Uploaded May 2020 | Updated September 2026, 59 minutes ago

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Happens when game makes you put a story character on the main party, even if you already have them on entourage. Timestamp highlights:
0:43 Duplicate characters join
1:34 Swapping with a duplicated entourage in battle
1:50 Both duplicates shown in battle, if one attacks
2:12 Swapping with a duplicated entourage in pause menu
When two identical characters are in the main party, that character will move twice as much. But they share the same stats (HP/MP).

Talked to SCF, here's what he have to say about this:
"The behavior makes sense. Each character is stored only once in memory, and the 'party' is just a list of references to those characters. In this case, the party contains two references to the same character, and the game will treat them as two characters in battle even though they share the same data. The only thing that's not stored with the character itself is the turn counter, which is why they do both get their own turns."