Iggy

## General

Iggy was a young vessel in The Refuge. He went through many, many positions in his stay. Cartographer, adventurer, Scientist, Chemist, Blacksmith, Warrior, Spy, Mechanic, builder, ETC. Eventually, while running a strange experiment on himself using what seemed to be an egg made out of void, he was possessed by a being known as "The Smiler", who eventually killed him.

## Appearance

Iggy was an average looking vessel. He was 6 ft 4, wore a red cloak with an orange sleeve, had vines with thorns growing out of his right eye, and had two wide horns, pointing to the left and the right respectively.

## Origin

Like every vessel, Iggy woke up in the Abyss, surrounded by the shells of his siblings. Slowly, he made the climb upwards, and after a long time of climbing, he made it to the abyss gate. However, it was already too late. The perfect vessel had already been chosen. The gate to the Abyss was already closed. He felt defeated, he cursed his fate, yet he did not give up completely. Thinking quickly, he fashioned a nail out of the horn of a vessel, and began digging his way out. He eventually made it to Deepnest, training there for years and surviving any way he could, learning how to fight with the nail, learning how to use the void in his body, and fighting wild enemies. He then found his way to the Refuge, and began working as a cartographer. However, he had a knack for many things, such as blacksmithing, chemistry, and mechanics, so he simply helped around wherever he could.

Iggy’s first contributions to the refuge were as a cartographer. He was the first to map out the infected areas around Hallownest, and return to share his findings. He successfully mapped out the Ancient Basin and Kingdom’s Edge before moving on. Afterwards, he began to develop weapons for the Refuge, including sleeping darts and poison darts, and just poisons in general.

### Pale Duke Subplot

This began when a well known scientist of the refuge, and Iggy’s friend, Plant, developed a pale ore machine that was possessed by an evil god, the Pale Duke. When this happened, Plant began worshipping it. This caused Iggy and another scientist, Nover, to confront him and begin developing countermeasures along with the rest of the Refuge. This all culminated in a massive fight between Plant, The Pale Duke and his soldiers, and the Refuge and their forces. In this combat, Iggy fought to hold them back, and eventually informed the refuge general, Krest, of what was going on. Once Krest joined the battle they began doing much, much better, and pushed them back. Eventually a plan was hatched, to get three gods against The Pale Duke. The lifeblood creature, The Shade Lord, and Unn. Iggy was tasked with absorbing Unn and using their powers in the battle. These powers combined led to the refuge’s Victory... However, during the conflict, Refuge General Krest was captured and killed.

### Krest's Revival

Krest’s death led to the Refuge’s morale being incredibly low. Everyone believed they would be slaughtered, so Nover hatched a plan to use the seed of the white lady, ask for a favour, and bring him back. Iggy, having absorbed the energy of Unn, gained the ability to speak to plants among many things, so he used that ability to ask for Krest’s life. The white lady, in exchange for another life, that of Plant, granted this wish and returned Krest to the living world. Later Iggy took him to a lab, along with Nover and Vecto, as well as a man named Hiro. As Nover and Vecto were both showing signs of infection, Iggy isolated them and gave them a cure that Vecto had come up with. However, Hiro’Tal ran away from the lab with a sample of the cure.

### Spying and Iggy's First Imprisonment

After all these events, Iggy was sent on a mission to spy The Husk Refuge. However, he was immediately caught thanks to a new initiation ritual, where he met Vengan, a good friend and “brother” to him. Newcomers to the Husks were forced to drink infection, and when Iggy used a little bit of the cure on himself, he was found out by Hiro, who was the leader of the husks. He was then taken to a cell in the Husk Refuge. Here he was interrogated, but didn’t let any information out, which caused Code, the husk co-leader at the time, to torture him in the agony extractor for a while. He was later saved by Zote.

### Where It All went downhill, Iggy's Second Imprisonment

This all began when Iggy performed an experiment. An experiment where he injected a delicate flower essence concoction into a vessel. While performing this experiment, he was found out by Nover, who knocked him out and took him to a prison. The prison, however, was ass and allowed Hiro’Tal to sneak in. He began talking to Iggy, saying demoralizing things, insulting him, making him believe this is all in his head, all to break him, to make his insanity worse. He succeeded. Iggy was broken in that prison, he was left to rot, and because of this, he developed DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder). This separate identity took over and immediately broke out of the prison, killing all of the guard moulds Nover had installed. This “Iggy” then went on to do whatever the fuck he wanted and cause chaos.

### The Experiment: Where Iggy's Life Took a Nosedive

After causing a good bit of chaos in the Refuge, to the Husks, and nearly killing Hiro with a void bomb in the battle of the pilgrim’s way bridge; “Iggy” performed an experiment using a void shell he had found in a trip to the Abyss (see also Abyssal Trip). This experiment consisted of staying in a closed cell with it while controlled doses of delicate flower essence was released into the room. Eventually, this led to the shell being thinned out enough for whatever was in it to escape. What was in it was an evil god, The Smiler, also known as Apòlafsi. This god took over Iggy after just a few hours, keeping Iggy as a vessel and hiding within him, also giving him memory loss.

### Retracing His Steps

After losing his memory, Iggy went back to places that meant a lot to him in order to remember things. He returned to his old forge, to his home, to the prison Nover had put him in, and finally, to his old prison in the Husk’s Refuge. Here, he saw that it had been greatly changed. To his surprise, when the Husks captured Krest, they used this cell to torture him. He saw all the horrible things they did and said to Krest, and, as Hiro’Tal appeared, he was taken over by the Smiler. The smiler then proceeded to mark Hiro, before leaving.

### Liberation of Iggy

Eventually, Iggy began feeling terrible, with no energy, constantly feeling like he was about to pass out. Soon enough, he did. The reason being that the smiler had finally left his body, and moved on to Hiro’Tal. When he did, Hiro’Tal, or rather, The Smiler, took him to the hospital and paid him a visit. In the hospital, the Smiler let Iggy know of his plans (like the average overconfident shitty supervillain), also introducing him to a new ability, lucid nightmare, where Iggy was tied down to train tracks in a dream, yet everything felt real. Iggy eventually passed out from exhaustion. When he awoke the next day, the real Iggy, the one from before the prison incident, was back. Tired of being a passenger floating around in his own body, Iggy had come to terms with the fact that he could fucking die at any point, and now was determined to make the best out of whatever was left of his short life... And a short life it was.

### The Founding of Shaw, Iggy's Death

Even after deciding to make the best out of his life, Iggy still knew there was a job to be done. He had to take care of the Smiler before anything. To achieve this goal, he took the strongest, most determined void users in the refuge, taught them the spell that could be used to defeat the smiler, and established them as the Smile Hunting Association, or SHA (The W was later added because haha funni hornet SHAW). This proved to be a very good decision, as just a few days later, they had managed to capture the Smiler’s main vessel, Hiro. They took him to the abyss in order to weaken him the most they could, and eventually, after fighting for what felt like hours to him, Iggy was able to remove the mark off Hiro’tal’s shell. However... this didn’t get rid of the smiler. This simply got rid of the mark on Hiro, the smiler remained trapped in his body, and when he saw a chance, he impaled Iggy. Iggy fell back several feet, deep, deep into the abyss, and died right there. The smiler spread a lie that Iggy had asked him to kill him, and continued his typical shenanigans.

(Iggy’s story continued after this, he spent several, **several** years in Sheol, Andra turned him into a spear, the Smiler took the spear and turned him into a mask, Andra got the mask and would talk to him, Iggy possessed Andra and killed one of the Smiler’s vessels, eventually Andra shattered the mask, half his spirit stayed as a shade while the other half went to the afterlife, and several other things happened)

## Personality

Iggy was pretty young, curious, and generally s t u p i d, yet a lot of things came naturally to him. He was also caring, checking up on his friends whenever they were in trouble.

## Bonds

His best friend was Lego, the founder of the Refuge. He worked and was friends with Nover as well. And he generally cared for others and would try to prevent his comrades from doing dumb shit.