Miss Blackbird is a ymbryne and was the Co-Chair of the Ministry of Temporal Affairs alongside fellow ymbryne Miss Ravenna Babax.
Biography[]
The Conference of the Birds[]
Miss Blackbird sends Ulysses Critchley to fetch Jacob and his friends.
She asks that Jacob fetch another hollowgast to replace the one that the escaped wights took with them out of Devil's Acre, though she wasn't being serious. Due to her very weak eyes, she wakes up her third eye, which is still "sharp as a tack." She then tells the peculiars that there is a backup in the works to power the Panloopticon because of the suspicion that the hollowgast battery wouldn't last forever, and leads Jacob away for a private talk.
Miss Blackbird takes him up the Panloopticon, where she introduces him to Miss Babax. The pair of ymbrynes ask for Jacob's help in the tracking of the escaped wights' hollowgast, to which he agrees. When Miss Blackbird and Jacob get back out, a crowd of peculiars has appeared, and Miss Blackbird gets interrogated by Farish Obwelo.
She tells Jacob to "keep away from those vultures" and squeezes his arm before going back inside the building.
Miss Blackbird comes to Jacob and his friends' house to tell them that Miss Peregrine sent a message asking for Jacob due to a situation that presumably involves hollows. After Noor says that they're not letting Jacob go to America alone, Miss Blackbird agrees and tells him to choose two friends (who aren't Noor) and to meet her outside in three minutes. She calls him when the time limit is up, and brings Jacob, Emma and Enoch to Bentham's attic, where the loop door to the ymbryne conference is.
When Jacob and his friends return, she and Miss Babax congratulate him in Bentham's attic. She also engages in serious conversation with Miss Peregrine and Hugh, presumably about Fiona.
It gets mentioned that Miss Peregrine had previously asked Miss Blackbird and her people to search every inch of Bentham's house, but they did not come across his secret office.
She, Miss Peregrine, Miss Wren, and Miss Cuckoo return from a Marrowbone meeting with the Americans in time to catch Jacob and his friends sneaking out.
The Desolations of Devil's Acre[]
Description[]
Appearance[]
Miss Blackbird is a hunched, dour-looking woman dressed in all black. She has a strong Scottish accent and has a mysterious piece of skin in between her two eyes which is another eye.
Peculiarity[]
She is a ymbryne, able to create loops, manipulate time and turn into a blackbird. Unlike most other ymbrynes, she also has a minor additional peculiarity with her third eye.