Klaus is a male peculiar living in Devil's Acre, where he was lured to by the wights after originally living in America. He repairs clocks and tinkers with other machines.
Biography[]
Pre-Series[]
At one point in his life, he inherited a bone clock made from the bones of his great-great uncle, Miklaus, who was also his namesake. Klaus had a job as a loop resetter for about half of the loops in California. After some time, he was tricked into leaving the United States and going to Devil's Acre and working for the wights, who kidnapped his wife and held her in one of the Panloopticon's prison loops. Klaus lived as far away from the wights as he could, which was far enough that he didn't realize the Acre's liberation a month before the events of The Desolations of Devil's Acre.
After the liberation, Millard Nullings began working at befriending Klaus by giving him mostly alcoholic gifts and listening to Klaus's stories.
The Desolations of Devil's Acre[]
When Millard, Noor Pradesh and Jacob Portman arrive at Klaus house to talk about Velyana Greenshank's expulsanator, he charged out of his front door with a gun, threatening to kill them. Millard quickly yells who they are, and Klaus asks why they didn't say they were coming. Millard replies that Klaus shot at the last parrot sent to him.
Millard explains Klaus's past to Jacob and Noor, who are reluctant to trust Klaus due to his working for wights. Millard convinces them that they should, and that Klaus is able to fix the expulsatator.
Once the three are inside the workshop, Klaus comes out of a back room serving green alcohol. He begins examining the expulsatator and abruptly asks if they have shown it to Perplexus Anomalous. He accuses Perplexus of stealing a femur from his bone clock, and says he tried busting down Perplexus's door to get the bone back, but was unsuccessful.
When Millard tells Klaus that they're hoping that the expulsatator can be refurbished, Klaus laughs and says it's not possible, and he wouldn't do so even if it were. He tells them that an expulsatator's expulsion reaction is powered by ambrosia, which he refuses to touch. After Millard and Jacob offer to get his bone clock's femur back, Klaus finally agrees to try, although he doesn't make any guarantees, warning them that it could blow up in their faces. He then shakes Millard's hand and offers the three some more alcohol before they leave, which Noor takes a mug of.
Klaus manages to get the expulsatator working once more, although he initially lies about it. He claims that it had blown up like he predicted, which Millard refuses to believe and accuses Klaus of keeping it for himself. Although angered by this, Klaus gives them his bone clock that can stop time to take on their trip to find Grishelda Tern's loop to compensate. He tells them good luck and that he hopes they won't need to use the clock. Eventually, he does confess that he lied, and gives the expulsatator back to Millard, who gives it to Emma Bloom before she goes with Bronwyn Bruntley, Hugh Apiston and Miss Peregrine to follow Jacob into the Library of Souls.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Klaus is an old man with wild white hair and a white, bushy beard. He has a hefty frame and meaty arms. His mouth hangs open even when he isn't speaking, and his lips are pale and chapped. He carries a walking stick.
Personality[]
Klaus comes off intimidating at first, with a tendency to threaten visitors with his gun and having shot at Millard's message-carrying parrot. However, Millard says that Klaus is actually mostly harmless and is just an "old-fashioned American." Having kept many loops without ymbrynes working as well, he is also a genius. He enjoys alcohol.
Klaus has a great dislike for ambrosia, even refusing to so much as touch it if he can help it.
As a tinkerer, he has an interest in mechanical things, and is skilled in working with them.
Peculiarity[]
Since he was able to keep "half of the un-ymbryned loops in California ticking," Klaus may have some kind of time manipulation peculiarity like a loop-keeper, though Millard attributes his work with loops in America to him being a genius.