Braig

Braig was one of the six apprentices to Ansem the Wise, and the complete being of Xigbar. He serves as a supporting villain in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep.

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Braig makes his debut in Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep where he confronts Terra, claiming to have captured Master Xehanort. Braig leads the skeptical Terra underneath Hollow Bastion, where he shows Master Xehanort chained to a pole, to Terra's horror. The villain then reveals his motive: he plans to kill Terra and take the Keyblade for himself. Terra, angered, moves to attack but is forced to back down when Braig threatens to kill Master Xehanort if he tries otherwise. Braig then engages Terra in a duel, with Terra reluctant to fight back out of fear of endangering Master Xehanort, until Master Xehanort screams for him to use the Keyblade and avoid shaming Master Eraqus. Terra fights back and eventually defeats Braig by using the power of darkness, in the process scarring Braig's face and permanently damaging his eye.

However, it later turns out that Braig was working with Master Xehanort. Angered greatly at his scars and the loss of his eye, Braig attempts to shoot Master Xehanort from behind, claiming that Xehanort deliberately let Terra go too far, but Master Xehanort, using his Keyblade, threatens him into backing down and continuing with their plan to turn Terra to the darkness.

By the time of his next appearance, he has accepted his darkness, indicated by his remaining eye becoming yellow, and his ears becoming pointed. In the Keyblade Graveyard, Braig appears in front of Aqua and Ventus, attempting to get them to attack Terra and kill him for his role in the death of Eraqus, but they refuse to forsake their friend. After paying particular attention to and mocking commenting on the angry glare Ventus gives him, Braig battles Aqua but is defeated. Vanitas appears and stalls Aqua for Braig to escape back to the Radiant Garden.

Later, Braig takes Dilan and Ansem to find an amnesiac young Xehanort, the result of Master Xehanort possessing Terra's body. Braig, however, is dismayed to find that the new Xehanort does not recognize him, and Braig's attempt to have a conversation with his old colleague only annoys Xehanort. Braig, at one point, cautiously asks Xehanort if he is actually Terra, but Xehanort does not respond to this either.

After Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep
Shortly after this, Ansem begins performing tests on Xehanort's heart. Braig convinces the other apprentices to aid him and Xehanort in conducting inhumane experiments on the human heart and the darkness within it. This eventually leads to the mass creation of Heartless, which was Braig and Master Xehanort's initial plan. Ansem quickly discovers this, and immediately orders them to stop, but after being advised to review their research data by King Mickey, Ansem finds that the effects of their experiments have long become irreversible.

Eventually, Braig and the other five apprentices dabble too deep into darkness through their continued experiments. Braig, along with the others, is completely consumed by the darkness, producing a Heartless. However, the apprentices all had strong wills, and so a Nobody is also created, named Xigbar by Xehanort's Nobody, Xemnas. These six Nobodies go on to found Organization XIII, and banish Ansem to the Realm of Nothingness.

Appearance
Braig appears wearing attire similar to Dilan and Aeleus, along with a red scarf tied around his neck that appears to be fraying at the corner. His jacket bears some resemblance to Xigbar's black cloak, sporting the same pointed shoulders. In terms of facial features, Braig sports brown eyes, though they turn gold upon his acceptance of the darkness, upturned eyebrows, and dark hair which appears to be considerably shorter and slicked back. After his fight against Terra, he loses one eye and receives scars, making him and Master Eraqus the only two characters to receive scars during the story. Once able to take the bandages off, Braig wears an eyepatch over his right eye and has a jagged scar going from his left cheek to just under his left eye.

Fighting Style
Main article: Braig (Boss)

Braig, like his Nobody Xigbar, wields twin Arrowguns in battle, using them to fire a variety of quick shots. He uses a telescopic view in battle and is able to walk upside-down via space distortion. Like his Nobody's, Braig's HUD display has a silhouette of his Arrowguns in each of the four cardinal directions. The shots Braig fires when he is sniping are violet like Xigbar's, but they seem to have explosive properties to them. He can also combine his two weapons into one in order to fire powerful shots in rapid succession. Unlike Xigbar, Braig's spatial abilities are limited to only teleportation and defying gravity as he has yet to become a Nobody.

Trivia

 * Braig is briefly mentioned in the Secret Ansem Reports in Kingdom Hearts II. In the North American release, his name was mistranslated as "Bleig".