#i dont rlly like Possessive inho. that one i do actually disagree with. it tends to mischaracterise everyone involved]

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I loved your In-ho headcanons, I agree with most of them <3

What are your inhun thoughts? I'll like to see your insight about it

HIIIII. smiles at you. sorry this got crazy long LOLLLL

i suppose im kinda Different and Special about it bc of how i view inhos sexuality etc lol... i mentioned it briefly but to elaborate i dont really think he experiences attraction in the usual sense, probably if you removed them both from the context of the games he wouldnt have any particular interest in gihun. so its more of a combination of the mixed feelings of anger and hope that gihun inspires within him that creates the fixation.

i dont really think hes really obsessive in the way the fandom tends to characterise him as, in many ways i actually think that gihun is the slightly more obsessive of the two lol (considering inho tried to keep him away for a long time). i do think he singles gihun out tho, if all the other players are horses on a track then gihun is the one Real Person among them. and part of this is due to seeing himself within gihun, he represents to inho who he used to be before he submitted himself into the frontman role. i think theres a mixed sense of wanting to make gihun Understand and almost validate his beliefs, vs wanting gihun to prove him wrong and break him out of the life hes been living for the past decade.

i imagine that this fixation gets so strong over time that it kinda confuses him into mistaking the feelings for some weird sense of attraction. hes spent a LONG time repressing his emotions and not really seeing those around him as real that having gihun become such a prominent figure in his mind overwhelms him in a way that he cant really understand. staying as the frontman gives him a layer of separation but once he meets gihun in person properly that breaks down and kinda interferes with his plans a bit lolol. i dont think its enough to make him completely abandon his way of thinking but it does put a massive crack in it to be sureeee

UM. from gihuns pov its kinda hard to say much since he doesnt actually know inho at all. he barely knows anything about the frontman and in fact hates him, and is haunted by him too as evidenced by his nightmare. youngil on the other hand... it does seem like gihun really does feel a certain closeness to him, he had great trust in him despite their clashes and i think he will be torn up over his death.

HOWEVER i think that he actually just isnt in the right headspace to be thinking in terms of romance or anything at that point in the games, in part due to his ptsd and in part due to his focus on stopping the games. i imagine that if they met at a different time that gihun would probably fall for youngil (and maybe inho himself if it was pre-2015), but as it stands he unable to really think of anyone like that currently. and i definitely do not think that this will change once he sees inho for who he truly is, as much as inho might think he wants that :[

in general i think that the feelings between them are not so much love but instead a desperation to have someone to lean on after spending so long alone. and this can still have a sick intensity to it that i find veryyyy very appealing. theres a lot of tragedy in it in the sense that even if inhos feelings were real, gihun cld never reciprocate them... bc the person he loved was never real to begin with