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his twin, who didn’t even like going on elevators? Yeah, low chance he got on that spaceship willingly. For years, he was half convinced that he just made that up to cope with losing his twin.

Finally back guys. Who missed me???

ryland grace who always makes school supplies available for his kids and actively helps with school supply, clothes, etc drives that benefits the community because that’s what him and colt needed when they were younger.

ryland grace who teaches his kids how to take a step back, take a deep breath, and come back to it—he wants his kids to succeed past academics, he wants them to believe in themselves.

coming from a man who was rejected and shunned by academia, ryland knows the important of giving your students the chance and confidence to succeed.

ryland grace who keeps the lights low in his classroom and actually has those skylight panels to let natural light in, it’s better if his kids aren’t super overwhelmed in his class.

ryland grace who loves it when his kids answer questions, there’s no stupid question and he’ll find himself saying “holy smokes, that’s a really good question!” and turning the question into a learning opportunity. especially biology.

ryland grace who really stresses the importance of learning over results, your grades aren’t what dictate your capability and he stresses that everyday, it’s practically a mantra for his students.

ryland grace who follows every 504 plan to a tee not because of the law but because he respects his students—his kids need extra time? you’ve got it. you need noise canceling headphones to focus better? of course. ryland grace who professionally tells parents that they’re tools for his kids to succeed and he WILL follow them to a tee. it also reminds him of colt a lot who he misses like crazy.

and when mr. grace disappears into space for a long time, his kids never forget him. his kids who always remember to take a deep breath in moments of stress, his kids who developed a sense of perseverance because of how he taught them.

Full-on, Jody considers sending him to a mental hospital because he won't eat, he won't move, and he barely reacts to anything. Maybe she does, maybe she feels like the love of her life is dying; and she doesn’t know what to do. He just sits and stares at the ceiling or sleeps. And I think it would be months of this— Colt coming out of it only a few times, maybe for a few hours at a time, just to have a psychological breakdown. Like his whole body is trying to rip itself apart, almost like a psychosomatic seizure, before he cycles back into being dissociated 24/7.

Everyone in his life realizes that the only reason he hasn't stepped off a roof is because he made that promise to Jody that he'd let the people who love him help him. So this is his middle ground: slowly self-destructing, but not running away.

And if it's a coltlandgentry au, I think the only thing that could snap him out of the cycle long enough to confront his brother leaving would be Court reappearing in his life. Maybe Stratt feels guilty. Maybe Court, upon hearing about his younger brother's fate, resurfaces long enough to check on his middle brother, only to find him basically catatonic or actively having a seizure.

Maybe Colt used to get like this when they were kids. He'd shut down, go somewhere else so completely and for so long that it could take days to get him back. Maybe that's why he loves physical work so much— it centers him in his body. It pulls him away from the fog that used to descend at any moment, where he could lose hours or days of time. And by the time the fog was no longer a constant problem, he was already in love with his craft.

Now, getting him to even go outside can send him into a screaming, seizure-induced fit. Something in his brain has cracked. Its foundation shattered, and he's frozen, unable to jump or move on, just staring at the wreckage of his mind and the long, long life ahead of him without Ryland.

Do you think it was Ryland he clawed himself out of the fog for? That it was his baby brother shivering in his arms, begging him to come back, begging him not to leave like Court did, after Colt lost time like always? Making him promise to do anything, try anything, for him? It was Ryland who kept him from falling off that edge. Ryland who was his lodestar. Ryland who he built the foundations of himself around until he found a way to stand on his own.

Because as much as Ryland was his little brother, as much as Colt took care of and protected him, deep down Colt knew he needed Ryland more than Ryland ever needed him.

So he made himself bigger and tougher than anyone else, so Ryland would always have someone there for him. So the fog would never take Colt away from him ever again. And in turn, he pushed away anyone and everyone whenever he was weak, because he couldn't need them. If he needed them, then he couldn't stand alone. But now Ryland's gone. And while Colt was getting better at reaching out for help, at being vulnerable, his entire reason for every act of self-actualization is as good as dead. He has no ability to conceptualize himself, much less a reality where, Ryland is gone.

So he doesn't, and Court is left with a younger brother he couldn't save and a middle brother he can at least try to.

So he finds Carl. It's not hard. Eva's in prison, but the next best person to pull emotional strings just happens to work for the CIA. Court comes to him and says: Free me. Let me see my brother. Save Claire, make sure she has a good life. It's the least you could do for my brother. Carl tells him to fuck off, then quietly makes things happen behind the scenes. And suddenly Six is Court again, with the world before him and Claire in his care as her legal guardian. Because Carl loved Grace too, in his own way. And Court is good at his job.

Court immediately goes to Colt. Who is a shell in more ways than one. But Court remembers this Colt. He remembers this Colt better than he remembers the version without the fog. The glassy-eyed brother who would come to in the middle of his cereal and ask what was happening, where he was, why his eye hurt. He knows this Colt. So he takes over his care.

It's as easy as explaining things to Jody and Dan, then moving everyone somewhere open and beautiful by the beach. It's day by day, helping Colt eat. Holding his hand. Leading him outside to stargaze or build sand castles by the beach. It's Claire chattering endlessly to Colt about trends, art, photography and how stupid some boy in class is being. It's Jody deciding to live her life and still come back every day— or video call whenever she can— it’s holding him at night and kissing his cheek before she leaves at breakfast; because she said she would stay, and she never backs down. It's watching movies with Dan. Movies they've both seen a hundred times, know word for word, and still pausing to wait for Colt to wake up and say his part.

It's Court's steady presence, who takes to caretaking like his hands were made for it. Like, in another life, this would have been his purpose. (Claire calls him Nurse Grace more than once, and somehow it feels right more than Six ever did. )

It's medication and doctor visits and physical therapy. Always physical therapy. It's agonizing in its slowness. In its quiet. It could take months, maybe even a year, before Colt can stay present in his body for more than a week without seizures, breakdowns, or falling back into the fog.

And maybe this is forever. Maybe he's broken forever. You can't shatter someone's sense of self and expect them to put it back together exactly the same way. Maybe Colt wakes up one day and finds himself an entirely different man. With different wants and loves and desires. Maybe the people in his life love him anyway. Maybe his twin, his other half, his soul outside his body, is eleven light-years away and took the pieces of Colt that made him whole.

But maybe the people who love him can help fill in some of those gaps. Enough that he can stand. And laugh, and stargaze, and love.

Colt is usually seen as the tough, independent brother but I think he would be secretly clingy and sentimental. Here is my completely made up/non canon proof:

- Colt was originally left-handed but he forced himself to be right-handed so him and Ryland would be the same. It lead to his handwriting being notoriously bad. Teachers called Ryland to their classrooms on multiple occasions because he was the only one who could always read his papers.

- Colt was a natural at driving but pretended to be bad so Ryland didn’t have to repeat driving school alone. Ryland figured it out as soon as he saw him ace his drivers test.

- Ryland loved going to the movie theater. Colt always went but his ADHD made focusing a struggle. One time Ryland saw Colt snapping a rubber band on his wrist to stay focused during a particularly long movie. Right after that, Ryland coincidentally decided he liked watching them at home with popcorn refill breaks in the middle of movie.

- Colt didn’t want to have a different last name for his stage name. The only reason he did it was because his agent told him it would be better for Ryland’s academic career if Colt’s stunt work didn’t show up when someone Googled “Dr Grace”. He still cried when he signed the papers.

- Colt thought the UNSCO situation was hilarious until Ryland started crying over the phone in the airport. He backed out of a very good film to be in San Francisco as soon as Ryland landed.

- When Colt travels for a movie, he sends Ryland a postcard. Ryland always replies with a postcard from San Francisco. It started as a joke but one time he didn’t send one and Colt called him to make sure he was alive. Ryland always sent one after that. Colt keeps all of them in a box under his bed.

Okay that’s all for now, I have to go back to work lmao.

- E 🌖

how much i looooove my coltland twins. these are all so spot-on. my additions below:

i’m 100% certain that colt is the more likely to contact and call out of the two of them, considering that he’s always on the move. there’s a bit of responsibility on his end to assure that ryland knows if colt has screwed up his back again or busted his nose. ryland has pointed out on occasion that he’s got the short end of the stick when it comes to being colt’s emergency contact; one of them is being called up MUCH more than the other.

ryland definitely despises visiting colt on set for the sheer reason that a PA mistakenly guided him to a free fall stunt. when he realized what was happening, he definitely yelped. high-pitched. the cast and crew were so confused until ryland was yelling in circles about how he wasn’t colt. obviously, colt thought it was the funniest thing ever. and now, ryland only ever goes straight to colt’s trailer. no exploring involved.

the fact that they’re so clearly different doesn’t override the fact that they both have such an ego on them. their cockiness and headstrong nature gets applied in different ways—colt with his stunts and ryland with his research—but it’s very clear that they both have it.

colt starting in hollywood while ryland is doing his undergrad in molecular bio, there’s a little bit of separation anxiety involved. the proudest ryland ever feels in those four years is when his study groups suggest going to the movies and he knows that his brother is going to be in all the clips where the leads are supposed to be jumping off roofs or rolling over cars.

OH THAT'S EASY my fave hc/AU is that grace is twins with colt from the fall guy <3

princess: what is in that?

maid: it's water for adu-

princess' eyes get really big

princess: what's that?

older princess: oh this? I guess you can try a little bit haha

princess sniffs the glass

this? I guess you can try a

little bit haha