As most of you know (or maybe you don’t) I had the absolute pleasure of spending the entire weekend with Ryan Haywood as his personal assistant. I could not have asked for a better charge for the weekend. Ryan was constantly worried that he wouldn’t be able to please anyone, and I had to remind him that the goal was not to please everything (because that’s impossible) but to bring joy to as many people as possible. He had other obligations he needed to get to (panels, signings, eating, etc) and took as many pictures and signed as many things as he possibly could.
THIS IS WHERE RYAN STORIES START!
Now onto some Ryan stories. This is my favorite story because I feel like it so perfectly represents his attitude. There was an autistic fan bound to a wheelchair who wanted to talk to Ryan at the end of his signing with Caleb. He had a ticket, so we said that that was fine since handicapped individuals are to be treated as VIP. Ryan was totally understanding and spent the next 20 minutes until we had to head to his next panel talking with him and it absolutely made his day. The next day, that same fan had a panic attack after the AH panel. I don’t know a lot about autism, but I was told that individuals with autism have certain people that can calm them down. Ryan was one of those people for this man. I talked to Ryan to see if he would be okay with talking to the fan and trying to calm him down, and he said that he would do “whatever he could to help”. He went over to him and sat down with him and calmed him down. It was one of the sweetest things I have every experienced, and Ryan was able to make RTX really special for that fan.
On a brighter note, I knew Ryan was totally a dad when he spelled my name Hanna all weekend instead of Hannah. I thought that was absolutely the funniest, most dad-like thing ever and I’m not even a tad bit mad about it :)
Ryan was also the one who told me that he wanted to go sit on the throne at some point. That was totally his idea, and I thought it was brilliant. (clearly it was because now those pics are literally EVERYWHERE)
There was also a point where he was asked to sign a dildo. His response: “Sure, why not!”
He was also incredibly grateful for all the gifts he received!
There was a fan who was crying and hyperventilating during one of his signings. He went up to her before she could make her way to the table and gave her the biggest hug ever.
In the last AH panel, Michael was gifted a mason jar of peach moonshine. He drank half of it during the panel, but the other half was knocked over onto Ryan’s lap when the fans crowded the stage after the panel. It got all over his pants. I asked him if perhaps he wanted me to run to the RT store and grab him some AH or RT pajama pants, but he said he would “just go into the family bathroom, take them off, and try to dry them with the dryer”. We could have had pajama Ryan, but nooooo But he did that and it all turned out okay!
There were several times where I had to physically push him because he wanted to stop and sign everyone’s stuff or take pictures with everyone! (BTW if any of you really wanted to get a pic or signature from him and couldn’t because I wouldn’t let you, I’M SO SORRY AND I PROMISE YOU THERE WAS A REASON! I’M SENDING YOU LOTS OF HUGS!)
He was so delightfully awkward the entire time! It was wonderful!
He told me that the whole joke about him and Meg is totally okay with him, and his wife DOES know about it. So joke away, my RT/AH friends!
You’ve all seen the awkward dance he did during the Free Play filming. I about died when that happened!!
He also did a really great job of trying not to misgender anyone.
I know for a fact there are more, I just can’t think of them right now! As I remember them I will post them, but that’s it for now!
TL;DR RYAN IS FUCKING AWESOME AND BEING HIS PA FOR THE WEEKEND WAS THE RADDEST THING EVER.
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