Inho/Gihun

Inho/Gihun, also known as 457 is the slash pairing between Seong Gihun, the main character of Squid Game and Hwang Inho, the Frontman and main antagonist. Prior to the release of season two of the series on Boxing Day 2024, the pairing was a rare ship with less than 10 stories on AO3. The ship grew quickly after its release, reaching and surpassing Sangwoo/Gihun not even two weeks later with more than 500 stories as of January 7, 2025. 
It has been compared to Hannigram due to similarities with their dynamics and physical resemblance of Inho and Hannibal.
== Fandom ==
The pairing went insanely popular on TikTok at the end of December 2024. It's been described as old man toxic doomed yaoi. The scene where they are looking at each other and there's a rainbow painted on the wall behind them joining their heads together during the second game has been widely discussed as a happy coincidence or, jokingly a sign of canonization.
The name of the ship "457" is the sum of the player numbers of both (456 and 001).
In Jan 1, 2025, a twitter user asked people to draw a few screenshots of a guy being gagged and tied up and another guy getting very close to him as Inhun,https://x.com/_MaiMizokami_/status/1874319612881625358 INHUN ARTIST DRAW THEM IN THIS POSE AND MY LIFE IS YOURS #SquidGame #SquidGame2 #inhun #GiHun #HwangInHo #001x456 the post reached more than 9k likes and nearly 800 reposts with some of the drawing getting really popular. The screenshots feature two russian actors, and some users from Russia were amused that it is so popular overseashttps://x.com/SHTRIGGA/status/1874947810958954999 Я не первый раз вижу этот коллаж в иностранных тырнетах, но каждый раз ору чайкойhttps://x.com/BlackIntegral/status/1874766147368931568 Фак я каждый раз в ахуе когда этот референс воскресает и меня просто простреливает тем что а) там арсений б) зарубежное комьюнити реально использует эту картинку как будто меня просто перемещают куда-то в другой мир Я увидела арт на 15к фавов по этому рефу и просто and wondered if Arseniy Popov and Anton Zakharyin, the actors appearing on them, know about it.
People in Korea were confused of how popular the ship got overseashttps://x.com/idontknow04628/status/1877571243760652783 외국인들 보법부터 다르더라..개충격먹어ㅛ음https://x.com/ttttttomatoooo/status/1877093552397697433 아니이런건대체누구좋으라고어떤ㅅㅋ머리에서나오는거야https://x.com/mung_mungjj/status/1877287278835298310 구라안치고 Inhun (인호+기훈) 미국에서 진짜 ㅈㄴ 미친스케일 대메이저임 막을수가없음 ㅅㅂ 미국사람들입맛진짜독특함. Some were confused as to why "Inhun" (인훈) was chosen as CP name, to which other users explained that in the west, people usually create ship names as portmanteau of both names.https://x.com/kkyinnk000/status/1877213922324857146 근데 이게 왜 inhun 이냐면 서양쪽은 왼른 상관안하고 이름을 조합하기 때문에 오징어게임에 나오는 인호와 기훈을 섞어서 인훈(inhun) 으로 불리움 그래서 서양쪽에 씨피명을 물어보는 사람이 많음 근데 이름이 아니라 특징으로도 씨피명이 정해질수있어서 inhun이 아닌 # 457 검색해도 나옴 The ship doesn't seem to be minimally popular in the serie's country of origin with some finding funnyhttps://x.com/_Hyun_613/status/1877374415438021007 존나웃기네ㅅㅂ or even disgustinghttps://x.com/MalaNoche_H/status/1877933878536745109 안그래도 이ㅂㅎ 인터뷰 보고 뭐야 그랬는데 인훈 검색하니 세상이 왜 그렇게 돌아가나 싶은… 대체 왜 그렇게 엮어??? 어케 그게 가능함??? 미친ㅋㅋㅋㅋhttps://x.com/etlf279/status/1877235714309444015 으욱 이딴 걸 처먹는 사람이 있다고? 정재병헌 봐서 저러는 거 아닐까? just by thinking it exists at all. Some of the reasons pointed by people were that both actors are too old,https://x.com/only_poorstacy/status/1877024378052829560 한 십년만 젊엇으면 흥미잇엇을텐데 오겜2 기준으로는 둘다 넘 푸석햇듬 or the actors might find out about it.
According to an article in Naver, Lee Byung-hun, Inho's actor was told about the BL ship with Lee Jung-jae, Gihun's actor and he laughed. He said he's "not offended, but not happy either".https://m.entertain.naver.com/article/421/0008010722 '오겜2' 이병헌 "이정재와 BL? 기분 좋진 않아" 폭소 [N인터뷰]①
=== Themes ===
* Enemies to Lovers
* Identity Porn
* Obsessive Behaviour
* Possessive Behaviour
== Example Fanworks ==
=== Fanart ===
* Art of the rainbow on the wall joining their heads by ovovovoveva (Jan 6, 2025)
* All the QRTs on the Arseniy Popov meme
=== Fanfiction ===
* Don't die on me (I want to taste you first) by NightSkyWhisper
* Equal Parts by a_true_neutral
== Links ==
* Hwang Inho/Seong Gihun tag on AO3
== References ==
Category:Squid Game
Category:Slash Pairings