As the book continues on, we continue to learn more and more about the character's in the story. After an incident at her job, Tova is forced to take medical leave and the aquarium has to hire someone in her place which happens to be Cameron . Cameron was brought to Sowell Bay looking for his father but ended up finding a job at the aquarium who happens to also meet Ethan and ends up staying with him while in town.

Remarkably Bright Creatures by Shelby Van Pelt follows the relationship between a widowed woman named Tova Sullivan and the octopus at her aquarium job named Marcellus. Van Pelt chooses to write through a third person omniscient point of view so we have seen the perspectives of Tova, Marcellus, Ethan who owns the local grocery store and Cameron a struggling 26 year old.