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He doesn’t know what’s worse, getting caught by your boss with a faceful of noodles during what is definitely not the sanctioned lunch break, or the fact that he’s managed to break Rule #1. Gi-hun’s mask feels like a fifty pound weight where it rests against his thigh.
Aish, what a lame way to die.
Gi-hun wouldn’t say that he enjoys his job. When you get right down to it, life as a pink guard is days filled with hefting dead or dying bodies into coffins wrapped in bright pink bows, and then sliding those same coffins into an incinerator one after the other.
Add to that the fact that his boss, the extremely terrifying and cool Front Man of the games, has suddenly taken an interest in him, and Gi-hun is starting to think that it might be time for a much needed vacation.
Or: Guard!Gi-hun is just trying his best to pay his debts and support his sick mom, Jun-ho is still wandering around set on bringing down the games, and In-ho finds himself unexpectedly charmed by the antics of Worker 456.
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- Part 1 of Life & Times (Guard Gi-hun AU)
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06 Aug 2025
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"That’s not good, y’know? People these days are being worked to the bone, and for what? You’ve heard the saying—money can’t buy happiness.”
"I don’t want to hear that from a gambling addict who just took a huge loss on horse racing."
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In a world where Squid Game doesn’t exist, Inho and Gihun met under very different circumstances. Along the way, they fix each other’s lives.
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EDIT: Now with an Epilogue!
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02 Aug 2025
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In-ho is an ordinary political science professor at Seoul University who prefers his single life and has not been interested in relationships for many years now. He isn't very social and has little interest in socializing with anyone other than his family, until one day a famous photo model, Seong Gi-hun, bursts into his quiet life and all of a sudden In-ho has to deal with the fact that for some reason everyone is convinced that they are in a relationship. Including his family, coworkers, students, and... well, all of Korea at the very least.
When Gi-hun begs him to pretend their relationship is real, In-ho tries to refuse, but finds it beyond his powers when he sees the man's pleading look.
Or: Gi-hun fell first, In-ho fell harder. Fake it till you make it.
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26 Jul 2025
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Friends invite Gi-hun to their get-together party and encourage him to bring his partner with him. Gi-hun panics and promises to come with his boyfriend. Needless to say, he doesn't have one. He's sure he'll end up suffering the torture of “how do I explain to everyone that my boyfriend is just really busy at work and can't come if there really is no boyfriend at all and I obviously look stupid trying to pretend there is” at dinner, however, when he arrives he finds out that he does, in fact, have a boyfriend. Well, maybe it's only the second time he sees this man, but who counts?
Or: Gi-hun accidentally tells a stranger at a bar that he lied to his friends about the existence of his boyfriend. In-ho can't resist taking this chance to get close to the man who won his attention at first sight. Everything goes according to plan.
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21 Jul 2025
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House and Wilson share a hotel room at a medical conference. Read on for goofy acronyms, endless banter, horny middle-aged men, and more!
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29 Jan 2025