Quina Quen
Game series	Final Fantasy series
First game	Final Fantasy IX
Designed by	Toshiyuki Itahana, Shukou Murase, and Shin Nagasawa
In-Universe Information
Weapon	Fork
Special ability	Eat (Cook when in Trance) Blue Magic
Race	Qu
Home	Qu's Marsh (Mist Continent)

Quina Quen (クイナ・クゥエン, Kuina Kuen^?) is a fictional character from the PlayStation video game Final Fantasy IX. Quina's actual gender is debatable and the character is consistently referred throughout the game as 's/he' or 'him'. It is a Qu whose master, Quale, wants it to travel the world so that it will learn that there's more to life than food. Like the rest of the Qu Tribe, Quina constantly speaks in broken English. Quina's unique ability is called Blue Magic (Blu Magic in the battle menu) which allows it to use enemy abilities acquired in battle by using the Eat command on certain enemies. It has a philosophy that in the universe, there are only two things, "things you can eat and things you no can eat." Its favorite food is frogs. Image File history File links Quina Quen Final Fantasy IX This work is copyrighted. ... For the first installment in the series, see Final Fantasy (video game). ... Final Fantasy IX ) is a console role-playing game developed by Square Co. ... Shukou Murase ) is an anime director and animator. ... The Sony PlayStation ) is a video game console of the 32/64-bit era, first produced by Sony Computer Entertainment in the mid-1990s. ... Final Fantasy IX ) is a console role-playing game developed by Square Co. ... This is a list of the particularly intelligent races found in the Final Fantasy series of role-playing games. ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... Distribution of frogs (in black) Suborders Archaeobatrachia Mesobatrachia Neobatrachia - List of Anuran families The frog is an amphibian in the order Anura (meaning tail-less from Greek an-, without + oura, tail), formerly referred to as Salientia (Latin saltare, to jump). ...

Quina is separated from the rest of the party by massive explosions at several points in the game and becomes somewhat of a running joke.

Final Fantasy IX

The Qu tribe is first revealed in the Alexandria castle kitchen, as a Qu is telling the cooks what to do, while Adelbert Steiner (who is currently being controlled by the player at this point) is trying to find Princess Garnet. The status of this character and Quina as one and the same is easily confirmed by paying attention to dialogue, as Quina refers to its recent visit to Alexandria during the conversation resulting in its joining the party. Captain Adelbert Steiner[1] is a fictional character from the PlayStation computer role-playing game Final Fantasy IX. Steiner is a loyal, if blind, follower of Queen Brahnes Alexandrian regime, and sometimes will follow every single one of her orders just to prove himself better than his arch rival... Garnet Til Alexandros XVII is the main female heroine of Squaresofts (now known as Square-Enix) hit RPG: Final Fantasy IX. Garnet is the princess of Alexandria -- one of three major nations located on Gaias (the world in which Final Fantasy IX takes place) Mist Continent -- and the...

During Disc 1 of the game, Quina is an optional character. He/she joins the party in the first disc only if the player travels to Qu's Marsh (Quina's and Quale's home) near the Lindblum Dragon's Gate. If you do not recruit Quina then, he/she can be recruited in the same place during Disc 2, at which point having Quina join your party is a mandatory requirement of finding a way to get to the Outer Continent, and making progress through the game. Throughout the course of Square Co. ...

Quina's motive for joining the party is not out of a desire to save the world, but rather as an opportunity to taste different foods from all around Gaia. As a result he/she does not hold a particularly high interest in the dramatic events that unfold during the course of the story (unless food is involved somehow), but nonetheless fights hard alongside Zidane and the rest of the party.

Quina mainly serves as the comic relief of the game, his/her humorous perception of the events that occur providing some light relief. It could be noted that Quina fulfills the role of 'oddball' character, similar to Cait Sith in Final Fantasy VII. Cait Sith is a spelling variation of Cat Sidhe, a cat-like demon appearing in both Irish and Scottish Gaelic mythology. ... Final Fantasy VII ) is a console role-playing game (RPG) developed and published by Square Co. ...

Quina has a tendency to act clumsily, rudely, and irrationally, which tends to land him/her in a lot of trouble.

In Conde Petie, Quina faces several cultural rifts with the villagers. Before they can leave for the Iifa tree, Quina and Vivi have the option of undergoing the ceremony of marriage, as Dagger and Zidane did. Vivi Ornitier ) (or Vivi Orunitia in the American version of the game) is a fictional character in the role-playing game Final Fantasy IX. He appears as a typical Black Mage of the Final Fantasy series. ... Zidane Tribal ) is the main protagonist in the role-playing game Final Fantasy IX. A member of Tantalus, a group of thieves from the city of Lindblum, he sets off on a mission to kidnap Princess Garnet of Alexandria. ...

Later in the game, Zidane, Vivi and Quina can visit Quan's dwelling (near Treno, where Vivi grew up), and Quina will see a whole room of nonexistent food. Moving outside, the three of them (and the newly-arrived Quale) meet with Quan's ghost. Quan commends both Vivi and Quina for their vivid, valuable imaginations and reprimands Quale for seeing the world too literally. It is at this point that Quina fully understands what its gotten out of traveling with Zidane and decides that s/he wants to travel the world in taste of even more "yummy-yummies."