User blog comment:NerdWithAKeyboard/PE Proposal - Arthur Watts/@comment-5032898-20200218072955

Yes. All of his actions includes setting up the first death of Penny and helping Cinder to cause other tragedies within Beacon, as well as using Lionheart as his informant to attack Mistral, but what really shows his own heinous personality in Volume 7, like making Tyrian to kill Royn Hill's supporters, and tricking Jacque Schnee into accessing into SDC's logins, which he used as a tool to rig the election, kill Mantle citizens, frame Penny and finally, shut down the heating grid so that the citizens of Mantle would get froze to death lest they robbed and burnt Dust and furniture on street, almost setting up riots against Atlas. All of this is set to frame Ironwood in his petty revenge for favoring Pietro's project instead of his.

In addition, while initially failed, Watts' actions had made Cinder and Neo to intrude Atlans and had a chance to turn the table for the advantage of Salem's faction, forcing Ironwood to abandon Mantle in order to protect the Relic, which became something that caused him and Team RWBY, JNR and Oscar to become enemies.

To be honest, Jacque is already a petty, heartless and corrupt tycoon, and Tyrian is a murderous madman, but neither of them had showed Watts' manipulative skills that intentionally brings countless people at risk.