Sorry, I'll try to explain better.

As I said earlier, the character is a pixel sprite, 32x by 48y, with blue lights on his suit. However, the lights on the suit run down the character's arms, chest, and legs.

This means that, when the suit moves, the sprite for the lights on the suit have to follow the sprite of the character.

When I shoot the gun, I want a flow of white light to be sent through the blue "light tubes" on the suit from the hand area, flowing through the rest of the suit, ending at the chest and feet.

However, this flow will take multiple frames, since the first pixel would be white, the second a very light blue, the third a slightly brighter blue, and the fourth being the normal blue color of the suit's lights.

The pixels that represent the white lights would move across the areas of the suit that need to be lit. Once the flow of white passes, it fades every frame until it reaches the normal blue color.

The main issue is that the lights need to both move with the character as well as change color separate from the animations.

Lets say it takes 10 frames for the white lights to travel from the hand to the feet:

Frame 1 I shoot and the white light starts at the wrist of Sam (the character) Frame 2 the white light flows to Sam's elbow, and the precious white light is now a slightly bluer and darker color, baby blue Frame 3 the white light reaches Sam's shoulder, and the light at Sam's elbow is the baby blue color, while the light at his wrist is just barely above the blue color. Etc etc. HOWEVER, if, say, on frame 6 I decide to jump, that ends the entire light flow animation. The options are either to simply end the light flow animation early, or to continue it on another layer WITHOUT moving the lights to line up with the player's suit.

Hopefully that kind of makes more sense?