Wights

Wights
In the film
Gender	Male or female
Species	Wight Peculiar (formerly) Hollowgast (formerly)
Peculiarity	None, with an exception of Caul Various (film)
Book Appearances	All
Film Appearances	All

Wights are the evolved form of the hollowgasts and the antagonists of the Peculiar Children series.

Transformation

Hollows become wights after they have consumed enough peculiar flesh (books) or peculiar eyeballs (movie). It takes several days for the transformation to complete.

Hollows usually travel with a wight, and the two species have a mutually dependent relationship in that hollows kill anything the wights tell them to, and the wights supply hollows with victims to feed on, preferably peculiar. However, according to Horatio, all hollows hate their masters.

Description

A wight looks like a normal person, except the fact that they have pure, milky-white eyes with no iris. Many also appear to be physically unremarkable and consequently can pass unnoticed by most, which also enables them to disguise themselves with little trouble. A wight's ability to impersonate others so easily means that they are capable of alternating between various different disguises as the situation demands. Wights will often take jobs in the normal world, wearing colored contact lenses so that their unusual eyes do not arouse suspicion. In this way, a wight may watch over and become many different people in a peculiar's life, such as the case was with Golan during his observations of Jacob Portman; at different times Golan posed as a school bus driver, a pool cleaner, a psychologist, and a bird watcher.

Peculiarities

The vast majority of wights do not have any peculiarities, nor do they retain the memories of their previous lives. Horatio was able to keep his memories through employing disciplines of mind he had cultivated as a hollowgast during his time with H, and Caul is the only known wight to retain both his peculiarity and memory from before becoming a hollowgast.

In the film adaptation, they have varied peculiarites. Mr. Barron can shapeshift, making himself look like anyone he wants and can his change his right hand into a weapon of choice such as an axe, machete or knife; Mr. Gleeson has cryokinesis, the ability to control and manipulate ice; and Miss Edwards is half-simian.

History

Wights started to appear at least a couple years after the Experiment of 1908, with Caul and Percival Murnau being the first known wights to transform from hollows. Although the wights could enter loops, it took years for them to gain enough of their number to begin causing serious problems. In 1945, peculiars and wights signed a peace treaty, but nothing came of it. The wights traveled back to Devil's Acre and created the Wights' Fortress, where they continued to pursue Caul's ultimate goal of finding Abaton. Thanks to Myron Bentham, they found out the way to create ambrosia, which they started distributing through Devil's Acre.

First trilogy

The wights eventually learned of Abaton's location thanks to Perplexus Anomalous. Once they realized what they needed to do to reopen the loop it was in, they started raiding loops in order to kidnap the ymbrynes that were needed to open it. Golan is the first wight encountered in the series, and he kidnaps Miss Peregrine and Miss Avocet before being killed by Jacob.

Known wights

Books

• Caul
• Department Store Santa
• Florence Atterton
• Golan
• Horatio
• Jeffrey Dahmer
• Karl Gunderson
• Mr. Brown
• Mr. White
• Percival Murnau
• Railroad wight
• Wesley Bellichek

Film

• Mr. Barron (Leader)
• Mr. Gleeson
• Miss Edwards
• Mr. Clark
• Mr. Archer

Trivia

• According to Miss Peregrine, wights are fond of dramatic gestures, and invariably leave behind some taunting memento.
• In the film, wights retain their peculiarities.
• In the film, five of the peculiar scientists became wights. The rest remained hollowgasts.
• Miss Edwards is so far the only female wight in the film.
• The word wight is not mentioned during the film.
• In the film, hollowgasts only need to eat peculiars' eyeballs to evolve into wights. Horatio is the only hollow in the books to have specifically consumed eyeballs.

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