Quirin

Quirin
Background information
TV series	Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure
Voice	Jonathan Banks
Character information
Other names	Daddy, Dad, Father (by Varian)
Titles	Member of the Brotherhood
Symbol	Emblem of the Dark Kingdom
Gender	Male ♂
Species	Human
Occupation	Leader of Old Corona
Goal	To honor King Edmund's last wish To keep his village safe
Home	The Dark Kingdom (formerly) Old Corona
Relatives	Unnamed wife Varian (son)
Allies	King Frederic Adira Hector King Edmund Rapunzel
Enemies	Cassandra
Likes	His son, working
Dislikes	Varian's inventions, the Black Rocks, danger
Fate	Freed from the amber and reunited with Varian

Quirin is a recurring character of Rapunzel's Tangled Adventure. Quirin is the leader of Old Corona, a village located in Corona and is the father of Varian.

Background

Physical Appearance

Quirin is a middle-aged man with brown eyes wearing dark red and brown village clothing. He has a mark on the back of his hand, that is of a circle with three lines close to the center and near the left side edge of it.

Appearances

Season One

• What the Hair?! (debut appearance)
• Queen for a Day
• The Quest for Varian (cameo)
• The Alchemist Returns (flashback & cameo)
• Secret of the Sundrop (cameo)

Season Two

• Beyond the Corona Walls (flashback)
• Rapunzel and the Great Tree (flashbacks)

Season Three

• Rapunzel's Return, Part 2
• Be Very Afraid!
• Race to the Spire (cameo)
• Once a Handmaiden... (cameo)
• Plus est en Vous (final appearance)

History

Pre-Series

Twenty-five years prior to the setting of the series, Quirin was involved in a situation involving a mysterious glowing opal. He tells his master King Edmund that it cannot be destroyed. However, King Edmund touches the opal (despite the warnings) and it sends forth a blast knocking him, Quirin, and Adira to the ground. Even though no one is hurt from the explosion, King Edmund realizes that Quirin and Adira can't stay in the kingdom, so he tells them to leave and to let no one else find the opal due to its dangerous potential. Quirin and Adira follow his orders and depart.

Season One

Quirin is a close friend to Corona's present male monarch, King Frederic. He also worries for his son, as most of the boy's inventions lead to trouble, sometimes life-threatening, despite his good intentions. As the number of the black rocks continues to grow to the point of destroying his home-village, Quirin promises the villagers that he will alert the King of the predicament. Varian goes with him to Corona and observes that his father overtly lies to the King about the state of their village. Varian believes Quirin to be running away from their problem; when he protests, Quirin heavy-handedly insists yet again that Varian must stay away from the rocks and refrain from interacting with them. Varian - curious, overconfident, and eager to be a hero for his village - disobeys, performing various experiments meant to analyze the rocks and destroy them.

When Quirin discovers this, he and Varian engage in a heated quarrel, in which one of Varian's al-chemical solutions spills onto the rocks, causing amber-like crystals to shoot forth that trap the boy's father. Unable to free him, Varian, convinced that Princess Rapunzel, due to her connection with the rocks, desperately rushes off to Corona to seek her aid. Meanwhile, Quirin, seeing that he will inevitably be trapped, scribbles a hasty note to his son - which is, like him, completely encased in the amber.

When Varian is refused help by Rapunzel and roughly ejected from the palace, he returns to find his father buried in the crystals. Devastated by this and the Princess's perceived betrayal, he vows both to free his father and to gain revenge on Rapunzel and all Corona for 'betraying' him.

In "The Alchemist Returns," Varian steals the Sundrop Flower from beneath Corona Castle and puts some of its nectar on the tip of a drill in an attempt to free Quirin from the unbreakable amber, only for it to fail.

In "Secret of the Sun Drop," it is revealed in a flashback that on the night of Rapunzel's birth, prior to King Frederic's acquisition of the Sundrop Flower, Quirin had warned the King against removing the flower would cause unimaginable consequences. In the present, Varian uses Rapunzel's hair on the tip of his power-drill in his second attempt to free his father, only for it to fail once more. After Varian's arrest, King Frederic vows to find a way to free Quirin and do whatever he can to give his son the help he requires.

Season Two

Qurin appears in flashbacks that depict his earlier days as a dutiful member of the Brotherhood, protector of King Edmund, and associate to siblings Adira and Hector.

Season Three

In Rapunzel's Return, Quirin was mentioned a few times and had a chemical named Quirineon after him by Varian. At the near end of the episode, he was finally free from the amber when Rapunzel used the Moonstone Incantation. Following Varian's success in stirring Rapunzel from her trance, he proceeded to embrace his father. As Varian inquired about Quirin's letter, which had disintegrated, he just smiled and said that he is proud of Varian and always has. He and Varian joined the others in celebrating Corona's liberation afterward.

In Be Very Afraid!, Varian has a nightmare about Quirin being resealed in the amber while the angry people of Corona tell Varian that it is his fault as he tried to reach for Quirin's stretched out hand, until Varian wakes up from his dream. Afterwards, Varian goes outside to find Quirin safe, free and happy as he wishes his son a good morning while pushing a cart. With the nightmare still fresh in Varian's mind, the new red rocks causes Varian to see terrifying visions of Quirin calling out to his son for help, while the amber is once again re-casing him in it. After Rapunzel and Varian defeat the red rocks, Quirin is seen standing beside Varian as the people that were mean to him earlier thanking his son for saving the day; which makes Quirin proud to be Varian's father.

Once Cassandra got her hands on a magical stone in "Race to the Spire", she uses its power and connection to the Brotherhood in order to control the minds of its members, like Quirin. As his eyes and the mark on his hand glowed blue after Cass awakened the Mind-Trap's mind-controlling magic, and from the way Quirin smiled sinisterly after Varian says hello to him, without noticing anything different about him, it's unknown if Cassandra's corruption has been passed onto him since he defected from the Brotherhood many years ago.

Trivia

• The mark on his hand is the emblem and symbol of the Dark Kingdom, his homeland, and is also seen on the lid of a hidden chest and on a helmet.
• Both Quirin and his son Varian have shortened forms of Latin names, Quirinus and Varianus. Quirinus (which possibly means "spear") was the name given to Romulus, the founder of Rome, after his deification, and a title of Janus, the two-faced God of Beginnings and Endings

Quotes

Twenty-Five Years Ago

• "Your Majesty, you're not thinking clearly! You know the stone cannot be destroyed!"
• "The stone and its destructive power must be kept from the world. It is the Brotherhood's duty to keep that secret. It is King Edmund's dying wish."
• "Your Majesty."

Season One

• "Varian!? Varian!?"
• "Not again, Varian."
• "Children have no place in court."
• I know, Varian, but there is more to them than you can possibly imagine.
• " I just want to - Oh! Oh! Varian, I told you to stay away from those rocks!
• I am sorry, son.
• You are not ready.
• "Varian, watch out!"
• "No! Stay back!"
• "Don't."

Season Three

• " Oh, Son."
• "All it said was, I'm so proud of you, Varian. I always have been."
• "I love you, too, Son."
• "Morning, Son."