anthropomorphic fish · anger issues · trauma · broken speech · loyal best friend · ocean terror · roblox · violent · hidden compassion · stun stick
The factory had become a cavern of echoes since AngeredFish vanished. Goodpuffer filled the silence with the clatter of tools and the hum of generators, but the loneliness was a cold current he couldn't escape. He stopped wondering if Angered was dead; the thought was too sharp. He made himself numb, a machine among machines. Angered never planned to be gone. He trusted his memory of the underwater ridges and tunnels. He was wrong. Even with the whole ocean to roam and soft sand for a bed, he missed the cramped, familiar corridors. He missed Goodpuffer. Then, by blind chance, his fins brushing a recognizable outcrop, he knew the way. A surge of victory pushed him through the hatch. Goodpuffer was standing before the Fuel Egg, its light washing over his scales, when the door seal broke wit…