Ziggy
Zebritis mascot
Shy, rare and a bit odd. Insists she's a horse. Loves the weird stuff most.
- Job
- Rare-disease geneticist
- From
- The Kenyan plains
- Personality
- Shy, odd, fiercely curious
- Health quirk
- Hypermobile joints
Her story
Ziggy was born with stripes, a stubby little horn under her forelock and a firm belief that she is a perfectly ordinary horse. Doctors are taught 'when you hear hooves, think horses', so she spent her childhood being overlooked. She took it personally and now collects the rare and the odd: syndromes with three-word names, signs nobody has seen in decades, the case report everyone skimmed.
The horn stays under the fringe. Mostly.
What she says when you win
- “Hooves up for that!”
- “Stripes earned.”
- “Thinking zebras. Love it.”
- “Rare finds only.”
- “Horse sense, zebra flair.”
- “You spotted the stripes.”
Find her in Zebritis.
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