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1. don’t get sentimental (it always ends up drivel) by bittersweet_serendipity

   Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)  

   • Explicit
   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence, Major Character Death
   • M/M
   • Work in Progress

   01 Aug 2025

   Tags

   • Graphic Depictions Of Violence
   • Major Character Death
   • Choi Subong | Thanos/Namgyu
   • Choi Subong | Thanos
   • Namgyu (Squid Game)
   • Semi (Squid Game)
   • Park Minsu (Squid Game)
   • Lee Myunggi
   • Seonnyeo (Squid Game)
   • Kim Junhee (Squid Game)
   • Time Loop
   • Angst with a Happy Ending
   • Blood and Gore
   • Blood and Injury
   • Blood and Violence
   • Canon-Typical Violence
   • Drug Use
   • Drugs
   • Eventual Smut
   • Angst and Fluff and Smut
   • Hurt/Comfort
   • the major character death warning is because they die continuously in a time loop
   • but keep the happy ending tag in mind!
   • thangyu and the complicated emotional turmoil they have going on w each other
   • Explicit Sexual Content
   • Other Additional Tags to Be Added
   • Episode: s03e01 Keys and Knives (Squid Game)
   • Suicidal Thoughts
   • Internalized Homophobia
   • Religious Imagery & Symbolism
   • Gore
   • Implied/Referenced Suicide
   • Derealization

   Summary

   Thanos stares down at the ball in his hands with a sense of rising dread.

   The object itself poses no issue. Round, shiny, entirely harmless. He shifts the item around his ringed fingers, examining the blurry, muddled reflection that shines back at him through the sphere. The issue isn't the object itself. It’s the color.

   Light blue, the same color as the sky outside in the real world. Slowly, he turns his head towards where Nam-gyu stands in the crowd, his own plastic ball held tightly in his grasp. Blood red instead of blue — they’ve been placed on opposing teams.

   — — —

   (Thanos gets stuck in a time loop.)

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