Nina (Breath of Fire IV)

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Nina ニーナ Niina
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Home												Wyndia
Occupation												Princess
Affinity												Wind
Birthday												April 19th
Height												162.8cm (5'4")
Weight												42.2 kg (93 lbs)
Weapon												Staves
Voice actor												Kyouko Hikami
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Nina is a playable character in Breath of Fire IV. As the princess of Wyndia, she is the daughter of its King, the younger sister of Princess Elina, and a member of the Wing clan.

Appearance and Personality

Because she was mostly sheltered living as a princess, Nina can come off as a bit naive. Regardless, she is kind and possesses a strong determination to accomplish her goals in finding her missing sister Elina and help Ryu. Some of her personal thoughts are used to narrate the story. Nina admires her beautiful sister, and desperately seeks to bring her home.

Unlike most of her previous manifestations, this Nina is shown to openly express more that she cares about the struggling Ryu. When empire forces slaughtered a village of innocents, the sudden surge of anger in Ryu triggered the awakening of his Kaiser power. He went on a nearly uncontrollable rampage and easily decimated the empire forces. Nina, knowing full well at how dangerous it was to approach Ryu at the time, was brought to tears and completely disregarded her own safety and rushed towards him. She managed to calm Ryu by throwing her arms around him, begging for him to cease his actions. Shortly after this, she learned the reason behind Ryu's uncontrollable rage: he was incomplete. From this point on, she realized that next to finding her sister, helping Ryu was also her top priority.

Similar to her previous incarnation, Nina is not afraid of Ryu's transformations, or dragons in general. She may express shock or surprise, but not outright fear. The only exception to this is when Ryu and his Kaiser form went berserk, where she openly admits she was afraid. But both before and after the event, she shows no fear toward his dragon forms or any other dragons in general. She is, however, afraid of rats and sea lice. She also expresses a distaste for broccoli.

At the conclusion of the story, Nina begins worrying when she learns that Ryu might disappear for good. In the official Breath of Fire IV manga, she was shown to shed tears when she thought Ryu was gone for good after Fou-Lu absorbs him.

Because of a mistranslation in the English version, Nina's feelings toward Cray as an older brother was mistakenly translated to be that she was in love with him. This caused confusion among western players.

Story

Nina is first seen with Cray, riding a sandflier over the desert, when a dragon attacks the ship, leaving them stranded. Cray decides to stay behind to guard the wreck while Nina goes to the nearest town for help.

On the way, she stumbles upon a crater, with a dragon emerging from it. In the crater, she also finds a naked young man named Ryu. He agrees to accompany her, so she hands him the King's Sword for protection. While traversing the cliffs, she slips and falls, with Ryu heroically trying to rescue her. It was in vain as Nina was able to use her wings to float down, while Ryu landed on his face. They spend the night in a small cave before reaching Sarai in the morning. It his here they learn where to find busted sandflier parts to repair theirs. However, when they return with the parts, they are attacked by an imperial commander and his spirit monster Joh. Nina fights Joh, and the commander tries to kidnap her, recognizing Nina as the Princess of Wyndia, though Ryu intervenes, breaking the King's Sword as an end result. The two of them flee from the Imperial troops and head to Chamba.

In Chamba, they learn about the hex infecting most of the town. It is here Ryu and Nina meet Ershin, who agrees to guide them through the hex-infested area. After battling with the Skullfish and escaping the hexed area, Ershin joins the party. The party reunites with Cray. After a dream of future events through Ryu's Dragon's Eye, the party decides to head to the Imperial side to find Nina's missing sister, Elina.

The party travels to the Dam and get permission to cross it. However, they learn that a dragon is attacking the sluice gates, which eventually causes a giant mud wave that wipes out the Dam. The party narrowly escape the mud wave. A short time later, they encounter an old woman near a small ledge over the mud sea. By "giving" her 100 zenny, she sings them a song about the Endless, which Cray dismisses as nonsense.

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In Battle

In a likely nod to the original Nina, this incarnation of Nina takes up the mantle of healer once again. Like her two previous incarnations in the Breath of Fire series, she still remains a specialist in offensive magic. Her strength and defense are by far the weakest in the party. However, she has the highest AP, intelligence, agility and magic resistance parameters.

Her spells are comprised of wind element offensive spells, support magic, and healing. Regardless of her wisdom stat score, she is second to none when it comes healing party members. Whether you acquire powerful spells from monsters or Masters, she is a worthy candidate. Since Nina is limited to only wind element attack magic, allowing her to acquire monster skills or spells of other elements helps to makes her as versatile of a spell caster as Ursula.

Echoing her use of wind magic, her elemental affinity is wind, and she takes more damage from earth-based abilities as a result. In the back row, Nina will sometimes use Cheering when the front row is taking too much damage, which results in some small group healing without any AP spent.

Stats
Lvl	HP	AP	CP	Pwr	Def	Agl	Int	Info
1	200	8	2	8	8	12	12
2	224	11	2	9	10	16	14	Learns Sever
3	237	15	2	11	11	19	17
4	259	17	2	13	11	21	22	Learns Heal
5	301	21	3	14	12	25	26	Starting level
6	322	25	3	17	13	30	28	Learns Purify
7	345	28	3	19	15	32	31
8	369	31	3	19	17	36	34	Learns Barrier
9	400	33	3	20	18	39	38
10	453	41	4	24	21	43	45
11	477	45	4	25	23	46	50	Learns Rejuvenate
12	496	49	4	27	24	50	54
13	521	52	4	28	26	54	58
14	550	57	4	29	28	60	63	Learns Cyclone
15	598	62	4	31	29	64	67
16	629	66	4	34	31	67	70
17	653	72	5	36	34	70	75	Learns Raise Dead
18	683	78	5	40	35	74	79
19	706	83	5	43	37	77	83
20	748	95	5	48	42	83	91	Learns Remedy
21	774	100	5	50	44	87	98
22	808	106	5	54	47	91	104
23	834	113	5	57	51	96	109	Learns Vitalize
24	866	119	5	61	54	102	113
25	912	125	5	63	57	107	121
26	943	134	5	66	59	112	128	Learns Inspire
27	966	142	5	69	62	116	133
28	993	148	5	71	64	122	137
29	1028	155	5	74	67	126	143	Learns Typhoon
30	1080	169	6	82	72	133	151
31	1112	177	6	87	75	138	156	Learns Kyrie
32	1138	186	6	90	78	142	162
33	1171	193	6	93	82	148	167
34	1198	203	6	97	84	154	172	Learns Restore
35	1244	212	6	99	89	159	179
36	1278	216	6	104	93	163	185	Learns Resurrect
37	1320	226	6	108	96	169	192
38	1351	232	6	112	101	176	196
39	1389	240	6	117	105	181	203	Learns Vigor
40	1445	255	7	125	112	191	215
41	1482	264	7	129	116	198	223
42	1526	270	7	134	121	203	229
43	1571	277	7	135	122	204	230
44	1610	288	7	139	126	211	236
45	1671	297	8	144	131	217	242
46	1713	304	8	148	136	223	250
47	1765	315	8	154	140	228	258
48	1811	323	8	157	144	234	268
49	1862	335	8	162	149	241	275
50	1938	350	9	170	157	251	289
51	1992	361	9	174	162	257	295
52	2037	368	9	176	165	261	304
53	2079	373	9	181	169	266	309
54	2132	379	9	184	172	269	316
55	2181	385	9	186	174	274	321
56	2227	387	9	190	177	277	325
57	2270	392	9	193	180	279	330
58	2309	393	9	195	182	283	333
59	2345	396	9	197	184	286	337
60	2385	404	10	201	188	291	342
61	2417	406	10	203	190	294	344
62	2447	408	10	204	193	296	347
63	2475	409	10	206	194	297	351
64	2508	412	10	209	195	298	354
65	2538	416	10	210	198	300	355
66	2570	420	10	210	200	303	357
67	2601	422	10	213	202	305	358
68	2630	423	10	215	203	307	360
69	2658	426	11	216	205	308	363
70	2690	433	11	219	208	311	368
71	2713	435	11	221	209	312	370
72	2735	436	11	221	211	314	371
73	2760	437	11	222	211	314	374
74	2781	437	11	224	212	316	375
75	2801	439	11	225	214	317	377
76	2819	441	11	225	215	317	379
77	2834	441	11	227	217	318	379
78	2850	442	11	227	219	319	380
79	2867	444	11	228	220	319	381
80	2883	453	11	230	222	320	383
81	2895	454	11	230	223	321	383
82	2906	454	11	231	223	321	384
83	2920	456	11	231	223	322	385
84	2933	458	11	231	224	322	386
85	2944	460	11	232	224	323	386
86	2954	460	12	233	224	323	387
87	2960	461	12	233	225	323	388
88	2968	463	12	234	225	324	388
89	2977	465	12	234	225	325	389
90	2989	472	12	235	225	325	389
91	2996	472	12	235	226	325	390
92	2999	473	12	235	226	326	391
93	3005	474	12	236	227	326	391
94	3010	474	12	236	228	327	392
95	3014	475	12	237	228	327	393
96	3017	475	12	237	228	328	393
97	3022	476	12	238	228	328	394
98	3024	476	12	238	228	329	394
99	3028	476	12	238	229	329	395

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