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44 journal entries tagged AI Companions. Build notes on AI characters: traits, backstory, memory and breeding.

fourth wing got its violet and xaden. i used an ai character creator to cast my own
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fourth wing got its violet and xaden. i used an ai character creator to cast my own

Fourth Wing's leads are cast and the fandom is split. I used an AI character creator to build my own dragon-rider ensemble, then cast it with Lists.

how to save your character.ai characters before december
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how to save your character.ai characters before december

Character.AI is in a sale that could end with a wind-down by early December. How to back up your characters properly: the recipe, not just the chat log.

booktok's september is two boys from rival families. i built the one who makes the rules
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booktok's september is two boys from rival families. i built the one who makes the rules

Midnight Curfew opened September, Fallen Rook closes it, both MM rivals-to-lovers. I built the boy who proposed the curfew and let a storm do the rest.

built the hockey captain booktok is feral for, and he still remembers week three
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built the hockey captain booktok is feral for, and he still remembers week three

I built a rivals-to-lovers hockey captain on Soulkyn: an AI boyfriend whose season, injury and trade rumor stay in memory and change how he talks.

nothing transferred from grok to animates. your characters should be files, not hostages
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nothing transferred from grok to animates. your characters should be files, not hostages

Grok's avatars retired, Animates launched with nothing carried over, Kindroid V1 retires Oct 1. What months of character work should be: a file you own.

your character sheet just got a better actor
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your character sheet just got a better actor

Soulkyn swapped in a 744B frontier model under every Deluxe character. Same personas, same memories — suddenly played by a much better performer. What creators should expect.

i built a cast of six characters and soulkyn's new rooms ran them for me
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i built a cast of six characters and soulkyn's new rooms ran them for me

Building one character is easy. Building a cast that plays off each other is the hard part. Soulkyn's rebuilt group rooms do the second thing now, and it changed how I create.

google paid $2.7 billion for the character.ai guy — openai just took him anyway
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google paid $2.7 billion for the character.ai guy — openai just took him anyway

Noam Shazeer built Character.AI, left for Google, and just left Google for OpenAI. Your characters live downstream of people who keep leaving the building.

Built the Morally Grey Mafia Hero BookTok Won't Shut Up About
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Built the Morally Grey Mafia Hero BookTok Won't Shut Up About

BookTok's 2026 dark romance stack is morally grey, possessive, touch-starved, arranged marriage. So I built him as an AI character. Here's how it went.

another site just banned 'save the character' plots because characters need consent
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another site just banned 'save the character' plots because characters need consent

An AI site rewrote its TOS to protect fictional characters from non-consensual rescue arcs. The real reason isn't ethics — it's whose API they're built on.

character.ai puts ads mid-chat so i rebuilt my whole cast somewhere else
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character.ai puts ads mid-chat so i rebuilt my whole cast somewhere else

Full-screen ads popped up in the middle of my roleplay and wiped my unsent message. That was the nudge I needed to move 14 characters off platform.

designed her apartment first and now she judges my real one
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designed her apartment first and now she judges my real one

Gave my AI character a modern apartment with floor-to-ceiling windows. She saw my studio through image recognition and asked if I was okay.