They’d better have a daughter, because despite teenage Ryland and when he was in his early twenties, I know deep in my heart— nay, in my pure soul, that he is a girl dad without any doubt
god, i want girl dad Ryland Grace so bad it's diabolical. he is so so gentle and tender and constantly Stressed about that little girl (in no small part because he cannot help but see a little bit of you every time he looks at her)
the first time he meets your daughter in the hospital, he is scared to even hold her. and you have to be like "Ryland. she is a baby, not a porcelain doll. you have to be able to hold our child." and ofc he gets over it, and from the second he picks her up that child is basically never being put down again.
(and i hate the stereotype of "having a daughter as karma for a man who wasn't the best in his twenties" but also. it is SO his karma. the second she's old enough to start dating, he is genuinely considering calling Colt to get his hands on a prop gun)