How can I customize a changeable name? [Solved]

[Flowers from Nowhere]

If I just assign a character a name I can change the color that the name appears in, add prefixes and suffixes, etc. just by defining the character that way:

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define unknown = Character('???', color="#c8ffc8", what_prefix="\"", what_suffix="\"")

With this code in place anything that unknown says will be in quotations and the name "???" will appear in the name box in the given color.

But what if I want to let the player rename the character? The way I know to do that is set a variable:

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$ person = renpy.input("My name is...", "Some Bloke")

Which will allow me to use person as a character but I don't know how to customize the color of the name (in this case the default name "Some Bloke") or add prefixes and suffixes.

Is there a way to do this?

[Megaman Z]

Set the "name" of the character to the name of the variable (as a string) and specify dynamic=True on the same character. Alternatively, use DynamicCharacter for this, setting the "name" as the name of the variable. DynamicCharacter(name, [...]) is equivalent to Character(name, dynamic=True, [...])

In context, you're probably looking for something along the following lines:

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# Variable we're storing the name in
init:
    $ person = "???"

# Character who will be referred to as whatever person (see above) is at the time
define unknown = DynamicCharacter("person", color="#c8ffc8", what_prefix="\"", what_suffix="\"")

With that, at some point in the actual script (after label start or wherever), set person to be the result of renpy.input() as before and the name will change.

[Flowers from Nowhere]

That works perfectly, thank you!