I only use story people. I fill up my army with every story character there is. I count Alicia, Rad, Lavian as plot characters as well as Boco and Byblos. Essentially, I only keep characters that are standard to every game. It works out that you have just enough character slots to keep everyone if you fire your initial handful of generics. Even if I were going to use generics, I wouldn't take the initial bunch. I'd buy some that I can have a say in the initial brave and faith, as well as names that I like. But that hasn't come up yet.