Not related, and the designer put the Athena logo in the echo beta concept just because someone told to the artist that the head of that character, that now we know is echo, was too empty, so he just placed Athena symbol because was cool
is like in the last of us have an bar from uncharted lol
Almost certain Echo is Athena in the form of a Omnic that Winston made. She and Athena are probably from the same digital data and he made a form of her to be physical? Echo means to “yell and have sound” and Athena is all sound so she could be her “Echo” of sorts.
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2018-11-03-the-big-overwatch-blizzcon-interview-with-jeff-kaplan
“In the old picture… Sometimes what an artist like Arnold does is say, ‘There’s too much white space, I want to put a logo on,’ so he just put the Athena logo on the model. And the community embraced that model as being Athena. Athena is actually Winston’s AI, which is a separate thing - this character is separate from being Athena. The players also know Athena as the narrator of the competitive matches as well. But this is Echo, who is somebody completely different.” - Jeff Kaplan
https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/1058964192676331520
Question: can you please tell us if echo and athena are the same person? Or if echo is a vessel for athena?
Michael Chu: No.
https://twitter.com/westofhouse/status/1058765413880745985
Question: can you explain what the difference is between Echo and Athena is yet?
Michael Chu: They’re separate characters.
Echo is not related to Athena whatsoever. End of story.
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Oops lol Thanks fam. Didn’t know that.