[quote=@student of life]
Can we have another character now that there's only the two of us?
[/quote]

That's gonna be a negative- this is tabletop,  even if we aren't playing in person. It's the age old tradition to limit players to a single character,  and that is for reasonable,  practical reasons. In the moment,  it's easier and faster to consider the responses and actions of a single character,  and if something comes up that forces a player to sit out a session or leave an adventure entirely,  it's much easier to continue if the loss doesn't constitute half the party (or a similarly troubling fraction).

Leave the character juggling to the Marshal/DM :P