When the tab ordering was changed to reflect the order in which characters are awakened, the hotkeys were not updated to mirror this behavior, and instead reflect the order of characters’ ID, as before.
As a result, pressing Ctrl+1 does not select the first character shown in the list, but whichever character has the alphanumerically lowest ID. This renders the hotkeys quite difficult to wrangle, although a temporary workaround involves juggling character wakefulness to put them back in (nominally) creation order on the screen.
I would also love the ability to change the order of the character log in section. When I first came to wolfery I wasn’t sure I would stick around, so my “main” isn’t the first character I made and it kind of bugs me…