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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.

[littl3wtch]

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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

[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.

[littl3wtch]

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[strqyr]

I don’t necessarily think it’s absolute canon that Blake’s parents never sought her out. Considering the clear militaristic front Sienna was taking it’s possible that she outright refused to give out information on her active soldiers, even to their relatives. And Adam certainly wouldn’t be keen on giving anything away. Even Ilia wouldn’t have spoken up since she believed they were in the right. It’s definitely possible they didn’t search for her but it just seems out of character to me.

ghira used to be the high leader of the white fang before he became the chieftain of menagerie. the white fang also has presence on menagerie. ghira knew sienna personally; they were no strangers to one another. he sent a messenger, one not associated with the white fang, to warn sienna of adam's plan.

ghira & kali would have had all the means to contact blake, at the very least to let her know that it's okay, they're not mad at her, and they love her no matter what without ever knowing exactly where she was, as i highly doubt every single member of the white fang suddenly turned against ghira & kali after they left and refused to cooperate with them over a small thing like assuring them that their 13-year-old daughter is okay and letting her know her parents are there for her if she ever decides to come home, etc.

furthermore, if there was some grand conspiracy to keep blake's location from her parents a secret, either by sienna or adam, then a simple "we tried to find / contact you but couldn't for reasons xyz" would suffice to clear it up. that... doesn't happen; the only thing ghira says that even remotely gives an idea how they handled the situation was that he feared blake would "fall down the wrong path", which gives more of a hands-off, let the brothers take the wheel approach rather than effort made to ensure that wouldn't happen.

ultimately, it would have been very easy to throw a line here or there to make it clear that ghira & kali actually did look for blake / tried to contact her but they didn't, and me thinks at that point it's more plausible that no such thing happened rather than try and throw the blame at other characters.

[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~

[wtch-and-the-warlock]

Guess who dusted off this au and drew the team again? With all that is going on with RT I rewatched all of RWBY again, started legit writing this au on AO3, and decided to use this channel as an art dump/ask space for the au. I edited their designs a tad bit, and am deciding to stick with this for their V1-3 designs.

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