So, y'all know thing called aphantasia? Discovering it really made me think about the abilities of tgaa cast in how detailed can they imagine things. Like, actual pictures of objects.
Aka the ability to imagine colour, shading, lightning, space. Hell, even the ability to spin it or something! (Which, as I understood, some people can't do at all)
RYUNOSUKE, Susato, Iris, Klint, Lady B, Maria Gorey : Vivid, detailed imagination. At any point in time they can imagine a realistic cow spinning horizontally, and the cops can't stop them. And while some use this ability for inventing purposes, visualising how the finished product could work (Iris), others sometimes suffer from being squeamish and a scaredy cat in a sense (Ryunosuke). I mean, being able and sometimes not controlling what picture you see in your head could lead to thinking of less than savoury, spooky things. Sometimes rich imagination is someone's curse.
KAZUMA, Herlock, Mikotoba, GENSHIN, Stronghart: Isn't as detailed and photorealistic as the previous category. Just simple, colored in shapes with basic shading MAYBE is mostly enough for them. Doesn't mean they can't spin a simple looking cow too in their mind- It's all really cut clean, sharp and straight to the point. Being able to see little hairs and blemishes on an imaginary person isn't important to them most of the time, anyway, so you won't catch them moaning about it.
It's all about the base shape and movement and that's pretty much it.
Ben, Jigoku, Hosonaga, Gina : The poor bastards don't even get the color and shading now. It's either a monochrome image or simple lines. They're not sad about that, per se, because what's enough is enough.
The ability to recognize colors is there, so you can count on them to call grass green or sky blue, but coming up with images in their mind proves to look a little less saturated.
BAROK, GREGSON: "What do you mean you can just imagine a fucking apple in your head?"
A side note - Gregson and Barok having aphantasia isn't a sentence to them in a sense of their type of work. Rather than relying on photographic function of memory (that they lack) they memorize everything as a list of facts.
+ aphantasia doesn't stop them from recognizing people, suspects included, because they don't have prosopagnosia (difficulty with recognizing faces.)