As for the status of characters, understand one thing:
You can use all of your characters in the "end" story we do. All I need to know is if you consider either of them expendable. If so, then, whether you would want to write their end, or would want me to do it. And, if you don't want them offed, then, I will assume that you will write the one you don't want to use out within that story.
So far, I've gotten status confirmations from:
-Euro -Phil -Chewy -Doc -Mxy
I don't expect one from you , Spamm, as you only have one character. So, that leaves:
