May I ask for some personal headcanons for Seong Gi-hun. I just love him and I want to see what you think of him.
Oof I’m sorry it’s taken me this long to get to this ask! Here are the best headcanons I have:
Gi-hun is way, way smarter than he looks.
He knows how to fight properly without severely hurting himself.
He was the heartthrob of Ssangmun-dong.
Emotionally, Gi-hun is extremely intelligent. Somehow, he always knows how to interact with other people and make them like him.
When people underestimate him, they’re making a grave mistake.
Gi-hun can fairly beat you up, but he’s way too nice to.
He was actually an okay student, but he still asked Sang-woo for help on homework because he always enjoyed his friend’s company.
Other than Sang-woo, Gi-hun had a friend in his grade named Park Chan-yeol.
As a kid, he loved listening to Western music. He was particularly a huge fan of Michael Jackson. After he saw the first performance of Michael Jackson’s iconic moonwalk, he practiced and practiced it until he could do it with ease. The next time Sang-woo came over to his house, he performed the dance move for him while wearing socks so he could slide across the floor. Sang-woo, being completely unaware of American pop culture, was unimpressed and thought Gi-hun was only making a fool of himself (though Chan-yeol thought it was really cool and envied Gi-hun’s mastery of the moonwalk).
On the same token, Gi-hun was a big fan of American movies. His favorites include Back to the Future and its sequels, The Karate Kid, the Indiana Jones movies, and Ghostbusters.
(This one is taken from @doumekiss’s fanfic, Living with the Consequences.) When he was married to Eun-ji, Gi-hun helped her apply her makeup.
Occasionally, in his teen and young adult years, Gi-hun would put on some eyeshadow and eyeliner and look really damn fine in it (because of course he would; he’s Seong Gi-hun!). He’d also love wearing leather jackets.
Gi-hun made up for his academic setbacks with his athleticism. Throughout high school, he was on the football team, the track team, the hockey team, the handball team, and the basketball team. His strongest sports were basketball because of how tall he was and football because of his speed and agility. This is a big reason why he was the heartthrob of Ssangmun-dong and why he could work in teams so well.
If Gi-hun was more committed, he would’ve gotten a sports scholarship to university. But because he didn’t think he’d be a professional athlete, he ended up working as a factory worker instead.
After Ga-yeong was born, Gi-hun convinced himself that even though he was out of a job, things would only go uphill from there since Ga-yeong was clearly a sacred gift sent to him from the heavens.
And that’s all I have for now! I hope you enjoyed reading them, Ket! <3
