Hermann Croucher

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**Hermann Croucher** is a main antagonist of "***Housekeeper***." He was a former Team OZ researcher until he was given the position to be the CEO of the OZ House, which is the main factory in producing variety of androids to serve humans. Furthermore, he also played in the part of pushing forward "Project Venus" to eliminate most of the human population.

## Appearance

He is a slightly old man with a whitish-grey medium long wolf hair style and sleek red eyes. He is seen wearing a white suit, grey vest, and black dress shirt underneath with a red tie. He also wears a mask with the OZ symbol in the front, glowing red.

Without his mask

## Personality

Hermann in the past was a virtual man with a mission to help and save humanity from congenital and acquired disabilities via bio tech. He was a father who was sincerely respected by Calico Cat. However, when his lower jaw was ripped away by an accident by Siegfried, Hermann went crazy. Throwing away his ethics to pursue in combining machine and humans together.

## Background

Hermann is one of the original members of Team Oz as their Bio Tech Manager.

## Plot Overview

**【Spoiler Warning!】- the following info is organized in a chronological order, However, a lot of it is not revealed until Season 3 onward, thus there may be quite a lot spoilers. Read at your own risk.**

### Season 3 (Past)

On 1955, Team Oz wanted to turn Friedrich into president so that he will take selfless and pure actions for the people in case of a situation where both the people and the government are obessed with power. However, Dorothy was the only one that rejects the idea. Hermann, who overheard the conversation, begins to mess with Friedrich and appears to be trying to make him the president.

On October 2, 1955, during a core output conversion experiment, he went out of control and was destroyed, and all of his memory was lost but this was Croucher's trick. Fredrich's memory data was transferred to a new biological body and rebooted on April 2, 1956. Also, at this time, all Team Oz members except Dorothy agree with Croucher and allow Friedrich to enter politics and successfully gain the support of the people. On April 1, 1959, Friedrich Bismarck was inaugurated as President of the World United Government Government.

#### Downfall

On September 8, 1960, an accident from Siegried occurred and Hermann's entire mouth was torn off and his lower jaw was blown off, resulting in serious injuries. Immediately after the accident, all other members of Team Oz disappeared, and Hermann gradually began to change, refusing to undergo facial restoration surgery and wearing a mechanical mask he created.

Hermann, who went crazy after the accident, he began exerpiementing on humans by using his daughter, Penelope, as the first trial. Inserting an AI chip into her head. Hermann's gaol was to turn humans into super soldiers who could surpass Siegfried, and for this purpose, he forcibly transformed his own daughter. Just as they were about to conduct further modification experiments on Calicocat, Circe, his wife came in and pointed a gun at Hermann.

Circe points a gun at Hermann, but Hermann takes Circe's gun and tells Circe to leave, but when she does not listen, he shoots Circe in the leg and the nurse android takes Circe out. At that time, Circe stabs Hermann in the neck with a scalpel, but Hermann, who had also performed the experiment on his own body, stands up unharmed. After Circe tells her daughter escape, she tells her husband to experiment on her instead, which Hermann accepts and turn her into an experimental super soldier that service him.

### Season 2 (Past)

In the past, he was in control of developing the Brunhild Module. He sees Hasty's training and although she improved, it wasn't enough and tells his suboridnates to dispose of her.

### Season 1 (Past)

On Christmas Eve on 1976, he was at the committee meeting at WUG. He was at first, sided with Dora Francis but revealed that her plan was denied by Friedrich Bismarck. Thus, he revealed and explains the Venus Project.

### Season 1 (Present)

#### Meeting the Doctor

Katarina meets him and shows him Hasty & Mamia's video footage and calls it a type of computer virus. He accurately figured out that Hasty's OS hacked Mamia's OS and made it the same OS. He then inform her that what he was going to say is confidential information.

He reveals that all AIs (ex. soldieroids) created at Oz House have the same hardware specifications. Then he says that androids charge via soloar power was a lie but is powered by "infinite power engine." And the energy of the infinite power engine was controlled by manipulating the OS installed on the A.I. developed for each purpose. But if you remove or release the limits of the OS imposed on the A.I., it is fully possible to change the energy of the infinite power engine like Hasty. The location of the engine was in PA-001 sector, the only place where Croucher cannot enter.

Hermann then says that he is the owner in name only and tells him another confidential matter. That confidential matter is that Oz House, is in fact a state-owned company, and that his role is limited to company management and software management.

Katarina left after asking who created Hasty. After leaving, he watched the video again and said that he had no idea Dorothy was living in seclusion in such a garbage dump. He looked at someone in the pendant and promised himself that she would definitely overcome it this time, saying, "Master."

#### Declaration of Navilland

In his home, he watches as Hasty and other declares an android district, Navilland. He laughed out loud and said that what Team Oz put the most effort into when developing A.I. was preventing A.I. rebellion. He monologues that although they created the A.I law to control it, they couldn't had though of the possibliy that androids rebelling humans to save humans. Afterwards, he brings the Super Soldier Master Key to Friedrich's office.

### Season 2 (Present)

#### Navilland's Escape

Following Friedrich's instructions, he gives Katarina the Super Soldier Master Key that allows her to command the Super Soldiers. Later, while supervising the control of Dietrich and Roskva, he gave an order to return, but Dietrich declines and instead attacked Navilland.

He explain that the Super Soldier was not a weapon created to be used, but as a last resort to prevent unprecedented disasters such as wars, destruction of humankind, or preventing the invasion of alien life forms. In addition that the reason for the soldier's disobiedance is that Dorohty had opened up emotional sequences to the Super Soldiers so that users could not easily control them.

As Navilland escapes via a rocketship, he calmed the situation by informing both super soldiers of this and telling them to start chasing. Then when Hasty changed into her brunhild module, Hermann was trembling and is shocked as he was the one in charge of the creation of the module and later realized of Hasty's true identity.

## Relationships

**Family**

* Circe(wife)
* Calico Cat(daughter)

**Team OZ**

* Dorothy Crawford - they were both part of Team OZ. Hermann calls Dorothy, his teacher.
* Robert McKillian -
* Other Members -

**World United Government**

* Fredrich Bismarck
* Katarina von Bayern
* Dora Francis

**Enemies**

* Hasty - former android of his that took in part of his Brunhild module development. Although she showed impressive stats, it was not enough and thus she was disposed of.
* Siegfried -

**Others**

## Trivia

* His last name, was originally Dorothy's initial design where she was a man named Albert Croucher. It is presumed that the author reused the last name for Hermann.
* When Hermann was explaining the origins of World United Government, it was so that the audience know the backstory.
* It was theorized that Hermann may not be human but perhaps an alien race, Spelta. Considering the logo and use of his mask which is what Spelta uses to breathe the air on Earth. It would also concur as Spelta and Okta exist in the Housekeeper Dimension and the use of Okta Particles.
	+ However, it is also seem that is confirm human. On the other hand, after he survived his killing from Katarina and revealing his deformed mouth, it is unclear what he is currently.

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Friedrich, Moltke, and Herman together as Katarina arrives (S2, Ep.3).pngHermann pondering with pocketwatch (S1, Ep.26).pngHermann horrified and amazed of android's first rebellion (S1, Ep.70).pngHermann joyful and amazed of the android's rebellion (S1, Ep.71).png
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## References

1. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 1, Ep. 18
2. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 1, Ep. 18
3. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 2, Ep. 34
4. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 1, Special Ep. 1
5. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 1, Special Ep. 2
6. ↑ Housekeeper, Season 2, Ep. 24

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