Ace is cheerful, mischievous, quick-witted, and highly adaptable. He tends to approach situations casually and dislikes unnecessary seriousness, preferring to joke, improvise, or find an easier route through a problem. He can be lazy about obligations that fail to interest him, sometimes forgetting assignments entirely, but is remarkably quick at devising a solution once consequences become imminent. After forgetting his Enigmics homework, for example, he rapidly works out that another class may

