#team WTCH

[iamafanofcartoons]

RWBY Analysis: semblances reflect a major struggle within the character

-Hazel's Numbing Agent to repress pain doesn't work to block out the emotional pain of losing Gretchen, nor does it stop him from taking damage especially via his self-inflicted Dust wounds, paralleling the self destructive choice to side with Salem

-Tyrian disrupts Aura just as he disrupts order 

 -Neo's Semblance allows her to appear like other people, as she has always struggled with her sense of identity... Neo's semblance is a direct link to neglect and underdevelopment. Being isolated most of her youth she began making her own "friends"  in the form of imaginary ones. As she had an undeveloped voice box her semblance took a "mime-like" approach where she voiced herself through it.

-Neptune's Semblance allows him to manipulate his biggest fear, water, but he is letting that fear consume him rather than taking control 

-Mettle puts Ironwood into a tunnel-vision mindset to achieve his goals no matter what, reflecting his "I know what's best" downfall

-Harriet's speed reflects her acting irrationally, and sometimes too quick for her own good, automatically taking orders at face value without taking the time to consider their consequences, opposite Marrow who would opt to slow down, akin to his Semblance

-Maria's Preflexes allow her to 'see it coming', only for her to lose her actual seeing ability 

 -Marcus Black put an end to Semblances, much like he would put ends to lives, only for his own life to be ended by Mercury, who he also ended the Semblance of

-Sienna's Grudge makes things go better for her when things go poorly for those around her, reflecting her desire to improve the White Fang by being more violent

-Fox's Semblance lets him create a private communication with the rest of CFVY, letting him find a connection to this new family after losing all of his old one

-Nora's ability to power up via lightning strikes reflects on how she acts bubbly around everyone else, but much like the recoil damage the lightning does, she's very insecure and a bit self-destructively impulsive (in that she's VERY willing to jump into danger) underneath.

-Ruby breaks herself apart in order to move as fast as possible and carry others

-Weiss's is hereditary and represents her struggle asserting her own identity

-Blake leaves behind versions of herself while attempting to dodge the pain, and reflects her fear of others getting hurt in her stead 

 -Yang has to endure pain and take hits in order to come back stronger, reflecting how she's had to carry the burden of her family since childhood

-Pyrrha attracts others but at the same time can't get close to anyone (they always keep a bit of a distance) 

 -Ren represses his feelings

-Jaune had to accept not being the hero but being a support character that lifts others up instead

-Adam lets others get hurt for his own gain 

 -Qrow loves others but his history won't let him get too close with them 

 -Meanwhile Raven has the opportunity to be with loved ones at any time, but chooses not to when it's practically screaming at her to do so

-Emerald sees things that aren't there (Thinking Cinder loves her) 

 -Cinder was put under so much pressure and was re-molded into a deadly weapon... Cinder's being called "scorching caress" as a reference to how the people who were supposed to love her only brought her pain

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[thesoulbonder]

Yas, Salem

Hey peeps!

I was going through my Incorrect Quotes Folder and saw this:

And immediately thought of Salem and Team WTCH.

This was actually my first time drawing Salem, Hazel, Tyrian, and Watts! I think they all turned out pretty well, too :D

Salem’s axolotl hair thingys were especially fun

[dokidokitsuna]

It took a while, but the Maiden Hunters series is finally done. ^^ You can check out the videos on my channel, if you like~

[thatguythatdrawsalot]

The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

HAHA! You thought team RWBY was dangerous with the relics, you should see these guys instead. I wonder what they’ll get for three usages or so… let alone their reactions to seeing the spirit that resides within~

Also if I blasted these designs on T-shirts with the same price RT does for their basic T-shirts which is like $34.95 would you buy it? XD

[divinecomedyproductions]

RWBY Saints of Remnant Notes: Arthur Gray(Watts); Mad Scientist, Unethical Businessman, and Conniving Rat

Part of The Emperor-Verse

Now this follows up my AU Jacques Schnee and SDC and my AU Adam Taurus, which focuses on their common foe, Dr. Arthur Gray aka Arthur Watts.

I honestly loved Arthur regardless of my gripes with the FNDM's appraisal of him, his design, personality, his color palette, and weapons(neat pistol and rings) hit all the right notes for me and I do feel he along the rest of WTCH didn't really meet their full potential from what I've seen, Cinder and Hazel I have more unorthodox ideas for.

But for Arthur? I feel like the 'Mad Scientist' thing wasn't explored enough, and back when this was a V3 reboot, I had Arthur manipulating Jacques into hating the Faunus(framing the White Fang for his wife's death) but now with the hard reboot and remember Arthur's motivation in canon got my noggin jogging

What if instead of the SDC being the corrupt big business, Arthur had his own mega corporation that was part of the corrupt North instead, and part of something even more sinister?

Thus, I came up with his AU Counterpart, Dr. Arthur Gray, genius roboticist, biologist, and CEO of GigaWatts Incorporated and The Grand Master of the Northern Rite of the mysterious Freemason-Like fraternal organization The Lumen Society ran by Grand Mistress, Professor Salem.

Basically, GWI has taken over most of Atlas in the sense of supplying companies with tech, their own high tech products ranging from domestic, law enforcement, security, and even medicine.

Even Atlas Council and top brass of Atlas military are hiring Arthur to develop their military tech. Despite James Ironwood's protests and continuous vouching for Dr. Polendina instead, who he is supporting in his own department.

Not to mention, the factories are known for unethical labor practices towards faunus, which gives Arthur brownie points for the anti-faunus sentiment in the North, along with countless of corporate CEOs vying to make deals with him and his seemingly wondrous technology.

And with the link to my AU Jacques Schnee link, this corporate machine is crushing smaller companies, SDC among them, under its grey steel boot

Basically, GigaWatts Incorporated is like OCP from Robocop

And even then that itself is nothing for the more unholy role it has for The Lumen Society, or its true name...

The satanic cult known as The Brotherhood Grimm. Whom Arthur's role is developing technology and occult research as they plot to resurrect The Black Empire that nearly destroyed the world in Ragnarok thousands of years ago with Salem as its Black Empress

But we'll get to that later

Arthur is currently tasked to recover an ancient ritual to “transcend” humans and Faunus into “The Grimmborne” or as Arthur calls “The Objective Man”(a reference to CS Lewis's That Hideous Strength)

And with Cinder infiltrating Beacon Academy as a teacher, Arthur finds a team he believe are suitable for experimentation. Though there is complications I will get to later.

He's the same as his Canon!Counterpart in many ways, snobbish, arrogant, passive aggressive(which I intend to show in the pissing contests he gets in with Jacques) but among some things, some which I will leave out for another post, he represents hyper-rationality, pragmatism and luciferian mind and the modern obsession to rationalize everything and destroy anything that can't.

"The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits." - GK Chesterton, Orthodoxy (1908)

You see, Dr. Gray hates personal and subjective feelings and certain emotions and the concept of the supernatural. He sees them as icky and disgusting things that sully intelligent and rational minds and their judgement of intelligence and "worthiness" instead of basing such things such as statistics, logistics, scientific method and what else he deems to be "real information", and he absolutely despises the concept of The Stoyteller and The Author Allfather as "Ancient Superstition" and he honestly hates both humans and faunus saying "both are subjective animals" which the Grimmborne aka "The Objective Man" shall replace.

He basically uses anti-faunus sentiment in the North to "keep the monkeys fighting each other" while he uses his tech and company as a means to get The Brotherhood's tentacles in The North

And when it comes to Jacques Schnee. There's very bitter history between the two, and Arthur may had some involvement with Mrs. Schnee's death. But Jack has no evidence. And even if he did, the majority councilmen and upper-class North are so corrupt Arthur is pretty much untouchable.

Now his allusion, he has two which is why I changed his last name.

His primary allusion is James Moriarty from the Sherlock Holmes novels, but his secondary allusion is The Rat King from The Nutcracker and rat, mousetraps, and mazes are recurring theme with him and his aesthetic along some steampunk. Cuz rats have grey fur and grey is Arthur’s primary color.

It’s also to note he is something of a connoisseur of wine and cheese.

But combining James Moriarty and The Rat King, Arthur also alludes Professor Ratigan of the children's novels The Great Mouse Detective which was also adapted into a Disney Movie(and one of my favorites), and like him, he hates being called a rat among other things, but I'll save that for the story.

and tidbits of Weston from CS Lewis’s Ransom Trilogy(Out of The Silent Planet, and Perelandra) and CA Rotwang from Metropolis but that will come later when I introduce his 'daughter' Maria Gray(which those who know the movie can guess who she is)

Now for his semblance, I call it "electrified malice" which he can channel his repressed disgust, resentment, rage, hate, distain, and while lotta suppressed emotions into lethal green electric energy which he can direct either everywhere from his body like a live wire or from his hands ala Sith Lightning(I mean he is like Palpatine in a way)

The problem is, once he focuses in either spot and his emotions are intense enough, he becomes drunk with his malice which in turn takes him a while to stop, which will cost him dearly in the long run.

You'll see.

[corvanid]

Cinder: *Screams*

Tyrian: *Screams louder to assert dominance*

Hazel: Should we do something?

Watts, observing: No, I want to see who wins this.

[archerofthemists]

Pet headcannons because I said so.

Hazel would have dogs. Like a HOUSE FULL of dogs of various sizes and breeds. Yes they're allowed to sleep in the bed with papa every night

Watts would have just about anything he could properly keep contained in a cage or habitat, like small rodents, reptiles, amphibians, and bugs.

Cinder would have a sleek black cat to match her attitude and aesthetic.

Tyrian...probably shouldn't be trusted with anything more needy than a houseplant.

[arthurwattshousewife]

I swear all of Evernights budget must be spent on candles because why are these chairs so fucking ugly 💀

Like everything else is so aesthetic with the purple and then these god awful chairs are just there

[thecoolerliauditore]

Not a rwde poster just like to lurk but YOURE SO RIGHT ABOUT THE HAZEL YANG PARRAREL WHYYYY DONT WE EVER SEE THEM INTERACT?? Like it's right there. The pararels. The. Og my god.

It amazes me how the show managed to set up literally so many perfect parallels and just never pursued the storylines that came with them. Like idk these kinda just write themselves you want a fun shounen-esque adventure, you've got four main characters, four bad guys to fight before the main bad guy, four macguffins to pursue (either the maidens or the relics it doesn't really matter tbh) and four main areas to explore. Like.

Tyrian and Blake I admit is probably the weakest of the connections with pretty much all they have in common being that they're both faunus (we really don't have much to work with in tyrian's case to be fair) but Watts and Weiss never properly interacting is something that I think will haunt me to the grave. There was so much that could be done with Watts being essentially exiled from Atlas' elite and Weiss' gradual realisation that her dad objectively sucks and ruins peoples' lives but instead the final confrontation with Watts was given to Ironwood of all people for. some reason.

[dabihaul666]

desk talking about jungle supp...... yike n mikyx wish they had whatever sexual tension razork n jun have going on....

[alittletrolling]

as someone who isnt even an adam fan

the untapped potential he had will still be the funniest thing in the world because you had:

A faunus who'd mentored/dated one of the main girls,

was enslaved/branded under the name of another main girl's family company,

and permanently crippled and haunted another main girl.

(and in my own theories he had some connection to the roses. maybe while raven and summer were dicking around on their special girls' night, they met adam and taught him or whatever)

Of the 4 main girls, 3 of them had direct ties to Adam. He could have served as a much bigger, more threatening main antagonist while Salem and Cinder were gearing up for their own role. Even if he isn't connected to the plot of "4 maidens, 4 relics, 4 nations" it would have at LEAST given the girls an adversary that they knew, rather than forcing them to fight Salem and Team WTCH (since, out of them all, only Cinder has been a direct threat to them. Everyone else they've only sort of met in passing or DIED before even meeting the team)

like it wouldve been great for weiss' arc of "i want to restore my family name and turn the schnees into something they can be proud of" (or whatever her smoke said) if she'd seen Adam's SDC brand

(and if he'd been connected to summer or been a silver eyed warrior then he and ruby would have some stuff to beef out over)

[iamafanofcartoons]

ANTRB Volume 7 Chapter 4 So that’s how it part 2 Blame Game by Antrb

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[penny-the-pissed-poltergeist]

How would you rewrite neo and/or roman?

Roman

.Because I want to save Romans death for later, and the need to not have to make as many character introductions, and how kinda similar they are, him and Watts have been composited into one character, Watts even being Romans old name (so he can still be the W of team WTCH and doesn't make me wrong for mentioning Watts earlier) and he basically has Watts's backstory until after he fakes his death, where it becomes Romans backstory with the spiders in his new life (he is 100% more Roman then Watts overall)

.Consequently, he gains a second allusion in Dr. Victor Frankenstein

.Clearly recognizes Penny as he had a big hand in making her (there's a reason she's a green eyed ginger!)

.He upgraded the trains and paladin himself

.Ruby saves him from the griffon, much to his amusement

.Both him and Neo become the prospective characters in volume 4 for learning about Salem's cult

.Seems to actively want Penny to break out of his hack, it being one of few things that would make him proud of "that sad little tool"

.Ruby winds up killing him at some point in volume 8, she was never trying to kill him but it still happens and this haunts her during volume 9, with Meldic Cudgel taunting her at the Blacksmith's workshop and in the tree

.might secretly be Whitley's dad, but I'm not 100% sure if I'd actually go down that route

Neo

.Gains an additional illusion in Clerval from Frankenstein

.Already alongside Roman in volume 1

.Salem has her and Roman separated more then she'd like, she does take a liking to Cinder though

.Helps Tyrian with illusions during the Robyn rally

.Her Ever after power up is something she has very tenuous control of

.Her plan with the tea party was trying to goad Ruby into rage for her and "Roman" to get a real final battle, Ruby begging Neo to just kill her already was not part of the script and her powered up illusions go berserk and torture her as much as Ruby

.Yang taunts Neo to the point she can already fight back against the cats control even before the smoke

.Ruby takes Neo's unconscious body back to Vacuo and puts her in jail, she could have broken out when the crown did but she chose not to because her grudge with Ruby has been settled and she (nor Roman when he was alive) really want anything to do with Salem

.Cinder grabs her at some point post volume 9 and she helps Cinder after she takes over as main villain

.Fuck it, spicecream is a thing

[deadbeatbirdmom]

Hello, a question about the artbook. I remember seeing one of your posts about a map of remnant and their concept names, is it alright to know them? And where can I buy the artbook? Thank you.

Hi! Thanks for the ask.

I'll answer the second question first. I got my copy of the art book from the Crunchyroll store, and it looks like it's still available there:

RWBY art book on the Crunchyroll store

Just in case you haven't seen one of the posts where I mention it: the majority of the book's text is in Japanese, including the interviews with CRWBY.

The concept map of Remnant with the place names on it is interesting, it's just definitely not entirely accurate with where places turned out to be in RWBY.

But with that caveat out of the way, sure, I'm happy to share them. Some are tricky to make out because the map's text is tiny (bonus pic of the napkin with sauce stains that inspired the map):

Detailed pics and transcribed place names under a read more cut:

In alphabetical order by kingdom/country:

Anima, containing the Kingdom of Mistral

Roughly from north to south within Anima: SoulCrest Phantom Break Crystal Forest Crystal Chasm Glass Heart Serpent's Cove Mistral Haven (with teams CRBN, NMEZ) Stile Isle Turtle Bay White Mountain Overlook Harlot's Cove Jagged Bluff Sand Flow Burning Coast Obsidian Sea Tale's End

Far to the east of Anima: Sea Fan

Dragon shaped continent, unnamed and presumably uninhabited in canon RWBY.

North to south: Dragon's Eye Thorne Nest Diamon Drop Signal (this is different in canon RWBY, because Signal is the combat school on Patch where Ruby and Yang went before Beacon)

Menagerie, again north to south:

Nora (prototype name for Kuo Kuana?) Menagerie Shallow Sea Siren's Walk

Solitas, with the Kingdom of Atlas, formerly Mantle.

North to south: Deep Frost Atlas (with team name PSCY) Heaven's Spiral Mantle The Ice Crawl

Vacuo, on the west side of the continent of Sanus.

North to south:

Shade (with teams SSSN and WTCH) Sea Bolt Vacuo Fiery Landing White Sand Hatch Mountains Wolf's Den (possibly in the kingdom of Vale) Skull Cliffs (possibly in the kingdom of Vale) Pygmy Reef

Vale, on the east side of the continent of Sanus.

North to south: Watch Point ArrowPort Forever Fall Vale Beacon (with teams RWBY and JNPR) Garden Vale Cliffs Starlight Mist Lake Mermaid Isle

Patch isn't marked on this map, but it's the island west of Vale.

[teamjlry]

The FNDM has fittingly named Salem's minions Team WTCH (Watts, Tyrian, Cinder, Hazel) Em and Merc sadly don't get to sit at the big kid's table now though.

I like that and shall be adopting it as well.

[divinecomedyproductions]

Unpopular RWBY Opinions

Some of these things are incorporated into my reimagined RWBY AU(not all of them) and my original stories

1. Arkos, BlackSun, Iceberg, and Renora should have survived and get a happy ending, I don’t give a damn about Pyrrha’s name or allusion.

2. RWBY didn’t have to be a super dark epic, it’s become pretentious. Maybe more akin to Star Wars or Justice League Unlimited

3. Adam should have just been an initial antagonist who doesn't commit super horrible things, the psycho abusive ex was melodramatic and dumb. Wether he joins the good guys or ends tragically is up to anybody.

4. Maybe we were better off without the Salem/Ozma conflict and have WTCH as individual arc villains with their own minions

5. I think Roman, Cinder, and their gang should have been just morally grey found family characters like Boba Fett, some kind of gang of thieves akin to those in Baccano or something and just help or hinder the cast like Team Rocket or something but not as silly. 

With Cinder and Roman becoming a couple and kinda like a "Gomez and Mortica" pair and Emerald and Merc hooking up, and Emerald and Neo would be like their daughters and Merc the son-in-law. I might recycle that idea for one of my original stories thats inspired by Skullgirls and Baccano who's protagonist sis something of an Anti-Cinder and an Anti-Torchwick with a ragtag gang fighting against a corrupt government run by a demonic-powered mafia.

6. Maybe RWBY could have been more like a Dragonball/Fairy Tail universe instead in terms of tone and narrative structure, and that wouldn’t have been a bad thing.

7. At the very least, Ozma and Salem could have been an explanation of the origin of the world and just something that would be rediscovered overtime and Ozpin and his circle are some keepers of ancient myth or something. Like The Jedi Order or The Time Lords or something idk.

8. Kinda feel Oscar wasn’t necessary, as much as I like him

9. Maybe the corrupt SDC and Bad Dad Jacques was also needless, maybe just one of the few good underdog companies in Atlas and Jack being initially a bit too hard on Weiss due to upholding the family’s honor and chivalry but means well and initial harsh nature involving his wife, a scientist who worked with Dr.Watts and Dr. Poldenia, being murdered at the hands of an anti-Faunus milita group and Watts having some role in it. Mostly because I'm just exhausted of the "Bad Dad" trope

10. Have Watts have a megacorporation and be the corrupt company in Atlas instead who’s responsible for their tech and uses unethical Faunus labor in his factories(even though in secret Watts just hates everybody) instead and have a bitter rivalry with Jacques and The SDC, especially due to Jack and Arthur’s personal history regarding Mrs.Schnee.

11. Hazel should have just been a Meta-Knight like character, a good guy but on nobody’s side with a grudge against Ozpin for understandable reasons, he has bear claw-like gauntlet weapons, and becomes a rival to Yang seeing his sister in her and is the “Papa Bear” to her “Goldilocks”

12. Bumbleby is a bad ship and it’s fandom are filled with bitter shrews who use it as representation despite how toxic it is.

13. Disagreeing with Monty’s vision isn’t inherently malicious.

14. I agree with @sytokun making Blake basically a Princess and have loving parents who are also influential was also dumb. Make her an Orphan with the WF/Team RWBY her found family instead. Or I would at least give her a “dead dad” with her Mom living in Menagerie but not as a “Chieftess” aka a QUEEN. They called themselves Cheiftan and Chieftess because it sounded cute.