Hello everyone, Happy New Year ! 
Welcome to a new round of the CCC (Character Compounding Contest), it’s still an honor and a pleasure to be your host.
I updated the first rule regarding the usage of the works submitted in this contest. The submissions to the CCC will now be F2E unless requested otherwise.
I also added a Calendar for the CCC of the upcoming year in the “Schedule” section of this post.
Finally, regarding the voting system mentioned last round, it was really divisive. I decided to try the new system for this round and see how it fares. Then, ask again for your opinion for the next rounds.
The submissions will be separated into two categories: more experienced artists and growing artists. Each category will get separate votes, the first place winner of the growing artists will choose a character and a theme for the next round, while the first place winner of the experienced artists will choose another character that fit said theme chosen by the growing artists winner.
Each artist can choose in which category they decide to submit their work, but artists who won multiple rounds in the past and/or already have a reputation as an artist will enter in the experienced artists category.
Please mention in which category you wish to be part of.
It is updated under the 10th rule and is bound to change depending on public reception.
If you're new to the concept, click here to learn more about it
What is the CCC
The CCC is an art contest where the participants create portraits for Fire Emblem characters to expand the FE Fangame Essentials, a resource that compiles Fire Emblem-related assets, including portraits, battle animations, music amongst others to create Fire Emblem content or rom-hacking in general.
The artists may represent the featured characters we’re used to in many ways, whether they’ll be their classic attire or re-designs including but not limited to de-ageing or ageing the characters, giving them new outfits or attributes, genderbending them, cosplaying them, etc… as long as they are recognizable and keep defining features of said characters.
This contest isn’t targeted towards a specific audience. Despite being a contest, it is very casual and everyone is encouraged to partake in this contest, no matter their skill level and experience, the main goal is to have fun and create portraits for the Community to use and enjoy!
Rules
1.
All submissions to this contest will be F2E by default, unless stated otherwise by the artist! This contest involves expanding the resources available for the Portrait Repository, but I understand not everyone participating wishes their work to be F2U or F2E.
2.
Artists may create custom battle animations, music, map sprites, or any form of art related to the featured characters, however, only posts with a portrait will be eligible for the vote.
3.
Artists may create an alternate outfit/design/etc for one or multiple characters, if they wish.
4.
Artists may submit multiple designs, if they wish. They will all count toward their one submission vote. (Voters will vote on all of the works they created at once)
5.
No pre-existing artwork! The point of this contest is to expand the repository. It would be unfair to compete against artwork that may have had weeks or months of editing work put into it.
6.
Eye/mouth frames are preferable, but optional. They aren’t necessary, but it would be awesome if they would be included!
7.
Characters must either be from the main Fire Emblem titles or one of the Fire Emblem spinoffs, such as Heroes.
8.
All characters must be sprited in GBA format!
(Hackbox size is not necessary)
(Halfbodies/fullbodies are authorised)
(Please try to keep the colour count at or below 16, that would be great)
9.
Submissions must at least somewhat resemble the original character!
10.
According to the artist’s choice and their background, their submitted work will be put into the growing artists or experienced artists category.
The first-place winner of each category pick a character, following a theme set by the growing artists first-place winner.
then the community gets to vote on the last character(s) they also want to see!
Schedule
- The artists may submit their work until one month after each round is announced.
- Then, the following week, everyone can vote for their favorite submissions.
- The voting period is then followed by a break of a week before a new round starts, meaning a round lasts one month and two weeks in total, but the deadline will be reiterated further down on the post.
Previous rounds
Round One - Anna, Jake
Round Two - Eirika, Ephraim
Round Three - Karel, Karla
Round Four - Hugh, Cath, Lysithea
Round Five - Nino, Jaffar, Sonya
Round Six - Larum, Elphin, Homer, Phina
Round Seven - Mia, Astram, Flavia
Round Eight - Lance, Alan
Round Nine - Lachesis, Larcei, Rutger
Round Ten - Athena, Marisha, Erik
Round Eleven - Zane, Arete, Klein
Round Twelve - Anna, Ryoma, Hinoka
Round Thirteen - Cecilia, Pent, Saleh
Round Fourteen - Michalis, Minerva, Maria
Round Fifteen - Palla, Catria, Est
Round Sixteen - Camilla, Elise, Felicia
Round Seventeen - Alear, Louis, Yunaka
Round Eighteen - Hector, Jahn, Idunn
Round Nineteen - Cherche, Libra, Olivia
Round Twenty - Hanon, Rutger, Sue, Uhai
Round Twenty One - Silvia, Lara, Nils, Ninian
Round Twenty Two - Dorothea, Annette, Marianne, Yuri, Constance
Round Twenty Three - Tanya, Rebecca, Neimi, Python
Round Twenty Four - Finn, Amelia, Berkut
Round Twenty Five - Merric, Delthea, Asbel
Round Twenty Six - Dieck, Guinivere, Saber, Celica
Round Twenty Seven - Camus, Perceval, Seth
Here are the characters featured this round:
- Character 1: Caeda, the Princess of Talys from Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon.
- Character 2: Nanna, the Nordion Princess from Fire Emblem: Genealogy of the Holy War and Fire Emblem: Thracia 776.
- Character 3: Lilina, the Brilliant Flame from Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade.
- Character 4: Tana, the Soaring Princess from Fire Emblem: The Sacred Stones.
For those of you who aren’t quite sure about what sorts of designs you could make, you can click on each characters names’ to access their wiki-pages, complete with alternate designs and artwork.
Reach into your imagination, and the first place could be yours!
The deadline is February 1st.
To not miss any future rounds, you can now join the CCC Discord Server, on there, I announce every new round, voting period and results.
You’ll soon be able to vote for the characters featured in the next round.
Have fun everyone! 
![Nanna [FC]](https://feuniverse.us/uploads/default/original/3X/2/0/20600841a820348e05f225ae251b34de01e05f6f.png)
![Nanna [FE6-7 Colors]](https://feuniverse.us/uploads/default/original/3X/8/0/805fb2d24df2ccc30e22bd2e8cdad22a2d6dc234.png)
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