#tyriancallows

One thing I kind of wish existed is Team WTCH having any real connection to Team RWBY.

In short:

Watts couldn’t care less about Team RWBY. He never even met them and probably wouldn’t give a rat’s fur hat about them. His true nemesis is Ironwood instead.

Tyrian targeted Ruby mostly because of his job under Salem’s orders. Although he was furious at her for cutting off his stinger, he ultimately became more of Qrow’s enemy due to the chaos he caused later on.

Hazel only fought Team RWBY because they got in his way. Like the others, his real opposition was Ozpin and, by extension, Oscar—far more than Team RWBY itself.

Cinder doesn’t care much about most of Team RWBY aside from Ruby. Ironically, Ruby sees her as a threat but has a stronger nemesis relationship with Cinder’s lackeys, Roman and especially Neo.

I thought it was weird that a character named Tyrian (a type of purple) wears predominantly white and brown, so I recolored. him.

I didn’t change his actual design since I think it’s pretty good, except for those bandages on his arms. Original Below!:

How Tyrian Callows Can Work as a Personal Enemy for Team RWBY

Tyrian is actually one of the easiest Salem agents to turn into a genuine, burning arch-enemy for every single member of the team. He’s already halfway there in canon.

Ruby This one is already canon and extremely personal. Tyrian was sent specifically to capture or kill her on Salem’s direct orders. They fought one-on-one in Volume 4, he poisoned Qrow (her uncle and father figure) right in front of her, and she’s the one who cut off his scorpion tail. From Ruby’s side: he almost murdered the person who raised her. From Tyrian’s side: she humiliated him, permanently maimed him, and caused him to fail Salem (who then brutalized him as punishment). Tyrian is completely unhinged and obsessive; Ruby is 100% his white whale. He wants her screaming, broken, or dead, in that order.

Weiss Weiss herself never met him in canon, but Winter clearly has, and she was visibly terrified at the mere prospect of fighting Tyrian again. That alone tells us he’s left trauma on the Schnee family. Possibilities that require almost zero retcon:

Tyrian was the one who carried out several high-profile political assassinations in Atlas that got quietly blamed on the Schnee family (or that he deliberately made look like Jacques ordered them).

He stalked or fought Winter off-screen during the Atlas years, leaving her with scars (physical or mental) she never talks about.

During the fall of Atlas he targets the remaining Schnees on purpose, maybe even corners Whitley or Klein just to send Weiss a message. Tyrian has zero morals about killing entire families for fun; the Schnees are just another prestigious bloodline to paint the walls with.

Blake Extremely easy and already heavily implied. Tyrian is a Faunus who became one of the most sadistic, genocidal monsters on Remnant, the exact kind of traitor the White Fang radical wing claimed all Faunus would become if they didn’t follow them. He’s Adam Taurus cranked to eleven: a Faunus who revels in violence and serves a human witch who wants to exterminate humanity (including Faunus). His “plastic soldiers and pawns” line is almost certainly a direct dig at the White Fang. Blake hears a Faunus call her people disposable cannon fodder while laughing about murder, and it’s not hard to see why she’d take that personally. Bonus: Tyrian would find Blake’s idealism hilarious and love breaking her spirit before he kills her.

Yang Also very straightforward. Tyrian nearly murdered Qrow (the closest thing she and Ruby have to a dad), poisoned him in front of her, laughed about it, and has been actively trying to kill or capture her little sister for years. On the flip side, Tyrian sees Yang as the loud, angry obstacle that keeps getting in the way of Ruby. He’d take great pleasure in taunting her about her lost arm, her abandonment issues, or how easy it would be to finish what Adam started. Their fighting styles are also perfect mirrors: raw power vs unhinged agility. Yang would love nothing more than to punch that grin off his face permanently.

This is my opinion on the RWBY villains. For Team WTCH, I wish we had actually seen them working together more… and I don’t mean just Cinder, Hazel, Tyrian, and Watts hanging out as friends. I mean actually seeing them collaborate to cause real trouble for the heroes. Yet they barely ever appear together on screen, which kind of makes the whole team feel superfluous.