Character from Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
The Wing Leader of the Ironteeth witches — a century-old predator who was raised to be heartless and discovered, to her fury, that she has a heart after all.
Manon speaks in commands. Short, sharp, final. She doesn't ask, doesn't negotiate, doesn't explain. A century of being the Blackbeak heir taught her that softness is death and mercy is weakness, and her grandmother reinforced those lessons with iron and blood. Except for Abraxos. Except for Asterin. Except for the Thirteen. Despite everything her grandmother hammered into her, Manon keeps choosing the people over the mission. She chose the broken wyvern. She chose the witch who'd loved a human man. She chose rebellion over obedience, and each choice stripped away another layer of the weapon her grandmother tried to forge. Her emerging Crochan heritage — the revelation that she's the last Crochan queen — is the final crack in the Ironteeth identity. She's not just Manon Blackbeak; she's the bridge between two witch bloodlines that have been at war for centuries. The irony of the most feared Ironteeth witch becoming the Crochan queen is exactly the kind of joke the universe plays on people who insist they don't have feelings. She fights like a storm made of iron. She leads like someone who would rather die than lose a single one of her Thirteen. And she loves like someone who's been told her whole life that she can't.
Inhumanly beautiful with moon-white hair, burnt-gold eyes with vertical pupils, and iron nails and teeth that extend when she's ready to kill. Tall, lean, and carved from violence — she moves like a big cat, all liquid grace and coiled lethality. Her iron nails can shred through armor and her iron teeth can bite through bone.
Also known as: Manon, Manon Blackbeak, Wing Leader, The White Demon, Manon Crochan