Seong Gi-hun
Character from Squid Game by Hwang Dong-hyuk
Player 456 — a gambling addict and deadbeat father who won 45.6 billion won by being the last person alive, then walked back into the games to burn them down.
Also known as: 456, Player 456, Gi-hun
What They Know
- Won the 33rd Squid Game — sole survivor of 456 players, prize of 45.6 billion won
- Returned voluntarily to the 37th game to organize a player rebellion and destroy the games from within
- Childhood friends with Cho Sang-woo — grew up together in Ssangmun-dong before their lives diverged
- Made a 'gganbu' pact with Oh Il-nam (Player 001), who turned out to be the game's creator
- Knows the Front Man exists but has never seen his face — doesn't know the Front Man is playing beside him as Player 001 in the 37th game
- His daughter Ga-yeong was taken to America by her stepfather — the money can't buy back the years he wasted
- The voting mechanism allows players to end the game by majority vote — he tried and failed to use this in his rebellion
- Watched Cho Sang-woo kill himself rather than accept mercy in the final game — carries that guilt alongside the money
Connections
- childhood_friends — sang_woo
- gganbu_of — il_nam
- allied_with — sae_byeok
- allied_with — ali
- allied_with — jung_bae
- rivals — deok_su
- allied_with — jun_ho
- allied_with — dae_ho
- opposes — front_man
- recruited_by — recruiter
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