I had two characters with the same name, one on Sargatanas server (Aether DC) and one on Balmung server (Crystal DC). I never found the time to level the Sargatanas version, but leveled the Balmung version quite a bit. Meanwhile I have a very active community on Sargatanas, but the friends I was playing with on Balmung are pretty inactive. So I decided to delete the Sargatanas copy of this character and transfer the Balmung copy over to Sargatanas. With me so far?

I deleted the Sargatanas copy. And then I logged into the Mogstation to do the server transfer. But when I pull up the list of characters on the Destination Server, the deleted character still shows up, and it warns me that I'll need to change the name of the Balmung character if I move her over.

Is this a bug, or will the deleted character actually disappear from Mogstation records after some additional length of time, or what?