Noire

Overview

Noire is Tharja's daughter in Fire Emblem: Awakening. As with the other future characters, she travels back in time in an effort to prevent the calamity that destroys Ylisse. Years of abuse at the hands of her mother, who used her as a guinea pig to experiment with various hexes, have left her meek and cowardly. However, her ordeals have also granted her a blood-thirsty alter-ego that behaves with an attitude almost polar opposite to her normal demeanor.

Though Noire was constantly the target of her mother's hexes as she grew up, she ultimately doesn't mind that her mother put her through it. Tharja apparently outlives Noire's father in the future and worked to avenge him by practicing hexes on Noire. Noire, in the meantime, tried to emulate her mother, though her mimicry in practicing the dark arts never led to her becoming a mage in her own right. After Noire travels back in time, she intends to get legitimate practice in studying the dark arts from her mother. Tharja is at first happy about this in her own way, but ultimately tells Noire that she won't teach her. She believes that the reason her future self put Noire through all of those hexes and curses was because, despite the rough treatment, she does love her daughter and was trying to protect her.

Because Tharja can marry the male version of the Avatar, it is possible for Noire and Morgan to be sisters. In their support conversations together, Morgan frets that she can't remember anything about her sister after she had lost her memory while traveling through time. Noire ultimately promises to help Morgan get those memories back, no matter how long it might take, while also looking forward to making new memories together.