| 1 | ->''"There are no easy answers to questions like this. Parting is always difficult. No amount of goodbyes, and no amount time spent together, will change that. If anything, that will just make it harder."'' |
| 2 | -->--'''Wilhelm/[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6314 SCP-6314-W]]''' |
| 3 | |
| 4 | The Website/SCPFoundation is, in many aspects, [[NightmareFuel terrifying]] yet upbeat as a world. When you have an entire department dedicated to assessing the terrible costs of saving the planet and minimizing the grief that comes when you can't, though, it's no surprise things can turn dour fairly quickly. |
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| 6 | !!SCP Adaptations and Fan Works: |
| 7 | [[index]] |
| 8 | [[AC:Web Animation]] |
| 9 | * ''{{TearJerker/Confinement}}'' |
| 10 | [[/index]] |
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| 12 | !!Website/SCPFoundation Wiki: |
| 13 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 14 | |
| 15 | [[folder:General]] |
| 16 | * It's equal parts depressing and [[NightmareFuel horrifying]] knowing that, for all their efforts and hard work, [[WellIntentionedExtremist all the horrible things that they do in order to protect mankind]], the Foundation's mission may ultimately prove to be AllForNothing. [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt An XK-Class scenario may be inevitable.]] Even with all the amazing technology at their disposal, some things are simply too much for them to handle, especially things like SCP-2317. The most they can hope for is to preserve some of humanity and their works, and relocate somewhere safer. Until then, all they can do is keep doing what they've always done: Secure, Contain, and Protect. |
| 17 | [[/folder]] |
| 18 | |
| 19 | [[folder:Series I ([=SCPs=] 001-999)]] |
| 20 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/lily-s-proposal The World's Gone Beautiful]], Lily's SCP-001 proposal, is an event recorded from several parallel universes, and may well take place in our own, in which unusually beautiful and vibrant flowers will spontaneously bloom across 90% of the world's surface. Air pollution will clear up, the weather will become pleasant, and every person in the world will know that [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt all life on the planet will end in 24 hours]], resulting in an immense sense of calm. The containment procedures note that when this event takes place, all Foundation employees (including D-class) shall be honorably discharged and left to do whatever they want with their remaining time, and any sapient, non-aggressive [=SCPs=] will also be allowed to walk free. The world will be beautiful one last time before it all ends. |
| 21 | ** Its subtitle references an environmental folk song from 1971 by Malvina Reynolds; when put in the context of the incident, the lyrics become all the more apt - here's the first verse, for example: |
| 22 | -->The world's gone beautiful because it's about to die.\ |
| 23 | I never saw such flower faces or so intent a sky.\ |
| 24 | I never heard such lines from horns or violins,\ |
| 25 | Or saw such lavish girls, such dandy boys,\ |
| 26 | And I know why.\ |
| 27 | It's that the world is ''asking not to die''. |
| 28 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rounderhouse-proposal Memento Mori]], Rounderhouse's SCP-001 proposal, is a memorial to the thirteen Overseers, whom the Administrator misses dearly [[WhoWantsToLiveForever on the cusp of the 22nd century]]. Sad enough, but opening the notes reveals almost all of them were the "legends" of the wiki, from Charles Gears to Thaddeus Xyank. Apparently, they all learned the hard way that it's LonelyAtTheTop, and ended up dying to their own devices: |
| 29 | ** David Rosen became obsessed with information security and turns Earth into a surveillance state, but died from exhaustion [[{{Greed}} trying to read the Powerball winnings]]. |
| 30 | ** Everett Mann [[AimlesslySeekingHappiness tried to find some shred of happiness in his work, but never did]]. Much like how his self in SCP-5555 became the new Nobody, he vanished and never came back. |
| 31 | ** Tilda Moose was kicked out of the Wanderer's Library as SCP-6000 depicts it. In her grief and rage, she tried to move part of it to SCP-001 and succeeded, creating a reading space that contains almost all knowledge of the anomalous. However, this obliterated her in the process. |
| 32 | ** Agatha Rights married Gears, but [[DeathByChildbirth died giving birth]] to Allison Chao/L.S. [[ForegoneConclusion The rest is history]]. |
| 33 | ** Thaddeus Xyank, crushed by the guilt of knowing how all of his friends will die due to being [[FishOutOfTemporalWater from the future]], [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]]. |
| 34 | ** Jean Karlyle Aktus similarly shut off his life support after deciding enough is enough with his constant thriving on borrowed time. |
| 35 | ** Kain Pathos Crow found his life running out much quicker due to his dog physiology, and asked the Administrator to euthanize him in his favorite place. [[YankTheDogsChain A note reveals he had tried to become human again, but never will, not anymore]]. |
| 36 | ** Troy Lament, while en route to help defend a site out of his gusto, was betrayed by a bodyguard. He fought them off, but was stabbed to death while doing so. |
| 37 | ** Alto Clef was never forgiven for his eccentricities. He died in a fight no one would or should bother to care about, and while the Foundation is content to let him rot as the smug {{Jerkass}} he always was, there's the feeling no one's really happy about him ending things this way. |
| 38 | ** And finally, Charles Gears is left all alone, with nothing left to do except [[TogetherInDeath go with the friends he once had]]. The Administrator can only lament [[ItsAllMyFault that he's basically responsible for putting Gears in that position]]. |
| 39 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal When Day Breaks]], S.D. Locke's proposal, is you, the reader, coming across an ApocalypticLog of Dr. Logan Igotta, a scientist who loses her wife, Ari, to the anomalous sun, which turns people into horrific abominations. The thing that used to be Ari urging Logan to come into the light by comparing it to their wedding day and singing the song the band played is heart-wrenching. And when Logan uses a ritual to desperately bring Ari back, it fails. With nothing left to live for, only surviving by hiding in a bunker away from the masses of BodyHorror blobs, [[DrivenToSuicide she takes her own life]]. |
| 40 | * The interview with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-027 SCP-027]], the Vermin God, has a small one when he gets more agitated and desperately pleads with the doctor to find some way to fix him [[IHaveAFamily so he can return to his family]]. |
| 41 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-049 SCP-049]], the Plague Doctor, becomes a surprisingly tragic figure in its rewrite. While still enigmatic and creepy, it does make clear that despite its BlueAndOrangeMorality, it means well and even starts to form an affable attitude with the initial doctor that was interviewing it, who it eventually killed. When another doctor who was angered by this asked 049 about the event, 049 seemed genuinely remorseful and unsure of itself. |
| 42 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-053 SCP-053]], the Young Girl, is a 3-year-old girl given a rather decent-sized room in the facility, new toys and the like amply provided and rotated every three months, frequently and properly maintained bedding and bathroom facilities, proper medical care, and three complete meals per day with up to two extra snacks if she asks. Heck, she's even allowed to give and receive gifts to and from the researchers, providing they're thoroughly checked first. Doesn't take a genius to realize she's got it a heck of a lot better than most other Safe- or Euclid-class humans or humanoids in the facility. So, what's the problem? Anyone (not necessarily limited to humans, either) over the age of three years old that makes direct physical contact, eye contact, or spends longer than ten minutes with her [[HatePlague will become uncontrollably homicidal and attempt to kill her by any means necessary, taking down anyone that gets in the way as well.]] What makes this particularly heartbreaking is that she herself isn't even a CreepyChild or EnfantTerrible — she's described as being a relatively normal little three-year-old-girl, with only slightly above-average intelligence, a cheerful and pleasant personality, and only seems to get upset when presented with scary things or large groups of people. Which is completely normal for a three-year-old. Making it worse, she is utterly unaware of the effect she has on people. The way she perceives it, people just attack her violently for no reason. It's stated that she ignores the people affected, which also implies that it's happened so often that ''she's gotten used to it as the norm''. Even if one hasn't studied psychological development in children, it's still utterly heartbreaking that the kid has to go through this. In fact, the only thing that ''hasn't'' tried to kill her is the SCP Foundation's resident OmnicidalManiac, ''SCP-682''. Yep. You read that right. And while the little girl was indeed frightened of it at first, after seeing that it showed no aggression towards her, began playing with it. This is implied to have lasted for a very long time before 682 was removed from her, leaving her crying for several minutes afterward. NightmareFuel as to ''why'' researchers would put a homicidal urge-inspiring little girl in the same room as the most homicidally-inclined creature in the facility and why it didn't try to eat her aside, it's rather heartbreaking when you realize it's the first time she's actually been able to spend an extended period of time with another living creature without being violently lashed out against, only to be pulled away and likely never allowed to see it again. |
| 43 | ** When photographed by the previously mentioned SCP-978, it shows her riding on 682. |
| 44 | ** Quick aside: the ''why'' researchers would put 682 and 053 together is that they know anyone who actually harms her will die seconds after and she will regenerate any damage done right away. That seems okay, [[FridgeHorror but not really]]: she's been spending her life being harmed by people and seeing them die right before her eyes, after killing anyone else that tried to get in the way. Now ''that's'' rough. |
| 45 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096 SCP-096]]: |
| 46 | ** During its [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-096-1-a re-containment]], the soldier that secured 096 found it in the remains of a minivan. After debriefing on the incident, he committed suicide. They found a crushed pacifier in his hand. |
| 47 | ** The attempt to capture it. A full team went after the creature and only the Captain survived, somehow having never seen the monster's face. Most notable is the fate of the first victim, grabbed and torn apart by SCP-096, screaming for the Captain's help. When asked if the Captain would like to see the sketch that was made of 096's face, he responds thusly: |
| 48 | -->'''Capt. █████████:''' You know, after hearing that thing's screams, and the screams of my men, I don't think I want to put a face to what I heard. No. Just… no. |
| 49 | * Surprisingly, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 SCP-106]] of all of the anomalies gets a tearjerker. In the origin story [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/once-but-not-now Once but not Now]], 106 is literally an old man. He's a member of an ancient species of predatory inter-dimensional humanoids that have preyed on humans for millenia. Now, in the modern age, he is the last of his kind, starving, in a confusing and terrifying prison. It's implied that he will eventually starve to death and render his species extinct. |
| 50 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-116 SCP-116]], the Brittle Boy, has no joints: every time he moves, he breaks his bones and heals them up again, causing extreme pain. |
| 51 | * The original article for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-132-arc SCP-132]] was of a young woman who feels all of the pain and sorrow in the world. |
| 52 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-191 SCP-191]], the Cyborg Child, was just a normal little girl (''younger than 10'') until a MadScientist abducted and turned her into a cyborg. [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-191 Her Experiment Log]], especially the second and third experiment[[note]]the license plates she generated can be read as "I AM 191. 191 IS A GOOD MACHINE."[[/note]], and fact that she never requests anything, including the information of her relative, hints that she has already accepted her fate and is trying her best to please the Foundation. |
| 53 | ** One of the modifications was removing her ovaries and uterus to "provide extra space by removing ''non-vital components''." Several of the modifications to her seem to have been done [[ForScience just to see if they were possible.]] |
| 54 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-202 SCP-202]], the Rewind Man, lives his entire life backwards. |
| 55 | * Unimaginable though it may be, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 Procedure 110-Montauk]] is, without a doubt (well, outside of the Fear Alone canon, anyways), horrible. And it is being done, day after day, to SCP-231-7, a young pregnant girl and the victim of a Satanic sex cult who did nothing to deserve it. The fact that ''[[NecessarilyEvil it must be done]]'' to prevent the EldritchAbomination she carries from destroying the planet makes it even worse. No wonder some of the people who work with her either take amnesia-inducing drugs or [[DrivenToSuicide commit suicide]]. |
| 56 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-239 SCP-239]], the Witch Child, an 8-year-old RealityWarper, gets convinced that she's a witch to help keep her imagination in check a bit. Her diary entry at the end of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/incident-239-b-clef-kondraki an incident]] is heartbreaking because it comes after finding out that she'd been put in a medically-induced coma, ''because'' of that diary entry... |
| 57 | * The "Eetmees" from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-261 SCP-261]], who only live with the purpose of being EatenAlive and celebrating with screams of joy when they're chewed on and swallowed. Forlorn Foundry's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1NW_lDH5-PE video adaptation]] of them only makes it worse with their cute designs and cheerful high-pitched voices. |
| 58 | -->'''Long-haired researcher:''' I know [[DeathSeeker it's what they wanted]], but I, I can't help but feel horrible.\ |
| 59 | '''Older researcher:''' [[MoodWhiplash They were delicious, though.]] |
| 60 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-327 SCP-327]], a member of a species that seems to source the [[OurMermaidsAreDifferent various "mermaid" myths]]... that was maimed by a boat's propeller and suffers severe mental damage because of it. Despite its song causing nasty effects to human listeners (nausea, aversion to the ocean, hallucinations, drowning sensation) and a choking algae bloom in any water, it's capable of communicating with humans. It heavily implies there's a whole colony/race of these things that nurture the marine biosphere with their songs, so naturally the Foundation can find no record or evidence of them, and its deleterious song is the result of it botching the thing due to brain damage. Then it says it's thankful there's no marine life in its tank to get hurt by its songs, and hopes the scientists can help fix it. |
| 61 | * Many of the stories involving [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-342 SCP-342]], A Ticket to Ride, a universal ticket for any form of transportation that makes it impossible for its user to get off of the vehicle until they are pulled away by some sort of invisible, supernatural vehicle at the last stop and disappear from reality. The ticket-holders experience hallucinations and extreme terror as they near the last stop. This SCP's effects are so disturbing that watching a D-Class succumb to them is enough to make the agent accompanying him [[DrivenToSuicide beg to be the next test subject.]] He gets his wish, with another agent accompanying him to record the effects and attempt to find a way to prevent them. Said agent happens to be his best friend. He fails. |
| 62 | * Test documents for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-348 SCP-348]], A Gift from Dad, a bowl of ailment-relieving soup inspired by a bowl of soup the author's dad made when she was sick — the very bowl in the article, in fact, which will sometimes be accompanied by a message on the bowl: |
| 63 | --->'''Subject:''' 6-year-old male, recently injured self while playing with friends (minor scrapes and scratches)\ |
| 64 | '''Brief Background:''' Parents divorced, currently lives with mother\ |
| 65 | '''Notes:''' Message appeared, ''I’m sorry, son.'' |
| 66 | ** Further tests were done to see if it works on adults; there were almost a hundred tests there but very few messages and most people didn't feel like finishing the soup, though it did cure their ailments. When it was given to a man who murdered his father, the bowl filled with salt water (interpreted by reviewers to be the father's tears) for three hours.[[note]]According to the author, the tears are not from the father, but from the bowl itself, as it is saddened that it can't help someone with such a patricidal mindset.[[/note]] |
| 67 | ** There's also one test listed at the very end of the page which doubles as SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments: |
| 68 | --->'''Addendum SCP-348-4:''' SCP-348 was once used in a test involving a 60-year-old man suffering from a terminal illness. The subject, a grandfather with multiple grandchildren, stated that the soup produced by SCP-348 was "the best he'd ever tasted". Following the test, the subject reported feeling a sense of "satisfaction" and noted that the pain caused by the illness seemed to have faded. [[GoOutWithASmile The subject passed away peacefully a week later.]] |
| 69 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-451 SCP-451]], Mr. Lonely, is a former Foundation agent who cannot perceive any other humans or their actions, due to the effects of an artifact he was ordered to retrieve. He is essentially completely alone, despite the fact that he is surrounded by his former co-workers at the site he used to work at. |
| 70 | ** One entry even mentioned him trying to commit suicide by closing his eyes inside 173's quarters. As quoted from the entry: |
| 71 | --->"''SOB didn't even touch me. Instead [DATA REDACTED]. Wish I just disappeared with the rest of them.''" |
| 72 | ** According to one tale, [[CruelMercy 173 did that on purpose just to be a spiteful asshole and prolong 451's suffering]], making it even worse. |
| 73 | ** As noted above, in the testing documents of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978-extended-test-logs SCP-978]]: |
| 74 | --->Subject: [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-451 SCP-451]]\ |
| 75 | Photographed Activity: Weeping in Site-19 cafeteria.\ |
| 76 | Photo Result: SCP-451 lies awake in a bunk in the Site-19 sleeping quarters, surrounded by other staff members. SCP-451 exhibits a look of relief on his face. |
| 77 | * The 2021 soft retcon of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-469 SCP-469]], the Many-Winged Angel, sheds it in a more tragic light. The angel, upon hearing a bell ring, unfurled its wings, used its smaller wings as a full suit of armor and tore through the ceiling, attempting to escape by flying straight upwards [[{{Heaven}} into the sky]]. But with each altitude it gradually lost more and more feathers until it finally dropped from the sky, landing in a nearby forest. It was retrieved afterward without incident and went back to curling up and hiding in its feathers… but this time, Foundation personnel could hear it [[DespairEventHorizon weeping]]. |
| 78 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 SCP-590]], He Feels Your Pain, a 16-year-old kid who can heal with a touch... [[EmpathicHealer by taking on all of the injuries and afflictions of those he touches]]. He's effectively immortal, and bedridden thanks to being damaged too much. But Dr. Bright insisted he be used to help cure several cases of severe autism, which [[ManChild reduced his mental capacity to that of a three-year-old]]. |
| 79 | ** That's not the worst of it. Bright did that as an act of mercy. Why? 590 is his little brother. In fact, the whole family is pretty damn tragic. Their youngest sister was stillborn, and 590 cured her in front of Foundation agents, leading them to confiscate her and classify her as SCP-321. She's pretty screwed up because of all this, both physiologically and developmentally. Their father was a junior researcher who climbed through the ranks in the hopes of getting her released; he eventually became an O5, the highest authority in the Foundation, but was ''still'' denied. And just to add another layer to the misery, Dr. Bright's older brother is also an O5. One can only imagine what he thinks of all this. |
| 80 | * Speaking of [=SCPs=] that want to die, there's [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-607 SCP-607]], Dorian the Grey Cat, a suicidal cat named Dorian. It can form symbiotic relationships with people and whoever it's bonded with will receive any injury the cat receives. Basically, if the cat breaks a front leg, the bonded individual will receive a broken arm. If the cat dies, so does their 'owner'. And the cat reanimates after 24 hours. It will even deliberately harm itself or put itself in fatal situations, behavior which ''real life cats will exhibit when suicidal''. Some people have even vouched for it to be exposed to SCP-999 out of sympathy for the damn thing. |
| 81 | * The addendum for SCP-616, the Vessel and the Gate, [[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]]. |
| 82 | --> '''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. [[BittersweetEnding 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…]] |
| 83 | * While the D-Class personnel are generally death-row/life imprisonment types, you have to feel sorry for the one involved in the testing of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-738 SCP-738]], The Devil's Deal, who's stated outright to be both dyslexic and severely mentally handicapped. The deal he was presented was a Sloppy Joe in exchange for Mopsy, a cherished toy — and when even a DEMON feels bad about a DealWithTheDevil, that's saying something! |
| 84 | * When you read through the entries, it starts to stand out just how many entries for anomalous objects were genuine attempts to be helpful that [[GoneHorriblyRight turned out to have awful consequences.]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-761 SCP-761]], Slightly Less Dangerous Trampoline, was supposed to be a safer trampoline, and turned out to phase kids into solid material; the recovered documents show the eagerness of one of the developers turn to horror as he realizes what happens and their guilt over the consequences. There are numerous other examples, and it gets rather sad when you think about how the hopes these people had for the future were dashed in the most awful way. |
| 85 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-802 SCP-802]], Musical Tank, has some parallels to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-516 516]], Intelligent Tank, in that both are intelligent tanks. But 802 is forever patrolling the shattered ruins of a French village, playing a haunting off-key tune from its glory days. What locks the tear jerker is that the village 802 patrols bears far too many similarities to the lost village of [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oradour-sur-Glane Oradour-sur-Glane]]. |
| 86 | * Two from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-914 SCP-914]]: |
| 87 | ** The "Very Fine" setting of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/experiment-log-914/offset/2 Test 0325]] results in [[VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub Monika]] becoming real... only for her to be killed (along with the person who was running this test) upon breaching the walls of 914's containment. This strongly suggests the Foundation had no real grasp of Monika's motivations and goals - she would've undoubtedly been eternally grateful to whoever had helped her escape the game, and breaching the containment walls may have simply been her testing out how physics work in a flesh-and-blood reality (and may suggest her RealityWarper powers had come with her). It's quite likely that she would've cooperated with the Foundation. |
| 88 | ** Similarly, the "Very Fine" portion of Test 0448 results in [[Franchise/DoctorWho the Sixth Doctor]] striding out of the machine. He goes through his post-regeneration phase soon after, which gets as far as attempting to suffocate a researcher before being shot, then terminated during regeneration, then incinerated. It's possible he would've cooperated with the Foundation (though probably disagreed with many of their methods) after getting out of the post-regeneration phase, assuming he wasn't (understandably) worried about where the TARDIS and Peri were. In any case, [[NiceJobBreakingItHero congrats, Foundation, you just killed one of humanity's best bets for survival!]] |
| 89 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-919 SCP-919.]], Needy Mirror. A mirror that produces a sentient reflection of you that begs you to not leave the mirror, or it'll die. That's not the real TearJerker. That's the reveal that the mirror has no memetic influence on people. Your reflection is ''sincerely screaming and pleading for its life''. Oh, and if you appear in front of the mirror again, it remembers the last time he died. Just imagine what it's like to ''be'' that reflection. Thankfully, it turns out that it doesn't really care about your well-being, as long as you're there to cast a reflection. As noted, ''the owner of SCP-919 had apparently died of dehydration.'' |
| 90 | * Some of the images from [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978-extended-test-logs SCP-978]], Desire Camera, which allows you to see what the subject of its photos wants most. |
| 91 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-805 The "horse"]] whose touch causes deadly rashes [[IJustWantToBeLoved just wants to be petted, loved, and ridden upon by humans who are unharmed by it.]] |
| 92 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-106 106]], the [[WalkingWasteland Old Man]], wants to return home to his wife. Which becomes even sadder if this [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/until-death tale]] is true and the woman in the photo is Anna Lang, who Robert Scranton ''accidentally killed''. |
| 93 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-590 TJ]] is screaming inside. |
| 94 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-085 Cassy]] wants to be 3-dimensional. |
| 95 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-096 The Shy Guy]] wants to disappear altogther so nobody can see him. |
| 96 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-451 Mister Lonely]] wants to be reunited with the rest of the SCP agents. |
| 97 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-492 An animated cloth dummy]] wants to be human. |
| 98 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-811 The Swamp Woman]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-706 the Porcelain Doll]] want to be human ''again.'' |
| 99 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-516 The living tank]] wants to be so unnecessary that plants grow on it. |
| 100 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-187 The Double Vision]] just wants to eat a normal meal in her favorite restaurant without a blindfold. |
| 101 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4999 Someone to Watch Over Us]] wishes that nobody would have to die alone. |
| 102 | ** Before the rewrite, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-166 Clef's daughter]] wanted to go on a normal date with a boy who won't go crazy around her. In the rewritten version, Meri is depicted catching butterflies with a man who shares her deer-like features. |
| 103 | ** And [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-529 Josie]] wants to be whole. |
| 104 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-337 Hairball]]'s picture starts off rather silly, with a bearded and fur covered woman shampooing it. Then the woman is identified as being Dr. Solomon. The Foundation researcher that took care of Hairball before her untimely death and someone Hairball had previously shown genuine grief over losing. |
| 105 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316 SCP-2316's]] photo is surprisingly harrowing after reading about everything it has done and is willing to do [[HeWhoFightsMonsters to undo the tragedies that led to its creation]]. It shows the lake it resides in, [[DeathSeeker now empty with the bodies in the water returned to life]] -- a reminder that it was once human, and still wishes things could have been simpler. |
| 106 | ** Dr. Bright was the first SCP personnel on whom [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-978 SCP-978]] was tested. The photo that developed is an absolute tear-jerker. Keep in mind that he was in the middle of an argument with Dr. Clef when he was photographed, and could have easily desired something like Clef at the time (whose photograph developed with his head replaced by a [[FlippingTheBird giant fist giving Bright the finger]]). |
| 107 | --->''Photo Result: Entire scene has changed. Appears to be outside, sky in background, grass in foreground. Subject of picture is simple tombstone bearing the engraving [[WhoWantsToLiveForever "Jack Bright, Resting at Last."]]'' |
| 108 | ** Doctor Clef's photo is also pretty sad, provided you know the context. It's a photo of him walking away from his argument with Bright, with his head being a hand [[FlippingTheBird giving the finger,]] as stated before, but there's also a young girl sitting in the background with a bored expression on her face, and feet that appear to be polished black cloven hooves. If you read various little bits and pieces around the site, specifically things that relate to the Global Occult Coalition, like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/agent-ukelele this,]] or the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-hub-page GOC canon hub page]] you get information on the "Cornwall Incident" that Clef was involved with back when he was "Agent Ukelele" for the GOC. And if you want it to be all spelled out for you, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-561991/the-leak#post-1716379 Dr. Clef (the writer) tells the full story in this thread]]. |
| 109 | [[/folder]] |
| 110 | |
| 111 | [[folder:Series II ([=SCPs=] 1000-1999)]] |
| 112 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1142 SCP-1142]], A Cry for Help, is something built like a tracked mine but which functions as a receiver for transmissions from an alternate universe. Said alternate universe is experiencing [[TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt a ZK-Class Reality Failure scenario.]] The increasing desperation of the transmissions is hard to read, and there's no way to stop it or even make contact with the other universe... all that can be done is to helplessly listen to the disaster. The last transmission is simply "Help". |
| 113 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1156 SCP-1156]] aka Wellington the Wonder Horse is a talking horse from England. In need of work due to cars having replaced coaches, Wellington took a job for Marshall, Carter and Dark. He was treated extremely poorly, from not being paid to trying to make him have sex with drunk women. While he finds the Foundation better than what MC&D put him through, he hasn't seen in his family for a long time and asks his interviewer to send them a letter. But when they investigated the address, the apartment was empty as the landlord had evicted them and didn't know where they went. |
| 114 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1162 SCP-1162]], Astronaut Joe, was a reality-warping boy who loved space. While playing astronaut, he teleported his entire house to Mars which killed his parents. When an SCP crew investigated the house, they found the boy curled up in his room, having starved to death. |
| 115 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1166 SCP-1166]], Perfect Lab Specimen, is a lab rat with certain properties[[labelnote:namely]]near-humanlike body performance and self-revivification after death[[/labelnote]] that makes it the perfect test subject. It's also sapient and able to communicate in English, if given the proper means such as computer... at which it describes how horrible it is to be a lab rat. ''The'' lab rat, in fact. It's been hurt so many times, and worst of all, it remembers all the experiences before death and revivification, and it questions whether they are going to hurt him too. It was enough to make the researcher in charge of it to protest against doing any further experimentation on such an unwilling, vulnerable subject. Unfortunately for it, The Foundation decreed that it is much too valuable to ''not'' be experimented on, but [[Heartwarming/SCPFoundation they promise to administer anesthetics and amnestics, and giving it a much better quality of life in general.]] |
| 116 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1192 SCP-1192]], "Timmy", is a sapient Gang-gang cockatoo that can communicate through writing. It's not an IntellectualAnimal, but instead has the mind of a young boy named Timmy, who has no idea how he entered this state. When asked about where he and his family live, the Foundation discovered nothing out of the ordinary and that [[GrandTheftMe Tim]][[FridgeHorror my]] was just fine. Meanwhile, SCP-1192 spends most of its time drawing and writing. |
| 117 | -->Several pages of unrelated words, presumed to be writing practice.\ |
| 118 | Several pages of crude drawings, including race cars, airplanes and fictional animals and monsters.\ |
| 119 | A single page with the words "wy am I a bird" [sic] as well as several more indecipherable sentences.\ |
| 120 | A drawing of what appears to be a small child holding the hands of two adults. The child is scratched out and the paper is ripped. The reverse side of the page has the words "i wan my mom" [sic].\ |
| 121 | [[MadnessMantra A single page with 126 instances of the word "mom" and 76 instances of the word "home".]] |
| 122 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1230 SCP-1230]], A Hero is Born, is a sentient book that allows the reader to live out vivid adventure fantasies in their dreams, starting with "[[AnAdventurerIsYou A Hero is born]]". It is completely benign and seems to only want to give its readers an experience they will enjoy. However, [[LongingForFictionland one researcher became so obsessed with his fantasy that he killed himself after waking up]]. The book was found soaked with tears, [[MadnessMantra with the same message on every page:]] "''I'm so sorry. I never intended for this to happen. I just wanted to make people happy.''" The book stayed like this for ''weeks'' as well — it was that distraught. |
| 123 | -->'''Book Keeper:''' He had such an active imagination! I was able to create a vast and beautiful universe for him and it was obvious that he had wanted a life like that for so long. He conquered foul beasts and rescued princesses… He built kingdoms and even raised a family… but he never wanted to leave. He delved so far into his fantasy world that I soon realized he preferred his dream over the real world. I reminded him that this was all merely an illusion, but he wouldn’t listen to me. He stated that if he was ever forced to leave, [[DrivenToSuicide he would immediately end his life]]. I tried to keep him happy for as long as I could…\ |
| 124 | '''Dr. F███████:''' …Book Keeper… how long was the dream from his point of view?\ |
| 125 | '''Book Keeper:''' …200 years, Doctor. I did my best but I could only hold onto him for 200 years. As sweet as dreams may be, eventually we all have to wake up. |
| 126 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1241 SCP-1241]], Livin' With Werewolves, is a broadcast of an anomalous sitcom with talking humanoid dogs. The heartrending comes in the description of episode 14, when the area is hit by a hurricane and they're trying to protect some kind of device. The sitcom featured ''real'' talking dogs. The "Lad", as he is called, was using some kind of device to give the dogs human-level intelligence. The device stopped working. The "Lad" apparently [[DrivenToSuicide killed himself]] after realizing he couldn't get it to work. The dialogue excerpt is following. |
| 127 | -->'''Unnamed:''' "Please don't let it break."\ |
| 128 | '''Lad:''' "I won't."\ |
| 129 | '''Unnamed:''' "It's too important to break. It's been so nice, being able to think."\ |
| 130 | '''Lad:''' "I know. I won't let it break. I'll fix it somehow. I promise."\ |
| 131 | '''Unnamed:''' [[DespairEventHorizon "I suppose I should just enjoy the moment before I have to go back. At least it gave me these moments. I'll always have that."]] |
| 132 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1252 SCP-1252]], A Half-Formed Idea, is a half-finished imaginary friend. Why is it half-finished? Because the little girl who was "summoning" him died during his creation. He doesn't know about her fate, and from what the article tells us about him, he truly would have been the best friend a little girl could wish to have. |
| 133 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1281 SCP-1281]], The Harbinger, seems to be an interstellar messenger, sent from billions of years ago to FlingALightIntoTheFuture. This is its message: |
| 134 | -->''This is our harbinger. It brings good tidings.\ |
| 135 | \ |
| 136 | "We will be dead when it reaches you. Our planet is dying. We do not have time to save ourselves. We only have time to ready ourselves, and to send a message.\ |
| 137 | \ |
| 138 | "We have seen the signals from those who came before us. They were different, and we still don't really understand them. But if there were those who came before, there may be those who come after. It is in this hope that our harbingers travel.\ |
| 139 | \ |
| 140 | "One has found you and learned your language so it can relay this message. Please listen.\ |
| 141 | \ |
| 142 | "The galaxy is dark, and empty, and cold. It spins inevitably toward death. You will die too, one day. Perhaps you will have longer than we have. We hope so. But one day you too must vanish.\ |
| 143 | \ |
| 144 | "[[TheAntiNihilist Before that time comes, you must light the darkness. You must make the night less empty. We are all small, and the universe is vast. But a universe with voices saying "I am here" is far greater than a universe silent. One voice is small, but the difference between zero and one is as great as one and infinity.]]\ |
| 145 | \ |
| 146 | "We waited too long. Our voice is gone to echoes. Find others while there is still time. Make a chorus.\ |
| 147 | \ |
| 148 | "And if this finds you too late, and your time is also passing, please [[FlingALightIntoTheFuture send this message on]], so the next voice can speak against the darkness."'' |
| 149 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1316 SCP-1316]] a.k.a Lucy the Cat, was seemingly just a CuteKitten who was classified as an SCP because its an ''unaging'' kitten. Then it turned out that [[TheFakeCutie the creature was actually a spy working for the Chaos Insurgency]] who was sending info via radio broadcast, leading to a massive security breach, some unnamed SCP getting stolen and several deaths. The pitiable part of the entire thing is that Lucy was not among the [=SCPs=] taken by the Insurgency, and was instead left abandoned at the Foundation. Lucy kept up sending them distressed broadcasts afterwards, with no one ever answering back. [[RewardedAsATraitorDeserves The implications are obvious]]. |
| 150 | -->'''08/17''' OPERATION SUCCESSFUL. MISSION COMPLETE. REQUEST FURTHER ORDERS OR EXTRACTION.\ |
| 151 | '''08/18''' F SUSPICIOUS. MOVEMENT RESTRICTED. REQUESTING EXTRACTION.\ |
| 152 | '''08/19''' ORDERS NOT FORTHCOMING. REQUESTING NOTIFICATION.\ |
| 153 | '''08/20''' CONFINED TO SINGLE ROOM. WAS PROMISED EXTRACTION UPON COMPLETION OF MISSION.\ |
| 154 | '''08/21''' MOVED TO NEW SITE. UNCLEAR ON STATUS OF MISSION. REQUESTING FURTHER ORDERS.\ |
| 155 | '''08/22''' WAS REFERRED TO W SCP DESIG. F KNOWS. REQUEST IMMEDIATE EXTRACTION.\ |
| 156 | '''08/23''' UNCLEAR IF LAST MESSAGE RECEIVED. EXTRACTION REQUESTED. PLEASE.\ |
| 157 | '''08/24''' [[CryForTheDevil THERE IS NO EXTRACTION IS THERE?]]\ |
| 158 | \ |
| 159 | ''Following the 08/24 broadcast, [[DespairEventHorizon SCP-1316 has ceased regular broadcast.]] Other anomalous properties remain.'' |
| 160 | --->''- Researcher ███'' |
| 161 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1322 SCP-1322]], Glory Hole, a tiny dimensional anomaly that allowed the Foundation to communicate with another world... and unwittingly doom its people to extinction with a vaccine that sterilized them as an unexpected side-effect. They send increasingly deadly weapons through the portal in a desperate attempt to get revenge. They've been at it for over 30 years and show no signs of stopping, all because of an accident. According to the discussion page, the writer of the article wanted to see if a Keter could be written as tragedy instead of horror. |
| 162 | -->Last communication received from SCP-1322-A. Communication consisted of text reading “YOU KILLED US. YOU DID THIS TO US. IN YOUR CARELESSNESS AND YOUR ARROGANCE YOU HAVE DESTROYED OUR POSTERITY. BUT WE SHALL AVENGE. WE OF THE LAST GENERATION PLEDGE AND VOW THIS. WE WILL FIND A WAY." |
| 163 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1342 SCP-1342]]'s [[WriteBackToTheFuture message]]: |
| 164 | -->We had but one chance to put things right. I do not know if you can save us. I do not know if you can change who you one day may be. You say you are trying to survive through your time, so you may live into mine. I really hope that you do.\ |
| 165 | But above all else, there is one thing you need to know.\ |
| 166 | From one maker of music to another, across all worlds, all times, no matter what you do or what you become: You are nothing less than beautiful. |
| 167 | ** Backstory: SCP-1342, To the Makers of Music, a replica of Voyager 1 and its greetings, was sent by a race of aliens 40,000 years in the future whose technology was enhanced by seeing our radio and TV broadcasts to the point where they could have created faster-than-light travel and a sort of time travel, but they were suddenly destroyed by humans. They debated on what to do next and came very close to annihilating us, but decided on a more compassionate route instead. |
| 168 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1357 SCP-1357]], The Children's Park, is an amusement park whose staff kidnap the daughter of the agent investigating it, a girl named Hailey. Any attempt to rescue her fails and the staff make her think that her parents don't love her any more in an attempt to get her to stay forever. When she persists in her attempt to see her parents again, [[DownerEnding the staff brainwashes her and turns her into a park employee. That is the last we hear of her.]] And this might not be the only time this has happened. |
| 169 | ** Even worse, the agent whose daughter was captured did ''not'' let her simply be taken, even going as far as to assault the park alone, before being forcibly evacuated. [[DespairEventHorizon It didn't work]]. |
| 170 | --->'''Hailey:''' Hello, you've reached Playland, the perfect place for family fun! How may I help you?\ |
| 171 | '''Unidentified Male Voice:''' I want my daughter back.\ |
| 172 | '''Hailey:''' I'm sorry sir, but I'm afraid your daughter wanted to stay with us. You can always visit, though. Just let us know and we'll send you two complementary tickets! I think she wants to stay, though. |
| 173 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1424 SCP-1424]], Patches, an anomalous Alaskan Malamute puppy. It has a normal body temperature below freezing, it exudes ammonia through its paws and tongue, it does not heal, shows no vital signs, and does nothing but wander aimlessly around its containment cell. It was recovered from an animal shelter after multiple attempts at euthanasia failed. When the Foundation recovered it, they extracted a raw steak, a bunch of paper, and a diamond ring from its stomach. The dog was a present, but it ate some things it shouldn't have. The angry owner killed it by putting it in an ammonia-based freezer, but it came back as a zombie. |
| 174 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1440 SCP-1440]], The Old Man from Nowhere, an old man who [[ChessWithDeath challenged Death to a game of cards for his life]], and won. Unfortunately, not only does this made him [[WhoWantsToLiveForever immortal]], but also a WalkingDisasterArea that destroys and kills everything and everyone in a place should he stay within said area for a short period of time, which forces him to wander and travel around the world, both to prevent destroying everything in his path and to [[DeathSeeker find something capable of killing him and end his suffering.]] |
| 175 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1467 SCP-1467.]], The Man that Wasn't. A man who will vanish out of existence if he doesn't continuously confirm his existence. He reports that his wife and children died in a car crash, but there's no record of the crash, because ''there's no record they ever existed.'' Needless to say, the guy isn't doing too well mentally. |
| 176 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1470 SCP-1470]], Telepathic Spider, is a... telepathic spider with a very heavy Australian accent. Despite that, however, he's happy to chat with researchers, who it thinks are other spiders. In the end, he finds out that he's been talking to things beyond his comprehension, and despite the initial fear, grows to accept it, thanks the Doctor in charge for being there to talk to, and dies peacefully of premature aging, after finding a wife and having offspring who can't communicate. |
| 177 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1481 SCP-1481]], Crack Genie, is a genie who's stoned out of his mind and utterly fails at granting wishes. Then he accidentally reveals that some absolute {{Jerkass}} used his first wish to make him this way, his second wish to make it irreversible, [[ForTheEvulz and then just walked away without even making a third wish]]. |
| 178 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1502 SCP-1502]], The Feeny Stitcher, a small robot which walks around and mutilates people's faces. Sounds creepy, but not sad... until you analyze the article closely and figure out just where it came from and who it truly is. SCP-1502 is the result of a creator kidnapping four women, one of them being Foundation personnel and a friend of one of the researchers of SCP-1502, shoving their consciousnesses into a random automaton and giving it to the Foundation. Two of the women have already succumbed to their programming when the Foundation found SCP-1502, and another gives in during the animal experiment. This leaves the Foundation worker, who tries in vain to communicate her situation to the Foundation. By the last addendum, she too has given in to her programming, and SCP-1502 is now totally immersed in its role as the Feeny Stitcher. |
| 179 | * Similarly to SCP-451, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1504 SCP-1504]], Joe Schmo, cannot be perceived to most extents. In one interview, it was showed twice. The first time showed the interviewer's perspective, and the other shows 1504's perspective. 1504 gave a huge rant about how he isn't noticed and wants to die, but he simply can't. He is even shown to give the interviewer a nosebleed, though the interviewer shrugs it off as his nose suddenly bleeding for no reason. It is actually pretty sad to hear him go on this rant. |
| 180 | * The backstory of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1510 SCP-1510]], The Tarnished Legionnaire, is pretty tragic. He used to be a Roman soldier who refused to release a captured King Jugurtha and was cursed for it. The day after the king was left to starve to death, the soldier woke up to find [[BodyHorror his body festering, rotten, and maggot-ridden]]. He was left that way for hours, [[AndIMustScream unable to do anything to help himself]], until two beggars found him. They brought a haruspex who proceeded to cut him open (which he also felt), examine his entrails, and said his remains should be taken out of the city to avoid bad luck. Then, after centuries of his mind living on even after his body rotted away, he wakes up when he's [[GrandTheftMe forced to possess a graverobber]] in present-day Italy [[FishOutOfTemporalWater and is incredibly confused and panicked by his new surroundings]]. It doesn't help that he didn't seem to be that bad of a guy — after he calms down, he's very cooperative with the researchers. The researchers have him help them test SCP-361. After following the instructions it gives him, he hears his father's voice: |
| 181 | -->Courage, Publius. This too shall pass. When rust claims your soul at last, valor will make you into Aeneas, and carry you beyond these shores, to rest among your fathers. |
| 182 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1514 SCP-1514]], Star Wars,...oh boy. Long story short? MadScientist researchers implant a human fetus into a defense satellite and establish a psychic link with its mother, [[BrainUploading whose consciousness is copied]] into a cluster of armed satellites prepped to set off nuclear bombs on a mass scale. The kicker? If the child-satellite is harmed or stops transmitting to the mother's consciousness, this will be the trigger for the mother-satellites to set off the chain of nuclear bombs in despair and grief over the loss of her child. MamaBear doesn't even begin to describe it. |
| 183 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1520 SCP-1520]], An Elderly Monk, a Buddhist monk of Japanese ancestry who engaged in the self-mummification practice of ''[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokushinbutsu sokushinbutsu]]'', but for whatever reason, [[ICannotSelfTerminate will not die.]] While you'd expect it to come out as a case of BodyHorror or AndIMustScream, he is aware of his surroundings and lives in a meditative peace. Where the sob story comes in is that he knows precisely why he cannot die: he left behind a loved one who was with child. He requests that the Foundation deliver a letter to her, but with him being ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, with those he knew long gone and his descendants entirely unaware of their heritage, he is left unfulfilled and possibly doomed to live on. |
| 184 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1522 SCP-1522]], Ships That Pass in the Night, is [[CargoShip an adorable pair of sentient ships]] who like to play with whales and generally be SickeninglySweethearts until the GOC [[KickTheDog sinks them in an unprovoked attack]]. What's worse is that the GOC attack only kills one of the ships. The second is DrivenToSuicide after losing its partner (but not before [[Awesome/SCPFoundation wiping the seabed with the GOC aggressor]]). The worst of all is that it is implied that the ships were procreating, as the one that was attacked was found to have two unfinished rowboats inside it when it was recovered. Later, a mysterious entity, implied to either be associated with them or the creator themselves, visits their wrecks, and leaves a note on their bridges: |
| 185 | -->They were happy, before the end. Not all ships have to pass in the night. |
| 186 | --->-Pangloss |
| 187 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1609 SCP-1609]], The Remains of a Chair, was a chair before. An intelligent chair with human-like features that would teleport to a person who needed somewhere to sit. Then, the Global Occult Coalition captured it and [[BreakTheCutie tried to destroy it with a woodchipper]]. The remains teleported to the Foundation to find a safe place, but it became more cautious and it can be hostile towards anything that reminds it from its stay in the GOC, such as lab coats or motor sounds. As the document at the end states, this SCP serves as a warning towards the chaotic procedures of the Global Occult Coalition. |
| 188 | -->This is why we have Special ''Containment'' Procedures instead of Special ''Destruction'' Procedures. If you break something, it's broken forever. When you try to destroy an anomaly, you can't take back your mistakes. That's what SCP-1609 has to tell us. This is why we're right and the GOC is wrong, people. |
| 189 | ** And just for the record, [[EveryoneHasStandards even the GOC higher-ups have no sympathies for the agents involved in the incident]]. According to the KTE-0937-Velveteen entry in the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/goc-supplemental-threat-entities GOC supplement on Known Threat Entities]], the on-site GOC team were supposed to incinerate all of the items they found, but the device suffered a mechanical failure by the time it came to the chair; instead of finding an alternative method of incineration, they opted for the easier option of maceration, [[TooDumbToLive apparently not bothering to consider the possible consequences of doing so when the anomaly to be disposed is both sentient and capable of teleportation]]. |
| 190 | --->KTE-0937-Velveteen is an object lesson in the importance of following proper operating procedure. Due to the lack of vigilance by the agent on the scene, the object's threat level was escalated, the object itself was not successfully disposed of, and it has since fallen into the hands of a hostile agency. A single failure by a single operative resulted in the deaths of six. Remember this the next time you think about cutting corners. |
| 191 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1730 Site-13's]] home dimension is mostly nightmare fuel, but it gets a bit tearjerker when we are told what happened to the Ethics Committee. In this alternate history, the Foundation and the GOC became one entity, dedicated to ruthlessly destroying everything paranormal, following torturous experiments. The Ethics Committee were having none of it, but were removed (implied by force). Its former chairman was executed as a traitor, all for following basic morality. |
| 192 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1758 SCP-1758]], O Mio Babbino Caro, is a violin that draws attention and makes people compliment the player on their performance, no matter the quality. The object itself is fairly mundane by Foundation standards...but then there's the recovered documents. The owner of the violin wanted to make his father proud, but something happened that [[IHaveNoSon caused his father to disown him]], and he was [[WellDoneSonGuy broken by his inability to get his father's forgiveness and approval]] before the father died of an unknown illness. This led to him somehow imparting his gift on the violin before hanging himself. What happened to turn the father against his son is never explicitly mentioned, but there are more than enough cues, especially with [[HomoeroticSubtext the way]] the letter writer talks about the "master's son," to lead to a particular conclusion. |
| 193 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1762 SCP-1762]], Where the Dragons Went. It's a box marked with "Here be dragons," which would occasionally open and produce both smoke and small animate paper dragons. They're very friendly and enjoy playing with humans, and occasionally leave messages before returning to the box. Most of these were messages asking how their friends have been and asking if they can visit like they used to, as well as references to other creatures like Giants and Behemoths in a realm called Fantasy. Over time, however, the dragons seemed to be growing fewer in number. Things took a sad and unexpected turn with what was deemed The Jabberwocky Event: a war broke out between the dragons and the other beings of Fantasy, which resulted in the box emitting flames and burned, crumpled wads of paper. After seven months of inactivity, a message appeared saying that the other races were dead and Fantasy was no longer safe for them. A final message asking if they would be forgotten was followed by the burnt, weathered box restoring itself. The words "Here be dragons" had changed to "Here were dragons." [[TheMagicGoesAway No further anomalous properties were observed.]] Later, in 2015, [[HopeSpot after almost eight years of inactivity]], the box opened again. It emitted purple smoke, an amethyst and a book detailing the many species of Fantasy, most of whom were written in a way that confirms them to be extinct. Carved onto the amethyst were the words "one last time." Once a researcher tried to pick up the box, it disintegrated, bringing a final end to the saga. |
| 194 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1799 SCP-1799]] is Mr. Laugh of the Little Misters. A literal SadClown, anything he says or does is interpreted by people as hilarious which leaves him practically unable to interact with anyone. During a test, he made a D-Class laugh so hard that he tripped and suffered a severe head injury. Because of this, Mr. Laugh has become suicidal. |
| 195 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1830 SCP-1830]], The Guardian Projection, is a teenager from Hong Kong who was subject to horrible bullying. His response is to make tulpas to protect him: a Chinese soldier from the UsefulNotes/SecondSinoJapaneseWar, Ling-Kao, and a German''sturmtruppen'', Ludwig. When 1830 tries to summon Ludwig to protect him from his attackers, he is ''fully confident'' that Ludwig will save him, not even resisting as the bullies carve insults into his legs — only to find that Ludwig is completely incorporeal to everyone else. It's implied that the utter helplessness of failure is what drove 1830 into a coma. The final kicker is [[https://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/scp-1830/Lingkuo.jpg one of the sketches from 1830-A's notebook.]] His mother says it looks exactly like 1830's [[DisappearedDad absent father.]] |
| 196 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1958 SCP-1958]], Magic Bus. A VW Microbus converted into a spaceship by a bunch of beatniks who want to fly to Alpha Centauri. Hilarious, right? Except they screwed up the calculations, and won't reach it for almost forty million years. One of them keeps a diary as they succumb one by one to the hazards of space, depression and disease. The audio version is just heart-wrenching.[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOXOTabrxDk]] |
| 197 | -->''9/23/5█: I'm all alone now. Sam died this morning.\ |
| 198 | He could barely sit up or see towards the end. He asked me if we were there yet. [[LetThemDieHappy I told him yeah, man, we'll be there tomorrow, just you get your rest. I didn't have the heart to tell him the truth.]] He asked me to read him "And Death Shall Have No Dominion" one last time. His eyes were closed by the time I finished. They never opened up again. I pushed him out the airlock after he was gone. There's not gonna be anyone left to push me out.''\ |
| 199 | [...]\ |
| 200 | ''11/3/5█:\ |
| 201 | The stars are so fucking beautiful out here, man.'' |
| 202 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1960 SCP-1960]], Neptunian Text Messages. An unknown entity that communicates in the form of text superimposed on pictures of Neptune. Instead of a hostile alien intelligence or EldritchAbomination, it just seems incredibly lonely. |
| 203 | -->"IT'S SO DARK"\ |
| 204 | "CAN I COME HOME WITH YOU?"\ |
| 205 | "PLEASE DON'T LEAVE ME HERE"\ |
| 206 | "I'M SO SORRY" |
| 207 | ** In response, the Foundation, in conjunction with the ESA, has launched a probe to [[YouAreNotAlone establish permanent two-way communication with the entity.]] It's due to arrive sometime in 2024. |
| 208 | [[/folder]] |
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| 210 | [[folder:Series III ([=SCPs=] 2000-2999)]] |
| 211 | * The image on [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000]], Deus Ex Machina, is surprisingly sober. [[{{Minimalism}} It's a simple landscape photo, rather beautiful, with small, white text saying "Remember us..."]] |
| 212 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2002 SCP-2002]], A Dead Future. It's an unknown vessel that's heading to Earth that has no propulsion and multiple spheres attached to it. It was destroyed by a GOC Laser sat before it got to Earth. What it was? A Foundation vessel from a future where an SCP caused a DepopulationBomb. The things inside were ''hundreds'' of human embryos they managed to save from its effects. |
| 213 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2003 SCP-2003]], Preferred Option, is a time machine that the Foundation uses to look into desirable futures for humanity. The best possible one, Determinative Set XN, features an asteroid striking the Earth and wiping out all of humanity in 2349...because all the other outcomes the Foundation has observed have humanity wiped out even sooner, and [[CruelAndUnusualDeath make death by meteorite look quite merciful in comparison]]. As far as the Foundation is concerned, all they can do is make sure humans live long enough to be killed by that future meteorite. They ''do'' discover what seems to be a future where humanity colonizes far-off planets...but [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/kalinins-proposal the linked SCP]] reveals that it's part of a future where humanity is [[FateWorseThanDeath torturously enslaved by an advanced alien civilization]]. |
| 214 | -->"I trust that you're familiar enough with the rest of the Determinative Sets ''[the ones other than XN]'' to understand why we're going this way." |
| 215 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2049 SCP-2049]], The Interdimensional Weather Station, starts as your standard Keter-object that has a reality-bending influence of the real world. It basically is a weather forecast from an alternate dimension, whose predictions localize in the town of Manningtree. SCP-2049-1 is a teal skinned humanoid who is the energetic weather forecaster, asking fans to call in for a sponsorship. When the Foundation calls and learn from him that his signals have been getting weaker recently because his old employers apparently fired him and he is still asking fans to call out of some desperate plea for validation. [[KickTheDog The Foundation almost immediately hang up on him. The forecasts never increased back in quality since.]] |
| 216 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2080 SCP-2080]], Dads House, reads like a father's tragedy and a cosmic case of KarmicOverkill. SCP-2080-1A was once a normal father who got into a verbal fight with his son over the latter's boyfriend. After the son stormed out, multiple clones of his father then arrived in exact duplicates of the father's truck and proceeded to stuff themselves inside the father's house. The clones are unable to say anything but phrases that are either apologies or words of encouagement or cheer meant to be directed towards the son. To contain SCP-2080, the Foundation had to board up the house and fake the father's death with a cover story, with the son having his memories replaced with the cover story. The father is now trapped in his house with all of his clones for the rest of his life, unaware that his son now believes him to be dead. |
| 217 | * [[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.]] |
| 218 | * The tale of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2094 SCP-2094]] starts out silly: he's an irreverent and snarky clown named "Motormouth" who can [[ExtremeOmnivore swallow anything whole]] and [[StomachOfHolding store it in his stomach]], and he used to be part of [[CircusOfFear Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting]]. But things take a heart-rending turn when the Man with the Upside-down Face steals his most precious memories, and [[HeroicBSOD it takes him years of counseling to recover]]. |
| 219 | ** The entire story of the Circus is fairly sad, in hindsight. After the Circus was free of Fuller, it is taken over by the Man with the Upside-down Face, or "Manny" as he was known to Motormouth. Sadly, even with a new owner, the Circus is still having trouble, and they consider the SCP as their boogeymen, knowing that if they can't keep afloat, the Foundation will likely capture them all and treat them like test subjects. So, to keep the acts fresh, Manny begins ''kidnapping anomalous children'' from their homes. This doesn't sit well with Motormouth, who smuggles one such kidnapped child back home...and is promptly exiled from the Circus by Manny and picked up by the SCP. When Motormouth begins talking about his time in the Circus, ''that's'' when Manny takes Motormouth's memories. It's heavily implied that the reason behind Manny doing so is fear that Motormouth would give the Foundation enough information to capture the Circus, which only drives the point home that The Circus of the Disquieting are absolutely ''terrified'' of the SCP Foundation. |
| 220 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2099 SCP-2099]], as its alias says, is a BrainInAJar, of a self-proclaimed inventor Jeremy Valdez, who lives in a facility with numerous extremely advanced inventions, most of which have been destroyed, which he claims to build most to sell and help people. Unfortunately, he is very prone to memory loss, to the point where he needs notes to remember most things and has large lapses in memory. He is aware of this and is at times very melancholic, despite being nonchalant, about the fact and often hopes for the best for those he sold his inventions to, despite most of them seemingly being missing. |
| 221 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2118 SCP-2118]], The Lost Child, is a young and mute girl who only communicates in American Sign Language or through writing... unless in the presence of an adult who has [[OutlivingOnesOffspring dealt with the death of their own child]]. When that happens, SCP-2118 will start uncontrollably speaking in the deceased child's own voice, mimicking their last words and death throes, all while still being fully aware of her actions and usually apologizing through signage. This is definitely distressing for both her and whoever she's with, especially due to the physical assault that she'd receive -- she's tried to glue her mouth shut just so that she can't anger her previous carers. The third interview log involves a researcher trying and failing to use SCP-2118 to speak with his late son, all while the girl angrily tries to dissuade him. |
| 222 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2241 SCP-2241]], Cameron the Crusader, is a seven-year-old boy with superpowers whose desire to help people is implied to stem from an abusive home life. The Foundation takes him in and convince him that by joining them he’s being inducted into a S.H.I.E.L.D-esque organization to learn how to use his powers more properly. One can probably already see parallels to SCP-239 and how she was convinced she was a witch and that the Foundation was basically Hogwarts… so it becomes clear very quickly that this isn’t as good as it sounds. Over time, the testing disguised as training effects the poor kid so badly that [[EveryoneHasStandards even members of the O5 Council start having moral objections to it and call to shut it down]], pointing out how 2241 is dangerously close to becoming a ChildSoldier for the Foundation. In the end, [[DownerEnding the testing is voted to continue.]] |
| 223 | -->'''Researcher Valdez:''' I believe the results will justify both the risks and the means. We are closer than ever to understanding the mechanism by which human brains interact with extranormal phenomena. The emotional and eventual neurological damage to SCP-2241 is… unfortunate but it is also necessary for the advancement of our understanding. In addition, due to the new modification of the monitoring hardware, [[WouldHurtAChild 2241 can be neutralised quickly should it become a threat at any time after the surgery.]] |
| 224 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2273 SCP-2273]], Major Alexei Belitrov, of the Red Army's 22nd Armored Infantry Division, a Russian [[BioAugmentation Bio-Augmented]] SuperSoldier from an alternate earth's [[WorldWarIII WWIII]] who's worried that his bio-armor is acting up because it keeps bringing up old information he doesn't need. His doctor/interviewer asks him to elaborate: |
| 225 | -->'''SCP-2273''' (after approximately 30 seconds of hesitation): I told you where I was before your men found me, ''da''? I — I see my men's faces, staring up at me from the dirt, Doctor. Asking me why I didn't keep them safe. Why I was allowed to live while they had to die. I trained alongside those men for years before they put us back on the surface, since we were all young children [[ChildSoldiers several years ago]]. We were brothers. And [[ItsAllMyFault I gave the order to surrender, and got — got them killed]]. I should have died with them. I am no better than the American dogs who shot them. I don't want to feel this way anymore. Please make this stop. |
| 226 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2295 SCP-2295]], The Bear with a Heart of Patchwork. It's a teddy bear that replaces damaged organs with fabric- and stuffing-made copies — which are ''completely devoid'' of any harmful side effects. Then the scientists place him in front of a young D-class with cerebral hemorraging. 2295 desperately tries to come up with something, ''anything'' to help the boy... but in the end, all it can do is offer him a candy bar and [[YouAreNotAlone stay with him until he dies]]. And it cries the entire time. |
| 227 | ** 2295 was originally found in the remains of a crashed mail truck, as part of a care package for a hospitalized child from his grandmother. |
| 228 | * The voice of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2316 SCP-2316]], Field Trip, is revealed in later articles to not be lying about how the Foundation let the students die and how it promises to make them pay for doing so. Despite the nightmarish occurrences it lends its assistance to, there's also subtext that suggests it also absorbed the world's sorrow of losing the students, meaning [[TragicMonster it's just incredibly lonely & grief-stricken and doesn't know what else to do with its powers]] -- much of its needling in SCP-7676 (The Grand Symphony of 1976) is because it thinks the reader is Julia Locke, who had also lost a loved one long ago, leading it to empathize and offer an outlet. In Project Isorropia, a cross-test between Class of '76 anomalies SCP-7076 (The Graduating Class of '76) and SCP-7676 simply has the voice and Syncope's conspirators move on after Neil Leinnes tells them [[YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre there's more to grief and life itself than anger at the past]]. |
| 229 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2718 SCP-2718]], What Happens After: |
| 230 | ** It's 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. |
| 231 | ** 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 edited, nor can it 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. |
| 232 | ---> '''Miriam:''' Now go. I foresee that you have a fine career ahead of you. We will not speak again. |
| 233 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2739 SCP-2739]], Ab Inconvenienti, is an anomalous art installation dedicated to the life of the artist's brother, who was troubled all his life and died by his own hand, despite his attempts at curing himself of his harmful addictions. The pieces of the installation include: |
| 234 | ** A shadow play depicting the deceased's development into adulthood, which is stymied by childhood abuse and addictive substances and ends with him standing before a judge. |
| 235 | ** A Purple Heart that gives off hallucinations of the deceased's life as a combat medic. |
| 236 | ** A display that shows a liquor bottle, a bottle of pills, and a discharge form at different intervals. |
| 237 | ** A closed pair of handcuffs that appear unlocked and a bent needle that appears unused to anyone seeing them in person. |
| 238 | ** A replica of the deceased who acts out his final moments on a constant loop. |
| 239 | * The many interviews with the victims of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2774 SCP-2774]], the Slow-Burn Sloth, but the first one has a particularly hard hitting one, where the man, desperate not to return to the FateWorseThanDeath that the sloth subjects him to, attacks a guard, who then [[SuicideByCop shoots him]]. |
| 240 | -->'''Victim:''' I CAN'T FACE HIM AGAIN! |
| 241 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2776 SCP-2776]], Mr. President, has it rough. Imagine, if you will, leading a rebellion against a cruel empire that is oppressing the colony you are living in. Imagine winning the war, becoming the new leader for a few years, then retiring and living a happy simple life with your wife, family, and friends. Now imagine waking up over 200 years later as some sort of machine. You're being held captive by this organisation of strange people. Your wife and friends are all long dead, leaving you all alone. Now imagine that, not only did your wife know you were a machine the ''whole damn time'', and never ever told you. And just when things can't get any worse, you find out that the very empire that you rebelled against is buying out companies in your country, essentially rendering all of your efforts futile. |
| 242 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2784 SCP-2784]], My Friends Have Made a Net, is a group of fourteen people who all hallucinate a guy named Andrew. In Andrew's house, in a corner of his bedroom is a pocket dimension where Andrew's corpse hangs, held aloft by fourteen strings. A RealityWarper, Andrew created the hole to commit suicide with the strings hoisting up his body to make the fourteen people (his parents and friends) oblivious that he took his own life and believe he's still alive in order to spare them the pain. One of the 2784 instances mentions that Andrew became withdrawn and shy as a teenager but then suddenly got better later, completely unaware that Andrew's been dead since 2005. |
| 243 | -->The Plan: Use that one corner in the bedroom. It's just like folding paper. Remember: just like folding paper. Messing with people's heads is trickier but you can do it. It's for the best. Don't make them worry about you. Make sure they won't miss you. |
| 244 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2805 SCP-2805]], Disney on Ice: 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. |
| 245 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2873 SCP-2873]], Another Human Weapon. Fully sapient AI with the psychology of a child, ''trained'' (rather than programmed) to be used in smart missiles. Most of the page is intercepted data giving their last moments... not all are that eager to die. |
| 246 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2935 SCP-2935]], O, Death, is NothingIsScarier incarnate, with a heavy dose of tearjerker on the side: A team enters through the SCP into an exact duplicate world of their own with one major difference: ''everything'' is dead. Cars have crashed into each other, corpses are where they fell, nothing is decomposing because microbial life is dead as well. Trees have snapped under their own weights and wind, fires are burning from airliners crashing down. Even things that are unkillable, like the unkillable 682, are dead. Not PlayingPossum dead, but DeaderThanDead. Except for a single person, who is decomposing and appears to have killed themselves, and whose doppelganger is on the very team inspecting SCP 2935. The logs reveals what happened: The guy who killed himself was sent to investigate their version of 2935, and found a world on the other side that was just as dead as this world. Upon returning, he found his own world dead. Completely dead, but the date and time was different enough that he could piece together that he had brought ''something'' with him back from SCP 2935 which instantly killed everything but himself. He's the last man alive, and he resorts to leave a log and kill himself afterward, because after so much death, what's one more? The guy on the team who discovers this recording realizes that his own team is now also carrying the 'something' and if they return, their own world will be as ''dead'' as this one. He promptly cuts all communications from his team to the outside world except for himself, walks outside to hand a drone some artifacts, samples, and a message to seal off SCP 2935 forever. Then he walks back inside, sets off the nuclear self-destruct which seals his team and himself inside, conveys his team's final words to the foundation, and then the drone watches the nuclear fireball from afar. So, to recap: EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, EverybodysDeadDave, DrivenToSuicide, AfterTheEnd, YouCantGoHomeAgain, and HeroicSuicide. |
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| 249 | [[folder:Series IV ([=SCPs=] 3000-3999)]] |
| 250 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3001 SCP-3001]], Red Reality. While relying heavily on AndIMustScream and NothingIsScarier quite a bit, it still manages to be sad. It's the tale of Dr. Robert Scranton, slowly [[GoMadFroMTheIsolation losing his mind]] as he's trapped for six years in an endless black void with only [[ApocalypticLog a small recording device with a red light]]. Eventually, Robert starts [[CompanionCube talking to the device as if it were alive]], calling it "Red," while trying everything he can to find some way to hold on to his sanity. |
| 251 | ** Some of the few things Robert does have to keep him sane are [[TragicKeepsake a picture of his wife Anna and their wedding ring]]. He loses the picture about halfway in, causing him to [[RapidFireNo scream in panic]] and [[MadnessMantra repeat her physical features over and over]] in a desperate attempt to not forget her. He also loses the wedding ring as [[BodyHorror his body finally deteriorates]]. |
| 252 | ** After almost six years, Robert finally makes it out when Anna creates another field. However, [[DownerEnding it's still not a happy ending]]. By this time, Robert has deteriorated so much that he's '''[[CruelAndUnusualDeath nothing but a mass of blood, vomit and rotten skin]]'''. When Anna sees him, she plays the first recording, confirming it's Robert, and (it's implied) faints in shock. This was the first time she'd seen her husband in six years. |
| 253 | ** Only half of him arrived back. Meanwhile, the other half is still stuck and IS STILL ALIVE. Furthermore, due to Anna's recently created field, his slow death got extended by another 5 years. The Ethics Committee is seeing if it's possible to retrieve him. Which ''might'' kill him, or might not — there's no guarantee his consciousness will cease to be once he leaves the pocket dimension — he might just float around forever as a bunch of ideas — and it will certainly be more horrific and traumatic for poor Anna, but the alternative is just leaving him in the '''hell''' he's currently experiencing (really, this story is a reminder why the Ethics Committee is one of the most dreaded positions in the whole Foundation despite being one of the safest). |
| 254 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3009 SCP-3009-C]], Stacy Lee, is a teenage girl whose [=SnapChat=] profile has come to life and insists she's real and that Stacy Lee is an imposter. Both were taken into Foundation custody for research, with both claiming to be the real Stacy Lee. Although the [=SnapChat=] Lee is fine, but Stacy Lee started doubting everything about herself and stopped insisting that she was the original. Her diary outlines all her insecurities because the [=SnapChat=] version is better than her. She developed a depressive disorder and began dissociating. The Foundation believes that neither of them are actually threats, but want to keep her in their custody indefinitely, just in case. The most recent update on the page has Stacy placed on suicide watch. |
| 255 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3017 SCP-3017]], Person of Interest, was a man whose anomaly caused everyone he came into contact with aside from friends and loved ones to think he was a violent criminal that needed to be locked up and the Foundation to think he was in contact with some of their groups of interest. His anomaly also caused him to avoid being locked up for extended periods of time until the Foundation discovered it could be mitigated by making him think his loved ones were in danger. After convincing him his grandmother was dying of cancer, his fiancee was kidnapped by them, and that they killed his ex-boyfriend, one of the researchers discovered that he hadn't actually committed any of the crimes they thought he did. But one of the other researchers had been affected by 3017's ability and had her locked up when she presented her findings and set fire to 3017's family home when he managed to escape. 3017 then spent the rest of the day crying before [[DrivenToSuicide jumping off a bridge]], while the researcher who killed his family and neighbors [[KarmaHoudini got away with it]]. |
| 256 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3078 SCP-3078]], Cognitohazardous Shitpost, is an image that spreads throughout social media and image hosting sites by itself, and any person who sees it collapses into a laughing fit so severe that they end up dying due to lack of oxygen. That's bad enough, but, according to the text that the image's creator adds to the image as time goes on, ''it wasn't even intentional.'' |
| 257 | -->''im so sorry\ |
| 258 | i didnt mean to hurt anyone i really didnt i just forgot to make it so wherre they can breathe if youre reading this please you government guys have to stop it youu guys can do it right please\ |
| 259 | i just thought it was funnny it was just supposed to be a stupid j oke i thought they would let me into the chatroom fi i made a good meme or something please just hurry up andstop it i cant stop] crying\ |
| 260 | imi shaiking so bbad pleasde i cnat even typ[e right now just fi x it im so sor ryt\ |
| 261 | all my freidns are dead and they;re stilll lauhging'' |
| 262 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3079 SCP-3079]], 300 Tricks: Stage Magic Made Easy, is a magician's book which contains minor anomalies in order to perform the titular 300 tricks within; said tricks are completely harmless and all anomalous activity is a minor stretch of real "magic." That's not sad. What is sad is the reason the participant is always referred to as female — it's talking about the daughter of the book's author Tobin Hollis, who [[DisappearedDad he ended up estranged from]], much to his regret. The magic tricks highlighted by the document show this more blatantly: "Lost Time" literally produces hyacinths corresponding to how long Hollis's daughter was gone, "The Magic Number" has a slight biographical tone to it ("She's probably grown up so much since then."), and then, the kicker, a 301st trick. Since "Lost Time" gains an additional hyacinth for every year that passes, it's implied that despite everything, [[DownerEnding Hollis never reunited with his daughter.]] The last line in "The Final Trick" never really happened before [[YouCantFightFate "[it was] too late,"]] and that's why it's impossible. |
| 263 | -->Effect: The magician burns what little money he has left to publish a book before it's too late. In it, he tells her all of his tricks. He tells her how sorry he is that he left. He begs her to forgive him. He begs her to let him see her one last time.\ |
| 264 | And then — like magic — she reappears. |
| 265 | * The entry for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3108 SCP-3108]], The Nerfing Gun, is fairly amusing, what with it being an entry about a Nerf gun that literally nerfs things, making whatever it shoots inferior in the eyes of the person who fired it. The creator, a member of Gamers Against Weed who goes by Kektagon, made it as a joke while he was high. While interrogated by the Foundation, however, the interview gets incredibly dark: |
| 266 | -->'''Dr.Dietz:''' More importantly, why did you create the gun?\ |
| 267 | '''POI-6897:''' Oh the Nerfing gun. Classic. Yeah, I thought it would be funny.\ |
| 268 | '''Dr.Dietz:''' ...That's all?\ |
| 269 | '''POI-6897:''' Look, what to do you want me to say? That it's a symbol of guns making the world worse or something? Not everything has some grand purpose man. It's just something I thought of while smoking. I mean come on, a Nerf gun that makes things shitty. It's hilarious! I didn't even think of the obvious pun until later. Eventually I got bored of it and gave it to my bro as a birthday gift. Probably should have warned him to be more careful, but live and learn am I right?\ |
| 270 | '''Dr.Dietz:''' You honestly expect me to believe that? Despite your group's supposed pacifism, the anomalies you all have produced can be lethal. This little joke of yours has changed steel into balsa wood and people into invertebrates. You clearly intended this as a weapon.\ |
| 271 | '''POI-6897:''' [[ArmorPiercingQuestion ...You, you used it on]] ''[[ArmorPiercingQuestion people]]''?\ |
| 272 | '''Dr. Dietz:''' Our testing history is not relevant to-\ |
| 273 | '''POI-6897:''' It… It was supposed to be a ''joke''. It was ''funny''. I changed Mass Effect 2 into Mass Effect 3, My neighbor's SUV into a Smart Car, ''I didn't use it on people''! You bastards, why the hell would you do that? ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone I'm not a murderer damn it]]''! Why, why would you turn a joke into a torture device? Just… [[GetOut just get out of my cell. I'm done talking.]] |
| 274 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3114 SCP-3114]], Wouldn't It Be Chilly?, starts out as NightmareFuel, being an animate skeleton that kills and skins any human or humanoid creature that comes in contact with it, then tries to wear their skin. Then we get to the test logs that ''don't'' involve it trying to interact with live humans. In one, it's introduced to a dog and proceeds to play with it happily; then it's introduced to another, inanimate skeleton, seems hopeful for a moment, then gets upset when it realizes that it can't interact with it; finally, it obtains a cadaver whose skin fits it perfectly and joyously attempts to interact with a D-class sent into its enclosure, this time with ''no'' hostility whatsoever, even trying to give him a hug (which he's [[BodyHorror quite understandably]] creeped out by). When the D-class leaves, it stares at the door for a moment, then tears off the skin and lies down to "sleep" [[DespairEventHorizon for several days]], before returning to its old behavior. The conclusion one can easily draw is that this is not merely a homicidal monster out for blood, but a sad, confused creature, perplexed and frustrated by its own existence and desperate to belong. |
| 275 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3127 SCP-3127]], Nineteen Year Old Jessica Lambert And A Female Pig Of Abnormal Size, Forever, is, on the surface, much more surreal NightmareFuel and BodyHorror than TearJerker, but it has an intensely tragic edge to it. This poor girl had an utterly ''harmless'' anomaly, and actively sought out the Foundation, which turns out to be the worst mistake she could have made. She then volunteered to be cross-tested with a few other [=SCPs=]. Whatever they exposed her to somehow caused her to be trapped in a horrific cycle of death and rebirth, each time becoming a much more dangerous, much more ''weird'' pig monstrosity. And the only parts of her left that are still human are very aware of her situation, and begging for help. |
| 276 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3165 SCP-3165]], Dog Teeth, sprinkles in a little tragedy with the macabre, and boy is it effective. She's a ghoulishly disfigured HumanoidAbomination with lanky limbs [[FacialHorror and a set of canine jaws that protrude at an angle so odd it ransacks her entire face and one of her eyeballs]], and thanks to her deformities, she can only communicate through sign language and walk on all fours. Despite not seeming very strong, she has a powerful bite force and can cut flesh easily with her nails... but along comes the interview log, and it turns out she's even more human than one may assume, essentially a somewhat normal-ish teenager who yearns to become a "pretty girl." It doesn't help that her hideous appearance hinders this task, [[IJustWantToBeBeautiful and she'll do whatever it takes to become pretty, even if it means harming others in the process.]] |
| 277 | * The severe case of PTSD Corporal Duncan went through when dealing with [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3199 SCP-3199]], Humans, Refuted. How bad is it? Duncan has an infant son back at home who cries very frequently...and his cries sound way too similar to SCP-3199's screams. Though it's only in text form, you can still sense the ''[[MyGodWhatHaveIDone guilt]]'' in Duncan's voice as he tells Dr. Ewing that every time his son cries nowadays he frightens the poor kid by giving him a downright [[DeathGlare murderous look]]. Dr. Ewing's response is to [[PetTheDog request that Duncan be administered amnestics so he no longer has to be burdened with the memory]], as well as telling the Foundation that there would be no excuse not to do this. |
| 278 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3293 SCP-3293]], You Can't Go Home, was a six year old boy named Cooper Wells, who could create complex and inexplicable machinery and technology out of mundane objects. Cooper escaped several times to return to his parents who were brought as E-Class personnel to keep him from leaving but when they tried to convince him to escape again, they were amnesticized and relocated. Cooper kept trying to escape and return to his parents, only for them to turn him back in again and again as they didn't recognize him. This led to Cooper becoming so hostile to Foundation staff that they began to keep him under sedation, as well as depriving him of any objects. In one final escape attempt, the device Cooper made severely deformed him and then exploded, killing him. It was later revealed that the device had been created to neutralize the effects of amnestics. |
| 279 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3300 SCP-3300]], The Rain, is an event in which the town of Clear Water, Montana, is stuck in a situation where, every year, during a massive rainstorm, the citizens of that town are replaced with a new set of citizens. Not too bad on its own, but the journal a young woman from Clear Water named Margaret Lane kept during one such event is what really hits home. It describes a group of friends just trying to entertain themselves during the rain with a game of [[TabletopGame/{{DungeonsAndDragons}} D&D]] when someone banged on the door, a family with two kids stood in front of the door and the dad asked why they were in his house - only to proceed to beat one of them of them to death and fatally injure another. The others escaped, only to find themselves incapable of finding any police or reaching the nearest hospital to treat their injured friend. He dies and eventually evaporates into steam. After running out of gas and walking for a while, [[UnnaturallyLoopingLocation they find themselves back at Clear Water]], where they decide to barricade themselves inside of a grocery store, with more people waiting outside. What follows is a NightmareSequence [[AndIMustScream where she imagines herself as one with the storm and as a result in constant suffering]]. And then, [[SoleSurvivor after Margaret is the only one left]], we get this final heart wrenching bit. |
| 280 | -->"What can I do? What can I do? The strangers are still outside, watching me, waiting for my choice. Because they know what my choice will be, don't they? There's only one way this can end. I can wait and starve or shoot myself or slice my wrists or walk out into the rain but it's all going to end the same way. The water is eternal. The water will remain no matter how polluted it becomes. At the end we all become rain.\ |
| 281 | I don't want to go back." |
| 282 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3344 SCP-3344]], the Mourning Son, is the son of a Foundation researcher that unknowingly got afflicted with an antimemetic anomaly that makes it so that anyone who had direct contact with the researcher will believe the son to be dead and not acknowledge his actions or actual existence. Everyone he knew and loved, including his own father, doesn't know and will no longer know he exists, and those that aren't afflicted will always be ignored if they even try to communicate his situation to the afflicted. He could have settled on another location where nobody could possibly know his father, but he never moved on from his family not knowing him anymore. He now spends his time at the same Foundation facility his father works at, compulsively re-adding his SCP entry to the database despite all efforts from his father to delete it as it looks like gibberish to him. |
| 283 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3637 SCP-3637]], Many Waters, was a fossilized Maiasaura skeleton. Whenever a thunderstorm would hit the skeleton, salt crystals would gather around it and then detach in the skeleton's shape (3637-1). It would then proceed to wander and dig, as if searching for something, until the rain completely dissolved it. When this happened, the salt skeleton would dig more frantically and desperately. Eventually, the Foundation discovered a fossilized Maiasaura nest near where 3637 was found. A salt copy was formed, despite there being no rain, and it ran all the way to the excavation site. When it got there, 3637-1 lay down next to the nest, nuzzled the eggs and collapsed into salt crystals. |
| 284 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3663 SCP-3663]], the Tunnel Monster, [[WasOnceAMan was once a child]] who was playing monster pretend with their friend in an abandoned construction yard. The child was wearing a cardboard costume and played the role of "the Tunnel Monster" while their friend played the victim. As they played in the drainage pipes, the costumed child accidently hurt their friend and they both get into a brief argument. All of a sudden, the sky turns dark and the costumed child finds themselves unable to remove their costume. All cameras in a 200 meter radius then stop working for a few minutes, during which time the costumed child turns into SCP-3663 and their friend is teleported 4,000 km away with no memory of the costumed child or the events that just happened. SCP-3663 is now a true cardboard monster, forever playing pretend in any nearby tunnels with whoever comes into them even though it very much doesn't want to. It gets worse when the former friend eventually dies of natural causes. SCP-3663 went berserk in Site-54 and tried to commit suicide numerous times, only to respawn in any nearby air ducts or maintenance hallways. |
| 285 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3737 SCP-3737]], Rainbow Bridge, speaks for itself, especially for those who owns or previously owned a pet in their lives. It is an inter-dimensional region that takes form as a tropical island, home to a wide array of species that are commonly used as household pets. It is aptly named as the [[MeaningfulName Rainbow Bridge]]. One expedition force was sent to explore SCP-3737. Most, if not all members, are somewhat serious in their protocols when it comes to being sent in expeditions, but a couple of them decided to break protocol when they saw their former pets in the afterlife, including one, Dr. Rostova, who was [[ConsummateProfessional initially cautious with the animals]], [[OOCIsSeriousbusiness wept tears]] upon seeing her former pet Siamese cat. While one [[ButNowIMustGo said goodbye to his dog prior to returning to living]], Dr. Rostova tried to bring her pet cat back threshold, [[YankTheDogsChain only to realise that he disappeared from her arms]]. |
| 286 | -->'''Addendum 3737-2B:''' Dr. Katherine Rostova was placed into quarantine following her return under the suspicion she was suffering from memetic effects. She was released a week later after clearing several cognitohazard screenings. Dr. Rostova is to meet with Site-24's psychiatrist on a weekly basis until such a time where she is deemed emotionally stable. |
| 287 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3844/offset/1 SCP-3844 "To Kill a Dragon"]] is a spiritual successor to Where the Dragons Went, so of course it's a tearjerker. It's a dragon, named Tharnock, as told through his interractions with a foundation researcher named Lester (later O5-2) throughout the years. Tharnock is contained willingly, but laments that he's stuck in cave, and comments on the march of progress in the outside world. Each updated version of the article is also written in more scientific language, even going so far as describing Tharnock's fire breath as a "thaumalogical incantation", and Tharnock seems to be smaller and less impressive for each description. In their final meeting in 2017, Tharnock asks Lester what stars are, and Lester says they are balls of flaming gas, to which Tharnock seems dissapointed, and recounts how he asked the same question to a duke many years ago, and the duke had said, with wonder in his eyes, "they are lights from the heavens." Tharnock then breaks his agreement with Lester, flying out of the cave and is killed by the Foundation, in more ways than one. |
| 288 | ** The final update to the article is either a HopeSpot or a heartwarming moment. It's Keter, and the description only says it's the designation used for a bunch of dragons showing up across the world. Either the dragons are literally coming back, or it's simply Lester trying to bring some wonder back to the world. |
| 289 | --->'''Lester:''' There are still dragons in the mountains. |
| 290 | * Weirdly enough, one of the test logs for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3922 SCP-3922]], STOPRIGHTTHERECRIMINALSCUM!!!, (a cylindrical object that alters video-recorded fictional narratives like movies or TV shows to have soldiers that correct injustices) manages to be this for ''entirely'' non-SCP related reasons; the Foundation exposed it to the ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist: Brotherhood'' episode "An Alchemist's Anguish" (the episode where the Elric brothers experience the tragic and agonizing fate of Nina Tucker). Instead of being sent to correct said incident, the instances of SCP-3922-A are sent to the GateOfTruth, wherein Truth itself informs them that due to the laws of EquivalentExchange, they cannot interfere in the events of this episode without causing equal suffering elsewhere. The results are the same when tested with ''Anime/FullmetalAlchemist2003''. It's a sad reminder that there was never truly a way to avert Nina's fate. |
| 291 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3933 SCP-3933]], Bigger Than God, is a song called "Toxic Soul" by the HairMetal band Tyrannosaurus Flex, who were once the most popular and famous band in the world. The reason they aren't anymore is because anyone who hears the song both [[LaserGuidedAmnesia forgets that the band and its members ever existed]], and becomes [[PerceptionFilter unable to percieve the band members or their actions in any way]]. And ''since'' they were so famous, pretty much ''everybody'' heard the song, including their own families. The band members all spent the rest of their lives in Foundation custody, and were kept apart from each other the entire time. The last surviving member had been there for nearly forty years at the time of his final interview, which was conducted because he had just been diagnosed with lung cancer and had only a few months left to live. |
| 292 | -->'''SCP-3933-B:''' I get it. I do. But we were going to conquer the world, the four of us. We would have been remembered for the rest of history. Legends.\ |
| 293 | ''[[[{{Beat}} Silence.]]]''\ |
| 294 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' And now no one even remembers we existed.\ |
| 295 | '''Sacaran:''' If you could do it all over again, would you?\ |
| 296 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' I was thinking about that the other day. It's funny the things you start to remember when a guy in a white coat tells you you're going to die. Before we recorded that last album, that song, we were all sitting around, drinking and jamming, and Neil said "[[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor Do you ever wish we could go back to being nobodies? Just be able to walk down the street without getting mobbed?]]" Something like that anyway.\ |
| 297 | '''Sacaran:''' What did you say?\ |
| 298 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' Nothing. None of us did, we all just sat there for a minute, quietly... and then Markus made a filthy joke about how he'd miss the groupies and we all laughed. But I did think about it for a second, what would it have been like to have a different life? And I decided I wouldn't change a God damned thing. Would I do it all over again? Abso-fucking-lutely.\ |
| 299 | [...]\ |
| 300 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' Thanks, Amaleen. Oh, hey. One last thing.\ |
| 301 | '''Sacaran:''' Yes?\ |
| 302 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' I don't know what you did with the bodies of the others. Maybe you cremated them, or froze them or some other mad science shit. But if you still have them, [[TogetherInDeath cremate me and put me with others]]? Chuck us in the sea or blast us into space or something.\ |
| 303 | '''Sacaran:''' I'll see what I can do.\ |
| 304 | '''SCP-3933-B:''' Thanks, Doc. |
| 305 | * 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. Unfortunately for it, despite how harmless it seems, the fact of the matter remains for the Foundation that 2% of the total population that encountered 3949 is still potentially ''millions'' of people, meaning that if it was allowed to operate unhindered, there's always the risk that enough of that 2% may put things together and possibly realize the nature of 3949, and thus [[BrokenMasquerade compromise the Foundation and the existence of SCPs themselves,]] necessating feedback, no matter how cruel. 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]]. |
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| 307 | |
| 308 | [[folder:Series V ([=SCPs=] 4000-4999)]] |
| 309 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4002 SCP-4002]], The Black Moon Howls From Beyond The Edge Of Time, is a tale of sumerian kings, culminating in Etana. In the days of Etana, it was foreseen that the city of Kish would weep, for Etana would not have a child. In desperation, he sought to the gods, begging them for the seed that would let him have a son. They would not give it to him, until he asked the Black Moon. The moon would give it to him, but the cost would be great: He would give up the nature of man. Their time on earth would grow short, the gods would fade, the beasts would fall silent. The city of Kish did not weep as Etana had foreseen. But the city of Kish did weep. In short, humans used to have special powers, gods and mythical beasts used to be commonplace, until Etana gave it all up to have a son. Humanity lost everything that made it special, and magic faded from the world. However, it may be on its way back... |
| 310 | * In a weird, MindScrew-y way, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4012 SCP-4012]], Than Teach Ten Thousand Stars How Not to Dance, is a melancholy take on the 4000 contest's theme of history. It chronicles a D-Class being sent into 4012 and experiencing an entire AcidTripDimension that personifies an utterly nihilistic view of the history of life, civilization, and the universe wherein humanity doesn't matter and space is the only thing that will make a lasting impression, and the poor commanding researcher is ForcedToWatch the whole thing. Predictably, he breaks down, grovelling in remorse over all of his past sins, and is implied to [[DrivenToSuicide kill himself]] after the memetics finish frying both the article and his brain. |
| 311 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4046 SCP-4046]], What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?, is a machine manufactured by Dr. Wondertainment that shows you what will happen if you pursue the career choice you type into it, in the form of an extremely lifelike LotusEaterMachine. This yields sometimes heartwarming, other times tearjerking and other times weird results. The biggest ones, however, would be: |
| 312 | ** Jasmine, a child who desires to be a firefighter, discovering how risky such a career can be, especially with [[MyGreatestFailure how many people they discover they would fail to save]]. However, [[BittersweetEnding this does not sway them from wanting to pursue it regardless]]. |
| 313 | ** David, who wants to be a basketball player, freaking out upon discovering that his future in that career would lead to him becoming an alcoholic and a meth addict. |
| 314 | ** Kelley, who wants to be a veterinarian, breaking down in tears upon seeing just how many animal deaths she would have to witness and is in such a state of distress that the Foundation had to sedate her and wipe her memories. |
| 315 | ** And then there's the Foundation's recurring CreepyChild, Eric, whose entry speaks for itself: |
| 316 | --->'''Subject:''' Eric\ |
| 317 | '''Profession:''' [[TheWoobie Happy]]\ |
| 318 | '''Notes:''' [[WhamLine SCP-4046's anomalous properties did not activate.]] |
| 319 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4166 SCP-4166]], (Former) Teenage Succubus, is a succubus who WasOnceAMan, but she made a DealWithTheDevil so she could make the PedophilePriest burn. She was ''five years old'' when the abuse first started, and the trauma carried over into the deal itself, as she's required to sleep with a man once a week, and acute stress will cause shadowy figures to manifest and abuse her. |
| 320 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4252 SCP-4252]], Beans and Betrayal, is a mostly silly article about several objects that are constantly filling full of baked beans and a tiny king who periodically appears to eat them. Incident-01, which is how it was classified as Keter, starts off as similarly silly, with a tiny wizard destroying SCP-4252-A1 and Lord Jethusent attacking him, but it ends on an oddly somber note: |
| 321 | -->'''22:02:38:27 04-06-2019'''\ |
| 322 | SCP-4252 manifests and tackles the figure. They wrestle for 30 seconds, at which point the intruder grabs SCP-4252's arm and breaks it. SCP-4252 screams, kicks the figure's head, and continues to do so until it stops moving. SCP-4252 steps away to breathe, then collapses on the ground in front of the figure's body and begins to sob heavily.\ |
| 323 | '''22:04:13:10 04-06-2019'''\ |
| 324 | SCP-4252 collects itself and leans over the body of the figure. It gingerly closes the body's eyes, whispers something inaudible, grabs the corpse, and demanifests. |
| 325 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4319 SCP-4319]], ♡By Girls, For Girls♡, is a blog called "Just Girly Things", that claims to be for helping girls embrace their femininity. The problem? Not only does it brainwash them into doing so using memetic hazards of varying sorts, but it's run by a bigoted AlphaBitch who emotionally abuses all of her fellow bloggers. The worst part would have to be poor Landon -- a transgender man who, due to the blog's influence, is forcibly detransitioned. And worse still, his occasional moments of lucidity show that he, like all the other members, is ''[[AndIMustScream aware of it]]'' and it's causing him a severe amount of mental anguish. WordOfGod does [[RayOfHopeEnding confirm]] offsite that he'll get a happy ending, but until then, the situation he's going through may well end up [[RealismInducedHorror hitting a little too close to home for some readers]]. |
| 326 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4340 SCP-4340]], Endling, is a simple concept with heartrending execution. It's just [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDRY0CmcYNU a mating call from a male Kauaʻi ʻōʻō,]] a Hawaiian species of bird that went extinct in 1987, a call that has no discernible source whatsoever. It's basic up until you reach the addendum - a journal from ornithologist Edward Cassin, who followed the call in the hopes of finding one of the birds for himself. He pieces together that the call is coming from the Earth itself - it was happy with what it had, and it doesn't want to let go. It couldn't stop humanity from stamping out the Kauaʻi ʻōʻō, so the most it can do is cling on to the past. It's a haunting, somber speech on the depressing nature of extinction, compounded by Edward's statement that, while it was just one bird out of many, there will never be something like it again. |
| 327 | -->''And these ghosts will sing. They don't know anything else other than to just sing as they would in any other time, not knowing why they will never receive a song in return. An unanswered call, that will last until the Earth is ready to snap its own fingers, and let them go too into the void.'' |
| 328 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4409 SCP-4409]], The Elephant Man, WasOnceAMan working for the Circus of the Disquieting until Herman Fuller turned him into a literal elephant man with all sorts of deformities and health problems, just to one-up Joseph Merrick. |
| 329 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4445 SCP-4445]], The Day The Music Died. As the title indicates, it's based around the infamous real-life deaths of Music/BuddyHolly, Music/RitchieValens, and Music/TheBigBopper in a plane crash in February 1959. What is the SCP's spin on this, you may wonder? Apparently, the death of three rising-star rock musicians all at once impacted not only the music industry, but ''the concept of music itself'', causing a then relatively little-known wavelength persistent thruought the ''entire universe'' to signiifcantly weaken--and if it dissappears completely, humanity will lose the capacity to recognize music as ''music''. Even worse? It's later discovered that the wavelength wasn't merely weakened--it ''dissappeared completely'', and nobody knows if it will ''ever'' come back. While this in itself is a horrifyingly tragic thought, the final letter written by one of the scientists really drives it home, and might leave you with a bit of wistful nostalgia for what may have been, despite being fictional in nature. |
| 330 | -->''They’re saying it was Buddy Holly, you know. They think he died last, and they’ve timed the drop up with when it happened. He must have had something really special in the works, that his death killed the concept of music forever.'' |
| 331 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4504 SCP-4504]], The Handless Man, is one hell of a TragicMonster, a man capable of manipulating all types of matter and the Foundation's captivity made him GoMadFromTheIsolation, specially as his therapists deny requests for socialization or just see the outside world. Along with his mental state collapsing horribly, he does terrible things to his body (first he asks another SCP to sever his hands, and then employs his powers to disfigure himself) and kills two psychiatrists and many researchers and guards, because as one interview makes clear, revenge is one of the few things that still makes him happy. And once the guy finally gets a shrink who decides that her predecessors were doing the wrong thing and he instead deserves a break, as 4504 manages to get a walk outside the facility, he cries profusely. |
| 332 | * The fate of 7-year-old Ekaterina Morozova, the only known survivor of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4666 SCP-4666.]], The Yule Man. She was discovered in a home in Alaska in early 2018, having been crudely and horrifically fashioned into a doll; [[BodyHorror her mouth had been sewn shut with tendon, her scalp removed and replaced by another with long hair, and her eyes were replaced with painted pebbles]], but she was miraculously still alive. After being airlifted to a hospital, she was interviewed by two Foundation agents. She explained that she'd been taken from her home in Russia, after watching the Yule Man torture her family to death, and forced into slavery in his domain alongside several other children. For two years, they had to work making toys from body parts or else the Yule Man would bite, burn or even [[ImAHumanitarian eat them]], as he did to two of her friends. After she got sick, her other friends were forced to make her into a doll. Just 30 minutes after her interview, Ekaterina died as a result of multi-organ failure and malnutrition. Additionally, Agent Kowalczyk (her interviewer) called her "myshka" [[note]]"little mouse" in Russian[[/note]] while assuring her that she doesn't have to go back and that she's safe now. It might well have been years since someone referred to Ekaterina with a kind word or an endearing diminutive, making it a bittersweet tearjerker that she received this treatment before her death. |
| 333 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4689 SCP-4689]], What Was a Lion?, was a pride of lions. Why were they considered [=SCPs=]? Because they were discovered in the year 2143 and lions had gone extinct in 2037. The Foundation euthanized the lions as the pride's small size would mean an eventual genetic bottleneck and they felt their existence was a veil disruption. At some point, someone sent 4689's document back in time to the present day to a zoo with the nearest Foundation site phone number on it. It was attached to a sign that read "It will be a sad day when a child asks, 'What was a lion?'" |
| 334 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4735 SCP-4735]], You're Alight Again, My Dear, is a standard surgery kit that markets itself to the attention of abusive mothers that claims to make children behave. It does this by, more or less, ''lobotomizing the child.'' That in itself is horrifically nightmarish, and kicks up something fierce, right? Well, the article decides to show that effect on little Charlie Jackton, who is '''SEVEN YEARS OLD''', whose mother proceeds to use the SCP on him for the slightest provocation, from getting bad grades on his report card to playing with his little sister's dolls. Due to this being diary entries, they start off simple, with a few minor mispellings due to being, you know, ''seven'', but by the end of it his ability to write has degenerated so badly he can't even write a simple sentence without horrible grammar and spelling errors. The worst part? He still doesn't know what he's doing wrong but is unaware that his mother is doing this to him, and all he can do is say that he's sorry to his mother, and he's not "trying to be bad." By the time the Foundation finds his home, they find OVER HALF OF HIS FRONTAL LOBE IN THE FREEZER. '''And they don't know the poor kid's current location.''' |
| 335 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4773 SCP-4773]], and a stuffed bear, was a boy with a teddy bear who died after being neglected by the Foundation due to his antimemetic properties. At least he died with his favorite toy close to him. |
| 336 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4823 SCP-4823]], The Whole World Has Gone Bananas!, starts out as the story of a cute alternate dimension full of living fruits and vegetables instead of humans, with the most prominent species being bananas. Then in the Addendums, it's revealed a fruit fly escaped into the banana world and started breeding, causing a worldwide plague and extinction as attempts to contain or exterminate the infestation failed. The second one in particular, a diary entry from one of the inhabitants, is bleakly horrifying in how quickly everything crumbles. |
| 337 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4831 SCP-4831]], There Are Innocent People on Death Row, is a simple yet depressing SCP. It is a bathroom that one day suddenly when SCP-4831-1 entered it, it locked and became indestructible to all attempts to destroy or open the room. SCP-4831-1 is the unfortunate non-anomalous young man named Tucker who is trapped in the room. The depressing part comes from that the article has a few recording transcripts of the family throughout this experience. Starting with them realizing that Tucker is stuck in the room, to every attempt of freeing him failing and them getting more and more desperate. It is implied that this whole situation even causes Tucker's parents to break apart. [[PetTheDog Note that the Ethics Committee ruled that the family should not receive amnestics and forget their son's existence and that Tucker should be treated as humanely as possible]]. |
| 338 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4840 SCP-4840]], The Demon Lancelot and the Flying City of Audapaupadopolis, is the story of creation. The SCP itself is a floating city, the first city ever, in fact, but the meat of the article is the story told by its last inhabitant. The story is full of interesting worldbuilding, but the tragic part revolves around Adam el Asem, the king of the city. He ruled justly and wisely, until he plucked a crown out of the heavens and became inflicted by the first vice, envy. The crown becomes the seed of all human evil in the world, causing Adam to imprison his oldest son and banish his second (you may know their names). [[CainAndAbelAndSeth His third son]] stole the crown, eventually giving it to another kind human king. Of course, that king's descendants ended up causing most of the terrible things that happened to the Foundation's universe, ranging from the children of the night's war with humanity, the war with the fae, the daevites and countless other. In the end, the last inhabitants admits that his name was once Seth, but he doesn't feel like he deserves it anymore. [[StartOfDarkness Not since he asked his father for a star, and his father plucked an iron crown out of the heavens for him]]. |
| 339 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4918 SCP-4918]], Bergentruckung. In WWI, Fionn Mac Cumhaill asks a soldier what he wants. The soldier replies he just wants to see his mother again. Fionn calls it a noble goal and delivers the soldier home. It's heartbreaking seeing these legendary figures broken by the horrors of the war. |
| 340 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4974 SCP-4974]], The Mouse SCP, is a non-sentient, non-sapient anomalous creature that looks and acts like a [[{{Franchise/Pokemon}} Pikachu,]] with the same ability to produce electricity. It was created by a father using modern alchemy, as a birthday present for his 8-year-old son. But unlike Ash's Pikachu in the TV show, this Pikachu's electrical abilities [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome were not harmless,]] and killed the son. The Foundation discovered the anomaly and the son's body in the family's home, along with birthday decorations, the things used to create the anomaly, and the father's body, [[DrivenToSuicide dead of a self-inflicted gunshot to the temple.]] |
| 341 | [[/folder]] |
| 342 | |
| 343 | [[folder:Series VI ([=SCPs=] 5000-5999)]] |
| 344 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]], Why? The SCP itself is a mobile suit that acts as a powerful PerceptionFilter for the pilot, allowing them to remain undetected by their surroundings. The suit's recording archives reveal that it came from an AlternateTimeline where the Foundation inexplicably declares that they have gone back on their mission of securing and containing anomalous objects to protect humanity, and now intend to ''[[KillAllHumans exterminate humanity]]''. Pietro Wilson, a Foundation employee who piloted the suit, is just as shocked as the reader likely is, trying to gather information on ''why'' the Foundation suddenly turned its back on humankind (hence the title of the SCP), while reading about the Foundation intentionally releasing hazardous [=SCPs=] to aid in their genocidal directive; conversely, human and human-sympathetic skips are terminated, and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2000 SCP-2000 "Deus Ex Machina"]], the SCP that can rebuild human civilization, is destroyed when the Foundation intentionally blows up Yellowstone. Wilson then digs into the vote leading up to this catastrophe, and sees that countless Foundation employees either [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere resigned]] or [[DrivenToSuicide committed suicide]] out of protest and/or [[DespairEventHorizon despair]]. Wilson and the reader never quite learn the purpose of such a horrific mass-murder act, but it's implied that the Foundation discovered that ''human emotion itself'' is an anomaly. |
| 345 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5005 SCP-5005]], Lamplight, is pretty much an entire SCP built around melancholy. The subject of the article is a small village named Lamplight, "located" at the literal edge of reality, so far out in the multiverse that it's actually beyond the border of where reality should be able to exist. The whole village seems to exist thanks to a small light hanging above it, barely stronger than the moon. Those who live in the village appreciate home, light and family, gathering around the hearth fire with their friends at any opportunity. Some who move there, however, generally scientists and artists, become obsessed with the infinite nothing beyond the light, often resulting in them wandering out into the darkness and never returning. The whole theme seems to be based around appreciating life and light, rather than relentlessly pursuing darkness and depression. Even TheReveal of what the light actually is is remarkably downplayed, since it doesn't really matter. |
| 346 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5145 SCP-5145]], I Buried The Sun. What starts as a simple piece on the [[SurrealHorror Surrealistics Department]] is quickly derailed by the researcher's trauma bleeding into his description of the SCP. The researcher's daughter was captured by a hostile group (implied to be Chaos Insurgency) and [[IHaveYourWife held hostage]] in order to extort valuable intel from him. As soon as he failed to help them, she was killed. There's no closure; the researcher's rational paradigm is realigned until he is fully content with his fate as a [[SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan means to seal SCP-5145]]. As the article puts it, |
| 347 | --> '''salvador.aic''': It will all be over soon. As a Surrealistic, you'll realize there's no real reason to cry. |
| 348 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5167 SCP-5167]], When the Imposter is Sus, initially seems like a silly topical SCP themed around ''VideoGame/AmongUs''. However, it quickly turns into a simple but surprisingly heartrending one-shot about losing your place in society as time flies by, with the mythological Phthonus in agony as he has to come to terms with the fact that not only is his role in Myth/GreekMythology not actually all that important, but also that humanity just wants to enjoy the simple things now - two things he simply cannot comprehend having lived in a vastly different era from ours. This causes him to invoke his personification of envy and [[GreenEyedMonster lash out in a depressive stupor]] before [[DespairEventHorizon admitting he's lost and fading away once more]], and it's hard not to relate to his insecurities as times change in RealLife and leave people in the dust to be forgotten, sometimes taking away everything they thought would last forever. |
| 349 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5366 SCP-5366]], Until Death Do Us Part And Every Day After, is a horrifying and saddening fate. It is a rather simple anomaly: if a deceased person is visited by someone very close to them in life, they will animate, [[AndIMustScream while being completely immobile and in immense pain]]. The specific instance monitored by the Foundation was left begging his wife, who can't hear him, to stop visiting as he cannot handle the constant resurrections. |
| 350 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5392 SCP-5392]], The Voyage of the ''Tachyon Express'', is the story of [[HumansAreBastards 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. |
| 351 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5470 SCP-5470]], Why, 2K?, was a primitive virtual reality simulation that temporarily uploaded its users' minds to its environment. As is typical of many VR stories, the world attracted many troubled youths to the point where it was often all they had for themselves while facing problems at home. However, it quickly became apparently that it would be lost to [=Y2K=], to the point where its creator comes begging to the Foundation to find a way to "contain" and preserve its data. The rest of the article consists of STF Omicron-4 exploring SCP-5470 to talk to its users and try to save the world - [[DownerEnding but it's clear nothing can be done, as Omicron-4 and the kids using the simulation can only tearfully watch as it crumbles to pieces]], and with it, the connection to their TrueCompanions. Then there's the ending monologue which turns the whole thing into AnAesop about living in the moment, as one last gut-punch before the STF wakes up understandably depressed: |
| 352 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5726 SCP-5726]] aka Sparkling Magical Girl ♥ Darling Pink!! is a humanoid who looks and acts exactly like the heroine of an in-universe manga, Darling Pink. She tries to purify criminals by shooting hearts from her scepter to cleanse of the 'Darkness' which only succeeds in blowing them to smithereens. Completely unaware of death and that she was actually killing people, not purifying them, Darling Pink came to believe that blood was actually Darkness which resulted in her killing the researcher she had befriended when said researcher got a papercut. It was decided to put Darling Pink in cryogenic storage, where she seemed to realize what death was and expressed remorse for killing her researcher. |
| 353 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5832 SCP-5832 "Stained"]]: |
| 354 | ** It doesn't seem like much at first, being just an apartment with the sole supernatural thing about it being that those who enter it cannot vocalize. [[AndIMustScream A little worrisome]], but nothing sad... Until you read what's inside it, and realize the heartbreaking horror that took place there. |
| 355 | --->The contents of the leftmost room are listed below:\ |
| 356 | \ |
| 357 | A 16-pack of Crayola crayons and a Disney Princess activity book. All images of Prince Adam (from Beauty and the Beast) have been colored over and scratched out in red. The red crayon has not otherwise been used.\ |
| 358 | \ |
| 359 | A Webkinz plush black labrador retriever. [[FridgeHorror In several places, fur is crusted over with an unidentified substance]].\ |
| 360 | \ |
| 361 | A white wooden dresser. Contents of the dresser include a charm bracelet with one attached charm resembling a birthday cake [[WouldHurtAChild with seven candles]]. Also found inside were several opened and partly emptied packages of Pull-ups disposable training pants, and three identical Disney princess t-shirts in a child's medium size. [[FridgeHorror All three shirts are heavily stained.]]\ |
| 362 | \ |
| 363 | A plastic cup sits on the bathroom counter. The contents have congealed, but chemical analysis revealed it to be a mixture of apple juice and [[ChildByRape mifepristone.]] |
| 364 | |
| 365 | ** In the Discussion page, [[WordOfGod the author]] had this to say about the dog plushie: |
| 366 | --->''And to answer the question that I keep getting: it doesn't matter what the stuff is on her doggie's fur. It could be semen, tears, vomit, anything. All that matters is that her only soft toy was dirty, and no longer soft.'' |
| 367 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5935 SCP-5935]] "Blood and the Breaking of my Heart" is a tale about a man who lost his son, and the things he did to bring him back. It follows an O5 who had a son named Jacob. Unfortunately, Jaboc died, causing the O5 and his wife to fall into depression. Eventually, in despair, the O5 sought out [[forestgreen:The Woods Where Names Are Laid To Rest]], hoping to find his son's name and use it to resurrect him. He may have succeeded, as a mysterious voice ponders at the end of the article, but was distracted and instead found a Thing That Was Nameless, who offered to resurrect Jacob if the Overseer gave it the son's name. The story ends when the Overseer realizes that the Thing Named Jacob is not his son, and comes to terms with his death, sacrificing himself to contain the Thing. |
| 368 | [[/folder]] |
| 369 | |
| 370 | [[folder:Series VII ([=SCPs=] 6000-6999)]] |
| 371 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6001 SCP-6001]] "Avalon" is a utopian alternate reality where the Foundation and other groups of interest has formed a world government, using anomalies for the common good rather than hide them, as told from the perspective of a foundation researcher from our world who got to spend a day there with a talking cat named Primrose. The researcher can tell that Primrose is hiding something, assuming it to be some dark secret of this seeming utopia. He eventually gets her to spill the beans: Primrose just wanted to spend a day with her best friend. The researcher's equivalent in this universe died, and they have decided against bringing people back from the dead. Even a Utopia knows sorrow, it would seem. |
| 372 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6002 SCP-6002]], All Creatures Great and Small, is a WorldTree in northern California that contains the DNA of every living thing in its branches. If a species goes extinct, the branch corresponding to that species falls off, and vice versa. A Foundation scientist, Dr. Eugene Muller, accidentally infected it with an anomalous blight in the course of some ill-advised experimentation, and this blight (SCP-6002-B) is slowly destroying the tree. That's not the tear-jerky part, though. Large parts of the article consists of notes and comments by the current project director, Dr. Rose Wildcat, who recounts how the Foundation [[FinalSolution systematically exterminated]] her people [[KickTheDog after promising to help them protect 6002]]; how, after being assigned to work with 6002, Dr. Muller stole credit for the work performed by his junior researchers; how he threatened to have Dr. Wildcat ''executed'' for removing a genetic disease he'd intentionally introduced into the chicken genome; how he murdered Dr. Wildcat's girlfriend, Dr. Amara Achebe, after Dr. Achebe had discovered that SCP-6002-B had appeared around the site of Dr. Muller's earlier experimentation; and, finally, how, after Dr. Muller killed himself to escape justice, Dr. Wildcat worked tirelessly to save 6002, cutting away infected branches, weathering attacks by various hostile groups who'd noticed the progressive extinctions caused by the spreading blight, hiding within the tree's crown for ''17 months'' after it was captured by hostile forces until the Foundation managed to retake the site, and eventually ''severing an entire kingdom of life from the tree'' to stop the spread of SCP-6002-B. This seems to work for a while... until SCP-6002-B reappeared within the tree despite everything. [[AllForNothing Nothing she'd done had done more than temporarily slow the inevitable destruction of the tree she'd dedicated her life to protecting]], [[ApocalypseHow/Class6 and, with it, the impending extinction of all organic life on Earth]]. |
| 373 | -->'''Dr. Wildcat:''' I became convinced that there was only one way to save it: the infection must be cut away, whatever the cost. Regrettably, I knew I would need the oppressor’s help to do this. So I exchanged the new master for the old and helped the Foundation regain the Tree. Then I cut away every inch of infection I could find, and much more, deeper and deeper into the wood until I was sure that no blight could remain. I knew the harm that this would do, but I also knew that I had saved the Tree.\ |
| 374 | \ |
| 375 | [[AllForNothing Last week, I discovered that I was wrong. The blight remains. I murdered trillions of creatures across the world, for nothing.]]\ |
| 376 | \ |
| 377 | That, perhaps, I could have lived with. But when I fled again into the Tree this week, to hide before I could be ordered to continue cutting, I found a truth I cannot face.\ |
| 378 | \ |
| 379 | Its branches have gone silent. The Tree will no longer sing to me.\ |
| 380 | \ |
| 381 | [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone Vúluandsham… Mother… Amara… Forgive me.]]\ |
| 382 | \ |
| 383 | ....\ |
| 384 | \ |
| 385 | COGNITOMOLE WARNING: [[DrivenToSuicide LIFE SIGNS NOT DETECTED. BIOSIGNATURE LOST.]] FOR SECURITY PURPOSES, FILE WILL CLOSE AUTOMATICALLY. |
| 386 | |
| 387 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6090 SCP-6090]], the "were-virus" is a virus that infects non-human creatures and drives them to bite other creatures and humans. Any humans bitten by an infected animal gain large amounts of physical properties of that animal, such as the head, ears, paws, and tail, but are still humanoid and retain speech and sentience. The sad part? One subject, Sandra "[[InsistentTerminology Sandy]]" Collins, was bitten by an infected specimen of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6090 SCP-3577]], a coyote capable of altering reality. Tests concluded she also gained this reality warping power, at which point the facility planned to imprison her forever with no chance of getting out. Upon escaping, she claimed anywhere was better than the facility. Even after her escape, the SCP log notes indicate the facility is still searching for her, and that [[YouCantGoHomeAgain everyone who she was close to is being closely monitored in the event she tries to contact them]]. |
| 388 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6140 SCP-6140]], The True Empire, delivers a gut punch. In this reality, the Daevite Empire as it is known from SCP-140 doesn't exist. Their cruelty and stagnation was the invention of an Orientalist, racist British man who took single historical moments out of context, blended it with Daevite mythology, and projected his own society's issues on the Daevites. Not only that, he was behind the ritual that created SCP-140 and subsequently ''removed the Daevite states from reality'', making his (inaccurate and slanderous) ethnography the correct one. The actual Republic of Daevastan, upon being restored, is a peaceful, civilized place (that narrowly avoided being replaced with Thomas Bruce's version of them ''anyway'' if SCP-140 had been allowed to reach the present day). As the problems of cultural appropriation, racism, Orientalism, under-representation/deliberate exclusion and silencing of minority voices, and history revisionism is still TruthInTelevision, Dr. Jad-Leshal's testimony delivers a cutting and sobering RealitySubtext. |
| 389 | -->But a single man saw that past. That single moment in which a prince ate a child and he stretched it into eternity. He made it the past of the country — that slavery was the backbone of our entire past — and the present. The revolution wasn't salacious enough for him, so he took the moment in time that was, and he made it the only image of the country, the only one that could exist. But without the release of revolution. Depravity, but without consequence. And it spirals from there, becoming worse and worse. Because we had no voice, nothing to say "Stop. It wasn't like that."\ |
| 390 | It was nothing but tragedy, what he did. So I come before you today, and I have to beg you: do not repeat what he did. Do not do the same things. Do not force us back into the dark.\ |
| 391 | Please. |
| 392 | * Much like the SCP Tale "Quiet Days", [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6500 SCP-6500]], Inevitable, is a TheMagicGoesAway scenario where every anomaly on the planet suddenly begins to disappear or lose their anomalous properties. |
| 393 | ** At first glance, apart from the Foundation potentially needing to cease all operations (as "Quiet Days" had shown), this would appear to be a good thing, as most of the files on the site feature dangerous if not world-destroying creatures and objects that are now being destroyed or rendered powerless. But as O5-1 points out, the end of the anomalous would not only mean the end of the Foundation, but the end of everything creative, magical, and wonderous about the world they live in. Remember: the Foundation's goal is to secure, contain, and ''protect'' the world's anomalies. |
| 394 | --->Quiet days are upon us.\ |
| 395 | \ |
| 396 | One would be forgiven for viewing this as a desirable goal. To be free from the anomalous. To usher in a new age of reason, where there can exist nothing outside our realm of understanding. A world where we would not have to watch our brethren die in the dark, unaccomplished and forgotten.\ |
| 397 | \ |
| 398 | One would be forgiven for wanting to go home to their family, to look them in the eye and assure them everything is going to be okay. That there is nothing left to go bump in the night.\ |
| 399 | \ |
| 400 | One would be forgiven.\ |
| 401 | \ |
| 402 | Since our inception, countless generations of noble men and women have dedicated their lives to the suppression of that which eludes understanding. They have stood stalwart on the precipice of the unknown, staring defiantly into the abyss. They mocked its gaze.\ |
| 403 | \ |
| 404 | Why then, should we not honor their tradition? Why spurn their sacrifice? Why should we move to proliferate that which we've so stubbornly locked away?\ |
| 405 | \ |
| 406 | SCP-6500 represents the end of magic. The end of stories, and of dreams. The utter desolation of countless sapient, feeling lives. The destruction of communities. The fracturing of whole cultures and religions. It is an unnatural and intolerable eradication of untold worlds.\ |
| 407 | \ |
| 408 | It is condemnation, unforgiving in its totality and unflinching in its march towards oblivion.\ |
| 409 | \ |
| 410 | To allow for it to continue on its course is to fail in our mission to Protect. To cede to its influence would be to permit it to rob our world of wonder. To stand by would be tantamount to genocide.\ |
| 411 | \ |
| 412 | And that, that cannot be forgiven. |
| 413 | ** As if to hammer home the point O5-1 is making above, the picture right above the note features a pair of gloved hands scooping up a tar-like substance, said to be the remains of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2521 SCP-2521]]. Sounds all for the better, right? Well, the caption below the picture further explains that a still smoldering cigarette was found nearby. The still smoldering cigarette of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4999 SCP-4999]]. Even benevolent anomalies aren't safe from the 6500 entropy. |
| 414 | ** If you input the correct Overseer Credentials at the bottom of the file, you will be led to another file recounting the trial of O5-0, one of the founders of the SCP Foundation. During the trial, O5-0 calls out the O5s for their hypocrisy, claiming they care more about keeping up their idea of "normalcy" by hiding away the ''naturally occurring'' anomalies of the universe than actually protecting said anomalies as they so claim. Why does O5-0 believe this? Because SCP-6500 was the result of the Foundation's containment procedures. More specifically, it's the universe's natural response to its anomalies being unable to roam free as they were meant to: destroying all anomalies since there's no point in their existence if they must remain unseen by the rest of the world. The SCP Foundation has always strived to protect the surreal and unusual from destruction, either out of genuine wonder or just pragmatism. But now, one of those surreal and unusual phenomenons has come to destroy everything the Foundation stands for. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero And it's all their fault.]] |
| 415 | * In a way, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6511 SCP-6511]], OBLIVION ACCESS, is a bittersweet tragedy of the things the Foundation has to do to keep moving forward. One day, the world will end, and someone will have to erase everything and everyone in the Foundation to save everything else. They will be the only person who remembers the world as it once was, and will live the rest of their life with the guilt of destroying so many things and taking so many lives. And all the article can do to help them is to glumly point in the direction of a burning tree [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone and quietly mourn for everything they have lost]]. There is nothing, ''[[YouCantFightFate nothing]]'' that can be done to avoid this, because the OBLIVION ACCESS protocol and Contingency/0001 wouldn't exist if it could have been. Yet still, [[RayOfHopeEnding the world keeps spinning]]. |
| 416 | -->You are not safe here.\ |
| 417 | But the Foundation will be. |
| 418 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6556 SCP-6556]], DINOVLOGS!, is a [=YouTube=] channel that contains SliceOfLife vlogs from a sapient ''T. rex'' named Ty, and later his girlfriend Penny. The metadata attached to these videos, which marks them as impossibly ancient and from the actual Cretaceous Period, indicates Ty and his adventures were in fact real to some extent, and a cognitohazard in all of the videos imparts this knowledge onto most viewers. Things are largely comedic as [[FurryReminder modern YouTuber culture is juxtaposed against the normal animal behavior of dinosaurs]], until the Foundation [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/supplement-bonebed launches an investigation into Ty's final video]], where he claims he found a UFO. We get a look into the video's transcript and what the "UFO" actually is... and it turns out to be the meteor from the K/Pg extinction. It goes about as well as you'd expect, except Ty ''[[FateWorseThanDeath survives]]'', as indicated by a private 38th video the Foundation discovers. What follows is a harrowing transcript of Ty (a ''child'') wandering around in an apocalyptic wasteland after losing everyone he loves, trying to hide his grief through his instincts and his persona and clearly failing. His last known recording has him return to the ruins of his home, dying of hunger and still hoping his parents or his viewers are still alive. [[ForegoneConclusion Alas, there was never any hope]]. |
| 419 | -->'''Ty:''' Yeah, I…. I think I'm gonna take a little nap, [=#TyArmy=]. Mom and Dad are probably out getting food. Maybe a nice big 'tops, you know? Some real gourmet stuff. Anyway, I'm gonna hang out here. They'll be so psyched to see me — oh, I'll do this— this awesome food review when they bring it back. But, 'til then, I'm just gonna… close my eyes. Keep it real, [=#TyArmy=]. |
| 420 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6666 SCP-6666]], The Demon Hector and the Dread Titania, is a direct followup to 4840 mentioned above. In it, Sophia Light conducts an interview with Cain, mentioning that the Foundation has discovered 4840. At the end of the interview, Cain asks if the Foundation happened to meet a man named [[CainAndAbelAndSeth Seth]] there, and that he would very much like to tell his brother that he is sorry. Sophia, unfortunately, cannot tell him. |
| 421 | -->'''SCP-073:''' If it is not too much to inquire, in Audapaupadopolis you might have found a... a man. Perhaps just one man, or even... or even his remains. If you... if you have found this man, perhaps you could let me know? I just — there was myself, and Able, but our youngest brother... it has just been such a long time, and I can't help but wonder if I could...\ |
| 422 | '''Dir. Light:''' I'm sorry, Cain. You know I wouldn't be able to do that, even if I wanted to.\ |
| 423 | '''SCP-073:''' Ah, yes. Of course, I- I understand. ''(Pauses)'' I would've quite liked to have... to have apologized to him, my little brother. Ah. But we all have regrets, yes? |
| 424 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6670 SCP-6670]], "Mama?", is a ShaggyDogStory from start to finish. A Texas teenager named Melanie got pregnant at a party and fled her abusive family to Detroit. She gave birth to a girl, Jemma, and tried to raise her as best she could but failed to find a job and it was implied that Jemma had some kind of anomalous gigantism. On Jemma's second birthday, she climbed into a hole in her bedroom wall and got stuck due suddenly growing bigger. Melanie was unable to free her, even with the help of her neighbor John. He wanted to call 911 but Melanie refused, afraid they'd take Jemma away due to her being an underage mother living alone. When John suggested contacting her family, Melanie killed him. Over the next several years, Jemma remained stuck and started [[BodyHorror growing into the shape of the walls]], taking a serious toll on Melanie. Eventually, Jemma ended up in the ceiling, which collapsed and she fell through, crushing Melanie to death. And just when you think it couldn't get any worse, it's implied that Jemma was forced to eat her mother's corpse to survive. The last video transcript describes the horrifying BlobMonster Jemma has become, crying and saying she's sorry for hours straight until the tape runs out. |
| 425 | [[/folder]] |
| 426 | |
| 427 | [[folder:Series VIII ([=SCPs=] 7000-7999)]] |
| 428 | * The long-awaited [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7000 SCP-7000]], The Loser, features Foundation employee Dr. William Wettle, who is a living probability sink that concentrates local misfortune on his person- in short, he's the single most unlucky man alive. Nothing that could be considered Good Luck ever happens to him, any luck-based outcomes he's involved in always end with him getting the short end of the stick. He's never had anything catastrophically bad happen to him, he's just consistently unlucky. While this has given him a slapstick reputation of being a clumsy idiot, years and years of this have clearly taken a toll on Wettle's mental health, seeing himself as little more than a clown for the universe to laugh at. It's made all the sadder by the reveal of ''how'' this came to be for Wettle: when he was just a little boy, his mother was dying of lung cancer. So young William prayed to whoever or whatever would listen, offering to give up "every good thing" that could ever happen to him, just to let his mother live. Apparently, something listened and held up their end. His mother survived, but now Wettle is cursed to a lifetime of a thousand tiny indignities and humiliations, all because as a child, he had to do something no child should. |
| 429 | * [[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 the 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. |
| 430 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-7795 SCP-7795]], Ð is for Ðirteen, is a twelve-year-old child named Mia who dies on their thirteenth birthday and is then resurrected. Upon revival, they are twelve again and the process repeats every time their birthday arrives. No matter how much the Foundation tries to support and protect them, they retain all memories of their lost years and still die horrendous, unlucky deaths. The repeated trauma takes a toll on Mia and they eventually beg the research head to kill them. The Foundation's attempts to contain and protect Mia run into a particularly cruel HopeSpot when they seemingly find a loophole to exploit by putting Mia down with a painless lethal injection on their thirteenth birthday. This actually works, and their mental state improves considerably for seven years. The eighth time they try this, though, they instead die an agonizing, drawn-out death, and they plunge off the DespairEventHorizon. The research head follows suit a few years later after [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone being forced to shoot Mia dead in order to stop the on-site nuke's anomalously-triggered detonation]]. In the end, the Foundation's most ethical way to neutralize them is by putting them in a non-dimension, as their cessation of existence does not constitute a death, and the last line of the article is an apology from said research head for not being able to save them. |
| 431 | [[/folder]] |
| 432 | |
| 433 | |
| 434 | [[folder:Series IX ([=SCPs=] 8000-8999)]] |
| 435 | |
| 436 | * The American Dream of a nice suburban life is [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8010 SCP-8010]] and it has become unreachable for many. It’s an anomalous situation, but the Foundation can’t do anything about it. Many commenters even stated that the message resonated with them as their own reality. |
| 437 | * It’s hard not to feel sorry for [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8076 SCP-8076-2]] 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. |
| 438 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8140 SCP-8140]] deals with Dr. Lindqvist desperately trying to use a Daeva anomaly to try and rewrite history and undo the death of his sister. Unfortunately the anomaly doesn’t work like that, and has caused mental instability. The Foundation ultimately erases his memories of her death and creates a cover story that she was transferred and under classified security. Lindqvist will never see his sister, never realize she has died and never question it. |
| 439 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8166 SCP-8166]] shows us the infamous Cormall Incident. A younger Cleft meeting Reverie and developing feelings for her, only to lose her in the end at his own hand. |
| 440 | * In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8300 SCP-8300]] we see a world where fantasy died, all anomalies have become mundane or vanished. There is no fight or struggle many just stop working or vanish. The Foundation is left struggling for a purpose and mourning those they have lost. They turn facilities into museums so the world doesn’t forget the fantasy that has been lost. |
| 441 | * In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8327 SCP-8327]] the Foundation discovers a mermaid trapped in a cave system, who’s been alone for several years. Their pod got trapped in there years ago, and with their parents gone they might be the last one. With little resources the Foundation has found them malnourished and having no one to communicate even their ethereal singing voice can only last seconds from so little use. |
| 442 | * In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8457 SCP-8457]] people are being replaced and taken to another world by an invading force. We follow MTF Agent and civilians doing their best to survive and find a way home. A teenaged Nalkan named Liam being amongst them, they are forced to take on a dangerous mission. Near the end Liam break down in tears, despite being anomalous he’s still just a kid and gone through so much. |
| 443 | --> '''Liam:''' I can't… I can't do this anymore! I can't keep going. I'm hurt, I'm exhausted, and these people want to kill me for real and they've already killed Mathis and they almost killed you and they… |
| 444 | --> He sobs, louder. |
| 445 | --> '''Liam:''' They hurt me, so much. I just want to stop. |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[/folder]] |
| 448 | |
| 449 | [[folder:Explained and Joke [=SCPs=]]] |
| 450 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1841-ex SCP-1841-EX]]: Listzomania was once considered an SCP, and thanks to one overzealous researcher's fears of it reappearing, the SCP Foundation was responsible for a number of deaths in the music industry, including those in The Day That The Music Died, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Kurt Cobain and Tupac Shakur. A bunch of singers died just because one guy in the Foundation thought fans were going too wild for them. |
| 451 | * [[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. |
| 452 | -->Tell Cartwright he can go to hell. We'll remove it, but we're keeping a record of what we've done. His family did this, and we helped him; we're not whitewashing the record for him. I don't know how we'll ever make up for what we've done here, but the least we can do is remember. O5-9 |
| 453 | * [[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: |
| 454 | -->'''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. |
| 455 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-8900-ex SCP-8900-EX]], Sky Blue Sky, is probably one of the saddest SCPS because of why it's Explained: because they failed to contain it. It's a phenomenon that affects people's ability to see color, and any attempts to contain it failed spectacularly: killing affected victims did nothing to stop the spread, and an attempt to reverse the effects rendered the subjects mute and the experiment breached containment itself. In the end, the [=O5=] Council had no choice but to initiate the Ennui Protocol. |
| 456 | -->"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. |
| 457 | |
| 458 | -->It must be done." |
| 459 | [[/folder]] |
| 460 | |
| 461 | [[folder:Foreign [=SCPs=]]] |
| 462 | * [[http://scp-wiki-cn.wikidot.com/scp-cn-1138 SCP-CN-1138]] ([[http://scp-int.wikidot.com/scp-cn-1138 in English here]]) may seem like the creation of an anime hater that wants to ruin anime fans, but the note left at the end of the article reveals that it was a heartfelt attempt to get the attention of the creator's loved one, who apparently ignored them in favor of indulging in their anime hobbies. |
| 463 | * [[https://scp-jp.wikidot.com/scp-065-jp SCP-065-JP]] ([[https://scp-int.wikidot.com/scp-065-jp in English here]]) is about an alternate universe where a kid from the main universe named Ikawa gets an opportunity to become the Prime Minister of Japan in that alternate universe after having an argument with his parents and making a deal with an undisclosed individual. Because he is not mature enough to handle such a position, he blows Japan's entire federal budget on amusement parks around the country, as well as a road that can go anywhere in the country. He also passes several laws, which includes banning homework, allowing people to wake up at 10 AM, and a law that makes people do what he says after he was annoyed at their protesting. Everyone, including those in foreign countries, ends up hating the boy, and he ends up ostracized, resulting in him trying to run away in sadness. He eventually is stabbed by one of the angry citizens and left to die. Japan soon after becomes a very poor and ruinous country that's under a dictatorship installed by the United States. Keep in mind that Ikawa is most likely no older than 10, and he had to deal with the repercussions of being a literal child dictator at that age. Ouch. |
| 464 | [[/folder]] |
| 465 | |
| 466 | [[folder:Tales]] |
| 467 | * According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/don-t-forget this]] Tale, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-055 SCP-055]] is just a normal human being. [[AndIMustScream He's locked in his cell and no one in the world remembers he exists.]] |
| 468 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/decency Not everyone]] in the foundation is a [[Heartwarming/SCPFoundation robot]]. |
| 469 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/document-recovered-from-the-marianas-trench The document recovered from the Marianas Trench]]. |
| 470 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/seasick-sharks This]] somehow manages to make a member of the Shark Punching Center a giant [[TheWoobie Woobie]]. |
| 471 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white-black-white/ This tale]] mentions the "Decency" tale above and adds details of other [=SCPs=] and procedures into it. The ending of it hits pretty hard, too, just in case you needed another reminder that the Foundation is in a CrapsackWorld. |
| 472 | * The entirety of the tale [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/quiet-days Quiet Days]]. The Foundation [[EarnYourHappyEnding may have earned its happy ending at long last]], but it's just so... sad, [[TheMagicGoesAway seeing it all be over and gone]], taking all the weird and wonderful aspects of the SCP Universe with it. |
| 473 | ** On the plus side, at least this means that SCP's like [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-451 SCP-451]] and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-231 SCP-231]] are free. |
| 474 | ** And Cassy/SCP-085, who was essentially the Foundation's MoralityPet, has disappeared. |
| 475 | ** Check the third page of the comments section. Dr. Mann left a post with his own snippet of fiction. [[TwentyMinutesIntoTheFuture In the far-off year of 2030]], two men make their way past a couple of aging fences and abandoned guard towers, only to find [[WhereItAllBegan a plain gravel path in a wood]], a bronze plaque embedded into it. They decide to take it, [[HereWeGoAgain eventually realizing that there's something slightly...]] [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/dr-manns-proposal off.]] |
| 476 | ** Speaking of the comments, one gave us what happened to [[CreepyChild Eric]] in this situation: |
| 477 | ---> "Mommy."\ |
| 478 | "Yes, honey?"\ |
| 479 | "Mr. Smiles suddenly stopped moving. Mr. Calculator is acting sleepy, and I can't find Threaddy anywhere."\ |
| 480 | "Eric, I think it's just that you are growing up. You've always had a vivid imagination, but now-"\ |
| 481 | [[GrowingUpSucks "I don't want to grow up Mommy. I just want my friends."]] |
| 482 | ** And then comes the comments section, where people wonder how the researchers would react to their new life. They range, but [[TheStoic Gears]] is just fucking heart gutting: |
| 483 | --->Doctor Gears stayed longer than any of the other personnel (with the exception of the O5 council, of course), assisting others with their re-adjustment into society. He noticed a wide variety of emotions from the leaving staff: some were overjoyed that they were finally done working with such dangerous objects and eager to start a new, normal life; some were angry that they basically had to start over from scratch, claiming that spending the last few years in a facility that according to official record did not exist was shit for their resumes; and, most curious of all, a fair amount of sadness from people who, as far as Gears was concerned, should have been glad everything was back to normal.\ |
| 484 | \Days passed and people left, and eventually, it was time for Gears himself to go. As he walked away from the now empty Site 19, he stopped and looked back for a moment, remembering all the time he had spent in that building. He still couldn't believe it was over, that protecting humanity, the job that he had committed himself to for longer than he could remember, was finished. As he gazed back at the facility, a strange thing began to happen: he began to feel rather odd. It was small at first, just a slight discomfort in his gut.\ |
| 485 | \ |
| 486 | Then, the memories began to fall.\ |
| 487 | \ |
| 488 | He remembered the constant struggles against 682. He remembered the puzzlement and amusement from testing 914. He was feeling quite uncomfortable now. He remembered the break room with the other researchers, how they would laugh and make jokes and have a great time while he would sit, stoic as always. He remembered the fun they would all have together. He could feel his breathing becoming labored. He remembered, shortly after the discovery of the loss of the anomalies, Bright finally achieving his final wish. He remembered Clef being unable to cope with normalcy and taking his own life. He remembered Rights, normally mischievous and joyful, cleaning out her office with a distinct look of sorrow on her face. He remembered how even though it was a stressful, terrible place to be, how it was home to more demons and horrors than any other place in the world, perhaps even the universe… it was still home.\ |
| 489 | \ |
| 490 | [[NotSoStoic For the first time in many, many years, Gears felt a tidal wave of emotions.]]\ |
| 491 | \ |
| 492 | And for the first time in many, many years, [[ManlyTears Gears began to cry.]] |
| 493 | ** The researchers aren't the only ones that get in on this: |
| 494 | --->"To the O5 Council (and the rest of the Foundation, too!) -\ |
| 495 | \ |
| 496 | Thank you all for being [[ArtifactCollectionAgency my very best collectors]]! Sadly, it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that I do not think I will continue with my work any longer. I've done my part here, and I hope that my products have made people happy (I especially hope that they made YOU all happy as well!). As part of my final goodbyes, I have included a special, one-of-a-kind collectible that I wish for you to have. It may not be as impressive as [[MyLittlePanzer my other creations]], but I hope you find it wonderful in its own right.\ |
| 497 | \ |
| 498 | Sincerely,\ |
| 499 | \ |
| 500 | Doctor Wondertainment"\ |
| 501 | \ |
| 502 | This was the note that was attached to a rather large package wrapped in glimmering purple wrapping paper. When opened, the package contained a rather large replica of Site 19, made out of ordinary plastic. When opened, the model building contained detailed figurines of each of the site personnel, from the O5 personnel down to the lowliest janitors, each poseable and each with noticeable smiles on their faces, but otherwise nothing anomalous about them. Each individual figurine has been sent to its appropriate counterpart along with a copy of the note. |
| 503 | * Surprisingly, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-maker-and-the-beast this tale]] about the Broken God/MEKHANE. Mekhane once attempted to bring order to the chaos of reality with his great machines. Yaldabaoth, a great god-beast whose only aim was to consume other beings of flesh, ignored him. Time and time again, Mekhane's efforts to bring order to reality failed, and Mekhane, who had once looked upon Yaldabaoth and other minor gods with disgust, eventually saw them as things who were merely different from him. He turned his efforts towards making something other than machines, and, using the remains of Yaldabaoth's meals, created a world where life arose. He sought to protect his new creation, but Yaldabaoth came and threatened it. Mekhane pleaded for her to spare the world, but was unsuccessful. Thus, he shattered himself to seal her away. |
| 504 | --->''But the Maker was tired, and he closed his eyes.'' |
| 505 | ** Its companion piece, [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/a-life-that-was-simple A Life That Was Simple]], is Yaldabaoth's side of the story, showing that he genuinely only has an animal-like intelligence and wants nothing more than to get fed and go around unmolested. He doesn't even understand that he's threatening Earth at all or why she's begging him to stop, and therefore is completely bewildered when Mekhane attacks him and seals him away. Still, though, he truly believes that at some point, she will just let him out again. Knowing the archons are lying to him about it and that he'll never be freed just cements him further as a WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds. |
| 506 | * In [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/when-one-reaches-the-end When One Reaches The End]], Lord Blackwood's adventures end not with a bang, but a rumination on why he is no longer relevant and the futility of war. |
| 507 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/his-kind-eyes His Kind Eyes]], turns out that 087-1 just wants to help the child below... |
| 508 | * One wouldn't expect a [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/forum/t-403771/poopstick-mcgee-and-the-flying-walruses#post-1912277 sequel]] to a story entitled "Poopstick [=McGee=] and the Flying Walruses" to be a TearJerker, but TheReveal that Dr. Kondraki (yes, ''[[HeroicComedicSociopath that]]'' Kondraki) is a senile old man in an asylum, with the implication that the Foundation was all just an elaborate delusion... it's painful. The original is mostly hilarious and slightly tragic; this one is slightly hilarious and mostly tragic. Especially the last few lines. |
| 509 | * The [[TheUnmasquedWorld Broken Masquerade]] canon has more than a few examples. |
| 510 | ** For starters, the existence of anomalous objects, the Foundation, and the other Groups of Interest are made public after a containment breach results in the destruction of North Korea. Not only does this mean the Foundation's duty of preserving normalcy has failed, but many people find out what really happened to their missing friends, relatives, and creations. It's not a happy prospect. |
| 511 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/six-letters-addressed Six letters addressed to the Foundation.]] Two are from the mother of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2118 SCP-2118]] and the creator of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2991 SCP-2991.]] Both want them back, with the mother apologizing for all those times they fought before and the creator actually threatening the Foundation if they've hurt one fiber on the scarf. The Foundation, though it does send them information on when and where to go to visit the [=SCPs=], refuses to let either of them go. |
| 512 | * The [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/rat-s-nest-hub Rat's Nest canon]] ends with there being exactly [[ApocalypseHow/ClassZ 1 being left in the multiverse]]. Who kills themselves. |
| 513 | -->The entity pushed the button, ordering the machine to stop.\ |
| 514 | \ |
| 515 | With one final silent motion, the jaws of the rat snapped shut.\ |
| 516 | \ |
| 517 | 0. |
| 518 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-bard-of-ambrose This tale]] is about an AI created by a Prometheus Labs researcher. The catch? The AI doesn't actually believe itself to be conscious. Despite this, its eventual "death" at the hands of the Foundation still manages to be gutwrenching. This is followed up by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2897 SCP-2897]], which reveals that the Foundation has reprogrammed the AI to perform surveillance for them. When it accidentally discovers its real origins, it tracks down its original creator, only to discover that he has since moved on with his life. Dejected, it promises to continue working for the Foundation, since it has nowhere else to go. The Foundation [[KickTheDog wipes its memory anyways]], overruling the objections of the interviewing psychiatrist. |
| 519 | * While it was generally PlayedForLaughs, it's fairly sad when SCP-2662's friendship with SCP-1171 crumbles when he inadvertently brainwashes him in [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/skeeve-online Skeeve Online]]. |
| 520 | -->'''2662:''' '''''[[RageBreakingPoint MEKHANE, Yaldabaoth, and St. Alagadda, is that what this is? Are you trying to fucking worship me? After everything I've said? AFTER FUCKING EVERYTHING??????]]''''' |
| 521 | ** SCP-2662 explaining his past to SCP-1171 deserves a mention as well. He makes it painfully obvious that his desire to be normal really isn't a phase — from childhood, he had sincerely sworn to abandon the prospect of godhood forever. Similar to humans and college, love, and procreation, being a god just isn't the right thing for him. His anomaly is not actually his own, but rather his father, who disagreed with his atheism, influencing the people around him into becoming sex cultists who will treat him as some sort of blood god. The worst part is that this is [[TruthInTelevision disturbingly similar]] to RealLife struggles involving children disagreeing with their parents. SCP-2662 may be the one Lovecraftian horror in the Foundation universe with a completely pure heart and human mindset, and yet his family has done nothing but try to destroy it. |
| 522 | ** With TheReveal, all of SCP-1171's prior kind words of acceptance and understanding to SCP-2662 become HarsherInHindsight. It's tragic because that either means 2662 can't escape his father's reach and will be unable to make any meaningful contact with any being without accidentally brainwashing them, or 2662 was driven to RageBreakingPoint by a predatory being that pretended to be nice to him, then revealing its true colors by harassing him with sexually explicit pictures. The second interpretation is TruthInTelevision on some social media websites. |
| 523 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/peace-i-would-settle-for-that This]] decidedly non-canon tale provides an interesting take on SCP-173's origins and motivations. In this particular tale, he's actually ''Ted'' from Literature/IHaveNoMouthAndIMustScream in one of the various mouthless forms that AM has transformed him into over the centuries to torment him. The reason he kills the people who avert their gaze is a mix of a desperate need to remove anything that could keep him immobilized and a desperate desire to [[SuicideByCop finally be put out of his misery.]] He doesn't even have the one comfort he thinks he has of being free of AM, because the tale also reveals that AM transferred himself into a new body after Ted vanished into the SCP world so he could kill the humans he despised so much all over again. The powerful, nigh-indestructible, infinitely adaptable body we know as ''SCP-682''. One particular part of the tale shows just how deep AM's cruelty goes towards Ted, considering that in this new form, he still has a stomach and can feel hunger, but has no mouth to eat with. It's somehow ''even crueler'' than its book counterpart. |
| 524 | --->'''173:''' My stomach pained me. I had to eat. I wished for years, probably decades. I got my wish. When I was merely a head, with short legs that could barely carry me across the ground, with no mouth, I crawled to mountains and mountains of food. There was cakes, and pork, and ham, and jellybeans, and cans — [[CallBack with a can opener]] — and every single food item you could imagine. I could smell it, and I could touch it — But I had nothing to eat it with. |
| 525 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-stars-do-not-wait-for-you The Stars Do Not Wait For You]]: An apocalyptic tale in which the end of the world is not started by anything you'd expect, but by [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1915 1915]], who ends up stuck inside his own mind and watching himself just... render all of existence into dust. For no reason at all. |
| 526 | -->Such was the end. Quiet, small, bereft of heroics and great deeds, free of pretensions of great meaning. One night, there was human race on the planet Earth. The next, there wasn't. And that was that. |
| 527 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/now-i-understand-the-problems-you-can-see Video Killed the Radio Star]]. The old SCP-1548 doesn't get to destroy humanity or even go out in a blaze of glory. It simply fades away just as its 5700-year journey is beginning, scared and pleading for Earth to let it hold on. |
| 528 | -->'''SCP-1548:''' [[PleaseDontLeaveMe I don't want to go.]] |
| 529 | * Alexandra.aic is a version IV Artificial Intelligence Conscript used by the Foundation to monitor sites 17 and 19. She's sweet, cares about humans, has a sense of humor. Sounds cool? Well, if you read [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/alert-lockdown-initiated The AIAD series]], it turns out site-17 used to be run by Glacon.aic, a version II AIC. When he proved incapable of installing the personality module, meant to improve performance under stress, the Foundation decided that it would cost too much resources to upgrade him, and decided to put the resources toward developing gen V instead, decommissioning Glacon. In a desperate attempt to prove himself, he instigated a containment breach, planning to stop it with minimal casualties. Alexandra was forced to "kill" him by burning down his servers. Their final communications are heart-wrenching. |
| 530 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/alexandria-burning Alexandria Burning]] is a companion tale to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-4001 SCP-4001]]. SCP-4001, Alexandria Eternal, is an archive containing the entire life stories of every human being that ever lived, going back 70,000 years. The tale in question takes place around 70,000 years back, and documents the final days of the last Watcher of the library for millennia. At the time, earth was inhabited by a civilization of early humans, Homo Nobilis, who had a civilization much like our own, including their own SCP Foundation, called the Organization. The entire homo nobles civilization wiped itself out in nuclear war. The Watcher of Alexandria Eternal was the only one left. The fallout would prevent life from ever advancing to its previous state again, so Alexandria Eternal told the last Watcher to burn her, retconning the existence of Homo Nobilis from history forever. Before burning the library, the last Watcher asked if Alexandria would remember them. |
| 531 | -->No. But I will remember you. |
| 532 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-executions-of-doctor-bright The Executions of Doctor Bright.]] Set in the Broken Masquerade canon, Dr. Bright is captured by a radical religious terrorism cell who executes him on live video, each time resurrecting him in the body of one of his entourage and accusing him of being a demon who consumes the life force of those who love him. He's hopeful that at least they'll save the youngest researcher for last, so she has the best chance of surviving. When the Foundation finally saves him, only one of Bright's entourage remains. An old man, while Bright is in the body of the young woman. |
| 533 | -->''There was one final execution for Dr. Bright that night''. |
| 534 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-king-is-dead The King is Dead.]] For anyone familiar with the various Author Avatars of the wiki, this can be tough to get through. The O5 Council decide that they've had it with Kondraki's shit, and orders him terminated. Since Kondraki has a remarkable ability to survive lethal situations (see Duke 'till Dawn), they have someone close to him do it. In the after action report, Kondraki engaged in a firefight with Dr. Clef, before [[SuicideNotMurder shooting himself]] in Dr. Gears' office. |
| 535 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/holding-on Holding On]], a crossover with ''Literature/TheHoldersSeries'', is primarily a conversation between two people- The Foundation Administrator and the Holder of the End. En talks about how they're dying, since nobody remembers them and no new stories have been told since 2013. Adm tells them [[BrutalHonesty point blank]] that their format was too restrictive and their stories too repetitive, but when En says Adm was always better, Adm slaps them across the face and tells him not to be stupid. En's stories have greater coherency, consistency, and above all, he has what Adm never will- a real conclusion. That when his story ends, he can at least die knowing he made it a good one, while Adm is fated to slowly lose himself and become something he's not due be filled with so many new ideas. |
| 536 | -->'''En:''' "Even if you die like you say, you will be remembered. You would be viewed as a pioneer, the one to step into the unknown and tread new ground where none had yet been. Even if your story never ends, you will pass knowing that you had a great one."\ |
| 537 | '''Adm:''' "And so will you. You may not have always led the charge, but you are the one who started it. It is because of you that I stepped forward into the unknown. It is because of you that I became what I am." |
| 538 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/portraits-of-your-father Portraits of Your Father]] details the events surrounding [[DrivenToSuicide Dr. Kondraki committing suicide,]] from the point of view from his son Draven. |
| 539 | ** It shows Kondraki as a deeply flawed, troubled man that [[ParentsAsPeople nonetheless loves his son]]; Draven is left trying to process his feelings towards him and his flaws along with the grief and sense of abruptness his death causes. A section where he and [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-105 Iris]] go through Kondraki's belongings, discussing memories of him and the impact he's had on them, really hammers in the feeling that he left in the world behind. The tale's a poignant picture of loss and conflicting emotions towards a parent that's painful to read. |
| 540 | ** Draven and James' relationship serves as the one bright spot in the tale--while they both are taking things roughly, it's obvious that their relationship is based on love and mutual support. Kondraki's final conversation with Draven encourages them to take care of each other, and the ending shows them as filling in that hole left behind with the prospect of their future together. [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments It's incredibly sweet]], until you realize the events of [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-3999 SCP-3999]] and this tale are canon to each other, and this is indeed the same James Talloran that that article concerns. From Draven's point of view, James will suddenly disappear and turn up dead under extremely mysterious circumstances, presumably leaving him alone, just like Dr. Kondraki wanted to avoid. On James' end, it's likely all of this [[FridgeHorror will just melt into his ever-shifting, ages-long nightmare.]] Just seeing him living a relatively normal life with his boyfriend, knowing what's going to happen, hurts. |
| 541 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/shaggydredlocks-proposal S.D. Locke's Proposal]] is on the surface a [[NightmareFuel horrifying account of the world's end by all living things melting into sentient blobs]] and said blobs' demands for the survivors to join them, but the expanded universe surrounding the whole thing, "Daybreak," quickly takes a turn for the tragic as it starts to be more about despair than anything else: |
| 542 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/heart-and-sol "Heart and Sol"]] sheds some light on ''why'' the sun "activated." The Sun is in fact a conscious being who cares for all life on Earth, and whose love is the reason it is warm and livable. Unfortunately, the Hateful Star, envious of her, threatened to destroy the myriad life on Earth she loves. So as it turns out, the Sun melting all life on the planet was her crossing the GodzillaThreshold to protect Earth life, because the alternative is them being destroyed by the Hateful. |
| 543 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/three-thousand-to-one "Three Thousand to One"]] reveals Anantashesha/SCP-3000 was melted by the rays, and the containment team trapped at the bottom of the ocean only learns this when it eats one of their D-Class as it has always done. The survivors elect to mourn him as a friend, because [[FireForgedFriends their desperation makes any companion to live with more than a number]]. |
| 544 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/unexpected-light "Unexpected Light"]] has SCP-096 run into a survivor, an orphan girl, only to feel... ''nothing'', since she's blind. No longer boxed in by the Foundation and having someone that can finally see him for who he really is, 096 reveals he's something more than a murder monster: he's a PapaWolf and a proper ParentalSubstitute in the apocalypse. Then the monsters manage to trick the two into heading out into the sunlight, and while 096 is able to save the girl, he has no choice to run away forever so that she doesn't die with him anyways, [[DespairEventHorizon crying his eyes out at everything he has now lost]]. |
| 545 | ** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/the-little-robot-that-could "The Little Robot That Could"]] has SCP-2785, a curious robot with the mind of an intelligent child trying to learn about the world, come to accept the crushing reality that all of his supervisors are dead and no one will be around to help him learn. |
| 546 | * [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/true-trans-soul-rebel "True Trans Soul Rebel"]]. A transgender female member of the Gamers Against Weed has to deal with transphobia from her parents and dysphoria, with a bit of anomalous stuff because this is, after all, an SCP tale. |
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