This game confuses me here and there.

If you obtain a certain amount of shards without owning the character, do you get the character?
Starting to doubt my memory assuming I'm mixing the feature up with Project QT. I can't remember if I had this happen to me for this game...

I ask because I've done the Daily Objectives a couple of times and the 2 maidens available (Sammy and Rose) never unlocked the first time after getting 50 each. And on the 2nd day of doing dailies, I noticed the shards limit change to something like 112. I wasn't expecting to see those two Maidens again on the second day either. So depending how long they're up there it might be a different case for them considering how easy it seems to get their shards?