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[nikatoon]

I've got you under my skin

[reingkings]

Speaking of season one moments. We all agree In-ho sent Gi-hun flowers, right? We agree this was him:

Because at this point, Oh-il-nam is out of it. He’s barely lucid. In-ho is probably the one running surveillance on Gi-hun and snitching on him.

Naturally, Oh Il-nam would say, “I want to see Gi-hun before I pass.”

But this. In-ho where in the instructions did Il-nam tell you to send him flowers? You could have done the normal thing and left it at his door like last time. But check the difference.

Contestants get a soggy piece of paper wedged in their doorframe. Gi-hun gets a hand-delivered card with a pink-ribboned envelope and a bouquet.

Also the pink ribbon resembles the coffins but also the box In-ho kept the card in at his old apartment. So on one hand it’s traumatizing to Gi-hun but can also be seen as a romantic gesture. “We’re the same, you and I.”

In-ho, you are a menace.

[sisyphusunderthesun]

I'm trapped by these two

[eddielove]

Babygurl surely has a taste when it comes to choosing men

[chrlotpony]

guh

if you marry me

would you bury me?

[moskafleurart]

We can't look back for nothin'

Take what you need, say your goodbyes

I gave you everything

And it's a beautiful crime

[inhunbrainrot]

In-ho: I just want to destroy Gi-hun and make his life miserable

In-ho: *sees Gi-hun crying*

In-ho: I will destroy every aspect of known universe and burn whatever remains to ashes in order to be sure I eradicated whatever hurt him

[456x001]

the idea that in ho literally changed the rules of the game in season 2 to try to prove to gi hun that people are selfish no matter what and that giving people the option to split the money and go home won’t change anything is sending me rn like buddy you’re literally So obsessed with this man. you want him on your side so badly and you care about this so much.

[sweetcreatxr]

STAAWWWPPP

frontman

[facks-lord]

[moonchild-cb]

Yes he has no shirt on... (don't ask me why 👀)

[zara2148]

No, but on a rewatch it is SO SIGNIFICANT that In-ho flashes back to Il-nam telling him why he played the games after (presumably) watching Gi-hun's final bet with the old man.

(The editing seems to suggest that In-ho was quick to enter from some shadowy corner after Gi-hun left.)

(And worth noting that in this combined sequence of past and present, BOTH Gi-hun and In-ho are questioning why Il-nam joined the games. Men with shared trauma who are really asking the man behind the trauma "why WOULD you willing suffer through this?")

Anyway, it's almost like it's foreshadowing a growing obsession with a certain man that will give In-ho his own reason to re-enter the games. I know a second season wasn't planned at this point, but it's neat how that just all falls together.

Especially because I got to wonder what's going through In-ho's head here as he's just staring out the window/at himself after closing Il-nam's eyes.

I think he's meant to be looking at the area where the unhoused man was, but the focus on In-ho's reflection also seems to suggest that he can't see beyond himself to the good in others.

Even standing in the same spot, he can't see in the world what Gi-hun did. And In-ho is quick to turn away from it.

[always---wrong]

yes yes yes yes, exactly, yes. Love this hc. Should be canon

My headcanon is that this is the moment in-ho started taking an interest in gi-hun:

Because it was such an unusual thing to do. An unusually kind thing to do. In a moment where you couldn't really blame anyone for pairing up with someone they thought would help them survive (most people would prioritize their own lives in this moment, it's completely natural), gi-hun instead chose to extend his hand to the elderly man he had befriended because he couldn't bear to see him left alone without a partner. Even if it meant gi-hun himself would be at a severe disadvantage for the next game.

I like to think this is the moment that made in-ho pause and realize there is something different about gi-hun.

[reingkings]

based off this scene in Hannibal.

[ass-fuehrerin]

⁀➴

[A man stepping to the front, not as the Frontman, but for this fleeting moment, as a shield]

[aiyd457iwdwy]

sith lee byung hun and lee jung jae as sol