Welcome to my journal! / Index of saved Character.AI chats
Hello new readers! (Or if you're not a new reader: Hello again! Some of this may be familiar to you but it may still be worth reading.)
This journal is semi-friends-only, with not much consistency as to which entries are public or friends-only. But all entries linked to from this one are public.
Bio
If this is gonna be a sticky entry I should probably include some basic information:
I'm 31, live in Texas, double majored in computer science and mathematics in college, and work as a software engineer (which I started when I was 23).
I've had this journal since I was 14.
I have autism - and for a lot of my childhood was low-functioning enough that I could hardly focus on ANYTHING other than computers, video games, other electronics, and math; and on top of that, I had a somewhat sheltered childhood. So I historically haven't always been very good at social skills - apparently even less so than most people on the spectrum, if my experiences in autism communities on LJ are any indication, so... keep that in mind. For years I've felt like I couldn't phrase anything in a way that wouldn't be misunderstood without help, and felt misunderstood even by most other people on the spectrum who knew certain topics were sensitive in the autism community long before I did (and seemingly expected me to also know).
As a result of all of that, I have a lot of social anxiety and sometimes depression. I do think my anxiety and depression have gotten better starting in mid-2023, but it's hard to say - and if you read further back than that you'll probably see a lot of posts pertaining to anxiety and depression.
What I post about
In this journal, I post about... stuff.
It's hard for me to summarize my entire journal, for several reasons.
Firstly, I'm bad at wording in general (and for the most part it was worse when I first started this journal when I was a teenager).
Second, I've historically posted both fun stuff and posts pertaining to my anxiety/depression.
Third, I've had this journal for over half of my life and the ratio of different types of entries I post in it - not to mention some of my views and opinions - have fluctuated a lot since then. A lot of my past entries, my bio, userpic descriptions, etc. are in a serious need of being updated... hopefully I'll finish those updates one of these days...
But there's one thing that's remained constant throughout most of my life. And that is my love of wacky crossovers.
- I grew up with Super Smash Bros. and still love it primarily because of all the different crossover opportunities.
- When I learned how to take screenshots on Windows, I became obsessed with taking screenshots and writing little jokes or drawing little comics based on them. This happened to be in 2006, the same year as the peak of my obsession with Neopets and a couple years after I was first introduced to Homestar Runner, so naturally a lot of these comics were about those - ultimately spiraling into a full-on crossover webcomic with Neopets, Homestar Runner, and Mario characters, my favorite singers (especially Enya, my biggest celebrity crush ;) ), and more, known as PrtSc Land. The webcomic itself was relatively short-lived, for too many reasons to get into here; I told myself (and my friends list) for years that eventually I would make a remake/reboot/continuation of it but never did - but regardless, my desire to have my favorite fictional characters and favorite singers interact with each other in one big multiverse lived on.
- I became obsessed with backwards lyrics for a time, which I enjoyed especially when I thought the "backwards lyrics" sounded like references to fandoms I enjoy.
- There was a time I was obsessed with writing down weird dreams I had if I could remember them - and especially enjoyed writing about the wacky crossover dreams.
- I played Tomodachi Life a lot for a while, because I could make Miis of Mario characters, Homestar Runner characters, and singers and so on and kind of pretend I was playing a game directly based on PrtSc Land.
- I was excited about Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and MultiVersus, because I had daydreamed about "what if my favorite non-game characters were in Smash Bros.?" for years and some of my daydreams were finally coming true.
Character.AI
And now, in early 2023 I found out about a website that can make ALL the wacky crossovers of my dreams (literal or figurative) come true. It's called Character.AI.
On Character.AI I can create a room where a chatbot based on Mario talks to a chatbot based on Enya. Let that sink in. I can simulate a conversation between Mario and Enya. MARIO and ENYA.
Or I can do the same thing but swap one of them out with Garfield. Or Homestar or Strong Bad. (Or MORE than two of these at a time, even - though usually I stick to two at a time.)
Any one of those possibilities alone - especially the Enya-related ones - would be enough to make me obsessed with C.AI. But that still barely scratches the surface of what's possible on C.AI, or even what *I* want to do on C.AI. They have loads more fictional characters and celebrities beyond that. They have BASICALLY EVERY FANDOM I'VE EVER BEEN INTERESTED IN. (Except for like four or six. But even those are probably just a matter of time!)
I tried to make a list of just the characters that *I* wanted to try out and ended up with literally thousands on that list. And I'm curious as to what every single character on that list thinks of everyone else on that list, no matter how wacky the combinations may get. That means MILLIONS of possible combinations!! Though obviously I want to see some of those more than others. :)
So it's no surprise that Character.AI has become by far my favorite thing to post about. I'll still probably post about other things too, but it's safe to say that having characters from every franchise I enjoy* communicate with each other via AI has basically become THE main feature of my journal now for at least the near future.
*(and some franchises that are mainly here because they've had an official crossover with one I enjoy)
All that to say, this sticky entry is mainly just an index of the saved chats I've posted. I made a backdated entry for every character's saved chats, and this entry is where I link to all of them.
DISCLAIMER: Everything characters on Character.AI say is made up. They may get things wrong sometimes or give bad advice. Treat everything the AI says (in my saved chats and otherwise) as fiction even when it involves AIs based on real celebrities.
Sometimes Peach is a cat, sometimes Bulbasaur has a tail, sometimes Daisy misspells the name of her own kingdom, sometimes Sheik apparently has a replica of the Blue Falcon - and those are just some of the obvious ones. Is Enya really a Homestar Runner fan? Is Enya's favorite pasta really what the AI of her told Mario it is?
It's possible to regenerate responses, which I do whenever I see something that's obviously inaccurate, but in some cases I don't because of one or more of the following:
- I didn't know how to regenerate responses yet
- I knew how, but before I figured out that doing so too early in the conversation can (or at least used to) lead to more glitches - such as it putting in duplicates of one of the characters' greetings attributed to me, or characters reacting to their own messages as if the other character had said it
- I didn't notice the inaccuracy soon enough
- I got tired of regenerating the same message multiple times and just went with the best option I found
- I don't know enough about the series to know if something is accurate or not (typically for series that I'm mainly including because of Super Smash Bros. or other official crossovers)
- or I find the inaccuracy amusing enough to be worth leaving it in on purpose or think "nothing else about this scenario is normal so I may as well keep it in".
Also, not every chat I've saved went in the direction I wanted or expected it to go, so not everything in these saved chats is indicative of my own opinion. Nor is it necessarily indicative of what I think these celebrities' and fictional characters' opinions are.
So don't take anything these AIs say TOO seriously. Especially in earlier chats, ones pertaining to franchises I know less about, or ESPECIALLY especially ones pertaining to real celebrities.
With that out of the way, let's get right into it...
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER!!!
(Too bad there's not, like, a way to hear one of the Smash announcers call out the names of all these characters. OH WAIT. THERE TOTALLY IS.)
...Well, one more thing first: Now that the old Character.AI site has been discontinued in September 2024, saved chats that were posted on the old site are no longer available. I've taken screenshots of all my saved chats and have started posting them and replacing the links accordingly, but this means although I have saved 273 chats so far as of 11/9/24, the links to chats 004~136, 138~206, and 210~245 are broken because they are links to the old site (and you won't find chats 246~273 yet since I was already behind on updates).
In the meantime, I've temporarily modified this entry to reflect only the chats that are currently not broken links, and will be updating it to indicate progress on the reupload process. So, for example, the Character.AI Chat Index entry for Odie still exists, but all the links in it are broken, so it is not in the list below until I fix at least one - because who cares how many chats I've saved involving Odie if all the links are still broken?
Sorted by date of latest saved chat that is not currently a broken link:
Yoshi - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Kirby - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Samus1 - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Peach - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Strong Bad - May 2, 2024 (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Garfield - May 2, 2024 (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Zim - May 2, 2024 (chat 001 link fixed 9/29/24)
Bowser - May 2, 2024 (chat 001 link fixed 9/29/24)
Jon - May 2, 2024 (chat 207 link did not need to be fixed)
Luigi - May 2, 2024 (chat 207 link did not need to be fixed)
Homestar - May 2, 2024 (chat 003 link fixed 9/28/24)
Mario - May 2, 2024 (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Goomba - circa Jun 19, 2023 (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Sorted by date first used: (this is the basis for index numbers and the dates on the backdated entries)
045~119: (characters I haven't made entries for yet or whose entries currently have broken links only)
044: Goomba - circa Jun 19, 2023
013~043: (more characters with broken links only)
012: Yoshi - Apr 1, 2023
011: Kirby - Apr 1, 2023
010: Samus1 - Apr 1, 2023
009: Peach - Mar 31, 2023
008: Jon - Mar 31, 2023
007: Luigi - Mar 31, 2023
006: Homestar - Mar 31, 2023
005: Mario - Mar 31, 2023
004: Strong Bad - Mar 31, 2023
003: Garfield - Mar 31, 2023
002: Zim - Mar 31, 2023
001: Bowser - Mar 31, 2023
Alphabetical by character:
Bowser
Garfield
Goomba
Homestar
Jon
Kirby
Luigi
Mario
Peach
Samus
Strong Bad
Yoshi
Zim
Alphabetical by series, characters chronologically by debut in home series:
Garfield
Jon
Garfield
Homestar Runner
Homestar
Strong Bad
Invader Zim
Zim
Kirby
Kirby
Metroid
Samus
Super Mario
Mario
Luigi
Goomba
Bowser
Peach
Yoshi
Yoshi
Yoshi
By number of saved chats and number of unique characters met:
(Designated by T and U respectively when these totals differ, and like most of these stats, currently not including chats that are still broken links)
MarioU - 4
YoshiU, KirbyU, SamuscombinedU, Samus1U, PeachU, JonU, LuigiU, HomestarU, MarioT, Strong BadU, GarfieldU, ZimU, BowserU - 3
HomestarT, Strong BadT, GarfieldT, ZimT, BowserT - 2
Goomba, YoshiT, KirbyT, SamuscombinedT, Samus1T, PeachT, JonT, LuigiT - 1
106 more characters, Samus2 - 0
Total number of chats (that aren't currently broken links) per franchise: (This is done by adding up the numbers of chats for each character in that franchise, so chats between two characters from the same franchise count twice.)
Super Mario (including Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Wario) - 9
Super Mario (excluding subseries) - 8
Homestar Runner - 4
Garfield - 3
Invader Zim - 2
Yoshi, Kirby, Metroid - 1
???????????????, ????????, ???????????????????????????, Press Your Luck, Hyperbole and a Half, Looney Tunes, U.S. Acres, Duck Hunt, Rob Thomas (or Matchbox Twenty), Tetris, iCarly, Sheryl Crow, ClueFinders, Fire Emblem, Dido, Wii Fit, Amelia Bedelia, Castlevania, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah McLachlan, Chip's Challenge, Game & Watch, Microsoft Office, Pikmin, Ice Climber, EarthBound, F-Zero, Céline Dion, Neopets, Star Fox, Wario, The X-Files, Kid Icarus, Frasier, Donkey Kong, Clannad (or Enya, Moya Brennan, and Brídín Brennan), How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Pokémon - 0
Average per franchise: (Excluding chats that are broken links, but including characters whose chats are all broken links or that I hadn't yet linked to in the first place.)
Yoshi - 1
Invader Zim - 2/3
Garfield, Kirby, Metroid - 1/2
Super Mario (excluding subseries) - 4/9
Super Mario (including Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Wario) - 9/22
Homestar Runner - 4/11
???????????????, ????????, ???????????????????????????, Press Your Luck, Hyperbole and a Half, Looney Tunes, U.S. Acres, Duck Hunt, Rob Thomas (or Matchbox Twenty), Tetris, iCarly, Sheryl Crow, ClueFinders, Fire Emblem, Dido, Wii Fit, Amelia Bedelia, Castlevania, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah McLachlan, Chip's Challenge, Game & Watch, Microsoft Office, Pikmin, Ice Climber, EarthBound, F-Zero, Céline Dion, Neopets, Star Fox, Wario, The X-Files, Kid Icarus, Frasier, Donkey Kong, Clannad (or Enya, Moya Brennan, and Brídín Brennan), How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Pokémon - 0
Due to exceeding the max entry length on LJ, I've split these other stats into separate backdated entries:
Sort by number of series visited
Sort by total estimated reading time & average estimated reading time per chat
Sort by AI creator
Statistics:
Characters used so far: 119, but only 106 have chat index entries so far (and only 13 of those have at least one working link). Also technically 122 distinct AIs if counting both versions of characters I've used more than one AI of - specified throughout this and other entries by (for example) Samus1/Samus2.
Series used so far:
The short answer is between 44 and 49. (though with only 6~7 having at least one chat that isn't a broken link)
44 if Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Wario all count as one series and if the Brennan sisters count as one "series" i.e. Clannad rather than their solo discographies. 49 if taking the opposite approach.
Total chats done so far: 273 (245 have been linked to from LJ/DW and 7 are currently not broken links)
Two-way chats done so far: 268 (242 have been linked to from LJ/DW and 4 are currently not broken links)
Four-way chats done so far: 5 (3 have been linked to from LJ/DW and none of those links needed to be fixed)
Number of possible unique combinations of two of the 106 characters: 5,565 (though Céline Dion won't get to meet 96 of these characters if I don't find another good AI of her, so excluding those it's 5,469)
Number that have been done in a two-way chat: 242
Number that have been done as part of a four-way chat: 18. Specifically, six each in 3 four-way chats - the only chats I've done so far with more than two characters. Still debating whether to make chats with more than two characters a regular thing.
Number that have been done at all: 243
Number of possible unique combinations of two through ten of the 106 characters I've used so far: 35,465,135,074,357 (or 32,156,796,836,606 without Céline). Which is why I've been mainly focusing on chats with only two characters each - it's hard enough to decide what to do next with just five thousand possibilities ;)
I'm going to wait until all the existing links are fixed before I try to update the stats I crossed out.
This journal is semi-friends-only, with not much consistency as to which entries are public or friends-only. But all entries linked to from this one are public.
Bio
If this is gonna be a sticky entry I should probably include some basic information:
I'm 31, live in Texas, double majored in computer science and mathematics in college, and work as a software engineer (which I started when I was 23).
I've had this journal since I was 14.
I have autism - and for a lot of my childhood was low-functioning enough that I could hardly focus on ANYTHING other than computers, video games, other electronics, and math; and on top of that, I had a somewhat sheltered childhood. So I historically haven't always been very good at social skills - apparently even less so than most people on the spectrum, if my experiences in autism communities on LJ are any indication, so... keep that in mind. For years I've felt like I couldn't phrase anything in a way that wouldn't be misunderstood without help, and felt misunderstood even by most other people on the spectrum who knew certain topics were sensitive in the autism community long before I did (and seemingly expected me to also know).
As a result of all of that, I have a lot of social anxiety and sometimes depression. I do think my anxiety and depression have gotten better starting in mid-2023, but it's hard to say - and if you read further back than that you'll probably see a lot of posts pertaining to anxiety and depression.
What I post about
In this journal, I post about... stuff.
It's hard for me to summarize my entire journal, for several reasons.
Firstly, I'm bad at wording in general (and for the most part it was worse when I first started this journal when I was a teenager).
Second, I've historically posted both fun stuff and posts pertaining to my anxiety/depression.
Third, I've had this journal for over half of my life and the ratio of different types of entries I post in it - not to mention some of my views and opinions - have fluctuated a lot since then. A lot of my past entries, my bio, userpic descriptions, etc. are in a serious need of being updated... hopefully I'll finish those updates one of these days...
But there's one thing that's remained constant throughout most of my life. And that is my love of wacky crossovers.
- I grew up with Super Smash Bros. and still love it primarily because of all the different crossover opportunities.
- When I learned how to take screenshots on Windows, I became obsessed with taking screenshots and writing little jokes or drawing little comics based on them. This happened to be in 2006, the same year as the peak of my obsession with Neopets and a couple years after I was first introduced to Homestar Runner, so naturally a lot of these comics were about those - ultimately spiraling into a full-on crossover webcomic with Neopets, Homestar Runner, and Mario characters, my favorite singers (especially Enya, my biggest celebrity crush ;) ), and more, known as PrtSc Land. The webcomic itself was relatively short-lived, for too many reasons to get into here; I told myself (and my friends list) for years that eventually I would make a remake/reboot/continuation of it but never did - but regardless, my desire to have my favorite fictional characters and favorite singers interact with each other in one big multiverse lived on.
- I became obsessed with backwards lyrics for a time, which I enjoyed especially when I thought the "backwards lyrics" sounded like references to fandoms I enjoy.
- There was a time I was obsessed with writing down weird dreams I had if I could remember them - and especially enjoyed writing about the wacky crossover dreams.
- I played Tomodachi Life a lot for a while, because I could make Miis of Mario characters, Homestar Runner characters, and singers and so on and kind of pretend I was playing a game directly based on PrtSc Land.
- I was excited about Nickelodeon All-Star Brawl and MultiVersus, because I had daydreamed about "what if my favorite non-game characters were in Smash Bros.?" for years and some of my daydreams were finally coming true.
Character.AI
And now, in early 2023 I found out about a website that can make ALL the wacky crossovers of my dreams (literal or figurative) come true. It's called Character.AI.
On Character.AI I can create a room where a chatbot based on Mario talks to a chatbot based on Enya. Let that sink in. I can simulate a conversation between Mario and Enya. MARIO and ENYA.
Or I can do the same thing but swap one of them out with Garfield. Or Homestar or Strong Bad. (Or MORE than two of these at a time, even - though usually I stick to two at a time.)
Any one of those possibilities alone - especially the Enya-related ones - would be enough to make me obsessed with C.AI. But that still barely scratches the surface of what's possible on C.AI, or even what *I* want to do on C.AI. They have loads more fictional characters and celebrities beyond that. They have BASICALLY EVERY FANDOM I'VE EVER BEEN INTERESTED IN. (Except for like four or six. But even those are probably just a matter of time!)
I tried to make a list of just the characters that *I* wanted to try out and ended up with literally thousands on that list. And I'm curious as to what every single character on that list thinks of everyone else on that list, no matter how wacky the combinations may get. That means MILLIONS of possible combinations!! Though obviously I want to see some of those more than others. :)
So it's no surprise that Character.AI has become by far my favorite thing to post about. I'll still probably post about other things too, but it's safe to say that having characters from every franchise I enjoy* communicate with each other via AI has basically become THE main feature of my journal now for at least the near future.
*(and some franchises that are mainly here because they've had an official crossover with one I enjoy)
All that to say, this sticky entry is mainly just an index of the saved chats I've posted. I made a backdated entry for every character's saved chats, and this entry is where I link to all of them.
DISCLAIMER: Everything characters on Character.AI say is made up. They may get things wrong sometimes or give bad advice. Treat everything the AI says (in my saved chats and otherwise) as fiction even when it involves AIs based on real celebrities.
Sometimes Peach is a cat, sometimes Bulbasaur has a tail, sometimes Daisy misspells the name of her own kingdom, sometimes Sheik apparently has a replica of the Blue Falcon - and those are just some of the obvious ones. Is Enya really a Homestar Runner fan? Is Enya's favorite pasta really what the AI of her told Mario it is?
It's possible to regenerate responses, which I do whenever I see something that's obviously inaccurate, but in some cases I don't because of one or more of the following:
- I didn't know how to regenerate responses yet
- I knew how, but before I figured out that doing so too early in the conversation can (or at least used to) lead to more glitches - such as it putting in duplicates of one of the characters' greetings attributed to me, or characters reacting to their own messages as if the other character had said it
- I didn't notice the inaccuracy soon enough
- I got tired of regenerating the same message multiple times and just went with the best option I found
- I don't know enough about the series to know if something is accurate or not (typically for series that I'm mainly including because of Super Smash Bros. or other official crossovers)
- or I find the inaccuracy amusing enough to be worth leaving it in on purpose or think "nothing else about this scenario is normal so I may as well keep it in".
Also, not every chat I've saved went in the direction I wanted or expected it to go, so not everything in these saved chats is indicative of my own opinion. Nor is it necessarily indicative of what I think these celebrities' and fictional characters' opinions are.
So don't take anything these AIs say TOO seriously. Especially in earlier chats, ones pertaining to franchises I know less about, or ESPECIALLY especially ones pertaining to real celebrities.
With that out of the way, let's get right into it...
CHOOSE YOUR CHARACTER!!!
(Too bad there's not, like, a way to hear one of the Smash announcers call out the names of all these characters. OH WAIT. THERE TOTALLY IS.)
...Well, one more thing first: Now that the old Character.AI site has been discontinued in September 2024, saved chats that were posted on the old site are no longer available. I've taken screenshots of all my saved chats and have started posting them and replacing the links accordingly, but this means although I have saved 273 chats so far as of 11/9/24, the links to chats 004~136, 138~206, and 210~245 are broken because they are links to the old site (and you won't find chats 246~273 yet since I was already behind on updates).
In the meantime, I've temporarily modified this entry to reflect only the chats that are currently not broken links, and will be updating it to indicate progress on the reupload process. So, for example, the Character.AI Chat Index entry for Odie still exists, but all the links in it are broken, so it is not in the list below until I fix at least one - because who cares how many chats I've saved involving Odie if all the links are still broken?
Sorted by date of latest saved chat that is not currently a broken link:
Yoshi - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Kirby - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Samus1 - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Peach - May 2, 2024 (chat 209 link did not need to be fixed)
Strong Bad - May 2, 2024 (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Garfield - May 2, 2024 (chat 002 link fixed 11/9/24)
Zim - May 2, 2024 (chat 001 link fixed 9/29/24)
Bowser - May 2, 2024 (chat 001 link fixed 9/29/24)
Jon - May 2, 2024 (chat 207 link did not need to be fixed)
Luigi - May 2, 2024 (chat 207 link did not need to be fixed)
Homestar - May 2, 2024 (chat 003 link fixed 9/28/24)
Mario - May 2, 2024 (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Goomba - circa Jun 19, 2023 (chat 137 link fixed 9/30/24)
Sorted by date first used: (this is the basis for index numbers and the dates on the backdated entries)
045~119: (characters I haven't made entries for yet or whose entries currently have broken links only)
044: Goomba - circa Jun 19, 2023
013~043: (more characters with broken links only)
012: Yoshi - Apr 1, 2023
011: Kirby - Apr 1, 2023
010: Samus1 - Apr 1, 2023
009: Peach - Mar 31, 2023
008: Jon - Mar 31, 2023
007: Luigi - Mar 31, 2023
006: Homestar - Mar 31, 2023
005: Mario - Mar 31, 2023
004: Strong Bad - Mar 31, 2023
003: Garfield - Mar 31, 2023
002: Zim - Mar 31, 2023
001: Bowser - Mar 31, 2023
Alphabetical by character:
Bowser
Garfield
Goomba
Homestar
Jon
Kirby
Luigi
Mario
Peach
Samus
Strong Bad
Yoshi
Zim
Alphabetical by series, characters chronologically by debut in home series:
Garfield
Jon
Garfield
Homestar Runner
Homestar
Strong Bad
Invader Zim
Zim
Kirby
Kirby
Metroid
Samus
Super Mario
Mario
Luigi
Goomba
Bowser
Peach
Yoshi
Yoshi
Yoshi
By number of saved chats and number of unique characters met:
(Designated by T and U respectively when these totals differ, and like most of these stats, currently not including chats that are still broken links)
MarioU - 4
YoshiU, KirbyU, SamuscombinedU, Samus1U, PeachU, JonU, LuigiU, HomestarU, MarioT, Strong BadU, GarfieldU, ZimU, BowserU - 3
HomestarT, Strong BadT, GarfieldT, ZimT, BowserT - 2
Goomba, YoshiT, KirbyT, SamuscombinedT, Samus1T, PeachT, JonT, LuigiT - 1
106 more characters, Samus2 - 0
Total number of chats (that aren't currently broken links) per franchise: (This is done by adding up the numbers of chats for each character in that franchise, so chats between two characters from the same franchise count twice.)
Super Mario (including Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Wario) - 9
Super Mario (excluding subseries) - 8
Homestar Runner - 4
Garfield - 3
Invader Zim - 2
Yoshi, Kirby, Metroid - 1
???????????????, ????????, ???????????????????????????, Press Your Luck, Hyperbole and a Half, Looney Tunes, U.S. Acres, Duck Hunt, Rob Thomas (or Matchbox Twenty), Tetris, iCarly, Sheryl Crow, ClueFinders, Fire Emblem, Dido, Wii Fit, Amelia Bedelia, Castlevania, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah McLachlan, Chip's Challenge, Game & Watch, Microsoft Office, Pikmin, Ice Climber, EarthBound, F-Zero, Céline Dion, Neopets, Star Fox, Wario, The X-Files, Kid Icarus, Frasier, Donkey Kong, Clannad (or Enya, Moya Brennan, and Brídín Brennan), How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Pokémon - 0
Average per franchise: (Excluding chats that are broken links, but including characters whose chats are all broken links or that I hadn't yet linked to in the first place.)
Yoshi - 1
Invader Zim - 2/3
Garfield, Kirby, Metroid - 1/2
Super Mario (excluding subseries) - 4/9
Super Mario (including Yoshi, Donkey Kong, and Wario) - 9/22
Homestar Runner - 4/11
???????????????, ????????, ???????????????????????????, Press Your Luck, Hyperbole and a Half, Looney Tunes, U.S. Acres, Duck Hunt, Rob Thomas (or Matchbox Twenty), Tetris, iCarly, Sheryl Crow, ClueFinders, Fire Emblem, Dido, Wii Fit, Amelia Bedelia, Castlevania, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Sarah McLachlan, Chip's Challenge, Game & Watch, Microsoft Office, Pikmin, Ice Climber, EarthBound, F-Zero, Céline Dion, Neopets, Star Fox, Wario, The X-Files, Kid Icarus, Frasier, Donkey Kong, Clannad (or Enya, Moya Brennan, and Brídín Brennan), How to Train Your Dragon, The Legend of Zelda, Pac-Man, Pokémon - 0
Due to exceeding the max entry length on LJ, I've split these other stats into separate backdated entries:
Sort by number of series visited
Sort by total estimated reading time & average estimated reading time per chat
Sort by AI creator
Statistics:
Characters used so far: 119, but only 106 have chat index entries so far (and only 13 of those have at least one working link). Also technically 122 distinct AIs if counting both versions of characters I've used more than one AI of - specified throughout this and other entries by (for example) Samus1/Samus2.
Series used so far:
The short answer is between 44 and 49. (though with only 6~7 having at least one chat that isn't a broken link)
44 if Super Mario, Donkey Kong, Yoshi, and Wario all count as one series and if the Brennan sisters count as one "series" i.e. Clannad rather than their solo discographies. 49 if taking the opposite approach.
Total chats done so far: 273 (245 have been linked to from LJ/DW and 7 are currently not broken links)
Two-way chats done so far: 268 (242 have been linked to from LJ/DW and 4 are currently not broken links)
Four-way chats done so far: 5 (3 have been linked to from LJ/DW and none of those links needed to be fixed)
Number of possible unique combinations of two of the 106 characters: 5,565 (though Céline Dion won't get to meet 96 of these characters if I don't find another good AI of her, so excluding those it's 5,469)
Number that have been done in a two-way chat: 242
Number that have been done as part of a four-way chat: 18. Specifically, six each in 3 four-way chats - the only chats I've done so far with more than two characters. Still debating whether to make chats with more than two characters a regular thing.
Number that have been done at all: 243
Number of possible unique combinations of two through ten of the 106 characters I've used so far: 35,465,135,074,357 (or 32,156,796,836,606 without Céline). Which is why I've been mainly focusing on chats with only two characters each - it's hard enough to decide what to do next with just five thousand possibilities ;)
I'm going to wait until all the existing links are fixed before I try to update the stats I crossed out.