Scarlet Ghost

Squid Game Season 2 x Male Reader

The biting wind whipped at (Y/N)'s threadbare coat, a pathetic shield against the Seoul winter. He coughed, a sound that mirrored the state of his lungs - quite fucked up from years of cheap cigarettes and even cheaper soju.

Debt, like a persistent ex, clung to him, a suffocating weight that even the thrill of the next gamble couldn't quite drown out. He was a ghost, flitting through the neon-drenched alleys, wanted by the police, a veteran of countless rehab centers, each a temporary reprieve before the inevitable relapse.

Choi (Y/N), a mischievous wanted criminal with a perpetually laid-back demeanor, was running - not from the law, exactly, but from the crushing reality of his own self-destruction.