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• The Cost Of Winning by JadeKillian

  Fandoms: Squid Game (TV 2021)  

  • Not Rated
  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • M/M
  • Work in Progress

  21 Dec 2025

  Tags

  • Creator Chose Not To Use Archive Warnings
  • Choi Subong | Thanos/Namgyu
  • Choi Subong | Thanos
  • Namgyu (Squid Game)
  • Post-Squid Game (TV 2021)
  • Drug Use
  • Drug Addiction
  • Withdrawal
  • Self-Destructive Behavior
  • Angst and Tragedy
  • Internalized Homophobia
  • Blood and Violence
  • Alternate Universe - Canon Divergence
  • Toxic Relationships
  • Slow Burn
  • one sided love (or is it?)
  • I hate you (but I’d actually die for you)
  • Flashbacks
  • Explicit Language
  • Eventual Sex
  • Light Dom/sub
  • Bottom Namgyu (Squid Game)
  • Top Choi Subong | Thanos
  • Hurt/Eventual Comfort
  • Arson
  • Namgyu Has BPD | Borderline Personality Disorder (Squid Game)
  • and unresolved trauma

  Summary

  Namgyu and Thanos won the games. They survived, but nothing changed.

  Namgyu is still in the same rundown apartment, working the same late shifts at Club Pentagon, falling deeper into the habits that keep him numb. Thanos is no where to be found…
  Until one night, he shows up again, and everything Namgyu tried to leave behind comes rushing back.

  Because some scars don’t heal, and some games don’t end.

  Language:

  English

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