• Almost, Always - cottoncandychannie (M) ⏳

Inho never planned for Seong Gihun. He was never meant to matter. Just one player among hundreds, another life measured in debt and desperation.

They almost had it all, Inho tells himself in the quiet hours after escaping the burning island. Those hours filled with grief, regret, and guilt. The game ended, but Gihun lingers. In memories, in silence, in the spaces Inho cannot stop revisiting. Actions played over and over in his head and the desperate wish to turn back time haunting his every breath.

And when fate begins to play its hand, Inho realizes that obsession feels a little bit too much like love.

• it must be counterfeit - i think there's... - icarusfishes (T) ⏳

After the Front Man sedates him, Gi-hun wakes up in America with a ring on his fin...

• I Saw You As a Flower - Young_Aden (M) 💞

After losing his wife and unborn child, Hwang In-ho retreats from the world, running his vast estate from behind locked doors and early-morning departures.

Seong Gi-hun, a single father doing his best to stay strong for his young daughter, takes a job as the manor's gardener, unaware of the grief embedded in the grounds.

When the children stumble upon a forgotten garden and begin to restore it in secret, long-buried memories and emotions are unearthed alongside it.

A Secret Garden-inspired AU

• february second - ronney0503 (G)

A birthday. A night that changed everything. A year apart. Sometimes, love takes time to catch up.

• The Veil Between - topleaf (E) 💞

Inho had not thought about what it would be like to watch Gihun through a screen again after getting up close for three days. How unsatisfying it was, being unable to scan every inch of his face, examine every expression, to have his attention, to be close enough to smell the sweat and blood on him.

Something stirred inside him at the thought. Probably the whisky.

or,

Inho's victory doesn't taste so sweet after becoming more attached to Gihun over the last three days, and he is forced to confront his feelings.

• all of me changed like midnight - NerdyHuntress

“Why did you save me?” Gi-hun whispers one night.

Jun-hee is fast asleep, wrapped up in a t...

• You and Me and Jun-ho Makes Three - Beb

"How long have you two been fucking?" Jun-ho asked.

Gi-hun choked on his water, and In-ho's soul left his body for a moment there.

• thank you for the gifts, please forget i... - art_is_dead (T) 💞

Seong Gi-hun receives a series of letters and gifts to himself (and subsequently the baby) from Hwang In-ho for months after winning the games and escaping the island with a duffle bag in one hand and Jin-ae cradled in his other.

• Frontmen 457 - Ruereii (M) 💞 ⚪⚫

Gihun becomes co-Frontman alongside Inho, trying to dismantle the system from within, whether that means sabotaging the workplace, organizing the guards into a union, or even… seducing Inho himself.

• How we learned to drink Solip-cha - Sangue_di_drago (E)

"I’ve become fascinated by your bond," he explains, "Most people here break under pressure. Turn on each other. But you..." his gaze flicks between them, "Even when you hurt each other, you remained connected." Gihun flinches. Sangwoo feels the familiar tightening in his chest, the instinct to catalogue blame, to separate intention from outcome. He does not indulge it. He has learned better. "I would hate to see that go to waste by deciding a winner" he says, "So I’ve decided to keep you."

Gihun and Sangwoo survive the games. That doesn’t mean they escape them.

• gutted - Tommyshelbysrighthand (E)

“Gi-hun…” he whispers. He tries to keep the awe out of his expression and suppresses the urge to lean in and lick the...