EchoMelon personal character settings: choose who you play

Your character profile describes the person you want to play when chatting with a particular EchoMelon character. You can set a name, review gender, and add a short background and relationship. A preset lets you reuse those details without typing them again.

The two saves have different jobs: Save as Preset keeps a reusable template; Save applies the current form to the character you are chatting with. Selecting a preset fills the form, so finish with Save when you want to use it.

Open Your Character Profile

1. Open the story you want to use and enter its chat.
2. Select the character avatar in the chat header to open settings.
3. Under Your Settings, open Your Character Profile.

We checked this path in a browser guest chat. A dedicated account was not needed to save the example below. Guest access in one browser does not establish that the same settings will appear on another device or after a later sign-in.

If you are still choosing a story, read its preview first.

Fill in the person you want to play

The current English form has four fields:

Field	What to put there
Call Me	The name or nickname you want this character to use
Gender	Review the value shown in the form
My Persona Background	Your character’s identity, appearance, background, or other relevant details
My Relationship with Them	How your character knows the AI character, including a shared history when one fits

For an empty background or relationship, selecting the field opens an editor. Write your text and choose Done to return to the main form. Review the fields there, then use the main Save button to keep the current profile.

Here is our original, fictional example:

• Call Me: Avery Bell.
• Background: Avery Bell is a 30-year-old archive researcher. She carries a notebook and asks careful questions.
• Relationship: Avery is meeting the character for the first time as a visiting researcher. They begin as professional acquaintances.

This gives a scene a useful starting point without deciding what Avery must say, feel, or agree to next. The interface also offers {{user}} and {{char}} shortcuts; the screenshots show these placeholders inside our example text.

Keep the descriptions focused and watch the on-page counter. Its current label is Word Count, while its allowance is measured in tokens, so do not treat the displayed 1,000 as a promise of 1,000 ordinary words.

Write a relationship the scene can use

A relationship field is most useful when it gives the other character something concrete to respond to. Start with three facts: how you met, what happened between you, and what remains unsettled. Add a boundary when the setup needs one.

How we know each other:
One shared event:
What that event changed:
What is still uncertain:
What only the player decides:

For Avery, keep the first-meeting premise consistent:

{{user}} is visiting the archive for the first time.
{{char}} agreed to discuss a damaged catalog entry with her.
They are professional acquaintances, not old friends.
They have not yet agreed to work together beyond this meeting.
Avery's feelings, dialogue and decisions remain the player's choice.

If you want a different starting relationship, change the premise deliberately. These are alternative fictional setups, not stages that the app calculates:

Starting relationship	A useful description
Old friends	They cataloged a museum collection together five years ago, but have not spoken since a disagreement about one missing page.
Professional rivals	Both want access to the same catalog. They respect each other's research, but neither has agreed to share their notes.
New collaborators	They agreed to examine one damaged document together; they have not made a wider promise.

Choose one premise for the current story. Combining “we have never met” with “we have been close friends for years” creates a contradiction unless the fiction explains it.

Describe the starting relationship without deciding every later feeling. “They worked together last winter” is a usable event. “They must always trust me and agree with me” removes the uncertainty that could make the next scene interesting.

These fields set context; they are not an automatic relationship meter. Saving a new description does not establish that earlier conversation events were rewritten. When changing a premise midway through a story, tell the character which continuity you intend to continue, and inspect the next reply. We verified saving the settings, not model adherence to these sample relationships.

Save a reusable preset

Once the form contains details you want to reuse:

1. Select Save as Preset.
2. Enter a descriptive Preset Name, such as “Archive researcher.”
3. Select Save in the preset prompt.

The preset appears as a selectable chip near the top of the page. Its label helps you recognize the template; Call Me is the name used in the profile itself. They serve different purposes.

To use it, select the preset, review the filled fields, and choose the main Save button. You can adjust a nickname or relationship before saving if the new story needs something different.

Check that your current profile was saved

Reopen Your Character Profile from chat settings and inspect the saved fields. Looking only at a newly filled form is not enough to confirm that a preset has become your current profile.

In our guest check, the saved nickname was “Avery.” Selecting the “Archive researcher” preset changed the open form to “Avery Bell,” but an independent page still loaded the saved nickname “Avery.” After we selected the main Save button, a fresh page loaded “Avery Bell.” This is why the final save matters.

These checks verify profile and preset persistence. We did not send chat messages to test how a reply used the persona, and saving a profile is not a guarantee that an AI will always follow every detail.

Keep player and author settings separate

Your profile belongs to your use of the selected character. It does not edit the creator’s public biography or opening, and it does not rewrite the messages you already exchanged. A preset is a starting point for a form, rather than a change to every conversation at once.

Choose a story on EchoMelon, open its chat settings, and set the person you want to play before continuing the scene.

After setting the premise, use the memory and recap guide to distinguish relationship changes established in play from starting assumptions. The opening-message guide offers ways to enter a scene without deciding the other participant’s response.