Beneath the Mask (Player 456 x Player 001)
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Last published Thu, Jul 10, 2025
Years after surviving the brutal Squid Game, Hwang In-ho has risen to power as its Front Man, a role he fulfills with stoic detachment and buried regret. When Player 456, Seong Gi-hun, unexpectedly re-enters the games, it shakes In-ho's carefully maintained control. Haunted by their shared history and Gi-hun's defiant plea to end the violence, In-ho is torn between his duty to the system and the humanity he thought he had long abandoned.
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Hwang In-ho enters the games to destroy Seong Gi-hun's ideology and ends up getting more than he bargained for (he may or may not be obsessed with him...)
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A recreation of S2 and S3 of Squid Game but the way it SHOULD HAVE GONE (aka with more homo)
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Y/n has no choice - to escape her debts, she joins the mysterious Games. But in the very first game, she meets Seong Gi-hun and just because of that, without knowing it, she catches the attention of the wrong man. The Frontman watches her. She is stubborn, fearless - and she is working with the only player who has ever stood against the system. He doesn't trust her. He has to keep an eye on her. So he makes a risky decision: he enters the Games himself. What starts as control soon turns into something he can no longer deny. For the first time in nine years, he begins to feel something again - for a woman who was never meant to survive. And suddenly, he does everything to make sure she does. He manipulates the Games, bends fate, risks everything. But what happens when she finds out who he really is? Now Y/n must decide: Will she run - or stand by the side of the man who has already decided that he'll never let her go? But one thing is certain: Once you are part of the Game, you are part of it forever.Complete
𝐈 𝐥𝐨𝐯𝐞 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐈'𝐦 𝐬𝐨𝐫𝐫𝐲 ۶ৎ thanos
ⁱ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ, Lou Soo-Jin carried peace in her heart,but fire in her soul.Her strenght was not in battle,but in the unshakable belief that kindness could change the world. Even in the darkest moment,she never wavered,never turned her back on those who needed her. ⁱ ˡᵒᵛᵉ ʸᵒᵘ,ⁱ'ᵐ ˢᵒʳʳʸ. Choi Su-Bong left chaos in his wake,laughing as the world burned behind him.He was loud,unpredictable and reckless. But beneath the mischief,there was something deeper,something no one could figure out. ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵉʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ᵇᵉˢᵗ,ᵇᵘᵗ ʸᵒᵘ ʷᵉʳᵉ ᵗʰᵉ ʷᵒʳˢᵗ. Unfortunately,fate brought them togheter again.In a deadly game,ironic right? 𝐂𝐡𝐨𝐢 𝐒𝐮-𝐛𝐨𝐧𝐠 𝐱 𝐟𝐞𝐦!𝐨𝐜 ˢᵠᵘⁱᵈ ᵍᵃᵐᵉ ˢ²⁻³ (The squid game franchise and its characters don't belong to me)Complete
𝕯𝖆𝖗𝖐 𝕯𝖊𝖘𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖘 {001 x 456}
[Notice:This is dis-continued] In-ho x Gi-hun In-ho joins the game to stop Gi-hun from his plan to stop the games but,the more time he spent around Gi-hun the more he felt obsessed with him.I wonder where this could lead.. ⚠️This story will contain: Boyx Boy Smut Non consensual acts Character deaths {Old man yaoi!!}Complete
𝘼𝙉𝙂𝙀𝙇 // 𝙃𝙬𝙖𝙣𝙜 𝙄𝙣-𝙃𝙤
After having lost everyone he ever loved, Kim Cheon-Sa finds himself lost in a never-ending spiral of pain and grief. With no escape and no way out, Cheon-Sa ends up standing over the edge of a bridge, ready to put a stop to his futile life by falling into the unforgiving currents below. Yet, by some miracle, Cheon-Sa is talked down by a random man roaming the dark streets at whatever ungodly hour. Hwang In-Ho. The man who stepped in and saved his life, took Cheon-Sa under his wing and showed him a world worth living in--a world full of love. When Cheon-Sa is yet again consumed by heartbreak, he sees no point in resisting the odd proposition of participating in some games. What he didn't expect, was to re-discover the same man who pulled him out of the shadows so many years prior, lost in his own sea of darkness. [hwang in-ho x original male character] [minor changes]
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all eyes on her II hwang in-ho
Six years had passed since Min-seo's husband vanished without a trace. Despite her efforts, she had found peace with the thought that he would never return. That is until a man at the train station offers her a contact card - on it, three symbols that seem oddly familiar. And they had only ever turned up after his disappearance. Could it be coincidence? The hope to find the answers about what happened all those years ago outweighs her fear and so she calls the number and finds herself in the middle of her worst nightmare. Yet she focuses on her mission: find In-ho. Even if it meant to dig deeper than allowed. Best rankings: #1 gi-hun #2 in-ho
'Before we were 457' - A story before Squid Game takes over
What would've happened if Gi-hun and In-ho already met in the 90s? Would they take a different path in life or are they destined to end up in the games as enemies? In a cruel reality with poverty and deadly decisions, is there a chance for love to triumph in the end? Story contains: 1999: Gi-hun's and In-ho's youth (Chapter 1 ff) 2007: Jun-ho's kidney transplant (Chapter 21) 2015: A part of In-ho's games & becoming Frontman (Chapter 23 ff) 2020: Gi-hun's first games (SEASON 1) (Chapter 29 ff) 2022: Gi-hun's second games (SEASON 2) (Chapter 36 ff) 2022: The SEASON 3 we all deserve (Chapter 44 ff)Complete
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Y/n has no choice - to escape her debts, she joins the mysterious Games. But in the very first game, she meets Seong Gi-hun and just because of that, without knowing it, she catches the attention of the wrong man. The Frontman watches her. She is stubborn, fearless - and she is working with the only player who has ever stood against the system. He doesn't trust her. He has to keep an eye on her. So he makes a risky decision: he enters the Games himself. What starts as control soon turns into something he can no longer deny. For the first time in nine years, he begins to feel something again - for a woman who was never meant to survive. And suddenly, he does everything to make sure she does. He manipulates the Games, bends fate, risks everything. But what happens when she finds out who he really is? Now Y/n must decide: Will she run - or stand by the side of the man who has already decided that he'll never let her go? But one thing is certain: Once you are part of the Game, you are part of it forever.
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