I need for Ryland to somehow come back to Earth (with Rocky and Adrian ofc, they're a package deal now) after they saved Erid and meet with Colt and Court (i do love some coltlandgentry even though i only watched phm as of now)
BUUTTT it's can't be this nice, we need some angst
Ryland still has problems with his memories, he doesn't remember a lot of his childhood (be it cuz his brain wants to protect him from the trauma or due to memory wipe or both, cuz both is good) and the brothers just look at Ryland's eyes sometimes looking for recognition and see nothing. Kinda as if they're seeing just somebody or something wearing their brother's skin
the "new" Ryland also has new habits - can't sleep without being watched by someone, clicks and taps, uses "statement" or "question" at the end of the sentences and overall copies a lot from Eridian's style of communicating. He also sometimes slips and says something in a very broken Eridian language instead of English
Throw in some chronic pain because he spent years in space and suddenly is in a place with gravity (counting Erid in that too)
I want Colt and Court to look at Ryland and mourn the loss of their youngest brother from before-the-Hail-Mary. Re-mourn if you will
I want Ryland to spend more time with Rocky and Adrian than with his brothers because the thought of looking at his siblings and not recognizing them to a level that he knows he should makes him feel so guilty that he'd rather isolate than to face them.
I want them to be reunited but in an angstiest (it's not a word, is it?) way possible without Ryland being dead
Edit: thought of something else - Colt and Court don't know Ryland was forced to go and so they think he'd "abandoned" them. Ryland wants them to believe he volunteered because he's "brave" (he doesn't even think about the possible "abandonment") but slips at some point and mentions the kidnapping.
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