"To imagine the characters" means to use your imagination to create or visualize the fictional people or creatures that exist in a book, story, or movie in your mind. Full definition
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Things you would imagine characters from your favorite books wearing. (thefashionfolks.com)
Rather than portraying specific people, the images focus on imagined characters. (culturetype.com)