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Calca and Brina

Sprite(s)
Japanese Name	Calca, Brina
Kana	カルコ, ブリーナ
Romaji	Karuko, Burīna
Job	Doll
Skill	Jive (Calca) Dance (Brina)
Birthplace	Dwarven Castle
Age
Height
Weight
Laterality	Right-handed (both)
Final Fantasy IV: The After Years Character

"Male doll given life by the mechanical genius, Luca. She uses Calca and his counterpart, Brina, to assist her in battle and in airship repairs."

—Calca's Description

"Female doll given life by the mechanical genius, Luca. She uses Brina and her counterpart, Calca, to assist her in battle and in airship repairs."

—Brina's Description

Calca and Brina are enemies in Final Fantasy IV, and later are playable characters in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. They are the dolls of Luca, the dwarven princess of the Underworld.

StoryEdit

Final Fantasy IVEdit

Calca and Brina are fought in the Dwarven Castle when Golbez takes control of them. If left alive for long enough, the two can merge into the more powerful Calcabrina (called "Calbrena" in the 1994 Super NES "Final Fantasy II" U.S. release).

These dolls were originally harmless toys that belonged to King Giott's daughter, Luca. Later, she expresses frustration when she learns that the dolls were used for evil purposes.

Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsEdit

Calca and Brina return in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years to accompany Luca and Rydia on their journey to protect the remaining crystals. After becoming Cid's apprentice, Luca reconstructs Calca and Brina into full automatons to assist her on the maintenance of the Falcon.

After the Dwarven Castle is attacked they join the party to help Luca and Rydia to obtain the Dark Crystal in the Sealed Cave. After retrieving the Crystal the party is ambushed by the Mysterious Girl, Calca and Brina jump in to protect Luca and Rydia from the attack being damaged in the process. Despite the sacrifice, the Crystal was stolen. Rydia and Luca decide to pursuit the Mysterious Girl to Baron.

However, upon reaching the Overworld, the dolls' circuits go haywire and attack the party. After crashing the Falcon near the town of Agart, Luca is forced to scrap Calca and Brina's bodies in order to repair it. However, if a Mythril Nut, Mythril Bolt, and Mythril Spring are found, Rydia will give them to Luca so she could repair both the Falcon, and the dolls.

They join Luca and the party who embark on the Lunar Whale to stop the True Moon from crashing into the planet. Inside the moon, Luca and Cid repair them into their perfect forms. After the Creator is defeated, they are seen to remain assistants to Luca.

In BattleEdit

StatsEdit

Calca and Brina are statistically the worst characters in the game. Their main stats are significantly lower than the main stats of other characters', including the lowest HP growth in the game - along with Leonora they are the only characters to have less than 4,000 HP at Level 99. Between the two, Calca has higher Strength, Stamina and Intelligence, while Brina has higher Speed and Spirit. Their HP and MP growth is roughly equal, and their MP growth is average, allowing them to use their Band abilities regularly.

**Calca's Stats**
Level	HP	MP	Strength	Speed	Stamina	Intelligence	Spirit
1	100	10	4	4	4	4	4
10	227	33	8	7	8	8	5
20	495	68	15	11	15	12	9
30	1036	114	22	16	22	17	14
40	1760	160	29	23	28	23	19
50	2209	288	33	25	34	30	21
60	2636	296	38	28	41	35	24
70	3058	371	43	31	48	41	26
80	3281	407	45	33	50	43	28
90	3535	442	46	34	52	46	29
99	3749	473	47	35	55	48	30

**Brina's Stats**
Level	HP	MP	Strength	Speed	Stamina	Intelligence	Spirit
1	100	10	4	4	4	4	4
10	223	32	7	8	8	5	10
20	496	70	11	15	12	9	15
30	1026	114	16	22	17	14	21
40	1767	161	23	29	23	19	28
50	2211	223	26	33	27	24	32
60	2644	291	29	38	31	28	36
70	3068	359	32	42	35	34	40
80	3298	401	35	44	36	36	41
90	3525	439	37	45	38	37	43
99	3745	467	39	47	39	39	45

AbilitiesEdit

Calca can use Jive, which casts random Blue Magic spells on random enemies, while Brina uses Dance, which casts random White Magic spells on the entire party.

Calca and Brina can use the following Band abilities:

**Band Abilities**
Ability	Members	MP	Effect
Calca and Brina	Calca (Jive) Brina (Dance)	10	Use a random attack to damage all enemies or heal the party.
Go! Calcabrina!	Luca (Analyze) Calca (Jive) Brina (Dance)	10	Combine dolls and command them to attack enemies with fire and lightning.
Mystic Waltz	Edward (Bardsong) Calca (Jive) Brina (Dance)	12	The song and dance of three fighters triggers a random effect.
Final Calcabrina	Luca Cid Calca Brina	30	Reconfigure dolls into twin Calcabrinas to attack enemies together.

EquipmentEdit

Despite their poor stats and abilities, their major strength is their exclusive equipment. In Rydia's Tale the player can find "Clothes" equipment for them that gives them boosts to their stats, including the Clown Clothes that give a significant +20 Speed. At the end of the game in the final floors of the Depths, the enemies encountered there will rarely drop pieces of "Phase" equipment. The Phase Equipment not only has the best stats of the game, equalling or surpassing the Adamant Equipment and the Phase Cutter having power equal to the Ragnarok, but collectively the five pieces grant +20 to all stats. With the Phase Equipment Calca and Brina can serve as powerful physical attackers, but their random abilities makes them unreliable as mages.

**Weapons**
Daggers
Knife Dagger Mythril Knife Dancing Dagger Mage Masher Triton's Dagger Assassin's Dagger Phase Cutter

**Armor**
Shields	Head	Body	Arms
Phase Shield	Leather Cap Headband Feathered Cap Green Beret Wizard's Hat Steel Headplate Circlet Black Cowl Beret Chakra Band Sage's Miter Goblin Mask Officer's Hat Gold Hairpin * Hypnocrown Cat-Ear Hood Mystic Veil * Ribbon Phase Helm Glass Mask	Boy's Clothes * Girl's Clothes * Clown's Clothes Angel's Clothes Mage's Clothes Warrior's Clothes Final Outfit Phase Body	Cursed Ring Ruby Ring Iron Armlet Silver Armlet Rune Armlet Diamond Armlet Protect Ring Phase Knuckle Crystal Ring Flan Ring Sprint Ring Economical Ring Reach Ring Provoke Ring Limit Ring Single Star Twin Stars Rapid Ring Rapid Ring v2 Gil Band Gil Band v2 Level Band Level Band v2 Rare Band Rare Band v2 Treasure Hunter Treasure Hunter v2

BossEdit

Final Fantasy IVEdit

Main article: Calcabrina (Boss)

The Calca and Brina dolls are fought in the Dwarven Castle. They will merge into Calcabrina if the player defeats all three of one type of doll while the others are still alive.

Final Fantasy IV: The After YearsEdit

Main article: Calca (The After Years)

Main article: Brina (The After Years)

Calca and Brina are fought together in a scripted battle on-board of the Falcon upon reaching the Overworld in Rydia's Chapter. Only Luca is usable in this fight, with Rydia being restricted to constantly defending as Luca refuses to let her harm the dolls.

MusicEdit

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"Dancing Doll Calbrena"

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Calca and Brina's theme is called "Dancing Calbrena", and it is played during the first part of the battle with Calcabrina and when the party meets Dr. Lugae. In The After Years, it is played again during the fight against Calca and Brina, and Ultros. It is also played whenever the band Mystic Waltz or the Lustful Lali-Ho is used, or when battling the Quarto Puppet enemies.

Other AppearancesEdit

Final Fantasy TacticsEdit

Calcobrena is an Artefact. First popular in regions where other forms of amusement were few, these dolls are now many a young girl's treasure. It is said their lifeless eyes harbor the souls of lost owners.

Dissidia 012 Final FantasyEdit

Calcabrina makes an appearance as a summon in Dissidia 012. Its summon ability is Glare, and removes the Break status from the opponent when they are suffering from Break. If summoned when the opponent's Brave is recently broken and has not yet begun to regenerate, the opponent will be left at 0 Bravery.

If the opponent has begun to regenerate their Bravery when Calcabrina is called, their Bravery will be whatever it had regenerated to and will stop regenerating. It can be purchased from certain Moogle Shops for 120 KP. The characters Calca and Brina are mentioned in Calcabrina's Summon Compendium entry.

GalleryEdit

Artwork by Yoshitaka Amano.

The After Years battle sprite for Calca (PSP).

The After Years battle sprite for Brina (PSP).

EtymologyEdit

Calcabrina is one of the Malebranche demons in Dante's Divine Comedy. His name means "he who can walk on brine".

Additionally, the name "Brina" is a feminine name of Latin origin that means "Boundary Line".

TriviaEdit

If Calca or Brina are brought in battle against the Creator, the cutscene where the people pray for the party members will not show people praying for the dolls, but rather showcase Luca's own cutscene. They share this trait with Harley and the Eblan Four.