5 Facts about the Ryan Troy!Verse 1. Ryan dates Brooke Davis during the summer she's forced to live with her parents in LA (between junior and senior years of high school), both of them insisting it was just a summer fling. But when Ryan was attacked by the Carver several months later, and Brooke found out via the news, she flew back to LA and teased him about being the 'hot guy with a scar' now. And when Brooke returned for another visit after graduation, she and Ryan picked up where they'd left off the summer before.
2. Ryan does get surgery to remove the scar left by the attack, but remains self conscious about it afterwards, half convinced that everyone can still see something there. He doesn't became a plastic surgery addict or anything, but it does add to his self esteem issues.
3. Christian pretends to be annoyed that Ryan chose to study architecture over medicine in college, but really he's proud of his son, and eventually switches to jokingly trying to get a free remodel for his house.
4. Ryan can't stand most of the woman Christian dates, but at least he knows where his usually lousy taste in women came from.
5. When Ryan has kids, Christian refuses to be called any variation on 'grandpa', but caves when his first granddaughter calls him 'gramp'. He never finds out that it's because Ryan had, multiple times, told her that 'grandpa is a grump', so she combined the words... lol... Ryan can't help grinning everytime he hears the nickname, especially the time Christian referred to himself as 'Gramp'.
5 Facts from my OTHER The OC/Southland crossover, 'Mercy' (Ryan doesn't move in with the Cohens, gets sent to Juvie, is raped by warden, gets out, and Cooper takes him in): 1. For the first year Ryan is living with Cooper, Cooper only goes out about once a month at the most, and makes sure he's not drunk or high when he comes home. Not because he's worried Ryan will rat him out, but because he has seen Ryan's social services folder, and he's not going to be another drug user Ryan has to deal with. He also doesn't bring any dates home because he doesn't want to risk upsetting Ryan because of the trauma from Juvie. He doesn't know that Ryan put two and two together (the fact that Cooper is still on such good terms with Laurie and they still care about each other, the no bringing dates home, the glances Cooper exchanged with his 'friend' Caesar when the man helped them with a garden wall...) and figured out Cooper's gay. And he doesn't care because he knows there's a difference between what Ackerman did to him and being gay. So Ryan is just sitting back, waiting for Cooper to admit it to him.
2. When investigations into the case reveal just how bad a job Ryan's public defender the second time around did, an investigation in the PD's office leads to Sandy finding out what happened to his former client, and he's devastated that because he hadn't been available, Ryan ended up suffering so much.
3. One of the prosecutors in the case convinces Ryan and Cooper that they should sue the state of California for allowing not realizing the wrongdoing on the part of the judge who convicted Ryan and on the part of Ackerman. Ryan wins a hefty settlement, which gets cut down in appeals, but it's still enough that he can afford the college of his choice and not have to work to make ends meet during it. He winds up mostly letting it sit in the bank and gather interest, since he gets a full scholarship for college.
4. Ryan comes close to attempting suicide in the days leading up to testifying against Ackerman, but Cooper catches him with the knife against his wrist and manages to talk him out of it. Cooper keeps a close eye on him during the trial, and that's the only time Ryan loses his grip on things.
5. It takes Ryan years to even want to get into a relationship, and when he does finally try it's a series of spectacular failures. He does, eventually, manage to make a relationship last longer than a month, and that's the one he marries and has a family with.
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1. Ryan dates Brooke Davis during the summer she's forced to live with her parents in LA (between junior and senior years of high school), both of them insisting it was just a summer fling. But when Ryan was attacked by the Carver several months later, and Brooke found out via the news, she flew back to LA and teased him about being the 'hot guy with a scar' now. And when Brooke returned for another visit after graduation, she and Ryan picked up where they'd left off the summer before.
2. Ryan does get surgery to remove the scar left by the attack, but remains self conscious about it afterwards, half convinced that everyone can still see something there. He doesn't became a plastic surgery addict or anything, but it does add to his self esteem issues.
3. Christian pretends to be annoyed that Ryan chose to study architecture over medicine in college, but really he's proud of his son, and eventually switches to jokingly trying to get a free remodel for his house.
4. Ryan can't stand most of the woman Christian dates, but at least he knows where his usually lousy taste in women came from.
5. When Ryan has kids, Christian refuses to be called any variation on 'grandpa', but caves when his first granddaughter calls him 'gramp'. He never finds out that it's because Ryan had, multiple times, told her that 'grandpa is a grump', so she combined the words... lol... Ryan can't help grinning everytime he hears the nickname, especially the time Christian referred to himself as 'Gramp'.
5 Facts from my OTHER The OC/Southland crossover, 'Mercy' (Ryan doesn't move in with the Cohens, gets sent to Juvie, is raped by warden, gets out, and Cooper takes him in):
1. For the first year Ryan is living with Cooper, Cooper only goes out about once a month at the most, and makes sure he's not drunk or high when he comes home. Not because he's worried Ryan will rat him out, but because he has seen Ryan's social services folder, and he's not going to be another drug user Ryan has to deal with. He also doesn't bring any dates home because he doesn't want to risk upsetting Ryan because of the trauma from Juvie. He doesn't know that Ryan put two and two together (the fact that Cooper is still on such good terms with Laurie and they still care about each other, the no bringing dates home, the glances Cooper exchanged with his 'friend' Caesar when the man helped them with a garden wall...) and figured out Cooper's gay. And he doesn't care because he knows there's a difference between what Ackerman did to him and being gay. So Ryan is just sitting back, waiting for Cooper to admit it to him.
2. When investigations into the case reveal just how bad a job Ryan's public defender the second time around did, an investigation in the PD's office leads to Sandy finding out what happened to his former client, and he's devastated that because he hadn't been available, Ryan ended up suffering so much.
3. One of the prosecutors in the case convinces Ryan and Cooper that they should sue the state of California for allowing not realizing the wrongdoing on the part of the judge who convicted Ryan and on the part of Ackerman. Ryan wins a hefty settlement, which gets cut down in appeals, but it's still enough that he can afford the college of his choice and not have to work to make ends meet during it. He winds up mostly letting it sit in the bank and gather interest, since he gets a full scholarship for college.
4. Ryan comes close to attempting suicide in the days leading up to testifying against Ackerman, but Cooper catches him with the knife against his wrist and manages to talk him out of it. Cooper keeps a close eye on him during the trial, and that's the only time Ryan loses his grip on things.
5. It takes Ryan years to even want to get into a relationship, and when he does finally try it's a series of spectacular failures. He does, eventually, manage to make a relationship last longer than a month, and that's the one he marries and has a family with.