Characters & chat
Shape an AI companion around a few clear choices
Start with the appearance and conversational traits you want an original character to have. Our builder presents the available selections for your account, including supported voice choices. Review the combination and any creation charge before confirming, then introduce a topic or scene when you begin chatting.
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Choose features that describe the same character
Start with the offered Realistic or Anime style and work through its visual selections, then choose personality and interests that give the companion a consistent manner. A calm wildlife illustrator who enjoys explaining unfamiliar birds offers a clear conversational voice. Contradictory instructions about being silent and leading every exchange make the intended role harder to follow.
Voice selection, where available, belongs to the offered creation controls. It does not by itself include every audio action or free calls. A character's appearance also does not identify a fixed chat model or guarantee a specific generated image composition.
Write your own part outside the companion definition
After creation, give the chat an opening situation and say who you are within it. Plus user personas are for that user role. A persona can explain why your character is at a scene without changing the companion's physique, personality or saved background.
For an opening, you might be two adult volunteers identifying items left for a local exhibition. Explain the task and ask the companion which item to examine first. This provides a reason to speak without turning the creator's physical-description choices into a script for both participants.
Read version and upgrade consequences before accepting
V1 and V2 are builder-version labels, not disclosed language-model identities. The upgrade guidance published in October 2025 describes an irreversible change for eligible characters. Availability and the controls now shown in your account matter more than assuming an old version label establishes today's entitlement.
Free access lists one custom character. Further creation can have its own requirement or token charge, separate from the subscription's ordinary text access. Read the current confirmation rather than treating a monthly token allocation as proof that all new companions are free.
Check an edit before expecting a redesign
Use the edit options actually displayed for the saved character. We do not publish a universal list of fields that remain editable after every creation route. If the desired appearance or trait has no edit control, consider a replacement creation and inspect its cost before proceeding.
A request for a softer tone in chat can guide the next response but is not the same as changing a saved attribute. Review the resulting portrait, profile and available tools before settling into a long story. Media still has its own inputs and charges after the companion is created.
Your questions
Can I create a character during free access?
The listed introductory uses include one custom character as well as five messages shared across companions and one generated image. That does not promise repeated free creations. Read the next creation confirmation and the allowance shown for your account before starting another.
Are V1 and V2 names for the model writing replies?
No. Those labels refer to versions of the character builder. They do not disclose one model behind every conversation or specify a context capacity. Use the current creation and upgrade controls, including any permanent-change warning, to understand what happens to that character.
Does a persona change the companion I just built?
A user persona supplies context about you in the fiction. The companion has a separate definition, so changing your persona is not an appearance edit or a rewrite of the bot's stored traits. Use the supported character controls for those changes.
Can a V2 upgrade be undone?
The October 2025 guidance describes the supported upgrade as irreversible. Check the actual option and warning for your account before committing. A dated builder explanation does not establish that every character can upgrade now or that there is a downgrade control.
What if the field I want to change has no edit button?
Do not assume a conversation instruction will update the saved field. If the current editor does not expose the change, review replacement creation, including its portrait, voice, trait choices and charge. A new companion and the existing conversation are not automatically one continuous record.