History Pantheon / DeathManipulators

* Symbol: An obol coin.
* Theme Song: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTYRLiJsag Battle With Charon]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWKo9zBa5uI Final Expense]]

* Allies: [[Pantheon/BodyParts Osiris]], [[Pantheon/EarthAndRock Geb]], [[Pantheon/AquaticLife Sobek]], Deities That Are A LittleBitBeastly, Most Pantheon/PowerRangers, teams[[Pantheon/LawAndJustice Shikieiki Yamaxanadu]], [[Pantheon/{{Otherness}} Anakaris]], [[Pantheon/{{Unpopularity}} Hades]], [[Pantheon/AfterlifeEntities Decim]]

* Allies: [[Pantheon/BodyParts Osiris]], [[Pantheon/EarthAndRock Geb]], [[Pantheon/AquaticLife Sobek]], Deities That Are A LittleBitBeastly, Doggie Kruger, [[Pantheon/LawAndJustice Shikieiki Yamaxanadu]], [[Pantheon/{{Otherness}} Anakaris]], [[Pantheon/{{Unpopularity}} Hades]], [[Pantheon/AfterlifeEntities Decim]]

* Theme Song: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBTYRLiJsag Battle With Charon]]

* Allies: [[Pantheon/EvilActions Davros]], [[Pantheon/{{Mentalism}} Tzeentch]], [[Pantheon/MonsterTypes The Brainspawn]], [[Pantheon/OtherworldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations Bill Cipher]], [[Pantheon/RobotsAndAutomata The Starmen]], [[Pantheon/OthernessAbominations Giygas]], [[Pantheon/VillainousReputation Junko]]

* Doc Scratch has some aggrievances with The Incubators. While he considered their abilities to manipulate without lying almost as good as his, he is against them trying to prolong the lifetime of the Universe, as he needs it to end in order to summon Lord English. Preventing the heat death of the Pantheon is delaying his master's inevitable summoning when it comes to accomplishing goals using the approach of waiting for it to end naturally. How did he lower their Contracting amount? By gathering as many clips of their Contracts as he could, using his Omniscience for ExactWords and Word of Mouth, and gathered clips of Magical Girls becoming Witches. Then, he hacked into nearly every broadcasting media, be it radio, computer, etc, and revealed EVERYTHING, including how Homura Akemi has caused needless problems for many other villains and it is their fault, putting both a target on the back of the Incubators and Homura. [[TheBadGuyWins And it went perfectly.]] Their successes in contracting others HAVE decreased.

* Doc Scratch has some aggrievances with The Incubators. While he considered their abilities to manipulate without lying almost as good as his, he is against them trying to prolong the lifetime of the Universe. Since he has to wait for the universe the Pantheon is in to end naturally, since trying to end it prematurely will just have him be foiled by Deities far more powerful than him, prolonging the heat death of the Pantheon's universe is delaying his master's inevitable summoning. How did he lower their Contracting amount? By gathering as many clips of their Contracts as he could, using his Omniscience for ExactWords and Word of Mouth, and gathered clips of Magical Girls becoming Witches. Then, he hacked into nearly every broadcasting media, be it radio, computer, etc, and revealed EVERYTHING, including how Homura Akemi has caused needless problems for many other villains and it is their fault, putting both a target on the back of the Incubators and Homura. [[TheBadGuyWins And it went perfectly.]] Their successes in contracting others HAVE decreased.

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[[folder:Doc Scratch]]

“[[white:You could say, Alternia was home to a peaceful race. Trollkind had never known the corrupting influence in their evolution which led them to perpetual war and violence.]]”

“[[white:That is to say, they had never known me.]]”

'''[[Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} Doc Scratch]], The God Who Successfully [[ThanatosGambit Planned His Own Death]]''' (Li’l Cal, Mirthful Messiah, White Text Guy, Mr. Vanilla Milkshake, An Excellent Host, [[VideoGame/{{Hiveswap}} The White Man]])
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* First Guardian (equivalent to a Greater God, though his abilities in manipulation and planning are that of an Overdeity)
* Symbol: His Cue Ball head
* Theme Music: [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-2 Scratch]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/baroqueback-bowtier-scratchs-lament-2 Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch’s Lament)]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-JyKYGaVs White Host, Green Room]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/worst-end WORST END]]
* Alignment: LawfulEvil, and quite possibly whatever Lord English wants him to be
* Portfolio: '''[[ThanatosGambit Successfully Planning His Own Death]]''', [[TheOmniscient Borderline Omniscient]], [[SmugSuper Incredibly Smug and Powerful]], being TheChessmaster, [[CardCarryingVillain making it very clear he is evil]], [[ManipulativeBastard successfully manipulating EVERYONE]], [[TheCorrupter corrupting a peaceful species into a warfaring race]] [[FinalSolution AND setting up their extinction]], [[AbusiveParents being a HORRIBLE]] ParentalSubstitute, speaking entirely in white, [[FriendlyEnemy being a friendly enemy]] [[CompleteMonster despite being as monstrous as Lord English]], [[VillainsNeverLie never lying]], [[ExactWords but never needing to]], [[HostileShowTakeover successfully taking over the narrative for a while]], [[NighInvulnerability being Nigh Invulnerable]], [[NonHumanHead having a cue ball for a head]], [[SatanicArchetype Satanic Archetypes]], FauxAffablyEvil personified, [[TheBadGuyWins Ultimately Gets What He Wants]]
* Domains: Planning, Intelligence, Servitude, Depravity, Corrupting, Manipulation, Omnicide, Omniscience, Hosts
* Followers: [[Anime/EurekaSeven Dewey Novak]], [[ComicBook/GoldDigger Gothwrain]]
* Superior: '''[[Pantheon/NonAthleticSports Lord]] [[Pantheon/TimeAndTemporality English]]'''
* Allies: [[Pantheon/EvilActions Davros]], [[Pantheon/{{Mentalism}} Tzeentch]], [[Pantheon/MonsterTypes The Brainspawn]], [[Pantheon/OtherworldlyAndUnorthodoxLocations Bill Cipher]], [[Pantheon/RobotsAndAutomata The Starmen]], [[Pantheon/OthernessAbominations Giygas]], [[Pantheon/VillainousReputation Junko]]
* Rivals: [[Pantheon/TimePlacement Xehanort]], [[Pantheon/MindControl Death Phantom]], [[Pantheon/{{Trickery}} Victor Von Doom]], [[Pantheon/CrueltyAndSadism Yuuki Terumi]], [[Pantheon/VillainousArchetypes Mephisto]]
* Enemies: '''''[[OmnicidalManiac Everyone]]''''', especially '''''[[Pantheon/SpecializedNarratives The Homestuck Kids]]''''', [[Pantheon/TimeAndTemporality The Doctor]], [[Pantheon/FictionalExpies Professor Paradox]], [[Pantheon/FamilyAndRelatives Piccolo]], [[Pantheon/EmotionalCombat Asura]], [[Pantheon/{{Advertising}} The Incubators]], [[Pantheon/NamingAndEpithets Deathstroke]], [[Pantheon/DreadAndValor Monika]], The Houses of Pantheon/FamilyAndRelatives and Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie
* Opposed by: [[Pantheon/TimeTravelling Homura Akemi]]
* Disregards: [[Pantheon/{{Planning}} Light Yagami]]
* {{Unwitting Pawn}}s: [[TheChessmaster Many]], '''[[GambitRoulette MANY]]''' people.
* Doc Scratch is a First Guardian. First Guardians are incredibly powerful creatures that gain [[RealityWarper reality warping powers]] and a near endless source of power the Green Sun, a sun made up of the mass of two universes that resides in an EldritchLocation [[PlaceBeyondTime beyond time]] called the Furthest Ring. If a First Guardian has a high enough intelligence, (which Doc Scratch has), the First Guardian will also have near [[TheOmniscient Omniscience]] as well. A First Guardian's main purpose is to ensure that the planet they are on's main sapient species plays the game Sburb once their technology levels can use the coding. This game is also where First Guardians come from, as the NPC equivalents of the game creates the First Guardian for the planet playing the game using the blueprint of an artifact (or two, in Doc Scratch's case) and a genetic code that grants them access to the Green Sun's powers. The First Guardian is then sent to it's designated planet, back in time to the Planet's beginning. Doc Scratch is also made from Li’l Cal, who hosts Lord English’s soul. Thanks to a StableTimeLoop involving him and Lord English, Doc Scratch came into existence, and would leave it at the end of the Alternian universe quickly after being rendered unconscious/inanimate by and then beaten down upon by Hussie’s AuthorAvatar, though his death was not caused by the latter event. Doc Scratch ultimately accomplished what he wanted:To die at the end of the universe, which would release Lord English. As he begun to perish, he did make his opinion towards Hussie and everyone he’s ever manipulated and used as pawns in his plans quite clear.
--> "[[white:S u c k e r s .]]"
* Doc Scratch came to the Pantheon with the single goal of summoning his master; the demon Lord English. This requires two things; his death, caused due to Lord English's summoning involving using him as a host, and the end of the universe (and every possible instance of said universe). However, due to Lord English being able to time travel, being summoned at the end of the universe is hardly an inconvenience. In fact, it was Lord English that created Lil Cal, a puppet required for Doc Scratch's creation. Needless to say, Doc Scratch is quite positive the summoning will be a success. After all, [[ArcWords the demon is already here]]. The more difficult part for Scratch was getting a spot proper, as the Court of the Gods was shielded from Omniscience in the case of villains who could use the knowledge to their advantage; Not a problem for [[XanatosSpeedChess Doc Scratch]], who proceeded to manipulate a person, and was bluntly honest with him. When someone tried to intervene, Scratch curb-stomped him and gave the person these words before said fight.
--> “[[white:When I am finished with this minor interruption, we will resume our gentlemanly negotiation. I will proceed to beat you severely until you agree to do what I ask. I trust you won't take it personally.]]”
** As he expected, when he not only did so, but took the “minor interruption” hostage, the person agreed to have him ascended, and when they had trouble finding a proper trope? Doc Scratch expected THIS too, and forced the unfortunate person to lead him to the Court of The Gods, where he appeared personally with the proposal for ThanatosGambit, as his end goal is to end up dying at the end of the universe in order to completely unleash Lord English. His plan worked, and he successfully ascended properly into the Pantheon. He is the Homestuck deity who has been in the Pantheon the longest, and since he harbors Lord English within him, it means he’s been in the Pantheon just as long, and use of many, many {{Stable Time Loop}}s mean they’ve been in the realm even before their proper ascensions; After all, he is already here.
** Regarding his arrival in the Pantheon and how he just suddenly appeared, as far as Doc Scratch is aware, the Pantheon is not destined to play Sburb, meaning he had to use a different method to ensure his existence and bring Lil Cal out of the realm of nightmares. Fortunately for him, getting Lil Cal was easy. He just needed someone who could make their nightmares reality and do it subconsciously. He found a candidate in Strong Bad. Lord English put the Lil Cal nightmare into Strong Bad's head and then Doc Scratch gave Strong Bad an SB email asking him what the creepiest thing he could come up with was. Strong Bad answered with a drawn picture of Lil Cal and the only thing left to do after that was to see if Strong Bad's subconscious would make the doll a reality like it did with the band Limozeen, and Trogdor the Burnininator. It did. Princess Luna took care of the nightmare shortly afterwards, so don't worry about Strong Bad having trouble sleeping.
** The second part was getting the machinery that was used to bind the First Guardian Code with the Lil Cal and Magic Cue Ball blueprints to make his younger self. The difficult part was finding a scientist both smart enough and evil enough to make the machine that would be a catalyst to summoning one of the most powerful and omnicidal Monsters to ever exist. Of course, being Omniscient, he knew who to get to help; Davros. With his help, The Felt were able to make Doc Scratch's younger self and send it to the past to when the planet was young. Since he was in the Pantheon since the beginning because of this, it means he is not only the Homestuck deity who has been ascended the longest, but also one of the oldest villains there as well.
--> “[[white:Instances of myself have spawned in countless universes, and my objective is always the same.]]”
* While he is TheOmniscient, [[NotSoOmniscientAfterAll there are a few gaps in his knowledge]]. These come from three different things. Some gaps in his knowledge are simply there by design, as pillars for the foundation of his vast knowledge. Their main purpose is to tell him when to stop observing and when to start influencing things. He doesn't actually mind these as they give him things to figure out through deductions and his deductions are almost never wrong, and he enjoys the satisfaction of being correct. And even if he doesn't deduct it, the answers always come to him in time. The second cause comes from people who have powers related to the [[PowerOfTheVoid Void]], or more specifically, the Voids ability to obscure and destroy information. These ones actually piss him off to no end. The third cause comes from [[AuthorAvatar Author Avatars]]. [[Webcomic/ParadoxSpace He once tried to play a game of chess against]] Andrew Hussie, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIGgTfyh_A but it... didn't go very well]]. Omniscience blocking aside, he would have avoided them anyway. He is unsure about if he will he will become limp, easily damaged and lifeless due to technically being a puppet, if he goes near any AuthorAvatar. He would rather not risk it as this is what happened when Andrew Hussie’s AuthorAvatar confronted him. He was quite pleased to learn of what his master [[RageAgainstTheAuthor Lord English did to]] [[https://www.homestuck.com/story/4813 Hussie.]]
* Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe ([[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5083 and every possible instance of that universe]]), which ''should'' grant him the rank of an Overdeity. ''However'', Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has [[VideoGame/HiveSwap shown]] the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he demonstrated this by inflicting this on the MSPA reader, making them crave friendship via messing with their mind and forcing their friends to forget about them. He even irreparably damaged the mind of Fozzer by indirectly completely changing his personality. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him.
* [[FauxAffablyEvil Although he is very polite, never lies and is an excellent Host]], do not be fooled. [[CompleteMonster There is NO line he won't cross to summon his master]] and it bears repeating that the requirement for summoning him is [[ApocalypseHow the end of the universe]] and that his master is a very evil man. One of his incarnations on Alternia was responsible for [[TheCorrupter turning what would have been a relatively peaceful race into group of cruel, war hungry group of galactic conquerors]], and [[FinalSolution plotting the entire races deaths]], and [[ManipulativeBastard was able to manipulate EVERYONE he met]], and [[TheChessmaster several he never even spoke to into doing what he wanted]]. [[LackOfEmpathy He really does not care about anyone]]. Oh, and that part about turning the race into a bunch of war hungry, conquerers? The tool he used to do that was a little girl, [[ParentalSubstitute who he basically groomed]] to have a [[FateWorseThanDeath job and life that she hated]] so much that the only reason [[DrivenToSuicide she didn't kill herself]] was because she was [[ImmortalityHurts cursed with immortality]] by [[BigBad Lord English]] and the only reason [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds she did her job]] was so [[DeathSeeker she could have the curse lifted and finally be able to die]]. [[AbusiveParents Said grooming included locking her in a room for most of her life, and whenever she tried to rebel, disciplining her with a broom and]] ''[[AbusiveParents teleporting her into space]].'' Needless to say, he is [[{{Understatement}} NOT liked]] by the good members of the House of Pantheon/FamilyAndRelatives.
** As Doc Scratch happens to be one of the worst Parental Substitutes ever, the people who hate him the most are Piccolo, who is DISGUSTED at him, and Asura, who hates him because Scratch reminds him about how the Seven Deities used his daughter. Doc Scratch doesn't really think they are strong enough to kill him prematurely, since one of his incarnations was able to survive the destruction of the universe, but they have caused enough problems that his first reaction to one of them approaching is to teleport himself and his temple somewhere far away from them. Ultraman Belial respects what he did, and so does Scar. Also, Ozai, Ragyo Kiryuin and Ghetsis Harmonia Gropius liked his treatment of the Handmaid as well.
* He is trying his absolute best to end the universe early. Given Lord English’s summoning was a success, this means one of two things. He either succeeded in that or the universe ended naturally. He has been speaking to Giygas’ Starmen about the possibility of returning Giygas’ mental state at some point and is fully willing to ally with them and Junko’s VillainTeamUp. He eventually did manage to do so, though he’s told the Starmen that Giygas is '''NOT''' his master and that will not change. On the other hand, When not manipulating people, doing whatever he can to make the end of the universe come a little sooner or observing ongoing schemes of his because he knows he won’t need to get involved, Doc Scratch enjoys playing games with people, notably chess. When asked if it is really that enjoyable to play a game when his near Omniscience means he knows every outcome and is pretty much guaranteed to win. Doc Scratch has made his answer quite clear;
--> "[[white:Yes, yes! The answer is an unequivocal yes! I am always certain to win, and yet I play the game. I play the game and love every moment. Knowing the steps does not ruin the dance, it improves it! A worthy foe need not a challenge, the need only dance the dance.]]"
* Doc Scratch is completely immune to the powers of [[Pantheon/{{Storytelling}} The Narrator]] and [[Pantheon/{{Mentalism}} The Mob]] due to his status as a First Guardian. Not only do their orders not work on Doc Scratch at all, but the option to order him around doesn't even exist. They can't tell him what to do. Guardians can never be told what to do. Neither the {{reality warp|er}}ing kind, nor the ordinary kind who raise kids in houses. It's a universal law of reality. [[BerserkButton This pisses off]] the Narrator to no end. (The Mob is too chaotic to have an opinion about this). The Narrator is ESPECIALLY pissed about Doc Scratch's ability to [[HostileShowTakeover take over the narrative]], seeing as he did so for Webcomic/{{Homestuck}} for a decent chunk of Act 5. Monika is quite envious that he is able to ignore the script and being told what to do, but has [[HeelFaceTurn moved past]] the HostileShowTakeover stuff. Yet, she doesn’t want to go near Scratch, and he has not taken any interest in her.
--> You try to be Doc Scratch but fail to be Doc Scratch. No one can be Doc Scratch except for Doc Scratch.
* Whereas Lord English is Allies with Khorne, Doc Scratch has allied himself with Tzeentch. Doc Scratch gets along VERY well with Tzeentch. Tzeentch is incredibly impressed with his manipulation skills, orchestrating a plan that involves two worlds, spread over two universes, perfectly, and it being successful in the end. Doc Scratch enjoys his company, but has made it clear he has no intentions of being his follower of his; He has one master and one master alone: Lord English. Even if Scratch respects said Chaos God with for his planning abilities. Being TheOmniscient, he often shares knowledge with Krona in exchange for a favor or two. The Emperor of Mankind did not take kindly to his alliance with Tzeentch and had an assault launched on his temple…except Scratch saw it coming. It was JustAsPlanned for him, and he teleported the weapons into the ships that fired them in the first place, destroying them, infuriating the Emperor.
** As part of a GambitRoulette to bring the universe to its knees and summon Lord English, he has allied himself with Bill Cipher. Together, they shared knowledge and Scratch plans on helping Bill cause Weirdmageddon. This was Helped by the fact that Scratch and Lord English remind Bill Cipher of 8Ball, one of his Henchmaniacs. As Weirdmageddon would destroy the fabric of existence eventually, this would play right into the hands of Doc Scratch, and Bill wouldn’t care as he would’ve gotten what he wanted. Both sides win! Bill Cipher is also a {{Troll}}ish Omniscient Chessmaster, and they enjoy each other’s company. Bill especially finds what Doc Scratch and Lord English did to the Handmaid to be absolutely hilarious. It helps that they are both very, very SmugSuper dicks about their power and being TheOmniscient respectively.
* In terms of manipulation, Doc Scratch is very skilled. How skilled? Thanks to his Omniscience and Intellect, he is able to know almost everything and predict most things that can and will happen. He never lies, except by omission, and even people who know he is ObviouslyEvil fall victim to him. He has gotten himself rivalries with Xehanort and Mephisto because of this and he enjoys playing chess with them, and was disappointed with the former after [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII recent events]]. He’s so good at it, he has actually been compared to Junko Enoshima and [[Pantheon/MindControl Johan Liebert]]. On the other hand? He considers Light Yagami a pretender, knows the Death Note cannot affect him, and let him know this with false politeness. However, while it didn’t happen in his encounter with Light, Scratch can get overly frustrated when someone in his plans does not act like he predicts. Both his frustration and someone not acting like how he predicts are both things that rarely ever happen. A good example of his frustration with this is when he learned that Vriska had acquired a piece of the Magic Cue Ball.
* Doc Scratch has some aggrievances with The Incubators. While he considered their abilities to manipulate without lying almost as good as his, he is against them trying to prolong the lifetime of the Universe. Since he has to wait for the universe the Pantheon is in to end naturally, since trying to end it prematurely will just have him be foiled by Deities far more powerful than him, prolonging the heat death of the Pantheon's universe is delaying his master's inevitable summoning. How did he lower their Contracting amount? By gathering as many clips of their Contracts as he could, using his Omniscience for ExactWords and Word of Mouth, and gathered clips of Magical Girls becoming Witches. Then, he hacked into nearly every broadcasting media, be it radio, computer, etc, and revealed EVERYTHING, including how Homura Akemi has caused needless problems for many other villains and it is their fault, putting both a target on the back of the Incubators and Homura. [[TheBadGuyWins And it went perfectly.]] Their successes in contracting others HAVE decreased.
* When the Homestuck Kids arrived to the Pantheon, he had this to say upon seeing them once more.
--> "[[spoiler:[[white:We meet once again, Seer. I see you have more than a handful of new companions, one of which seems to have harnessed her power over the void, much to my chagrin.]]]]"
* He sees Davros as a staunch ally when it comes to trying to bring about the universe’s end, and is especially fond of the Reality Bomb idea. The Chaos Heart is also something that he has taken great interest in. He wants to subtly dispose of the Pure Hearts and the people who can fight back against the holder of the Chaos Heart. Doc Scratch is also helping out The Brainspawn gain as much knowledge as possible, since they plan to destroy the Universe when they know everything. Everyone Wins! The only condition for his help is that they actually destroy the universe itself, not simply everything in it. And he doesn’t care that Lil Cal is in Maximum Security. After all the StableTimeLoop is already completed. He’s here, is he not?

“[[white:Lies of omission do not exist. The concept is a very human one. It is the product of your story writing again. You have written a story about the truth, making emotional demands of it, and in particular, of those in possession of it. Your demands are based on a feeling of entitlement to the facts, which is very childish. You can never know all of the facts. Only I can. And since it's impossible for me to reveal all facts to you, it is my discretion alone that decides which facts will be revealed in the finite time we have. If I do not volunteer information you deem critical to your fate, it possibly means that I am a scoundrel, but it does not mean that I am a liar. And it certainly means you did not ask the right questions. One can make either true statements or false statements about reality. All of the statements I make are true.]]”

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* Allies: [[Pantheon/{{Unpopularity}} Disney!Hades]](?), [[Pantheon/{{Music}} ETC]]

* Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe ([[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5083 and every possible instance of that universe]]), which ''should'' grant him the rank of an Overdeity. ''However'', Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has [[VideoGame/HiveSwap shown]], the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he demonstrated this by inflicting this on the MSPA reader, making them crave friendship via messing with their mind and forcing their friends to forget about them. He even irreparably damaged the mind of Fozzer by indirectly changing his personality. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him.

* Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe ([[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5083 and every possible instance of that universe]]), which ''should'' grant him the rank of an Overdeity. ''However'', Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has [[VideoGame/HiveSwap shown]], the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he demonstrated this by inflicting this on the MSPA reader, making them crave friendship via messing with their mind and forcing their friends to forget about them, He even irreparably damaged the mind of Fozzer by indirectly changing their personality. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him.

* Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe ([[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5083 and every possible instance of that universe]]), which ''should'' grant him the rank of an Overdeity. ''However'', Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has [[VideoGame/HiveSwap shown]], the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he demonstrated this by inflicting this on the MSPA reader, making them crave friendship via messing with their mind and forcing their friends to forget about them, He even irreparably damaging the mind of Fozzer. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him.

* Giving Doc Scratch a Rank was a little tough. As a First Guardian, the power he gets from the Green Sun is insane. One creature with the same power source was able to destroy a creature that embodied and contained an entire universe ([[https://www.homestuck.com/story/5083 and every possible instance of that universe]]), which ''should'' grant him the rank of an Overdeity. ''However'', Doc Scratch, for all his power, seems to have only very passive abilities, such as teleportation, due to his biology basically being that of a puppet. He doesn't seem to have many attacks to actually use his power with and if he does, he hasn't shown them. Therefore he is stuck as a very high ranked Greater God. He, however, has [[VideoGame/HiveSwap shown]], the ability to manipulate minds and emotions. And he completely upset the people who he manipulated throughout all of this after he made them crave friendship via messing with their minds. Needless to say, he is not liked by the House of Pantheon/FriendshipAndCamaraderie, and Nerose Satanael wishes he’d put said abilities to better use…and by better use, he means erasing free will. Scratch just ignored him.

* Not good, not evil, just a god with a job. [[OnlyInItForTheMoney He expects to be paid]] no matter who you are, and mainly when you are dead. But on rare occasions like [[Pantheon/{{Power}} Hercules]], he will allow the living passage. Just don't expect his master Hades to be as forgiving.

* Allies: [[Pantheon/BodyParts Osiris]], [[Pantheon/EarthAndRock Geb]], [[Pantheon/AquaticLife Sobek]], Deities That Are A LittleBitBeastly, Doggie Kruger, [[Pantheon/{{Justice}} Shikieiki Yamaxanadu]], [[Pantheon/{{Otherness}} Anakaris]], [[Pantheon/{{Unpopularity}} Hades]], [[Pantheon/AfterlifeEntities Decim]]

* In terms of manipulation, Doc Scratch is very skilled. How skilled? Thanks to his Omniscience and Intellect, he is able to know almost everything and predict most things that can and will happen. He never lies, except by omission, and even people who know he is ObviouslyEvil fall victim to him. He has gotten himself rivalries with Xehanort and Mephisto because of this and he enjoys playing chess with them, and was disappointed with the former after [[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII recent events]]. He’s so good at it, he has actually been compared to Junko Enoshima and Johan Liebert. On the other hand? He considers Light Yagami a pretender, knows the Death Note cannot affect him, and let him know this with false politeness. However, while it didn’t happen in his encounter with Light, Scratch can get overly frustrated when someone in his plans does not act like he predicts. Both his frustration and someone not acting like how he predicts are both things that rarely ever happen. A good example of his frustration with this is when he learned that Vriska had acquired a piece of the Magic Cue Ball.

* First Guardian (Equivalent to a Greater God, near Overdeity. His abilities in Manipulation and Planning are that of an Overdeity.)

* Alignment: LawfulEvil, and quite possibly whatever Lord English wants him to be.
* Theme Songs: [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-2 Scratch]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/baroqueback-bowtier-scratchs-lament-2 Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch’s Lament)]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nb-JyKYGaVs White Host, Green Room]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/worst-end WORST END]]

* Allies: [[Pantheon/BodyParts Osiris]], [[Pantheon/EarthAndRock Geb]], [[Pantheon/AquaticLife Sobek]], Deities That Are A LittleBitBeastly, [[Pantheon/{{War}} Nasus]], Doggie Kruger, [[Pantheon/{{Justice}} Shikieiki Yamaxanadu]], [[Pantheon/{{Otherness}} Anakaris]], [[Pantheon/{{Unpopularity}} Hades]], [[Pantheon/AfterlifeEntities Decim]]

* He also hangs around with [[VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends Nasus]] as Anubis knows exactly just where [[{{Expy}} he took his look from]]. If they, by any chance, took on the battlefield together, then he trusts Nasus to be the immovable force to guard the frontline while he blasts away from the back side.

* Rivals: [[Pantheon/AntiHeroes Laharl]]

* Doc Scratch has some aggrievances with The Incubators considered their abilities to manipulate without lying almost as good as his, he is against them trying to prolong the lifetime of the Universe. Since he has to wait for the universe the Pantheon is in to end naturally, since trying to end it prematurely will just have him be foiled by Deities far more powerful than him, prolonging the heat death of the Pantheon's universe is delaying his master's inevitable summoning. How did he lower their Contracting amount? By gathering as many clips of their Contracts as he could, using his Omniscience for ExactWords and Word of Mouth, and gathered clips of Magical Girls becoming Witches. Then, he hacked into nearly every broadcasting media, be it radio, computer, etc, and revealed EVERYTHING, including how Homura Akemi has caused needless problems for many other villains and it is their fault, putting both a target on the back of the Incubators and Homura. [[TheBadGuyWins And it went perfectly.]] Their successes in contracting others HAVE decreased.

* Theme Songs: [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/scratch-2 Scratch]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/baroqueback-bowtier-scratchs-lament-2 Baroqueback Bowtier (Scratch’s Lament)]], [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CiwajO6_LQI White Host, Green Room]], [[https://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/worst-end WORST END]]