Sang-woo During Tug Of War

Bro is majestic

gihun and hyunju are so so similar it makes my heart hurt in the best way possible.

they are both protective, fierce, brave, and compassionate, kind, caring, and also insecure, impulsive, brash.

they are natural born leaders and still have enough grace to allow those who know best to take the reigns when it is necessary.

they both ended up forming a parent-child relationship with an older person they met at the games (ilnam and geumja).

and the death of their younger female companion (saebyeok and youngmi) caused them to become more hardened and drove them into seeking revenge.

and they both have terrible posture lmao

i only need 5 minutes no hair tie is needed

Happy International Women’s Day!

Chat, what did we think was going on in Gihun’s head in s2e1 when he got back to his hotel and found the recruiter/the salesman waiting for him?

As soon as he comes in and sees him looking at the calendar, his expression is tense and scared. A second later it relaxes and he goes about his business, toweling himself off from the rain like he isn’t at all concerned about the gun in the other’s mind.

Did he expect the Frontman to have stepped out of his nightmares? Does he see the recruiter/the salesman drinking his lil yogurt with a straw and decide he isn’t a threat?

I think something else is happening; something I think about a lot with Gihun. I think he thinks the recruiter/the salesman cannot kill him.

I think one of the manifestations of his trauma, one of the adaptive delusions he’s embraced to keep himself afloat through all the grief and guilt and misery, is that the games can’t kill him. Not until he’s done with them.

I think he thinks he’s destined to end the games and ignores any fear or common sense of his own mortality.

Because if he cannot end the games, it means the hundreds of deaths, including those of Saebyeok and Sangwoo, are meaningless.

I think he physically cannot accept that nor his own powerlessness, and that he’s been driven to a point where fear of death cannot reach him past his dedication to his mission.

I think we see this delusion really calcify in the scene where he plays roulette with the recruiter/the salesman, and I love that that’s how the season presents Gihun’s current mindset.

Excuse me

You look like you love me

You look like you want me to want you to come on home

ao3, oneshot, 1.5 words

the sangihun cowboy au that no one asked for

Lee jung jae as Lee han in the young man 1994.

@rhubarbspring

I enjoyed drawing this season 1 team

(also I find cute the way Gihun protect Sae Byeok in this scene)