Lucina

**Lucina** (ルキナ, *Lucina*) is a character from the *Fire Emblem* series. As one of the three main characters of *Fire Emblem Awakening*, Lucina is a distant descendant of Marth and the daughter of Chrom. Lucina traveled back in time in order to save her father and thus avert the apocalyptic damage inflicted during her future by the "Fell Dragon" Grima.

Lucina made her *Super Smash Bros.* series debut in *Super Smash Bros. 4* as a playable character, and returns in that capacity in *Super Smash Bros. Ultimate*.

Lucina is a distant descendant of the legendary "Hero-King" Marth. She is a princess of Ylisse, the successor state to the now-ancient kingdom of Archanea, and is Chrom's daughter. Lucina bears the holy bloodline of Ylisse's rulers, the Exalts, who carry the power of the legendary dragon Naga and her holy gifts to humanity: the Fire Emblem and the blade Falchion. This power is signified by the presence of a distinctive Brand on their bodies; in Lucina's case, hers is located in the iris of her left eye.

The adult Lucina the game primarily features is a time-traveler from an alternate future, who travels back to the current timeline in *Fire Emblem Awakening* due to the "Fell Dragon" Grima possessing Robin, and his legions of Risen zombies bringing her own world to ruin. Desperate to reverse this unfortunate event, she and other future children of Chrom's allies, the Shepherds, travel back in time to prevent the revival of Grima in Chrom's timeline and change the future. When she travels back in time, she initially hides her identity by tying her hair back and wearing a distinctive mask given to her by Gerome, one of her allies from the future, and adopting the name "Marth" from her famous ancestor.

Lucina first encounters Chrom and the Shepherds by saving her aunt Lissa from the first of the Risen. She would later duel Chrom in Arena Ferox, during which Chrom noticed that her fighting style was strikingly similar to his own. Lucina's disguise is ruined during an assassination attempt on her aunt Emmeryn while defending Chrom, causing her to disappear. She would then reappear two years later, again defending Chrom from an assassination attempt. Lucina is then accidentally revealed to be a woman after an unexpected assassin appears and inadvertently destroys her mask in in attempt to kill her, at which point she is saved by Chrom. Later, Lucina confirms that she is Chrom's daughter by allowing him to see the Brand of the Exalt in her eye, just like his newborn daughter. Lucina then joins the Shepherds to assist them in a new war.

In *Awakening*, Lucina starts out as the Lord class by default, inheriting the class from Chrom. As she is pivotal to the story, she is the only child unit whose recruitment is forced, and one of the few units that will not be permanently lost, even in Classic mode. Like Chrom, her weapon of choice is Falchion, but her version of the famed sword is the Parallel Falchion brought back from her future. Unlike Chrom's version, it is more powerful and can be used to self-heal, whereas Chrom's Falchion is initially weaker with its power sealed away and must be upgraded before the final battle to become stronger than Lucina's. Lucina can either be a potential wife for male Robin or female Robin's daughter if the latter is married to Chrom. There is also a variety of potential affine relationships between Robin and Lucina which are not acknowledged in game.

Alongside international success of *Fire Emblem Awakening*, Lucina has become one of the most popular *Fire Emblem* characters worldwide outside of *Super Smash Bros.* Since her debut, she has appeared as a guest character in *Code Name: S.T.E.A.M.*, *Fire Emblem Fates*, and *Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia*, in each case summoned in-game using her amiibo. She appeared with Chrom and fellow smasher Ryu in *Project X Zone 2*, a crossover strategy game featuring characters from Bandai Namco, Capcom, Sega, and Nintendo. Several outfit variations of Lucina are also featured in the crossover game *Fire Emblem Heroes*, and she is also playable in *Fire Emblem Warriors*. Most recently, *Fire Emblem Engage* features Lucina as one of the game's numerous Emblems, ethereal clones of protagonists from various other *Fire Emblem* games who dwell within special rings.