In [13], initially motivated by questions about the Hodge line bundle of a Hodge-type Shimura variety, we singled out a generalization of the notion of minuscule character which we termed quasi-constant. Here we prove that the character of the Hodge line bundle is always quasi-constant. Furthermore, we classify the quasi-constant characters of an arbitrary connected, reductive group over an arbitrary field. As an application, we observe that, if µ is a quasi-constant cocharacter of an Fp-group G, then our construction of group-theoretical Hasse invariants in loc. cit. applies to the stack G-Zip µ , without any restrictions on p, even if the pair (G, µ) is not of Hodge type and even if µ is not minuscule. We conclude with a more speculative discussion of some further motivation for considering quasi-constant cocharacters in the setting of our program outlined in loc. cit.