Characters
Editing & Deleting Characters
You can update a character's description at any time — with or without regenerating their character sheet. You can also delete characters, but deletion has permanent consequences for your story.
Editing name or description (no regeneration)
Click Edit on any character to open the edit form. You can change any field — name, role, personality vibe, hair, facial structure, outfit, accessories — and save without triggering a new character sheet generation.
When would you do this?
- You made a typo in the character's name
- You want to refine the outfit or accessories description for future panels without changing the visual look
- You're adjusting personality vibe or role text that affects how the AI describes them in narrative generation
Changes to the description fields take effect immediately for future panel generations. The existing character sheet image stays unchanged.
Renaming a character
If you change a character's name, you must also update every scene description that mentions the old name — the AI matches by exact name. Old panels already generated are unaffected (they're static images), but future generations of those panels will need the new name.
Regenerating the character sheet
The character sheet is the visual backbone of consistency. You can regenerate it any time — for example, if:
- You significantly changed the character's appearance fields
- You changed your story's art style and want the character to match the new style
- The original generated sheet doesn't look right and you want a fresh attempt
Regenerate from current description
Click Regenerate Sheet in the character detail panel. YarnSaga queues a new sheet generation job using the current description fields. The existing sheet is used as a visual reference to maintain similarity — so the new sheet will resemble the old one while reflecting any description changes.
Regenerate from scratch
If you want a completely fresh look (ignoring the old sheet), choose Regenerate from Scratch. This discards the previous sheet as a reference and generates purely from the description fields and art style. Use this when you want a fundamentally different-looking character while keeping the same description.
Re-generate panels after a sheet update
Panels that were already generated won't automatically update when you regenerate the sheet — they're static images. If consistency matters, re-generate the affected panels after the new sheet is ready.
Deleting a character
To delete a character, open the Characters tab, find the character, and click the delete button. A confirmation dialog will appear before anything is removed.
Deletion permanently breaks future consistency
Panels that were already generated still look the same — they're finished images and won't change. But any panel you generate in the future that mentions this character's name will no longer have their sheet as a visual reference. The AI will attempt to render them from scene text alone, which almost always produces a different-looking person.
Additionally, the character's name will no longer be recognized during scene validation. The AI treats the name as a generic unnamed person rather than a defined character with a visual identity.
This cannot be undone. If you delete a character by mistake, you'll need to recreate them from scratch and generate a new sheet — and even then, the new sheet will likely look somewhat different from the original.
Safe times to delete a character:
- Characters you created for testing and never used in any real panel
- Characters whose story arc is completely finished and who will never appear in any future panel
- Accidental duplicate characters
Edit instead of delete
If you want to change how a character looks, edit their description and regenerate the sheet — don't delete and recreate. Editing preserves their history and keeps their name recognized across all existing scene descriptions.