OOPS I ACCIDENTALLY CREATED TWO TOPICS PLEASE DELETE THIS

I've a character where I want to be in the party just so their sprite can lead the party as it runs but I don't want it to appear in the menu because it's redundant in battle.

Is there a way to either hide the character or be able to use a sprite as the player and still have 3 followers behind it?

EDIT: I clicked on Create Topic a second time by accident please delete this topic