 Mysterious, he only appears in Greenville from time to time.At one point, tired of being sustained by Teobaldo, Altiva asks Hercules to marry Dorothy, a shy and awkward daughter of the richest man in town, Pitagoras Williams Mackenzie, who is eternally in love with Altiva and thus despises his wife, Cleonice.As addicted to gambling as his father, Hercules is in misery and runs away from creditors threatening to kill him and his family as he is secretly married to the niece of Florence, the beautiful Ines, with whom he has two children, and Vivinha and Junior.