Ziggy

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> Ziegfried "Ziggy"
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> The Fast Food Fiend
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> ### Creature
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> Undead Human
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> ### Weapon
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> Scythe & Boning Knife
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> ### Element
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> Darkness
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> ### Age
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> Unknown
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> ### Hometown
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> Unknown
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> ### Favourite Food
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> Cheeseburgers
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> Game Related Information
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> ### Reward
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> Ziggy's Spicy Ketchup
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> ### Voiced By
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> Kevin Powe
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> *Twisted and Undead! His muscles may be decaying, but he can summon sous skeletons and spirits to pick*
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> *up the slack. — Ziggy's description on the Kickstarter*
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Ziegfried **"Ziggy"** is an Undead chef, and playable Character in *Battle Chef Brigade*. A quirky and strange chef, he can be quite off-putting. With his line of sous skeletons and various spirits at the ready, he can fill a whole kitchen just by himself, and comes along with the speed of one to boot.

He plays a strong supporting role in the events of the game, providing the protagonists Mina and Thrash with essential information and help at various points in the story.

## Appearance

With slicked-back blonde hair, very sharp ice blue eyes, and slightly pale skin, Ziggy looks a bit ghostly even in his normal form. Especially with the long and prominent scar that runs down from his left cheek and over his mouth.

He normally wears a white, tattered apron with a kiss mark on it, over an equally damaged navy turtleneck. Matched with pink slacks, and a pair of blue, silver-tipped dress shoes. When he activates any summoning spell, the skin on his hand vanishes in green smoke to reveal a bony hand, and he can frequently be seen producing green flames with his basic attacks. Though they do not do any fire damage.

In his playable mode, he wears coat variant of his regular wear, without the apron across it and instead with a white turtleneck on the inside. The kiss mark is still displayed on his chest, and his clothes are significantly less damaged.

When using his actual form, Ziggy's skin all fades away to reveal a completely skeletal body, with a gaping hole where his stomach would be and rib bones exposed. His face still keeps its relative form, but with sharper teeth, a longer tongue, and eyeless sockets. His wrists have manacles clamped on each of them, with the chains attached broken. The rest of him has a sickly green aura, that fills in the gaps on his body with jelly-like ectoplasm.

## Personality

Ziggy is an extremely playful man, often cracking jokes or scaring people for fun. He frequently makes a target of Mina, and frightens her by appearing out of nowhere or with scary comments. At one point even falsely claiming that he started the blight just to see her reaction. Nevertheless, he is incredibly helpful and regularly goes out of the way to help those in need. As seen during the events of the game, where he breaks into the Brigade's research lab by himself to gain intel, so that the other competitors do not need to take the blame for the break-in.

He's also quite good at comforting people, or at least keeping their feelings in mind. When Thrash's wife is sick, he reassures Thrash that she is being watched over by her dead mother, in ghostly form. Essentially communicating with spirits that are halfway across the continent just so that he can give some kind words. He also tends to favour his human form, not only to fit in, but as he claims, so that he doesn't scare anyone too badly.

## Powers and Abilities

According to several other characters, Ziggy's necromancy is both a rare, and powerful ability. Undead aren't a foreign phenomena, but having them as cooks is something never seen before. Even Mina asks him if using them is hygenic, to which Ziggy replies that he 'makes them wash their hands and wear gloves'. It's clear that he has incredible command over his sous chefs though, seeing as how he is one of the very few competitors of the tournament that managed to climb to the top despite being unknown.

Other abilities that he has displayed as a part of his necromancy skillset include:

* **Clarivoyance**. Ziggy has displayed that he can speak to the dead not only around him, but as far away as halfway across the continent as well. As seen with him checking in on Ardea for Thrash.
* **Divination**. Unconfirmed, but Ziggy seems to have the ability to tell some of the future. He displays this when he predicts for Thrash that his son will date a fisherman in the future.
* **Time, or Dimensional Travel**. Unconfirmed, but not without evidence. Several times during the game, Ziggy makes references to modern, real-world items and events. For example, the item he gives to Mina at the start is a bottle cap, but the description implies that its purpose is unknown to the other characters. He also makes mention of trash-compactors, food trucks, and other modern day items that do not exist in Victusia or any of the nearby continents. His recipes are all modern-day as well, including cheeseburgers (something that Mina expresses not knowing), doughnuts, milkshakes, etc. During the later chapters, Ziggy also manages to travel to the Darkrealm all by himself to find Rixal.
	+ This is mostly unconfirmed due to the precise nature of the game's universe going unknown. Most characters use dishes that exist in today's world, and have accents that reflect certain cultures. What's more, it's unknown how long Ziggy has been dead for. It is entirely possible that the modern world fell long ago, and that Victusia exists in the far future. Or, from another angle, that Victusia exists in a dimension adjacent to the real world, and Ziggy can traverse between the two.

Ziggy is also seen being able to use multiple types of weaponry, as well as being skilled in unarmed combat. As a playable character, he only uses punches and kicks to deal damage, albeit cloaked in sickly green flame. When using the cutting board, he uses a sycthe. And his character sheet on the selection screen, makes mention that his favoured weapon is a boning knife.

## In-Game Abilities

Ziggy is a Necromancer with high agility and low attack relying on his summons to aid him. The Player can summon three different types of summons to aid him in the hunting section of cooking contests. The summon that is chosen depends on the direction the player hits while pressing the magic button. Each minion has their own lifebar.

* Skelly (Magic): This skeleton sous-chef will walk in a straight line in the direction he is summoned and will attack anything in that line until his health depletes or a certain period of time passes.
* Shooty (Up+Magic) This is a flying bat-like Minion that will shoot an orb of magic power out at any enemy within it's range. It can be upgraded with the Black Hole Upgrade allowing the orb to do more damage and draw enemies in.
* Stabby (Down+Magic) This is the weakest of Ziggy's summons but the most important. This imp like creature will attack any enemy in front of it similar to Skelly but when it spots and ingredient on the ground it will pick it up with his pitchfork and teleport that ingredient to the pantry.

Ziggy has a base satchel of 3 which is why summoning Stabby to gather ingredients from dead foes is very important. Skelly and Shooty have very good attack and can lower the Dragon's health down to less than half through summoning the max Skellys and Shootys and having Ziggy attack from behind.

Slide: Ziggy's slide is similar to Mina's dodge but unlike the dodge Ziggy's slide will continue for as long as Ziggy does not hit a wall or fall off of a ledge. It is possible if there was just a flat map that Ziggy could go from end to end without interruption. Ziggy is also immune to damage while sliding.

## History

During the Battle Chef Brigade's centennial celebration and proving tournament, Ziggy, or Ziegfried, enters the tournament under the title of 'The Fast Food Fiend', along with his various undead summons and his key sous chef, Jelly the ghost. It is unknown where he came from, but he came with the intention of investigating the Brigade and the recent changes in the monster populations, suspecting the Brigade to be involved.

He befriends another competitor, Mina Han, after seeing her eat breakfast whilst staying at the same inn, and hands her a bottle cap for luck. After she goes through a few fights, he challenges her to a one on one in the practice arena, with Jelly as the judge.

After Rixal's capture and trial, he vanishes completely. Literally disappearing on the spot. Though, not before giving Thrash a tidbit of the future. Afterwards, many Battle Chefs have spotted him throughout the years, passing through their camps at night, always smiling. He has since become a tall tale throughout the Brigade camps.

## Trivia

* The last of the Kickstarter stretch goals to be met, was the ability to play as Ziggy; this feature was implemented during the update to Battle Chef Brigade Deluxe.
* Ziggy is possibly left-handed, clearly favouring one side over his other in most concept art. In-game, this isn't reflected, as the character model simply flips whenever you change direction.
* There are several items in game that bear Ziggy's notable kiss-mark, indicative that he's related to them in some way. One such item is the grill cookware.