How do I show a character that's a variable?

[ranshaa05]

I'm writing a scenario for "Student Transfer" and it requires me to add a suffix in the code in order to reference a character that only exists in my scenario.
the suffix i chose is "s" so every time i need to reference my character i need to write "s_ran". i thought i could write something like this so i won't have to use the suffix every time:

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# Naming
    python:
        #Ran
        ran = s_ran
        
ran "hi again" 
show ran a_0

but for some reason, the say statement works fine while the show statement brings up the default character picture and not the picture i want it to display, and when i type

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show s_ran a_0

it does.
it's not really a big deal but why does this happen? can i work around it somehow?

[xavimat]

You can use brackets to use a variable in image names: https://renpy.org/doc/html/displayables ... splayables
You can use also show expression https://renpy.org/doc/html/displaying_i ... -statement,
Also, be careful not using the same variable name for characters and sprites (you are using too many ran). Renpy will get confused.