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| + | He uses special rings on his fingers that can let him hack into systems around him, so long as he has the code of the cyber security he wants to infiltrate, allowing him to be mobile and making it difficult to track him down. The rings can also generate hard-light Dust shields to defend him and makeshift platforms to walk across long gaps. |
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| + | Watts also has some decent skill in combat and uses a 18-shot double-barrel revolver as his weapon of choice. |
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==Quotes== |
==Quotes== |
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| “ | What about her? Seems to me that this is Cinder’s problem, not ours. | „ |
| ~ Doctor Watts on Cinder's concern for Ruby Rose. |
| “ | I'm not particularly fond of failure. | „ |
| ~ Arthur Watts |
Arthur Watts, also referred to as Doctor Watts, is a major antagonist in the American web cartoon series RWBY. He is an associate of Salem and part of her inner circle.
He is voiced by Christopher Sabat, who also voices Vegeta, King Piccolo and Yakumo Oomori.
Appearance
Watts is a man with short black and gray hair. He also has a mustache and green eyes. He wears a gray overcoat with yellow linings, a yellow dress shirt and a black necktie. His pants are the same color as his overcoat. His yellow-buttoned undercoat and fingerless gloves match his cordovan shoes, under which he wears yellow socks.
Biography
Background
Not much is known about Watts' past or how he joined Salem's faction, except that he was a scientist in Atlas working on the same research team as Pietro Polendina. At some point he was acquainted with Jacques Schnee as well. At a later point he was disgraced and faked his death, eventually ending up in Salem's servitude.
Volume 4
In "The Next Step", Watts attends a meeting at Salem's Domain with fellow associates Tyrian, Cinder and Hazel. Watts belittles Cinder for her "failure" at Beacon and loss to Ruby Rose. However, Salem arrives and chastises him for his needless "malignance". Watts is assigned to take over Cinder's duties while she recovers and meet with the group's informant in Mistral; to which he complies.
In "No Safe Haven", Watts is seen drinking tea and meeting with Salem's informant, who's revealed to be the headmaster of Haven Academy, Leonardo Lionheart.
Volume 5
In "Welcome to Haven", Watts eavesdrops on Lionheart's conversation with Qrow Branwen and Team RNJR. He then contacts Lionheart after they leave and tells him he needs to work on his improvisational skills.
In "Dread in the Air", Watts escorts Lionheart to a secret room to speak with Salem via Seer, and the latter informs her that Qrow arrived at Haven with Team RNJR and told them the Spring Maiden is with Raven Branwen's tribe. Salem praises her servant for retrieving this information and instructs Cinder and her team to meet with Watts and convince Raven to cooperate with them. She also instructs Watts to make a new scorpion tail for Tyrian, who lost it during his confrontation with Qrow and Team RNJR. Impressed, Watts tells Lionheart that it seems Qrow was right when he said the children weren't pushovers.
In "Rest and Resolutions", Watts arrives at the Branwen Tribe campground with Cinder, Emerald and Mercury.
In "A Perfect Storm", Watts meets with Raven and offers her a chance of "forgiveness" from Salem if she has Vernal open the chamber to the Relic of Knowledge. He also states that her time to decide is short as the White Fang plans to attack Haven soon. However, to his annoyance, Raven demands the death of Qrow in exchange for having Vernal open the chamber for them, and Cinder eagerly agrees. Watts angrily tells Cinder he knows she's doing this to get revenge on Ruby, and warns her that if their plan falls to pieces over her grudge with a child, he won't be the one taking the blame.
Volume 6
In "So That's How it is", Watts attends a meeting called by Salem, who chooses to leave Cinder behind after her failure at Haven Academy. Hazel then informs her the Ozpin has reincarnated, causing her to send Watts and the others away before unleashing her rage.
Volume 7
In “A New Approach”, Watts is seen walking through the streets of Mantle, he and Tyrian have a brief argument about how one hideout makes them susceptible to discovery and that they need to stay mobile. He reassures Tyrian by telling him the security in Mantle is outdated and that he wrote the code, allowing him to hack the security cameras, and allowing he and Tyrian to walk freely.
In “Pomp and Circumstance”, Watts arrives at the Schnee Manor. There he proposes to Jacques that he has a plan to help him win the election as well as help his company.
In “A Night Off”, Watts and Tyrian sabotaged Robyn Hill’s victory party. Working from the shadows, Watts hacked into the building, cutting the power, and altering the security camera footage to make it as if Penny was massacring Robyn’s supporters and not Tyrian. He even placed more votes to Jacques’ name. Shortly after Tyrian made his escape, Watts resumed power to the building, and uploaded the fixed footage of Penny.
In "Cordially Invited", Watts is seen standing on top of a building overlooking Mantle as he shuts down the city's power. As the rain turns into snow, Watts discards his umbrella into the city streets as he disappears.
In “As Above, So Below,” Watts and Tyrian watch the people of Mantle run amok and loot the dust stores.
In “Out in the Open,” Watts and Tyrian watch Ironwood and Robyn Hill expose them for the recent murders and for the rigged election. On his scroll, Watts looks at the schematics for the Amity Colosseum, and is dumbfounded how Ironwood had gotten that knowledge past him. Infuriated, Tyrian yells out that the Grimm should have destroyed their enemies, not made them friends. Watts decides to go to Amity Colosseum to sabotage it. While sending Tyrian to create more chaos in the Grimm attack. In Amity Colosseum, Watts talks to himself about how unfinished Ironwood’s project is, only to find out that it was a trap set by the general himself. Using his hacking rings, Watts transforms the arena. Evading Ironwoods gunshots, Watts makes his way to one of the levitating platforms, and draws his revolver.
Personality
| “ | Watts. Do you find such malignance necessary? | „ |
| ~ Salem, commenting on Watts' personalty. |
Watts is formal and speaks in a refined accent. However, he is also arrogant and condescending, even to his allies. However, he is humble enough to admit not to take credit he didn't achieve by himself, as when Salem initially thought he found out where the Spring Maiden is, he reveals it was by Qrow when he spoke to Leonardo.
Watts states that he has a low opinion of failure, which apparently extends to Cinder Fall after she was defeated by Ruby Rose. He criticizes and belittles Cinder and enjoys provoking her, especially since she cannot talk back. He also looks down upon her underlings, Emerald Sustrai and Mercury Black. Salem chastises him for his needless "malignance". However, he avoids speaking out of line in Salem's presence.
Arthur also has a tendency to become overly excited about new topics of study. Case in point, when he and Lionheart were reporting to Salem about the location of the Spring Maiden, Arthur showed immense interest in the Seer Grimm.
Powers and Abilities
Watts possesses a genius intellect and expertise in technology and computer systems, and is responsible for creating Mantle's entire security network back when he was still an Atlesian scientist. He was able to develop a virus that allowed Cinder to hack into the CCT tower and rig the Vytal Festival tournament, as well as Roman to hijack Atlas' Atlesian Knight-200s that were stationed in Vale. He also created a new stinger for Tyrian Callows after his old one had been cut off by Ruby Rose.
He uses special rings on his fingers that can let him hack into systems around him, so long as he has the code of the cyber security he wants to infiltrate, allowing him to be mobile and making it difficult to track him down. The rings can also generate hard-light Dust shields to defend him and makeshift platforms to walk across long gaps.
Watts also has some decent skill in combat and uses a 18-shot double-barrel revolver as his weapon of choice.
Quotes
| “ | My thoughts exactly. Even without her new power, it should have been effortless. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to everyone, during the meeting. |
| “ | Why thank you, Professor. Salem always did say you were... quite hospitable. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to Professor Lionheart. |
| “ | Oh, Leo. We have got to work on your improvisational skills. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to Professor Lionheart. |
| “ | I’m still just so fascinated by this creature. Cinder dear, are we coming through? Can you see us clearly? Well, as clearly as you can. | „ |
| ~ Watts, curious about the seer. |
| “ | Technically, I was also a doctor, but I must say, the rest was spot on. | „ |
| ~ Watts to Raven |
| “ | As much as I’d love to take credit, ma’am, I can’t say that either of us are to thank for this development. I guess you could say, a little birdie told us. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to Salem. |
| “ | Alright ladies, let's pause for a moment. We have one objective - retrieving the Relic of Knowledge. Now Qrow Branwen may be on our list of individuals we would very much like dead, but he's not going to go down without a fight, and he's not going to fight quietly. Our advantage here is just as you said - we walk straight into Haven, no resistance, no one the wiser. A battle with your brother throws that all out the window. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to Cinder and Raven about the Relic of Knowledge and Qrow Branwen. |
| “ | Wait. Don’t think I don’t see what you’re after. If this falls to pieces over a grudge with a child, I will not be taking the blame. | „ |
| ~ Watts, to Cinder. |
| “ | For the last time, a singular hideout makes us susceptible to discovery. (Tyrian: What if we’re seen, what if we’re recognized?) We stay mobile. | „ |
| ~ Watts arguing with Tyrian. |
| “ | (Tyrian: A city with a thousand eyes.) While cyber security has been stepped up in Atlas, none of the code was updated in Mantle. | „ |
| ~ Watts reassuring Tyrian. |
| “ | (Tyrian: Well that certainly sounds useful.) It should be, I helped write that code, after all. | „ |
| ~ Watts to Tyrian. |
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Trivia
- A "watt" is a unit of power used to express the rate of energy transfer which is generally correlated to electricity in modernized society. As a result, it invokes the colors associated with electricity especially shades of yellow, blue, and white seen in lightning.
- He is the only character thus far with a customized Scroll, as opposed to the standard version other characters use.
- Watts' emblem is a W symbol that appears on his customized personal Scroll and as a hologram in "Welcome To Haven" when Watts speaks to Leonardo Lionheart.
- In the Japanese dubbed version, Watts is voiced by Tooru Ookawa.
- Although unconfirmed, it is possible based off the fact that he is often given important assignments and the fact that he speaks as if he is the superior to the other member's to Salem's Faction, it is quite likely that he is her second-in-command.
