#nickleodeon

there's gonna be serious spoilers in here. like vague enough that you won't know who did what but the au basically depends on how insane these plot points are.

i wish more people knew about nickleodeon's the astronauts bc holy fucking shit the concept would go so well with phm!!

like the idea of a bunch of kids being ignored by their parents who have vaguely been announced to be searching for something that can further earth's journey into space/searching for different life (the trip is literally called the odyssey) and then getting trapped on a ship bc some employee entrusted his kids to give him his space keys and those kids make an immature choice to go on the ship and they have to launch on their own?? oh my god ryland would be PISSEDDDD. and then not only that, these kids are getting pushed around by their parents to be paranoid of each other and to take a commander's position, a position that requires years of training and mental fortitude and it ends up being in the hands of the youngest. she's a prodigy but holy fucking shit. she had a whole mental breakdown and ryland would have to definitely talk her through that once their ships meet and he's finally sort of in contact with ground again. which he would definitely get to shit talk way earlier and not be presumed dead. also the amount of shit they do unmanned is insane. definitely more things to talk through, especially since them trying to fix a cpu issue gets one of them killed and then revived. also, they tried to return to earth and got stranded back in space and bc the show got canceled, it ends with them looking at a giant rock in space, that they assume is an alien vessel and it was a cliffhanger. instead, i'd imagine that it was perhaps a dead crewmate of rocky's and instead, they end up floating past his old ship and approaching the hail mary. because the hail mary and the odyssey ii are both pretty large and nasa based, the two get to chatting and therefore, ryland grace now gets a bunch of traumatized human kids and a direct line to cuss out almost everyone but (and maybe he saves her for later) eva stratt back on earth. although rocky's definitely doing more of that.