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I don't try to be awesome. It just comes natural.

–Coach Hedge, in The Lost Hero.

Gleeson Hedge also known as Coach Hedge is a middle aged satyr that was formerly filling as a coach at the Wilderness School. He was the protector of Piper McLean, Jason Grace, Leo Valdez, and Clarisse La Rue. He is also the husband of Mellie, a cloud nymph, and the father of their son, Chuck Hedge.

History[]

Bringing Clarisse to Camp[]

Coach Hedge was born to a satyr and a cloud nymph, and eventually became a protector.

He ended up in Arizona and found a kid named Clarisse La Rue, daughter of Ares. He could tell she had a lot of potential due to her anger and violence and wanted to bring her to Camp Half-Blood right away. While he was with her, he had a dream from his mother, with her saying she was in trouble and needed help right away. But he didn't believe anyone would hurt her, and knew he had to complete his duty, so he brought Clarisse to camp. He then went back home to look for his mother, but it was too late. He never knew what happened to her.

Expulsion to Canada[]

Coach Hedge eventually made enemies with the Council of Cloven Elders by siding with Grover Underwood. They began saying he was too unpredictable and too violent. So as soon the Second Titan War started, instead of putting him on the front lines, they sent him to the Canadian Frontier, to his disappointment.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians[]

The Last Olympian[]

Hedge is mentioned when the letter he had written on a maple leaf to Grover is read by Percy Jackson. Gleeson Hedge was in Canada at the time.

He had tried to defend a park in Toronto from a giant evil badger, but had failed to summon Pan's power as Grover had advised, resulting in many dryads being destroyed because their trees were obliterated. He wrote that he was retreating to Ottawa and asked where Grover was.

Letter to Grover[]

Dear Grover,

Woods outside Toronto attacked by giant evil badger. Tried to do as you suggested and summon power of Pan. No effect. Many naiads' trees destroyed. Retreating to Ottawa. Where are you?

—Gleeson Hedge, Protector

Interestingly, he incorrectly stated naiads in his letter, when dryads were the tree nymphs while naiads were river nymphs.

Between Series[]

After the war, the Council assigned him to go to the Wilderness School to protect Piper and Leo. He hated the job and thought they thought he was too old to help, but he came to care about Leo and Piper.

Coach Hedge would send his students on "educational field trips", which Leo hated. He would be especially hard on Piper and push her very hard in gym class, and let her fight her own battles against bullies. But he was really preparing her for life as a demigod. At some point, Piper set his pants on fire.

The Heroes of Olympus[]

The Lost Hero[]

Gleeson Hedge appears as a coach for the Wilderness School, looking after the students on a field trip to the Grand Canyon. While scolding some of the kids, Leo Valdez asks him to use his megaphone, resulting in the megaphone making cow sounds, much to Gleeson's irritation (this was a joke played on him by Leo). When they arrive at the Grand Canyon, Coach Hedge notices storm clouds rolling in and tells the class to finish their reports quickly. Jason Grace, who had no memory of his past, notices that Coach Hedge is the only one that isn't acting like he knows him (unlike everyone else who is under the effects of the Mist). When Jason walks up to him, Coach Hedge asks him if he caused the storm clouds and wonders why Jason is here, admitting that he has never seen Jason before and he just appeared today which caused Jason to become more confused than before. He wonders if he is the "special package" mentioned by camp, as an extraction team is arriving to pick up two demigods (Leo Valdez and Piper McLean), but a Venti has been stalking them for days.

Just then, a group of venti attack the bridge, forcing Coach Hedge to keep the students safe, ordering them back to the bus. When all the students escape the Grand Canyon Skywalk, Dylan closes the doors, leaving Piper, Leo, Jason, and Coach Hedge trapped on the skywalk. Hedge pushes Leo and Jason behind him because it is his job to defend them, as he reveals himself to be a protector. Dylan turns out to be a Venti and uses his power over wind to blow Leo off the side of the skywalk. Coach Hedge takes off his fake feet to reveal hooves, showing he is a satyr, and jumps down to save Leo while telling Jason to hold off Dylan which he manages to do for a while since he was a son of Jupiter, and invulnerable to lightning. Coach Hedge manages to climb down like a mountain goat and rescues Leo, pulling him back up and dumping him on the skywalk before getting back in the fight. When Piper falls off the edge later, Coach Hedge orders Jason to save her and takes on Dylan by himself, resulting in him being taken by Dylan into the sky.

Later Leo, Piper, and Jason are sent on a quest to save Hera, coincidentally finding Coach Hedge frozen in a cage in Medea's below-ground department store. Dylan had delivered Hedge to her, but Medea trapped him and several other venti in a cage next to Hedge. Piper tried to make a deal for the cages, but Medea uses charmspeak to turn Leo and Jason on each other. They eventually break the spell with some help from Piper's own charmspeak and call in Festus, who rescues the demigods and grabs the cages with Coach Hedge and the venti inside. Soon after that, they defeat Medea and her department store explodes. Hedge is eventually released from his cage when Festus crash lands in Midas' yard. Leo works on the lock and eventually sets him free. When Hedge unfreezes, he wakes up everyone as he starts thrashing around, still believing he is fighting Dylan and the rest of the storm spirits. The trio calm him down and explain they are on a quest to save Hera and found him by accident, which disheartens him for a second. When Midas enters the room, Hedge instinctively goes in to attack. Leo, Piper, and Jason manage to hold him back and eventually calm him down, sending him outside in order to prevent him from attacking Midas and his son, Lit thinking that they might not be evil. When Midas and Lit turn on the trio, with Midas turning Piper and Leo into gold statues, Jason calls Hedge for help, but he doesn't respond. Jason thinks this could be because one of Midas' many traps managed to snare Hedge. It isn't until after Jason defeats the two that Hedge enters the room, obviously snacking on the grass outside. Hedge then helps Jason carry Piper and Leo from the room.

The group stop on Pikes Peak and Coach Hedge points out that Aeolus' floating castle should be right above them. Before climbing, Leo talks about his dream with his father, Hephaestus, and how the Gigantes are rising. Jason doesn't understand why Zeus would close Olympus if the giants could only be killed by a demigod and a god working together, but Coach Hedge explains that gods hate needing the help of mortals and things will need to get a lot worse before Zeus admits he made a mistake. This surprises Piper as she feels Coach Hedge made an intelligent comment. Piper also mentions that Enceladus kidnapped her father and after hearing the name, Hedge describes him as a fire-breathing giant. Piper fears that Enceladus will kill her dad after telling her friends this, but Coach Hedge points out that he won't kill her father until he gets what he wants or the deadline passes. Coach Hedge also correctly guesses that it is a diversion away from Hera, which would allow Porphyrion to rise and Hera to lose all her power.

Just then Lycaon and his pack of Lycanthrope attack the group. Coach Hedge plans on killing them all while Jason and the others escape, but Jason says they aren't leaving anyone behind. Coach Hedge then gets into a shouting match with Lycaon, but him and his wolves are driven off by the timely arrival of Thalia Grace and her Hunters of Artemis. Thalia inspects Piper and wonders why Coach Hedge hadn't used nature magic to heal her, but he claims she looks as good as she does because of his nature magic. He then looks after Piper while she receives medical attention as Jason and Leo talk with Thalia.

Mellie

Mellie, his wife.

Once everyone recovers, Hedge leads the group up the mountain to Aeolus' fortress, where Hedge falls in love with Mellie, an Aura. After things go south with Aeolus, Mellie helps the group escape and asks Coach Hedge to Iris Message her. After waking up from the experience, Gleeson finds himself in a baggy canary yellow zoot suit, compliments of Aphrodite. They stop at a cafe where Hedge tries to come up with a plan of attack to take down Enceladus, which is just climbing Mount Diablo and killing everything except Piper's dad. When Gaea is mentioned however, Hedge explains how she had the Titans overthrow Ouranos, and later had the gods do the same to the Titans. She then went back to sleep after the Gigantes failed to defeat the gods in the first Gigantomachy. If she is waking up, Gleeson suggests staying off the ground.

Gleeson then leads them up Mount Diablo where they hide from Enceladus behind some rocks. Coach Hedge comes up with a good plan, having Jason, Leo, and himself distract the giant while Piper saves her dad. However, the plan falls apart quickly and Coach Hedge's jacket is set on fire before he is knocked out when his head hit a log from a blast from Enceladus. When he wakes up, he celebrates the victory over the giant by dancing around even though it wasn't him who defeated the giant. After the group bring Piper's dad to a nearby airport for medical attention, Coach Hedge offers to look after him so Piper and continue the quest. He admits that he is a protector, not a fighter, but says he is a good fighter too. The trio simply humor him and say he is terrifying.

Gleeson Hedge becomes Tristan McLean's life-coach, with Tristan actually enjoying Gleeson and considering him a god send. Mellie also becomes his personal assistant, allowing Gleeson to work closely with his girlfriend.

The Mark of Athena[]

Gleeson Hedge is on the Argo II on their trip to Camp Jupiter. Annabeth Chase assigned him to watch some martial arts shows so it would be more peaceful when they met the Romans, thinking that their crazed satyr yelling "Die!" wouldn't be a good message. Hedge stays on the ship for most of the journey, and Piper states that Hedge had come back "because it was all his idea," but she feels that he might have been sent by Mellie, a wind spirit they met in The Lost Hero, and her dad, since every time they video chatted she was getting glummer with the weight of the quest.

In Rome, Hedge is assigned to man the Argo II just in case. It is presumed that after Leo, Frank Zhang, and Hazel Levesque escape from the room of Archimedes, they joined Hedge at the Argo II and sailed to help Percy and Jason, who were fighting the twin giants. Hedge blasts Greek Fire at the giants when they reach the Colosseum, and is told to be dancing around on the firing platform, pumping his fists in the air yelling "That's what I'm talking about!" He then states, after Bacchus disappears, "Is that Dionysus? I love that guy," not realizing it was the Roman form of Dionysus, Bacchus.

The Argo II then sails out to help Annabeth in the parking lot behind the Emmanuel Building. When asked by Percy if Hedge still has ammo to break through the parking lot, Hedge replies with, 'I thought you'd never ask.' Percy, Frank, Nico di Angelo, Hazel, Jason, Piper, and Leo all go down to help get the statue up while Hedge remains on the ship. However, when the plan goes wrong and the Athena Parthenos is secured on the Argo II, Percy and Annabeth fall into Tartarus. Everyone retreats to the Argo II, and sits around feeling guilty. Hedge moans that he should have saved them and blown more stuff up. Nico states Percy is the most powerful demigod he's ever met, and that with Annabeth being with him, he'll be able to survive Tartarus. Hopeful to get their friends back, the demigods sail on their way to Greece to find the House of Hades.

The House of Hades[]

Coach Hedge, along with the other companions present on the Argo, were all devastated after Percy and Annabeth fell into Tartarus and took part in the constant arguing.

Athena Parthenos

The Athena Parthenos

A few days later, while the rest of the crew met in the mess hall, he and Piper were taking turns at the helm, which filled Leo with anxiety. He was worried that he would get trigger happy and bomb some Italian mountain villages, saying he wasn't great at driving the ship. He was relieved that Piper was there as a chaperone. While up there, he and Piper were bound and gagged by Akmon and Passalos, bound to the control console. The dwarves did his hair into tiny pigtails while they danced around him. When Leo and Jason arrived to their aid, one slapped the Coach on the cheek before running away. He was eager for Leo to kill them.

Coach Hedge gathered on the deck with the others when they arrived in Venice, and expressed fear over the monsters gathering around the city. He wanted to aim the ballistae at them and see what would happen, but Frank and Leo disagreed. After realizing they wouldn't be killing anyone, Coach Hedge backed out of the mission and went to help Leo in the engine room and with the new inventions he was making after finding the Archimedes Sphere.

One morning, Hazel was woken up in a fit by Gale, Hecate's polecat, standing on her chest. After everything died down, she decided to pay a visit to Coach Hedge since he could talk to animals. However, she was confused when she saw his door ajar, taking a call with someone. His voice broke with emotion, and Hazel felt guilty for eavesdropping, but Gale squeaked at her heels and Hazel knocked on the door anyway. Coach Hedge was as gruff as usual, however, he seemed to have been crying. Hazel tried to ask what was wrong, but to no avail, so she changed the subject to her weasel. They had an intense argument where they said many rude things in animal tongue, and told Hazel that he was here to 'see how it goes'. Hazel tried to press for more, but he told her to go and that he had things to do. Hazel was concerned, wondering what he was upset about.

He, like the others, clambered on deck when they encountered Sciron. Though he was late, he made up for it with enthusiasm and leaped over the rail while holding a baseball bat. Jason, while attacking the turtle, grabbed his waist and took off, but he struggled so hard that his sword fell into the sea. Coach was insistent on killing him, as usual, but Jason refused considering he lost his weapon because of him.

The next day, Coach Hedge ate a peanut butter sandwich as Jason told everyone that Annabeth was alive. Jason thought about how glad he was that the coach came along, even inspiring him to treat the fauns better at Camp Jupiter once he started reform efforts there. Jason and Leo were suspicious when he complained about the bad reception of iris messages and questioned him, but Hazel intervened, in which he gave her a grateful look. Jason was worried about him and realized he hadn't mentioned his girlfriend, Mellie, in a long time. This also revealed he had been calling someone every night. The conversation turned, and it was also revealed that Coach Hedge was deathly afraid of dalmatians and wanted to go on a rant about it, but Jason decided he didn't want to know.

Like the others, Coach Hedge was frozen by Khione and aided in repairing the ship when they were marooned in North Africa. During the process, he was slapped in the face by an oar and went catapulting into the bay. He was very relieved when he reunited with Leo, though he forced his smile to go back into a scowl, and he threatened him for dissapearing again. He ate lunch in Malta with the rest of the crew and munched salt and pepper shakers, while bragging about Piper's deeds (and embellishing them) and hoping he would get to fight Calypso, though Leo refused that idea.

They set sail for Epirus, and Frank went down to the cabin to get Coach Hedge to prepare for the attack, though he did it wary, considering he had a habit to jump and attack when he heard loud noises. But he eavesdropped on him talking to Mellie, gentler than he ever heard him speak. His eyes were bloodshot when he opened the door and when Frank told him they had to get ready for battle, he was strangely uninterested and about to cry. Frank asked him if he was sending an Iris message to someone, and though Coach Hedge had a tendency to say it was none of his business, he explained everything anyway. He'd gotten married to Mellie in May, and revealed she took a break from her job to go to Camp, figuring she would be safe there. But because of the Roman siege, she was trapped there and because of her pregnancy, she couldn't fly away. Frank was thrilled and told him he would be an excellent father, but Hedge brushed him off, instead insisting he should be there for her during the coming war. Frank reassured him that no one would die, and Hedge revealed he had a soft spot for children of Ares, and that's why he didn't pulverize him for asking too many questions.

Hedge then told Frank the story of Clarisse La Rue, the child he brought to Camp. During his journey, he had a dream his mother, a cloud nymph, was in danger and needed help right away. But he didn't think anyone would hurt her. By the time he came home, it was yoo late and he had no idea what happened to her. He still blamed himself for what happened all those years later and was guilty his wife and unborn child were in danger. Frank tried his best to comfort him, reassuring him that he saved her life and was now fighting to save the world from Gaea. But their conversation was cut short when they had to go above deck. He told Frank to not speak a word of it to the others.

Above deck, they all discussed the forces they'd face in Epirus, and Frank told Hedge he should stay above to defend the ship for air support, like he did in Rome. Though he protested, he was filled with relief. Jason clapped him on the shoulder and gave Frank an appreciative nod, indicating he may have known about his situation. While he was above deck, he met up with Reyna Ramírez-Arellano and her injured Pegasus, and witnessed her put him down.

Coach Hedge reunited with the crew the next morning and tried his best to scowl when Percy and Annabeth came aboard, but his eyes sparkled. He ate a meal with the rest of the crew and discussed what they should do with the Athena Parthenos. He wanted to take it to Athens to use as protection, but Piper and Leo protested against the idea.

The conversation then turned to who would go with Nico and Reyna to Camp Half-Blood, as Reyna requested taking a third person for the quest, considering three was an optimal number. Frank volunteered Coach Hedge, to Percy's confusion. Frank vouched for him, saying he was the best protector and the only choice. Though Reyna was hesitant, calling him a faun, Hedge corrected him and said they would need someone to go, needing a diplomat to keep the Greeks from attacking. He went off to make a call and shot Frank a grateful look. That night, Coach expressed excitement of seeing his baby and shadow travelled away with Reyna and Nico.

The Blood of Olympus[]

Coach Hedge helps Reyna and Nico transport the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood. After an embarrassing incident in Albania, the three wind up a mile over Mount Vesuvius and are close to falling in before Reyna shares her strength with Nico and they arrive in Pompeii safely, where they rest for a day before Gaea’s forces find them and they are attacked by the spirits of Pompeii. Nico manages to Shadow Travel the group and the Athena Parthenos away.

They end up in Évora, Portugal with the Athena Parthenos ending up on the roof of a church. He watches over an unconscious son of Hades for half a day while Reyna scouts out the town. After Nico wakes up, he tells him a burning ghost has been asking for him. When Nico returns, they have a brief snack before Lycaon and his wolves arrive to capture them. Nico imprisons their enemies in bones while they climb up to the statue and, with Nico's help, shadow travel away.

They end up on a cruise ship in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean for a day before shadow traveling to San Juan, Porto Rico. He and Nico are knocked out while Reyna is kidnapped by the Hunters of Artemis. When they awake, he and Nico find out what happened and change their torn clothes with new colorful tourist shirts, much to Nico’s annoyance, and rush to a fight to find Orion attacking both the Hunters and the Amazons. Reyna meets back up with them and they shadow travel away.

They end up in Buford, South Carolina where he and Nico get food and meet Reyna back at camp. He leaves to send a letter to his wife while the two demigods talk. When he returns he finds Bryce Lawrence and the three fight the crazed legacy. After Nico unleashes his full power and turns Bryce into a mindless ghost and passes out from the effort, he and Reyna spend three days tending to their friend. Soon after he awakens a flock of pegasi arrive, lead by Pegasus, and the three are flown to Long Island.

They arrive on the waters outside Camp Half-Blood and are greeted by Michael Kahale, Leila, and Dakota who are tasked with arresting Reyna for treason. Within moments they hear the voice of Octavian coming from a boat and Kahale is knocked out cold. It is revealed to be Tyson and Ella who inform them of the current status of the invasion. They also tell him his wife is in labor and he heads to camp on Rainbow.

After the Second Demigod Civil War ended, he parades his new born son, Chuck Hedge, around camp.

The Trials of Apollo[]

The Hidden Oracle[]

Hedge is mentioned to be in Los Angeles with his wife and son working as Tristan McLean’s life coach.

The Burning Maze[]

He is found shopping at Macro’s Military Madness by Grover and Apollo. He agrees to leave after they tell him it is night, but are stopped by the manager, who tells his employees to take Apollo alive and kill the satyrs. He starts a fire and carries Apollo away from them. They make it to the exit but it is locked. Grover saves them by crushing the manager with a canoe. They make it to the back room and barricade the doors. Grover tells him to open the back door and he succeeds after Macro breaks down the door and is surrounded by his spare automations, who set themselves for self-destruction. He and Grover open the door and the three get out just as the explosion happens.

They land in a dumpster and over hear a follower of the emperor talking to him. He leaves and minutes later they drive back to base camp where he is scolded and greeted by his wife. They tell everyone what they learned. After learning the emperors identity, he hints that Jason Grace and Piper McLean might know more, however he and Mellie will not take them. He lends Apollo, Meg and Grover his car to drive to Malibu and meet up with Piper and Jason.

He sits in on a meeting to decide their next course of action.

After the others return and tell them about Jason, he is saddened and feels he should have been there. He and Mellie head to Malibu to assist a grieving Piper. He meets up with Apollo and Meg at an airfield in Santa Monica and looks over at Jason’s coffin. He and his family are going to Oklahoma with the McLeans.

Personality[]

Gleeson Hedge has a very eccentric personality. He is more violent than most satyrs. Unlike most satyrs that believe in preserving nature, Hedge believes more in the concept of survival of the fittest. He knows that big things eating smaller things is also a part of nature, which resulted in him trying to become stronger to defend himself from bigger or stronger foes. Hedge is very overconfident and believes that he can defeat anyone no matter how much bigger or powerful his enemy is. Because of this, Hedge will constantly try and attack anyone he comes across, even if the being he is attacking is a potential ally. He is also very brave, jumping over a cliff in order to save Leo and joining in any fight to help others, including standing up to Enceladus.

Hedge tends to act strong because he is approaching middle-age and feels that the Council of Cloven Elders sent him to the Wilderness School simply to get him out of the way. Because of this, he acts tough to show that he isn't useless. Gleeson is also much more intelligent than he first appears. He is able to figure out that Enceladus was using Piper's dad as bait to lure them away from Hera, insuring that her dad would be safe until Enceladus got what he wanted. He also has a softer side, volunteering to take care of Piper's dad while she went to free Hera, as he admits that he is a Protector, not a fighter. He also has a fondness for the children of Ares, and doesn't seem to care if they are instead children of the god's Roman form, Mars. This is why he trusted Frank Zhang with the knowledge of his marriage and impending fatherhood. 

Appearance[]

Baseball bat

His baseball bat

While coaching, Gleeson wears a baseball cap, a bright orange polo shirt, nylon workout pants, white Nikes, a whistle around his neck, he is usually seen with a baseball bat, and megaphone (Leo Valdez rigged his megaphone to blurt amusing comments and sounds when he talked into it). He is 5'0, has beady eyes, is really buff, and has a wispy goatee. After Aphrodite "fixed" him, Piper described him as a pastel nightmare. He is dressed in baggy canary yellow zoot suit with two-tone shoes that fit over his hooves. He has a matching yellow broad-brimmed hat, a rose-colored shirt, a baby blue tie, and a blue carnation in his lapel, which he ate.

Abilities[]

Gleeson Hedge is in great shape for a satyr his age and in general. Because he feels he needs to fight everything that moves, he tends to exercise regularly and even works as a gym teacher when he is undercover as a protector. Being half goat from the waist down, Gleeson is an excellent mountain climber, as shown when he jumped off the edge of the Grand Canyon to save Leo Valdez, managing to carry him all the way back up as well.

Despite being a satyr, Gleeson seems to have a limited knowledge of nature magic. When asked if he knew healing magic by Thalia when inspecting the injured Piper, he claimed that she looked as good as she did because of him. He can make something he calls "sports medicine," which is a mix of wild mushrooms and Gatorade. In The Blood of Olympus, a combination of Hedge's sports medicine and a little nature magic brought Nico di Angelo back from the verge of fading away into nothingness when not even ambrosia, nectar and unicorn draught would work on him.

In The Lost Hero he also displayed the power to smell monsters and half-bloods he also showed the ability to sense the truth or read emotions as Jason said it was like he was reading his thoughts.

Relationships[]

Love Interests[]

Mellie[]

MellieChuck

Mellie, his wife with their son Chuck.

Mellie is a wind spirit that Gleeson meets in Aeolus' wind fortress. She instantly has an attraction to him and he feels that he could settle down with her to raise a family of satyrs. She eventually helps him and his friends escape and later meets up with him again, working with him as Tristan McLean's assistants. In The House of Hades, it is revealed that right before the quest they got married and Mellie is currently pregnant. Frank was the first one to know. In The Blood of Olympus Mellie gave birth to a baby satyr named Chuck, an event that he just made it to, much to Gleeson’s joy.

In The Burning Maze, he agrees to stay with her while Apollo, Grover, and the demigods go out and save Herophile.

Friends[]

Piper McLean

Piper McLean, a demigod he was assigned to protect.

Gleeson seems to be very protective of Piper, even more so than Leo or Jason. The two seem to gain respect for each other as they travel around. Before Piper knew he was a satyr, Gleeson seemed to push her even harder during gym class as a way to toughen her up as he knew she was a demigod and would one day need to fight for herself. Gleeson even goes out of his way to look after Piper's father while he was in the hospital, after being rescued. Even when Gleeson is not around, Piper can still hear him pushing her on in her mind or imagining things he might say.

Jason Grace-Viria

Jason Grace, a demigod he discovered on a mission.

Gleeson is close to Jason, but quite not as much as to Piper. Jason is more frequently annoyed by Hedge's ideals about survival of the fittest and tends to send him away before he can cause trouble. However, Jason is sometimes impressed by how intelligent Hedge can be, agreeing to use his idea when facing the giant Enceladus. Despite their differences, Jason tends to at least respect Coach Hedge while Coach Hedge still sees himself as Jason's protector.

Leo Valdez-Viria

Leo Valdez, a demigod he was assigned to protect.

Gleeson seemed to have been annoyed with Leo at first, since Leo had messed with Hedge's megaphone. Hedge does save Leo when he falls over the canyon, since it is his job as the protector. The two seem to be closer in The Mark of Athena, since Leo had installed TV satellites in the Argo II. He has also been shown to care about Leo a lot, like when he insisted that he sleep after staying awake for hours steering the ship. In turn, Leo is shown to be very amused by the satyr's violent attitude.

Annabeth Chase-Viria

Annabeth Chase, a demigod he travelled with.

Annabeth and Gleeson knew each other in The Lost Hero, and knew him as Piper and Leo's protector. Annabeth became very worried when he wasn't there when she rescued them and interrogated them to see where he was.

In The Mark of Athena, Coach Hedge and Annabeth were friends. Annabeth thought of Coach Hedge as a war crazed chaperone. On the morning before they arrived at Camp Jupiter, Annabeth pulled Coach aside and gave him the morning off to watch reruns of mixed martial arts championships because she didn’t want him wrecking havoc at Camp Jupiter. Annabeth also trusted him to sniff out intruders. As for Coach, he saw Annabeth as the leader of the Argo II so he obeyed her orders, which was remarkable because he had a tendency to ignore everyone's orders. Coach Hedge was stubborn but was never crazy enough to defy Annabeth, even if he didn't want to do something. For example, when Annabeth ordered him to check if the fires were out, even though he already did it, he did it again anyway. However, he still felt a level of responsibility over Annabeth, even though she didn't take him seriously. He was furious when she spent the night in the stables with Percy, being so mad he knocked down a cup of apples with his bat, saying she was irresponsible and broke the rules. He believed that she would have more common sense than to do something so reckless. After the incident, he was insistent that Percy and Annabeth didn't go anywhere together, making sure that that while he goes with Percy and Frank for a task, the remaining crew watches Annabeth to make sure she stays out of trouble, even going as far as threatening to tie bells around their necks. However, by the end of the day, he forgot about the incident.

Annabeth and Coach Hedge collaborated well together and they helped stop the Argo II from sinking in the middle of the Atlantic. Annabeth saved him from Chrysaor's bonds. It’s also partially because of Coach Hedge that Annabeth was freed, since he had ammo for ballistae. Coach Hedge felt immense guilt when Annabeth fell into Tartarus and paced around the death with tears in his eyes, pulling his goatee and slapping the side of his head, saying that he should've blown up more stuff in order to ensure her safety.

In The House of Hades, though he cared about Percy and Annabeth, he stayed behind from rescuing them because he wanted to come back alive for Mellie and his future kid. When they came back, he scowled, but he had a gleam in his eyes that showed that he was happy to see them. He asked Percy and Annabeth what took so long and said that it was about time, and that they kept Reyna, their guest, waiting. When he left with Reyna and Nico, he reassured Percy and Annabeth that he would get back to camp safely and bring the Athena Parthenos back, and see his baby.

In The Blood of Olympus, they all missed Coach Hedge, so Leo programmed Buford to say things that he would say.

Grover Underwood

Grover Underwood, a fellow Protector.

Gleeson writes a letter to Grover in The Last Olympian, so it is assumed he is on Grover's side during the feud between the Council of Cloven Elders and Grover. They are shown to get along fairly well in The Burning Maze.

Frank Zhang

Frank Zhang, a demigod he travelled with.

As revealed in The House of Hades, Hedge has a notable fondness for children of Ares/Mars. This fondness extends to Frank enough that he trusts him alone with the knowledge of his recent marriage and unborn child. After telling this to Frank, Hedge calls him a nosy Roman. 

Percy Jackson

Percy Jackson, a demigod he mentored

Percy and Coach Hedge met in The Mark of Athena, and he became Percy's chaperone. Percy thought it was hard to take Hedge seriously because he was only five feet tall. When Coach Hedge found out that Percy and Annabeth were kissing in the stables, Coach Hedge was furious with him and swinged his bat, knocking over a plate of apples. Percy told him he was starting to sound like Terminus, and Hedge became even more angry, saying he will terminate him. Percy tried not to laugh and promised it wouldn't happen again, and Coach Hedge said that he will be watching him. After that incident, Hedge didn't trust Percy and Annabeth to go anywhere alone together and decided to go with Percy and Frank Zhang to Atlanta to keep an eye on him, which Percy was not thrilled about. While in the museum, Coach Hedge ended up saving Percy and Frank from Phorcys and Keto. Hedge freaked out when he and Frank were trapped in a tank and was relieved when they escaped. Percy was grateful that Coach Hedge rescued him and was happy to have a chaperone good at martial arts cage matches.

After that, Percy seemed to trust Coach Hedge more and was fine being alone on a ship with him. Coach Hedge was very impressed by Percy and seemed to forget about his stable incident with Annabeth. He also heard Coach Hedge sing a lot of TV theme songs. Percy also saved Coach Hedge's life from Chrysaor. When they arrived in Rome, Coach Hedge warned Percy that he didn't like the idea of him and Annabeth going off on their own, and that if he heard any funny business, he would ground them until the River Styx freezes over, showing how protective he was towards him. Percy promised Hedge that he would be back soon. And later, when Percy left to find Nico di Angelo with Jason and Piper, Coach Hedge told them to not take too long, or he would blast them with a ballistae. Percy and Hedge later collaborated to help save Annabeth.

After Percy fell to Tartarus, Coach Hedge was devastated and paced back and forth, tugging his beard, and slapped his head, saying he should've helped them and blown up more stuff. He had tears in his eyes.

In The House of Hades, Coach Hedge was very happy when Percy came back from Tartarus and said it was about time he came back, and asked what took so long. He scowled, but he his eyes gleamed, showing he was actually happy to see them. After the coach left with Reyna and Nico to bring the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood, Percy wondered how he was and wondered how long it would take him to transport it.

Clarisse La Rue

Clarisse La Rue, a demigod he brought to Camp Half-Blood.

In The House of Hades it is revealed that Coach Hedge was the protector who retrieved Clarisse many years ago.

In The Blood of Olympus it is revealed that Clarisse had been tending to Mellie during the later part of her pregnancy. When Chuck Hedge is born Clarisse is appointed the position godmother (presumably because of her long standing close friendship with Coach Hedge)

Nico di Angelo

Nico di Angelo, a demigod he quested with.

In The Blood of Olympus, Gleeson appears to be protective of Nico, healing him when he got hurt. He helped Nico and Reyna transport the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood. He also notably, did not judge Nico after finding out about the latter's gay crush on Percy and seeing a horrifying display of the demigod's rage.

Reyna Viria

Reyna Ramírez-Arellano, a demigod he quested with.

Gleeson is most likely protective of Reyna, as they went through a lot together transporting the Athena Parthenos to Camp Half-Blood with Nico.

Trivia[]

  • Along with Grover Underwood, Ferdinand Underwood, and his son, Gleeson is one of the only known satyrs who has a surname.
  • On his Twitter account, Rick Riordan says, Gleeson is his favorite character from the Heroes of Olympus series.
  • Gleeson was the former baseball coach at Wilderness School, while he was undercover. His official picture shows him on a baseball field with a baseball bat. Dylan, a storm spirit, claims that he was on Gleeson's baseball team all season, yet Gleeson couldn't smell him like he can with most mythological creatures.
  • Despite being different from a lot of other satyrs, being unskilled at nature magic and preferring to fight instead, Gleeson simply believes more in "survival of the fittest," a different aspect of nature.
  • He is the only character on board the Argo II to have a cabin who is not one of the seven.
  • Gleeson is a big fan of violent sports and movies, including martial arts films and wrestling.
  • He frequently reads issues of Guns & Ammo.
  • Gleeson apparently has a phobia of Dalmatian dogs, for some unexplained reason.
    • He still has nightmares because of the movie 101 Dalmatians.
  • Coach Hedge's mother was an Aurae who is missing. It is said that coach had a dream of his mother calling him for help whilst on mission with Clarisse.
  • He calls the demigods 'cupcake'.
  • Coach Hedge is the only new main character of the Heroes of Olympus series to be mentioned in the original series besides Hylla.
  • Coach Hedge has an obsession with explosives.
  • Coach Hedge has frequently made violent parodies of songs, such as the Pokémon theme song and "Old McDonald."
  • He was in the 1980’s themed workout promotional videos for The Burning Maze.
  • Coach Hedge owns a yellow Pinto.
  • Coach's son, Chuck, is most likely named after Chuck Norris, due to the Coach's obsession with martial arts.
The Heroes of Olympus
Core Series: The Lost Hero | The Son of Neptune | The Mark of Athena | The House of Hades | The Blood of Olympus
Main Characters: Jason Grace | Piper McLean | Leo Valdez | Percy Jackson | Frank Zhang | Hazel Levesque | Annabeth Chase | Iapetus/Bob | Reyna Ramírez-Arellano | Nico di Angelo | Gleeson Hedge
Secondary Characters: Hylla Ramírez-Arellano | Dakota | Tyson | Ella | Octavian | Halcyon Green | Dr. Howard Claymore | Alabaster C. Torrington | Lamia
Minor Characters: Rachel Elizabeth Dare | Grover Underwood | Thalia Grace | Clarisse La Rue | Fleecy | Mrs. O'Leary | Kinzie | Arion | Calypso | Lou Ellen Blackstone | Chiron | Will Solace | Tristan McLean | Don | Julia | Jacob | Michael Varus | Burly Black | Medea | Midas | Lityerses | Phineas | Otrera | Echo | Narcissus | Sciron | Pasiphaë | Lycaon
Olympian Gods: Zeus | Hera | Poseidon | Hades | Ares | Demeter | Athena | Apollo | Artemis | Hephaestus | Aphrodite | Hermes | Dionysus
Minor Gods: Achelous | Aeolus | Asclepius | Boreas | Eurus | Hecate | Iris | Hypnos | Keto | Khione | Kymopoleia | Mithras | Nemesis | Nike | Notus | Phorcys | Serapis | Thanatos | Triptolemus | Zephyros
Roman Gods: Jupiter | Juno | Neptune | Pluto | Mars | Minerva | Ceres | Lupa | Bellona | Fortuna | Janus | Terminus | Vulcan | Mercury | Apollo (Roman) | Diana | Venus | Bacchus | Pomona | Aquilon | Hercules | Cupid | Auster | Favonius | Letus | Victoria
Giants: Enceladus | Porphyrion | Alcyoneus | Polybotes | Ephialtes | Otis | Damasen | Clytius | Mimas | Orion | Hippolytos | Thoon | Periboia
Undead: Gray | Zombie
Primordial Gods: Gaea | Tartarus | Ourae | Nyx | Chaos | Ouranos | Akhlys | Hemera | Elpis | Spes
Monsters and Magical Creatures: Cynocephali | Gorgon | Gryphon | Harpy | Basilisk | Lycanthrope | Gegeines | Cyclops | Katobleps | Unicorn | Giant Eagle | Ichthyocentaur | Satyr/Faun | Storm Spirit | Laistrygonian Giant | Lares
Related Content: Rick Riordan | Haley Riordan | Percy Jackson and the Olympians | Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Ultimate Guide | The Demigod Files | The Demigod Diaries | The Son of Sobek | The Singer of Apollo | The Staff of Serapis | Percy Jackson's Greek Gods | Percy Jackson's Greek Heroes | The Crown of Ptolemy | Demigods & Magicians | Demigods of Olympus | Percy Jackson Demigod Collection
Monsters
Species: Amphisbaena | Apollo's Cattle | Blemmyae | Basilisk | Carnivorous Sheep | Centaur | Cyclops | Cynocephali | Dragon | Drakon | Empousa | Eurynomos | Feather-Shooting Bird | Fire-Breathing Horse | Flesh-Eating Horse | Gegeines | Geminus | Giant Eagle | Giant Scorpion | Giant Snake | Ghoul | Gorgon | Gryphon | Harpy | Hellhound | Hippalektryon | Hippocampus | Hydra | Hyperborean Giant | Ichthyocentaur | Karpoi | Katobleps | Keres | Khromandae | Laistrygonian Giant | Leucrotae | Lycanthrope | Makhai | Merperson | Myrmekes | Nikai | Pandai | Pegasus | Pit Scorpion | Satyr | Scythian Dracaena | Sea Serpent | Siren | Strix | Stymphalian Birds | Tauri Sylvestres | Telekhine | Troglodyte | Unicorn | Vrykolakai | Yale
Friendly Monsters: Argus | Blackjack | Briares | Bombilo | Chiron | Cottus | Don | Ella | Festus | Gleeson Hedge | Gray | Grover Underwood | Guido | Gyges | Lysas | Mrs. O'Leary | Ophiotaurus | Peaches | Peleus | Porkpie | Rainbow | Scipio | Tyson | Tempest | Sssssarah
Enemy Monsters: Antaeus | Agrius and Oreius | Arachne | Cacus | Carthaginian Serpent | Charybdis and Scylla | Chimera | Chrysaor | Clazmonian Sow | Colchis Bulls | Echidna | Euryale | Geryon | Kampê | Karkinos | Kekrops | Lamia | Manticore | Medusa | Minotaur | Nemean Lion | Polyphemus | Python | Skolopendra | Sphinx | Stheno | Sun Dragons | Typhon | Trojan Sea Monster
Neutral Monsters: Cerberus | Erymanthian Boar | Gray Sisters | Furies | Ladon | Orthus | Sybaris
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