Ryou, when he officially becomes a teacher and walks back to that class: Okay ya'll I got good news and bad news. Bad news is that I accidentally pulled a Catch Me If You Can on you guys when Dougal wasn't here. Good news, I got my credentials so now I can officially continue teaching, y'know, if you want me too.
oh, can you imagine? I just have a mental picture of the entire first accidental lecture he had his uniform jacket fully unbuttoned, sleeves rolled up to mid-arm, black tank top underneath, still wearing his heavy ass gloves - and he shows up the next day in proper dress code -
and that last about five minutes before he’s messing with the collar and then ten minutes in the jacket’s getting unbutton. Five more minutes and the sleeves are rolled. Like, the students just get used to walking in to find him half out of uniform and chances are fifty fifty whether he’ll have grease on him or not (not the uniform jacket though, he takes that off to work - much to the delight of some of the cadets).
But Ryou - Ryou seems the Scotty from the original Star Trek to me. Claims credit for any miracle of engineering that happens on his shift whether he was aiming for it and meant it to happen or not. So does he tell the kids the first session was a mistake? Nope. Ryou coasts through a lot of his life not admitting to serendipitous mistakes - unless confronted. He won’t lie. He just won’t mention he was actually trying to make the engine stop with the ticking noise when he accidentally increased its output by twelve percent. Do the cadets have the weirdest classes sometimes because Ryou doesn’t know what he’s doing and makes it up as he goes? Oh hell yes. Does he admit any of it isn’t intentional? Nope. Did it work? Yes? Than that’s the only answer you need. Don’t ask how. He just did it. And his twin just rolls his eyes when Ryou tells him about it over the comm from where Taka is currently in orbit on a mission around Io and grins because - yeah, leave it to Ryou to walk into a teaching position without even realizing it until it was too late.
Ryou loves it though. He’s surrounded by super smart kids who won’t stop asking ‘why?’ and want to take things apart (and blow them up) with him. It’s pretty close to heaven for him.
