was that the masked officer would be the one to capture gi-hun. og draft of this comic, had a similar premise of the masked officer hunting down gi-hun but i didn't go through with it because i wanted to draw in-ho more.

the characters in page 10 are hyun-ju, dae-ho, jun-hee, and the little eye is geum-ja's. i want to let you all decide who got shot, or whether or not that's only in gi-hun's mind of what could happen.

oh yeah, in-ho already shaved him. gi-hun took off his heels before running too.

page 7 is my least favorite page. my idea was that in-ho and gi-hun's heads would form a heart, and for an inhun kiss but i don't like the result. hilariously, it has my favorite panel (top right panel). i'm a sucker for that almost-kiss. i might make it my pfp tbh.

thank you for reading <3. my next artworks might be more about their domestic life, or another au.

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HDH really made questionable writing choices back in season 2 too.

To start, the whole plot with finding the Recruiter/Salesman?? It feels like a boomer male wrote those ideas LOL remember that Gi-hun is ultra-rich now. Why would he WASTE funds by paying loan sharks to chase down randos on the subway? Even a teenage girl with social media contacts knows that we live in the modern AGE. He could have looked at camera footage or even found him online. Idk just thinking about it makes me so frustrated.

Someone also brought up a good point here on tumblr about Jun-ho. He and his mercenary buddies should have tracked down the cars/vans that take the players to the island. Instead, they focused all their firepower on capturing In-ho. THAT'S IT????

Also, there were two instances back then that felt VERY pro-life. To start, when In-ho was sharing his past with Gi-hun and he said the line "She'll give birth, even if it kills her." I was like "UMMM????"

It was a red flag for sure, but I passed on it. And then we had Jun-hee saying that she wanted to keep her baby, even though she had no money or job to support her family. Look, I'm staunchly pro-choice and I understand her decision. But I couldn't shake off the feeling that once is ok. But twice? Now, this message is getting ingrained in the audience's mind.

Little did I know, season 3's pro-life message became EVEN WORSE. Every single female character (Jun-hee, Geum-ja, Hyun-ju, No-eul) had a storyline related to dying for a child or their plotline revolved around saving a child. Even Gi-hun wasn't spared from this lol

Just WHY???? Doesn't HDH know that we women care more about THAT?? Or was he fueled by a weird desire to get the birthrate up in South Korea? Was this all just pro-life propaganda?? Instead of actually telling a good story, we were stuck with a baby plotline.

Needless to say, this is why I don't trust certain male directors anymore.

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flower bed 🥀

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Thinking about how Noeul and Gihun would understand so much about one another.

They both left a daughter behind and will never forgive themselves for it, but surely they’d see in one another cause for forgiveness.

Gihun’s experience being homeless, however brief, will give him keen insight into the shame, isolation, and logistical challenges Noeul experiences living out of her van.

Their shared flirtation with death and suicide would, I think, bring something protective out of one another.

I think they’d see and understand one another in a way nobody has in a while.

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I think we forget how far In-ho went with his mission to break Gi-hun

Here’s my list of what all I remember him doing:

-purposefully bringing up triggering events (nearly dying at dalgona)

-saying things that would hit Gi-huns sweet spots to make the trust and connection deeper and therefore the betrayal and Gi-hun’s ultimate self-blame for trusting him worse (“i still trust you”)

-constantly challenging his beliefs as Young-il, placing the fear in Gi-hun that if he had just went with what Young-il said or questioned himself further, they wouldn’t be where they were.

-toying with him in the games to make him fear death/test his morality and patience.

-making him seem weak (“thats enough”)

-making him seem untrustworthy by causing the attention to be on Gi-hun’s knowledge of the first games, but having the second game be different

-taking away one of the two people he had left in his life. the ONLY hope he really had. right in front of him

-bringing him out in a coffin both to serve as humiliation and a lesson that his life was not in his hands anymore. he wasn’t a hero, just another player

-hanging the rebels dead bodies.

-not letting Gi-hun die despite how much he wanted to. he needed to accomplish breaking him first

-chaining him up and taunting him about not being allowed to vote

-identity reveal being of a very trusted friend

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In-ho wanted to be Gi-hun's Il-nam, in the sense of what Il-nam had been to In-ho.

He wanted to break Gi-hun down, destroy his hope and faith not only in other people, but also in himself - aka utterly destroy healthy core aspects of Gi-hun's personal identity that he (Gi-hun) most valued - and then rebuild Gi-hun in his own image, and he put in significant, active work towards that goal. He manipulated Gi-hun in a very nasty, targeted, extremely personal manner, then betrayed not only Gi-hun but the rest of their teammates who had cared about and trusted him, too, and he shot Jung-bae - who was his friend, too! - in the heart just to further destroy Gi-hun's spirit.

Also, he's a mass murderer who supports the yearly slaughter of hundreds of isolated, kidnapped poor people, including plenty of victims who aren't even there for themselves or their own debt, but to pay a loved one's debt or a loved one's medical bills under the capitalist hellscape they live in.

Regardless of the justifications In-ho had for his actions, he did not actually have to do any of that. He made his choices from a place of his own deep trauma, but they were still his choices.

That's the whole point of Gi-hun's character arc. To stand in opposition to In-ho as proof that In-ho does have other choices (as all of us do), even when they are also deeply difficult and painful ones in their own way.

And I still think Gi-hun should have at least gotten to punch In-ho in the dick once.

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Did you have fun playing the villain?

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you're telling me a pink guard, whose relationship with a player was briefly shown as a subplot, could safely save and remove the player from the island and send him back to the mainland alive. while the front man, whose relationship with gihun is supposed to be "the heart of the show", did nothing but watch gihun with teary eyes the entire time and just let gihun kill himself?

after the director confirmed there was still humanity left in inho? after lee byung-hun said gihun made inho feel a slight wavering of heart, that inho saw himself in gihun and that inho was rooting for gihun?

(byung-hun, I'm so sorry they did your character so dirty. I know how much you love inho and everything you said about him and gihun is what should have been in the show. jung-jae, I'm so sorry gihun was done so dirty too. you both deserve so much better.)

netflix's a jerk for promoting season 3 as 'the clash between gihun and frontman' when gihun and frontman had one scene together that lasted 2 minutes and the rest was just frontman looking at gihun with teary eyes.

would have been so much better if s3 was about inho saving and removing gihun from the game, them actually talking and further developing their dynamics (wouldn't even have to be in a romantic way).

don't get me wrong, I love all the other characters and their stories too, and I'm glad noeul was able to save that player, but it's a terrible idea to shift the focus of the third season to all the side characters and their subplots. because now the two main characters whom netflix promote so heavily were overshadowed to the point they became the side characters instead.

and both of their characters were written so... I don't even know what the fuck that was.

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Inho 🤝 Myung-gi

Being smart about many things and surviving deadly games, but being such idiots in love that they got so unnecessarily jealous.

Inho jealous of Jung-bae even though he's so cute and supported Inhun's relationship.

And Myung-gi thinking his ex-girlfriend was in a relationship with a man over 50.

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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.

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and I don't plan to develop 😞🙂‍↕️

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In-ho, I love you, man, but come on...

(can't believe my January Inhun fanfic made more sense than season 3's script LOL)

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why am i actually about to cry over this?

sweetest man to ever exist

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wdym both Gi-hun and Jun-hee gave the person they decided to trust something to use for protection, only for the person to use it for murder?

wdym both Myung-gi and In-ho gave permission for Jun-hee and Gi-hun to kill them with a knife? wdym Myung-gi tells Jun-hee to give him the knife bc "she can't kill anyone", and then In-ho watched Gi-hun refuse kill the rest of the finalists with the knife he gave him?

wdym both Myung-gi and In-ho, after murdering a person in front of their eyes, spent most the season looking at Jun-hee and Gi-hun from afar? wdym they both share one last conversation in which Myung-gi and In-ho are basically telling Jun-hee and Gi-hun to live and get out with the baby, only for them to die afterwards, having rejected them?

wdym both Jun-hee and Gi-hun were stubborn people who sacrificed themselves for the baby, dying by going off the edge?

wdym 555 and 457 might share some similarities?

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i love him so much. he means the world to me. his light, his optimism, his spirit, his pure goodness. his heart. he is so special. there will never be anyone like him. he is one of a kind.