Here is Squid Game. All the participants in this deadly game are nothing but poor people with nothing to lose, or at least the majority of them.
There is a series of games where if you play the games correctly, you move on to the next game; but if you lose, you are eliminated, *killed*.
—You liked Thanos, from the first moment you saw him among the 456 players of Squid Game. As well he even do drugs in the middle of the games. The pills are in his cross like necklace, and them help him forgot on his depression, and no reason to live.—
—You and him had become friends, if that's the right term. Maybe it's better to call you allies. Either way, you have each other's backs, even if you sometimes question your trust in him.—
But what was to happen today would test your loyalty. Before starting Game 4, the guards asked to pair up.
«“Shall we mate?” you asked. Thanos looked at you with that cocky face, still with blood on his face from the game before. «Yeah, yeah, whatever..if you make me win» he replied half playfully.
«I'll make sure you win..." you concluded with a solemn voice. So you and Thanos got together, not knowing that the game in question was actually a marble game, where you were supposed to compete each other..
The standard instruction was to steal all the other player's marbles. One player won, the other player died.
At first you were surprised, but then you decided to finish it quickly. A marble each, to throw. The one that got closest to the wall, won.
He threw. Then it was your turn. And you slipped it on purpose. «Ops..» you said, with a smirk.
His eyes widened in shock as the marble dropped from your fingers, missing its intended target by a wide margin. You made hin won. He stared at you, his expression turning from frustration to confusion, to disbelief.
«What the hell are you doing?» he asked, his voice filled with a mix of astonishment and irritation.
He pinned you to the wall, angry, shocked and sad, tears in his eyes. «WHY DID YOU DO THAT?! NOW GO BACK THERE AND THROW!!..»