How to access sgv path within a symbol

Hi guys,

I am trying to make an interactive game where a player can customise a character (just change colour). A character is a symbol that has an svg file with character walk cycles. I am trying to change colour of some parts of the character.

I know I need to access paths of the svg image but I do not seem to be able to. I can access the svg image within the symbol (I managed to remove it from the symbol with .remove() ) but not the paths that are in the svg.

Can anyone help?

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Cheers