History Characters / MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren

Below is a list of characters for Literature/MissPeregrinesHomeForPeculiarChildren. Be warned - some of these characters are very peculiar indeed...

* RandomlyGifted[=/=]SuperpowerfulGenetics: Both zigzagged. Peculiarity '''is''' genetic, but it's super recessive. You get sibling pairs with the same peculiarly, like the Bruntleys, and grandfather-grandson pairs like the Portmans, but also peculiars both to tragically normal families like Emma's.

-->'''Miss Peregrine''': You'll have to pardon Miss Bloom. She has a certain flair the for the dramatic.

* RandomlyGifted[=/=]SuperpowerfulGenetics: Both zigzagged. Peculiarity '''is''' genetic, but it's super recessive.

* DumbMuscle: Even her best friend Emma says, "She may not be the sharpest tool in the woodshed,"

* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Her stepfather was apparently so awful that Bronwyn snapped his throat.

* DumbMuscle

* PosthumousCharacter: He's long dead by the events of the first book and is never shown alive on-screen.

* [[WickedStepmother Wicked Stepfather]]: Their stepfather was apparently so awful that Bronwyn snapped his throat.

* SuperStrength: Her peculiarity.
* SuperStrongChild: She's a teenager strong enough to row boats for hours and carry a bag that not even adults can lift.

* ChekhovsHobby: He's spent the last thirty years documenting everything happening in Cairnholm loop, which comes in handy when the children need to move around it.
-->'''Millard:''' In fact, I am in the midst of compiling the world's first complete account of one day in the life of a town, as experienced by everyone in it. Every action, every conversation, every sound made by each of the one hundred fifty-nine human and three hundred thirty-two animal residents of Cairnholm, minute by minute, sunup to sundown.
* ClockKing: He has everything on Cairnholm mapped out to a minute, including behaviour of pigs (it took seven years!).

* BlessedWithSuck
[=/=]PowerIncontinence: She can only somewhat control her levitation, and most of the time, she requires heavy shoes or a rope to keep from floating away.

* IChoseToStay: At the end of ''Hollow City'', he decides to stay and help fight against the wights, to surprise of everyone.

* TimeMaster: Half of their peculiarity is the ability to create GroundhogDayLoops.

'''Miss Peregrine:''' Exactly, Mr. Portman. The peculiar offspring of common parents are often abused and neglected in the most horrific ways. It wasn't so many centuries ago that the parents of peculiar children simply assumed that their ‘real’ sons or daughters had been made off with and replaced with changelings--that is, enchanted and malevolent, not to mention entirely fictitious, lookalikes--which in darker times was considered a license to abandon the poor children, if not kill them outright.

* BlackSpeech: The [[spoiler:Hollow speech]], part of his peculiar gifts, sounds like guttural noises human throat shouldn't be able to make.

* RandomlyGifted[=/=]SuperpowerfulGenetics: Both zigzagged. Peculiarity '''is''' generic, but it's super recessive.

Peculiars, or ''syndrigasti'' ("of peculiar souls") are people gifted with unusual abilities. Once god-kings of mankind, they now hide for fear of prosecution.

* TheMagicGoesAway: It's said and shown that ''syndrigasti'' used to be insanely powerful - there are ancient souls that let people turn into giant insectoid beasts or god-kings. Today, the bloodline is so diluted, a fraction of the latter's power is considered a strong peculiarity.

An unsual peculiar "species", women who can turn into burds and turn back time. They're self-proclaimed protectors of peculiardom.

* TimeMaster: Half of their peculiarity i ability to create {{Groundhog Day Loops}}.

* MistakenForCheating: His children thought that the letters from Emma were a proof that he was an adulterer. As it was, he wasn't--he was with Emma years before he met his wife.

* {{Protectorate}}: Her wards.

* LivingToy: As animating the dead is quite frowned upon, even in Home, most of Enoch's "army" are tiny clay soldiers with mice hearts to animate them.

* OurHomunculiAreDifferent

* HorrorHunger: Underplayed. When his gift started to manifest, he begun craving honey so much, he eventually started to eat plaster.

* TheStoic: One of the more withdrawn and reasonable members of the group.
* TheQuietOne: Before his Awesome Moment after the crew is captured by the wights, he's rather quiet and detached, largely due to bees flying out any time he opens his mouth.

* TomboyAndGirlyGirl: She and her friend Emma contrast in this way, although both are {{Action Girl}}s.

* CheerfulChild: Though she has her darker moments, she's one of more cheerful of all members of the Home.
* CloudCuckooLander: Has those moments, being cheerful and happy even when war rages around her, and only jokingly talking about scaring her parents and nurses with her levitation.

* SuperStrength: She can easily levitate several people at once.

* BadDreams: Most of his dreams of the future are of nightmarish variety.
* CatapultNightmare: After dreaming about the end of the world, he wakes up this way.

* TheNoseKnows: His sense of smell is amazing even for a dog - he can smell trace of peculiars even when they've been travelling in a completely different train hours earlier.

* OneGenderRace: Ymbrynes are all female, as men supposedly "shouldn't be trusted" with the power - which is to say, they're not taught how to turn time.

!!Joel-And-Peter

* OnePersonOnePower: The nature of peculiarities. While some peculiarities have more than one facet (Hugh can control bees, and also house them in his stomach) they're always intrinsically linked. Even ymbrynes--seemingly ComboPlatterPowers--are one, because [[InsaneTrollLogic only birds can manipulate time]].
* AbusiveParents: Extremely common among peculiars, due to the nature of peculiarities.
-->'''Jacob:''' Because normal parents would be freaked out of their kids started to, like, throw fire?\\
'''Miss Peregrine:''' Exactly, Mr. Portman. The peculiar offspring of common parents are often abused and neglected in the most horrific ways. It wasn't so many centuries ago that the parents of peculiar children simply assumed that their ‘real’ sons or daughters had been made off with and replaced with changelings--that is, enchanted and malevolent, not to mention entirely fictitious, lookalikes--which in darker times was considered a license to abandon the poor children, if not kill them outright.
* {{Creepy Child}}ren: All peculiar children, frankly.

!!!Ymbrynes
* TimeMaster: Half of their peculiarity
* VoluntaryShapeshifter: The other half of their peculiarity

* ThemeNaming: They're all named after their bird forms
* OneGenderRace: Ymbrynes are all female.
* BenevolentMageRuler: Though the Claywings disagree

Ymbryne[[labelnote:pronunciation]][[superscript:''(IMM-brinn, with a short I)'']][[/labelnote]] and headmistress of her school/safe haven for peculiar children.

* TeamMome: She's very motherly for Joel-And-Peter, who are the only other two survivors from her loop.

* WeBarelyKnewYe: Appears only in latter half of ''Hollow City'' and later shows up in coma in wights' fortress.

* MakesMeWannaShout: Separating them causes a sonic wave powerful enough to incapacitate and even cause physical damage.

* {{Contortionist}}
* NothingButSkinAndBones: Jacob discribes him as "so alarmingly thin, in fact, that it looked as if his bones were about to break through his skin."
* RussianGuySuffersMost: Poor Sergei.

* GadgeteerGenius: He's the designer of Panloopticon and the person behind the equation that destroys loops and [[spoier:resets the age of loop-trapped peculiars.]]

* PortalNetwork: His greates creation, the Panloopticon, which connects dozens of loops.

* MindOverMatter: But her power only works once she's familiarized herself with the house.

* {{ExtranormalInstitute}}: All loops where ymbrynes keep their wards.

* {{Immortality Seek|er}}ing: The reason the hollowgasts and wights exist in the first place. The cabal under Caul's command wanted to cheat loops' NoImmortalityInertia.

* InvisibleToNormals: Only someone with a specific peculiarity can see them - to others, they look like shadows.

* OurWightsAreDifferent: They're hollowgast who's eaten enough peculiars to gain their soul back.
* MonochromaticEyes[=/=]MilkyWhiteEyes: The telltale sign of a peculiar.

* OldShame: He's still remorseful about his surgery on Abe.

* BearsAreBadNews:
* BigDamnHeroes:
* BunnyEarsLawyer:
* CainAndAbel:
* CainAndAbelAndSeth:
* CoolHouse:
* FirstNameBasis:
* GadgeteerGenius:
* GentlemanAdventurer:
* HeelFaceRevolvingDoor:
* HeroicSacrifice:
* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal:
* NeverLiveItDown:
* NiceJobBreakingItHero:
* PortalNetwork:
* SharplyDressedMan:
* OddFriendship:
* OneWingedAngel:
* SourSupporter:
* TheSmartGuy:

* CameBackWrong

* {{Immortality Seek|er}}ing: The reason the hollowgasts and wights exist in the first place.

* OurWightsAreDifferent
* MonochromaticEyes[=/=]MilkyWhiteEyes
* IAmAHumanitarian

* ChekhovsHobby: He's spent the last thirty years documenting everything hapenning in Cairnholm loop, which comes in handy when the children need to move around it.

* IJustWantToBeNormal: He has moments of wishing that he could turn his invisibility off.

* WildChild: Her act back when Miss Peregrine's children were a travelling circus invoked this; her stage persona was a "wild girl from the jungle".

* RebelLeader: As the leader of Clay Wings, whom he considered to be a rebellion against the tyranny of ymbrines.