Yeah, reactivating the slot that just says character will open up the character slot that has nothing in it. In fact I don't even need to reactivate it, because the character deletion happened this month and the slot is still open. It's basically just a slot that is empty in which you can create a new character. x.x;

I know that for instance if I see the mule Rikimo@Shiva and click reactivate, the mule Rikimo will be reactivated and available to play.

We want to get back the character Salas, who has been deleted. Having the slot that says just "character" active doesn't do anything, as it is just an empty slot to create a character, where the character Salas used to be active in that slot.

Edit - just saw your edit, and yeah that's what I was wondering. We have had our characters transferred to the SE acct system for a really long time. Would suck if it does make it so you can not get your person back.