Can I customize and reuse my character?
Yes. Many worlds let you tweak the character you play as before a journey starts, and you can save a character you like so it's a click away in every world that allows it.
Yes. Many worlds let you tweak the character you play as before a journey starts, and you can save a character you like so it's a click away in every world that allows it.
Customizing your character
When you start a journey on a world that allows it, the character selection screen shows a Customize button on the character you're about to play. Some worlds require it, in which case the button reads Customize to continue and you can't begin until you've filled the basics in.
The Customize Character popup lets you change:
- Name, age, and description: who this character is.
- Physical description and appearance: how they look. You can write plain prose or booru tags.
- Additional appearance: a free-form line for anything extra (for example, "a scar over her left eye, wears a worn leather jacket"). This feeds image generation on worlds that have it.
Click Apply to use your changes for this journey only, or Reset to Original to drop them and play the character as the author wrote it. Customizing one journey never changes the world for anyone else, or your other journeys.
Saving a character to reuse
If you build a character you'd like to play again, click Save character in the Customize popup. It lands in your personal library, and a Load character menu appears in that same popup on future worlds, so you can drop a saved character into any world that allows customization without rebuilding them.
The Load menu also lists characters from past journeys, so even if you never explicitly saved one, you can pull a character you played before back into a new world.
Managing your characters
Your saved characters live on the My Characters page, reachable from the account menu in the top-right corner. Click a character to open its page. There you can:
- Create a character from scratch, without starting a journey first.
- Edit a saved character's details.
- Generate or upload a portrait. The portrait rides along as your character's image whenever you load them into a world.
- Build an Image & Sprite Gallery: expression sprites for immersive mode, outfits that each get their own sprite set, background removal, and reference images. Everything in the gallery comes along into your journeys, so your character shows up on the immersive stage with their own sprites.
- Delete characters you no longer want.
Portraits, sprites and background removal use credits. There's a limit on how many characters you can save, and on how many images each character's gallery holds (5 on the free plan, 20 on Plus, 40 on Pro or once you've bought $100 of credit packs). When you hit either one, delete something to make room.
Does every world allow this?
No. Customizing the player character is something each world's author opts into. On worlds that don't allow it, you play the character as written and won't see a Customize button. Worlds that build a journey around a single companion often require customization, so you can define who you are before the story begins.
Slash commands and @-mentions
The action box is mostly for writing what your character does, but it has a few power-user shortcuts built in: slash commands for quick controls, and @-mentions for dropping a character's name in without retyping it. Neither is required...
How do I create a world?
This page is the short editor walkthrough (how to start, playtest, refine, and publish). For how to write each section, use the Creating worlds guide.