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JIYEONG FOR CHARACTER BINGO
i love her.
vanish into you author here (but u already know that cleave LOL)
i’m thinking about how hair is known to be one of the mediums ghosts are able to easily manipulate in ghosts folklore (at least from what i’ve read)
hehe. hehehehehehhehehehehehe
izzy. izzy, what are you planning. i'm scared.
my initial thoughts:
mi-nyeo's hair getting even longer. like to-the-floor long.
ji-yeong's highlights glowing at night/in the dark.
deok-su steals picks up a hairband from one of the other dead players. just because i want to see his hair up again.
sang-woo's bangs getting longer when he's agitated (like whenever he sees in-ho or something) .
ali's hair getting fluffier or curlier when he's upset.
Cont. from this but in a diff style bc there’s no style consistency here ☺️✌️
Zora N. Hurston, 'Their Eyes Were Watching God'
![Wish They Could Find Happiness Instead Of [redacted]](https://64.media.tumblr.com/9e573e00271f3363650c24f377b833e9/cfb47b96dc44e2c4-ea/s500x750/fb7d97fc0c3b415628096986af22d5f8fa86c8de.jpg)
Wish they could find happiness instead of [redacted]
squid game + the onion 1 | 2
where would we be, without all the distance?
SUMMER’S FOR LOVERS
Ji-yeong x Kang Sae-byeok
Sae-byeok and Ji-yeong go on a date to the coast, hang out at an arcade, and come across some familiar faces, all in different kinds of love; romantic, platonic, the families we’re given, and the families we create for ourselves.
Words: 16312
Tags: Alternate Universe (No Games, No Debt, Everybody Lives/Nobody Dies), Fluff, Romance, Flirting, Found Family, Established Relationship, References to Canon
Featuring a lot of background pairings and cameos from other characters!
🧡🤍💖 AO3 LINK 💖🤍🧡
dividers by @anitalenia 💗
and a little more of them !! Redraw Nam Gyu bc many people on tiktok didn't like the first one
trying out colored pencils after ages of either using watercolor or (mostly) no color at all, maybe color IS fun after all.
"Tell me God almighty
If you don't like my presence
Why would you invite me?"
“Love Is Watching Someone Die”
Jibyeok x Death Cab For Cutie, ‘What Sarah Said’
An angsty Jibyeok songfic!
AO3 LINK
TAGS: Canon Compliant, Canon-Typical Violence, Canonical Character Death, Angst, Hurt/Comfort, Songfic, Major Character Injury, Afterlife, S01E06 ‘Gganbu’, S01E08 ‘Front Man’
I would love comments and/or kudos if you feel like leaving them on AO3, here is fine too, it all makes my heart happy 💗
obsessed with the fact that ji-yeong is 5’3” and sae-byeok is 5’9”
ji-yeong canonically has to hop up on tiptoes to kiss her gf
when she steals sae-byeok’s shirts and hoodies (which she does all the time) they’re really big on her and she always has sweater paws as a result. in the mornings she throws on one of sae-byeok’s oversized tees and wanders around in it while making breakfast etc before getting dressed
ji-yeong still insists on being the big spoon half the time and sae-byeok won’t admit she loves it because she’s too cool to be the little spoon
when they’re on a crowded bus or metro etc, sae-byeok rests her chin on ji-yeong’s head and puts her arms round her from behind while ji-yeong holds onto something to keep them steady
on very rare occasions sae-byeok will let ji-yeong have a piggyback ride. as a treat
Pets they’d have imo😌
I know I keep talking about different fics so here's a list of my ongoing squid game WIPs!
Very fluffy no games/no debt/everyone is alive AU one-shot Jibyeok fic with a lot of pairings featured
Canon-based Ji-yeong one-shot focusing on her POV before and after joining Gi-hun's team, particularly outside the games after the players initially vote to leave, up to and including the events of S1E6
Non-canon serial fic set during a future iteration of the games, featuring a core group of two canon characters (you'll have to wait and see who they are) and two OCs who I am very excited to introduce!! I’m considering simultaneously running a character blog owned by one of the OCs, documenting the events of the story from her own POV
The first has the most progress, and one of the first two will be the first one published as the third is going to take a while and I intend to write most if not all of it before starting to publish. The current plan for that is to release a chapter every week, and have it out before S3 drops!
She was only in 3 episodes but Ji-yeong really made such an impact for me. She is such an interesting and tragic character. Like we meet her and she is so casual and unbothered by the games where every round she could literally die. And she makes fun of the religios man and tells him that he can pray as much as he wants but he still did what he did and then we learn about her father and then it makes sense. And she asks about Sae-byeok and her family and she suggests telling each other their story because one of them is gonna die anyways but she keeps forgetting about that fact. And then she tells her story and we find out she got abused and was in prison for killing her father but can we really blame her? And she just got out of prison and I feel like she needed this. Telling somebody her story, what happened to her. She suggests they tell each other the things they could never tell anybody else and asks specific questions on purpose, like if Sae-byeok has ever seen a dead body because she knows in return she is going to be asked that same question and she listens and then she tells her own story. And then she loses on purpose for Sae-byeok. And at first she's like "come on let me have my cool moment here" but it's not cool because she's about to die and then in the end she finally shows her emotions and gets sad and says she has nothing to live for, no goals for what she's gonna do if she wins. Sae-byeok was probably the first person she got closer to in a long time and so she dies so that Sae-byeok can go on and I just think for such a small role that was only present in one third of one season making such a big impact is incredible writing and incredible acting too
I just had a thought; how did ji-yeong survive the night time brawl/“special game”? she wasn’t in gi-hun’s team at that point so she must have either hid or fought solo, right?
personally I think she wouldn’t have gone out of her way to kill people but if she was threatened she would absolutely have killed a man
I’m thinking shard of glass rather than bludgeoning someone with a metal bar. girlie’s already proficient with sharp objects
alternate take because suffering is fun: curled up under a bed in the foetal position with her hands over her ears waiting for it to be over
Not on anon XD but still wanted to send an ask. How do you think it would play out if Saebyeok and Jiyeong were the ones who were the final players? Would they vote to end the game or would Jiyeong want Saebyeok to win?
hi!! thank you for the ask, this an interesting one!
I genuinely see them leaving together; I think Ji-yeong might go in with the intention of giving up her life, but I think Sae-byeok would plead with her not to.
in the fourth game, Ji-yeong was willing to die for Sae-byeok.
after another game, another brush with death, and two more nights together, with fewer people to come between them and more opportunities to talk? I think the heart-to-heart they had in the marble game would have happened organically even if they didn’t play that game together, in another way at another time. a lonely night watch together. a moment of vulnerability somewhere.
what I mean is, I cannot see Ji-yeong willingly leaving Sae-byeok having become closer than they already were. Sae-byeok is everything Ji-yeong needs — family, love, shelter, someone who cares and will fight for her. someone who can love her.
and Sae-byeok would fight for her. she begged Ji-yeong not to die for her, and she wouldn’t allow her to here. Ji-yeong could step out of the squid and lose the game, but I think Sae-byeok would stand in her way and tell her that she’ll leave with her. that she’ll fight for her. that they’ll make it work. Ji-yeong doesn’t have nothing any more. they have each other.
finally: when Ji-yeong played the marble game with Sae-byeok, she repeatedly talked about what they would do together once they left. she was so enamoured with the idea of spending life on the outside with Sae-byeok that she literally forgot that one of them had to die. that is not the thought process of someone who has already decided to give up their life.
when the gun was pointed at Ji-yeong, she was holding back tears. she was scared. she didn’t want to die, she chose to because she valued Sae-byeok’s life above her own. because the alternative was continuing a life that she saw no meaning in, knowing that Sae-byeok’s life was ended for her. it wasn’t worth it.
given the choice between death, a life without Sae-byeok — financially assured, but at what cost? — or to leave together, with a home to go to? Ji-yeong isn’t a pessimist. the moment Sae-byeok shared her dreams with her — Jeju island, a home, a family — they became Ji-yeong’s dreams as well. she wanted them for Sae-byeok, and she wanted to be there with her.
they’re leaving together, Sae-byeok immediately takes Ji-yeong into her apartment — or wherever she’s staying. she’ll make it work, for her — and they start over.
‘I stan U’ by IU is a jibyeok anthem just saying
Even the habit of smiling slightly twisted
Or each word you often choose
Makes everyone look at you
Don't hide yourself, don't be silly
Sometimes you feel insecure but
Even that shyness, I just like it
this is 100% a ji-yeong @ sae-byeok song
The lesbian flag but it’s color-picked from ji-yeong’s last scene
