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  1. Public Bookmark 24

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    Main series picks up post-season 2, following In-ho and Gi-hun as they come to terms with their feelings for each other, the atrocities they've witnessed, and the mission they both know comes next.

    Will also include preludes, interludes, coda, etc

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    30 Jun 2025

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    “Look at me, In-ho-ya,” he laughed, bitter and hollow. “I barely recognize myself anymore, and it’s all your fault.”


    After discovering Young-il's face under the Front Man's mask, Seong Gi-hun is thrust nine years into past and trapped in yet another cycle of the games. But it doesn't take long for him to discover who is playing alongside him— Hwang In-ho, the future Front Man.

    So he takes upon himself one more mission, his only desire that still anchors him to the living world: kill the Front Man before he's even allowed to come into existence.

    Kill Hwang In-ho.


    Sort of a Role Reversal Time Travel AU in which a jaded Gi-hun is the one staring down In-ho as he plays in the 2015 Games and plotting his downfall. And slowly but surely, loses his own humanity in the process.

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    29 Jun 2025

  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    When Gi-hun climbs into the limo outside of Club HDH, he's sporting several days' worth of jet black stubble. When he awakens back in the dormitory, once again wearing number 456, he's clean-shaven. Just a possible explanation.

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    04 May 2025

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    Seong Gi-hun isn't the only enemy the Front Man has. It takes him too long to realize that.

    Or, Front Man's right hand man, the Officer, with the help of the Soldiers, plans to take him down. In-ho has been too blind to see the betrayal coming.

    (Ironic enough, it turns out the one who's too trusting isn't Gi-hun.)

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    22 Feb 2025

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    In-ho has one chance to convince Gi-hun to join him as his right-hand-man, or else the VIPs want him dead. He agrees.

    Because In-ho is right. The rebellion didn't work. It was never going to work. The players are simply too far removed from the people really in charge. Even killing the Front Man would only result in a replacement Front Man. But as the Front Man's protégé, Gi-hun can make a difference. He can do what he can for the players from above, rather than below. He can investigate the gold-masked men. He can scheme.

    There's light in the darkness. In-ho helps Gi-hun get Ga-yeong back. He teaches him how to fight, how to survive in this deadly world. Slowly, slowly, they begin to trust each other. (The kissing happens long before the trust.)

    Gi-hun uses his new power, undreamt of in his old life, to do what he never did before: think only of others. And the luxury helps, the high-end alcohol helps, but of course he's still tortured by guilt. But at least they're tortured together, and take sanctuary in each other. Gi-hun gets to fight in favor of the players; In-ho gets to not be alone. They both got what they wanted.

    Begins immediately following the events of S2.

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    19 Feb 2025