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    What if the show actually committed to having Jack Kline be a baby when he was born?
    Everything else from s12e23 is the same as it is in canon, but Jack is an actual newborn baby.
    Dean finds Jack, and has to decide how to proceed, never really picturing what it would actually be like to carry out his plan against a literal infant. He hates to admit it, but this changes things, and he's about to find out just how much.

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    03 Dec 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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    24 Aug 2025

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    “Young-il! I know you’re there! Face me, you coward! FACE ME!”

     His voice bounced off the walls, ragged with fury and heartbreak. In-ho couldn’t bring himself to look away. Gi-hun stood alone, Jun-hee’s baby cradled against his chest, swaying slightly as if the weight might drag him down.

    The VIPs beside him stirred. He could hear the rustle of fur, the clink of ice in crystal glasses, the irritation of people unaccustomed to dealing with real human emotion.

    “What’s he doing?” Eagle asked lazily. “He won, why is he so angry?”

    “You’re asking why the maniac who came back willingly is angry?” Panther replied, already bored again.

    But In-ho knew. He was daring In-ho to talk to him again. Because they both knew that he had just lost. When Player 333—one who had proven himself to be nothing but selfish and self-serving—had said, “Look after her,” then started the game, and thrown himself off the platform before Gi-hun could even blink, Gi-hun had proven that his faith in humanity wasn’t misplaced.

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    23 Aug 2025

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    After being fatally wounded, Gi-hun bleeds to death, accompanied by the knowledge that the man he'd grown to trust the most had been his greatest enemy all along.

    Fortunately, he's given another chance to fix things, as long as he makes the right choices.

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    time travel au yay

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    20 Jul 2025

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    “If there is one thing I have learned from sixteen years of life, seventy-three years of Hell, and several months of being a ghost, it is that I do not like touch, I do not miss it, and if the nexus of eternal torture and pain cannot shake that from me, then I do not see how you possibly could.”

    Charles continued to grin, and, for the first time since he’d walked out of Hell, Edwin felt his surety falter; he’d seen Charles grin many times like that before knocking a ghost or ghoul out with his cricket bat. He recognized it as a warning that Charles' unstoppable force would make the immovable object before him mobile once more.

    The problem is simple, really: Edwin hates touch, until he doesn't. Now, he craves it.

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    17 Jun 2024