#GI questions

[trashgyrl]

once again thinking about gihun's eyes softening when he looks at inho

[kindaasrikal]

Morro’s reaction to meeting Lloyd again should go exactly like this

The two are just staring at each other, in complete shock. Morro is stuck frozen at the sudden appearance of someone he hurt years ago, but Lloyd has to quickly recover.

Lloyd, grimacing: Morro…It’s been a long while-

Morro:

Morro: Wait did you hit puberty

[giyuulatte]

does anyone else forget that people aren’t walking barbie and ken dolls and they have actual genitals or am i just weird

[dailygihun]

day 35 || rewatching s1 because im Aching. feeds u these s1 gi-hun doodles out of my palm

[spampai]

Gossip~

This contrast is funny

Oh i added bonnie cause hes a performer, blue (kinda), has two sets of eyes and bcs i want to

[hwang-456]

some of my fav lines from squid game season 2 are:

“player 456, welcome back to the games.”

“player 456. did you have fun playing the hero?”

“player 456. do you still have faith in people?”

you know … i’m starting to sense a pattern

[boywithantlersao3]

I'm just thinking about sangihun relationship (like I always do), and I can't help but wonder how much better or worse off will Sang-woo be if he was in a romantic relationship with Gi-hun. He spent his life trying to hold together this idealistic fantasy for other people to see, especially to his mother and Gi-hun. He had keep up appearances as a successful businessman for so long. Would he be able to be in a healthy relationship, or will it end up burning it to the ground.

[merimaybe]

An old scaramouche for a friends birthday!

[sniper-gihun-xix]

Admitting youre too broken and fixated on your trauma and turning around to abandon your daughter for that trauma does her a lot more good than getting on that plane and making her life more miserable by giving her your burdens.

Kids pick up on everything their parents go through no matter what age they are. Im now positively glad Gihun didn’t get on that plane. My eyes have been opened.

[pkrockinon]

My HxH experience

[midnight--sadness]

Hey I think this is a rather controversial question because they're are a rather well liked dynamic and my opinion is obviously in the minority. I am not being condensing at all and genuinely want to hear someone else's opinions and perspectives. You seem like one of the nicer/sensible people in the fandom and people can get VERY defensive of their favourite characters/ships/dynamics etc. So I want to ask -

Can you explain the appeal of the Gi Hun- Sangwoo dynamic?

When I started the show and it was shown that they're childhood friends I knew this dynamic will be important. But as the show went on they were just.... lukewarm to me. Which is odd because I like doomed friendships. It seemed like a rather one sided dynamic to me where Gi Hun obviously is way more into the friendship than Sangwoo is. Sangwoo at most (to me I can totally understand if people feel otherwise) seems to be just tolerant of Gi Hun. Does Sangwoo actually care about Gi Hun? Because with what he did in Honeycomb it was obvious he didn't have an issue with Gi Hun dying. I liked Gi Hun's dynamics with Il nam and Sae Byeok way more. For Sangwoo I liked his dynamic with Ali more. I want to hear your perspective. I genuinely want to know what's the appeal of this dynamic?

thank you for trusting my judgement on this!!! i really appreciated it 💖

also, this is going to be very long so i apologize 😭

for me, the appeal of sangihun is the doomed childhood friends to almost lovers to strangers. the idea that they were close friends growing up and then separated, probably because sangwoo went to snu, and were reunited in a death game, is so interesting to me bc that was not their paths.

sangwoo was supposed to have a prestigous career after graduating, which he did, but he let his own desires and ambitions lead him to steal money from his clients and get into a lot of problems. on the other hand, gihun went to a technical school and worked in a factory, so people didn't have as much expectations for him. we see this dichotomy in the games, when gihun asks sangwoo what he is doing at the games since he is the genuis sangwoo, graduate of snu.

and the relationship does seem one-sided at first glance, because gihun is a very affectionate, enthusiastic character and sangwoo is not. gihun loves sangwoo, no one can say otherwise, because his actions tell us this - he is always next to sangwoo, he turns to him for advice, he smiles and laughs and jokes at sangwoo, he trusts sangwoo's judgement and insight, he brags about sangwoo to everyone who will hear.

sangwoo is quieter in his love for gihun, but no less intense, in my opinion. he tells gihun, and only gihun, the trick about hiding behind someone to avoid the doll's eyes during red light, green light. he talks to gihun about his troubles when they are next to his mother's stand and even confides in him that he is owing more money than the guards said during the game. he looks at gihun like he is yearning for him, for the times they were friends.

he feels embarassed that gihun is always bragging about him because he's embarassed about what he did, and he feels that shame weighting on him every time gihun says he is so wonderful and smart; it's not disdain for gihun, it's disdain for his own situation.

during dalgona, as you say, sangwoo didn't tell gihun about the shapes. in fact, he told no one. this is because sangwoo is calculating. he isn't going to give away information if it gives him an upper hand; think gihun in s2 wanting to tell everyone abt the second game being dalgona. that's their difference - gihun wants everyone to survive, sangwoo doesn't mind if they die and he lives.

but you can tell that he is conflicted. he couldn't grab gihun and take him aside to tell him to pick another shape because it would seem suspicious. and sangwoo doesn't trust either ali or ilnam at this point, he isn't going to risk it. we see how distressed he gets when gihun picks umbrella but he does nothing to stop him because it would draw attention.

he is very relieved when gihun survives that round and especially when gihun "forgives" him for what he did. he wants to be around gihun. he wants to be a part of gihun's team, he wants to be a second in command. but he's also aware that this is a death game and the endgame is always the same - only one will win. sangwoo puts this off as much as he can, seeing as he picked ali for the marble game, something i believe sangwoo did on purpose since ali is easily manipulated and, honestly, there are pratically no games where two people would play that isn't in a confrontation between those people. again, sangwoo is smart, he probably picked up on this since he didn't seem surprised to hear the rules of the game.

but i think the true proof of sangwoo's love for gihun is during their fight. yes, he was going to kill gihun. he was prepared for it. he had already killed saebyeok just so that he could have a chance at the prize. he needs that money. he needs it to fix his broken reputation, his broken life, his broken dreams. who is sangwoo without everyone's expectations on him? who is he if he isn't smart and capable, someone who crawled out of a poor neighborhood and became great?

we see how much this matters to him when he and gihun are fighting after sangwoo killed the glass maker, and gihun throws in his face that yes, he might be a dumb idiot, but sangwoo is right next to him, in the same place, doing the same things. so are they really so different? sangwoo was supposed to be better and gihun, who always praised him, telling him that his mistakes brought him down to gihun's (and everyone else's) level stung him. this argument causes a shift in their relationship and sangwoo, i think, realizes that he liked gihun more than he thought and his absence is harsher on sangwoo than he thought it would be.

(also, u can't spend a long time telling a person that he is the smartest person around without them eventually believing it. sangwoo's ego might be justified in relation to his intellect but he lacks in a lot of other aspects, particularly in terms of connecting with others and emotional inteligence. and gihun thrives in those aspects, which tells me that it doesn't matter how smart you are if you can't be kind about it.)

when gihun says that he doesn't want to continue the game and offers sangwoo his hand, i think sangwoo finally realizes that gihun loves him enough to quit the prize money. and sangwoo loves him enough to let him win it. sangwoo's last few words, about how no one is calling them for dinner anymore, is him saying that he longs to return to his childhood, when he had no expections, no responsibilites. he was just a kid.

sangwoo killed himself for gihun. i know that is a sensitive topic and people love to say that it had nothing to do with gihun. but his last words are an apology to gihun. he loved gihun so much that he couldn't bare it to kill gihun anymore, but he also couldn't bare for that money to go to waste, not after everything sangwoo did it to reach it - he won't win it, but gihun will. gihun whom he loves so much.

ultimately, i think sangwoo's love for gihun is a little selfish. he likes that gihun is always praising him but he dislikes that gihun has such an insight into the person sangwoo is that he can read him like a book. for someone like sangwoo, who thinks he is above others (for example, him loaning ali bus money bc it shows how superior he is, that he has money to loan to someone poorer and below him in the hierarchy of life). gihun represents, to sangwoo, a time when they were both unbound by societal pressures, and them getting together sets sangwoo free from the expectations placed on him.

obviously, gihun loves sangwoo a lot, but i think he disapproved of sangwoo's actions and, if they came home together, i don't think he would ever fully forgive sangwoo for what he did during the games, especially saebyeok's murder.

hope this made sense, pls message me if anything was too rambly to understand!!!

[alicethenobody]

[babymangosworld]

Am I the only one that doesn't really his new hairstyle but it still makes him hot asf pls bring back his fluffy hair

Anyways raw next question

[itadooori]

Imagine Junho did tell Gihun about Inho’s role in the game.

What do you think would motivate him to tell Gihun that?

And how do you think Gihun would respond?

OHHH these are really good questions!! i think, if jun-ho were to have told gi-hun about in-ho, his motivation might've been a mix of a few things:

1: to try and sway gi-hun from killing or severely injuring in-ho. maybe if he tells gi-hun everything he knows, they will be able to form a solid plan where they could capture in-ho and not have to kill him.

2: because he does genuinely like gi-hun. he doesn't want to endanger him or fuck up his plan; in canon i'm sure it tore him up inside to have lied to him about something so vital.

3: JUN-HO HATES THE GAMES TOO. sometimes i feel like it's brushed over in fandom discussions, but jun-ho is very much so disgusted by the games. not only for taking away his brother, but for..Everything. the murder, the normalization of rape, the dehumanization, all that stuff. so of course he'd want to use all the knowledge at his disposal to take the games down

as for how gi-hun responds, i think he'd be Wary. if jun-ho is in-ho's brother, can he fully trust him to help with taking down the games? if it comes down to it, would he be able to actually condemn his brother? and the more paranoid part of gi-hun would have immediate thoughts about jun-ho fucking with him and secretly working for the games to sabotage gi-hun's plans.

but also, there's still that side of him who feels sympathy for jun-ho losing his brother in such a way. he can relate to that deep feeling of loss. everything about jun-ho also just seems so sincere to gi-hun as well. i don't think he'd have it in him to turn jun-ho away because of this.

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

Rewatched s1e1 of Squid Game today, and was reminded that Gi-hun initially went into the games for Ga-yeong, and not for his mother. He went because she was moving to America, and his mum had said that when she did, Ga-yeong would forget all her Korean, and she and Gi-hun would become strangers who couldn't communicate. But, if he could prove he could support her, he might be able to get her back. Can you really live without her?

And this makes it so much more tragic that, post-victory, he literally couldn't bring himself to spend his money and go and live with her.

It's such a fascinating window into his character that even this, even his initial reason for entering the games, which would benefit not only him but his daughter too, he ultimately deemed to be less important than even the slimmest chance of stopping the games.

It is both breathtakingly selfless (his wants don't matter if he can't save people) and breathtakingly selfish at the same time (he'd rather take a chance on making a big change rather than take a smaller action that would definitely be positive) and LORD his characterisation is just absolutely impeccable.

Heart of gold x gambling addict my beloved.

[dread-full]

Richard Siken, 'The Worm King's Lullaby'