How can I stop playing the animation when I lose?

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1

I’m implementing a battle cry animation for characters using the “AnimationPlayer” node, but when the character loses, I need to stop the animation from playing and play a losing animation instead.

Knight script for battle cry:
@ onready var can_animation_play = true

func Cry():
if can_animation_play == true:
animation_play(“Battle cry”)
else:
pass

Game script:
@ onready var game_over = false

if score == 100:
knight.Cry()

func game_over():
if game_over == false:
knight.can_animation_play = false

However, this script doesn’t work, and the character first plays the “battle cry” animation and only then plays the losing animation and only then disables animation playback, but I need to immediately interrupt the animation after losing, even if it has already started playing.

How can I implement this? Thanks a lot for your help! If anything is unclear or you have any solutions to this problem, feel free to write in the comments.
(I use Godot 4.)

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2

This is basically a simple state machine:

@export var animation_player

emun AnimationState {
   Idle,
   Walking,
   Attacking,
   Crying,
   Killed,
}
var animation_state : AnimationState


func attack():
   if animation_state == AnimationState.Cry or animation_state == AnimationState.Killed or animation_state == AnimationState.Attacking:
      return

   animation_state = AnimationState.Attacking

   animation_player.play("attack")
   await animation_player.animation_finished

   
   if animation_state == AnimationState.Attacking:
      animation_state = AnimationState.Idle
   

func cry():
   if animation_state == AnimationState.Cry or animation_state == AnimationState.Killed or animation_state == AnimationState.Attacking:
      return

   animation_state = AnimationState.Cry

   animation_player.play("cry")
   await animation_player.animation_finished

   if animation_state == AnimationState.Cry:
      animation_state = AnimationState.Idle


func on_killed():
   if animation_state == AnimationState.Killed:
      return

   animation_state = AnimationState.Killed
   animation_player.play("die")

I am no expert in state machines (I think it is intended to use a node based state machine, but in my opinion that’s a bit messy with so many scripts for such few functionality)