Let's Discuss Brenna Tybar

Brenna Tybar is the only child of Lyon Tybar and Marianna Ryn.  She is the One - the person prophesied about for many millennia - back when the Five were ruling the free land.

Brenna is three when the main story opens.  The Sons of Thunder guard her on the way to the Temple to visit Father of All. Once there, she sits on his lap and listens while He tells her of the things she will be doing in life, reminding her that she will remember the important things he is saying when the time is right.

One of those things is Talon. She is taken by the Sons of Thunder to see the six-year-old Talon, who has brown eyes. She is told he will be her Champion. In her three-year-old mind, this meant he was hers and hers alone.

Talon and Brenna are childhood chums.  He considers her to be like a little sister (a.k.a. pain) since he is ordered to protect her.  It isn't easy since things happen around Brenna that never happen to anyone else.

Do not remember where I got this picture, so if anyone knows who
she is, let me know and I can give credit.

To be fair, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it won't really matter who I choose to represent the 'most beautiful' woman in the world, inevitably, someone will say - NOT!

So, I please myself by choosing someone that I think is very beautiful and still has a softness in her eyes.

While the above picture portrays the softness, the eyebrows are too much, though you hardly notice them unless you really stare at them. The real eye color is below and, therefore, so is Talon's and Mee's (Brenna's pet). Brenna would have highlights in her brunette hair from being in the sun. 

Brenna/Talon, Mee's real eye color

Brenna, for the first nine books, is your massive over-achiever - which is part and parcel of being the ONE in prophecy.  Literally, nothing and no one stands between her and Talon with one exception:  Father of All. 

She doesn't understand Talon's role as her Champion. All she understands is that she can't bear the thought of living without him. At the 'advanced' age of thirteen, she would die if Talon didn't notice her - so she made a few changes her parents didn't approve of, but Talon did, but they didn't get to stay together for long before they were (by circumstance and the whim of the author) separated. 

On a personal note: some people might say I went too far overboard with the idea anyone could be that consumed with any other person.  I can prove them wrong with my own journals - yes, it is possible for someone to be concerned with another person's every breath. To wonder what they think, how they feel, if they...well, my journals would make very boring reading to most people, but it is the bald (sometimes painful) truth of how I felt, how obsessed I was with my flame in High School. There is a lot more to that story, which has a truly anti-climactic ending and will likely end up as fodder for other books. 

The Tybars are a very wealthy and/or privileged family. Her parents are well acquainted with prophecy so their main concern is to keep her alive long enough she can save the world and try to keep her from dying as she completes that part of her mission. 

In truth, Brenna has no real home of her own, no siblings, and parents that travel a lot. She is stuck in an orphanage. While it is true that her aunt is the matron, Brenna still feels the pinch of feeling  unloved/unwanted/abandoned by her parents.   

Her life cycle looks like this:  birth, move to safe place, and repeat. The problem is, there really isn't a safe place. She is the One and evil will search for her to destroy her before she destroys it.