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Joseph Edward Zieja (Born born January 16, 1985) is an American voice actor, author, and former United States Air Force captain. Zieja grew up in New Jersey and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy. He served as an intelligence officer for over a decade, attaining the rank of captain. Zieja's voice acting career spans video games, animation, and commercials. In 2013, while still in a government role, he began taking on small voiceover projects, and by 2014 had transitioned to full-time voice acting, recording from his home studio before relocating to Los Angeles. According to Zieja, he turned to voice acting after his military intelligence job burned him out, calling that work "a lot of PowerPoints." Within eight months, his client list had grown long enough that he needed to quit his day job and focus on voice acting full-time. He has voiced Fox McCloud in the animated short Star Fox Zero: The Battle Begins (2016), Claude von Riegan in Fire Emblem: Three Houses (2019) and related titles such as Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes (2022) and Fire Emblem Heroes, Bumblebee in the Netflix series Transformers: War for Cybertron trilogy (2020–2021), Achilles in the English dub of Fate/Apocrypha, and Wriothesley in the video game Genshin Impact (2023). He plays the male version of the protagonist, Wolf, in Destiny: Rising (2025). Zieja is the author of the Epic Failure Trilogy, published by Simon & Schuster's Saga Press. The series includes: - Mechanical Failure (2016) - Communication Failure (2017) - System Failure (2019) According to Zieja, the novels satirize the bureaucracy of life in the armed forces with a comedic tone. He also narrated the audiobook editions of his works.
Joe Zieja
Squawkabilly (English Dub)
for Squawkabilly (English Dub) in Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Expedition Team
Suggested by demurelyhydrated
Years before the events of the other Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games, the era of peace that followed Dark Matter's defeat had brought with it a new advent of adventuring, and with that advent, a huge boom in the formation of exploration teams both good and bad. This sudden boom resulted in the formation of Exploration Guilds to mentor aspiring adventurers, and studying under the best of the best became a symbol of prestige. You and your friends had attempted to apply for apprenticeships at one of the most prestigious guilds only to be rejected, and on your way back home, are whisked away to a rundown town following a natural disaster! After befriending the locals there and learning of their struggles to rebuild, you get an idea - form an Exploration Guild to not only mentor new adventurers, but gather resources from adventuring in Mystery Dungeons and use them to rebuild the town! And thus, your journey to becoming one of the greatest adventurers of all time and forming one of the most famous Exploration Guilds in history begins... ‖ Fancast for a hypothetical Pokemon Mystery Dungeon mobile game. English and Japanese dub options available. Professional VAs only, no celebs. Feel free to add any roles for Pokemon you'd like to see in the story or any staff roles!
