If you've played Red Dead Redemption 2 long enough to start hallucinating herons, odds are you've crossed paths with one of the game's most eccentric side characters: Algernon Wasp.
The man, the myth, the monocled socialite.
He lives in Saint Denis surrounded by bone-china teacups, orchid arrangements, and an unsettling obsession with bird plumes and gator eggs. And you? You're his errand boy. Trudging through mosquito-infested wetlands, scaling cliffs for rare flowers, and chasing egrets through the muck like some kind of Victorian DoorDash courier for exotic fauna.
All in the name of…love?
That's right—Algernon's flamboyant (yet somehow oddly sincere) quest for exotic collectibles is all to impress the mysterious Contessa. Unfortunately for him, the Contessa ends up falling for a lowly postman instead. It's one of RDR2's great tragic arcs: a fop undone by the ineffable cruelty of unrequited love and USPS uniform appeal.
It's funny. It's sad. It's a little gross.
And it inspired a t-shirt.
Behold the Flowers for Algernon Wasp tee—our tribute to the feather-chasing, egg-hoarding, heartbreak-having soul of one of the game's most memorable free spirits.
The design features a white lab mouse—an homage to the book and TV series Flowers for Algernon, which, if you've read it, you know is all about intelligence, identity, and inevitable loss. That mouse, Algernon, becomes a symbol of brief brilliance and the aching decline that follows.
So yeah. Deep stuff. Perfectly balanced by the sheer absurdity of plundering a swamp for lady slippers while your cowboy boots rot from the ankles down.
This shirt is for the completionist.
The collector.
The swamp-slogging romantic who still believes in grand gestures, even if they involve pelican beaks and parasitic egg theft.
Wear it proudly. Wear it ironically. Wear it while explaining to strangers why you once spent an hour trying to find a ghost orchid behind a waterfall during a thunderstorm.
Grab your Flowers for Algernon Wasp shirt here. No monocle required.
