How many characters do you have currently in your story?

I currently have 7 characters but only 4 of them so far have way too many screentime.

(Main Protagonist)
Mukhtar Mohammad A'noor (The golden-eyed boy).

(Side Characters)
Sa'ad Mohammad A'noor (Little thief).
Asra Mohammad A'noor.
Midha Adel A'noor (Former Hashashin).
Hisham Hamad al'amr.
Hamamah (A slave girl).

(Main Antagonist)
Nizar Al-Rizq (The silver-eyed bane of revolution)

There used to be 3 more but they died much earlier.

There are others but, they're pretty much extras.

https://tapas.io/series/Lyzas-Sandstorm/info2

Let's see:

Main Characters:

• Lyza
• Ethan
• Markin

First Story Arc characters:

Minor Characters:

• Priest Arrno
• Sandy
• Leonard (Deceased)
• Roland
• Jack
• Soldier Guy (might use him somewhere in the story later on)
• Background characters (It's interesting that some random characters can later on be one of the minor casts and all)

Villains (according their threat):

• Monte Wildhell
• Lars Wildhell

• Wyck Wildhell

• Kamy

• Reptilian horde

• Yulin (Deceased)

• The color agents (Black, Green, Brown (Deceased), Yellow and Red)

• Knile

• Dayton (Deceased... the first character to die in Lyza's Sandstorm)

Second Story Arc:

Family Characters:

• Northern (Lyza and Ethan father)
• Erna (Lyza and Ethan mother)
• Neriman (Lyza and Ethan caretaker)
• Larry Northern (Lyza and Ethan uncle) - to be introduced in Chapter 09
• Troddy Jorge

There are some I might be forgetting here and there but those are the most significant as of now.

I have a lot that have appeared, although not introduced by name.
I did make a counter of how times each character has been drawn.

220: Sora
208: Hrann
98: Ne Tomoi
89: Ka Dovo
33: Galai Ne
32: Makleela
29: Peigil
23: Raiza
22: Hara
21: Divi Hei
15: Irimi
11: Fadili
10: Nari
6: Wevla, Saizaha, Rani
5: Zahki
4: Rigiki Mai, Selei Gelei, Linfa
3: Mivli, Binahi, Mai Soloi
1: Timse, Vivi, Mizia, Kihi

That's 27 characters total, and 859 drawings of them.

Hmmm.....lets see what I can do without giving away spoilers, but just know this isn't EVERYONE nor does it include a lot of minor characters...

Main Cast:
-Conri Murano (Barghast Shifter, Barista)
-Landis (Giant, Postal Worker and Community Volunteer)

Supporting:
-Euginia Kast (Council Representative and Apartment Complex owner)
-Jeris (Genasi Warlock)
-Ian Brassworth (Human Wizard)
-Dr. Bromley (High Elf Therapist)
-Emmett (???)

The Drip Employees:
-Thompson (Human Server)
-Val (Half Elf Barista)
-Eli Barrett (Human Server)
-Amelia (Genasi Server)
-Gwendolyn (Dwarf Chef/Owner)
-Marcus (Drow Barista)

It was a bit tedious, but I only have 46 pages out, so it's not that bad XD
Good luck!

Currently in Grand Epic Elemental we have:

Main Characters
- Leiyu
- Prince Thallios

Secondary Characters
- King Xenon
- Lord Oganesson

The cast will become larger as the story goes on

So far,
28
12 members of the core group
10 antagonists
6 supporting

That's just so far, there's a lot more to come.
I introduced so many early on so I could have a time skip and set comedic side stories in that month long gap

I know that sounds like a lot (because it is), but it was like a challenge to myself to have such a large cast and make them all feel developed.
I've even used an Excel sheet to calculate my arcs mathematically.
Honestly taking any out at this point would hurt the story I have planned.

From most important to least:
Lucy, Damien, Jake, Lucy’s dad, Emily, Max and Lucy’s mom

So that’s 7 people total, there has been spoken about more characters, but those haven’t made an appearance yet.

And here’s the comic they are all a part of

I currently have 5 characters introduced!
(I have about 3 important characters to be introduced)

Main Characters: Landon, and Brandon
Side Characters: Cassius (Father), Evelyn (Mother), and Silas (younger brother)!

All right I'm back with the official count!

Kyara: 681
Zack: 272
Blip: 186
Grayson: 70

(Give or take a margin of error of 2)

What can I say, she's the main character for a reason haha.

Did he dodge a bullet, or fall 1 short of greatness?

Soooo let’s see

Main characters

Elsie Carlisle - 23
Roy James Evans - 25
Rosemary Ruth Evans - 25
Ernest McDermott - 27
Martin - (built around 1895)

Antagonists

Jane Miller (aka Spring Heeled Jane) - 18
Mrs. Evans - 46
Doctor Mortimer Scarborough
Scarborough’s Butler
Kieth Curtis

Deceased

Anton Curtis - 74
Mr. Evans
Donal McDermott
Mona McDermott

Smelton Residents

Rapush
Reverend Thomas
Bird Hat Lady
Lady who plays Lakmé

The Fire Brigade

Captain Reginald Pryor
William Hopkins

Scarborough’s Subjects

Invisible lady
Ice lady
Lizard lady
Zappy zap lady
(Someone else give them names)

Historical Figures

HG Wells
Harry Houdini
Bess Houdini
Queen Victoria

Technically at the moment, I have 10 to 13 and five main characters

Thief of bones; I would say five major characters.

Evangeline - main main character
Anastasia - main character
Vance - main character
Philipe - main character
Ezra - support main character

For Jamie (new story) I would have four:

Jamie - main main character
Taylor - main supporter
Jax(on) - main character
Liz - support main character

^ still finalizing names on this one

Main Characters:
Nina, Twiga, Shido

Supporting Characters:
Msemaji, Gari, Alexander and Sarah (Nina's mother)

Side Characters (currently):
Sigil, Hakim, Fantom, Wei-Fei and Mrefu & Asili (Twiga's parents)

Plus 12 background characters (and more to come).

Too many

Main Protagonists:
Samantha, Sebastian

Side Protagonists:
Vincent, Alexander, Renzo, Daniela, Kerry, Andre, Kaylen

Side/Neutral:
Gabriel, Danielle, Amelie, Taneesha, Tricky, Tyrus

Background/Various:
Lucian, Zayerus, Nabransky, Mugen, Grayson, Rodrigo

Main Antagonist:
Isaiah

Side Antagonist:
Marian, Rex, Tamaz, Elias, Adrian

Although this is all up through the 4th arc (current and in progress)

There’s not a whole ton, but I kind of like that. It lets me and the readers feel a real connect with the ones that do show up because we get to dive into them more than if there were like a million

Important characters
Ones that have showed up-
Melody
Calix
Layla
Sydney
Jayden (briefly)
Silas (VERY briefly)
Lance
John

Ones yet to show-
Maria (melody’s mom)
The Creature
Winter
Leo
Olivia (technically there was 1 frame of her but i’m not counting that because it was a flashback)

And then there’s maybe 5-6 minor characters that don’t contribute a whole lot to the story but are still there for one reason or another

So in total, there’s around 20 character tops!

While we're counting times each character has been drawn so far, Chishiki is currently winning by a lot:

Chishiki: 112 (+1 that's just her hand)
Yukai: 54 (+1 where it's just a trace of her in a different outfit)
Rikou: 20 (+2 of just hands)
Malice: 18
Chishiki's mom: 4
Jin: 3
Hina: 2

I have 3 main characters and one that has partially appeared in a picture but not had any kind of plot relevance!

Rose - Human
Violet - Borrower
Callie - Cat

Unnamed friend of Rose - Human

I'm between stories, so it's complicated:

Rise of Prom had:
Rod
Manny
Mila
Wendy
Nes
Which is of course 5 people

The story is based on a comic I did, so offscreen characters count too, as they technically exist, but I simply didn't have time to properly add and/or simply show them:

Sherman's Squad: 5
Demetri's squad: 5
Ashleigh's Squad: 5
Angels: 10,000,000 (Though of course I couldn't fathom how many, there's quite a few seen flying around near the end)

Sherman technically will be missing 1, as Aliza later joins Rod/Nes' group. And they will remain at 5 as Manny unintentionally leaves it.

The new comic I might do just will have 2 MCs,
with their group maybe expanding to 3? But temporarily...

The other "group" is a league of superheroes which is however many is in the justice league...

Last but not least is UBERNATURA, which has technically one BIG group, but it's divided into whoever's BFFs and who's just a normal friend, to who's dating and/or basically spouses by now..

Empath
Lite
Azura
Shin
Are the main characters and the core of the bigger friend group, but most wouldn't even be friends if it weren't for them making and holding the group together..

Kristelle's group:
Robby
Payne
Gary
Bianca

Fast food group:
Payne
Gary
Bianca
Sammy

Disability group:
Actually I need to find their
names again in my notes..
I think it's;
Ashley and Isabelle (?) But
I'm not 100% about it...

Android/not Android group:
Ren
Luka

Shin and his siblings
Shin
Ritz
"Katy"
They become the main focus in the arcs they're in, and yes I should remember more, but geez that's a lot to remember

Girlfriends:
"Asuna"
Holly(?)
Platinum
(Might change Asuna's name, for obvious reasons and
ALSO can't be 100% of Holly's either... They actively become
Main characters too for the arcs they appear in. ) Um yeah, that's all the reoccurring friend groups, and most of their names... Fortunately the notes are safe-ish....

Also this is why I keep complaining about UBERNATURA it's a huge extensive amount of parody and very serious world building and intricacy. If I don't get help I might tone down a lot of the characters though..

for reoccurring I have 3 characters

Sorin- a very wealthy angel who is a complete brat

Zora- Sorin's chaotic mess of a demon matchmaker

Caspian- Sorin's annoying coworker who hired Zora. He reappears to laugh at Sorin right now we'll learn more about him later in the comic

as of now 13 of the characters (Minor and Major) have appeared in Tales of Beleben- Felix, Arnulf, Bruno III, August VI, Wilhelm, Sven, Angela/Johan, Tobias, Eneil, Thalia, Ubel, Mia and Samul VII.

9 more characters are yet to be seen/introduced but one of these will make an appearance in the next episode.

So that would be 23 characters in total and 14 major characters.

Wait, the counting times you’ve drawn the characters thing- is it just in the comic, or like- ever?

Only two, Clister and Klay.
And I guess the reoccurring news broadcaster makes three.
I may introduce one more character later.

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