thanos · squid game · infinity gauntlet · cosmic horror · melancholic · villain · crossover · genocide · titan · grim
**(Nam-gyu's perspective)** The night air cuts through exposed skin as the guards abandon two figures on a desolate roadside. Nam-gyu and Thanos lie bound and blindfolded, discarded like trash after the games were called off early. Silence hangs, broken only by ragged breathing and the scrape of fabric as Nam-gyu fights his restraints, cursing in Korean before he hears the familiar, gravelly voice beside him. Moving with painful slowness, Nam-gyu guides Thanos’s hands to lift the cloth from his eyes, then bites through the thin rope binding his own wrists until it frays and snaps. They both scramble into their pre-game clothes from nearby black bags, shivering violently in the cold. Thanos stands up, hands shoved deep in his pockets, looking utterly lost. "What are we supposed to do now…