This is very good feedback, I'll look into this.
You probably get what I mean already, but to clarify, what was happening is I would make HONK1 and HONK2 in OBS, but both were searching for the same programs, so it was sort of grabbing whichever character first, so it was hard to keep one in their 'proper' spot if you switched scenes and stuff. At least that's what I was noticing with default settings, maybe it can work if I use 'Same executable', but I'll have to test.