hi
@Starmage thank u for your interest.
The script character as battler is actually worked as intended. Since it redirected from Graphic/battlers folder to Graphics/characters. And the extra "_1" suffix is automated because how I made the action sequence handler (you probably want to learn how to set action pose before knowing why I made it), and it's also heavily inspired from Tankentai back in VX era when kaduki sprites and Tankentai were a thing.
The addon I made so that you won't be having a copy of these sprites for both in battler folder and character folder since it might also usable in map for whatever reason (mainly for kaduki style sprites), like this
Maybe, the addon name and the description is kinda misleading, if so, sorry about that
But my making a copy of a character in battler folder will also do. Which, unfortunately, there is no automated one for "every character I use it will become a battler" thing.
Try to read the
getting started article and see if you get the idea of it. I haven't update the wiki for a while though