THIS scopes to the currently scoped character, you would want to do as I said and use PREV as it scopes back one thing so in your example it scopes back to father_even_if_dead.
I imagine the issue with their not being a line break is due to the base game itself not using the copy name function so it had not been tested to see the localisation it gives out, a bug report for that would be a good idea if you can get it to be a repeatable simple issue and then provide a test decision to show it.
Thanks, it worked! I must've copied the wrong file when i thought PREV wasn't working correctly. Finally i can move on to tweak when AI does it!