More thoughts! Because I made people sad with it on X and I'd like to do the same here
These are pictures of a scene that got cut out/where they changed the shirt. He's wearing a Scorpions shirt, a shirt that clashes with the otherwise nerdy wardrobe he owns
I think this is Colt's shirt. Colt gave it to Ryland to borrow it to him (maybe on a rainy day he wanted to visit Colt and got soaked to the bone while getting to him) and Ry wanted to give it back later. But Colt had his accident and shut everyone out so Ryland never got the chance to return the shirt because he couldn't find or contact Colt. So he just kept it, sometimes wearing it and hoping that Colt is save and okay and alive.
Later on, Ry gets sent to space and Stratt and Carl packed his stuff for the Hail Mary. They just pack all of the clothes he had with him, Colt's shirt included. When Ryland wakes up he doesn't remember anything (obliviously) so he also forgot he has a twin. He just thinks the shirt is his even if it's very different from his science pun shirts. Later when he remembers Colt he has a breakdown because not only did he realize that he will never see his twin again, but he also remembers that he doesn't even know if Colt is alive after the last thing he heard of him was from the news that Colt broke his back. So the shirt becomes a sacred item to Ry, a memorial to the life and family he will never see again (he didn't correct Stratt when she said he has no immediate family because 1. Why would she believe him that he is the twin of a famous stuntman, and 2. Colt and Ry haven't talked in months. He didn't know if he was dead or alive so it might as well could've been true that he doesn't have family anymore if Colt died)

















