I plan to have this looked at by Jen and Emmy since this does involve their characters but! The girl is here! Chilling and doing things I cannot do so A Lot of Googling!!
And oh my goooooosh. Astaria... Maybe having heard of Zhongli in the past. Maybe from her parents and Aegis - friendly from her parents and vaguely (and bitterly glkgs) from Aegis - so she's !!!! when they cross paths at long last.
i'd imagine zhongli was one of the older people during the breach team so he would kind of a leader there anyway... he survived and couldn't resolve anything because the government erased all information about the deceased so he lost contact with aegis/astaria's family maybe
he had a lot of feelings of failure after the mission because even though the world was 'saved' from demonic invasion, none of their work would be remembered, add to that survivors guilt so he just kind of ran away from everything
YES. Oh my gosh, poor Zhongli... Probably heard about Astaria from the couple but only her name and maybe her interests - stargazing, reading books - and that's it. When the information is erased and Aegis moves to a different place for Astaria, it's impossible to track them down.
All Astaria would know for sure about her parents is that they worked with others and her mom is considered 'missing' but her father is gone and-!!
What if Astaria knew Zhongli... kind of.... Only knew him as an uncle and passed good luck charms and cards to him via her parents, since they seem to like him so much and she liked him as a result?
The blob monster right behind me: Persona!Astaria....
Me: Oh no...
What if Astaria knew Zhongli... kind of.... Only knew him as an uncle and passed good luck charms and cards to him via her parents, since they seem to like him so much and she liked him as a result?