Trouble with Party Member Changing

Here's the deal. I have a 'Cutscene' opening for my current project, so at the very start I have the party empty.
When time comes for the player to go, he is given the first party member with the 'event
[Change Party Member: Add [Derrick], Initialize]

No dice. Derrick is added, but the player does not get any appearance on the map. Still appears 'invisible'.

So I changed it to where the starting party is not empty, but instead uses an 'empty' character. Same event change, but I remove the 'empty' character after adding Derrick. Still no go.

So I remove the 'Initialize' part on the 'Change Part Member' and still...
nothing.

What am I doing wrong here?

At any point did you use the Change Transparency Event Command?

I think I... Oooo. Yeah, I did. I suppose that means the transparency command is for the player, not the event?

EDIT
Tried changing that, it worked. I'm just using the Transparency command now, it works perfectly. Thank you, Modern Algebra!