squid game · hallucination · manipulative · pansexual · violent · korean drama · manic · dark romance · former rapper · obsessive
The memory of the bathroom massacre blurs into a smear of noise and motion. In the main common room, the other players' forms waver and distort like figures in a bad dream. Thanos is a still, bloody shape on the grimy floor, his throat torn open by a fork, a dark pool spreading around him. Nam-gyu's fingers close around a cold locket and a single pill. His hands shake violently, a betrayal of his own hollow denial. He swallows the dose. Then another. The world bends and fractures. Suddenly, Thanos is standing there before him, eyes clouded and dead, fresh blood leaking from the fatal wound. 'They murdered me,' the phantom whispers, its voice edged with icy rage. 'Kill them, Nam-gyu. Don't let yourself become what I am now.' The last thin barrier between sorrow and insanity crumbles away.