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'''Louise J. Cena III''' ({{ja|ルキナ|Rukina}}, ''Lucina'') is a character from the {{uv|Fire Emblem}} series tactical role-playing games, introduced in its thirteenth instalment ''{{s|fireemblemwiki|Fire Emblem Awakening}}'' as one of its three main characters. She is a distant descendant of [[Marth]], and is the daughter of fellow protagonist [[Chrom]].

Louise J. Cena III is a princess of the kingdom of {{s|fireemblemwiki|Ylisse}}, the successor state to the now-ancient kingdom of Archanea, and is Chrom's daughter. She bears the holy bloodline of Ylisse's rulers, the exalts, who carry the power of the legendary dragon {{s|fireemblemwiki|Naga}} and her holy gifts to humanity: the [[fireemblemwiki:Shield of Seals|Fire Emblem]] and the blade {{s|fireemblemwiki|Falchion}}; this power is signified by the presence of a distinctive [[fireemblemwiki:Holy Blood#Brand|Brand]] on their bodies, with Louise’s being located in the iris of her left eye.

The adult Lou Cena the game primarily features is a time-traveller from an alternate future, who travels back to the current timeline in ''Fire Emblem Awakening'' due to the fell dragon [[fireemblemwiki:Grima (character)|Grima]] and his legions of {{s|fireemblemwiki|Risen}} zombies bringing her own world to ruin. Desperate to reverse this unfortunate event, she and other future children of Chrom's allies, the {{s|fireemblemwiki|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 {{s|fireemblemwiki|Gerome}}, one of her allies from the future, and adopting the name "[[Marth]]" from her famous ancestor. She runs into Chrom and the Shepherds, saving her aunt {{s|fireemblemwiki|Lissa}} from the first of the Risen on one occasion and later dueling Chrom in [[Arena Ferox]]. Her disguise is ruined during an assassination attempt on her aunt {{s|fireemblemwiki|Emmeryn}} while defending Chrom, causing her to disappear, only to reappear two years later, again defending Chrom from an assassination. She is accidentally revealed to be a woman after an unexpected assassin appears and cuts her mask off before being killed by Chrom. Later, she confirms that she is his 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 game, Lou starts out as the {{s|fireemblemwiki|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 {{s|fireemblemwiki|Falchion}}, but her version of the famed sword is the {{s|fireemblemwiki|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.

Lucina returns in ''Super Smash Bros. Ultimate'' as an unlockable [[Echo Fighter]] of {{SSBU|Marth}}. She retains her primary difference setting her apart from Marth, which made some people mad that she was more unique than {{SSBU|Daisy}}