Fiona Frauenfeld is a female peculiar who has the ability to make plants grow, and is one of Miss Peregrine's wards.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
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Fiona was a refugee from Ireland who grew food for her village during the Great Famine (also referred to as the Irish Potato famine) of the 1840s. Despite Fiona's kindness, she was driven out of her village after being accused of witchcraft. She met Hugh when he found her sleeping in a field of flowers, while he was looking for a place to let his bees pollinate. Hugh explains that Fiona is physically able to speak, but that the "things she witnessed in the famine were so horrible that they stole her voice away." [1] This indicates that Fiona is suffering from a condition such as Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) or selective mutism. She has only spoken out loud once during the series in the first book. It is unknown if Fiona’s parents were peculiar as well, but it is suggested they are either dead or did not raise her.
Prior to the series, a former loopmate, Salvador Tatterleg, developed feelings for her. However, she spurned his advances as she was in love with Hugh.[2]
Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children[]
When Jacob first arrives at the home, he observes a girl "in her late teens" and "wild looking" approaching a group of children who had gotten their ball stuck in a giant topiary centaur after Olive had failed to retrieve it. She wraps her arm around the centaur's tail and, in deep concentration, gets the centaur's hand and arm to move and retrieve the ball from its own chest. During the loop reset, Jacob notices a topiary of Michelangelo's fresco of Adam from Sixtine chapel with two gardenias for eyes. Spotting Fiona, he asked if she was responsible for growing it, to which she nods.[3]
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Fiona appears during the performance of "Miss Peregrine and her peculiar children," and Jacob learns of her name from Emma. On stage she stands with planters and conducts "Flight of the Bumblebee" with daisies. Hugh joins her performance when his bees pollinate the flowers Fiona had grown. Emma shows Jacob Fiona's show card and tells him that they'd worked hard on her outfit. Jacob asks if she was supposed to look like a homeless farmer, to which Emma tells him she is supposed to look "natural, like a savage person" and that they call her "Jill of the Jungle". Emma also confirms that she's actually from Ireland, not the jungle. It's also stated that Fiona can grow bushes, flowers, vegetables, and sometimes whole trees. Emma also explains about "Jill and the Beanstalk", a game the children play where they grab onto saplings and see how high Fiona can grow them. [4]
FROM THE COLLECTION OF ROBERT JACKSON
While Emma is sneaking out to meet Jacob later on, she runs into Fiona and Hugh "snogging each other's faces off in the garden."[5]
"Miss Peregrine" (really Caul) rides in Fiona's hair when the children head back to the house after defeating Golan. During Victor's burial, she recreates the destroyed topiary of Adam over Victor's grave using some shrubs and vines.[6]
Hollow City[]
It is revealed that she took a pot of wormy garden dirt with her when the children left their destroyed loop, which she keeps pressed between her knees while on the boat.[7] Upon arriving at land, Fiona scoops up and rolls some pebbles over her tongue, "as if she needed all five senses to convince herself she wasn't dreaming." Later, she and Horace are sent to find wood. They don't bring back any, although they did find balloons searching for the children.[8]
She later uses her peculiarity to grow a shelter in the forest for everyone, and when they settle down for the night she snuggles with Hugh.[9]
At the menagerie of peculiar animals, Fiona watches the sick Claire when everyone else goes to see the peculiar animal cemetery. She then volunteers to stay behind to look after Claire. She and Hugh share a private goodbye before he and the others leave, growing a rosebush with roses for Hugh's bees to pollinate. She embraces him and whispers something to him, to which he whispers something back before they find everyone watching them and Hugh quickly cuts the goodbye short.[10]
Library of Souls[]
During the wights' attack on Miss Wren's loop, Fiona fell down a cliff during the battle[11] (later Miss Peregrine would say that Fiona was seen leaping off[12]). At the time, it is unknown if she had survived the fall, but Hugh insists that the greenery had cushioned her landing.[13]
A Map of Days[]
Jacob makes a small speech to the peculiar children gathered at his house, though he accidentally leaves out Fiona when he says "everyone" is there. Hugh, offended by this, makes Jacob realize. Hugh is the only one who believes that Fiona is still alive.[14]
When Emma and Jacob ask their friends for volunteers to come deliver H's packages with them for their mission, Hugh said that he would come, but he had his own mission (searching the Panloopticon for Fiona). Jacob promises that they would keep a lookout for her on their travels.[15]
When the children who had stayed behind at Jacob's house call those on the mission, Hugh asks whether they had heard any news of Fiona. Emma promises him they will keep asking everywhere they go. After hanging up, Enoch says that Fiona was a wonderful and sweet girl, but she is dead and it isn't their fault if Hugh can't accept that. Bronwyn says that they still should have asked, and all of them (except Enoch) agree that they would ask from then on.[16]
The Conference of the Birds[]
Fiona was mentioned when Hugh had another outburst about everyone not caring about finding Fiona. After he goes out of the room, Horace reveals that he had had a dream about Fiona being on a bus. They agree not to tell Hugh, who would have them searching every bus in Britain.
Eventually, she is revealed to be alive. Miss Peregrine states that she had been seen "leaping" off the cliff, rather than falling. Fiona survived, and it is presumed she was collected by the wights in the woods below. At one point she was taken to America and the wights cut out her tongue, as the tongue of a seedsprout was an ingredient they needed for a potion to bring Caul back from the collapsed loop he was imprisoned in. She was placed under the control of an ambro addict, but the connection wavered on a bus after Fiona had been forced to kidnap a girl named Ellery. In an escape attempt, she causes an accident by wrapping the tires of the bus with vines. She also gives Ellery dog roses, which confirm to the peculiars that she is alive because dog roses are her special flower and she would even sometimes grow them without meaning to back in the loop.
After Hugh follows a trail of dog roses to her in the dead-risers' loop, Fiona attacks Jacob, Hugh and Noor during battle while under the control of the ambro addict, despite Hugh's attempts to reason with her. She binds her friends with her vines, but the control wavers after Noor attacks the ambro addict. Fiona continues to strangle them after the addict is given more ambro. Jacob manages to free himself and has a surviving hollow kill the addict, thus freeing Fiona from the addict's control. After the battle, Hugh scoops her into his arms and carries her by himself, refusing to accept help. Atop Gravehill, Hugh is persuaded to let the ymbrynes examine her, where she reveals that the wights had cut out her tongue. She is then taken back to Devil's Acre where she is treated by Rafael.
The Desolations of Devil's Acre[]
Graphic Novel[]
Fiona's first appearance in the graphic novel is when Jake first arrives at the children's home and Fiona is with her plants. There is later a picture of her at the peculiars' show, with caption as "Girl of the Jungle." She is later shown holding hands with Hugh when they find Jake and Emma to tell them about Miss Avocet.
In Hollow City, after the peculiars reach the mainland, she goes with Horace to find wood and later grows them all a shelter. Reaching Miss Wren's menagerie, she holds Claire in her arms as the others talk, and stays behind to look after Claire. Sometime later in the graphic novel, Caul tells the peculiars that his men had paid a visit to the menagerie (by which time Fiona had probably already fallen from the cliff).
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (film)[]
Description[]
Appearance[]
Fiona is described as looking to be in her late teens, with a wild looking appearance and mussy, dark hair that resemble dreadlocks. She wears an extremely patched dress and apparently has seeds in her hair. In The Conference of the Birds, while under the control of the wights, she appears in a flowing white gown.
In the movie, Fiona is a preteen girl with brownish blonde hair tied in french braids. She wears a brown jacket.
Personality[]
She is described as "a wonderful, sweet girl" by Enoch.[16]
Peculiarity[]
Fiona is a seedsprout[17], meaning she has the ability to manipulate plants and make them grow with astonishing speed. She is categorised as an earthworker elemental, using the earth as a medium to manipulate things that grow in it.[18]
Everything she grows is forever attracted to her, inching towards her when her back is turned.[19]
Relationships[]
Hugh Apiston[]
Hugh and Fiona are what one would call 'soul mates'. Not only do they get along, but their peculiarities also match well. Their relationship is an example of dramatic irony due to the joint connection between their abilities. Fiona posesses the ability to produce flowers (along with other vegetation) which attract bees (Hugh's ability to contain and control them with his body and mind).
In Hollow City, Hugh is visibly saddened when Fiona volunteers to stay back with Claire in Miss Wren's Menagerie. The two share in an affectionate goodbye, with Fiona growing roses between them for Hugh's bees to pollinate. When they turn and catch the others staring at them, Hugh sheepishly cuts the goodbye short.
Near to the conclusion of Library of Souls, Hugh refuses to believe that Fiona had perished during her fight with the wights at the menagerie. He clings to the hope that she is still alive and wandering in nature. He hopes to find her and makes a lot of effort to, searching the Panloopticon during A Map of Days. The loss had impacted him deeply, causing him depression and a few outbursts, but he was still very hopeful of seeing her again when most others are doubtful. Such is the hope of true love.
Luckily, it turns out that he is right, and in The Conference of the Birds he becomes hysterical from worrying about her after learning that she is under the wights' mind control. Eventually, though, the couple is finally properly reunited, and in The Desolations of Devil's Acre Hugh stays with Fiona in Devil's Acre instead of going to Miss Tern's loop with Jacob and some of their other friends.
Gallery[]
Trivia[]
- Fiona is from Ireland, and has an Irish accent. She is bilingual, able to speak both Gaelic and English.
- She is described as 'wild-looking' in the books. However, this is contrasted in the film adaptation.
- Unlike the book, the movie Fiona is eager and compliment, clean, and speaks. This is probably to avoid the dark history of Fiona in such a light hearted movie.
- Fiona's name means "white" or fair"; it is also derived from an element meaning "vine." It is a popular Irish name as well.
- Her special flower is the dog rose. She would grow them back in Miss Peregrine's loop, and sometimes without even meaning to as they would pop up behind her where she walked.[20]
- On the official peculiar calendar, her birthday is September 18.
- Having lived during the Irish Famine, she may be one of the oldest of Miss Peregrine's wards.
References[]
- ↑ Hollow City (Chapter 7)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders (Time Loops - Which Loop Should I Live In? A Flowing Chart)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Chapter 6)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Chapter 7)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Chapter 8)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Chapter 11)
- ↑ Hollow City (Chapter 1)
- ↑ Hollow City (Chapter 2)
- ↑ Hollow City (Chapter 3)
- ↑ Hollow City (Chapter 4)
- ↑ Library of Souls (Chapter 1)
- ↑ The Conference of the Birds (Chapter 8)
- ↑ Library of Souls (Chapter 10)
- ↑ A Map of Days (Chapter 1)
- ↑ A Map of Days (Chapter 7)
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 A Map of Days (Chapter 12)
- ↑ The Conference of the Birds (Chapter 9)
- ↑ Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders (A Necessarily Incomplete Taxonomy of Peculiar Abilities)
- ↑ The Desolations of Devil's Acre (Chapter 8)
- ↑ The Conference of the Birds (Chapter 7)