@Charnobylisk It's also worth mentioning that you're not obliged to keep both characters at once - if you feel as though having two characters is getting in the way of writing either of them
well and you can pull them out without handicapping any of the other PCs, then there's no problem with shelving one of your characters until a later date. It's not something that I'd suggest
planning to do, but you shouldn't feel intimidated out of playing two characters if you feel that you can manage it ^_^
Another option would be to wait a week or two until the rate of IC posting has settled, then decide whether you want a second character or not :)