SangHun

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

- Sang-Woo to Gi-Hun before dying

SangHun is the slash ship between Cho Sang-woo and Seong Gi-hun from the Squid Game fandom.

Canon
Sang-Woo and Gi-Hun actually have known each other since they were children. They would often go to Sang-Woo's house to play Korean outdoor games or the games that were all played later on during the beginning of the plot. Their strong friendship soon got faded away after Sang-Woo left for business to travel to America and doesn't often stay in contact with his friend nor family which leaves Gi-Hun to take care of Sang-Woo's mother and the business she's doing for a living.

The two met again during the first game, Red-Light, Green-Light, when Sang-Woo noticed his friend's face and appearance. After half of the players were killed during the game, Gi-Hun became scared and won't think of plan to go to the finish line. Sang-Woo noticed his reaction and managed to guide Gi-Hun to go to the finish before the timer ends, which Gi-Hun 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 (with Sae-Byeok and Ji-Yeong soon in the third game, Tug of War).

On the second game, Sang-Woo got information from Kang Sae-Byeok 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 triangle honeycomb, he let Gihun pick the umbrella which is the hardest way to finish the second game. He didn't even try to share how he knew what the easiest shape was to let me survive the game although, Gi-Hun managed to carve out the umbrella perfectly, using his trick, which made Sang-Woo impressed and relieved that he survived the second game.

Both of them made their best to complete the next third and fourth game until Sang-Woo killed an innocent man to win a challenge on the fifth game. Gi-Hun asked why he did it which Sang-Woo replied that he did it in order to survive the game and that they would've died if he didn't do it sooner. During night time, Gi-Hun tried to kill his friend in order for him and Kang Sae-Byeok to win the sixth game together but she stopped him when he was about to. Later on, Gi-Hun noticed that Kang Sae-Byeok 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, Sang-Woo suddenly stabbed Sae-Byeok on the throat when he wasn't looking. Gi-Hun hurried back to Sae-Byeok's body and tried to kill Sang-Woo with his kitchen knife after Sae-Byeok's body was inside the casket. 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 Gi-Hun, needs to past through all the three circles without getting pulled back or being killed by the offencer, who is Sang-Woo. Both of them fought until the very end when Sang-Woo 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. Sang-Woo told him that he should do it in order to escape this death-thrilling game. Gi-Hun replied that they can win this together and offered his hand to help Sang-Woo. Sang-Woo started to reach his friend's hand until he decided to sacrifice himself by getting Gi-Hun's knife and stabbed himself in the throat. Gi-Hun finally became the winner of the game and got his cash prize. Because of this traumatic experience, Gi-Hun didn't touch his prize for a whole year for this makes him remember all of his friends' deaths especially for Sang-Woo's. When Gi-Hun finally went to the outside world, he had a hard time to share of what happened to Sang-Woo to his own mother later on. It's still unknown if Sang-Woo's mother knows either the Squid Game or his own son's death.

After a year later, Gi-Hun finally started to use his cash money in order to fly to America and be reunited with his daughter. He also helped Sae-Byeok's younger brother of finding a home which Sang-Woo's mother decided to adopt him. Gi-Hun then gave a huge luggage to Sang-Woo'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 Gi-Hun replied "It's the thing that I owed to Sang-Woo".

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 Sang-Woo and Gi-Hun'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. The ship is rivaled by SaLi, Sang-Woo's ship with Ali. One of the memorable moments of this ship being sailed is when Sang-Woo decided to sacrifice himself instead of giving his hand to Gi-Hun in order to let his friend win the the cash prize and the game.

There are currently 54+ fanfics on A03 and it is the second most written Squid Game ship behind SaeByeong.

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