19 Works by WreckedAndWanting
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The Tensile Limit of a Load-Bearing Man by WreckedAndWanting
Fandoms: 나의 아저씨 | My Mister (TV)
10 Nov 2025
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Dong-hoon is a man who has made self-restraint into a moral code. Steady, reliable, and deliberate, he moves through life like a load-bearing beam—holding up everyone around him, even as stress fractures spider quietly beneath the surface. He doesn’t chase excitement, doesn't seek temptation. But when Lee Ji-an asks him to grab a drink, he agrees. Out of obligation, he tells himself. Out of nothing.
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Episode by episode retelling of their critical moments. We'll see more of their internal struggles and maybe some moments will go more the way we think they should've!
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Gi-hun, newly sober and holding himself together with little more than hope, will do anything to get his daughter into the most prestigious private school in Seoul. His chance comes in the form of a beautiful, enigmatic man at the head of the admissions table, one who seems to see past Gi-hun’s fumbling desperation and offers him an unexpected break.
But high society isn’t exactly designed for single dads with grease under their fingernails. Between biting gossip, pointed galas and fundraisers, and feelings that are too dangerous to want as badly as he does, Gi-hun finds himself in the impossible position of trying to pass for respectable.
After all—what’s the worst that could happen when you drop a bumbling well-meaning mechanic into the shark tank of Seoul’s wealthiest families?
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In-ho enters the Game as Player 132 with one fragile hope: to survive and return to the life still waiting for him. But survival carves its own path. Each round strips away something—his ideals, his mercy, his belief in who he is. What begins as a desperate bid to save himself becomes a slow, shattering evolution into something harder, colder… something Il-nam has been watching all along.
Now, years later, In-ho tells the story for the first time—only to Gi-hun, the man he’s loved for half a decade and raised a daughter with. He wants to believe the past is buried. That the worst of him stayed behind in the Game. But as the memories return, so do the cracks he tried to seal. What he doesn't know is that Gi-hun already sees him—all of him—and never stopped choosing him, even at his most broken.
Prequel: The Brotherhood Scar
*We'll probably get more of his backstory in a Front Man spinoff, but I couldn't wait* ||| *NEW original games and characters!*
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- Part 3 of Brotherhood, Masks, and Surviving
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*FIX IT FIC*
*Under reconstruction - light edits per chapter*
In-ho makes a different choice before Gi-hun can. He breaks protocol. Starts the evacuation early.
After the Game, Gi-hun and In-ho are two men carrying the same kind of broken—grief-torn, guilt-heavy, and haunted by the choices that kept them breathing. What begins as excruciatingly fragile proximity deepens into something unshakable: a child who needs them both, feelings neither of them dare to name, and the terrifying, hard-won hope that they might still be worthy of joy. Orbiting the wreckage of who they used to be, they begin again—not cleanly, but together.
But peace doesn’t come easy. Not when the past hunts them with a badge and a grudge. Not when the line between guilt and forgiveness won’t stay still. As secrets unravel and old wounds split open, Gi-hun and In-ho must fight harder than ever—not for survival this time, but for a future they finally believe they deserve.
Prequel 1: The Brotherhood Scar
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- Part 2 of Brotherhood, Masks, and Surviving
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***under reconstruction chapter by chapter***
His life is stitched together by steady hands—In-ho’s hands—rough with past sins but reverent in how they hold him. Their love is bruised, possessive, healing. Sacred.
Sang-hwan is everything Gi-hun shouldn’t want: sharp smile, silk tongue, a predator’s patience. He stirs a hunger Gi-hun can’t name without choking on guilt. What begins as a ploy to pull In-ho back into the Game spirals into a psychological tug-of-war—loyalty vs. obsession, love vs. manipulation.
He knows what Sang-hwan is. Dangerous. Twisted. Addictive.
But knowing doesn’t stop the ache.*Sequel is live: Burning What's Left*
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- Part 1 of The Sang-hwan Saga
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In-ho was sixteen when his baby brother was born dying. A failing kidney. A six or seven-year prognosis. A family stretched thin enough to vanish.
So In-ho vanished first. His childhood disappeared into hospital rooms and part-time jobs. His future was bartered for survival. And eventually, he literally gave up a piece of himself to keep Jun-ho alive. But when it was In-ho’s turn to need something—to save his wife and unborn child from a death sentence—his family couldn’t give what they no longer had. Or wouldn’t.
This is the story of the man who gave everything and was still called corrupt.
The story of what was given, what was taken, and what remains when you’re no longer willing to be the good brother.
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- Part 1 of Brotherhood, Masks, and Surviving
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What We Don't Say While the Stars Are Listening by WreckedAndWanting
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
21 Jun 2025
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Gi-hun takes the chauffeur job because he needs the money, but he wasn't prepared for it to change his life. To change him. It gives him structure. Dignity. A chance to be the dad who shows up, and the son who makes his mother proud. For the first time in a long time, he starts to believe in his own worth again.
What starts as a quiet arrangement—driving a powerful man with a dangerous job—turns into something deeper, stranger, and more intimate than either of them expected. In-ho is sharp-tongued, unreadable, and infuriatingly composed. But under the crisp suits and cold silences, there’s warmth. Real warmth. The kind Gi-hun didn't realize would warm him back to life.
Their relationship unfolds in fragments: a joke over drinks, a hand brushing too close, a laugh In-ho didn’t mean to let slip. There are rules. Boundaries. An NDA. But none of that stops them from falling—slowly, stubbornly—for the other man in the car.
*Finished before S3*
가을 | Autumn
겨울 | Winter
봄 | Spring
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They’ve loved each other through wreckage. Now, they’re learning how to love through hope. As Gi-hun and In-ho prepare to become fathers, the past lingers—grief, guilt, and the versions of themselves they’re still healing. Gi-hun carries the ache of a father he wasn’t allowed to be. In-ho still grieves the child he lost before they ever had a chance. But in the quiet work of becoming—of nursery walls painted with trembling hands, of voice memos whispered to a baby not yet born, of late-night talks curled around each other—they begin to stitch joy into the spaces grief once hollowed out.
In the warmth of that slow, deliberate fire, they forge something stronger than before: a family.
Sequel to 457: Kindled.
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- Part 6 of 457
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Season 2 of Squid Game—but this time, the story doesn’t shy away from what’s always been simmering just beneath the surface. Gi-hun and In-ho aren’t just rivals or foils. They’re two sides of the same broken coin—both shaped by loss, both haunted by what they’ve done to survive. And whether they admit it or not, everything they do is already about each other.
This rewrite doesn’t just add romance. It reveals it. The longing behind every glance. The heartbreak behind every betrayal. The kind of love that’s twisted up in guilt, fear, and a desperate need to protect and understand each other—even from a distance.
This is a love story about two men who could’ve been each other. Who still might save each other. And who, for once, are done pretending their feelings are just subtext.
Because the real endgame was never about the money. It was always about them.
Sequel is live and complete: 457: Ashes, Embers, and What Remains
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- Part 2 of 457
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Burning What's Left by WreckedAndWanting
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021), 트렁크 | The Trunk (TV)
06 May 2025
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Gi-hun carries the quiet weight of a man haunted. What In-ho sees—his smiles, his tenderness, his effort—is real, but it’s only half the story. What he doesn’t see is the little bottle of pills tucked away in Gi-hun’s drawer, or the shadow that clings to him late at night when he thinks no one’s watching.
Sang-hwan hasn’t left him. Not really. His memory lingers like smoke, curling through the cracks in Gi-hun’s resolve, whispering that he’ll never truly be free. Gi-hun has never told In-ho how deep the damage goes. How sometimes, even now, Sang-hwan’s voice is louder than his own.
He wants to heal. He wants to let In-ho love him back to life. But every time Gi-hun starts to reach for that light, something drags him back under.
And he’s terrified that if In-ho ever sees the full truth—
He’ll stop reaching back.
*Recommend reading the prequel The Fire You Feed first!*
*Inspired by The Trunk (highly recommend - a 2024 kdrama/kthriller with Gong-yoo aka The Recruiter)*
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- Part 2 of The Sang-hwan Saga
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457: The Curator: What We Make of Ruins by WreckedAndWanting
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
06 May 2025
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After escaping his role of facilitating a nightmare built for the rich to feast on the desperate, In-ho could’ve disappeared. Instead, he chose to become the architect of a reckoning. With blood money and sharp intent, he reemerges in the world not as a man seeking forgiveness—but as a man curating accountability.
Within the sleek brutality of the art world, he builds a kingdom of confrontation: galleries that pierce, exhibitions that bleed, rooms that force the elite to face the very suffering they profit from. But power, even when used righteously, leaves a mark. And Gi-hun—his partner, his softness, his anchor—knows better than anyone how many ghosts In-ho still carries under his skin.
As boardrooms turn into battlegrounds and art becomes ammunition, In-ho finds himself navigating not just wealth and influence, but the very act of survival all over again—this time with Gi-hun at his side.
Because this isn’t just about vengeance. It’s about legacy.
About what remains.
And what we choose to show the world… when the masks come off.
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- Part 5 of 457
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Post-S2, found family, and slice-of-life.
Gi-hun and In-ho are living in a pocket of peace they never thought they’d have—domesticity stitched with healing, longing, and devotion.
Chapters that coincide will have primary titles in Korean. :)
*UNDER RECONSTRUCTION*
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- Part 4 of 457
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Gyeong-seok never expected to survive the Games. He only entered for his daughter, Na-yeon—to win enough to keep her alive. After Na-yeon's mother abandoned them the moment she was diagnosed, Gyeong-seok learned that love wasn’t something to trust. It left when things got hard.
Then he met Hyun-ju. A woman whose quiet strength ran deep, steady as the tide. Something unspoken formed between them, like standing in the rain after a lifetime of drought.
Hyun-ju becomes part of his world. A maternal figure to Na-yeon, a quiet force that makes their small apartment feel like home. But Hyun-ju’s strength isn’t just survival—it’s in how she lives in a society that refuses to see her. The world may turn away, but Gyeong-seok never does.
And his acceptance? It isn’t passive—it’s reverence. With Gyeong-seok, she chooses to be seen. And it wrecks him—not just because she’s breathtaking, but because of what it means.
But can Gyeong-seok trust that love won’t leave? And can Hyun-ju allow herself to be cherished, not just seen?
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This is a Gyeong-seok/Hyun-ju story, but will have plenty of In-ho/Gi-hun because I love them. -
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Jun-hee never asked for help. Not from Myung-gi, who’s too busy chasing crypto gains to remember he has a daughter, and certainly not from Dae-ho—the steady, unassuming presence who's always just… there. Picking up groceries. Taking her daughter to the park. Fixing the leaky faucet she swore she’d get to.
He doesn’t ask for anything in return.
But slowly, in the quiet spaces Myung-gi left behind, something blooms. Gentle, persistent, and impossibly kind—Dae-ho's love isn't loud. It's rooted. And Jun-hee is finally beginning to see what it means to be cared for.
Where Flowers Bloom is a story of steady devotion, quiet transformation, and the love that grows when someone chooses to stay—even when they don’t have to.
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This is a Dae-ho/Jun-hee story, but will be plenty of In-ho/Gi-hun cause they're my mains, maybe a side of Gyeong-seok/Hyun-ju. Also #MGCoinHatersClub*NOT a S3 canon version of Dae-ho*
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A series of epiphanies as to why Gi-hun holds on so tightly. We always talk about In-ho’s walls, his fear of vulnerability, his push and pull—but Gi-hun? He’s got his own deeply rooted wounds. The way he clings to In-ho isn’t just about stubbornness, or even just about love. It’s about recognition. About being seen in a way he never truly was before.
Gi-hun adores people, but he’s spent his life feeling like he’s not enough—not enough for his family, not enough for himself, not enough to win in a world designed to break him. His mother loved him, but she was exhausted by him. His daughter loves him, but he wasn’t stable enough to keep her. Even in the game, people used him, betrayed him, and dismissed him as nothing more than a fool.
But In-ho?
In-ho knows him. In-ho sees his worst moments—his failures, his cowardice, his desperation—and doesn’t turn away. Doesn’t love him in spite of it. Loves him because of it. Because of who he is, not just who he’s trying to be.
And that? That’s addictive. That’s something Gi-hun will never let go of, because he’s never had it before.
It’s not just love. It’s value.
It’s belonging.
It’s home.
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After In-ho disappears into the shadows of a new Game, Gi-hun is left shattered, with only a promise to hold onto. When grief nearly claims him, it’s Gyeo-eun who pulls him back—gentle, steady, a quiet light in his darkest hour. Their bond grows in the stillness, a tender, temporary paradise between two broken hearts. But Gi-hun's heart was never his to give away. Over a year later, when In-ho returns—bloodstained, battleworn, but alive—the world shifts. What follows is a reunion laced with disbelief and longing, where every unspoken word crashes back into focus. This is a story of love that survives war, silence, and the ache of waiting. A love so deep, even the one who helped him heal knows she was never the destination—only the shelter until his heart found its way home.
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Gi-hun and In-ho if they were Odysseus and Penelope in EPIC the Musical. I don't know how to explain it, but I couldn't not.Centered around:
"Love in Paradise"
"Not Sorry for Loving You"
"Will You Fall In Love With Me Again" -
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Gi-hun, out with friends, is kissed by a stranger at the bar. In-ho, who had initially stayed home, arrives to find the unexpected scene—and the sight of Gi-hun in someone else’s arms shatters something inside him. Consumed by rage and jealousy, their emotions collide, and possessiveness burns. In that heated moment, a painful truth emerges: love has the power to tear apart, leaving scars that run deeper than any physical wound.
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Gi-hun, battered and broken, wakes as a prisoner of the games he once swore to destroy, believing he has lost everything. In-ho, once again under the facade of the Front Man, watches from the shadows.
His mask cracked in more ways than one, drowning in guilt but still pretending he has everything under control (spoiler: he does not). But as Gi-hun fights to survive, a darker truth begins to surface—the man behind the mask is not just his enemy, but the one he once loved. Betrayal, grief, and longing collide as they are forced to reckon with the devastation between them, the ghosts of who they were, and the embers of what still remains. And in the ashes of it all, where love and ruin are indistinguishable, they must decide if they will rise together—or be consumed by the fire.
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Events are immediately after my retelling of S2 457: Ruin and Remedy. Make sure you read that first!Series
- Part 3 of 457
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457: A Smoldering, Unextinguishable Truth by WreckedAndWanting
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
17 Mar 2025
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A retelling of S1| E9: One Lucky Day
In the brutal final game, In-ho watches Gi-hun transform—no longer fragile, but furious, grief-hardened, and unrecognizable. Every strike is a cry of loss. But it’s not the violence that breaks In-ho—it’s Gi-hun’s mercy. Bloodied and betrayed, he still chooses compassion over victory. That choice shatters everything In-ho thought he knew about survival. Gi-hun clings to a humanity In-ho gave up long ago, and for the first time, In-ho wonders if that surrender cost him more than his soul. Watching Gi-hun sob over the friend who betrayed him, something fractures in In-ho. He doesn’t know if it’s guilt, awe, or something deeper. All he knows is this: the game didn’t break Gi-hun—and now, he can’t stop watching him.
In-ho sees himself in Sang-woo, and everything he’s not in Gi-hun.
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- Part 1 of 457