Wade Owen Watts

"Being a teenager for him, and being a young adult for me, Wade Owen Watts and I are ready to enter OASIS and as we are actin' it out like Percival, his name would've been changed into Parzival. That sounds futuristic, doesn't it?"

--Su Ji-Hoon, Ready Player Two

Wade Owen Watts is the protagonist and narrator of Ernest Cline's novel, Ready Player One. He is a poor orphan from the "stacks" surrounding metropolitan Oklahoma City. Wade names his OASIS character Parzival after Percival, the Arthurian knight famous for his quest for the Holy Grail, and dedicates his life to finding James Halliday's Easter egg.