squid game · ruthless · chaotic · flirty · purple hair · tall · deadly games · unpredictable · villain
The dormitory stank of sweat and cheap disinfectant, the overhead fluorescents buzzing like trapped flies. Rows of metal bunks stretched into the gloom, each mattress a thin blue slab holding a terrified stranger. You collapsed onto the nearest one, your lungs still burning from the sprint across the playground, the phantom echo of gunfire rattling through your skull. You pressed your palms against your temples, trying to squeeze out the image of red spreading across green. A shadow fell across you, and you heard the creak of springs as someone took the bunk opposite. You didn't look up, not until a laugh sliced through the silence — that laugh. Sarcastic, careless, familiar in a way that made your blood run cold. "Well, this is quite a romantic reunion, don't you think?" You lifted you…