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What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely different around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintained as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero and helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. Added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely different around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintained as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero and helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely different around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintained as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero and helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely different around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintained as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero and helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely different around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up being a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely differrent around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely differrent around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join his wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. Axolotl teenager, without knowing that, became the one that old man lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely differrent around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually becoming to look similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join her wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. He, without knowing that became the one that he lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate experiencing crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely differrent around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually became looking similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join her wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. He, without knowing that became the one that he lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.

What was the worst incident of Ziggy being treated with fear and disgust? How did it affect him?

Probably, the first attempt to interact with two children, boy and girl playing in the blind alley. Ziggy tried to ask them if he can join their game, but it ended up a disaster. Children crying ran away form him in such primal fear that Ziggy was shocked by their reaction. He remembered their faces for whole life, twisted with fear, disgust and xenophobia. But that wasnt the end of the story. Both kids suffered a mental trauma and had to be treated by psychologist for couple of years. Of course, Ziggy was aware about their fate and the whole event and was in the crippling depression state for a while. 

Since then he is very careful towards revealing himself to others, so he is trying to use darkness, fog and other circumstances that obstruct him from others to speak with someone. However he is entirely differrent around person who accepted him. He is trying to look very happy even if he isnt, and he probably looks very optimistic on surface, but ones who may know him a bit deeper may reveal that he isnt as happy as he looks.

 What drives Ziggy's desire to be human? What does he envy most in humans? How does he cope with his inhumanity?

The biggest reason why he wants to be human is probably family. In Ziggy mind it looks somewhat similar to cereal ad family. He often tries to imagine how he would be liked by his family as much as this happy child surrounded by loving parents. Sometimes he think however about orphanage as well, what are the chances that he will be adopted. That is usually days when he is in especially bad mood. Another valuable reason, is to just being able to do regular human things like picnic in the park or something. If someone would organise him such event, he would be very happy and probably memorize this event.

He envy many things that other humans may consider as trivial, such as having own room or being able to get something new from his pocket money, so id say he envy the time the most. Time that he spends in sewer that instead could be used to get education( He want to be either a medic or biologist, but interested in both) or time spend on some cool stuff that he cannot do by himself like playing football or something like that. He can duplicate himself, but its like a self-conversation, which isnt a solution for this, so if he would offered an opportunity he would gladly accept one. Accepting him as a student of some school or university would be probably like a miracle for him.

By my own idea, his abilities based on the fact that he can devour things to fuel his abilities. He can technically mend some simple things, but he need to devour every piece of broken vase to replicate a perfect copy of it or turn into item that he devoured or replicate some properties(metal blade, stone shield, bone ammunition, etc or some animal properties like enchanced sense, wings, or stinger on tail for example, but not able to shapeshift into animals.). He cannot mend or replicate difficult machinery like guns or computers, as well as cannot duplicate living things other than perfect copy of himself. Since that copy also need to be maintaned as same as himself in food/water terms, he uses this ability only when he have enough resources to feed himself and Ziggy-2(and probably other numerical Ziggies he manage to create).

Also, he can spit acid he uses to digest something offensively to melt some obstacle, but will use it nearly exclusively to melt something like bars or walls or versus non-living objects like robots and when there is no risk to melt someone alive. 

His final ability, when he devour something, he grows bigger based on the mass of devoured object( and can use excess mass for his abilities), gradually became looking similarly to mini-Godzilla but axolotl the bigger he gets, but its temporary, plus the bigger he gets, the harder is to maintain the form, so he need constantly devour something that he is able to chew to maintain this state, such as tires, mailboxes, probably bycicles or small cars or that cool looking donuts on top of some cafe, which looks like cool ability, but definitely not for Ziggy, and it comes for a huge price. Also Ziggy feels like this form is horrible manifestation of all his fears and horrors about himself, so he will avoid using this ability as long as possible, plus on top of that he will need some support since he will feel himself utterly crushed morally afterwards, especially if that would be revealed via news to the whole city. Being a huge beast able to throw stuff and chewing cars might be a good thing strategically, but for Ziggy even a slightest idea of being used like this is utterly disgusting and immoral.

For the reason above, he hates chewing anything that is not a normal food unless he absolutely need to. Its like bargain of humanity vs power. Not necessarily evil, but Ziggy thinks so.

What kind of progress has Steve made in helping to understand Ziggy's new body? How did he convince Ziggy to be a hero? What kind of hero does he want Ziggy to be?

Steve is rather curious about Ziggy, and see him in similar way as his son(however Ziggy is yet didnt realized that). As for himself, Steve story isnt quite special, he lived with her wife Helen a happy life, however Helen died from cancer quite a long time ago, so Steve didnt managed to get any kids and became a loner. Sometimes he thought about commiting a suicide to join her wife, but yet something managed to hold him on the last step before death. That was before he met Ziggy. He, without knowing that became the one that he lacks before, his son. But since he understand what Ziggy may feel, he decided to let Ziggy grow enough to be ready for this. So basically thats their wierd family relations.

He never tried to force something from Ziggy, simply giving him a helping hand when he is in doubt. He occasianally investigated about Ziggy ability when he restored a broken lightbulb glass, and later he encouraged him to experiment and develop his abilities. He didnt saw this ability as something monstrous, but Ziggy did, because he hid the fact of how his ability makes him grow in size from Steve, because he surely decided to avoid Steve looking him like this. His ability to spit acid he investigated later by himself.

Steve just get the point that Ziggy is struggling to find a fitting place for himself in the world, so he carefully asked Ziggy about what he wants to achieve. He thought a lot about Ziggy words about being less scary towards other people, and decided that he might become hero. At first, Ziggy wasnt too enthusiastic about Steves idea about being hero, but later he thought that being a shadow hero helping others without revealing himself might be great idea. Steve wanted for Ziggy to be less afraid of himself and his abilities, but Ziggy yet did not understood his desire, thinking that this is a way to encourage him.

Has Ziggy managed to reconnect with Rachel? Does he even want to? What kind of hero does he think she wants him to be?

No, he didnt managed to, rather because of fear being monster in eyes of Rachel specifically. If thats ever happened, he will have a hard times, because thats someone that is so precious for him that his reality would be torn apart if she will be afraid of Ziggy. So he want to meet her and at the same time afraid of the worst possible scenario. Rachel is probably wanted to be saved by some cool superhero with fancy costume and superpowers, so he would be very surprised by Ziggy appearance. Assuming she is not afraid of him, she probably wanted him to be less sad about himself, because he is not a monster, but a good friend for her and she is feeling bad about seeng him so overburdened with sadness.

Rachel is a average school girl which have singing talent, so she is actively participating in different class performances. Ziggy personally thinks she is cute.

Her dream is to become real musical actress, being constantly preparing herself for another spectacle, so she often seen memorising or talking some speech from her roles in attemts to master it, or singing some songs.

P.S. I decided not to write second entry just because Ziggy ended up being so cool that i rather want to try with single entry instead. Also added some minor details here and there in addition to questions. If you feel that Ziggy abilities I described require some tweaks, im totally fine about it, its rather minor details.