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hello!  i’m atlas, formerly @atlasci​.  i decided to give tumblr one more attempt, so here i am!  this account is dashboard-only and this pinned post works as a directory.  it’ll be updated as needed.

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     1】 no one on CRWBY (or who work for rooster teeth in general) owe you an explanation or an apology for literally anything. every “bad” thing people bring up about them is either incredibly debatable/subjective and therefore completely invalid, or it happened so long ago that the issue has resolved itself. continuing to harp on these people for things that are entirely irrelevant is incredibly damaging. we as a fandom are lucky that they engage with us on such an admittedly intimate level, but so many of you get mad when they defend themselves or get angry or make a mistake. it needs to stop.

     2】 for the love of god shut the fuck up when your side character faves don’t have a whole episode to themselves. the show is literally called RWBY. i get sad when arthur isn’t in an episode, yeah, especially if i feel like the plot was heading that way anyway. but i don’t throw a tantrum like a child. either be patient and wait for a spinoff show about the side characters or consume fan material and stop demanding irrelevant characters from the writers, it’s that simple.

the watts family has been breeding their heirs in a very specific way for countless generations. there are set rules that each family follows in order to keep things ‘pure’ and generally acceptable in the family’s eyes. these rules are as follows.

no family is permitted to ever have more than one child. there are always three: mother, father, child. no aunts, no uncles, no cousins, or at least not blood relation.

the father is always the head of the household, even if the mother was the one born into the watts name.

the surname remains no matter what. no hyphenations, no preferred names. you are a watts.

selected spouses must be conventionally attractive and of vacuoan descent. at least one of their parents has to be from the kingdom. the only exceptions here have been in cases where the chosen spouse was adopted by non-vacuoan parents.

spouses must also have dark skin, black hair, and green or blue eyes. these rather unique features have become a sort of staple of the watts family name and have been a constant for generations now.

the spouse must also be a snake faunus of some sort. cobra genetics places you at the top of the list, but any snake will do. the family has been purebred serpent since the dawn of time, practically.

spouses must be rich and/or incredibly intelligent. if one of these traits doesn’t exist, the other must be in a high enough standard to ‘make up’ for it. for example, if a spouse is incredibly stupid but rich, they can be selected, or if they’re poor but intelligent. the preference is for both of these traits to exist, but it is not a requirement.

couples must exist in a male/female pattern, regardless of their sexualities. it’s not uncommon in the watts family for one of the two to have affairs with those of the same sex. this is, surprisingly, not considered a problem, so long as the affair never produces children and is kept out of the public eye.

if one of the two passes away, there are a few rules that must be followed. if a child has already been born, the remaining of the couple may select whomever they wish to remarry, under the understanding that they cannot have children. if a child is not yet born, the arrangement process begins again.

there have been a few very rare cases in which a watts child has been married off to a non-vacuoan spouse for the sake of business dealings or public relations. when this happens, a surrogate is chosen for their eventual child to keep the bloodline ‘pure.’

meet purrvati, arthur’s pet cat. he’s had her for years–she’s nearly 20 years old. she’s a russian blue/maine coon mix and she’s very large and very fat. arthur is the only person she’ll let pet her or hold her. everyone else gets hissed at, scratched, or attacked. arthur took her with him when he left for evernight, unable to part with her because he’s raised her from the time she was almost a newborn kitten. she spends most of her time on top of the shelves in arthur’s office or on the windowsill in his bedroom, and she sleeps next to him every night, curled up by his side.

he’s always had a Thing about counting, not just the bullets in his gun. he counts calories to keep himself occupied, counts steps to measure his distance, counts how many times he chews his food, he counts everything

he has several books on medicine memorized perfectly and can tell you how any known medication or drug interacts with another

he taught himself to sew when he was very little and kept scraps of fabric in his coat at all times in his youth to stitch and/or practice his sutures when he was anxious

he raps his fingers against solid surfaces, especially if he’s wearing his rings

arthur only drinks unsweetened chai tea with no cream, in the same cup he’s had since childhood

arthur is genderfluid, and she realized this when she was about twelve. unfortunately, her parents kinda fucking sucked and she wasn’t able to do anything to help her dysphoria for years. she uses he/she/they pronouns interchangeably and will answer to any of them, but how she refers to herself changes on a regular basis. she doesn’t expect anyone to keep up with it.

she does experience a lot of dysphoria, both body and gender. in order to fight these things, she has a handful of things she’s done to her body and has to cycle through when needed.

arthur had minor facial feminization surgery to reduce her brow/forehead, soften her jawline, and alter the shape of her nose a bit

she has breast implants! they’re small enough that she doesn’t feel the need to bind. as a matter of fact, even when not presenting femininely, she often wears a bra. her chest is a medium B cup.

to help with extra dysphoria that comes and goes, she owns a small collection of corsets to make her waist look more waspish and a long, curly black wig to wear in order to frame her face better. her usual haircut is designed specifically to accentuate her masculine features, so she selected the wig to do the opposite.

she’s still very connected to her masculinity, so she avoids hormone therapy to keep from losing any of her facial or body hair, or losing any sensitivity or use of her penis. this is also why she didn’t have any surgery to modify her waist size or enlarge her backside (though some of her skirts do have tulle sewn into the butt to give her extra curves).

her mustache is very important to her on all facets of her gender. she can’t really explain it, but it makes her feel masculine when she wants to be masculine, feminine when she wants to be feminine, and androgynous when she wants to be androgynous.

were she to ever get married, she would refer to herself as the wife regardless of her preferences otherwise.

arthur liked to dissect animals. it started as a genuine desire to learn, as he taught himself how to do it, but he quickly went from dissecting already-dead animals he found near his home to actively hunting and catching them. everything from frogs to stray dogs and cats and sometimes even runaway pets. while on vacation to mistral once, arthur left while his parents were out with some medical supplies stolen from his father. he snuck onto a local farmer’s property, sedated a cow, and vivisected it. he came home covered in blood and his father hit him for the first time because of it.

arthur wet the bed until he was nearly twelve, a very uncommon and concerning thing for a child that old. this wasn’t a rare occurrence either, but a regular event that happened at least twice a week for years. when confronted about it, he would always explain that he was scared to leave his room after bedtime.

arthur kept a diary to help with his anxieties. his mother found it one day and tore it to shreds after finding out that he had been organizing his thoughts about all the ways he could hurt or kill his parents and himself. he wasn’t actively suicidal or homicidal, but these thoughts had become so regular that he kept it all written down.

because of his parents’ strict upbringing, arthur exposed himself to things like pornography very, very early. he’d been forbidden from it and his parents would talk about the depravity of it, which of course piqued his interest. arthur was at least attempting masturbation before he hit puberty and during his little “hunting trips” would observe a little closer than he should have when he’d run across animals mating