not so jolly hello from me ! ya see them summer fling people . the paintjays yeah⬇️⬇️. also a payjay wip I'll probably never come back to bc ts pmo baaaddddd

So obviously, Ryland gets recruited to the Hail Mary Project. Well, Colt gets brought onto as a risk specialist. This doesn’t happen until after Stratt realizes that Ryland has the coma gene, and you know the whole identical twin thing. Gotta have back ups. As the project continues to gain attention, it’s obviously gonna get some negative attention. Because one thing humans are good at, it’s disagreeing on things, even if it means saving the world. So Sierra Six gets sent in as a bodyguard for Ryland.

Ryland and Colt are definitely hurt and angry because they hadn’t seen their big brother since he killed their father and they had been told he was dead. There was one fic I read with Cort as Ryland’s bodyguard where Ryland was pissed at Cort (rightfully so) and I am thus incorporating that into this little headcanon au. Just with the added Coltland twins angst. I don’t think it’d take long for the twins to, maybe not forgive, but to let things rest. Because there’s a planet to save and their little family is together for the first time in decades, so there’s more important things to go on.

A lot of things stay mostly the same, just with added Coltland gentry brotherly shenanigans. Like Cort getting Ryland to sleep, or Colt playing some moderate pranks, enough to be funny but not enough to impede the important work going on.

And then the explosion, both the main and backup scientists are dead. And while it’d kinda make no sense, and it kinda pains me to kill more people off, I’d say pretty much both main and backup crew might have to be dead. Cause there’s only three crew members, and conveniently three Goslings. But the brothers get told they have to go up into space. There’s no choice, well there’s the three hour decision period but we all know how that ends.

Obviously, Ryland doesn’t want to go, Colt has Jody, and while Cort’s concerns are his brothers (This would either take place before Gray Man, or Fitz lived and Claire lives with him still, love her and Cort, but he’s getting shipped to space here). So they’re gonna do the escape attempt.

Cort’s got his gun, and training, so he provides cover for the twins to get away. Someone gets a (really) lucky shot, he goes down and the twins are pretty close to follow.

Ryland is still the only one to get the whole amnesia thing (much to the anger of Colt and Cort) cause angst. Can’t have a Coltland gentry au without the angst.

Does this make sense, nope, but I really want to read about all three in space. I don’t have the time to write it myself. Might do a second part with headcanons/plot points with them and Rocky, maybe.