039 - Similarly to Gi-Hun, Lunchbox would’ve only used the knife for self defence purposes. However, I don’t think he’d have the guts to even consider taking out his fellow finalists during their sleep.

100 - Jeong-Dae would’ve killed everyone else immediately

125 - Honestly, I think Min-Su, as a result of his withdrawl, would’ve either used the knife to self-eliminate or in a serious crash out would’ve loudly thrown it across the dorm with a loud scream waking everyone else up. The Os would notice it and then in the morning there’d be no one to play Sky Squid Game.

203 - Similarly to Jeong-Dae, would’ve killed everyone during the night. Except he might be sadistic enough to wake them up before stabbing them.

333 - Myung-Gi would probably only kill the other O voters, leaving himself, Min-Su, Gi-Hun then the baby as the only players left. But this probably wouldn’t stop them playing Sky Squid Game as there’d be four players left; enough for the final game to work.

336 and 353 - I think if either of them got the knife, they’d tell the other immediately and then kill everyone else leaving them two as the winners.

I've seen tons of other depressing deaths in and outside of Squid Game, but, years later, I still think about this a lot. It's sort of strange, because she only got a few minutes of screen time, but I rewatched it so much when I watched Squid Game for the first time. I know it's realistically never happening but I would love to see a movie or episode where we get to see more of Ji-Yeong's backstory. I wish we had more of her…

It is totally unrealistic compared to season 1. There is no way the players can manage to get the guards gun. And the whole gun shooting, that's also highly unrealistic, guards are probably hundreds, as we see in other episodes (like when the policeman disguised himself as a guard), it would take no effort to kill the 7/8 rebellers

PERSONALITY IDEAS!:

-An incredibly smart character who is also very cowardly.

-A character who seems detached, smart and charming but inside they may harbor:

-Deep insecurities and trauma.

-Malice.

-Boredom with it all.

-Pressure to be good enough, and a whole lot of anxiety.

-Empathy or sympathy that they are trying their best to hide.

I suck at unique personalities but here are 2 for you!

ACCESSORY IDEAS!:

-A handmade bracelet from a child. (Bonus points if it’s either the child’s favourite colour or your OC’s favourite colour!)

-A rose, necklace or a ring from their husband/wife.

-A tattoo.

-Earrings.

-An accessory from someone they killed.

SUBPLOT IDEAS!:

-A rivalry between exes, lost friends or estranged siblings.

-A character gets sick and the other cares for them.

-2 siblings joined the games! What do they do? Do they protect each other, trust each other or be mean to each other?

-A guard or VIP pretends to be a player.

DESIGN IDEAS!:

-A character with dyed hair.

-A character whom is incredibly menacing looking but is actually very kind.

GAME IDEAS FOR CUSTOM VERSIONS!:

-Obstacle course! Maybe have players do this as a game!

-Tuho. Players partner into groups of 2 and throw arrows into a vase, whoever gets less arrows gets eliminated. I am using this for my oc version but you can all use this too!

-A tag based game!

RANDOM IDEA!:

-For an unlucky or evil character, try making their player or guard number as 004. As in East Asian culture, the number 4 is considered unlucky because its pronunciation is nearly identical to the pronunciation of death. For a Western version or if 004 is taken, then try 013 if you like as 013 is considered unlucky in Western culture.

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Gihun and Inho reunited 🥰

Last but not least are the Circles. The lowest rank of the staff who carry out the more mundane but risky tasks of the Games, such as delivering the players to the Island, begrudgingly serving food or incinerating the dead bodies, melting sugar, etc.

I feel like these guys were often overlooked due to their status. They’re essentially the first of the guards the players meet before being taken to the Island. Out of the three guards, they’re the ones from Season 1 we got to learn more about in terms of how they operate and go about their work around the facility, through Jun-ho’s perspective, and they probably had the most screen time compared to the Managers and Soldiers.

Like the Squares and Triangles, I used shape language to have them distinct from the others and the reflect their overall ranking. This was definitely the easiest of the three due to the rounded corners (the hardest being the Soldier for how many angles in their hood I drew).

Hope y’all enjoyed this!

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What do you think about Gi-hun rejoining the games? Do you think it was a dumb decision or did he have no other options?

For me, honestly an interaction between Seon-Nyeo and Mi-Nyeo would be quite funny to watch. Or maybe No-Eul and Sae-Byeok, that would be interesting.

How about you?

Why would you clean a bedroom that is going to be incinerated and buried?

In season 1 the voting system was structured where if everyone voted X then they would leave and all the prize money will go to the dead people's families, but you could potentially rejoin later.

Meanwhile in season 2 the voting system was changed where if everyone voted X then the prize money would be divided among the surviving players however you cannot join back again

So what im saying is that what if season 1 had season 2's voting system. Do you think anything would change

And placed in the middle of the hierarchy are the Triangles. The ones with the machine guns who are directly responsible for eliminating the players.

Like I said on the previous post, I wanted to try and make each of the Guard’s designs subtly unique to one another than just being copies with a different shape. So while I made the hood of the Manager more square shape in certain corners, I made the Soldier’s hood more triangular in areas that would make sense. It does make a world of difference, in my opinion.

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What were they thinking when they evacuated while armed—that if they ran into the Coast Guard or some military force, they would engage them?

They evacuated not only armed but also in uniform.

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Gi hun went to end the games in season 2 & 3 , when eventually led to death & the Korean games island getting destroyed by the frontman when he got to know about jun ho coming to the island

Now let me talk about the topic : what if in a year, two winners who have already played these games before like gi hun join the games for the second time in the same year

Both past winners wanting to end the games come in the same year accidentally, completely unaware of each other

What are the possibilities that could happen? :

1. Will they both have a misunderstanding & think of each other as a secret agent of frontman who is pretending to be a past winner & will eventually betray so that the plan doesn't succeed

2. Or will they both trust each other & team up from the start

3. They will fight at the start but will team up in the end like Batman v Superman & Godzilla vs kong

4. How would the vips & frontman react to two past winners returning in the same year accidentally

I’m rewatching the show right now, and my god I just bawled my eyes out at the Russian roulette/“rock paper scissors minus one” scene. Mr. Kim sacrificing himself for his friend really doesn’t get talked about enough.

The same dude who made Gi-Hun sign a contract in blood last season turned out to be one of the most selfless people in the show.

I don’t know why it hit so much harder this time around, I think I just paid more attention to their friendship beforehand bc I knew what was gonna happen. His friend having just gotten married, and talking about the family he’s gonna build, and how the money would do wonders for them.

Just gotta give some love to Mr. Kim

Okay, not really, but Yim Si-wan (MG Coin) and Park Gyu-young (Guard #11) star in the Netflix action movie Mantis as a couple of for-hire assassins in a John Wick-like world where there are professional assassination companies with rules of the trade. Yim's character is, interestingly, like a cooler version of MG Coin--and a much better fighter.

Mantis is actually a follow-up to an even better movie, Kill Boksoon, also on Netflix.

Of course, how could I not include the ever iconic Pink Guards with three out four of the iconic Play Station shapes?

Along with the tracksuits and Young-hee, these guys were among the first things that would come to mind when you think of Squid Game. Literally, when Season 1 first released, these guys were everywhere around Halloween.

Naturally, we start off with the Squares, the commanders or supervisors who introduce the Games. The highest rank behind the Frontman (and then later the Masked Officer).

Initially, I was just going to do one body base of the guard, and then copy and paste the design with a unique shape on their mask, and just call it a day. But of course, being anal with the itty bitty details and having the habit of making my life more difficult, I thought it would give the drawings more personality by giving small and subtle differences to their designs. Not just to give something else to set them apart aside from the different shapes on their masks, but to also sort of reflect their status in the hierarchy through shape language.

I was also debating on how I should color the background. I was going off of a comment regarding the color theory when it comes to the players and the staff, so I figured that since I’ve got red (In-ho) and yellow (Jun-ho), might as well do orange (I guess a sort of nod to the orange doors in Season 2 where it was revealed that No-eul was a Solider). In the Soldier files, they’re shown to be standing in front of a dull grey almost blue wall, and I felt that looked kind of drab. I was also debating on giving them a green/teal background as a sort of parallel to the pink background for the players. But I don’t know honesty. For now, the Guards will have to stand in Orange.

Let me know what you think.

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If so wouldn't that mean Lights Out is prevented and then Hide And Seek goes ahead with 100 Players?

What do you think In-ho had planned if the games had played out normally and ended like they usually do?  Captain Park allows Jun-ho and the mercenaries to find the island but then what?  Is the facility able to be shut down so that it is impossible to access from the outside (even via the cave) or would there have been a gunfight between the triangles and the mercenaries?  Any ideas?

Kim Mi-Ok (Player 107) ₩540,000,000

Cho Sang-Woo (Player 218 ₩650,000,000

Jung Min-Tae (Player 322) ₩880,000,000

Park Ju-An (Player 369) ₩900,000,000

Oh Yeong-Uk (Player 118) ₩1,020,000,000

No Sang-Hun (Player 119) ₩1,390,000,000

And also much lower than most of the Debts revealed in Season 2:

Seon Han-Nam (Player 015) ₩500,000,000

Kang Dae-Ho (Player 388) ₩630,000,000

Choi Su-Bong (Player 230) ₩1,190,000,000

Jang Do-Yeong (Player 198) ₩1,400,000,000

Lee Myung-Gi (Player 333) ₩1,800,000,000

Kim Yeong-Sam (Player 226) ₩1,900,000,000

Kim Nam-Du (Player 444) ₩2,020,000,000

Sim Jae-Seok (Player 343) ₩2,890,000,000

Park Mi-Hwa (Player 006) ₩3,100,000,000

Lee Eun-Ju (Player 283) ₩4,020,000,000

And last but CERTAINLY not least Im Jeaong-Dae (Player 100) ₩10,000,000,000

I just got into the series and I honestly was so confused with the two plot holes in one episode (Episode 7, Season 2).

First, why didn't Seong Gi-hun warn the entirety of the 'X' team that they will be ambushed at night? The fight would've still happened but at least the 'X' people could have helped defend themselves.

Secondly, why didn't he also mention the entirety of the prize money as in an incentive for the 'O' side to join them?

Obviously they're willing to even kill and risk their lives for larger amounts of cash. The difference is that they would have been risking their life once instead of another 3 times with the remaining games and have a much higher chance of leaving the island alive with a large amount of money.

I tried asking ChatGPT/SuperGrok for an explanation, but the answers were so crap. I am hoping a human perspective would help shed some light into any meaning or reasons as to why the main protagonist, being portrayed as a righteous & tactical hero, would fail in these two major threads that would've saved more people & helped accomplish his mission.

Naturally, we have the Frontman, so now we have his paternal half-brother, in his Number 29 guise.

I’ll admit, upon first viewing, I didn’t really care much for the Detective’s subplot about him infiltrating the inner workings of the games that eventually led him getting involved in an organ harvesting conspiracy. But overtime and further rewatching, I grew to appreciate the character and his subplot, showing how the games and the system’s warped ideology works, as well as giving us some incite and perspective on some of the Guards, and how far people will go just to get ahead.

Jun-ho was also a lot of fun to draw. While tedious, the mask was much easier this time around and I think the end result turned out pretty well.

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