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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:
# 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