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HWANG IN-HO & SEONG GI-HUN

— THE MASK SLIPS AWAY, RED

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“Gi-hun died, but at least his death meant all these characters got to live.” I am going to be very honest and say I don’t give a fuck about these characters who “got to live because Gi-hun killed himself”. Sorry for not caring about side characters when I watch the show for the main characters.

Like. Sure it’s cool they survived because a character who was already suicidal—and had explicitly attempted suicide before—killed himself so a random baby he met a few days ago could live. But you can’t expect audiences to care about random characters, or that cgi baby, when they watch the show for the main characters whom you ruined and butchered in the final season just for some cheap propaganda.

Gi-hun deserved so much better. Lee Jung-jae deserved so much better. No, I won’t shut up about this

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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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i’m sorry but inho being dropped off at gihun’s motel and immediately becoming the human equivalent of a BED BUG is the funniest enemies-to-lovers pipeline ever.

gihun only lets him stay because he’s injured. and because he owes junho. that’s it. but, when gihun lets him in his (keyword: HIS) bed for ONE night out of pity—suddenly he’s waking up at 3am with inho rolled over half on top of him, the duvet gone, and the man who once ran death games sighing peacefully into his neck.

(we need more ‘there was only one bed’ inhun fics)

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Save me, pretty older Korean man

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TELL ME YOU SEE IT TOO

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Emily Skaja, from a poem titled "No, I Do Not Want to Talk with You on Linkendin," featured in Brute: Poems

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"Gihun felt closer to Youngil than to his longtime pal Jungbae in centrain ways" via JJ 😭

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Squid Game official accounts posting “goodbye” like the USA spinoff isn’t apparently beginning filming this December and Lee Byung-hun isn’t out there teasing another Front Man spinoff while Wi Ha-jun says he’d love to play Jun-ho again alongside his brother In-ho, or how the director says he’s open to making a season 4 and yet another prequel for In-ho’s time as player 132 and also that Recruiter spinoff, or how Netflix isn’t letting their biggest moneymaking show go. Like we know you ain’t going anywhere

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Gwi-ma after his defeat (if you know, you know)

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Imagine how painfully awkward it would have been if the elevator (that took In-ho up) malfunctioned when In-ho was already at the top of the pillar, with Jun-ho yelling at him from the viewing gallery, and instead of taking him back down, it didn't, so In-ho had to just stand here like 🧍🏻

Jun-ho (still yelling): You're stuck, aren't you?

In-ho (with his back facing Jun-ho, because he'd never turn around to face Jun-ho again, now considering yeeting himself off the platform to spare himself the embarrassment): ....

Jun-ho:

In-ho:

Jun-ho (continuing to yell): Hang in there, hyung, I'll help you down

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one thing about having a blorbo is that, as much as you’re grateful for canon for giving you a blorbo, you want to take this little guy away from canon so canon can’t hurt him and the only people who can hurt him are fanfic writers. #whump #hurt/comfort

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(Source)

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— josé olivarez // natalie diaz

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M A S K S

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actually I’m never shutting up about this. seong gi-hun, you deserved so much better.

*not saying he should have killed the baby in that final game, just that it was a terrible writing decision