Quina Quen

Indulgence - "I do what I want! You have problem?"

Quina Quen is a playable character in Final Fantasy IX. S/he is a Qu. Quina serves as comic relief throughout the game. In Japanese, Quina means "eat", whilst Quen means "cannot eat".

Story
Quina first appears in Qu's Marsh. S/he has a fondness for frogs, and is distressed that s/he cannot catch one. Zidane catches one for Quina, and decides to join the party to eat as many things as s/he can in the vast world, and attain a higher rank of gourmand. S/he often leaves and rejoins the party, as the hunt for food often leads Quina into hot water.

Appearance
Quina is a seemingly genderless Qu, a tribe known for their weird eating habits, long tongues and poor language skills. However, its eating habits is actually one of its greatest skills, as it is able to learn Blue Magic by consuming an enemy, when its HP reaches a low enough level (Somewhat similar to Kimahri's Lancer-skill, except for the low enemy HP requirement). During game-play, the player can take Quina to several swamp locations, so that s/he can chase (and eat) the frogs in the swamp. This may seem as a waste of time, but it is in fact quite useful.

Job/Class
Quina is a Blue Mage variant, since s/he has the ability to cast Blue Magic, which is obtained from enemies. S/he only differs from regular Blue Mages, because instead of having to be attacked by the attack you want to learn, and surviving it, you have to consume an enemy (quite literally, since you have to actually eat it), who possesses the attack. This has some similarity to the Lancet ability possessed by the Final Fantasy X character, Kimahri Ronso.

Eat
Eat is required for obtaining new skills in the form of Blue Magic. When an enemy drops enough in HP, Quina is able to eat it. If successful, the enemy disappears from battle and at the same time, there's a slight chance that Quina will learn a new skill. It should be noted, that each skill can only be learned once and that eating more of the same type of enemy does not increase the attack power or accuracy of the attack.

Blue Magic
See Main article: Blue Magic (Final Fantasy IX)

Trance
When in Trance, Quina's "Eat" command changes to "Cook". It's more or less the same thing, except Quina is now able to consume an enemy with more HP left. As an example: An enemy has 2000 in Max HP. With "Eat", the HP has to drop to at least 200 (i.e. it has 10% of its HP left). With "Cook", it only has to drop to at least 1500 (i.e. it has 75% of its HP left). NOTE!! The proper math has not been applied to this example, it is an estimate.

Character Tips

 * Eat = Blue Magic = Strong Quina, so eat those enemies and learn those Blue Magic spells. They are Quina's greatest strength.


 * Get those frogs. Whenever you're given the opportunity to catch frogs, take it. It makes Quina's "Frog Drop" skill stronger (it's not as strong as Limit Glove, even when maxed with 99 frogs and a level 99 Quina, but it's risk free, since you don't have to be at 1 HP to use it) and when you catch 99 frogs, you get Quina's ultimate weapon. However, always leave one male and one female frog, so they can reproduce, making more frogs for you to catch, otherwise, you're not going to get 99 frogs.


 * Quina's Lv 5 Death comes in handy against the level 60 Grand Dragons on the outside of Gizamaluke's Grotto. So use Quina there for easy experience (equip the ability "Level Up" for even more Exp). But be sure to equip Coral Rings on your party, just in case.


 * Limit Glove is a powerful attack (9,999 damage), but Quina has to be at 1 HP to use it, so it's risky, but do-able, as long as you know Matra Magic! This is most easily achieved by also having Eiko on your team. As a back-up, have Quina learn Auto-Life (either through Eating or from a Rebirth Ring, the latter is prefered). Start of by having Eiko cast Haste on Quina. If Quina doesn't have the ability Auto-Life, cast Auto-Life with your Blue Magic. If you don't have that either, then it's more risky, but still do-able. The essence of it is, you speed Quina up by casting Haste on Quina and then having Quina cast Matra Matic on itself. Yes, on itself. This leaves Quina with exactly 1 HP. Now you can use Limit Glove. And in case you get attacked, you'll die and have Auto-Life revive you with 1 HP (but of course, the ATB bar starts over, you no longer have Haste and you're still at risk of being hit again).