Why you should vote for Ryland Grace!!
Number One:
he's extremely funny when he firsts loses his memories aboard the Hail Mary! One of my favorite lines that didn't make it into the movie is "I'm a single man in my thirties, I live alone in a small apartment. I really like, I don't have any kids. I don't like where this is going - a teacher! I'm a school teacher, one." It's even more funny if you listen to the audiobook where he's reading it for the first time, and this is his genuine reaction!
Number Two:
He's extremely smart and dumb at the same time! He's making experiments way before he even remembers his name! He makes so many experience even, that when Rocky gives him a ball made out of a metal, he puts it through tests when Rocky leaves, figuring out that it's iron.... And when they both go back to the xenonite barrier.... Rocky shows him a ring of 26... He's telling him it's iron... And he didn't need to do a thing but wait there.
Number Three:
He has both platonic and romantic relationships with the same people depending on who you ask! He's great Aroace representation if you see him as Aroace! To some people, hes in a QPR with Rocky and Adrian! To other people, he's in a QPR with Stratt! To other people, he's in a romantic relationship with Rocky! To other people he's in a romantic relationship with Stratt! It's every interesting seeing people's takes on his implied and referenced relationships!
Number Four:
All of the fandom agrees it's wrong of Stratt to say that he doesn't have any family members nor a pet while trying to make him go on the Project Hail Mary, viewing his life as lesser because he doesn't - infact, Stratt doesn't either and is kind of projecting! The fandom also agrees on Coltland, and some degree, Coltland Gentry! He has a twin brother, an older brother, and depending on who you ask some weird uncles, grandparents, and younger brothers. It's called the Ryan Gosling Cinematic Universe, and I'm not even sure who came up with that or why but it works! We also ship him with different Markiplier characters, more specifically we ship him with Simon from Iron Lung. I don't know.
Number Four:
In the movie, he never wears his glasses correctly! Everyone in this fandom who has glasses or sunglasses regularly try to mimic his glasses positions when given the chance. Its very funny. He's super silly, please don't break your glasses doing this.
Number Five:
He has a bunch of Fox motifs, and is always refered to as a fox in different fanart. He has a fox cardigan, that almost everyone who knits and crochets try to make by hand, and by almost it means everyone but me, I'm still getting used to it. Stratt is almost always the german shepard, or the (scape)goat, which is also wonderful symbolism. It can get very sad sometimes.
Number Six:
He gets sick on elevators! He does not want to do this! Hes very reluctant on even letting the actual astronauts die! He doesn't realize that he might be chosen as well for it, until, at least in the book, a couple days away from the launch... And they lock him in a cell, where he gets one last conversation with Stratt, before they erase his memories in a way that his brain won't forget technique and training, so he doesn't sabotage the mission like he threatened to. In the movie it's a lot simpler, they just put him unconscious and into the coma right there and then.... So the last words spoken to him are ones of encouragement by one of his greatest friends, and he's the last one he sees before he forgets everything.
Number Seven:
He's so bad at peopling that his best friend - and to some people lover - is a rock spider alien! In the book that's exactly how he describes him, and it's incredibly funny to watch him react to it. Some people relate to this on some kind of spiritual level, which I get, and some people are just like, yeah, that would be me. Some people take this as autism, which I also get, I can't really say anything about it imo.
Number Eight:
In the books after he successfully makes it to Erid with Rocky, he resorts to cannablism, and is morally fine with it! He's accepted his fate of eating burgers made from his flesh and is quite with it. It's food so he'll eat it. He's name named them Meburgers.
Number Nine:
I don't know what to put here, except that he's just Ryland Grace, he's just him. If you guys have anymore reasons that aren't you here lmk.
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