History Characters / SCPFoundationSCPs

** One of the key tropes present in SCP-2747 affected works is the presence of a twisted, dark, eldritch, and inscrutable anathema. ''Punta de la espira'' has a "black, horned" mountain, ''Taitoru'' has an all-consuming creative block, ''No Sister of Mine'' has a "coalblack thornbound tome", ''The Scolipendra Wiki'' has an unseen antagonist in possession of the obsidian emblem, ''I/O'' has the idea of self-hate at its "dreadful center", and ''ex lux'' has the unseen murderer. [[spoiler:And the SCP-2747 article has the anafabula itself as its dreaded anathema.]]

* RecursiveReality: A part of the metafiction in the story is that the anafabula's acts of creating "missing content" and an "unknowable abomination" are both constituent tropes in causing its manifestation. The Foundation, in trying to search for and understand the anafabula in Appendix B, [[spoiler:has a close call with the anafabula as it annihilates their description of it in Appendix B, turning Appendix B into something similar to the lost "track 5.5" in ''I/O''. If the Foundation went further, it is probable that their narrative would've gotten annihilated.]]

** One of the key tropes present in SCP-2747 affected works is the presence of a twisted, dark, eldritch, and inscrutable anathema. ''Punta de la espira'' has as a "black, horned" mountain, ''Taitoru'' has an all-consuming creative block, ''No Sister of Mine'' has a "coalblack thornbound tome", ''The Scolipendra Wiki'' has an unseen antagonist in possession of the obsidian emblem, ''I/O'' has the idea of self-hate at its "dreadful center", and ''ex lux'' has the unseen murderer. [[spoiler:And the SCP-2747 article has the anafabula itself as its dreaded anathema.]]

** One of the key tropes present in SCP-2747 affected works is the presence of a twisted, dark, eldritch, and largely-unseen anathema. ''Punta de la espira'' has as a "black, horned" mountain, ''Taitoru'' has shadowy manifestations of an all-consuming creative block, ''No Sister of Mine'' has a "coalblack thornbound tome", ''The Scolipendra Wiki'' has an all-destroying 7-sided obsidian emblem, ''I/O'' has the idea of self-hate at its "dreadful center", ''Mavigne'' has the dream entity, and ''ex lux'' has the Stranger. [[spoiler:And the SCP-2747 article has the anafabula itself, described in Appendix B, as its dreaded anathema.]]

* RecursiveReality: A part of the metafiction in the story is that the anafabula's acts of creating "missing content" and an "unknowable abomination" are both constituent tropes in causing its manifestation.

* EldritchAbomination: It's described as an "anafabula", or anti-narrative, that feeds upon other narratives. And it works upward, so a ShowWithinAShow would be destroyed first, followed by the show itself.

The destruction of these narratives is linked to a central intelligence that the Foundation has dubbed the "anafabula," which exists outside of the narrative space all SCP articles and tales are set in. It targets works that follow a specific set of criteria, never truly defined but which usually involves incompleteness or audience dissatisfaction, and will eventually close in on the Foundation's narrative if not sated. One of the primary objectives of the Pataphysics Department is to steer the fate of their fictional world away from its hunting grounds to prevent the universe's destruction while also distracting it with lesser narratives, but it -- or rather, she -- is much, ''much'' more cunning and intelligent than what would be expected of a mere force of nature. Indeed, wherever the Department goes, a so-called lady of black thorns is never too far behind...

* AlwaysABiggerFish: SCP-3125 fears her, and in one timeline where SCP-3125 successfully took over reality, that last remaining human deliberately [[SummonBiggerFish summons her to destroy reality and SCP-3125 with it]].

** The number 7 is used repeatedly in the article. There are seven examples of works affected by SCP-2747 (all of which prominently feature 7), seven footnotes, and seven crosslinks to other SCP's. It's implied that the seventh of all of these things [[spoiler:is the "core" that leads to the anomaly]]. Several of the works feature six of something (characters, settings, etc.), implying a seventh one that is never revealed. The last cited work, ''ex lux'', centers around the concept of interconnected narrative, and the last crosslink leads to [[spoiler:Swann's 001 proposal (i.e. ''[[TheFourthWallWillNotProtectYou the real world]]'')]]. Furthermore, [[spoiler:when SCP-2747 confronts Murphy Law/SCP-3143 personally at some unknown point in time, she laments that she still can't kill him, saying that there's seven of a lot of things but only six bullets in her revolver]]. The ending of SCP-5317 also claims that the Scarlet King's own use of the number is yet another one of the anafabula's schemes.
* AndIMustScream: The Sarkics, the Church of the Broken God, the Church of the Second Hytoth, the Horizon Initiative, the Fifthist Church, and the Serpent's Hand have all been trapped in an inescapable deathloop by SCP-2747. For every universe where all six exist at the same time with the Scarlet King, they will all perish in an AntiClimax at his hands, and the universe is subsequently destroyed by SCP-2747 devouring its narrative. Then the world restarts again, everyone none the wiser as the anafabula wins once more. [[EternalRecurrence And again, and again, and again]].
* AntiClimax: Articles outside of SCP-2747's own usually simplify the criteria that was supposed to be in Appendix B to any sufficiently unsatisfying narrative, usually defined objectively by the presence of one of these or some other missing piece. The Foundation eventually grows aware of this, and in the ''ADMONITION'' saga, they are directly able to manipulate their own narrative to prevent SCP-2747 from taking an interest in their universe.
* ButtMonkey: Fred/SCP-423 and Murphy Law do not take it seriously despite knowing about its existence and abilities, [[spoiler:and SCP-2747 cannot even kill Murphy for real, even though it's already made itself a character in his story]]. The Pataphysics Department also gets it sealed back up fairly often whenever the two appear in the same article with minimal effort.

* CharacterizationMarchesOn: While initially introduced as a mindless force of nature, later articles such as Murphy Law's adventures and SCP-5317 would end up creating its modern portrayal as a sapient being with too much power for its own good, similarly to SCP-3125. The primary difference between them, outside of their differing domains, is that SCP-2747 appears to be significantly weaker against civilization than SCP-3125, given how many times it's been re-sealed and pushed back compared to 3125.
* TheChessmaster: SCP-5317 strongly implies the six [=GoIs=] it controls are constantly manipulated across universes into challenging the Scarlet King and then losing. By its own admission, this seems to be [[AntiClimax narratively unsatisfying]], allowing SCP-2747 to destroy the affected universe entirely.

* EvilIsDeathlyCold: SCP-7427 is revealed in the end to be what SCP-2747 devouring a universe looks like from its inhabitants' perspective -- their home planet will freeze over into an EndlessWinter, and an anomalous form of snow will fall that destroys all sapient life and anything part of their cultures.

* FriendlyEnemy: While it's constantly chasing down Murphy Law as the Lady, it doesn't seem to hold anything against him even as he tries to mount a resistance against it. [[spoiler:The fact that he's even still alive despite his stories falling apart because of her [[BeatHimAtHisOwnGame and one possible explanation as to why]] may have something to do with their relationship. After all, he's probably the only person in the patasphere that ''fought back'' against her instead of running away from her]].

** According to [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5317 SCP-5317]], the anafabula is responsible for manipulating the Scarlet King into providing narratives it can eat.
** In at least one universe, SCP-2316 is the latent power of SCP-3125's corpse. The latter ended up there after SCP-2747 punted them into the lake in one of the other universes where she destroyed the Starfish.
* HistoricalInJoke: SCP-3922 briefly implies it is the reason some people like to discuss made-up works as if they actually existed, whether as an inside joke like ''WebOriginal/{{Goncharov}}'' or as an outright obsession commonly associated with {{Wiki Vandal}}s. The implication is that all these works ''did'' exist, but 2747 ate them.
* ItCanThink: Its appearances in other articles indicate it is sapient and smart enough to be TheChessmaster of an extremely elaborate TimeLoopTrap, something the Foundation never really catches on to.
* LeakingCanOfEvil: The Foundation stuffs it into [[spoiler:the [=lolFoundation=] universe]] in SCP-6747, but the documentation for the associated anomalies still warp at the edges because of its presence. [[spoiler:A voice implied to be it or one of its associates also addresses the reader by name if logged into Wikidot, aware that the Foundation has once again shunted one of their responsibilites onto the authors]].

** SCP-2747 is never directly observed in action, but its results can be observed as second and third-hand descriptions to a non-existent work. [[spoiler:If you replace "work" with "organization", that is ''exactly'' what the SCP Wiki looks like.]]

* MeaningfulName: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabula_and_syuzhet "Fabula"]] is a [[ShownTheirWork real term from the Russian formalism school of literary criticism]] that refers to the chronological arrangement of events within a story. Thus an "anafabula", (using the Greek root "ana-", meaning "up", "against", "back" or "re-") can literally be read to mean "against chronological order", [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin which is exactly what the entity does.]]

* PetTheDog: In Project Isorropia, she restores SCP-3812's sanity after being given a chance to meet him. They remain free after their containment cycle is completed, and it's implied they've since formed an OddFriendship that Sam cherishes.

* TheRival: An important part of SCP-3143/Murphy Law's story, and plays this role as an entity that is directly anathema to his actions. [[spoiler:Somehow, SCP-2747 has never been able to kill him despite taking on the form of the Lady and erasing parts of his narrative. She personally chalks this up to Murphy somehow beating her at her own game, taking the role of the incomplete seventh icon in her own story]].
--> ''[[spoiler:there are seven seas, seven continents, and seven wonders in the world. seven days, seven sins, and seven notes in a scale -- but only six bullets in my gun. [[Anime/CowboyBebop SEE YOU MAGIC NOIR BOY...]]]]''
* SamusIsAGirl: Whenever it is given an avatar by a narrative, SCP-2747 often takes on the form of a woman in black attire. She is most often referred to as the Lady of Black Thorns, but the Site-17 Deepwell Catalogue also gives her the title of Queen of the Void.
* SelfDemonstratingArticle: The fictional works affected by SCP-2747 include certain common elements, including dealing with nested metafictions, themes of dread and despair, a certain amount of missing content, and a lack of a conventional ending, all of which apply to the SCP-2747 article itself. [[spoiler:And as a result of compiling all the findings from SCP-2747-affected works into Appendix B, the article itself became affected by SCP-2747, which manifested inside the appendix and ate it.]] Murphy Law/SCP-3143 and SCP-6747 also exhibit similar narrative patterns, though for unknown reasons SCP-2747's hold on their narratives are severely weakened. [[spoiler:Murphy is outright unable to be killed (a case of BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame may be involved, forcing some of the tropes SCP-2747 targets into its own story)]], and the Foundation in SCP-6747 [[AwesomenessByAnalysis learned enough from the field of pataphysics to rise from the jaws of defeat]].
* ShoutOut: Evokes ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' when it allows Murphy Law to escape [[spoiler:aware that he is somehow out of its reach even as the Lady]], saying "see you magic noir boy..."
* StoryBreakerPower: As an entity that ''literally'' destroys stories from reality, the anafabula is considered as one of the most powerful entities in the entire multiverse that could theoretically bring any canon or individual timeline on the wiki to a screeching halt. That being said, the only mention of the full scope of its power is in SCP-5317, where Pierre Maynard[=/=]Literature/DonQuixote discovers a seal that eventually reveals ''[[TheWorfEffect it is playing the Scarlet King like a fiddle]]''.
* TimeLoopTrap: Trapped the Scarlet King in one and by extension six [=GoIs=] directly opposing it. Through its powers, it devours every narrative where the King wins, and the resulting EternalRecurrence is implied to be of the anafabula's own master plans.

* AllForNothing: At the end of ''Five Five Five Five Five'', [[spoiler:SCP-3125 invades reality, but SCP-2256, the Very Tall Things, are revealed to have survived and completely rout the invasion force by eating the spiders alive]].
* AmnesiacDissonance: It tends to turn itself into a NobleDemon or KindheartedSimpleton if it somehow loses its memories. In two separate universes, this led to its amnesiac self being classified as separate entities (an alternate SCP-2316 and [[spoiler:OBJECT 5 from SCP-7555]] respectively.)
* AmnesiacResonance: One of its AlternateUniverse counterparts is also one of SCP-2316's cognitohazard, created when SCP-2747 killed it and left its corpse in the lake. Although [[IdentityAmnesia this version of it would have to have completely forgotten their origins]] after possessing the bodies in the water, its unending hatred of the Foundation hasn't changed in the slightest.

* BigBad:
** It is the main antagonist of the Antimemetics Division Hub tales and the biggest threat the Division has to deal with.
** The "Limited Memory" storyline of the AIAD canon heavily implies (through associated elements like the color green, [[TheAssimilator those assimilated by it being turned completely unrecognisable and very repulsive]], as well as geometry incomprehensible to humans) it's also the villain behind the events of that series, [[BigBadDuumvirate teaming up with the Pattern Screamers]] (another, equally incomprehensible type of entity that originated from nothingness) to assimilate the entire world, just like what it tried to do in the Antimemetics Division series of tales.

** In one universe where it perished at SCP-2747's hands, its dying essence latched onto the infamous bodies in the water, creating SCP-2316. Somehow, it wound up [[IdentityAmnesia forgetting who it used to be]] and instead became the more humanized AntiVillain 2316's cognitohazard eventually developed into.
* HumanityEnsues: In "[[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/acts-of-abuse July 5th, 1975]]," its dying essence (put in the lake by SCP-2747) merged with the bodies in the water. The resulting IdentityAmnesia from its wounds and the sudden change turned it into a HiveMind of human spirits; while it would be no less evil if the other Class of '76 articles were to follow, its new identity would be more sympathetic as a result of its known loyalty to {{Tragic Monster}}s Syncope Symphony.

* LogicalWeakness:
** It has one crippling flaw: the spiders associated with its physical manifestation are just that -- physical. This means that they can be attacked and destroyed by a strong-enough creature covered in antimemetic shielding, like the [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-2256 Very Tall Things]].
** Like everything else on the site, it is a fictional character and is thus vulnerable to total annihilation by SCP-2747 and other entities on her level if it attracts their attention.

* AffectionateNickname: [[spoiler:SCP-2747]] calls him a "magic noir boy," and seemingly doesn't resent him for who he is [[spoiler:even though his narrative [[BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame will never quite be able to be reached by her]]]].

* BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame:
** When Dr. Thaum contains SCP-3143 by deconstructing him, Murphy Law escapes by deconstructing Dr. Thaum--and the baseline reality Foundation to boot.
** It's implied [[spoiler:this is why SCP-2747 hasn't killed Murphy despite erasing one of his stories and burning one of his comics ([[ArcNumber the last of a group of seven in each, naturally]].) Its escapades following Murphy and different AlternateUniverse SCP Foundations gave it its own character arc as the Lady of Black Thorns, and she herself suggests Murphy is the unreachable seventh icon of her own story as a result. That being said, it's never stated what the other six icons actually are, and the lines that suggest she can't kill Murphy could just as well be an ImpliedDeathThreat]].

* CrouchingMoronHiddenBadass: It's ''Don Quixote'', the madman who fights windmills. How dangerous could he be? Well, he's a metafictional anomaly classified as Keter, for starters. When he invades the Foundation's database, he singlehandedly unveils SCP-055, fights Able to a draw, and ''[[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu kills 682]]'' (again, in the database only). To put it in perspective, Fred is more afraid of this guy than he is of ''SCP-2747'', an anomaly that ''eats narratives''.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Wettle was originally characterized as an abrasive and fairly incompetent researcher, but how incompetent he acutally is, and how much of that is due to him intentionally pushing people away and how much is due to his bad luck, is now up for debate.

* ObfuscastingStupidity: Wettle was originally characterized as an abrasive and fairly incompetent researcher, but how incompetent he acutally is, and how much of that is due to him intentionally pushing people away and how much is due to his bad luck, is now up for debate.

[[folder:SCP-2747 -- The Anafabula/The Lady of Black Thorns]]

* SelfDemonstratingArticle: The fictional works affected by SCP-2747 include certain common elements, including dealing with nested metafictions, a sense of incompleteness, a certain amount of missing content, and a lack of a conventional ending, all of which apply to the SCP-2747 article itself. [[spoiler:And as a result of compiling all the findings from SCP-2747-affected works into Appendix B, the article itself became affected by SCP-2747, which manifested inside the appendix and ate it.]] Murphy Law/SCP-3143 and SCP-6747 also exhibit similar narrative patterns, though for unknown reasons SCP-2747's hold on their narratives are severely weakened. [[spoiler:Murphy is outright unable to be killed (a case of BeatThemAtTheirOwnGame may be involved, forcing some of the tropes SCP-2747 targets into its own story)]], and the Foundation in SCP-6747 [[AwesomenessByAnalysis learned enough from the field of pataphysics to rise from the jaws of defeat]].