Ignis Scientia Husbando

Ignis Scientia, previously known as Ignis Stupeo Scientia, is a companion of Prince Noctis and a party member in Final Fantasy XV. As of patch 1.20, he is a switchable player character. He is also the main playable character of his own DLC episode, and can be fought as an opponent in Final Fantasy XV: Comrades. His name was originally given as Ignis Stupeo Scientia, but the middle name is no longer used in his official biographies. Ignis is Noctis's close childhood friend, and part of his royal retinue alongside Gladiolus and Prompto. He acts as an adviser for the royal family and a servant of the Crownsguard. He is the group's driver and chef, taking the wheel of the party's car unless the player wants to drive manually as Noctis. Ignis has a composed and serious personality, and while calm most of the time, will exchange banter with the others and make puns or sarcastic quips. He serves as the brains of the party, being in-depth with his strategies and disliking ambiguity. Ignis is proud of his cooking skills, and chooses to drive as he only trusts himself to. Ignis wields daggers and polearms in battle. When not directly controlled, the player can co-opt moves with him and issue him commands, including the ability to add elemental damage to Noctis's weapon. When directly controlled, Ignis excels in infusing his own dagger attacks with elemental damage. Ignis wears a purple and black patterned dress shirt with a black suit and black shiny red-soled shoes. He wears shimmery silver driving gloves. He wears glasses and has short, light ash brown hair swept up at the front of his hairline and green eyes. Like all party members, he has numerous skull-motifs to his outfit, the most prominent being the skull print on the back of his shirt. He also has a skull on his belt buckle and a silver skull pendant, and the inner lining of his jacket is damask print made out of skulls. Despite often wearing glasses, Ignis's vision is passable without them. After his eye injury, he wears sunglasses. His casual outfit is a white long-sleeved dress shirt or a gray T-shirt. He wears gray trousers and has a storage pack attached to his left leg. Ten years later, he has replaced his eyeglasses with dark visors and his hair has grown out on the top. He gains a Kingsglaive uniform as part of the story. Episode Ignis unlocks different hairstyles for Ignis and has his default attire without the gloves. The version of Ignis initially exclusive to story scenes in his episode where he has his hair all the way down was added as an attire to the main game in patch 1.24 due to popular demand. Other attires he can wear are the Thermal Suit for power plant workers, Magitek Exosuit bonus attire added in a patch, and the Medjay Assassin's Robe from the Final Fantasy XV: Assassin's Festival event. Ignis has a composed, austere, and cool personality to contrast Gladiolus and Prompto, and primarily acts as the brains of the party. Ignis has been friends with Noctis since early childhood. Though he works for him as a retainer, their relationship is closer to familial in nature. He received a special education for gifted children to work as a staff officer for Noctis and acts as the understanding consultant for him. He has a different accent from the others. Ignis is a precise person who dislikes even the slightest ambiguity, and has a perfectionist streak and can lose his composure when things do not go his way. He remains a stabilizing influence within the group and is the calmest and most analytical of them all. As a more serious individual, he can struggle with reading people's intentions, especially when something is a joke, though he is more than capable of joking around himself, typically through puns and sarcastic comments, and even gloating on occasion. Ignis's English voice actor Adam Croasdell has described Ignis as "unflappable and a stone-cold assassin when it comes to the action" and "unwittingly funny, mainly with desperation at the hi-jinks of the rest of the crew." Many of Ignis's most notable traits are exemplified by his culinary expertise. Director Hajime Tabata has said Ignis is not particularly keen on cooking, but as a duty to perform, he takes it seriously. Despite this, Ignis seems to enjoy cooking for others, taking pride in his performance and being offended when Prompto states he is looking forward to Iris's (or anyone else's) meals. He finds the true joy of cooking to be on the faces of those he cooks for, telling Noctis he will never forget the prince's smile the first time he cooked for him and sometimes attempting to have Noctis prepare food with him in the morning. Ignis can be seen as Noctis's right-hand man. Since Noctis lost his mother when he was young, Ignis ended up filling much of the role for Noctis, including cleaning his room and encouraging him to study and maintain a healthier diet. In the past, this led to conflict over Noctis's insecurity about fulfilling his royal duties. Despite this, their bond has held strong over the years, and Ignis has not once shirked from his loyalty. The DLC "Episode Ignis" further emphasizes that Ignis would give up his life to protect Noctis, presenting a rash side of him not typically seen otherwise. When making his DLC episode, the developers thought the "gap" between how he usually presents himself, and his "reckless" side when he feels Noctis is in danger, was the character's biggest appeal.