i currently have 42 named main characters, and a few lesser characters for each one.
How many characters do you have?
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In one universe, broken down by book (using abbreviations not the full titles), I have:
Eyes: 3 main, 6 parents, 4 siblings, 8? other, and around 5 more unnamed-as-of-yet-characters
Scars: 49 named and described characters cause I felt compelled to make a warriors-style allegiances
Monsters: 5 definite characters
Pegasi: 10? 1 main, 3 family members, 2 support, 4 predicted extra
Fight or Flight: 8? 9 if the butler ends up being a character
The Bitter Below: 13 not including the overlap characters
so 112 roughly for the Cloud Lands but probably much more once I flesh out most of it
I have around 20 stories I'm working on and 50ish I've thought of in total so that's a lot of characters if I tried to count every one of them
I started a week ago and only have 19 total characters at the moment but I'm adding more by the day.
Now to be fair, I've also not fully laid out all of the details for each character, but I have general outlines in my head, where they fit into the plot, etc.
I think it's probably way more effective to get things added to my Universe and then begin adding framework to the skeleton afterwards.