I Need a Few Pointers

[Mother Kojiro]

If i were you, I'd change the background color. Black is not good like, at all.

Would you suggest something high or low contrast in comparison to the game's palette?  I'm also curious as to what I should do with some of the NPCs; they look like they're outlined in black, but they use 3 colors, so it's actually transparent.  They show up against black backgrounds in the game, but if I'd fill in the black with another color, they'd probably look pretty bad; below is a prime example.  I am going to annotate them to say that they are transparent, but now, I'm not sure whether to box them in with black or another color and just let them transparent.  In the Willow one, I'm not sure what to do with the Willow entering a door; it just uses part of the walking animation and alters the palette, so I can't tell if he's fading to black or to transparent.