#Squid Game legends

[chaosordoffl]

THAT'S!!!! HIS BABY!!!

[ryoun]

unfortunately for me, i don’t rate kdramas. if i’m obsessed, i’m obsessed. if i loved it, i loved it.

[pawzmo]

roblox squid game experience

[henry-or-something]

[delightfuldevin]

THEY LITERALLY SAY THIS AND SQUID INK ISN’T A LEGENDARY???? BLASPHEMY.

[splatoonpolls]

Advanced joke right here

[queenmagnusao3]

Legend of Squid Game

So I first wrote this back when Squid Game was really popular and everyone was doing "What If"s for fandoms with the marble game. I wrote almost the whole thing, made myself REALLY sad and never brought myself to finish it. I didn't realize how close to complete it was so I've decided to go ahead and publish it!

Read Full Fic HERE

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The players stopped their chatter as the hauntingly cheery voice came to life with a new announcement.

��For this game, you will be playing in teams of two. Please look around and find someone you wish to play with.”

Team Avatar huddled closer together with Korra taking immediate charge.

“I’ll team up with Asami since she’s a non-bender and that will likely put her at a disadvantage.”

Asami made an indignant sound, crossing her arms as she gave Korra an annoyed look.

“I don’t need to be a bender to beat any of you at whatever game they make us play.”

Korra’s cheeks reddened as she realized the error in her words.

“I didn’t mean it like that. I promise, I was just thinking, realistically, it would be safer for you to be with someone….”

She trailed off at the look on Asami’s face.

“I’m not making this any better, am I?”

Bolin was shaking his head at her over Asami’s shoulder and Korra groaned.

“Okay, forget the whole bender thing. You’re my girlfriend and I want you to be my teammate. Is that better?”

Asami’s face had softened into a look of mischief.

“I don’t know if I want to be your partner now. I think it might be more fun to show you just how well this non-bender can play.”

“Asami no, I’m sorry. Please-“

“Avatar! We both know you and I are the strongest players in this game and I want to win. Let’s team up.”

Korra, Asami, Mako, and Bolin all looked over, surprised to see Kuvira making her way toward them with a look of determination on her face. Behind her Bataar was looking just as confused as Team Avatar before letting out a loud sigh of frustration.

“What do you say, Avatar? I know we’ve had our differences in the past but together we could be an unstoppable team.”

Korra stared at Kuvira, clearly still processing what was happening. Mako decided he would try and break the tension by circling back to the conversation they had been having before being interrupted.

“I can be Asami’s partner. I’m not the Avatar but I can help protect-“

“What is wrong with all of you?!”

Mako’s eyes got wide as Asami threw her arms up in frustration. Kuvira seemed to see Asami and the others for the first time, one of her eyebrows quirking upward in amusement.

“I don’t need protection from ANY of you. I’m just as capable as anyone here. In fact, I’d argue I’m more capable since I don’t have to rely on bending to win.”

Kuvira smirked and Mako looked down, his cheeks reddening.

“I only meant-“

“Sorry to interrupt, but I couldn’t help but overhear.”

Mako trailed off as the group was interrupted by another newcomer. Kya had sauntered over, slyly positioning herself between Bolin and Asami an arm wrapping across the younger girl’s shoulders.

“How about you and I team up, Sato? I could use the young blood on my side and it sounds like you’re better off without any of these idiots.”

Asami paused for a moment before smiling and slinking her arm around Kya’s waist with a smug look at Korra.

“I’d be honored to be on your team. Good luck to the rest of you.”

Korra gawked as the pair left. Kuvira took the opportunity to grasp the stunned Avatar on the shoulder. She looked Mako and Bolin up and down, smirking.

“Looks like I’m your best bet, here, Avatar.”

Korra recovered, sighing.

“Fine. Mako, you and Bolin can be a team and I guess I’ll join up with Kuvira.”

“I promise we’ll go easy on you boys if we end up facing off.”

Kuvira barked a laugh as her and Korra walked to where the next game was to take place. 

“Just you and me, bro. Return of the Fire Ferrets!”

Mako smiled, rubbing the back of his neck. He and Bolin were about to make their way to the game entrance when he noticed Opal standing alone. It appeared that Su had taken pity on Bataar, leaving the youngest Beifong without a partner.

“Let’s go, Mako! What are you looking at?”

“Looks like Opal doesn’t have a partner yet.”

Bolin’s head whipped around and Mako sighed, knowing what was going to happen next.

“You should go ask her.”

He turned back to his brother, his signature puppy dog eyes wide.

“Are you sure? Who will you team up with?”

Mako rolled his eyes.

“Don’t worry about me. Just go ahead.”

Bolin smiled, giving Mako a quick hug.

“Thanks bro!”

Mako watched him run off, Opal blushing as she accepted his partnership. He looked beyond where they stood and noticed that the chief had also been approaching Opal, stopping when she and Bolin found each other. She muttered something under her breath that Mako didn’t quite hear and he sighed. Being teamed up with his boss was not the ideal situation but he supposed he could do worse and the two of them might actually make a good team.

He had only taken a single step towards the chief when someone else got there first.

“Lin?”

Mako watched as she turned around to face Tenzin, a small smile on her face. He said something else to her and she rolled her eyes and nodded, the pair walking away to the game entrance.

Now he was starting to panic. What would happen if he couldn’t find a partner? Who was even left? Who was he forgetting?

“Looks like we’ve both been betrayed by our brothers.”

Bumi clapped his hands on Mako’s shoulders. Mako flinched but then quickly relaxed. He had forgotten about Bumi.

“You don’t mind having an old man on your team, do you?

Mako smiled as he turned around.

“Let’s do this.”

“All players, please follow the staff to your designated positions for the game.”

“Please take one bag each from the staff member before you.”

“In this game, using your set of ten marbles, you will play the game of your choice with your partner. The player who manages to take all ten marbles from their partner wins.”

[waywardsalt]

thinking abt bellum v hard. (fyi there are 1658 words under this cut)

there's not a lot of concrete stuff to think abt but there ideas. he's kind of already won by the time link shows up on the scene. he's not really actively antagonizing the world of the ocean king, he mostly just has the ghost ship to go around collecting prey for him while he has the yook and anouki turned against each other and seems to have infested the different temples and whatever with monsters to delay any opposition. is he the one who destroyed the cobble kingdom? they're meant to be supporters of the ocean king so i think we can guess that bellum is the one who tried to eradicate them.

maybe he was the one who... mind controlled? or otherwise meddled with the yook to keep them from checking out the ice temple and keeping the anouki occupied with dealing with them. (tbh theres some untapped potential in the relationship between the yook and anouki) he doesn't really do anything to the gorons but maybe he doesn't see them as a worthwhile threat since they see the crimsonine as more of an artifact and not something they should really do anything with, and link has to pass a test to even be allowed to go to the temple. the cobble kingdom is already destroyed, and it can be assumed that he mightve mimicked their engineering based on eox being the hostile boss of the last temple and turning into sand, suggesting a relationship to bellum, and maybe that he's trying to hide the fact that he's the one fucking with everyone. i'm not even sure if characters (besides the main group) even know that bellum exists until link's quest is more known.

taking a note from the manga, where bellum says something along the lines of feelings of love and friendship creating more worthwhile life force for him, so taking that into account with stuff in the game suggests that he maybe doesnt make his presence well-known to avoid something like a mass panic or a persistent fear in people, which could downplay positive emotions that makes their life forces more worth taking to him along with other worthwhile forces maybe being ones connected to divine power (like his taking of tetra and seeming desperation to keep her specifically, since she's most likely a descendant of hylia's mortal form), so he likely is very hands-off with how he's affected the world in order to preserve the value of his prey, somehow. idk why he turns people into statues maybe its a preservation method. maybe hes saving tetra for some reason or maybe trying to bait link in as well. maybe he wants to grab link, too, but failed to catch him the first time and resorted to allowing him to go down the path of dismantling bellum's work all so that bellum can try and capture him himself.

the spirits he does manage to capture and left alive and instead just sealed away within their temples, which i believe is because spirits and gods and whatever in loz can't really die unless they explicitly permanently become mortal (hylia) and can only really be sealed away temporarily in some form, mostly due to a lot of them being a sort of representation of some part of the world (i like to imagine that demise is the god or whatever who created monsters, he's the father of monsters and opposes hylia due to the way her favored creatures [hylians ig] attack and kill monsters and he wants the world to be habitable and safe only for his creations)

it's probably safe to say that the ghost ship (like. the whole thing) was created by bellum, and in some form is perhaps some kind of living being, hence why bellum is capable of effectively possessing it the way he does, since it's an extension of himself like the boss monsters, it just maybe takes parts from some existing ships, or maybe it's not alive and bellum is capable of creating large structures like that he is compatible with.

bellum himself turns to sand when he is defeated, as well as most of the other boss monsters, but the cubus sisters (who certainly have a relationship with bellum due to having the same eyes and being connected to the ghost ship) do not turn into sand, which makes me think that bellum didn't actually create them; maybe they're corpses or something being remotely puppeted by bellum.

bellum is clearly made up of the sand of hours, a crystallization of life force, and oshus is said to have used those sands to create the phantom hourglass, and the sands are also mentioned to have been created from the force gems connected back to oshus himself, so bellum was probably created from those force gems and therefore those sands of hours at some point somehow (i enjoy the idea that oshus was the one who created bellum; with oshus being our main source of info on bellum, i think it'd be interesting if he was the one who originally made bellum but obscures this fact by just talking about how he 'appeared' and whatnot).

bellum seems to have a weird sort of... inverted? perverted? ability to create life (perhaps a sort of parallel to the one we can assume the ocean king has if we assume that he created the three spirits as well as bellum maybe) but only in a hivemind or derivative sort of way, only able to create things that follow simple commands and when he possesses something else he takes it over. (i like to take him in a more biological or physiological way rather than magical, when he is removed so is the control, but there might be little remnants, but his influence is gone. i take bellumbeck aftereffects to be terrible sickness rather than others going with the idea of taking on some bellum-like traits or residual controls. the things bellum creates can only follow simple rules unless he is directly in control therefore he can use it as he wishes, but if he takes control of something he did not create, it's a bit more of a battle, he has to contend with that other being's subconscious or whatnot and has no effect unless he is physically connected. his control is more limited and ends up incorporating some of the hosts' subconscious desires with some guiding from bellum himself to achieve a favorable outcome.)

with the world of the ocean king being a sort of parallel/separate world to link n tetra's great sea, it's interesting that the ghost ship can be physically present outside the world in which it was created. definitely there can be contact between different worlds in loz (like hyrule and the dark world/lorule in alttp/albw and a little bit with termina if you take that as a literal place and a little bit with koholint and then the twili realm and whatever i'm missing) but it's interesting to see bellum as a villain capable of (in some way) contact and interact within other worlds and drag inhabitants of those other worlds into his own (oshus can send people out of his world, so i assume he can also bring them in, maybe that's how link gets in despite falling off of the ghost ship, unless somehow the ghost ship is still within the world of the ocean king but is also present in the great sea but the area around it is a fragment of whatever part of the world of the ocean king its in superimposed over the great sea... idk) so it's interesting that bellum could bc considered a villain able to tamper with or at least interact with world boundaries to let things in and out, maybe it's something that he is only capable of with whatever power he's attained by the start of the game.

whatever relationship he may have to oshus and the other spirits is not at all a part of the game, but at the same time we don't learn a whole lot about them anyways. there's also stuff with the chief of the golden frogs as another ally of oshus, but i imagine bellum didn't bother with him because he has no relation to the spirits' locations and the pure metals, and zuaz was left alone perhaps because his location is secret, while astrid and kayo were maybe found due to living on a more populated island (more prey for bellum to go after, more people to know about astrid and kayo). a lot of the monsters in the dungeons were probably already there, while the bosses were specifically made to protect what was hidden there, or maybe the bosses came first and their presences attracted other monsters.

i think bellum created the two monsters you fight overseas on the spot; they existed specifically to try and kill link because at those two times (link going to get the final spirit and link going to get the first pure metal) bellum suddenly panics and decides to try and eliminate link at the cost of the loss of a possible worthwhile piece of prey. bellum was probably also the one to begin the rumor of the ghost ship; i imagine he can take a sort of human form the same way oshus can, and spent a bit of time after defeating oshus and creating the ghost ship integrating him within some pirate crew and using them to grow and spread the rumor of the ghost ship, eventaully leading them towards it and taking them has his first victims (and along the way taking the time to foster good relationships with them in the hopes that their positive emotions and feelings would make them more worthwhile prey, back to the manga snippet idea of feelings of friendship and love [and probably positive emotions in general] being another form of better life force).

bellum's cool

[zeekar]

Look at him... My little guy...

[shinobi98]

Looking for more blogs to follow part 2

If you post or reblog about the following like this please:

The Promised neverland

Tokyo Ghoul

Tokyo Revengers

Game of Thrones

ATLA/LOK

The Magnus Achives

Genshin Impact

Honkai impact 3rd

Voltron

The Untamed

Word of honor

Ancient detective

Squid Game

[order66victim]

Taking down a new kind of organization

[burst-of-iridescent]

ana's meta masterlist

Pro-Zutara:

the official zutara dissertation: part 1 | part 2

zuko, aang and taking lightning for katara

zutara and romantic coding

"you rise with the moon, i rise with the sun" is a zutara line

zutara and thematic significance

zutara vs jetara

zutara parallels in the awakening

zutara's narrative culmination

zutara in the crossroads of destiny:

azula vs katara

love as resistance in the catacombs

zutara in the southern raiders:

the true source of katara's anger at zuko

katara bloodbending before zuko

the narrative relevance of zutara

zutara and bloodbending

zutara's narrative symmetry

why zuko had to betray katara in ba sing se

Anti Anti-Zutara:

the official zutara dissertation (p.3)

"zutara would face too much opposition from their countries"

"zuko and katara are a colonizer/colonized ship"

"zuko and katara would fight all the time”

"platonic zutara is better than romantic zutara"

"fire lady katara is racist"

“zuko would’ve taken lightning for anyone”

“katara is too traumatized by the fire nation”

“shipping zutara is amatonormative”

“zuko didn’t actually care about katara”

ATLA Ship Criticism:

the official zutara dissertation: part 4 | part 5 | part 6

why mai.ko was never intended to be canon

mailee is a better ship than mai.ko

how kat.aang could've been fixed

kat.aang's lack of trust in the southern raiders

emotional labour in kat.aang

kat.aang’s narrative imbalance

comparing katara and aang's parenting

the fortuneteller does not foreshadow kat.aang

gendered expectations in kat.aang

ATLA/LOK:

azula/katara parallels

katara's choice in the crossroads of destiny

was zuko's betrayal in-character?

zuko's comments in the southern raiders

zuko's comments in the southern raiders (pt. 2)

zuko is not a “bad boy”

zuko’s treatment of aang in sozin’s comet

sokka didn't feel inferior to katara

did mai fear azula?

comparing mai and toph

azula vs zuko: the tragedy of narrative foils

should aang have killed ozai?

sexism in the water tribes

thoughts on the atla comics

writing a final battle: kung fu panda vs atla

gratuitous violence in the legend of korra

The Hunger Games:

zutara and everlark parallels

zutara and everlark parallels (pt. 2)

gale's arc in the hunger games trilogy

the myth of humanity's inherent evil

the ending of lucy gray

Squid Game:

individualism under capitalism

the ethics of billionaires

[delightfuldevin]

Day eleventy billion of waiting for Squid Ink to be promoted to legendary status

[dr-spectre]

After finishing Pokémon Scarlet and listening to some of the OST from Pokémon games (the champion themes), it has begun to activate the dormant and abandoned neural pathways that used to house a Pokémon obsession since i was a kid. Pokemon Scarlet and Violet broke me when it came out and i refused to play it. It destroyed all of the momentum that Legends Arceus had for me and my love for Pokémon died 2 years ago.

But... Actually playing the fucking game... Hearing the tunes that emotionally impacted kid me are reawaking those neurons and I'm saying to myself, "wait... I LIKE POKEMON!!! I LIKE THIS SERIES!!!!!!!!!"

I'M STARTING TO REMEMBER POKEMON NAMES AGAIN!! IT'S COMING BACK TO ME....

I.... i get it...

It's like i got hit with low tide ink and I'm hearing some music and going "wait.... I REMEMBER! YEAH!" Minus the whole... you know... being a mentally troubled squid woman that gets misinterpreted and mishandled by millions including her creators due to poor writing and dumb tropes..... um... anyways!!!!!!!! THIS ISN'T ABOUT SPLATOON!

I think I'm gonna get the DLC too and i heard wave 2 takes place near Unova which makes me a happy little boy. (Black 2 and White 2 are my favourite Pokémon games. They mean a lot to me.)

[bumblecrisp]

Girlfriends (pt 1)

ahri (league of legends): foxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirlfoxgirl she can steal my essence any day if you know what i mean ahaa (bites lip). for real though i love a morally grey character, i love a character who’s in conflict with their own identity. the way she’s grown from a copy-paste seductress archetype into a genuinely compelling story about addiction and self discovery is really nice. she is a girlfriend and not a fiancée because shes definitely gonna have to kill me eventually. alas

neeko (league of legends): BABYGIRL BABYGIRL BABYGIRL. i love her so much. i am taking her on picnics and we are sailing paper boats down creeks together and we are eating freshly baked bread. she’s SO girlfriend. she’s a girlfriend and not a fiancée because yeah she’s hundreds of years old whatever but there’s no way she’s ready for any kind of serious commitment she’s so baby.

shirayuki (akagami no shirayuki-hime): shes way too good for me tbh. this is my comfort show, the second anime i ever watched, and shes like that too, like a comfort character. nothing crazy. like a long term girlfriend who you can just be comfortable with. like she would hold my hand and talk to the librarian for me bc i’m scared. we’d go for coffee and just enjoy each others company. not a fiancée because what’s the rush? she’s just lovely. enough said

kang sae byeok aka 069 (squid game): me when women. me when women can and will kill me. me when. m. girl you are so attractive can you like strangle me or something just to relieve the tension. COUGH ahem. i dunno. i’d kill for her. i’d die for her. but it’s nothing serious haha like it’s really not haha hey girl do you want me to jump off a bridge for you haha because i will. haha. not a fiancée bc she is NOT old enough to get engaged bro she can’t be more than mid twenties and also she needs hella therapy

prince zen wistalia (akagami no shirayuki-hime): he always looks like the white bread of anime guys in every picture but i swear he’s lovely you gotta believe me. anyway i am breaking him out of the castle and we are going on adventures. btw. he’s just such a cutie and he’s kind of bunny coded to me and idk i like himmmmmm i like him. he’s just nice. i feel like we’d probably break up amicably in a few years because our lives are moving in different directions but we’d both look back fondly on the time we had. you know? it’s casual. hence the tier.

2024 Wife List Breakdown

in no particular order. also i forgot kars but pretend he’s in the mistress tier.