when using a custom name the question to enter first letter and the remainder _again_ is superfluous, you can simply cut the string.
$ player_name_1character = player_name[:1] $ player_name_left = player_name[1:]
does the trick (Main Story/0.1/script.rpy, lines 81+82) (yes, I am lazy. and invested a handful of minutes to find the correct syntax and wrote the comment to NEVER do this again should I start a new playthrough)