@SAUS: You can turn off the display of custom colors in your control panel... everybody is writing in the same nice easily readable color for me
@topci: Marth/Sheik are rather safe bets... I was visiting some smash players in berlin and when I decided to go Sheik for a little, somebody asked "oh, you've got a Sheik as well?" to which one of the others guys replied "everybody has a Sheik", a statement which I would cosign. She's probably the most logical / natural character this game has to offer. If you've got the basics of melee down (like general ideas on how to DI/Combo, you can do WDs and shield grabs... those things), you've got a okay Sheik. Sure, she would need a lot of refinement to be actually good, but well... that's beyond the scope of one week of training
Marth is also fine. He has gigantic reach, which is rather hard for new people to get around. He would require a rather different approach to become good at (movement heavy, don't swing, just punish their lag... ), but for starters it's quite okay to just move the yellow stick towards the approaching opponent at the right timing
Maybe you could just stick with Link though, I don't think P:M is that different (can't personally testify to that, I didn't really play at all). He might be mid-low tier, but if you've got experience with him, it might very well be your best bet for the moment. And I hear his good up-b hitboxes and knockback once had him revered as one of the best characters... so I suppose he's quite fine for the not-too-competitive scene
