I'm fine with making two characters myself.
awesome!
Making one would be nice, since I'm never great at manning two characters in a written format...
Option 3 or 4 for me!
Sweet! I'll generate a few loyal buckos tommorrow evening. They will, generally speaking, not be very smart or wise or possibly just really lazy, so these characters will defer to your judgement on challenges that come up. You can direct them and make requests of them, but if you mistreat them and they catch on, it might get back to the local town that you're a dangerous party to work with.
Also I get Castlevania vibes from this and it's pretty awesome.
That's the exact vibe I get from this adventure too. Makes me want to re-watch the animated series since I'm not very skilled at the game :p although Vampire Survivors just released a crossover for Castlevania which I'm working up to.