Anyway, my suggestion is to add the ability to upload a larger (in terms of resolution and max file size limitation) character image to the character tab of the journal.
It has been discussed, quite recently in fact starting
here. The short answer is it's not happening because of how the existing image is stored and it would make saves unwieldy due to file size bloat.
I can imagine a workaround solution that would bypass that problem by storing the file separately in the folder with all the art assets (making a 'blank' image where the Champ's image would go for people who don't want one, plus a template with the appropriate background into which your art could be pasted and replace the former with the latter in the files to give yourself a body shot) but that would require the player to dig into the files and fiddle around with things, would require extra work to account for the light/dark themes, wouldn't transfer between patches and it would probably be somewhat annoying implement so I can see why it's not exactly been done and probably never will be.
I'm sure this has been suggested at some point in the past 200+ pages, but there's no "search in thread" option, so...
There
is a way to search a specific topic, actually: When you select the Search option, look at the dropdown menu that defaults to searching Everywhere and you'll see that when you're in a topic, one of the options you can select is to confine your searching to only that topic.