Thank you very much! Most of the jam, I was confused about what things were expected, but finally started understanding more at the end once more projects started coming in. With only two days to go, I was extremely limited in what I could accomplish, but felt I could at least do something with the idea.
After the voting period ends, I plan to go back and add sound effects and cutscenes. A dropped plot element was Alexander would be represented by a purple crocus, representing rebirth or the phoenix. I simply ran out of time to draw in the references and develop the concept, hence all the purple and yellow throughout.
On the music bug, I have an idea what it could be from; I do have a couple music stops programmed in, and had some issues with fade working correctly. As they were the last bugs in the code before I wad able to run the game. I just went back and deleted them to get it to play, and may have accidentally left something unresolved.
Thanks for your comment about the backgrounds! I love drawing sprites, but loathe drawing backgrounds. I only had time to make one or the other this time around, and opted for backgrounds since they were fairly simple and few were needed. I have no issue with using photo backgrounds, but know some people dislike them.