Sleepy-leavez - Flower

i'm making another tragic sang-woo post because this poor man is slaughtered by the fandom senselessly

i don't see many people discuss this, so i wanted to hop on here and give my own personal thoughts.

flash forward to episode 7! for some context, player 069 begs the other players to leave the games. sang-woo stands up against 069 and yells at him for considering giving up after everything that's already happened.

i will provide the words from the transcript here.

"so what if we stop now? you think your wife will stop being dead if we all go now? and she'll forgive you for letting her get murdered?

if you can't keep going, then why are you alive right now? you should have been the one who died in there instead.

[points to the piggy bank.] see that? that's the price of being in here. and your wife and the others paid it with their lives.

and you wanna go and leave? you wanna start from the beginning again? you ready to do all that, huh? starting over again from nothing with that guilt."

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from a surface level, this looks like an asshole move. which, to be fair, it sure as hell wasn't coming from a place of love.

from my perspective, however, this entire conversation feels like:

A) a projection of sang-woo's guilt

B) him internally trying to justify his own actions (aka killing ali) to himself

i honestly feel like this conversation is a mix of both. sang-woo obviously feels guilty for killing ali - his horrid thousand-yard stare and flinch as the gunshot goes off, as well as other subtle reactions after are very telling of that. i feel that might be the moment when he internally realizes he's too far gone. but he's trying so hard to justify and push that guilt down.

most importantly, i feel like a part of him isn't just talking to 069 and the other players.. but himself as well. trying to scold the part of himself that feels horribly guilty. the first part of the monologue especially.

anybody who says sang-woo doesn't feel guilt for his actions is very much wrong. but he's so desperate and focused on survival that he tries his hardest to abolish that guilt and justify the things he did. i don't think it ever works.

I QUOTE THIS MEME ALL THE TIME 😭😭😭

Frontman asking gihun to join him season 3 leak

so, when they're all sitting together and sharing their names in the fourth episode, ali reveals that he's been under the assumption that gi-hun's name is ssangmun-dong.

which means that whenever gi-hun started praising sang-woo by calling him the pride of ssangmun-dong, he thought... oh, i need to sit down for this...

There's a scene in S1, before the riot, where Gi-hun tells Sae-byeok that he and a few others are gathering together for protection and she is welcome to join them.

Sae-byeok tells Gi-hun that she doesn't trust him.

And I love Gi-hun's response. Gi-hun doesn't list off reasons for Sae-byeok to trust him. He doesn't get offended or annoyed with her. He just tells her, "You don't trust people because you know they're trustworthy. You trust people because you have nothing else."

To me, that sums up the core of his character so well, and it's the perfect example of what makes him the necessary hero to stop these games.

When the world tries to crush you down and enforce an ideology that trust is weak and foolish and must be stripped away through violence if necessary, the strongest thing a person can do is to trust other people anyway.

The only thing a person can do, if they want to keep any humanity of their own, is to trust other people anyway.

“It’s gone. The one thing that only I knew about myself. That thing that made me me, alone in all the universe. I’ve lost it.”

Radiohead, 'Let Down' / Anne de Marcken, 'It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over' / Cho Sang-woo

There are many small details about the series that have such significance, the example I want to focus on is that Gi-Hun didn't know that Sang-Woo was suicidal.

It's interesting to think how different his approach would be if he had known; although he would still be angry at him for his way to achieve things, he wouldn't see him as a money-hungry individual, but rather a desperate one who would do anything to make amends to his mistakes, even taking his own life. Very different from Gi-Hun, who would give up his comfort and ability to fix his own mistakes as long as their loved ones lived.

Certainly, the thought of Sang-Woo committing suicide didn't go thru his head, especially when he DID try to reach his hand. Just like him, he wanted to go home, but for him, for his situation, it wasn't a possibility.

I think that was the point that truly traumatized Gi-Hun. He didn't know anyone there really, their situation nor their values, just his childhood best friend. Someone he grew up with and considered family.

He saw someone he admire become a stranger, someone to fear and hate. But he knew that wasn't him. And when he saw how the boy that used to play with him sacrificed himself to ensure Gi-Hun financial stability, only asking for his mom wellbeing in exchange, that's when it sealed the realization he had about the games; how it preyed for people's desperation, they were just another victim out of the 456 players.

so cuteeee

hi i feel really fucking mentally sick for some reason tonight do u have any fluffier sangihun hcs 💗 (sending this to multiple moots i swear im not like a hijacked bot lol)

yes of course my dear moot!!! I hope these make you feel better.

--Sangihun Fluffy Headcanons

-imagine sangwoo and gihun sleepy daysss. they just lay in bed glued together. They don't talk, just lay peacefully.

-okay but with all of this talk about them getting dressed in the bathroom together, what about when they are not in the games and they dress each other. idk i just find a cute image in gi hun putting on sangwoos shoes or sangwoo buttoning gihuns shirt.

-also i thought of a cute thing about if their moms lowkey knew about them. honestly they would support. i think sang woos mom would not push but kind of want them to be together so bad. she probably has said some weird vague shit about accepting sangwoo for who he is and that he should stay close friends with gihun forever. mal-soon however is tired of their bs. she aint going to do a thing if they aint going to do a thing, ya know?

-imagine their dates too!! i don't think they would do anything too extravagant. I imagine a lot of the dates are things they wanted to do together as kids but they were either vaguely or fully meant for couples or people who were crushing on each other.

-also them sharing things if they live together??? they only know whos clothes are whos by size but everything is pretty much put together. also sang woo teases gihun about his stupid dad clothes. its okay though because gihun bullies him back about the business smarty pants shit he wears.

despite everything....it's.......still you..?

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amazing

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