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do you guys think the guards had to drag gi-hun away from sang-woo's body

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more from the harem

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the harem's responses to gihun saying "i want a baby"

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its so insane to me how no one knows — and no one will ever know — the extent of the impact that sangwoo had on gihun.

i’m glad that saebyeok gets mentioned and remembered for her impact on gihun & how he grew to see her as a daughter but. no one, not even the audience, explicitly know the effect that sangwoo had on gihun. it’s so intimate and it’s such a particular detail that makes the whole thing really tender. it’s also why it hurts more.

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The gihun harem but ddlc au

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one thing so interesting to me is the contrast in color and tone in sangwoo and gihun’s deaths, and the polar opposites, despite being fundamentally the same.

i’ve said this before, but to me sangihun color symbolism is so important.

gihun is red and warm—emotional, impulsive, fiery.

sangwoo is blue and cool—intellectual, calculating, withdrawn.

that matches their personalities too: sangwoo being the colder, standoffish one, whereas gihun is charming and friendly. and like ive said before, sangwoo envies that warmth gihun possesses. he knows he can never be warm like gihun, the same way blue physically cannot become red due to them both being primary colors (the only possible solution, really, would be to become purple).

comparing the scenes of their deaths.

sangwoo died in the rain, cold and dripping wet, drowning in tears and the shame of his deeds. in his death, we see blues—pale and navy, murky greens, even cool grays. his death is cold. reflective. he is dissolving into the environment, a death that begs for forgiveness yet never asks to be heard. his final words are an apology, and a plea.

gihun died in fire, a fire he'd lost, burning with the regret he never got to let go of. the entire color scheme of the frame is warm. reds, oranges, browns, even the blood beneath him is a deep swollen red, like a fizzling out star. and when the entire island eventually goes up in flames, that warm palette is reignited. he stands out against the vips (and inho), and his final words aren’t an apology, nor a request—but rather, a declaration. a condemnation.

and yet, despite everything, being polar opposites, holding opposing values and clashing desires, contrasting in all the intricate ways, they have one thing in common here—death. they both went out on their own terms, in ways that can be looked at as ‘sacrifice’ or ‘suicide’, or maybe even both, for people they cared about (mother/gihun + baby)

they both died messy, unshaved, unclean, bleeding out on the floor, but only one of them was cradled. they both died webbed in their own regrets, wrecked by the burdens they carried until their dying gasps.

it's like i stated earlier—blue and red cannot become one another, it's impossible. but they can meet in the middle and create something new.

and in the end, both of their wishes to their final living family members were eventually carried out behind their knowledge—sangwoo and his mother; gihun and gayeong. sangwoo’s mother was cared for. gihun’s daughter was finally given closure.

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idk what my deal is but i can't stop thinking about sang-woo's mother today. i think she knew, beneath the deep, deep layers of denial that something was wrong. her son would reach out soon, she'd tell herself. but the pit in her stomach seemed to grow day by day and then the police told her he was a criminal. when gi-hun dropped off a boy and suitcase full of cash "the money i owe sang-woo" i think she knew. i think she knew he wasn't coming back, and that gi-hun knew it too. when he walks away she asks one final time if he's heard from sang-woo recently, and gi-hun can't bring himself to answer just having watched him kill himself (presumably ->) just hours ago.

we see her later in s3, sae-byeok's little brother is grown up now and running into her arms. that scene has haunted me since i first watched it. she has a new son now, enough money to never have to worry about the shop, and questions. so many questions. she'll never have closure. she'll never know what really happened to sang-woo. with gi-hun dead, the last accessible source to the truth for her is gone.

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The apple art trend, but it's sangihun

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I had a sangihun dream last night where sang-woo was the front man in s1 and instead of the finale being him and gi-hun it was gi-hun vs jung-bae but jung-bae is winning the fight so sang-woo goes down there and just straight up shoots him in the head cus he really doesn’t want gi-hun to die

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gihun being happy...please..

He managed to stop the game, went home and adopted a cat 🥰

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all of my compiled sangihun art drawn over the past few weeks

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Unfortunately, their apple turned out to be rotten

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rotten.

silhouette/line art by itself under the cut

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I don't even know why I made this LOL

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Lovers in the afterlife

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im so insane rn thinking about sangihun and how they both were doomed from the beginning.

sangwoos name in hanja literally meaning stupidity and how he’s incredibly smart yet makes dumb decisions. gihun being born on halloween and how people say you have a connection to spirits, then constantly being haunted by his dead loved ones. that one post talking about how gihun always forgot his umbrella as a kid and how an umbrella symbolizes protection. gihun and sangwoo always being framed with certain colors around them (gihun and red, sangwoo and blue) and the fact those colors just. haunt them. god im ILL.