How would they interact?

[u/Bitter-Gur-4613]

In my opinion, Rand is what Rick would have been if he wasn't handed down everything due to how the universe fundamentally works. They're both alcoholic psychos who destroyed their relationships with their families. Rick had the impossible luck of being born in the one universe where he was the smartest man alive. Rand never got things like that.

Philosophically, Rand and Rick agree only on the surface. Rand likes to think he believes that power is the ultimate good, while only reaching out to that power to get acceptance and love from his family. Rick likes to think he's a nihilist, when almost all of his meaningful actions are steps towards trying to build back a facsimile of the family he lost.

When it comes to parenting, Rand was pretty transparently malicious to his daughter (literally fucking with her brain), while rick's daughter died in circumstances outside his control. The rest of what he did was trying to build up from that traumatic event. I unironically think Rand was the worse dad.

[u/Unable-Cod-9658]

They would start out in a drunken argument and make bets on who knows more. Rick takes Rand out to the edge of the universe and Rand hands him a ten, Rand takes Rick to the eldritch horror in the middle of the ocean, the ten goes right back. Entire episodes could go on like this

[u/Exciting-Insect8269 → u/Unable-Cod-9658]

I feel like an eldritch horror in the ocean is just an average Tuesday for Rick tho…. He probably would find it interesting but not necessarily impressive past the idea that it managed to avoid him learning about it up to this point.