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Well, the latter one would be kinda strange to my understanding, yet it of course depends on your system... If you just need a standing frame for each direction, there are scripts for that... try searching the forums for idle frame, standing frame, stuff like that... for example, fotzbaerchen's pixelmovement script has that feature, but you might not use such a big script for a that-single task...
Because you made your post utterly explanatory, I can't tell if you're using VX or XP, but either way, you should find the necessary lines of coding in Sprite_Character... if you have questions regarding that, please post them in the Script Support forums.