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I love 'hero living long enough to become the villain', but oughhhh, 'villain living long enough to become the hero' is life altering. Also not just ending in some goddamn sacrifice. They've gotta legit LIVE with those actions. And holy fuck, if they end up caring for someone they previously traumatized and now have to bear being the thing that haunts their nightmares for years? OH, THE ANGST, TAKE ME NOW!!!

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Gi-hun proving In-ho wrong by saving In-ho against In-ho’s will and showing In-ho that people are good, that Gi-hun is the proof that people are good, that even after everything In-ho puts him though, Gi-hun still refuses to let In-ho turn him into another masked monster.

Gi-hun proving In-ho wrong by saving In-ho’s life in the end and showing In-ho that, even after everything In-ho has done, Gi-hun still doesn’t see him as a monster but a person who’s been wronged and is wounded. (The mask is the monster, the Front Man is the symbol of a monster. But In-ho is not; In-ho is a person, wounded and lost, but still a person.)

Gi-hun guiding In-ho back towards the right path where, instead of sacrificing himself and dying, In-ho gets to live and heal because of Gi-hun’s faith in people.

I wrote a fic about this here!

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— Lee Byung-hun on In-ho’s relationship with Gi-hun

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The real Squid Game villains are the games, the system, the corruptions, the VIPs and rich, powerful people.

In-ho has made mistakes and done terrible things, but he’s also trapped, wounded, traumatized and is as much of their victim as Gi-hun is.

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Manifesting; In-ho, Jun-ho and Gi-hun will survive in Squid Game 3

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SA mention

We all know the VIPs are creeps and we saw them sexually harassing staff members, and so far we never get any direct confirmation one way or another if Front Man's even safe from them or if he's also one of their, well, victims. We do know, however, they're more powerful than Front Man, and Front Man, just like every other staff member, serves them. So it's not really a stretch to suspect he's been subjected to the same abuse his staff members go through.

Like, I'm not trying to make "excuses" for him when Jun-ho was assaulted. In-ho may or may not have known it was his brother behind the mask that day. And yes, it would have been great if he stepped in and stopped that VIP. But the thing is that we don't know if he even could, if any attempt to save Jun-ho would be seen as an act or rebellion that would be met with a far worse punishment for both him and Jun-ho.

"Why did In-ho just let it happen?" We don't even know if In-ho himself is also a victim when it comes to this. And if he really is one, then God knows how long—how many years—it's been happening to him.

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in-ho is just as much a victim as gi-hun; but yall arent ready for that conversation

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reblog if you love Hwang In-ho

hold your breath and count to 1,000,000 if you don’t love Hwang In-ho

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ship where one of them is divorced, the other’s partner is dead. two broken and traumatized men finding each other by fate, blood and violence, in a cruel, corrupted world that dooms them to hatred and betrayal and destines them both to be each other’s archenemies. but despite the pain, despite deaths and betrayal looming over their heads, maybe this little moment of soft eyes and gentle smiles is real. maybe, just for this moment, we can pretend the world outside isn’t real and nothing else matters. just for this moment, we can pretend this was another universe where we’re not cursed by blood and suffering, another universe where our love for each other is not doomed or forbidden. just for this moment, we can just be us.

Seong Gi-hun and Hwang In-ho, I love you both with all my heart.

time this was posted: 4:57 AM

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HWANG JUN-HO & HWANG IN-HO

Poem by ultrawistful

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Dance with the devil

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lee byung-hun as kim sun-woo in a bittersweet life suffered more than any character in any movie or tv show I've ever seen (and I’ve seen a lot of media in this genre). like I was actually extremely shocked by the amount and degree of pain and torture they put him through????

it's like they killed him about a dozen times in this movie and just kept repeatedly shooting at his corpse again and again and it still hurt every time. and now I think I'm traumatized :( like a part of me died when he comforted himself by telling himself “it’s okay” — while covered in his own blood after getting stabbed multiple times — because he literally didn’t have anybody to comfort him. and yeah coming from someone who loves seeing her favorite fictional characters go through the worst kind of hell, I genuinely want nothing but love and happiness and lots of hugs for him. someone please wrap this poor guy in blankets and protect him from all the harm in the world please :(

please he’s just a little guy :(

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# an average day in Squid Game

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“you can’t say in-ho is a poor little bean whose action’s only caused by his trauma and that he’s not to blame for the blood on his hands. because he still made the choice to come back to the game and oversee it. there’s still blood on his hands. his actions can’t be justified. he’s still a terrible person.”

his making the choice to come back to the game and oversee it, the blood on his hands, how his actions can’t be justified and how he’s a “terrible person” are literally what make him a cute little babygirl who did nothing wrong uwu to me wdym

wait till y’all see me babying my other babygirl, who did nothing wrong ever in his life, art the clown