Day in the Lives of Hwang In-ho and Seong Gi-hun

Eugene survived the event in the show and somehow time traveled / was teleported to the modern day.

He meets gi-hun.

Gi-hun thinks Eugene is In-ho messing with his head. So he’s hostile. Meanwhile Eugene just wants to know where he is and why is everything so strange.

In-ho later shows up at Gi-hun’s motel. He just wants to continue messing with Gi-hun (liar, he misses Gi-hun and can’t stay away). He sees Eugene, a man with his face, and his first thought is that Gi-hun replaced him with a knockoff.

Eugene sees In-ho, a man with his face, and thinks “what kind of sorcery is this?”

Gi-hun walks into the room and suddenly there are two In-hoes(??????????) *brain short circuits* “why are there TWO of them??????”

Relationship: Hwang In-ho/Seong Gi-hun 

Summary:

Gi-hun’s life during the game was bullets and gunpowder.

In this universe, Il-nam still presents In-ho with the knife the night after the dinner. In-ho still goes through with it, kills everyone while they're asleep in their beds. Well... almost everyone. He saves Gi-hun for last out of a foolish sense of sentimentality, but he hesitates too long.

Gi-hun wakes. They struggle, fighting until the guards intervene and separate them. (Il-nam pitting his two favorite players against each other.) Gi-hun stares at In-ho with hatred burning in his eyes, but In-ho doesn't try to justify what he's done. He deserves the full extent of Gi-hun's wrath. Part of him welcomes it even.

Then, during Squid Game, Gi-hun proves more resilient than he anticipated. Once he gains the upper hand, In-ho is bracing for him to deliver the killing blow, except it never comes. Gi-hun calls to end the games like he does in canon.

And when Gi-hun offers his hand out to him, something inside In-ho shatters.

Because he's seen the worst in In-ho. He's been betrayed by him. In-ho knows that forgiveness is not on the table, yet Gi-hun still chooses to believe that there is good in him nonetheless. There's that familiar spark in his eyes, that stubbornness that In-ho mentioned reminded him of his wife. Gi-hun isn't giving up on him. And for a moment, he's blinded by this man, this light in the darkness. In-ho knows he should take advantage of the moment, that he should turn the tide and kill him. Victory is so close that he could almost taste it.

But he can't bring himself to do it.

Hello, hello and here's my entry for the @squidbang event! I hope you like this and have fun reading this little twist on The Frog Prince au 🥰

Relationship: Hwang In-ho | Front Man/Seong Gi-hun 

Summary:

Player 456, eliminated, came the game’s automated broadcast — voice as cold and sweet as death, cutting through the dormitory silence in the middle of the night.

Squid Game season 3 was released one year ago today.