Calco and Brina (Final Fantasy IV)

Calco, also known as Calca or Cal, and Brina, also known as Brena are characters in Final Fantasy IV and Final Fantasy IV: The After Years. They are the dolls of the dwarven princess Luca, who owns several pairs of the dolls. In combat the dolls are capable of combining into the gigantic Calcobrena, also known as Calcabrina or Calbrena. Even when separated, the dolls refer to themselves as the singular Calcobrena.
== Profile ==
=== Appearance ===
Calco 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. Calco 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 Calco'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, Calco 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.
== History ==
=== Final Fantasy IV ===
thumb|The manipulated Brina dolls taunting the party.
Calco 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 Calcobrena. After their defeat it is revealed that 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 ===
A Calco and Brina pair, rehabilitated in the years since their defeat, accompany Luca and Rydia on their journey to protect the remaining crystals. After becoming Cid's apprentice, Luca reconstructs Calco 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 Calco 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 Calco 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 and 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, Calco and Brina remain as Luca's assistants.
== Gameplay ==
===Final Fantasy IV===
Calco and Brina are first encountered as bosses in the Dwarven Castle, where three pairs attack the party. When all three of one type of doll are defeated, the remaining dolls will combine into Calcobrena.
===Final Fantasy IV: The After Years===
Calco (named Calca in all releases of The After Years) and Brina are playable party members capable of transforming into Calcobrena (named Calcabrina in The After Years) when using their Band abilities. 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 ====
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 spells on the entire party (or the topmost ally in the 3D mobile version).
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 ====
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 ==
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 ==
=== 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.
=== Pictlogica Final Fantasy ===
PFF Calca Illust.jpg|Calca's portrait.
PFF Brina Illust.jpg|Brina's portrait.
PFF Calca.png|Calca's sprite.
PFF Brina.png|Brina's sprite.
=== Final Fantasy Record Keeper ===
Calcabrina appears as an boss.
===Final Fantasy Trading Card Game===
Calbrena appears as an Earth-elemental Monster card.
== Etymology ==
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
Category:Characters in Final Fantasy IV
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