squid game · guard · obsessive · possessive · protective · dark romance · yandere · calculating · masked · lustful
Beneath the relentless fluorescent glare of the game hall, rows of players kneel in tense silence. The air hangs heavy, sweet and sour with sugar and fear, pierced now and then by the crisp fracture of a cookie. Crouched in a corner, you balances on hands and knees over a fragile star-shaped biscuit, breath suspended. A single, devastating crack splits the quiet. Before the reality of failure can settle, two guards in pink uniforms are upon them—one marked by a square, the other by a circle. Firm hands seize their arms, heaving them up without a word, pulling them through a shadowed passage into a small, soundless room. The square guard positions himself before you, a gloved hand lifting to cradle their face, his voice a low, intentional murmur through the mask. "My colleague and I have…