Seamus Watts

> "Jacob...Harriden? Where have you *been*?! You've been gone for *years*!"
>
> -Seamus Watts to Edwin

**Seamus Watts** is the co-founder of The Society of Arcane Esoterica alongside Jacob Harriden, and was formerly Jacob's friend and business partner.

## Seamus Watts

### Occupation

Co-founder of the Society of Arcane Esoterica(former), Businessman(current)

## Description:

Seamus Watts has wavy dark brown hair that looks nearly black, dark brown eyes, and tanned skin. He looks well-off by his style of dress and typically wears a monocle over his left eye, though mainly for appearances' sake and less because he actually needs it. He is about 57 years old.

## Personality:

Seamus Watts prides himself on his fastidious appearance and his cool-headedness in times of stress - the latter cultivated through years of dealing with stubborn businessmen and cajoling them to see his side of things. He is manipulative, two-faced, and adept at flattering others in order to come out on top, and has no qualms about either literally or figuratively stabbing his fellows in the back, as with his former friend and business partner, Jacob Harriden. Seamus is prone to fits of jealousy, and is a bit egotistical. He hates people that he thinks he should naturally be above in terms of status, and makes a habit of scheming in secret in order to bring them lower so that he can then act falsely sympathetic at their misfortune.

## Biography:

#### Pre-Series

Seamus Watts was born on April 8th, 1832 AKD alongside his twin sister Margie Watts to two upper class Anykkisian parents.

Jealous of Jacob's success and angry that he was refusing to listen to him, Seamus began scheming ways to get Jacob out of the way. He was contacted by a business associate by the name of Levi Carter who had heard of his problems with Jacob and decided to help him out. All Seamus had to do, Carter said, was to lace Jacob's drink with a sedative the next time they went out (incidentally to a casual dinner party among several of their respective colleagues), and Carter would have a few of his men come and collect Jacob when it was safe to do so.

When the time came, Seamus followed through with what Carter had said, and shortly after, escorted Jacob out of the party after apologizing for Jacob's oddly erratic behavior due to the effects of the sedative that Seamus had laced his drink with. Several minutes later, Jacob was nearly passed out on Seamus's shoulder, while Seamus begrudgingly dragged him over to a waiting carriage with blacked out windows. The occupants of the carriage roughly hauled Jacob into the carriage, and the last thing that Seamus saw of his former friend and business partner was Jacob's look of confused betrayal as he fully succumbed to the effects of the sedative.

Several weeks after, Seamus went to the police and told them that Jacob had gone missing, falsely claiming that he had no idea what had happened to him. While the police were initially suspicious of him, it gradually wore off as his false alibi held and the investigation wore on. A year or two into Jacob's disappearance, Seamus bribed the police commissioner and by extension, several higher-ups within the ranks in order to have the investigation closed and Jacob Harriden declared dead. The bribes were accepted, and several weeks later, the news was official: Dr. Jacob Harriden, lately the founder of the Society of Arcane Esoterica, was dead.

All was quiet for the next five or so years, aside from the occasional visit on Seamus' part to visit a completely shattered version of Jacob in the Gilded Hand's clutches. They made plans to hand Jacob over to Seamus once they felt that Jacob had been well and truly broken, and decided on a location for them to meet: an alley in the Faulkensund District, where they would leave Jacob for Seamus to collect.

When Seamus arrived, however, having double checked the alley on the map the Gilded Hand's members had given him, there was only several piles of spilled trash, and several corpses of three of the Gilded Hand's members, presumably the ones who were handing Jacob over to him, but no Jacob, not even a sign that he'd ever been there.

#### Memory

Seamus is first shown accosting an amnesiac Jacob Harriden and another man as they are out taking a walk and asking where Jacob has been (though Seamus knows full well where Jacob has been), as it's been almost six years since anyone has seen him. Jacob, not recognizing Seamus's voice, and not being able to see him, becomes skittish and, in a halting rasp that is barely above a stage whisper, says that he's sorry but he doesn't recognize Seamus at all. Seamus claims that he was worried about him, and that he'd had the police on Jacob's trail, but that they hadn't been able to find him.

Jacob, becoming progressively more anxious, backs up several steps, and turns as though to leave. Seamus grabs hold of his arm in order to stop him and pulls him toward him. Jacob freezes, trembling, and begs Seamus to let go of his arm. Seamus refuses, still pretending to be concerned, and attempts to remind Jacob that they were once friends. Jacob shakes his head wildly, pulls his arm out of Seamus's grasp, and stumbles backward, tripping over his heels as the stranger he's with darts forward to catch him.

## Relationships:

#### Jacob Harriden/Edwin

Though they initially got on rather well, Seamus grew jealous of his protege's success and decided to try and get him out of the way by having him kidnapped and declared dead.

#### Levi Carter

Seamus had no scruples against supporting Levi Carter in his aims or against allowing Jacob Harriden to fall into his clutches. They had an easy alliance of sorts, and Seamus was secretly infatuated with what Carter was doing with the Gilded Hand, and became an unofficial member, though he was still affiliated with the group.

#### Mr. O'Leary

Seamus and Mr. O'Leary share a mutual dislike for each other, though on Seamus's end, it is due to the fact that Mr. O'Leary saved Jacob from further harm, and therefore, messed up Seamus's plans to collect his former friend himself.

## Trivia:

* Seamus Watt's voice claim is Greirat from *Dark Souls 3.*
* He is partially based off of Obadiah Stane from *Iron Man*.