u/Revolutionary_Bit232

Yes, this is the same person. To provide more context, he's an arrogant Atlesian who loves science, hates relying on “magic”and thinks most Huntsmen get way too comfortable depending on their Semblances. Instead, he prefers building his own weapons and solving problems with technology.

His main weapon is a pair of experimental gauntlets that can create defensive energy fields and redirect attacks.

His main intent? He genuinely wants to help people with science but he just also convinced that he’s usually the smartest person in the room.

He also lives by the word that given by his father. "Wishing isn’t very scientific.”

Then everything changed when a group of teenagers destroyed his place that ended up displacing him and his fellow men in a desert.

So hear me out. When Team RWBY returns from the Ever After to Vacuo, they expect to reunite with everyone, rally the refugees, and prepare for Salem.

But instead they discover that while they were gone, a large portion of the surviving Atlas and Mantle population stopped waiting for Huntsmen or Shade Academy to solve their problems. They rallied around the new leader who is a brilliant anti-magic Atlesian engineer who used salvaged Atlas technology to build Neo-Atlas as a fortified city-state in the Vacuan desert that meets the necessities to make the refugees actually have lives again.

The problem is that many of those people don't remember Team RWBY as uncomplicated heroes because from their perspective, Ruby Rose came to them with another impossible heroic plan but Atlas was destroyed, and they were dumped into a hostile desert with almost nothing. Whether that blame is completely fair doesn't really matter politically and they lived through it.

Meanwhile the so-called High Architect was actually there afterward and rebuilt the society along with the atlesian minds out of spite. So when RWBY eventually clashes with him, they discover they can't just treat him like another villain and beat him into submission. The refugees themselves defend him because destroying or seizing his infrastructure could endanger thousands of civilians who depend on it to survive.

So basically he would become a Volume 10's third-party antagonist. He absolutely refuses to side with Salem because he considers Grimm, gods, magic, destiny, etc. insults to human progress but he also despises Team RWBY by viewing them as reckless vigilantes who keep gambling other people's lives on heroic ideals.

This is the same guy from before

This is art I made for my OC, Brother Graymond Du Puy, a Mistrali warrior priest in the Table Breakers.

Theme: Media Vita (A memento mori that mortality coexists with everyday existence, and death can touch human life at any moment.)

Allusion: Cain - but Graymond was the foster child in a wealthy family who murdered the biological son out of jealousy and envy. No matter how skilled he was, the attention never belonged to Graymond.

His brother slit his mouth to the ear by defense and enraged Graymond to actually murder him. He was cast out the same night and never given treatment. Half starved and wounded, he wandered like a blind man until he collapsed near the monastery and he was taken by the monks.