History Tearjerker / SCPFoundation

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8000 SCP-8000]] is about Director Lague, who suffers some inferiority issues and tries to prove himself by developing a device to detect anomalies pushing people away as he does. He spirals out people keep trying to help him, warning him about the dangers of the device and concern for his own well being. Lague actions destroyed the site and caused countless deaths. Until The Seal intervenes to try and show him the error of his ways before it's too late.
--> SCP-8000: My name is Wallace, Mr. Paul. Wally, for short. I'm Wallace, and I always have been, but you're still stuck in the position you've trapped yourself in. I hope you'll see that I'm trying to help you.
Despite fantastical element it's a very real issue people go through. Many people push everyone way and don't have someone stopping them before it's too late.

* Site-43 is trying to help out the current incarnation of SCP-7132 using [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8132 SCP-8132]] who will die they get through their personal issues, this time it's a ten year old who wants to to hear the greatest story. Dr. Wettle and SCP-7132 form a friendship playing a SCP-8132 a table top game. The rest of the site help out and are able to to at least let them go happily, 7132 reassuring Wettle even if they die they will always have the story they made playing.
The whole site mourns, their passing, and makes a shinre to their memory. As they reminisce they realize they can't remember the characters they played, or the story they wrote. Then Wettle discover the license at the of the game.
--> "All ideas and stories made using the rules of the ViKarious ToMe™ are property of Vikander-Kneed Technical Media, and are licensed to you, the owner (s) of the ToMe™, for the duration of your ownership. When your ownership ceases, we will repossess those stories until such time as you re-obtain the ToMe™."

* The only effect of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3949 SCP-3949]], Penumbra W.A.V.E. #1 Fan!, is that it posts fanfic and fanart of an anime that doesn't exist, which causes 2% of people exposed to believe they've seen the show. SCP-3949 has a "timid personality" and doesn't respond well to negative feedback, so the Foundation's containment protocol is basically to cyberbully it until it deletes the postings. SCP-3949's final work was a 10,000 word essay about their life and the impact the show had on them. The Foundation's response? [[JerkAss "No one cares"]]. After a year of no further incidents, [[DrivenToSuicide SCP-3949 was declared neutralized]].

-->"By the time this message reaches those of you cleared to receive it, Foundation resources on a global scale will have released vast amounts of compound ENUI-5, our most subtle amnestic. Worldwide, men and women who do not deserve the horror wreaked upon them will pause, confused, then resume their business, confident that this is the way it has always been, never knowing what they have lost. Only the photographs not affected by SCP-8900's taint will remain to tell the truth. I regret this, gentlemen. I regret it deeply.\\

It must be done."

[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1851-ex SCP-1851-EX]]: ''Drapetomania'' was once considered an SCP. The racist slaveowners would rather believe some anomalous force is making the slaves want to run away than admit that slavery is wrong, and worse, that they classified it as an SCP gave them the justification they needed to keep using black people (mostly pulled from prisons, asylum patients, and vagabonds) as the first of the D-Class personnel. Even after the SCP was classified as 'explained' a descendant of Samuel Cartwright (who had declared drapetomania an SCP in the first place) had tried to destroy the records of the Foundation doing this.

[[folder:Explained and Joke [=SCPs=]

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2700-ex SCP-2700-EX]] opens with a notice that the article is fraudulent and the researcher responsible for it will be held somewhere until he's sentenced. What's the "fraudulent" article about? Breast cancer. Specifically, the researcher's wife developed it and he presented exaggerated symptoms of it to make it seem like a highly contagious SCP and fund research on it. The worst part comes at the end with the Ethics Committee meeting on it, where they decide to KickTheDog:
-->'''EC Chair:''' In the meantime, hold Dr. Perry at Medi-Site 42 until his wife passes. He won't remember after we set him loose, but I'll sleep better.

* It’s hard not to feel sorry for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8076 SCP-8071-2]] once you learn her history. Her little sister vanished with no one ever discovering what happened to her so they can’t get closure. One of her brothers killing the other. A great flood being the last time she saw her mother, the flood killing her husband and youngest daughter. Helping establish a city of magic which is then destroyed making her the sole survivor. By the time the Foundation find her, a researcher has to try and stop her from killing herself as a martyr. It’s clear she just wants it to end.

** A more subtle case happens at the start of the recording, before Miriam gives her piece: There's a conversation between her and a technician, the latter explaining how the interpreter works and how they can go over and correct any mistakes afterwards. Miriam stresses that this record must be implemented in such a way that it can't be removed without causing major damage to Foundation systems. Knowing that she'll get shot dead for her big reveal and the technician will likely be implicated as an accomplice, she hands the technician her credentials in hopes they can make good use of them, tells them to take an amnestic to [[PlausibleDeniability make their denials more plausible]], and makes her final farewell.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 SCP-2718]], What Happens After, is a particularly tragic example of TheseAreThingsManWasNotMeantToKnow combined with heavy KickTheDog moments. Basically, a past O5-11, Roger Sheldon, was resurrected. When asked what happens after people die, he explains that there is no afterlife. Instead, the dead remain aware, conscious, and ''able to feel their body decaying.'' For eternity. At first, the O5 council believes him, but then they all succumb, one by one, to the depressing revelation. O5-1 accuses the rest of the council of rage over reason, and gases everyone, including herself, with amnestics. O5-7, Miriam, runs away, [[IronicDeath but is machine-gunned to death]]. Her recording of the incident is the only remaining vector of knowledge of 2718, and Roger heads elsewhere, and is last seen ''[[GodzillaThreshold deliberately freeing SCP-106, and presumably attempting to communicate with it.]]'' The living council members lock Miriam's recording away, identify it as a cognitohazard and spend gratuitous amounts of resources dedicated to stopping the recording from spreading. The measures include offing anyone who tries to learn of its true nature, scrambling its position in the database to reduce the chances of contact low enough that one of the opening lines to the article outright states (while [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness breaking clinical tone]]) that not even a ContrivedCoincidence would be able to bring it up. The worst part? Despite the fact that the Foundation actually agrees with Roger, [[KickTheDog they still attempt to kill him again in the end]] and also ignore his pleas to find a way to stop death.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5392 SCP-5392]], The Voyage of the ''Tachyon Express'', is the story of how the entire world failed one man. Albert Maple, a friendly hermit from a small town, uses undisclosed anomalous means to make a ship that can travel at lightspeed, which he publicly demonstrates to the world before parking himself in orbit. He reveals he had intended to reignite the spark of wonder in the cosmos that he felt the world had lost, hoping to inspire humanity to work together for the common goal of advancing the planet. However, what results is the world governments and various aerospace corporations squabbling amongst themselves for exclusive rights to the technology, worries that it will be used by terror groups, and eventual attempts to shoot Albert out of the sky just to deprive everyone else of being able to get it. Albert is depicted as slowly losing hope over the course of 36 hours, his dreams of uniting the planet quite publicly destroyed. He eventually [[DrivenToSuicide flies his ship into the sun]] to avoid being arrested and tortured for his tech.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6415 SCP-6415]], Hurricane Jonah, is a [[LizardFolk reptilian man]] who is the LastOfHisKind thanks to the Foundation [[NiceJobBreakingItHero inadvertently killing its family and species as collateral damage in an attempt to recontain another SCP]]. When first encountered, it attempted to commit suicide by drowning. 6415 is not hostile to the foundation and often breaks down in loud, uncontrollable sobbing. It revealed its sapience by scratching the words "PLEASE BRING THEM BACK", and even drew an image of its former home along with its family when they were still alive. Even the D-class who read its words expressed sympathy for the poor guy.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7686 SCP-7686]], R is for Reshape, focuses less on a horrifying drug that allows people to change their bodies as they wish, and more on tragic case of SCP-7686-A, a father and daughter whose bodies merged together as a side-effect of the daughter overdosing on said drug. As we learn from files gathered by the Foundation, the two of them seemed to live in destitution after the father's divorce. The father tried to use his daughter's smarts to make her win various competitions to support them, but after she failed to win the grand prize on a game show, he became emotionally abusive and controlling, imposing incredibly strict rules on her as punishment and acting increasingly distant and resentful of her, especially as she begun to resemble her mother when she hit puberty. The girl tried to use SCP-7686 to reverse these changes, in a desperate bid to make her father love her again. The father only realizes the extent of the damage he's caused when he finds his daughter after she's overdosed on the drug, and finally apologizes... only for the two of them to fuse together when he tries to hold her, rendering her brain-dead and him comatose. The file ends with the father suddenly waking up and singing his daughter a lullaby, before committing suicide.

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2082 SCP-2082]], Elephas cryophilus, is an extinct species of mammoth that [[MammothsMeanIceAge produces an area of extreme winter conditions around themselves]]. The Foundation decides to clone one to study its anomalous effects, and one Dr. Reyes quickly grows attached to the baby pachyderm. Unfortunately, the mammoth is found to have a heart defect when it's just over a year old; its wintery powers are also increasing in range as it approaches physical maturity, making the prospect of heart surgery difficult. These factors combined with its containment cell not hindering the area of effect of said powers pushes Dr. Reyes' co-researcher Dr. Ascher towards applying to have 2082 decommissioned out of ethical and logistical concerns, which Dr. Reyes doesn't take well at all. When the Foundation approves euthanizing the mammoth, she files several requests to reconsider the decommissioning and to try various medical treatments, all of which are denied. This culminates in her breaking 2082 out of containment in the middle of the night to try getting it off-site before its scheduled euthanasia. [[AllForNothing The stress of the breakout causes the mammoth's heart aneurysm to rupture, leading to it dying in distress two days before it would have been put down.]]

* [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2805 SCP-2805]]: Creator/WaltDisney is so unable to let go of his vision for an Experimental Prototype City Of Tomorrow that even death and having his head cryogenically frozen won't let him rest, and anyone who looks at him will get a call from Walt trying to recruit the caller into reviving the project. Even sadder if you've ever seen the ''WebVideo/{{Defunctland}}'' episode on E.P.C.O.T. and learned its cancellation ''was the best thing that could have happened to Walt'', as it would have ruined his reputation had it come to fruition as he had wanted.

* The addendum for SCP-616, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/interview-616-am Interview 616-AM]], features an excerpt from an interview with a religious figure who, as part of the containment procedure for SCP-616 (a passenger jet with a door that turns into a portal hell every 30 days), tried to keep the door from closing and unleashing its horrors upon the world. Unfortunately, one of his colleagues falls out of the door right after its anomalous properties end, into the real-world night sky, [[GoOutWithASmile smiling as he seemingly accepts his fate]].

* Some of the images from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978-extended-test-logs SCP-978]], which allows you to see what the subject of its photos wants most.

* The addendum for SCP-616, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/interview-616-am Interview 616-AM]], features an excerpt from an interview with a religious figure who, as part of the containment procedure for SCP-616 (a passenger jet with a door that turns into a portal hell every 30 days), tried to keep the door from closing and unleashing its horrors upon the world. Unfortunately, one of his colleagues falls out of the door right after its anomalous properties end, into the real-world night sky, [[GoOutWithASmile smiling as he accepts his fate]].

--> '''Father ████:''' Bishop [REDACTED] fell out through the door then, out into the real sky … I think he must have been exhausted, a man his age…. He saw the clouds and just smiled and stopped holding on for a second and just fell. Nothing we could do. We heard the pilot telling us through the PA that we could close the door now, and to take a seat and put on the oxygen masks until we landed…