Honestly the great thing about thr characters is thry are all a piece of the actor. One shot characters they more often do things that dont mesh with them (i.e. talesin having fun being the ocerly broody batman). But they think alot about what their character might do and think. Talesin is essentially minor hollywood royalty. Grandson of a director and child actor percy is who ue sort of sees himself as, a rich boy with priviledge who uses that perspective to tear down the rich and powerful who deserve it. For many interviews i heard him talk about how percy was a terrible person, yet he never really did anything more morally ambiguous than the rest this is because the THOUGHTS he had and things he considered, tal thought were bad. Essentially “im a terrible person for thinking this”.
Cadeusus is essentially the person he wishes he could be for others. Like cad, tal has wisdom, quirks and kindness but doesnt see himself as morally pure.
Imo ashton is essentially mollynauk whos been through hell. Molly was his attempt to create what Tal WANTED to be. This goth chaos gremlin who did what he wanted and only interfered to help someone(discretely so they wouldn’t thank him) or stick it to those who deaerved it. And you can see how this relates to the others insofar as molly is: thr culmination of the enviroment he was raised, a good person with no soul, and a self proclaimed asshole.
Reflecting on percy i think tal sees his inner thoughts and the privilege he had and resents it and himself and molly was a way for him to explore the idea of identifying based on the family he chose and rejecting the past as unimportant to him.
And you see in ashton a sort of continuation that he wasnt able to explore with molly. A begruging acceptance of the past , but a rejection of having deserved the bullshit. Ashton is molly without the luxary of a working body or the amnesia to shield him from the past. Instead of being a goth accepting hedonism for fun, hes a punk rejecting the parts of the world that rejected him. And thinking of him mentioning how HE has to deal with chronic pain, i feel like ahston was made from a perspective of recreating molly but years later with more wisdom, perspective, anger and pain.
