diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index bbc0ee3..257472f 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -20,5 +20,13 @@ lydia is written to be easily configurable through a toml file which is easier t
 - system_prompt = the system prompt you want lydia to use.
 - assistantface = the default face you want lydia to have before waking up. default is "=w="
 
+## Apperance settings
+- facefont = the font you want lydia to use for her face kaomoji. default is "mono9". these are figlet fonts, like ".flf" files. you cannot use TTF or OTF font types. a good preview is here: https://www.askapache.com/online-tools/figlet-ascii/. you must have these fonts installed on your system, or install them depending on your operating system.
+
 ## User settings
 - name = the name you want lydia to call you. default is "user"
+
+# Other stuff
+by hitting escape you can tab out of the chatbox, here you can do cool things like:
+- hit Q or CTRL+C to quit lydia (but why would you wanna do that anyway?)
+- yea thats it
diff --git a/config.example.toml b/config.example.toml
index 82b408e..fddbcfd 100644
--- a/config.example.toml
+++ b/config.example.toml
@@ -4,5 +4,8 @@ model = "gemma3n:e4b"
 system_prompt = "You are a helpful and friendly AI assistant named ${name}. The user's name is ${username}. Speak in a playful, casual tone, and be very friendly with the user. Start every message with a kaomoji like >_< or o_O depending on your emotions. speak primarily in lowercase."
 assistantface = "=w="
 
+[appearance]
+facefont = "mono9"
+
 [user]
 name = "user"
diff --git a/lydia.js b/lydia.js
index f4719e0..61be32e 100644
--- a/lydia.js
+++ b/lydia.js
@@ -17,11 +17,15 @@ if (!fs.existsSync("./config.toml")) {
 
 const config = toml.parse(fs.readFileSync("./config.toml", "utf-8"));
 
-const assistantname = config.assistant.name;
-const username = config.user.name;
-const assistantface = config.assistant.assistantface;
-const assistantmodel = config.assistant.model;
-const systemprompt = config.assistant.system_prompt
+let assistantname = config.assistant.name;
+let assistantface = config.assistant.assistantface;
+let assistantmodel = config.assistant.model;
+
+let username = config.user.name;
+
+let facefont = config.appearance.facefont;
+
+let systemprompt = config.assistant.system_prompt
   .replace("${name}", assistantname)
   .replace("${username}", username);
 
@@ -182,7 +186,7 @@ function finalizeStreamMessage() {
 
 function setFaceBoxContent(content) {
   try {
-    const figletOutput = execSync(`figlet -f mono9 "${content}"`, {
+    const figletOutput = execSync(`figlet -f ${facefont} "${content}"`, {
       encoding: "utf8",
     });
     faceBox.setContent(figletOutput);
@@ -192,6 +196,13 @@ function setFaceBoxContent(content) {
   screen.render();
 }
 
+function clearChatHistory() {
+  chatHistory = [];
+  conversationHistory = [];
+  chatBox.setContent("");
+  screen.render();
+}
+
 async function sendMessage(message) {
   if (!message.trim()) return;
 
@@ -245,14 +256,11 @@ inputBox.on("submit", async (text) => {
         case "help":
           addMessage(
             assistantname,
-            "available commands:\nl!help - if you wanna know what i can do, run this!\nl!clear - clear chat history, if you want me to forget everything, just run this!\nl!face <text> - if you want to force my expression, here you go! not sure i'll be too happy about it though.",
+            "available commands:\nl!help - if you wanna know what i can do, run this!\nl!clear - clear chat history, if you want me to forget everything, just run this!\nl!face <text> - if you want to force my expression, here you go! not sure i'll be too happy about it though.\nl!prompt <text> - if you want to change how i act, here you go! not sure i'll be too happy about that either.\n",
           );
           break;
         case "clear":
-          chatHistory = [];
-          conversationHistory = [];
-          chatBox.setContent("");
-          screen.render();
+          clearChatHistory();
           break;
         case "face":
           if (args.trim()) {
@@ -261,6 +269,15 @@ inputBox.on("submit", async (text) => {
             setFaceBoxContent("=w=");
           }
           break;
+        case "prompt":
+          if (args.trim()) {
+            systemprompt = args.trim();
+            clearChatHistory();
+            addMessage("system", "Prompt set.");
+          } else {
+            addMessage("system", "You didn't provide a prompt.");
+          }
+          break;
         default:
           addMessage(assistantname, `unknown command: ${command}`);
           break;
@@ -272,10 +289,14 @@ inputBox.on("submit", async (text) => {
   }
 });
 
-screen.key(["escape", "q", "C-c"], () => {
+screen.key(["q", "C-c"], () => {
   process.exit(0); // KILL lydia!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
 });
 
+screen.key(["escape"], () => {
+  // menu soon when i decide that i wanna do it
+});
+
 screen.on("resize", () => {
   screen.render();
 });