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Myron Bentham is a male peculiar with an unknown peculiarity. He is the brother of Caul and Alma Peregrine. He was good friends with Abraham Portman and is the owner of P.T., his grimbear. He is also an amazing inventor and invented the Panloopticon. He was also one of the founders of the Claywings.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Myron and his siblings would be found by an unnamed ymbryne and would be taken in. It was discovered almost immediately that Alma was a ymbryne. Since Alma was only three years old when it was discovered, the older ymbryne's worried that she wasn't strong enough to handle being separated from her brothers in order to go to the Ymbryne Academy, so it was decided that all three would be moved into Esmerelda Avocet's loop.
Myron was fully aware that Caul was extremely jealous of the attention Alma received, but he didn't do much to stop it. He wouldn't feel much when he learned that his parents drowned themselves out of shame for having all three of their children being peculiar.
Myron would join his brother in leaving the academy and starting up the Claywings, a group of peculiars upset with the ymbrynes. He also started searching for loops in order to add them to the forming Pantilopticon. He wanted to find Abaton and thus the Library of Peculiar Souls, and he would ultimately claim he wanted to connect loops together to make interaction in peculiardom much easier. He would eventually meet Abraham Portman and would eventually con the man out of his second soul.
Of Jack Peregrine and the Claywings[]
However, things quickly turned sour between the two brothers as Myron's goals and ambitions were to unite all peculiar folk in peculiardom, but Caul's goals and ambitions was to become a god-king and rule over all peculiars, peculiar animals, humans and the likes.
When Myron realized how dark his brother had become, he tried to stop Caul only for him to turn against him and spread vicious rumors about him; that he was a traitor and that he no longer believed in their cause.
As a result of Caul feeling threatened by his brother and being sadistic, he had Myron beaten and his legs broken, which never fully healed, and then thrown into a pit left to die. Myron, being a very smart man, tricked the Claywings into performing the Experiment of 1908, only for it to be an emergency way to collapse loops permanently. He thought it would simply kill them all. But when the Claywings tried the ritual, it failed, and drastically caused the creation of hollowgasts and wights.
Library of Souls[]
Sharon and his cousins save Jacob and Emma from being beaten to death by ambrosia addicts of Devil's Acre by bringing them to Myron's home. His assistants help nurse the two back to health. When Jacob and Emma go exploring his home, they discover a vast collection of peculiar wax models (who they later discover were not made of wax but rather real people held still by Mother Dust) and old loop entrances. They finally meet Myron who tells them the whole story of Caul and the Claywings, and his relationship to both Caul and Miss Peregrine. He equips them to rescue all the ymbrynes, most set on the retrieval of his sister. After everyone is released, Myron greets them at the gates with his grimbear, PT. He and Miss Peregrine very quickly begin to bicker after she brings up all his past crimes, including experimenting on Abe's soul, which she believes he is still harboring. Realizing she will not accept him, Myron storms off, only to appear minutes later on Caul's side. He captures Miss Peregrine again with the help of PT, claiming that he hoped all his efforts would result in her forgiveness and she would help him be released from Devil's Acre for his past involvement in Caul's plan. Once he saw this was no longer the case, he changed to aiding Caul. Millard appears and threatens Myron's life, in turn, Caul threatens Miss Peregrine's life if Millard hurt Myron. He also threatens to kill Myron if he complies with Millard. This results in the release of Myron. The group makes their way to Abaton where only the Bentham siblings, Jacob, and Emma enter. Caul only seems interested in making himself more powerful with the souls of former titans. He claims that Myron is too weak-willed to handle it. Caul takes the soul and begins to destroy Abaton. Myron uses Abraham's soul to turn himself into a peculiar-god to battle Caul. He also gives Miss Peregrine the instructions for collapsing the loop, the same that was used by the Claywings in the 1908 incident. Because they are more experiences ymbrynes, they are able to close the loop without causing the destruction from the past. In A Map of Days it was said that he was dead (or in Sharon's words, "permanently indisposed"), or else "extra-dimensionally inaccessible".
The Desolations of Devil's Acre[]
When Caul was resurrected, Myron appeared to be parasitically attached to him. After Nim tells Jacob Myron wants to speak to him, Myron tells Jacob how he can help defeat Caul. He tells Jacob about Jacob's ancestry of hollowgast-like peculiars, and that Jacob must consume a soul jar from the Library of Souls to become a hollowgast that could protect Noor Pradesh. Myron gives instructions on how to get to the Library and when asked how Noor is supposed to defeat Caul, Myron says that Caul's light must be drained.
Myron's voice guides Jacob as he runs through the Library. When Noor appears, Myron calls for her to drain Caul's light.
Description[]
Physical[]
Myron Bentham is a grown man who relies on his pet grimbear, P.T. for companionship and transport as he tires easily due to having his legs broken by Caul prior to the books for betraying him. When having being asked by a fan, Ransom Riggs stated that Myron is the older brother of Caul, and Caul the older brother of Alma LeFay Peregrine, which makes her the youngest.
Personality[]
Myron is often seen smiling— he is charming but very selfish and cunning, often putting himself before others, and betraying them to gain what he wants. Despite good deeds that he has done, he is not above threatening lives, as threatening Reynaldo was how he got Mother Dust to help him with holding live peculiars still with dust in his museum.
Relationships[]
Caul (Jack) Bentham[]
Jack is Myron's younger brother. Growing up, Jack and Myron were close, for they were the only males in Miss Avocet's academy. There his brother developed a hatred for all ymbrynes and the respect their power gave them. The brothers started the Claywings together where Jack went by the name Caul and was the voice of the movement. Myron's main goal was to connect peculiardom so they didn't need to be guarded by ymbrynes all the time, but Caul intended to rule peculiardom as an immortal being. Disturbed by his goals, Myron tried to stop his brother which only resulted in everyone turning on Myron. Caul broke his brother's legs and left him to die, causing Myron to understandably despise Caul. However, when it appears more beneficial to him, Myron rejoins Caul's cause and betrays the children by kidnapping Miss Peregrine. When Caul tells Myron he is too weak to handle a powerful soul and begins to take over Abaton without him, Myron fights Caul. This results in the presumed death of both of them.
Alma Lefay Peregrine[]
Little is known about the early relationship between the siblings. When Myron took part of Abe's soul, Miss Peregrine saw it as the last straw in their relationship. Myron expresses concern about her when she is captured by Caul and aids in her rescue. He hopes to appeal to her and become freed from Devil's Acre. They argue almost immediately after seeing each other. Miss Peregrine tells him she believes that he only looks out for himself and that she doesn't trust him. Ironically, this causes him to turn on her and re-kidnap her out of anger. In the end, he sacrifices his own life to save her and her wards, as well as the peculiar world. Overall, it is implied that he cares about her but ultimately looks out for himself unless his final selfless act. They have always had a strained relationship. Despite still looking down on him after his death, Miss Peregrine wonders if she could've been a better sister to him and Caul instead of being so occupied in her studies.
Sharon[]
Myron helped Sharon with his ambrosia addiction. In return, Sharon is grateful to Myron and feels that his life is owed to him until his betrayal. Myron is friendly to Sharon in return.
Mother Dust[]
Mother Dust is Myron's healer. Like Sharon, she too was an ambrosia addict and Myron weaned her out of it as he did for Sharon. However, he coerced her into using her dust to hold peculiars in suspended animation for his museum.
Trivia[]
- Myron took the surname of his ancestor, Jeremy Bentham, as a tribute, and named his Panloopticon after the Panopticon.