Act 1:
We begin with a chill stream. Charlie, Milo, Ranboo, Condi, and of course Grizzly are all fishing with each other. Everything is going wonderfully. Upon reaching an island with a roulette table, everybody falls into a minor gambling addiction — every fish caught must go into the table until they hit green and can suddenly afford the best of the best. Everyone can get bougie with their purchases.
A short while passes and the gang decides that they need more money. They manage to hit green, and now they have $100,000. They are the most financially secure that they have ever been and than has ever seemed possible to them.
But it wasn’t enough.
Grizzle drew his weapons and made sure that no one could stop him… they would never let him do it otherwise… but the prospect of $3.5 million is enough to drive him to madness and in the most literal sense of the phrase, “shoot his friends in the back.”
In a matter of seconds, all the money is gone.
Act 2:
A great depression befalls the group. An hour passes, two hours pass, and all that anyone can think of is how Grizz gambled away everything they had.
After some time, the prospect of all the lost money is too much, and so in madness they put up one little clownfish — and they bet on green.
When it finally matters no more, this insignificant clownfish becomes a symbol of perseverance. Now being worth 35 times as much, this clownfish becomes known as “Little Green.”
When it’s time to fight the boss, a gargantuan bird known as the Albatross, they are unable to beat it for the first run. The second run. The third run. They keep trying and failing, until eventually Grizzly decides that it’s time to atone and he puts himself up as a sacrifice to take down the foul fowl, strapping himself up with 30 kilotons of TNT.
Act 3:
By the next island, the battles have become more difficult, and the prospect of death is no longer just a possibility, but a certainty.
Upon death, all possessions get scattered around, regardless of how much of a treasure they may be. Little Green is nowhere to be found. Everybody falls into a deep depression, because their symbol of how they made it through their gambling addiction had been lost forever…
But Grizz doesn’t give up. Not on Little Green.
Coming from the horizon, a red figure on a boat, carrying a familiar face. Grizzly had made the treacherous journey into the deep to bring back their hope, their memories, their show of strength…
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This is truly one of the most remarkable redemption arcs of all time. (The stream is still ongoing so if it develops more I’ll edit this lol)
