[Solved] Help changing colors of variables in text

[ninefoldrin]

I'm not entirely sure how to phrase the subject, so let me explain what I'm trying to do.

Every time character names come up in dialogue, I want their names to appear in the same color as their defined character names.

So far I've been doing it like this:

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$   Mia = "{color=FF2626}Mia{/color}"

and then just adding [Mia] wherever her name pops up in dialogue and narration.

I would also like to do this with the player character, but the player character name is user-defined.

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python:
        name = renpy.input("My name is...")

        name = name.strip() or "Tom"

When I use [name] in the definition of the player character, it works like I want, however, when I use [name] in the code similar to the example with Mia, it just displays "[name]" in the PC's color in the game.

Is it possible to do something similar to $ PC = "{color=F6D295}[name]{/color}" and get it to work, or is there a better way to handle all of this?

[philat]

$ name = "{color=FF2626}" + name + "{/color}"

[ninefoldrin]

Thank you so much!