Ohhhhhh I may take you up on that... I'm blending rusty python knowledge with YouTube tutorials right now! The weird thing about renpy is stuff I expect to be hard is so easy, like UI changes. And then things I expect to be easy (like choosing between Ren or Akira for protag name) are so hard...

GOD THE NAME CHANGES... i can show you how i coded it, it still ended up not working exactly how i wanted (you can't toggle it mid-game) but it ended up being serviceable! also highly recommend the lemmasoft forums for renpy tutorials! lemmasoft.renai.us/forums/