Not to be off topic but has O'Hana breakfast really improved in the last few years??...that much?? It was terrible when we went a few years ago, everything was cold and so "not fresh" we swore we'd never go back (and this was with my 8 yr old dd!)...if it has really improved that much we may consider giving it another try...
Anyway to comment on the OP, we took dd to lots of character meals when she was little. She only liked Mickey, Minnie, Chip n Dale and the princesses.
Everyone else, yikes, forget it...any character with a snout (aka, Goofy, Pluto, etc, there were others at the time)...she'd have a panic attack as they got close to the table and we'd just tell them, "our dd is afraid of you please don't take offense, but I think we'll have to pass on your visit this time around" and they'd move onto the next table. They were really good about it...until one time at H&V when the characters were still the Disney classic characters...
Pluto wouldn't go away and dd clung to me, but he laid on the floor rubbing his eyes until dd tried to figure out what was wrong...meanwhile other children would try to interact with him and he would be nice to them but go back to trying to get my dd to some type of comfort level with him, being funny or then he'd go to be passive, he'd start walking away and look back at her and put his head down and start to cry, etc. this went on for a good 5-10 min (which is a long time at a character meal) and she came around and started laughing, they high fived each other and I was even able to take a photo of her with Pluto which was a first! What progress!
After that experience she was so much better with most of the snout characters I couldn't believe it. I was just really impressed with the patience of Pluto
at this particular lunch...he made such an impression that she went from being totally scared of him to loving him, LOL!! But I wanted to share because we were once in that same situation.