The Art Ghost

Ryland Grace [Project Hail Mary] and Colt Seavers [the Fall Guy] are identical twins and their older brother is Courtland Gentry -aka Six- [the Grey Man] with an about 7 year age difference. But their surname is originally Gentry for all three of them (later on Ryland gave himself their mother’s maiden name 'Grace' and 'Seavers' is Colt’s stage name). Their mother died giving birth to the twins which made their father -who already was an angressive man- abusive, so mostly Court raised the twins.

Later when the twins were 8 y/o and Court 15 y/o, for some twisted reason their father tried to drown Ryland in the bathtub. In order to save him, Court had to take their father’s gun and shoot him. He was separated from the twins by the police and was sentenced to 35 years in prison. At 22 he was approached by the CIA and they faked his death to recruit him into the Sierra Program, the cover story was that he “died in a prison riot”. The Grey Man movie plot happens and at some point he dates Tangerine [Bullettrain] (not a RyGos).

Meanwhile, after Court’s arrest, the Coltland twins get adopted by their estranged uncle (on their father’s side) Holland March [the Nice Guys] who is in an established relationship with Jackson Healy and has his canonical daughter Holly become sorta like a half-sister to the twins. They might at some point meet their cousin (on their mother’s side) Lars Lindstrom [Lars & the Real Girl] who might be dating Driver [Drive].

Then the plot for the Fall Guy happens. Ryland may or may not have a fling with Tom Ryder (depending on who you ask). After that Colt gets back together with Jody (canon). Then Ryland gets recruited by Stratt and gets launched into space, leaving only an unread voice message behind for Colt. During his coma on the way to Tau Ceti, Ryland dreams up Ken [Barbie]. Then in space he meet his platonic soulmate Rocky and later on the way to Erid, they pick up Simon [Iron Lung] whom Ryland gets into a queerplatonic relationship with.

Is that it? Did I miss anything?

Well, yes and no. On Earth he certainly acted like one. The thing is that Stratt is right about him acting like acoward (line from the book), he stopped persuing his job as a molecular biologist because he couldn’t handle his thesis being mocked and rejected; he hid himself in middle school classroom where the only judgement he had to face was the one from his 13 year-old students who adored him.

He then declined to be the replacement scientist on the Hail Mary because he “doesn’t think he can do it” even though BILLIONS of lives were at stake. Grace says “no” not because he values his own life above anyone else’s, but because he won’t sacrifice himself on a suicide mission that nobody can be certain will succeed. He is afraid that he won’t be able to accomplish something this important with that amount of pressure. The risk of failing was simply too overwhelming. Which in a way is cowardly of him (even though in his defence he only got 3 hours to decide).

However, when he actually was on the Hail Mary, he did everything that was expected of him because he thought he must’ve been brave enough to volunteer for this. If Grace was inherently a coward, he would have shot himself with Commander Yao’s gun.

And then of course became friends with Rocky and chose to give up his chances of going home to turn around and save Rocky (and all other Eridians); because he found someone to be brave for.

No, but I want too. :)