#i mean i won't be weird about it but i enjoy untangling narratives without any cheat codes you know

[ssaalexblake]

Okay fine, so my mid season take on the world's most troubling older brother is that he really Is kind of soft, he is perfectly capable of shooting somebody between the eyes but shot his brother in the shoulder after asking him to join him. This guy, if nothing else, cares about failcop baby brother.

This is, of course, in direct contrast to the Salesman who i'm starting to think is being used as a foil for the brothers because of his comment about killing his own father in cold blood in the game and realising he was cut out for this kind of life. In-Ho did, in fact, have a bit of a mental breakdown after shooting his brother in the shoulder (who'd seen his face. If anybody sees your face you get killed. Thems the rules.) proving that he is not the same type of guy as the salesman.

Of course, though, while he may or may not know that his brother is on Gi-Hun's team here, he's obviously the most directly comparable to another winner. And when he won, he ended up in an upper management position in the system that did this to him. Gi-Hun, in contrast, declared war on the whole institution and he's Not going to give that up. He's found a backbone and while it may very well break, it's not going to bend.

And so, In-Ho, whose response was to perpetuate the violence here But who is clearly not as coldhearted as all the other people involved in this venture, Probably has suuuuuuuch an inferiority complex over Gi-Hun that he probably loathes him. Wants to ruin him. Is willing to play again seemingly just to mess with him (him saying that his deciding vote was cast as Carry on playing Because of Gi-Hun is the absolute worst thing to have said to him in that moment and was meant to cause as much psychic damage as humanly possible).

So far the only employee who's shown any kind of proper humanity Is this guy, and he's the guy trying to demoralise and hurt Gi-Hun as much as possible through psychological warfare. But i Am curious as to how Soldier 011 knows that guy she kept zooming in on. I shall see.

Either way, I think the frontman has cast Gi-Hun as his ultimate beloathed because he makes Him feel bad and he resents that. Of course, he makes him feel bad Because he's actually being awful and he's not really going to escape that one unless he stops. No amount of torturing Gi-Hun is going to help here in the long run.