Terschuur Heuman

Terchuur Heuman is a Unique Specialist Known as the Ace of Ninths, specializing into the studies of Philosophic Advancement. He was once held under the crime of fraud by Kirche, yet was conveniently vouched for by The Schmidt Network. Heuman was a minor antagonist for most of the series before developing into a semi-protagonist by the end of the Thy Dark Devices series.

## Physical Appearance

Heuman is a pale, middle aged man with a very gloomy and dark appearance. He has an unsmiling face with eyes that either appear indifferent of piercing. His hair is worn back with two strands hanging down and each trying to reach the bridge of his nose. Heuman's skin colour is either pale or grey (depending upon the light) and always possesses a melancholic look.

Heuman is often seen wearing a crumpled dark suit with white gloves and polished black shoes. He wears a dark red star that represents his Aceship over his tie instead than the usual knot of a necktie. In most of the later series, Heuman is seen to be dressed in a typical beige trench coat, his hair becoming short and shaggy.

## Personality

Heuman has a very gloomy personality and partially agrees to the view that there is nothing in the world that is inherently true. He views himself as a realist, valuing things like money, political power and replaceable things so that he doesn't entirely "loose Out". A schemer at heart, Heuman has an opaque mind to outsiders. He is fluent in the arts of lying and subterfuge, so his reasoning behind what he says is constantly blurred.

Heuman is an individual whom prides himself in having no pride. He openly admits to being an imposter, fraud-collector and a swindler. But this is to his advantage as someone whom deceives with wordplay extremely well. His interactions with others are very fluid, and he is willing to give and take in order.

Over the series, much more of his character is revealed, especially his own though process. He keeps his promises despite his lying nature, and has an unexpected system of morals that he adheres to - but only if motivated to do so because he must personally benefit from the situation. Heuman seems to take warnings or "pieces of advice" as challenges, such as when Estelle Schmidt and an unknown messenger (later revealed to be Sabine Valentine) had told him to "pull out" of his current job. Sabine explained to him afterwards that she had purposefully did it to motivate him.

Despite the fact that he is very scheming, he seems to miss obvious conclusions. When he found the letter in his hotel room, he assumed that some third party (that wasn't Schmidt or The Skinner's League) had found a way to get in, but it was pointed out by Sabine that it could be as simple as throwing the envelope under the door. When trying to deceive Colette, he came up with the simple scheme of earning her trust so he can tell her that Adventas and Nazologia were in a traffic accident so that she wouldn't kill them. It is worth mentioning that Heuman already knew Nazologia is almost immortal; and Colette had beaten him within an inch of his life many times within a short period, so she would have some idea of how much punishment his body can actually take, making something like a traffic accident seem less than lethal. During a discussion with Motriachy, she described Colette as "snubbing everyone out", never letting others get close to her. Heuman didn't change his plan despite knowing that she had never trusted others, and subsequently failed at deceiving her.

## Count

Heuman's count was printed in the centre of his palm, representing the amount of times that he deceived people in the representative number figures of Seven-Hundred and Ninety-Eight.

## Trivia

* Originally, JWMRC

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