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based of that one imagine of like gihun stuck in a time loop and not giving a shit about it. idk i how to use this app yall pls help me. How tf do u add pictures?

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"Red Light, Green Light, Again." 

At first, Gi-hun tried to do things the hard way. Making alliances, forming plans, agonizing over who he could save. Now? Now he’s here to put on a show.

Speedrun Start: Red Light, Green Light

The first time he played this game, he barely made it. The second, he figured out the timing. The tenth, he mastered the rhythm. The hundredth, he started experimenting.

Now?

The doll’s head barely finishes spinning forward before Gi-hun takes off at a dead sprint.

Someone screams. Players flinch. A few of them stumble back, expecting to see him drop dead on the spot.

Instead, he slides across the finish line a full minute ahead of everyone else.

The doll chirps, "Player 456, eliminated—"

BZZT.

The speakers cut out for a second, and then the mechanical voice corrects itself. "Player 456, cleared."

In-ho watches this from the control room, fingers tightening around his radio. "What."

Gi-hun stands at the finish line, brushing himself off. He glances up at the cameras, grinning. He waves.

Behind him, the other players are still frozen in shock.

New personal best.

Honeycomb: Exploiting the System

Sang-woo, as usual, hesitates at the candy tin, looking at Gi-hun like he wants to say something.

Gi-hun winks at him and picks the umbrella.

Sang-woo looks like he’s watching someone commit actual suicide.

The moment the game starts, Gi-hun flips the tin over and smashes it against the ground. The candy cracks perfectly along the shape. He stands up, holding out the umbrella with a flourish. "Done."

The guards don’t react. They don’t know how to react.

The worker monitoring the station scrambles to check the rules. "Is that allowed?"

"...There’s no rule against it."

In-ho, watching from the control room, rubs a gloved hand down his face.

Sang-woo stares at him like he’s just grown wings.

Gi-hun strolls past him, handing in his umbrella piece with a satisfied grin. "You should really read the fine print, buddy."

Tug-of-War: Advanced Mechanics

In his first few runs, he followed the old man’s strategy. It worked. But Gi-hun has had time to refine the meta.

He handpicks a team that should be doomed. No Sang-woo, no Ali, just a bunch of people who always died here.

And then, instead of playing by the rules, he yells, "JUMP ON THREE!"

His team jumps forward at the exact right moment, jolting the other team off balance.

Then he yells, "PULL NOW!"

They win in five seconds flat.

The workers just stare.

In-ho, in the control room, slowly pushes his hands together in front of his mask. "This little shit."

Marbles: Sequence Break

Gi-hun finds Il-nam sitting in the alleyway, waiting for him with that gentle old-man smile.

Gi-hun squats down, resting his arms on his knees. He tosses a marble in his hand, watching the way the light catches it.

"You’re the mastermind, aren’t you?"

Il-nam blinks. "What?"

"Come on, you think I don’t know? You disappear right before the big finale? The guards don’t shoot you? The whole ‘Oh, I just wanted to feel alive again’ monologue? Give me some credit, old man."

Il-nam’s face does something strange. "How—"

Gi-hun waves him off. "Relax. I’m not mad. I’m just bored. So how about this? I win this game, you pull some strings, and I get to skip Glass Bridge. Deal?"

Il-nam stares at him for a long, long time.

Then he laughs.

New skip discovered.

Glass Bridge: Tool-Assisted Playthrough

Gi-hun stands at the edge of the glass panels, arms crossed, while the other players stare at him, waiting.

The usual panic begins. The first few contestants get shoved. The survivors hesitate. The clock ticks down.

Gi-hun sighs. "Move."

He steps forward—and before anyone can react, he pulls a gun off one of the guards.

In-ho, watching from the control room, leaps out of his chair. "WHAT THE FU—"

Gi-hun calmly shoots out the panels, one by one, watching to see which ones break.

Then he hops across the safe ones, whistling.

Behind him, someone whispers, "What the fuck."

Even the VIPs are losing their shit.

"Where did he even get a gun?!"

"Who cares? This is amazing!"

Finale: Any% Completion

By the time Gi-hun reaches the last round, everyone is afraid of him.

The guards hesitate before addressing him. The remaining players stay far, far away. Even Sang-woo—ruthless, brilliant Sang-woo—looks at him like he’s something other.

And In-ho?

In-ho is watching from the balcony with the silent frustration of a man who has lost control of his own game.

Gi-hun tilts his head back to look at him. He gives him a mocking little salute.

The Squid Game has rules. But Gi-hun has had time. And the more he plays, the more he breaks those rules.

This is his game now.

He smirks.

"Let’s finish this."

Meanwhile, Jun-ho is sitting in the vents, completely horrified.

"What the fuck is WRONG with this guy?"

Idk maybe i should add Inho to the time loop as well, cuz I’m bored.

But who is who?

(I know 457 are home of sexual bastards, but what about Jung-bae, Dae-ho, and Jun-hee?)

They are everything to me

So…I did a thing lol

why is this so funny to me?😭😭😭 dae-ho and jung-bae are literally “I’m in the death game and I don’t know what the fuck is going on between these two but why the fuck are they gay?”

Fan art based on the fic Kill Our Way to Heaven on AO3 🖤

I'm writing this one-shot, where In-ho cracks and burns everything to the ground, but I can't decide which is the greater potential for angst in this - In-ho coming clean about his identity and the inevitable fallout, or continuing to pretend to be Young-il, where Gi-hun would make him go home to his "wife" once they escape.

Lucifer is the future tempter of the human race.

//but also the study of the Fallen Angel Alexandre Kabanel.

The thought that In Ho is the Lord of Hell on earth has not left me since the strangulation scene.

Prophetic dreams tend to come true, Gi-hong (a joke from the Russian dubbing)

Ahm I also like the original joke about the last name.

When they're both predator :

My brain : Greaaaaaat

People think that 457 is a predator/prey ship, but it's not.

It's persistence predator / ambush predator.

Proof:

born to

forced to

Squid Game Incorrect Quotes 〇△□

Front Man | In-ho: Join me, Gi-hun! You feel it too—I know you do!

Gi-hun: Never! My heart belongs to Young-il, and you murdered him in cold blood!

[Later]

Front Man | In-ho [dramatically collapsing onto a velvet couch in his office]: I GOT REJECTED… BECAUSE OF MY OWN ALTER EGO.

Masked Officer: [awkwardly patting his shoulder] There, there…

Chapter Four Archive of Our Own Link 🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63964906/chapters/166236553#main

Canon inhun: hate each other, arch nemesis, will kill one another, one or both of them may die in s3 🥺

Fanon inhun: in love, old married couple, have 10 kids and having twins on the way 👶🏻👶🏻

I love this fandom 🥰

IT'S A COPING MECHANISM 😭😭

and trust even if they both die in s3, i will still be making aus where they are having their 13th kid together 🫶 the power of old man yaoi is too great to fail before canon!!!

but also, lets not talk abt gihun dying okay? i need my shayla to live!!! 🤧

That means so much to hear from you—thank you!!

I adore merpeople AUs too, and I'm thrilled you're enjoying this one! I can’t get enough of imagining Gi-hun with his striking red hair and a deep green tail—like the same shade as the Squid Game tracksuits, which feels so poetically fitting. And oh wow, I hadn’t thought of In-ho as a Prince Eric parallel until you mentioned it, but now I can’t unsee it and I’m obsessed. It fits him so well!

Poor Gi-hun, truly. In my headcanon, he’s the child of two merfolk himself but was abandoned young—left near the ocean floor to fend for himself, hunt, survive. So like you said, he knows nothing about raising a child, specially not one with a human parent, which is completely unheard of in mer society. I imagine Gi-hun was genuinely heartbroken to leave the baby with In-ho—he just didn’t know he had a choice. No one taught him otherwise.

Because the baby is half-mer, he can breathe underwater, but Gi-hun, being used to the way merchildren are, handles him with a kind of reckless affection that would horrify a human parent. Merbabies develop fast and are tough, so Gi-hun will just casually drop him in the water or even toss him in the air and bop him gently with his tail like a dolphin playing with a ball. The baby’s completely fine (maybe even giggles), because in mer culture, that’s considered normal caregiving—for the two whole days they do keep their kids 😅

Looking ahead, I love the idea of Gi-hun eventually finding a way to gain legs so he can be with his baby and his eventual husband-slash-co-parent-slash-accidental soulmate. And once he learns how to really care for a child, he takes to it like he was made for it. He adores that baby with his whole heart—and mourns, quietly, that he never knew love like that himself. But he’s so grateful to In-ho and Jun-ho for showing him that there’s another way.

Thank you again for letting me ramble—it means the world! I’m definitely going to keep building this story out. I’ve got so many ideas!

Also, just imagine Gi-hun doing this with zero context and In-ho having a minor heart attack.

I need someone to rant to about a potential story idea for In-ho x Gi-hun inspired by fanart on Pinterest, which I have included below, so I hope you do not mind. To begin, In-ho and Jun-ho live on an island and work as police officers but do a lot of fishing together in their spare time. One time while out, they witness another fisherman heartlessly throw a kitten in a sack into the water, and when they go to rescue it and plan on going after the fisherman, a massive green tail emerges from the sack with the kitten in it, and they think it is a big fish trying to eat it, so they net it and drag it in with the sack. Only to find it is what appears to be a merman with bright red hair who takes the kitten and resuscitates it and tries to keep it away from the brothers, thinking they were planning on harming it too.

This merman cannot speak but does understand human language, having watched them from afar for so long, so they communicate and eventually become friends. In-ho names the merman Gi-hun since his actual name is a series of unreplicable screeches. Well, In-ho, Jun-ho, and Gi-hun develop a deep friendship, though In-ho and Jun-ho only get to see GI-hun a couple of months of the year since he moves based on the seasons. Well, eventually Gi-hun and In-ho catch feelings for one another, and one thing leads to another, in a cave specifically, but Gi-hun has to leave for the winter afterward. But In-ho waits patiently for him to come back.

Gi-hun comes back months later with In-ho and Jun-ho waiting for him eagerly; only he has a basket he obviously scavenged from the water, and in it, a newborn baby with human legs and dark hair. Of course, In-ho, who had no idea mermen could carry, nearly faints into the water while Jun-ho loses his mind. “You fucked a merman???” When both finally calm down and turn back to the water, they find Gi-hun gone.

Turns out merpeople are absentee parents, so they mate with other merpeople or humans and then dump their offspring on them, thinking it is like a gift. Well, next time In-ho sees Gi-hun, he patiently explains how humans are expected to raise their children together and not just dump them on one another 😂😂😂 So they learn to co-parent their half human half merperson baby with Uncle Jun-ho.

Sorry for the rant but as soon as I saw the fanart below this whole story came to me. I obviously want to finish other things first but what do you think?

please never apologize for ranting at me!!! i love it 💞🙌

i love merman aus so much!!! 💖 i'm also loving that between the green tail and the red hair, gihun is looking exactly like ariel... plus his love interest is a dark-haired charming man with a four-letter name....

i absolutely love the story!! it has a lot of potential going forward since u can expand on the fact that gihun, due to merpeople being absentee parents, would have no idea how to raise a child. nor would he have any idea on how to raise a child with humans.

since the baby is half-merperson, im assuming it can breathe underwater but imagine inho and junho's shock when gihun grabs their tiny baby and just dunks it into the water 😭

also - totally get if u haven't thought that far end - but would gihun ever, little mermaid style, make a deal with a witch and get legs so that he can walk with inho, junho and their baby?

AND OMG I LOVE THAT GIHUN LOVES CATS IN EVERY UNIVERSE!!! HE SAID CAT PERSON 4 LIFE 😩🙏🤧

Chapter Two Archive of Our Own Link 🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63964906/chapters/164652766?view_adult=true

Squid Game Incorrect Quotes 〇△□

[Gi-hun storms into the room, clearly agitated.]

Gi-hun: Kids. Bed. Now. I want to talk to your father.

In-ho: No! Kids, stay! Please, stay!

Gi-hun: Go!

In-ho: Stay!

Gi-hun: Go!

In-ho: Stay!

Gi-hun: You go!

In-ho: Dae-ho, stay!

Gi-hun: Now!

In-ho: Jun-hee, don’t move!

Gi-hun: You go!

In-ho: Jung-bae, stay!

Gi-hun: Get out of here!

In-ho: Don’t leave me!

Gi-hun: You get out of here!

Chapter One Archive of Our Own Link 🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/63964906/chapters/164072335

Chapter Six (Final Chapter) Archive of Our Own Link 🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62894770/chapters/163991815?view_adult=true

Chapter Five Archive of Our Own Link 🔗: https://archiveofourown.org/works/62894770/chapters/163598866

Geum-ja, barely holding it together after being trapped in the Mingle Room with “Young-il” and Gi-hun:

Squid Game Incorrect Quotes 〇△□

In-ho | The Front Man: [coldly] What makes you think I will end these games, Player 456?

Gi-hun: [without hesitation] I'll sit on your face.

[The Front Man, caught completely off guard, makes a choked noise—somewhere between a gasp and a strangled cough.]

[The Front Man flashes back to watching Gi-hun during the dalgona game. The camera zooms in on Gi-hun, hunched over his candy, tongue out, licking furiously like his life depends on it (it does).]