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Quina Quen is a fictional character from the PlayStation video game Final Fantasy IX. Quina's actual gender is debatable and the character is inconsistantly 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. 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 an analogy that in the universe, there are only two things, "things you can eat and things you no can eat." Its favorite food is frogs. Quina Quen is a play on Japanese words as Quina means 'eat' but Quen means 'cannot eat'.

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. Unfortunately, Quina is not very popular with most fans of the series quite possibly due to his/her oddball character design and his/her at times frustrating blue magic mechanic which required the enemy to be at a specific level of health before being eaten.

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. This has been mistaken as Quina but is in fact a different member of its tribe.

Quina 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 not, Quina can be recruited in Disc 2 when looking for a way to get to the Outer Continent.

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.

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 nonexistant 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 it's gotten out of traveling with Zidane and decides that s/he wants to travel the world in taste of even more "yummy-yummies."

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