Addison MacHenry is a peculiar dog who is capable of speech, has an increased intelligence and can smell "peculiar scent."
He is known as the "seventh pup of the seventh pup in an illustrious line of hunting dogs" and lived in Miss Wren's Menagerie, a loop housing peculiar animals. Addison has a pivotal role in the third book, Library of Souls.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
| “ | I am a dog, yes, but a peculiar one. Why, then, should I be saddled with a common dog's name? My former master called me 'Boxie' and I despised it - an assault on my dignity! - so I bit him on the face and took his name. | ” |
–Addison, Hollow City | ||
Addison was born in a litter of seven puppies and seemed to have a nice puppyhood. His owner, Addison MacHenry, gave him the name Boxie when he was young, but Addison (the dog) hated the name and called it an assault on his dignity. He bit his owner and left his owner's house. Eventually Miss Wren would find him and bring him back to her menagerie.
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children[]
Miss Wren's pigeons arrive at her loop and tell everyone what was happening in London. So Miss Wren makes immediate plans to leave and leaves Addison to keep an eye on everyone while she was gone. She leaves, unaware of the danger her loop would be in the coming days.
Hollow City[]
Addison is scared when a hollow somehow breaks into the loop. Luckily for him and everyone else in the loop, the hollow was unable to climb the mountain they were living on. Addison helps Alma LeFay Peregrine wards up the mountain by letting the net down, and is extremely happy when the children kill the hollow.
Addison has to call Grunt from attacking the kids. He tells the peculiars that Miss Wren had flown off to help ymbrynes in London, but invites them further in so that they can eat and regain their strength. He calls for the other peculiar animals in the menagerie to come out and meet the peculiars, and introduces some of them.
Addison, Deirdre, and Grunt go off to make an elixir for a sick Claire, then with the other animals serve the rest of the peculiars food. When Olive asks Addison where more animals are, all of the animals' moods wilt and Addison decides to tell Jacob and his friends the story of how peculiar animals are near extinct, showing them the menagerie's cemetery. He then speaks of Miss Wren and how she went to London to aid other ymbrynes.
He is shocked to see that "Miss Peregrine" also remains uncaptured by the wights (unaware, like everyone else, that the bird shown to him is actually Caul). Upon learning that she apparently cannot change back to human form, he examines her, and announces that she has been poisoned by something that keeps her in bird form. He tells the peculiars that if she does not receive help to turn back soon, she will remain a bird with her human side completely lost forever, giving Olivia as an example.
While the peculiars are preparing to leave, Addison meets Jacob and Emma at the top of Miss Wren's tower to show them the way out of the forest, and also requests that they send Miss Wren back if they should encounter her. He then allows Emma to scratch the top of his head, but objects when Jacob tries to pet him. He sees off the group with the rest of the animals, and for one last favor asks Emma to light his pipe as he has not had a real smoke for years.
Wights attacked within a few hours after the majority of Miss Peregrine's children fled. The clear out most of Miss Wren's house, and they secure the animals and two remaining children. Addison is horrified when Deirdre was shot and killed by one of the weights when she tried to stop them from messing with Miss Wren's house. He is also powerless from stopping Fiona from going over a cliff and Claire from being taken by the wights. When the wights leave the loop, he buries Deirde in the cemetery, and he leaves the loop to help find Miss Wren.
He managed to get into London, and tracks down Miss Wren to her hideout thanks to her pigeons. He had arrived after the wights began raiding the building, and after the wights took the peculiars to the present and the underground he followed them. He was able to drag Jacob and Emma away from the train and the wights after the Bone Brothers' scream. He wanted to save Miss Wren first and foremost, but because Jacob and Emma were the more realistic save he had to save them instead.
Library of Souls[]
Addison, Jacob and Emma are able to escape from being tracked by wights and managed to find an injured Sergei Andropov. The four hop on a train, and Addison opens a window and starts tracking the captured peculiars. Emma asks Addison why he was in London and what had happened at Miss Wren's loop. He explains what had happened, and how he managed to travel to London and track them down. Jacob and Emma are devastated at the news of their friends. He also said Sergei would probably die in the coming days, since not only had he been shot but he had been in a loop for roughly a hundred years and he was nowhere near a loop that would provide him protection from aging forward.
Addison goes quiet when a pair of normal teenagers come into their train car. Eventually he broke his silence, causing the boy to faint and the girl to scream, thus alerting a wight at the adjacent car of their presence. He, Jacob and Emma run with the wight chasing them, during which he gets briefly entangled in a lady's stocking. Again, he causes someone to faint by speaking. He catches peculiar scent once more in a comic convention, but after a bit loses it as it has suddenly disappeared.
The three continue to walk, until Addison once more picks up very fresh peculiar scents, leading them to boat slips. After getting scared by Sharon, the man offers the group a boat tour into Devil's Acre. Which they accept hesitantly. After getting into the loop they ditch Sharon, and managed to stumble upon the wights stronghold, which was connected to the Acre by bridges. Addison willingly goes into the wight fortress, but is captured almost instantly. He is reunited with Miss Wren, and he is thankful when Jacob and Emma come and rescue everyone.
He helps fight in the escape, but is captured with everyone else and taken into the Library of Souls. He bites Caul and helps everyone escape the loop. Like everyone else his internal clock is reset.
The Conference of the Birds[]
In New York, Addison helped Bronwyn and Hugh track Jacob, who had gone to save Noor Pradesh, to a Chinatown seafood market.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Addison is a boxer dog, holding a pipe in his jowly mouth and wearing a pair of round, green-tinted glasses. When he stands on his hind legs, he is almost as tall as Enoch.
Personality[]
Addison has great dignity and pride, and sometimes speaks with higher level diction. He becomes offended when treated as a common dog, considering it a humiliation, and cannot act as one for much time even when it is required in front of normals- speaking up when he has had enough. He does not have a filter and always says just what he means, which Jacob attributes to his canine nature. Addison is "easily distracted by the topic of his own greatness, even when pressing matters were at hand." He deems himself extremely sophisticated and extroverted. However, he still does retain some behaviors of any dog.
He dislikes running away, and is extremely loyal to his ymbryne, Miss Wren. Deirdre also calls Addison a "regular Doctor Dolittle," as he used to treat the other animals in the menagerie when they were sick.
Peculiarity[]
Addison is a dog with the ability to speak and a high IQ. He also has a nose for peculiars (he can smell their unique scent, therefore extremely helpful in tracking any peculiar, animal or human). He has a very high opinion of his ability, stating that he can "find a peculiar in a hollow-stack, an ymbryne in an aviary."
Relationships[]
Grunt[]
Grunt listened to whatever Addison asked him to do, and he acted more like a dog than Addison did.
Miss Wren[]
Addison is extremely loyal to Miss Wren, and she means everything to him. It broke his heart when he couldn't save Miss Wren, and is ready to risk his life to have a chance to rescue Miss Wren from the wights.
Deirdre the Emu-Raffe[]
Deirdre and Addison were friends before she died.
Trivia[]
- Addison is a boxer, as learned in Library of Souls and hinted at in Hollow City.
- He dislikes dog food.
- Addison was named after Ransom Riggs' old roommate and close friend as stated in a post on Ransom's Instagram.