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Sep 18, 2024 · A former Austrian MEP who has worked with Brunner for years said he is “the opposite of a drama queen” and not one for playing party politics. He’s “not the party guy,” the ex-MEP said. After his appointment as finance minister, he undertook civil service reforms to “calm things down” after the corruption scandals, and was able to push through tax reforms that had been blocked.
Dec 20, 2023 · Mr. Brunner is a staple of the long-running YA series. Folks with a passing interest in the new series’ trailer will already be aware that he’s a man who looks sharp in a suit, and that he...
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Chiron is the activities director at Camp Half-Blood. He is an immortal centaur, son of Kronos and the Oceanid Philyra, and a famed trainer of heroes from Greek mythology, including Jason and Achilles. In The Lightning Thief, Chiron went under the alias "Mr. Brunner" when he posed as a teacher at Yancy Academy.
Birth
Chiron was sired by the Titan King Kronos, who was in the form of a horse at the time. His mother, Philyra, abandoned him on Mount Pelion at birth because of her disgust at his appearance.
Start of Training
Later the god Apollo took care of the child and taught him all his skills. In return, Apollo sent Chiron demigods for him to teach all that he had learned. Chiron is not a true centaur, as centaurs are notorious for being overly indulgent drinkers and carousers, given to violence when intoxicated, wild, lusty, and generally uncultured delinquents. Chiron, by contrast, was very intelligent, civilized, and kind. Also, true centaurs are born of sun and cloud (Ixion and Nephele) and are not immortal. However, Chiron gained his immortality from the gods. During this time, Chiron lived atop Mount Pelion in the northern region of Thessaly.
Death and Resurrection
After accidentally getting hit by a poisonous arrow, Chiron felt a lot of pain and later gave up his immortality. Whether this account was false or he was resurrected, Chiron lived to Percy Jackson's time. This is because he was given immortality by Zeus so he will stay alive so long as he is needed to teach heroes.
Throughout the Greek age, Chiron was the only immortal centaur and was known for his exceptional wisdom and also known as the teacher of heroes. Among his known students are:
•Achilles - Chiron raised him on behalf of Thetis and Peleus.
•Actaeon - The son of Aristaeus. He was bred to be a hunter. Artemis turned him into a deer after he accidentally stumbled upon her bathing. After he in the form of a deer was accidentally killed by his own dogs, Chiron fastened his image to soothe the dogs.
•Ajax the Greater - The son of Telamon and the elder brother of Teucer, he was physically the strongest of the Achaeans during the Trojan War.
•Aristaeus - The father of Actaeon. According to some sources, Chiron taught him the art of healing and prophecy while other accounts state that the Muses were responsible for these teachings.
•Asclepius - A son of Apollo, who gave him to Chiron to raise. Chiron instructed him in the art of healing and medicine.
The Lightning Thief
Chiron posed as Percy Jackson's Latin teacher, Mr. Brunner, as he was called by Grover Underwood the satyr in charge of Percy. He used an enchanted wheelchair and fake legs to hide his backside. In the museum, he saves Percy from being killed by the Fury Alecto by throwing him Riptide, a sword disguised as a ballpoint pen. He later pretends it didn't happen, with the hopes that Percy won't notice. However, Percy isn't very convinced. Percy looks up to him and is very upset when he thinks 'Mr. Brunner' is disappointed in him. Later, it is revealed when Percy eavesdrops on a conversation between his teacher and Grover that 'Mr. Brunner' is worried about Percy's safety and whether he is prepared or not, and does not want to get him involved yet. That, however, proves to be impossible. Chiron meets Percy again on the balcony of the Big House when Percy wakes up after he was attacked by the Minotaur. Chiron is worried about Percy and cares for him. He tries to train Percy as much as possible, and hopes that Percy is the son of a minor god (for Percy's own safety), though he suspects that his father is indeed Poseidon due to a prophecy he'd received some time before. When he is forced to send Percy on his quest, he was disappointed on not being able to train him more as he did with other heroes before Percy. After Percy tells Chiron of Luke's betrayal, Chiron departs to Olympus straight away to warn the gods.
The Sea of Monsters
Chiron is blamed for poisoning Thalia's tree and the camp's borders (since he is a son of Kronos), and replaced by Tantalus who took over the position of Activities Director. Percy and Annabeth (Annabeth especially) are furious that he is untrusted, and they do not know why Chiron is suspected, as they don't know about Kronos being his father. Before he leaves, he meets Tyson, Percy's half-brother and Tyson takes a liking to him, calling him "pony" which Chiron finds offensive. Annabeth cries when Chiron leaves as she believed him as a father, and Percy feels like crying, though he won't let himself. Percy is desperate to bring back Chiron and get rid of the evil, twisted Tantalus, and succeeds, by starting an Iris Message behind Luke, and getting Luke to admit he had poisoned Thalia's tree. Tantalus is then banished back to the Underworld (just as he managed to grab a cheeseburger) and Chiron and the rest of his species save Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson from Luke and his goons. Later, Chiron comforts Percy in his mission and reveals his parentage when Percy says he is still confused about why the Council would suspect him. After Thalia is expelled from the tree, Chiron is afraid for her and Percy, because now there were two possible pawns for his father, Kronos to use and manipulate. Although he wasn't training heroes in his break, it seems to be explained as he was still needed and it is known that Chiron's immortality will live within him as long as he was needed, even though he wasn't training.
The Titan's Curse
Chiron tries to comfort Percy after Annabeth is kidnapped though he himself was a very worried centuar. He later arranges a friendly Capture the Flag game between the Campers and the Hunters. Much to the campers and Chiron's dismay, the Hunters emerge victorious for the fifty-sixth time in a row as Chiron later announces. After Thalia and Percy get into a fight, Chiron breaks them up, and is amazed by seeing the Oracle coming out of the Big House and delivering a prophecy to Zoë Nightshade. Later, when Percy is excluded from the rescue group, Chiron tries to comfort him, but Percy doesn't want to be comforted which makes things worse. He is dismayed to hear Chiron state that he wouldn't choose Percy or Thalia as his choice for this quest since he believes that the two of them together would be very dangerous as Percy is powerful but is not sure of himself and Thalia is powerful and is too sure of herself. Chiron deeply cares about Annabeth, they are even closer to each other than Annabeth is to her actual father, and he is sure that the group will find her. Later, after Percy realizes that Nico is the son of Hades, he hides that from Chiron, afraid of what he will do. When Percy asks about mortals that see through the mist. Chiron informs him that some mortals are special, and can do that, including Percy's mother Sally. Percy asked because of his encounter with Rachel. When Clarisse finally arrives at the end of the book, she wants to talk to Chiron immediately.
The Lost Hero
Chiron first appears when he meets Jason and says to him in horror: "You...you should be dead." He then "invites" Jason inside the big house. He is still the camp's activities director; but Mr. D is barely mentioned in this book, since Zeus has brought the gods back to Olympus and closed it off. Chiron is unable to tell anybody about the existence of Roman demigods and Camp Jupiter, which infuriates Annabeth (he never withheld information from her before), but he does admit that the Second Great Prophecy could predict something worse than the Second Titanomachy. When Leo returns from his quest and reveals Bunker 9, Chiron finally tells of its' history with the Demigod Civil War. He also explains that there was a possibility of Bunker 9 rekindling the same spark that caused the Civil War between Romans and Greeks and that was why even in the Second Titan War, it was never used until Leo had discovered it. Later at the council meeting, he discusses with the other council leaders the events of the quest, the building of the Argo II, and Annabeth and Jason discuss Percy's possible location and condition.
The Son of Neptune
Percy mentions Chiron, hoping that he'll forgive him for attacking Centaurs who were invading Camp Jupiter. Percy feels that Chiron would forgive him because these Centaurs weren't like the Party Ponies, these Centaurs were raised to fight the Romans as they were soldiers of Gaea.
The Mark of Athena
Percy and Annabeth contact Chiron in a dream to warn him of the Twelfth Legion Fulminata's attack on the Greek camp.
Percy thinks of Chiron when wrestling Geras, remembering his mentor taught him to remain calm under pressure.
The Hidden Oracle
Six months after the defeat of Gaea, Chiron greets the former god Apollo and the latter's demigod master Meg McCaffrey at the Big House. There, they discuss the former god's current condition and the missing campers. At dinner, Chiron discusses the upcoming three-legged death race with the campers, and he bears witness to Meg getting claimed by her mother Demeter. After the race, Chiron forms a search party for Apollo, Meg, Austin, and Kayla. When Rachel arrives at camp, she, Meg, and Chiron talk with Apollo about Triumvirate Holdings and how they have influenced events to suit themselves. They have been waiting in the shadows for centuries and plotting. When the Colossus Neronis automaton attacks the camp, Chiron fires numerous arrows at him, though that had little to no effect. When Percy arrives at camp he aids the centaur, while Apollo shoots a plague arrow at the automation, finally bringing it down. Right after the Colossus is brought down, Leo, Calypso, and Festus finally return to camp, and Chiron is quick to welcome the son of Hephaestus back, though he kicks Leo in the gut with his centaur hoof, and tells him never to do any such thing again.
The Tower of Nero
Six months after Apollo first arrives at camp as a human, he is away in a meeting discussing other end of the world matters with a cat and a severed head, as stated by Dionysus. When Chiron returns, his meeting is referred to as a joint task force with other pantheons due to a threat of some sort that Chiron doesn't want to discuss. As Meg and Apollo prepare to infiltrate Nero's Tower, Rachel Elizabeth Dare manages to send a message to Chiron by buying a cheap cell phone and sending him an email, knowing that Chiron will be monitoring his computer for messages in emergency situations. Chiron personally leads Camp Half-Blood's forces in the Battle of Nero's Tower, bringing along even the younger campers in the guise of a camp field trip. When Nico brings Apollo to the pegasi landing site, he finds Chiron shouting orders to the various demigods. After Nero is killed, Chiron wishes Apollo luck as the mortal god goes to fight Python. Two weeks later he welcomes Apollo back to camp after his godhood is restored.
Two months after Triumvirate Holdings is defeated, he calls the Gray Sisters' Taxi for Austin Lake and Kayla Knowles. After speaking to the nymphs about tree rot, he joins Dionysus for dinner. Later that night, Rachel Elizabeth Dare arrives saying she needs to tell Nico something and he takes her to Cabin Thirteen where Will is comforting Nico. Rachel recites a prophecy and reveals she recited it two weeks after Nero's downfall and says that is the twelfth time has she recited it. He is unnerved by revelation as Dionysus walks in with a bowl of popcorn. Nico tells them everything about insists that he must go to Tartarus to get Iapetus back. Chiron and Dionysus are hesitant as they question if Bob has truly reformed or if it is a trap. As Dionysus mentions that Hades closed off the Underworld to the living, Nico says they will be in and out before his father notices. Chiron states he will need three to go on a quest and Nico insists he and Will go as Percy and Annabeth managed the previous summer. They question Nico leaving something of equal value behind and he fears Will might sacrifice himself. The son of Apollo says he will not make sure Nico does not either and he reluctantly agrees to authorize the quest. In the morning, he helps Nico and Will pack for their quest.
A week later, he welcomes the boys and Bob back and is surprised by the cacodemons. He invites Bob to stay, but the Titan says he desires to go west. Shortly after that, he invites Nico and Will for breakfast. Nice they arrive, he and Dionysus listen as the sons of Hades and Apollo take turns recounting the quest. By the end of it they are intrigued.
Chiron is described as a middle-aged man from the waist up, with thinning brown hair, bushy eyebrows, intense brown eyes and a scruffy beard grown longer in the winter. His lower half is that of a white stallion.
Once Percy ends up at Camp Half-Blood, he discovers that Mr. Brunner was just a disguise—Mr. Brunner is actually Chiron, the mythical centaur who trained classical Greek heroes like Theseus and Hercules. When in his Mr. Brunner form, which he often takes so he fits in buildings, Chiron’s horse body folds up into the wheelchair.
This article is about the character from Percy Jackson and the Olympians. For the character from Hercules, see Chiron. Chiron, also known as Mr. Brunner, is a supporting character in the Disney+ series Percy Jackson and the Olympians. He is the mentor to Percy Jackson and his friends.
Nov 28, 2023 · Pardoned prior to the U17 World Cup, Brunner continued his outstanding form for Germany, scoring final goals, including a brace - and the winning penalty - as the Germans overcame Argentina in the semi-final to reach their first showpiece at that level in 38 years where they again met France.
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