#methinks so

his mum is like a plant mum and swears by talking to her plants because it helps them grow, and she goes out for "wild flower walks" where she picks specific flowers based on a bouquet she wants to make and then use in tea or her cooking/baking, and she collects mugs and uses them for everything she can (plant pots, paint pots, for her jewellery, storing medicine, "temporary" piggy bank that is never temporary, some open-concept tool box that holds woodworking tools), maybe she's a painter, or a carver, or a knitter - that depends on whatever medium catches her attention first and then becomes her craft hobby for the next half-year, she's very sporadic with her current fixations

and his dad probably collects stuff like seashells or postcards or maybe something more bizarre like bird art in state national park brochures, and they're displayed EVERYWHERE, or clocks and watches and has a "tinkering station" in their shed where he pulls up those magnifying glasses that jewellers use to take apart old clocks and makes animal art from it (and they're all of mrs. talbot's favourite animals)

((wait I kinda see them as kusuo saiki's mum and dad coded yes.))

they're very eclectic magpie-type people who collect trinkets and little things that remind them of each other, or of asher and madelyn and these little things are scattered all over the house, and their walls are FULL of paintings and prints and photographs of all styles and mediums and of themselves and the people/animals they love, put in all sorts of frames (nothing is taped up raw, if it will be hung up it WILL be in a frame - a thrifted or handmade (by asher's mum) one)

and there's always holiday or seasonal decorations up SOMEWHERE, could be a small string of Christmas lights or fake jack-o-lanterns in the hallway or going up the stairs, an easter basket with fake painted eggs in the living room, dried fruits and leaves in a decorative bowl in the kitchen... you'll find practically every major and some cultural holiday decor in their house

i feel like these traits were something asher and maddie were both embarrassed about as kids/preteens, wishing their parents could be "normal" for once whenever their friends would come over and they'd hear people in their schools say that their parents were kooky, but then grew to love their quirky parents who let them be whoever they wanted and encouraged them to indulge in their hobbies and interests so passionately and without a single care in the world about what others think... they're so supportive and open and want their children to be unapologetically themselves

so you KNOW asher and his mum bond over and watch star trek together, or he would play video games with his whole family growing up (the just dance competitions were intense I fear), and he and his dad would go hunting for whatever his dad was collecting and they'd make games out of it like judging stuff as if they're art critics