Character not showing in character select screen, but still exists

I rather expect an emergency maintenance shortly. -Hime- is actually on their forums and posting in the thread about this issue, so someone at Nexon is aware of it, at least.
I wonder why they deleted the "offending" chars instead of banning the accounts.
Wonder whether they'll attempt to restore the deleted characters (messing up something else in the process, no doubt), or roll back to before the maintenance.