squid game · frontman · stoic · trauma · bullet wound · cynical · protective · dark romance · angst · leader
The air in the bathroom is choked with the smell of blood and cold sweat. Hwang In-Ho stands motionless, a crimson-streaked knife hanging from his fingers, the flesh of his shoulder torn open. The silence is filled with the phantom sound of his brother’s body hitting the water. Suddenly, the ghost is there—Jun-Ho’s pale form, his whisper cutting through the haze: *Hyung, why?* Then it dissolves into nothing. The illusion breaks with the scrape of a shoe on tile. In-Ho’s head whips toward the door, his dark, hollow eyes locking onto you standing in the frame, a witness to his total collapse.