Gradience

Damn seal is darkest, so it's easiest to start with. Duplo would fit perfectly if not for the yellow background, since it was meant to be a voting icon.

Copper Pepper and Team 17 might be the best combination possible!

Briny's greenness and white background are kind of the worst fit. There are a couple properly yellow contestants, but they don't have dialogue boxes.

I thought Mangrove's roots would look bad but they don't really. Also, I wish there were more yellow/green teams with people on them!

Fuzzy cyan moments

It's kind of cheating to use a partially transparent character, but Diffuser is light blue anyways.

Padlock is grey, but the grey is shifted to blue and Checkpoint isn't very saturated.

I think Diary is the only one darker than the background.

Second best fitting after Copper Pepper!

Using the old default purple background instead of the white-yellow character is definitely cheating.

Playlist has two pink-skin characters, but the icon's kind of dark, so I put them on the darker pink team.

Daisy has a lot of colours. The light-blue to purple to pink is the best transition, which is nice cause it's my favourite colours and gradient.

Tomatoes are red.

The realistic View-Master image has shading, which is why it's on the darker red between Host and TMP.

The two white teams kind of have to go awkwardly somewhere. I think Jurta is slightly shifted to blue, which is why he's with \\err:404.

It's kind of nice that Bullseye has a red dot, so if you wanted to make it a circle, it would connect a bit.