IT WORKS AHAHAH FUCK RENPY
also say hi to Emeraude.
It's built on the nastiest most inelegant while loop + elif tower but that means it could run on fucking renpy 1.0 rocking python 1 if that even exists. So easily portable to other mods.

Now all I need, if a kind anon with experience looking at sprites for hours exists, is a selection of 1-3 sprites representing different emotions. I unfortunately cannot do that