#Ymbrynes

[evil-feather]

POV: You're too tiny to kiss your tall Ymbryne girlfriend 🙊

[carmine-golde]

The idea of Ymbrynes displaying avian traits specific to their bird form is absolutely hilarious to me. Owl ymbrynes who are always up late, corvids who love to collect trinkets, shrikes whose favorite food are kebabs, parrots who have a habit of repeating words, a kookaburra who has a very distinctive laugh, etc etc!! It’s a HC that I think adds a whole new layer of character depth and I think makes the ymbrynes seem just a bit more human :)

[grimmysfuntimeblog]

It’s kind of beautiful the way that the mphfpc fandom is so small, it almost mirrors the peculiars in the books, their numbers dwindling but everyone pretty much kinda working together kinda

[matilsabell]

Sketch ( for now )

[marygih]

How would a ymbryne discover her peculiarity or rather manifesting it?

I love getting this kind of ask, my dear, you just gave wings to my snake.

First of all, I think that in all ymbrynes, the transformation into a bird occurs before temporal control, since transforming into a bird is the "key" to an ymbryne's temporal powers.I would like to emphasize that I do not romanticize the transformation of ymbrynes, becoming a bird is a true body horror, it is something painful that they learn to tolerate and accelerate the pain, for those who see it like Jacob only imagine that it is something glorious (and it is, but that does not exempt them from the pain).

The first signs appear in childhood, usually not as young as Alma (she has the privilege of being the successor of one of the twelve powerful ymbrynes of Abaton). Feathers usually appear in the girls' hair and fluff on their bodies. They don't even know exactly what's happening, and these things disappear over time. Sometimes they chirp randomly and feel bizarre desires like eating insects and berries or picking up shiny objects. Some girls' vision also changes to that of their respective birds, which makes them fall and feel dizzy. And then they transform for the first time, which is a real nightmare.

Without any sign, feathers tear the girls' skin, causing pain and panic. Their screams don't last long because soon their throats are only capable of squawking like desperate birds. Their vision changes and their bones begin to shrink and become hollow, and this obviously causes immense internal pain. The girls in Panic fight against the transformation, which only prolongs the problem, and after several minutes of great pain, they completely become birds. Then the panic begins, they are in a completely bizarre situation, they are no longer able to speak, they barely know how to move, they do not know how to fly, and some are still baby birds wrapped in the fabric of their clothes, which makes everything more confusing and claustrophobic. They are humans trapped in a bird's body for the first time.

After they manage to calm down, their attempts to become human again work, but the process is again painful, now the feathers go back into the skin, their bones grow and become heavy and all their limbs grow, usually this hurts so much that they faint in the process and their bodies finish the metamorphosis while they are unconscious, making the little girls wake up naked and confused.

This is the beginning of the torment, new random transformations occur again and the girls can only accept it and not fight against the transformation since at some point they realize that if they transform faster the pain lasts less time, and so they try their best to speed up their transformation so it hurts less, when they become professionals they transform in seconds.

The temporal powers come as soon as they master the transformation, at first they can stop time without wanting to, and even make time go back a little (like Ymeene did in the stories to see the sunset). They do not have enough training to create a loop, and they do not discover their powers to erase memories since it is something very specific for them to discover on their own.

Without the help of a trained ymbryne their temporal powers are confusing and last very little.

This is my headcanon of how the ymbrynes' quirk manifests, and I'd also like to add that transforming into birds seriously harms the ymbrynes' bone health in the long run. Their bones shrink and become hollow very often during their lives and this damages their bones causing them to have problems such as arthritis, osteoporosis and other problems prematurely, and have more incidences of fractures and broken bones, this can be seen in some adult ymbrynes canonically.

[maladaptivedaydr3amer]

I FOUND THE SCENE!! It’s page 298 in “the desolations of devils arce”

[honeysuckletoast]

The motivation is motivation-ing I present young Alma and Isabelle as requested by @evil-feather

(just now realizing the lower hand is very wonky looking, I forgot to color the Mitten lol please forgive me)

[cauls-antique-pepperbox-pistol]

Okay not to make the ymbrynes look bad, I just like to add more depth to characters, sometimes make good people a little bit more shady yknow. But

What if loops do really have a narcotic effect on peculiars and that‘s how the birds ensure they will stay there

Also ignore my little note there on the side

[devine-devil]

A genuine question I have is: are ymbrynes just birds that fly, or is this prerequisite unnecessary? Are there Miss Penguins? Miss Kiwi? Miss emu? Miss ostrich?

[metaphoricallymagpie]

What do you think the coolest bird would for an Ymbryne to be able to transform into?

I’m definitely partial to birds with cool patterns— specifically ones like the wallcreeper or all the different magpie(biased) ones

However I think it would also be really interesting to have a pigeon ymbryne because they would blend in so well in a city which would make finding peculiar children easier

any flightless birds would have interesting characteristics too, especially because I hc that they keep some of the bird’s characteristics when in human form, an emu or ostrich ymbryne would probably be really fast and tall—same with just really big birds like albatross

Can’t forget about tropical birds of course, they’re all very colorful and beautiful, those would most likely be native to places like South America, which also brings into question what peculiar society would be like in those places, they mention being in contact with ymbrynes in Africa and Asia but never South America

[trainwrecksys]

cinemasins just raised a valid point. if all ymbrynes are female, how do they procreate? they also can't get married or have kids of their own, and their brothers don't share the ability to manipulate time. is it simply some sort of funky magic gene stuff and it gets carried down if their brothers so happen to have children? i'm sure there must be some answer to this in the books linked to demi-ymbrynes but i can't remember, been over 2 years since i finished them

[evil-feather]

Happy Halloween with young Miss Peregrine🪶👻🕰️

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I'm not kidding, I'm obsessed with the aesthetic of the first picture. And for the second one I wanted to go with the vibe of an old photography. Maybe Caul or some other Wight scratched the photography with a knife

[marygih]

I've never read so many truths in a single post.

The ymbrynes do their best to maintain the balance of the peculiar world and are treated so poorly. The very peculiars who owe their lives to them and their loops are the first to turn against them.

It must be extremely frustrating, raising and protecting a peculiar child who will grow into a peculiar adult who turns against you and your way of governing. The ymbrynes do the best they can with what they have.

These women go through hell to graduate, they are mothers, they are government leaders, and they were students who were pushed to their limits on a daily basis. An ymbryne sleeps a maximum of two hours a night, studies for at least ten years and has to refrain from a lot of things.

Many ymbrynes spend years in loops full of children without having any other adults to talk to, they cannot marry or have biological children, they cannot leave their loops, they cannot show feelings. They are single mothers of dozens of children, they have to provide homes alone, they have to be in punishment loops with criminals. They risk their lives all the time to save children. And in the end they are extremely undervalued by their own people.

The peculiar society without the ymbrynes will collapse. This is not speculation, it is fact. The Americans are doomed. They brag about their shitty government without ymbrynes, but they forget that there are few Demi ymbrynes around, at some point if these Demi ymbrynes die or leave all the loops will collapse, An ymbryne is irreplaceable, a Demi ymbryne is at best a temporary and ineffective aid in the long term, because it is good to remember but loops are very fragile and you have to have a lot of discipline to maintain them. The clans are doomed to decline, it will take time, but they will fall.

Reading the second trilogy made me hate it, the peculiars treat the ymbrynes so badly, I wanted to scream: FUCK THESE WOMEN SAVED YOU, THEY WERE THE ONES WHO GOT RID OF CAUL! JACOB GOT ALL THE GLORY, BUT THE YMBRYNES WERE THE ONES WHO ARRESTED CAUL. I still hate that they took away their own credits AND GAVE THEM TO JACOB. Do you have any idea how humble they are? If the peculiar world is in precarious conditions, they work in precarious situations, They saved the world, Jacob obviously helped but it wouldn't have had any effect without what the ymbrynes did. But instead of using this to their advantage, they gave all the credit to Jacob who "murdered Caul."

I hate that peculiar journalist Farish, because he does everything he can to villainize the ymbrynes, to make them look like bad leaders. For the first time ever I was rooting for Caul to kill someone. Ymbrynes are good because they save the lives of even those who don't deserve to be saved.

It is sad to see such hard-working leaders having to govern such ungrateful people.

May the birds protect these ymbrynes, because the people they protect would not do so.

I’ve thought about something but it feels obscure, please tell me if I’m onto something or if I’m on something lmaoo 🙏🏻🙏🏻

In my opinion if Ymbrynes weren’t necessarily all females due to the obscure nature of their peculiar genes, then Peculiardom wouldn’t be a matriarchal society at all.

Like, we all know how much peculiars have remotely backward views on women (the Claywings numbers is an example of that, but just look at the clans and the political organization aside from Ymbrynes and you’ll see that most of the individuals with high positions are men) and that most peculiars are born in the normal world which is very sexist in itself (and they carry on those views into Peculiardom).

I can’t think of an example of a peculiar being openly sexist aside from wights but at times I really felt a weird vibe or just the omnipresence of men and women being depicted as more hysterical/emotional/weak or characters you just kinda forget about.

Plus,,, the Ymbryne’s lives in general. Not being able to choose if you want to marry or be in a relationship, literally your teachings at the academy being how to raise children and maintain a good home (it’s not sexist in itself but the whole thing feels very traditionalists, like those women are expected to be mothers AND politicians at the same time, that’s very hard and time consuming.) Also most of them are (or are taught to be) the living embodiment of good manners and acceptable behavior, they do tend to repress their emotions and be very reminiscent of how women were supposed to act in older times (most of them are from XIXish century time periods so this makes sense, but again their insertion in Peculiardom who is supposedly better than the normals didn’t change anything about the expectations they face).

Also, peculiars are extremely expectant and harsh towards the Ymbrynes. Is this because of their ineffectiveness or because they’re a female government? Maybe this is a reach but idrk.

[grimmysfuntimeblog]

Adding on to my previous post bc I feel the need to express my absolute love for this fandom but I find it fucking hilarious how Ricky is mentioned like twice and then he just evaporates

[matilsabell]

*me in bed, surrounded by miss peregrine book series . Also , scrolling through beautiful fics , art work and daydreaming all at once*

I need more .

maybe I should draw the characters , ESPECIALLY miss cuckoo . But I don’t have the visual of them all .

I need more stories please, I beg thee .

[marygih]

Guys, have you noticed that Francesca, Betina, Sigrid and all the other ymbrynes in training were in LOS?

Caul took all the residents of Miss A's loop to the wight prison. They were all trapped there somewhere to have their souls taken away in the future.