Quirin

Quirin is a major character in Tangled: the series.
He is the leader of the village Old Corona on the mainland of Corona and Varian's father.
He is voiced by , who also played Eruptor in Skylanders Academy and Rick Dicker in Incredibles 2.
==Physical Apparence==
Quirin is a middle-aged man with brown hair and eyes with a full beard. He wears dark red and brown village clothes. On the back of his hand he has a circle mark with three lines near the center and near the left edge.
==Hisotry==
Quirin is a close friend of King Frederic and the father of Varian. He cares a lot about his son, even though he is often hard on him due to his inventions that often end up wreaking havoc.
Due to the fact that the black rocks continue to rise to the point of destroying his village, he promises his inhabitants that he will warn the king about it, and Varian goes with him, but then lies to the king about the situation which leaves Varian shocked and believes. that his father is running away from his problems. Quirin sees this and tells Varian to, once again, stay away from the rocks and refrain from interacting with them; But Varian doesn't listen to him.
Before Quirin discovers Varian, he takes a quiet look through a hidden chest containing items from his secret past, along with Quirin taking the time to look at his family portrait, his wife and Varian were a child.
Quirin ends up being trapped inside the amber that was caused by Varian using an alchemical solution on the rocks with the letter he wrote for his son. Varian, embittered by Rapunzel's decision to save Corona on Quirin, makes it his mission to save him no matter who or what got in his way.
In the episode "The Quest for Varian", after receiving a letter from Varian, Rapunzel finds Quirin still trapped and regrets not helping Varian when he needed her.
In "The Alchemist Returns", Varian steals the magical golden flower from Corona's castle and puts it on his drill in an attempt to save his father, but fails, so he realizes that the magic of the flower is still within Rapunzel.
In "Secret of the Sun Drop", it is revealed that the night Ariadne was healed with the magical golden flower and Rapunzel was born, Quirin had tried to warn King Frederic not to take the flower, as it could have caused unimaginable things. . Varian uses Rapunzel's hair as his drill bit in his second attempt to free his father, only to fail once again. After Varian's defeat, Frederic vowed to find a way to free Quirin and help his son.
In season two in the prologue to "Beyond the Corona Walls", it is revealed that Quirin once served King Edmund along with his associate, Adira. After the black rocks devastated their kingdom, rendering it uninhabitable, both Quirin and Adira were ordered to leave and prevent anyone from finding the opal responsible for the devastation.
In "Rapunzel and the Great Tree", it is revealed that Quirin along with Adria served King Edmund in a group called Brotherhood, known to be the most trusted and skilled warriors. Shortly after King Edmund's attempt to destroy the Moonstone, Quirin and Adira discussed the situation while the king went to sleep. Quirin agreed that Moonstone should remain a secret their duty to keep that secret and keep King Edmund's dying wish. Adira disagreed on this and she thought they had to find the Sun-Drop to neutralize the power of the opal. Their discussion was interrupted by Hector, a member of the Brotherhood, who strongly disagreed with Adira and believed that Sun-Drop was nothing more than an urban myth. Hector kept threatening Adira if he chose to seek out the Sun-Drop, warning her that if they meet again, friend or foe of her, he will end her life. Nowadays, when Adira reveals the Brotherhood's existence to Rapunzel and her friends of hers, she confesses that Quirin was a member.
In "Destinies Collide", the summoning of the Dark Kingdom is seen in a flashback, as the kingdom is no longer safe or habitable. King Edmund orders everyone to leave and never come back. Quirin and a young servant remain at King Edmund's side, but wonder if he is sure of his decision. King Edmund stands firm that everyone must leave. Quirin proceeds to see the maid retrieve King Edmund's newborn son who will also be sent away from the Dark Realm to be kept safe. Subsequently, Quirin, Adira and Hector are then seen leaving the Dark Realm and going their separate ways to make sure the Moonstone continues to remain a secret from the rest of the world while King Edmund stays behind to continue his family legacy to protect the Moonstone opal.
In the third season, In "The Return of Rapunzel", Quirin was mentioned a few times and had a chemical named Quirineon after him by Varian. Towards the end of the episode, he is finally free of amber when Rapunzel uses the Moonstone Charm. After Varian's success in getting Rapunzel out of her trance, he continued to hug his father. When Varian inquired about Quirin's disintegrating letter, he simply smiled and said that he is proud of Varian and always has been. He and Varian joined the others to celebrate Corona's release later on.
In "Be Very Afraid", Varian has a nightmare where Quirin is resealed in amber as the angry people of Corona tell Varian it's his fault as he tries to reach for Quirin's outstretched hand, until Varian wakes up from the dream. of him. Varian later goes out to find Quirin safe, free and happy as he wishes his son good morning while pushing a cart. With the nightmare still fresh in Varian's mind, the new red rocks cause Varian to have terrifying visions of Quirin calling for help from his son, while the amber is putting him back into it. After Rapunzel and Varian defeat the Red Rocks, Quirin is seen standing next to Varian as the people who had been mean to him earlier thanking his son for saving the day; which makes Quirin proud to be Varian's father.
Once Cassandra gets her hands on a magic stone in "Race to the Spire", she uses its power and connection with the Brotherhood to control the minds of her members, such as Quirin. While his eyes and the mark on his hand glowed blue after Cass had awakened the power of the stone, and from the way Quirin smiled after Varian greeted him, not noticing anything different about him, it seems that the corruption of Cassandra didn't work on him.
In "Once a Handmaiden ...", Quirin meets his son and King Edmund after Cassandra destroys the castle with its black rocks and takes control of the kingdom, being there for Rapunzel when he wakes up.
In "Plus Est En Vous", he joined Rapunzel, his friends, his son and the people of Corona in the assault on the castle to take down Cassandra and defeat Zhan Tiri with a portal once used by Demanitus. . He even donned his old armor from his days as a knight of the Dark Realm. Eugene noticed the fraternity mark on Quirin's hand and was worried that he was brainwashed like Adira and Hector. But when he spoke to Varian about it, Varian refused to believe that his father could turn against him and the others. But Eugene was right when Quirin, under Cassandra's control, tried to activate the portal to suck everyone inside. But as he tried to pull the lever, a stun mechanism in his helmet activated in time to stop him. When he was unconscious, Varian revealed that he had thought about what Eugene had said and decided to take precautions. However, when Eugene and his father left to control Rapunzel, Hamuel accidentally activated the portal and all but Quirin were transported to the Lost Realm. Then Hector's animals removed the helmet from Quirin, waking him up. He fought against Eugene and King Edmund along with his old teammates. When Edmund destroyed the Mind Trap, Quirin escaped from Cassandra's control and freed her son and everyone else from the Lost Realm. Once Zhan Tiri was destroyed and peace restored to Corona, he worked with Varian to provide the kingdom with hot running water, a goal Varian sought to achieve in "What the Hair?!".
==Gallery==
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==Trivia==
*The mark on Quirin's left hand is the emblem of The Dark Kingdom. It was featured invisibly on the shadowy figure's hand at the ending scene of "Tangled: Before Ever After" and also on Adira's hand seen at the end of "Secret of the Sun Drop".
*Despite being Varian's father, he still calls Quirn sir sometimes.
*It's unknown what happened to Qurin's wife as neither Quirin or Varian have ever mentioned her.
*His name is pronounced Kiran.
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