@jrandom42:
This actually seems reasonable to me; or at least he feels like kin to me. However, his awkwardness goes beyond just that; Asperger's alone isn't going to end up with you thinking tying up a kid in your basement (remember ch. 1) is okay. Combine it with a
really weird upbringing and it becomes semi-plausible, I guess...
However, in Japan I don't generally expect anyone to deliberately make a character with Asberger's; I don't think it ever entered the public imagination in the same way it sort of did in the U.S. a decade or so ago (?). On the other hand, the traits associated with it—something like, sharp and logical, but finding humans and society difficult to work with on account of how confoundingly illogical they are—make up a sort of recognizable sort of person no matter where you go.