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Days ago she’d been nothing more to us than the obscure ymbryne of a little-known loop, but since then she’d achieved mythic stature: she was, as far as we knew, the last free and whole-bodied ymbryne, a living symbol of hope, something we’d all been starving for. And here she was, right in front of us, so human and frail.

Jacob's narration, Hollow City

Balenciaga Wren is an ymbryne, who is known to be kind hearted and quite talented. Of the twelve ymbrynes who would be captured by the weights, she would be the last captured. She was also one of the few who didn't put up much of a fight.

Biography[]

Early Life[]

Balenciaga was born in an unknown year, and became the ymbryne of a menagerie dated July 17, 1755, in which she collects many peculiar animals to help protect. Miss Wren had to be extremely strong since a good number of the animals she would rescue would end up in a small cemetery she had on her property. Her loop was inspiration for a Tales of the Peculiar story. She is also quite talented since she was the first to be considered to try and help an injured Olivia, though the girl was beyond help at the time of her arrival.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children[]

Miss Wren leaves her loop and travels to London after one of her spy pigeon reports how bad it is. Somehow Miss Avocet hears that she had left her loop, but assumes that she had been captured and had not willingly left. She finds Sergei Andropov as well as several others, and sets up in the building where the Council of Ymbrynes convenes and Peculiar Archives were held, which was a several story building at the intersection of Wakeling and Rookery. She is surprised to find that it had been covered in ice by Althea. Althea had been in the building when the weights attacked and had frozen the building in a attempt to stop the attack from continuing.

Hollow City[]

While she is in London helping others, she is unaware of how tricky things have become in her loop. Caul had sent a hollow into the loop in order to track her down, but since she and her animals live on a steep cliff it is unable to get to the animals. Caul, who had been hiding as his sister, directed the children to Miss Wren's loop in order for them to help capture her, but she isn't there.

Addison, her right hand man, shows a picture of Miss Wren to the children, and tells the real story of how the loop existed. He told them about the cemetery and what would happen to Miss Peregrine if she did not get treated within the next few days. It kicks the group into high gear and sends them on a trip to find her. Almost as soon as the children leave, the menagerie is raided and Miss Wren doesn't find out till much later.

Miss Wren is delighted when the kids arrive uninjured at her hiding location, though she is surprised when the kids mention the fact that they had found her loop. She is even more surprised when "Miss Peregrine" showed herself. She immediately calls Althea to prepare her equipment, and races as fast as she could upstairs to try to change Miss Peregrine back.

Miss Wren works on Miss Peregrine for hours and is shocked when she learns that Caul is the one she had been helping. She confronts Caul, but he kills Althea which causes the building to unfreeze, thus, letting the wights and hollowgasts come in. Miss Wren, thinking of the peculiar children's lives, tells them to go along peacefully. They are captured and taken to the present time at the train station. Before the train roars away, Jacob sees Miss Wren being shoved into the train car. 

Library of Souls[]

She is taken to the punishment loop Devil's Acre with everyone else, and is put into a secured room with eleven other ymbryne's. She is forced to remain there until, she is rescued by Jacob and Emma when they entered the Wights' Fortress. She later plays a part in the collapse of Abaton.

The Conference of the Birds[]

Miss Wren appears in the bar with the American clan leaders, speaking or arguing with Antoine LaMothe before Miss Peregrine joins her. She takes part in the next conversation between everyone concerning Ellery and Jacob's capability. She tries to calm down LaMothe and Parkins while Jacob is looking for evidence, saying that he has almost got something. When LaMothe asks why the wights would kidnap Ellery, Miss Wren answers that it would be to cause chaos. She also pleads for LaMothe to be reasonable after the group finds that a hollow was involved in the kidnapping and LaMothe refuses to let the conflict between him and Parkins end.

Along with Miss Cuckoo and Miss Peregrine, she runs to try and save Ellery with LaMothe. While the group starts preparations to take Ellery to a loop, she keeps the police at bay, either with a story or some memory wipes. At the loop the group goes to, she helps up the guard peculiar who threw himself down upon realizing LaMothe's identity, then asks for a bed for Ellery.

She and Miss Cuckoo meet with the Americans after the peculiars discover that the wights are after the alphaskull in the Well of Hope. The two, along with Miss Blackbird and Miss Peregrine, return from the Marrowbone loop in time to catch Jacob and his friends sneaking out. Back at the group's house, she breaks the news about the location of the Well of Hope, and is part of the group that goes to Hopewell to try to stop the wights.

Description[]

Physical Appearance[]

The snapshot that is found by Emma shows Miss Wren wearing a black sequined shawl and her hair in an upsweep. By the time the group of peculiars finally meets her, her hair is completely silver, with no trace of a black highlight. Jacob describes her as a small, elegant woman. She has a long nose and wears a pair of cat-eye bifocals when reading.

Peculiarity[]

She is an ymbryne. She can manipulate time, shapeshift into a wren, and is able to control others minds.

Trivia[]

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