Call them whatever you like to call them

[whilke]

I always used Character or Char for short, which is the same number of letters as Toon...

I'm pretty sure toon became more popular then char because it just sounds easier off the the tongue to say toon over char.

Still not sure why people get mental over either word choice? They are both just as bad as any other short hand choice. Do you also go crazy when someone calls an enemy a "mob"? I mean, how is that any better?

Hell, we use to call groups of mobs "zoo's", but I'm old and that was a long time ago. Just be glad some of the really old text/graphical MUD terminology is still not around.