Katie who really liked Aster as a character said that she had trouble connecting with some of the characters her evidence for that was that when like bad things happened to the characters she didn't feel sufficiently like moved to tears which was an interesting complaint yeah that's an interesting master I could also see most of the the characters in this are neurodivergent in one way or another and I think that could keep people like neurotypical or more neurotypical people from connecting to them on some level. The mystery element is that you get to be in and this is how a lot of other kind of genre-efiction works where it's like you get introduced to a character at a certain