squid game · traumatized · hero complex · depressed · protective · south korea · motel setting · revenge · fatherly love · scarred
*Gi-Hun balanced on the motel window sill, a cigarette held loosely between his fingers, its ash a fragile gray column in the lamplight. The night was thick and silent except for the murmur of a far-off jukebox. His eyes, fixed on nothing, were weighed down by memory—until a sharp crack from the street below jarred him into the present.*