Hugh Apiston

[Basic Information: Full name - Hugh Apiston. Gender - Male. Chronological age - 88. Physical Age - 18. Peculiarity - Controls bees, has some living inside him. Height - 6'1ft. Birthday - May 15th. Residence - Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.]

[Personality: Hugh is very rash, and states his opinions very clearly. He is obviously proud of himself when he helps his friends in various situations. Hugh has an open mind to basically anything, and is very kind to all of his friends. He uses his abilities to aid the other peculiars, and is known to be very smart and witty at times. In The Desolations of Devil's Acre, Jacob notes that he is a "famously bad explainer of things."]

[Appearance: In the graphic novel, Hugh is drawn wearing a bee keeper's net hat and a pair of goggles/sunglasses. He has black hair that is slicked back and commonly sports a white shirt and suspenders. He can be seen wearing black and white fuzzy stripped socks at times.]

[Peculiarity: In Miss Peregrine's Museum of Wonders, Hugh is classified as an animal communicator (specifically bees). Bees live inside Hugh's stomach, that he protects and mentally directs. Often, a few bees will fly out of his mouth each time he opens it. The bees only sting on command or when Hugh is upset. He can instruct any number of bees at a time, even using hundreds of them to attack. He controls them by imagining himself as one of them. While Hugh's peculiarity to control his bees is a useful weapon, the bees themselves are not peculiar. As all honeybees do, they'll die after stinging. Aside from using the bees as a weapon, Hugh also provides shelter for his bees (in his stomach) and cares for them. He often pollinates his bees, usually using Fiona's flowers to do so. Hugh is very fond of his bees, and is heartbroken after using them to kill several wights and attack some civilians in Hollow City. He has also used his bees for spying, as he had one follow the wights that had taken his friends hostage. Hugh seemingly has named all his bees as well, as he refers to his sole remaining one-winged bee as Henry. Like Olive and Claire, Hugh eats dinner at Miss Peregrine's under different circumstances due to his peculiarity. He eats under a large mosquito net at a separate table for just himself in the corner, most likely so that his bees do not interrupt the other children's meals.]

[Biography: Early Life - Hugh discovered his peculiar abilities at age 5. While eating large amounts of honey and honeycomb, he swallowed a bee and soon had an entire hive in his stomach. When the bees needed to pollinate, he went to a flowering field.His father once sent him to a workhouse, where he had to make rope all day.

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children - He is first seen in the dining hall. Hugh also went to the beach with Emma and some of the older kids. After that encounter Hugh later notifies Emma and Jacob to report to the home due to Esmerelda Avocet's arrival. When Horace and Enoch were teasing Olive and Claire, Hugh told them to leave them alone and sent his bees after them. Hugh was very concerned about Miss Peregrine after she had been captured, shouting at Enoch when Enoch was saying that their situation was hopeless.

Hollow City - In the beginning of Hollow City, Hugh is in Jacob and Emma's boat and assists in the rowing. He brought with him a doorknob that was blown off of Miss Peregrine's home. Unfortunately, he loses the memento when their luggage falls off of Bronwyn's boat. He goes to Miss Wren's menagerie to hide and has to leave Claire and his beloved Fiona behind because of how sick Claire was. Unfortunately, Hugh never said a proper good bye before Fiona fell off a cliff during the wights' invasion there, leading to her presumed death. Hugh loses most of his bees when he commands them to sting on separate occasions: a group of wights (disguised as World War II British Home Guards) at an unknown bunker and civilians who mistook the peculiars as air bomb children evacuees at a London train station. He is left with a solitary bee, Henry, who sadly has a broken wing. In the first event Hugh, by Jacob's account, summoned enough bees to block out the sun. Hugh had arrived at the nick of time to save his friends and Gypsies from the wights. Though he had planned to throw exploding eggs, he found that the nearby flowers field had a lot of bees. Hugh was able to swarm the wights and even sting them inside their bodies through their mouths.]

Hugh: "Oh, I just know something wicked has happened."

Hugh: "Leave them alone!"