Calca and Brina

(カルコ / ブリーナ, Karuko / Burīna?)

Portraits

Sprites

Enemy appearances

Biographical information

Home

Dwarven Castle

Physical description

Race

Doll

Gender

Female / Male

Laterality

Right-handed

Gameplay details

Final Fantasy IV
The After Years

Type

Non-player character

Type

Player character

Behind the scenes information

Designer

Yoshitaka Amano

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 playable characters in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. They are Luca's reanimated dolls, the dwarven princess of the Underworld.

Profile[]

Appearance[]

Calca Brina Smartphone android — Calca and Brina in After Years (Android).

Calca and Brina appear as humanoid dolls. Dialogue in Final Fantasy IV implies the dolls in that game were normal toys, while in The After Years they appear the size of small children. Calca wears blue clothing, while Brina wears red clothing, but in some games these colors are their bodies and they wear no clothes. Their clothing in Final Fantasy IV is identical save for the Final Fantasy IV: The Complete Collection release, when Calca's body is blue while Brina has a red body with a white skirt.

Personality[]

In Final Fantasy IV, the dolls are generally mocking and playful toward the party, taunting that Golbez is on his way and frequently laughing.

In The After Years, Calca and Brina have no personality to speak of, with no dialogue attributed to them, and they take no action of their own save for when they malfunction and attack the party. The only hints of sentience in them is during the final battle, when, if Luca is in the party, they think thoughts wishing for her survival and return.

Story[]

Final Fantasy IV[]

Calca and Brina are fought in the Dwarven Castle when Golbez takes control of them. If left alive for long enough, the two merge into the more powerful Calcabrina (called "Calbrena" in the 1991 SNES Final Fantasy II U.S. release).

The dolls were originally harmless toys belonging to King Giott's daughter, Luca, who is frustrated to learn the dolls were used for evil.

Final Fantasy IV: The After Years[]

Luca Calca Brina — Artwork of Calca, Brina, and Luca.

Calca and Brina 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 obtain the Dark Crystal in the Sealed Cave. After retrieving the crystal the Mysterious Girl ambushes the party, and Calca and Brina jump in to protect Luca and Rydia and get damaged. Despite the sacrifice, the crystal is stolen and Rydia and Luca pursue the Mysterious Girl to Baron.

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 to repair it. If a Mythril Nut, Mythril Bolt, and Mythril Spring are found, Rydia gives them to Luca so she can repair both the Falcon and the dolls (in the mobile ans Steam versions, the player only needs 2 Mythril Springs, which are acquired automatically in a forced encounter).

The dolls join Luca and the party who embark on the Lunar Whale to stop the True Moon from crashing into the Earth. Within the moon, Luca and Cid repair the dolls into their perfect forms. After the Creator is defeated, Calca and Brina remain as Luca's assistants.

Gameplay[]

The After Years battle sprite for Calca (PSP).

The After Years battle sprite for Brina (PSP).

Calca and Brina are playable party members in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. If they are brought to the battle against the final boss, the cutscene where the people pray for the party will not show people praying for the dolls, but rather showcases Luca's cutscene. The dolls share this trait with Harley and the Eblan Four.

Stats[]

Calca and Brina are statistically the worst characters in The After Years based on their own pure stat growth from leveling up. However, all of their unique equipment gives extreme stat changes to customize their combat role. For example, early on in Rydia's story the "Warrior's Clothes" boost strength and stamina while lowering intelligence and spirit, allowing the player to turn either Calca or Brina into a front-line fighter while they are in the party.

Their main stats are significantly lower than the 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

Abilities[]

FFIV TAY Calca and Brina — Calca and Brina combined into Calcabrina in *The After Years*.

Calca can use Jive, which casts random Blue Magic spells on random enemies (or the topmost ally in the 3D mobile version), while Brina uses Dance, which casts random White Magic (Or the topmost ally in the 3D mobile version) 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.

Equipment[]

Calca joins with a Knife and Boy's Clothes. Brina joins with a Knife and Girl's Clothes.

Despite their poor stats and abilities, Calca and Brina's major strength is their exclusive equipment. In Rydia's Tale the player can find "Clothes" equipment for them that boosts 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 will rarely drop pieces of "Phase" equipment that not only have the best stats of the game, equaling 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 make them unreliable mages. However, if Brina is equipped with Final Outfit, and Assassin's Dagger, she has a drastic +25 speed, making her faster than most characters. She is even faster if equipped the Phase Knuckles, giving her a +20 speed to her already +25 boost, giving her a +45 speed boost, giving her 92 speed by Lv 99. If given a Cat-Ear Hood, she has +5 speed, giving her 97 speed by Lv 99, making her, if equipped, one of the fastest characters in the game.

**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 Wizard's Hat Green Beret Steel Headplate Circlet Black Cowl Beret Chakra Band Sage's Miter Goblin Mask Officer's Hat Gold Hairpin (Brina only) Hypnocrown Cat-Ear Hood Mystic Veil (Brina only) Ribbon Phase Helm Glass Mask	Boy's Clothes (Calca only) Girl's Clothes (Brina only) 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 Rear Ring Taunt 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

Boss[]

Final Fantasy IV[]

Main article: Calcabrina (Final Fantasy IV 2D)

The Calca and Brina dolls are fought in the Dwarven Castle. They 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 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 with Rydia being restricted to defending as Luca refuses to let her harm the dolls.

Musical themes[]

"Dancing Calbrena" (DS)

Calca and Brina's theme is "Dancing Calbrena", and it plays during the first part of the battle with Calcabrina and when the party meets Dr. Lugae. In The After Years, it plays 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 appearances[]

Final Fantasy XIV[]

Summon your Calca minion. Whether she is cute or creepy has been oft debated, but all agree it is best not to leave her to her own devices.
Minion description for Calca

Summon your Brina minion. Collectors warn that one who wishes to complete the set should be well versed in the art of combat.
Minion description for Brina

Calca and Brina and their combined form, Calcabrina, appear as a boss fight in The Antitower in Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward. They also appear as obtainable minions.

In "Lord of Verminion", Calca has the special action Jive which increases the DEF of all allies within range by 10. If Brina is within range, DEF is raised by 40. Brina has the special which increases the ATK of all allies within range by 20. If Calca is within range, ATK is raised by 60.

Calca: Upon realizing the Antitower would require several layers of defenses to keep out unwanted visitors, the spire's creator breathed life into several common dolls. Hairless at first, its maker adorned it with blonde locks, along with other aesthetically pleasing accessories.
Brina: Tasked to defend the Antitower along with Calca, Brina scurried off to the safety of a treasure coffer after meeting defeat at the hands of adventurers. Impressed that anyone could uncover its hiding place, Brina decided to make itself a gift to the adventurer who found it.
Lord of Verminion descriptions for Calca and Brina

Final Fantasy Tactics[]

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

Final Fantasy Dimensions II[]

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Dissidia 012 Final Fantasy[]

Calcabrina appears as a summon whose summon ability is Glare that 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.