Walton

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Walton is a new character introduced in The Watterson who supports Gumball Watterson and the rest of the main cast. He is the one who replaced Nicole Watterson at the Rainbow Factory when she left for the Toon Wars following the Gumball Saga, and is the son of Dr. Zach Osseo, founder of Spectra Corp. Since then, he's made friends with Richard and is typically seen as the every man of Elmore; the most normal out of all the residence (yes. Even compared to Gumball's neighbors or his teachers). When the Spectra Corp clones took Elmore hostage, Walton immediately recognized their organization and took it upon himself to try and investigate, helping Gumball and his allies uncover the truth about the company, as well as his father's secret initiative. After returning to his old home in Netherworld, he moved back and married Nicole 39. He is voiced by Steve Harris who once voiced Ethan Bennett from *The Batman*.

## Appearance

Walton appears as a lean anthropomorphic pug with a light grey patch of fur around his mouth and nose while the rest of him is dark. He wears a suit with the same colors as Richard with the Rainbow Factory button on the left of his chest. Like The Wattersons, he doesn't wear shoes and has three toes and 5 figures. His ears are also somewhat floppy, often hanging down the sides of his head.

## Personality

Like some in Elmore such as Penny's father, Walton is the every man of the town but to a striking degree. His looks combined with his personality make him one of the most normal dissidents to Gumball, seen as quiet, calm, and usually hard at work. He doesn't talk much about his life outside of his office job believing its nothing special. However, he is very open to Richard and Gumball. In spite of all the intense moments throughout the story, including his discovery that his father was responsible for making the clones, Walton is still very much an optimist, able to find positives in a given situation with a laid back attitude.

## Biography

### Early Life and The Amazing World of Gumball

Walton was born in Netherworld as the son of Zach Osseo, an employee of Spectra Corp and their Rainbow Factory subsidiary. However, he was not entirely aware of his father's actual job as the company's founder, responsible for their secret cloning project. When the gas leak of the main facility broke out, Walton and his mother moved to Elmore, eventually finding new jobs there. Walton's mother was killed when the Syndicate attacked the city in the Gumball Saga, after which he took Nicole's place as a worker in the Rainbow Factory.

### The Watterson

While Nicole Watterson was gone from work, Walton befriended her husband Richard and met Gumball after his training was complete. He was tasked with dumping the old files of the company in their storage facility, though he personally didn't get the importance of them. Walton would soon come to find out from his curiosity, taking a late shift to investigate when Spectra Corp somehow returned in the form of a Nicole clone army. He was met by Gumball, Darwin, Penny, Carrie, and Bobert on their mission to learn more about them too, searching the old files before they could be ambushed by the clones in the factory. Walton takes the files and manages to find a company van to use to escape to Netherworld out of trace from the clones. However, Nicole 39 confronts him, asking what his purpose is for helping Gumball. He confesses this is mostly personal since his father was related to Spectra Corp and he wanted to help Richard's sons out of respect. Nicole 39 is knocked out by Carrie and brought with the group on their way to Netherworld through a closed off forest path outside of town.

After a long nightly drive, Walton introduces the gang to his home town, reuniting with his old friend Jeff Gator and Spectra Corp's head chef, Tim the Tortoise. Tim explains to Walton that had his father not told him he would take his shift on the night of the gas leak, he likely would have died. He jokingly mistakes Walton and 39 as a couple, believing the clone not to be a threat since he's seen what Supreme Nicole is like compared to her subjects. Although her mission was set out for her, 39 in reality wanted Gumball to be able to escape his world with her instead of staying in constant fear. Walton, however, does emphasize with her, though he believes they should still stop Supreme Nicole from attacking the planet. While Bobert extracts the data from the old Spectra Corp files, Walton gives 39 and the other girls enough to pay for new clothes and introduces Gumball and Darwin to the waterfall and his old home for sale, noticing Nicole 24 leaving in the same area. Eventually, Bobert finishes his task but is hesitant about showing Walton specifically, not wanting to upset him. The files reveal that Walton's father was actually the founder of Spectra Corp, aiming to rid the world of all abnormal life according to his design, mainly from past trauma. He insists it's to keep someone like Walton from experiencing what he had to endure for years, slowly being consumed by regret from keeping it a secret.

Despite Zach Osseo's secret life being revealed to Walton long after his father's death, he is generally unphased by it, strongly thankful that Zach was still respectable to him whenever he saw him. The next day, Walton tells 39 that had it not been for his father, even with all the terrible things he was planning, he likely would have never met her nor her clones. Walton along with Tim and Jeff participate in the plan to infiltrate Spectra Corp and attract the clones away from Elmore to return to base. Thus preventing their nuking of the city. Unfortunately, thanks to Nicole 41's warning to Commander Nicole, the clones ambushed the group at the base, shooting Walton in the back. As he's knocked out, Carrie overshadows him to fight back until he regains consciousness when the clones realize their wrongdoings and are forced to battle the new Richard clones. Walton then enters Supreme Nicole's throne room to help Gumball battle her guards, managing to distract them long enough for them to be defeated by the main fighters. He and the others besides Gumball and Darwin are forced out of the chamber from a teleporter spawned by Supreme Nicole. Fortunately, she was quickly defeated from her own mistake and Gumball was able to conquer her trick to try and corrupt him.

Nicole Watterson arrived soon after to repair Gumball's injuries and introduce herself to her clone sisters, turning out to be their long lost clone number rather than their template. Relieved, Walton and Nicole 39 embrace and later opt to get married and move back into Netherworld, where he purchases his old home and repaints it.

## Trivia

* Walton likes reading books on mythologies. Even fanfiction, though he tends to have a critical eye in that category.
* Like Bob and Fusion, Walton is one of the new characters created by Frozarburst for the purpose of adding to the stories they're introduced in; each with their own unique personalities and histories.
* When choosing actors, Frozar noticed Tim, another character for the Watterson, is voiced by the same actor who played The Joker from The Batman and Bulkhead from Transformers Prime.
* Walton likes to paint as evidenced by the end of The Watterson.
* Since the show's airing, some fans of TAWOG felt that Nicole was better off with a different husband than Richard, which didn't cross Frozar's mind. As a compromise, he improved Richard's character and design over time, even giving him a new body. While Walton actually does marry a version of Nicole but not the Watterson one.