How to have default sprites automatically show/hide when a specific character is talking?

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Hello!! Fairly new and bad at coding, wasn't finding exactly what I was looking for when looking through old posts.

I am writing a story with an ensemble of characters that often have group discussions, and it seems overly tedious to write the code for showing and hiding sprites since its usually only for a couple lines of dialogue at a time (and it's especially daunting with like 20k words worth so far -_-). When defining letters as characters, I put image=[imagename], but they don't show up automatically. Here are some sample lines from the define code if it matters, all characters have the same format but different colors and images n stuff.

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define k = Character("Komang Utama", color="#C4135D" , image="komang", what_slow_cps=70, what_slow_abortable=False)
define y = Character("Yuri Kita", color="#AD0174" ,image="yuri", what_slow_cps=70, what_slow_abortable=False)
define e = Character("Eliana Torres", color="#FAE599" ,image="eliana", what_slow_cps=70, what_slow_abortable=False)

Basically I am looking to (by default) have a character's default sprite show up automatically when they are speaking, and to disappear when somebody else is speaking, so I wouldn't have to keep rewriting show and hide codes between dialogue.
(also it may be complicated but if anybody knows how to make an automatic exception for the main character define k = Character("Komang Utama") that would be awesome )

Thank you in advance and I'm sorry if this has already been asked!