Character definitions not working

[RewindTheGame]

Suddenly, some character definitions aren't working in my game for no reason at all. Does anyone have any idea what could cause this? At the top of my code, I have this:

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define kantrell = Character("Kantrell")
define marie = Character("Marie")

Then, later in the code I have:

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marie "Hello, Kantrell."
kantrell "Hello, Marie."

When I run this, I get an error saying that "sayer kantrell is not a function or string". It's apparently fine with marie, but kantrell it can't cope with. I can see no logical reason why it would do this. Ideas please?

Edited to put in the correct inline code tags.

[RicharDann]

c tags are for single line code, if you want to show a code block you have to use code and /code tags.

As for your question, the code you presented seems fine, but you perhaps have another variable somewhere with the same name, or accidentally overwrite it?
That's the only reason I can think that error would show up. For example:

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define kantrell = Character("Kantrell")

label start:
    $ kantrell = 0 #or some other object other than a string or Character instance
    kantrell "Hello" 

That would overwrite the value of kantrell variable, which wouldn't be a Character or a string anymore, as dialogue statements expect.

[RewindTheGame]

You know, that's exactly what I'd done. Duh. I wasn't thinking about character definitions and variables as the same thing. Cheers!