I wondered if a sprite rendered as a text …

I wondered if a sprite rendered as a text character would make sense. It would have to move to one of the 1000 positions on a text screen of 25 lines and 40 columns in a C64. The character is 2 by 2 text characters, has 3 walking poses, and two extra text characters for the SFX. It could work 👨‍💻

animated GIF of little sprite walking down a C64 screen moving as a text character