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A heartfelt portrayal of Sangwoo and Gi Hun’s journey as they grow up side by side, beginning as childhood friends at just 5 and 6 years old, and following their deepening bond through every stage of life until they reach adulthood at 29 and 30
Or…Sangwoo pines after Gi Hun for years hoping one day he will look back
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Cho Sangwoo had spent his entire life longing for Gihun. His final moments were no different.
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Cho Sang-woo was always going to kill himself, the only thing the Games were guilty of were giving him a dramatic scenery for when he finally did commit. But that was a truth pill too hard for Gi-hun to swallow. He failed to understand how or why the Ssangmun-dong prodigy would ever dare to do anything so fucking stupid to himself. Desperate to prove his point, the Frontman makes him an offer he cannot refuse:
Gi-hun has the chance to go back in time to the day after the first vote was ever taken when they were all sent home for a little while. The two of them would never have to return to those Games, as long as Gi-hun convinced Sang-woo to stay. If he failed, he has to go through it all all over again. At first he thought it'd be easy, how hard could it be to give someone a reason? But once again his Savior Complex got the better out of him, and he realized just how impossible and inevitably useless it is to try to save someone who doesn't care to be saved. But who would Seong Gi-hun be if he didn't at least try?
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Gi-hun is desperate to try every trick in the book to prevent Sang-woo from killing himself now that he has the chance to save the two of them from ever having to go back to those Games.
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Sang-woo's inferiority and superiority complex clash in the afterlife.
(A Sang-woo Doppelgänger AU)
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- English
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- 3,865
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- 1/1
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- 2
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“Do you know how to use a gun, Sang-woo?”
Gi-hun, Sang-woo thinks. Gi-hun, Gi-hun, Gi-hun.
The answer is yes. Although both of them know what Sang-woo would do if God pressed a loaded pistol into his hand.
Sang-woo's punishment for losing the last game is his survival. As it turns out, he is far more useful to the Frontman when in a pink jumpsuit and black mask of his own.
Complications arise when the horde of players contains a certain someone who would be perfectly capable of recognising him were it not for his new uniform.
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A week before Sangwoo leaves for SNU, he and Gihun go to their local swimming pool nine years after their previous visit. Memories surface. Feelings are stirred.
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Cho Sang-woo always expected death to be the end.
When you died, you felt nothing. Not a single trace of you left behind, no soul remaining to roam in your memory. Just perfect nothing. That was how it was supposed to be.
So why was he still here?
Trapped on the island he died on. Unable to move on. Bound to a place soaked in blood and regret.
And what made it worse?
He was far from alone.
[OR : sangwoo-centric ghost AU following the events of the 33rd squid game. the majority of this story takes place in s2]
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Sang-woo buys his mother a gift.
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- Part 5 of Cho Sang-woo and his Mother
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Sleep On, Dear Little Child (Day is Young) by Menacing2Butterfly
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
15 Jul 2025
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He could feel his ribs pull outwards, a rush of agonising air running into his lungs, torturing his muscles as it shuttered back out.
A dead man doesn’t breathe.
Somehow, in this ocean of pain, he was still living.
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Or, Sang-woo manages to survive his own attempt to sacrifice himself for Gi-hun, and instead of finishing him off, the Frontman offers him a job as a Triangle Guard. He accepts, and amidst his attempts to forget his long gone past, someone he knew, all too well, renters the games years later.
Determined to get Gi-hun out alive a second time, he must figure out how to navigate getting his trust, getting him away from the Frontman, who’s much too close, and how to not get caught cheating.
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what if Sang-woo chose not to kill Sae-byeok.
Sang-woo makes a different choice, and three players make it to the final game.
Survival doesn’t mean escape—not from the game, and not from what it took to stay alive.Starts at Season 1 Episode 8 "Front Man"
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Gihun would have mourned by Delvingingreed (borderline0greed)
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
10 Jul 2025
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Gihun would have mourned, so why hasn't Sangwoo?
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Sangwoo wins instead of Gihun and deals with the mental consequences while believing what he's doing isn't mourning.
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too frail for me to touch (i'm trying to pick them up) by bikebian
Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)
08 Jul 2025
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Sang-woo writes a suicide note.
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- Part 4 of Cho Sang-woo and his Mother
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- 1,116
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- 11
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This was the sort of want Sang-woo had kept buried deep beneath his skin for years. That sick desire to give in to a little hedonism, to allow himself the joys of degeneracy. Human intimacy. It was all the same. Sang-woo was above this, above his animalistic impulses and needs. Right?
Sang-woo is a chronic overthinker. Gi-hun loves him anyway.
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Sang-woo wins the games, as he planned.
Sang-woo cries in his eomma’s arms; something he didn’t plan.
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- Part 2 of Cho Sang-woo and his Mother
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Sang-woo visits his eomma face-to-face instead of just calling on the phone.
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- Part 1 of Cho Sang-woo and his Mother
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Cho Sangwoo has been a devoted member of the church his whole life, and now as a strapping eighteen year old boy, he still knows bible verses like the back of his hand. Having adapted Christianity into his daily life, Sangwoo never considered the idea of romantic relationships to be plausible when he had school to focus on. That was until a new boy came to his congregation, Seong Gihun, and completely turned his world upside down just by existing.
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Sangwoo learns to be a parent to Gihun's daughter, Gayeong.
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Cho Sang-woo doesn’t like reminiscing.
He just isn’t the type to do that, he’s an important person, graduated SNU and all. He’s calculated and collected and cold-blooded, with no time to look into the past.
But…Now, he finds himself standing in an old abandoned playground. Thinking of times long passed.
There’s always a reason as to why a place is abandoned though. And Sang-woo ends up meeting a young ghost by the name of Seong Gi-hun. -
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Sangwoo meets the 6-year-old version of himself after he dies in the games.
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Gi-hun decides to kill himself to show Sang-woo the consequences of his actions. sang-woo wins and he is not having a good time.
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Basically another Sang-woo in season 2 fanfic... But with a few twists.
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SANGINHO BREADCRUMBS!! Unfortunately the ship will come in later chapters that are not finished yet.
There IS a small chance I could continue this someday. Don't count on it too much tho mkay. I've not been very motivated lately