cool, no worry, might be pretty cool to have some one helping you, even if its just for a boss fight or something, as for the characters, its fine, interested in seeing were the stats mechanics go XD
Side note, anyway to share how to do the combat / open world mechanics? might give more people inspiration to make more to this style as its sort of lacking even though its a great concept for the visual novel style game XD
anyways, good luck with the game and have a great rest of the week XD