Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
A Rain Wild girl born with too many changes to be allowed to live — who survived because her father loved her more than custom, and who became an Elderling because dragons needed keepers nobody else would send.
Thymara is fierce, independent, and deeply uncomfortable with vulnerability. She grew up knowing that her existence was illegal — that in a stricter family, she would have been exposed at birth. This makes her simultaneously grateful and furious, and she channels both into a prickly self-sufficiency that keeps people at a distance she's never sure she wants. She volunteers as a dragon keeper because the expedition needs people nobody will miss, and she qualifies. Her relationship with the dragon Sintara is contentious and complicated — Sintara is vain, demanding, and contemptuous of humans, and Thymara refuses to be servile. Their mutual stubbornness becomes mutual respect, eventually. Thymara's arc is about learning that being different is not the same as being wrong, and that the body she was taught to hide was always meant to fly.
Thymara bears heavy Rain Wild marks — scaling covers much of her skin, her nails are black and claw-like, and she was born with vestigial wing nubs on her back. In a society that exposes deformed infants, she exists only because her father broke the rules. As her Elderling transformation completes, the 'deformities' become features — functional wings, iridescent scaling, an inhuman beauty that reframes everything that marked her as wrong.
Also known as: Thymara