Kinda interesting thing i noticed about Gator Tillman after watching Fargo s5 and thinking way too much about his arc was how absolutely insanely lucky he was to have found the door to that bunker/tunnel after being abandoned by Roy. And upon further musing i think that was EXTREMELY intentional.
He was freshly blinded in a way that didnt even offer him vague light perception (on account of his eyes literally being gouged out) with no experience or tools on how to navigate with a disability like that, led to and dumped alone in a vast empty area with no landmarks to guide him and without being told where he was or if there was even anything around at all. He was unmoored, disoriented, in excruciating pain, struggling to walk straight and reeling from his whole purpose being swept out from under him moments ago and yet? Somehow steered himself right into a tiny VERY EASILY MISSABLE door that led him exactly where he needed to be to play his eventual essential part in taking down his father for good.
And Gator, as a character, we know is literally DEFINED by bad luck and failures. From the moment he's born he is branded as a flop by his father and spends ALL his screentime having his plans (all centered around being like his father of course) go awry. His already dismal odds are never stacked against him MORE than in the scene in field and somehow, in this moment he experiences the cosmic equivalent of finding a needle in a haystack. Like unfathomable levels of good luck, on the FIRST TRY. Not only that but it's quite literally the first time in the show something goes his way and it only happens the SECOND he stops trying to be Roy which i think is intentional and symbolic.
It's as if every time he made an effort to be what Roy wanted, the universe, through NOT letting him succeed, was telling him that this was not what he was meant to do and not who he was built to be. Because the second that dream shatters around him and his pursuit ends and he has no choice but to switch gears to the opposite, to actively rejecting and fighting AGAINST his father, do his efforts begin SUCCEEDING and he's cosmically rewarded with help in an impossible situation. A metaphorical light in his literal dark.
There's a reason his tough guy persona felt so ill fitting and silly and forced at times bc it was. It actively fought against his nature and once he relinquished it by having the mask forcibly stripped away (because someone as indoctrinated and corrupt as him sadly wouldnt get there any other way) did things start falling into place. Directly after this too he gets his second bit of good luck by having Dot forgive and embrace him despite the fact that she had every reason NOT too. Not sure if this was intentional on the writers part but it does slot into his arc and characterization SUPER well
