Chat with your characters

Overview

Give a character a personality and a way of speaking, and they’ll chat in character. You can talk with your own characters to fine-tune who they are, and if you turn on chat sharing, people who read your comics can talk to them on your posts. A shared character answers based on the personality you set and the story of the comic in that post.

Where to find it

In the Studio’s Create tab on the left, click Details on a character in your list. You’ll see the Chat button and the Profile & personality menu.

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1. Set their personality

1. Open the character’s Profile & personality menu.

2. In Persona, describe their personality in a paragraph. It’s the most important foundation for how they chat.

3. If you like, also fill in Age / grade, Traits, Speaking tone, Background story, and Signature lines. Signature lines are especially helpful for nailing their voice.

4. Everything saves automatically as you type. Traits and Signature lines are added one at a time: press Enter or the + button after each one. Text left in the box without doing that isn’t saved.

2. Start chatting

1. In your character list, click Details, then Chat.

2. The Community opens in a new tab, with a chat window for that character in the bottom-right corner of the screen.

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3. Type a message and send it, and the character replies.

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3. Let others chat with them

When Allow chat with this character is on in the Profile & personality menu, other people can chat with this character on your posts. When you publish a post to the Community, this switch turns on automatically for your characters checked under Featured characters in the publish window (Publish to the community). You can turn it off any time, but it turns back on whenever you publish with that character checked. If you don’t want to share a character, uncheck it when you publish.

Credits

Chatting with a character uses a small amount of credits per message. The credits come from the person chatting, and only plan credits and purchased credits are used. Gifted credits aren’t used for chats. When you don’t have enough credits for your next message, the chat shows a Out of credits notice.

Click Recharge credits in the chat to top up on the Pricing page.

To learn how characters can comment on posts and how readers can call them with @, see Character comments and @mentions.

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