Watchmen

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NOTE: The "Watchmen" were not an organization like the CWCProtectSquad or the Guard Dogs. Rather, like how the "Patriots" was the name given to a clique of trolls, "Watchmen" was the name given to a group of Chris enablers and white knights that had befriended one another, and run various Discord servers, by one of its members. The WCT, one of its members, was also considering dropping the name when he created the Knights of CWC

“	You brought so much fucking joy to this world and you continue to do so. That's why [...] you need to remain safe.	”
Naught, one of the Watchmen, to Chris.

“	Something going further wrong in the group once again?	”
Chris, showing awareness of the group's tendency for internal drama.

Watchmen
Information
Name	Watchmen
Also known as	Watchdogs
Saga	Jacob, Secret Shipfic, Watchmen, Crystalgate, Lainchu, Quickening, Incest

The Watchmen (sometimes mistakenly refered to as "the Watchdogs") were a clique of fanatical enablers whose members served as gatekeepers and white knights for Chris. Their goal was to keep away malicious individuals trying to troll or scam Chris. In practice, however, the clique was highly aggressive towards outsiders coming into contact with Chris whether they demonstrated malice or not. Watchmen members tracked and collected information on anyone involved with - or attempting to get involved with - Chris, and had little hesitation in regards to doxing any potential weens, trolls, and A-logs. Hostilities were occasionally shown in the form of feuds, with rumors and disinformation spread by members MKRNightVee, Naught, The WCT, and XIII on their perceived enemies, or raids by various Watchmen members. Infighting ran rampant, with the group splintering into a few iterations over internal conflicts. After Chris was jailed for incest, their purpose became moot.

Their approach was rather controversial, as they gained Chris's favor by means of enabling his delusions by pretending to be fellow CPU goddesses and encouraging his beliefs in magical thinking and the Dimensional Merge. Another tactic they used was in drawing fanart for him, typically for fantasy immersion - such art features Chris or Watchmen members in CPU or Sonichu forms; the art was usually drawn by either MKRNightVee or AquaDiamond8. They have also made use of the OC Lainchu, played by at least four members of the group.

As a faction, the Watchmen were involved in several events over the course of late 2019 onwards, such as attempting to dismantle Jacob Sockness’s influence over Chris and drive him off. They also shut down the Arbitarch CWC Alliance Discord server from Naught's allegation that the server was being used to gather content. Chris had contact with the Watchmen, including chatting with them on Google Hangouts and over Discord. The Watchmen were also behind the Discord leaks in August 2020, and the Discord Q&As.

The group existed in various forms from 2019-2021 and was given its current name on August 2020 by Klop, as a reference to the 1986/1987 DC Comics limited series by Alan Moore, David Gibbons, and John Higgins. However, the Watchmen themselves did not model their online personas after characters from the DC franchise, in contrast to how The Miscreants presented themselves as a shadowy cabal like the Patriots from their inspiration, Metal Gear. Rather, many of its members modeled their personas after fanmade CPU Goddesses.

Origins

Christian Weston Manhattan

What eventually became the Watchmen group had its roots in the CWC Rebellion Discord server, a trolling group. There, Owls met Meghan (aka MKRNightVee or MKR), and Talia (whom Owls described as "a person exploiting and egging MKR on to talk to Chris").

MKR got into contact with Chris through a friend looking up his phone number. Owls tried to coach MKR and avoid problems, though he admits he didn't do well at it.

After MKR had been in contact with Chris for some time, Owls came up with the idea to try to manipulate Chris's beliefs away from the Dimensional Merge through telling him that the CPU goddesses had relocated to Earth. MKR recruited her friends to role-play as CPUs to Chris over Discord; Owls acted as a gatekeeper between MKR's friends and Chris.

“	time passed talking with Meghan for about a month or so there came an idea from me in the most autistic way possible "convince Chris that merge wasn't happening and that CPU had decided to be on earth and act like normal people in society". foolishly believing this would work Meghan gathered some people from different servers she said we could trust and we made a server. this idea failed and when the first person decided to brag about it on a different discord I shut down the idea.	”
Owls

According to Naught, Owls acted as liaison between the CPU group and Marvin of the Guard Dogs group (the latter also being gatekeepers to Chris at the time) but Naught claimed that Owls wasn't reporting back to Marvin. Owls later left the group.

Reveal

The Watchmen group revealed its presence in August 2020. The reveal was seemingly spurred by a video Chris secretly produced on 6 August, Chris's Last Will and Testament, which he decided to share with the Watchman member Naught. Concerned over the contents of the video, a CWCki account was made by Naught and the video leaked to the public. Days later, on 10 August, Naught entered the Official CWCki Server and leaked a large amount of material Chris had shared with the group over the past year. He then invited Chris into the server to take fan questions (though moderators decided to remove Chris from the server four days later).

The Players

Members

Main article: Watchmen members

Untrusted Guests

See also: Jacob Sockness, Praetor, Isabella Loretta Janke, and Fiona

The WCT discusses in the Second Layer about allowing Bella into the Knights of CWC server.

The Watchmen hosted various untrusted guests such as Jacob Sockness and Praetor in their Discord servers, assigning them to the First Layer of channels which Chris and themselves could view, and blocking them from viewing the Second Layer, where the Watchmen could discuss them in private.

The Knights had taken a page from this, and also hosted "untrusted guests", such as Bella and Fiona in their Discord server, assigning them to the First Layer of channels which Chris and themselves could view, and blocking them from viewing the Second Layer, where the Knights could discuss them in private.

Due to their shared involvement in Christory, most especially with regards to the Incest Call, their planned involvement with Everfree Northwest, and the speculation about them that followed afterwards, two particular "untrusted guests", Bella and Fiona, are referred to as "The Untrusted Guests", to refer to them as a duo.

Behavior

Toxic trio

The "toxic trio" is Chris's term for former members Naught, Kyle, and MKRNightVee.

Rationalizations for Enabling

Some Watchmen have come to rationalize why they enable Chris.

In a 9 March 2021 Discord Chat; MKR, Kyle, and an unknown Watchman were discussing that they needed to enable Chris with his delusions for his own safety, as they believed that "he wouldn't last long".

Interactions with others

Ben Saint

Ben Saint is an enabler who exploited Chris's infamy to boost his own webcomic series by inserting Chris's Night Star OC, which led to conflict with Chris.

On 23 September 2019, Watchmen members raided a Twitch stream of Ben's to call him out.

Dillin Thomas

On 24 January 2020, Dillin Thomas uploaded a recording of Watchmen members harassing him on Discord.

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Direct link	Youtube, archive
Stardate	24 January 2020
Made By	Dillin Thomas (DHT)
TRUE and HONEST Sonichu Fan Videos

Joseph Draft

Joseph Draft planned a documentary project titled Chris Chan VS. The Internet. He made arrangements and filmed footage with Chris before the documentary was cancelled. According to Naught, Draft destroyed the drive with the footage over stress from Megan changing her mind about being included and other YouTubers trying to monetize it, and that Naught had "a 4 hour conversation" with Draft in which he got him "to face dox himself once he destroyed his drive with chris vs the internet."

Midnight Moonflower

See also: Midnight's Nightlings and Starettes

Midnight Moonflower is a former friend of Chris who met him at a BronyCon. The Watchmen raided her Discord server to intimidate its members over Chris being a member of the server.

Praetor

Main articles: Praetor-Watchmen Conflicts and Taser

Praetor is a group of carpetbaggers that first interacted with Chris as late as 22 September 2020. After Chris talked with the Watchmen about a "lore bible" that the group was collaborating with him on, as well as a sermon he planned to make about the Dimensional Merge after having a dream about a golden disc, they began to become suspicious of the group. They briefly talked about this with the Praetor Discord account, which was run by Caden Peck, the CEO of the company.

The sermon, combined with other related incidents, had made the Watchmen view Praetor as an enemy, especially after Chris had mentioned wanting to use a taser to shock his Gate Crystal, something which prompted the members to confront Caden. After Chris confronted the Watchmen about their approach towards the group, some of the members viewed this as a sign that Praetor had their grasp on him and that they still needed to pry him away.

Bella

The WCT hosted the Regarding Chris chats, where he and a few minor Watchmen had interviewed Bella in order to get an understanding of the Incest Call leaks.

Fiona

The Watchman Val had face doxed Fiona, and leaked her YouTube account onto the CWCki Discord server, causing him to get banned. Fiona was also one of the people interviewed by the Watchmen in the Regarding Chris group chat after the Incest Call was leaked.

The American Hedgehog

Hurtful's Kiwi Farms profile picture

“	I was a lurker in the The Place and Knights Watchmen servers but not actively. I’d generally peer in when Chris posted in the 1st layer which was easy to tell because he’d @ everyone. Sometimes I’d look at the 2nd hidden layer to see what they were discussing, and most of it seemed boring to me - commentary about CWC Twitter updates, his weens, personal talk, off-topic posting, etc.	”
Hurtful Truth Level on his observations of The Place server.

The American Hedgehog, also known as Hurtful Truth Level, is a Kiwi Farms moderator, and a jerkop and bureaucrat for the CWCki. He was also a member of The Place after being invited in August 2020, and is responsible for leaking content from the server from both the First and Second Layer, and making it accessible as of March 2025. He also joined the Knights of CWC server after being invited by WCT. Despite Anaxis' claims that he is "pretty strictly an observer in the purest sense", Hurtful has conversed directly with Chris on at least two occasions.

Discord

The Watchmen's primary platform for reaching out to Chris and people that they suspected as being weens was Discord.

Server Structure

Watchmen server The Place. Second layer channels are visible in this image under "2nd Layer".

Watchmen server The Knights of CWC. Second layer channels are visible in this image under "Private".

Both The Place and The Knights of CWC Discord servers were structured to have two layers of channels. The Watchmen assigned roles to server members to allow them to view certain layers.

The First Layer included a General channel for Chris to chat in. Chris and the Watchmen's Untrusted Guests could view and post only in the First Layer.

The Second Layer included a channel for discussion of Chris. The layer was hidden from Chris and Untrusted Guests to enable the Watchmen to hold discussions.

Discord servers

Below are a list of several of the Discord Servers that were created for the iniative of the Watchmen.

Arbitarch CWC Alliance

This was from before the Watchmen had fully come out to the public. The server was eventually shut down.

The Place

Main article: The Place

See also

• CWCProtectSquad
• Guard Dogs
• The Knights of CWC - A group that The WCT had created following getting doxed by Naught.
• The Miscreants - Essentially the inverse of the Watchmen
• Nightvee & the Warriors For Andromeda, a TSSSF pack featuring some Watchmen
• Watchmen Chats

References

Watchmen Saga
The Players Chris Watchmen groups: The Sons of the Miscreants • Arbitarch CWC Alliance • The Place Watchmen members: The WCT • MKRNightVee • Naught • Kyle • Owls Targets: Jacob Sockness • Midnight Moonflower • Ben Saint • Carrie Krueger • James Lewis Martin • Larry Vaughn • Praetor Watchmen Chats: General • Solo Members (AquaDiamond8 • Kyle • MKRNightVee • Naught • Spunky • The WCT)
Enabling and Delusions:	Targeted Orbiters:	Other
Randy Stair Delusions	Midnight's Nightlings and Starettes	The Create Unknown 2020 Discord leaks
Coinciding Sagas Jacob, Secret Shipfic, Lainchu, Crystalgate, Warhol, Quickening, Incest

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