SangHun

"When we were young, we used to play like this and our moms would invite us to dinner. That won’t happen again."

- Sangwoo to Gihun before dying

SangHun is the slash ship between Cho Sangwoo and Seong Gihun from the Squid Game fandom.

Canon
Sangwoo and Gihun actually have known each other since they were children. They would often go to Sangwoo's house to play outdoor games especially the famous squid game. Their strong friendship soon got faded away after Sangwoo left for business to travel to America and doesn't often stay in contact with his friend which leaves Gihun to take care of Sangwoo's mother and the business she's doing for a living.

The two met again during the first game, Red-Light, Green-Light, when Sangwoo noticed his friend's face and appearance. After half of the players were killed during the game, Gihun became scared and won't think of plan to go to the finish line. Sangwoo noticed his reaction and managed to guide Gihun to go to the finish before the timer ends, which Gihun was grateful for. From that time on, they decided to form a team so that they can win until the very end with Ali Abdul and Il Nam.

On the second game, Sangwoo got information from Kang SaeByeok of how the second game will be. He tried to identify the output and tried to remember the games that he and Gihun played when they were younger, which is Honeycomb. Instead of helping his friend to pick the most easiest way to finish the game, that is getting the triange honeycomb, he let Gihun to pick the umbrella which is the hardest way to finish the second game. He didn't even tried to share it to him of what the second game will be although, Gihun managed to carve out the umbrella perfectly which made Sangwoo impressed.

Both of them made their best to complete the next third and fourth game until Sangwoo killed an innocent man to win a challenge on the fifth game. Gihun asked a question on why he did it which Sangwoo replied that he did it in order to survive the game and that they would've died if he didn't do it. During night time, Gihun tried to kill his friend in order for him and Kang SaeByeok to win the sixth game together but she stopped him when he was about to. Later on, Gihun noticed that Kang SaeByeok was bleeding badly and was about to die so he tried to ask for medical help to the guards but when he was doing that, Sangwoo killed SaeByeok when he wasn't looking. Gihun hurried back to SaeByeok's body and tried to kill Sangwoo with his kitchen knife. He yelled and screamed with anger to his friend until he got blacked-out from one of the guards. This started the two friends to become enemies later on on the last game.

The last and final game was called the Squid Game. The main goal to win the game is the defender, who is Gihun, needs to past through all the three circles without getting pulled back or being killed by the offencer, who is Sangwoo. Both of them fought until the very end when Sangwoo started to loose and was about to die. Gihun started to get his knife to finish the game although he didn't want to kill his childhood best friend. Sangwoo told him that he should do it in order to escape this death-thrilling game. Gihun replied that they can win this together and offered his hand to help Sangwoo. Sangwoo started to reach his friend's hand until he decided to sacrifice himself by getting Gihun's knife and stabbed himself in the throat. Gihun finally became the winner of the game and got his cash prize. Because of this traumatic experience, Gihun didn't touch his prize for a whole year for this makes him remember all of his friends' deaths especially for Sangwoo's. When Gihun finally went to the outside world, he had a hard time to share of what happened to Sangwoo to his own mother later on. It's still unknown if Sangwoo's mother knows either the Squid Game or his own son's death.

After a year later, Gihun finally started to use his cash money in order to fly to America and be reunited with his daughter. He also helped SaeByeok's younger brother of finding a home which Sangwoo's mother decided to adopt him. Gihun then gave a huge luggage to Sangwoo's mother and inside of it contains the half of the cash prize from the last year's game. Sangwoo's mother asked what was inside while Gihun replied "It's the thing that I owed to Sangwoo".

Fanon
SangHun is a popular ship within the fandom mostly because they've known each other when they were younger before the Squid Game. Some fans would also ship this because of the "friends-to-enemies" trope among drama thriller shows. Even though this is quite famous, some fans would abandon this ship because of Sangwoo and Gihun's attempt to kill each other on the last episode even though they tried to reconciled their problems at the last minute of the game. One of the memorable moments of this ship being sailed is when Sangwoo decided to sacrifice himself instead of giving his hand to Gihun in order to let his friend win the the cash prize and the game.

There are currently 30+ fanfics on A03 and is the second most written ship behind SaeByeong. It's also rivaled by Sali, Sangwoo's ship with Ali.

Fandom
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