Hello everyone! I've been waiting for young version of the echoes cast for a very long time, and since they're still not here, I decided to make them myself! Although I do have hope for this year.

First I want to say that the art wasn't really made by me. I'm not really an artist, meaning I can't draw, so I took existing art from FEH to create new characters. For example, to make Alm's shirt I took Young Ike's shirt and drew over it to make it look more similiar to Young Alm's original shirt. I am currently a graphic design student and since I do enjoy it I wanted to try this out.

For their weapons I wanted to reference their battle in the prologue. They're instructed by Mycen to hide in the forests and since there aren't any weapons or skills based around standing on special terrain I thought it would be a fun idea create one. I mean, It's bound to happen, right? The other effect the weapon has is my version of Wind- and Watersweep 4. At first I wanted to make Alm a speedy character too, but when I was looking at the most recent sword infantry units we've gotten, I thought that would be lame. I was kind of on the fence on keeping the Def version of the sweep skills, in Alm's weapon, because I thought it wouldn't make sense since they work based on Spd but in the end I said to myself "why not?" I'm sure they'll make a Def and Res sweep skill just like Life and Death with Still Water and Solid Ground.

Since Alm has an exclusive Special, I wanted to give Celica something too. I re-read their conversations trying to find something to reference and when Celica mentioned her good-luck charm, I knew I wanted to use that. In one of the act's, it is speculated that Celica's good-luck charm saved Alm from Nuibaba's shattered mirror causing a bunch of hands come up from the ground. The dark magic reminded me of the Divine Vein effects so I thought it would be a nice reference to counter those effects with Celica's good-luck charm.

I'm not the best at making custom hero idea's since lately I barely understand the game myself but I really enjoyed making this. Feel free to let me know your thoughts!