#strangersfromhell

Tw: stalking, gaslighting, attachement issues

I've been thinking about Lee Myung-gi (player 333) being the same person as Yoon Jong Woo...well, almost the same. In this version the Lee Myung-gi takes the main part. Before creating his yt channel and making a hit on crypto he used to be a poor college student or smth and rented a gosiwon in that hostel/house which was shown in Strangers from hell. So he met Seo Moon Jo, who was a young dentist.

So, they knew each other really close and got attached to each other, especially Moon Jo. Probably Moon Jo wasn't identically same like in the original series but he had certain attachement issues. He was jealous of Myung-gi and refused to share him with others, Myung-gi could even have a gf and some friends but Moon Jo might scare all of them off. Yet he wasn't abusive/cruel to Myung-gi, but probably he tried to gaslight him in some way. He tried to make his new friend understand him and convince him that he was his only true and closest friend. Moon Jo found something same about them both so it became his intrusive idea and Myung-gi became his hyperfixation. He stalked him, again he got rid of his friends, he learnt all he could about him.

There was also something about Moon Jo, he was lonely as hell, and for Myung-gi he was as loyal as a dog. He cared bout him a lot. He would die for him.

Myung-gi also cared for his friend, anyway he felt quite uneasy and scared around him more and more. He felt the psyhosis himslef and tried his best to break his connection with Moon Jo and leave the apartment. Moon Jo tried to keep him but after some fights had no other option but let go. He fell into a deep black void of depression and sadness and a couple of years passed before he could get over it. For a bit. He kept stalking Myung-gi secretly, in social media and in real life, he subscribed to his yt channel and watched the videos, he knew all his gilfriends, in the end he even approached Kim Jun-hee (player 222) and talked to her (of course without his true identity reveal). He even learnt she was pregnant.

One more thing in this headcanon. Moon Jo someday dropped his work in a clinic and started working as a bartender in Pentagon club and also rented a small studio apartement. So he knew Namgyu (and Thanos too).

In the end he decided to involve into Myung-gi's scum scheme and obviously went broke. Until some day a sranger dressed in a suit finds him and invites him to play a game.

During new games on the secret island Myung-gi is stopped in a dormitory room by Thanos and Namgyu, who are trying to confront him, but someone touches Thanos' shoulder asking him to move. Myung-gi, to his shock, sees a face he hasn't seen for several years. The baige on his jacket reads "111".

Kim Jun-hee, Thanos and Namgyu are also surprised as hell. Especially Kim Jun-hee, she didn't even realise her ex knew that man that just helped her carry her bags one random day.

i have a strangers from hell fic coming out soon on ao3! (link to my account below)

here’s a little snippet from the first chapter:

Moonjo stalked to the bed, his long legs elegant. He stood over Jongwoo, looking down. “Honey, I’m as real as you want me to be.”

Jongwoo felt oddly content at the older man’s words, the term of endearment bleeding through his brain like ink on paper. He studied Moonjo’s face in the dark, his eyes flickering down to his neck. Jongwoo smiled softly at the thin pink mark, not fully healed - his own doing - displayed on Moonjo’s neck. A permanent mark of ownership, possession. Moonjo was his. 

Jongwoo reached up, shaking fingers lightly traced the mark, sick satisfaction deep in his chest. A feeling that he didn’t have the time or energy to acknowledge at the moment. “Let’s get out of here, huh?” He whispered.

“Okay, darling.” Moonjo’s throat hummed under Jongwoo’s fingers. 

link to my ao3 account: https://archiveofourown.org/users/moonjongwoo