Do you ever think the reason why In-ho didn’t give himself his old number (132) when infiltrating the game (since he gave Gi-hun his old 456 number) is because he was still traumatized and suffering from PTSD of his time as Player 132?
Of course, he was willing to trigger Gi-hun’s trauma by making him Player 456 again (that’s the point) but not his own by making himself Player 132 again.
My thoughts, either he was so triggered by his old 132 number that he was willing to go as Player 001 and risk Gi-hun suspecting him (another 001) or he was that curious and wanted to see if Gi-hun would suspect another 001 (or if Gi-hun’s willingness to trust and see good in people would triumph over that).
Which also led me to think… would In-ho be triggered or how triggered would he be if the new Player 132 (that wasn’t In-ho) was also a husband who needed the money to cover his pregnant wife’s medical bills and save her life and the unborn child’s.
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““When I was about 20 years old, I met an old pastor’s wife who told me that when she was young and had her first child, she didn’t believe in striking children, although spanking kids with a switch pulled from a tree was standard punishment at the time. But one day, when her son was four or five, he did something that she felt warranted a spanking–the first in his life. She told him that he would have to go outside himself and find a switch for her to hit him with. The boy was gone a long time. And when he came back in, he was crying. He said to her, “Mama, I couldn’t find a switch, but here’s a rock that you can throw at me.” All of a sudden the mother understood how the situation felt from the child’s point of view: that if my mother wants to hurt me, then it makes no difference what she does it with; she might as well do it with a stone. And the mother took the boy into her lap and they both cried. Then she laid the rock on a shelf in the kitchen to remind herself forever: never violence. And that is something I think everyone should keep in mind. Because if violence begins in the nursery one can raise children into violence.””
— Astrid Lindgren, author of Pippi Longstocking, 1978 Peace Prize Acceptance Speech (via jillymomcraftypants)
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