When Games Collide.. (remade)

"My palette restricts me from using Paula"... that is not entirely "true", since you can assign a different palette with any character, really. usME gives you the power to change battle palettes, and single bite changes in the event script will change overworld palettes...from then on you'll have to change with LE if they appear as NPCs.

Code:

CB/DAEC: 43    Assign palette $03 to character $08 (Actor in stot 8)

I would go nuts with both Paula AND Ness as characters here. Ooh, Grand Train was actually used as "Triforce" in a YouTube Poop hack, I forgot about that xD Good one! Yes Bub fits the whole Dance routine.
And I agree, deciding on who is expendable is really hard. I wanted to change Gaston (my relm replacement) for Kumatora, y'know to add more gender diversity...but then Frollo (stargo replacement) will fell really empty without his bro.
Good you have your Lagomorph dilemma solved.

I don't have problems assigning the palette but rather not enough colors available within my range that I would need an extra palette.  I would use palette 6 but its used as a placeholder.  Only pink I have currently is on NPCs colors (last 4).  

I feel you with with gaston n frollo...  much easier to have characters that are already close that way you don't have to massively event edit everything.