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SCP-8000 – The Seal of Approval

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Dir. Paul Lague: Who took this picture?
SCP-8000: You do, in about six or seven minutes.🛈
Author: PlaguePJP
Posted: February 12, 2024
Contest: 1/123 (8K)

The Seal of Approval won first place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 427, further receiving awards as "Best in Safe Class" and "Most Discussed".

It is an entity of an undetermined body length who resembles a seal, and comes to Director Paul Lague to prevent him from unintentionally destroying Site-322.


About SCP-8000

  • Cruel to Be Kind: SCP-8000 shows Director Lague how, in his pursuit to be Loved by All for groundbreaking achievements, caused him to blow up himself and all of Site-322 at the push of a button. He intervenes to show Lague this Bad Future before he can make such an avoidable mistake.
  • First-Name Basis: Politely calls Director Paul Lague "Mr. Paul".
  • Insistent Terminology: SCP-8000 does not "slither". He floats, "daintily and whimsically".
  • No Name Given: SCP-8000 tells Director Lague that he has no name and can't remember why, so Paul tries to name him only for SCP-8000 to turn down each of the suggested names. Shortly after, Lague calls SCP-8000 a Hypocrite for judging him on his inability to stick to discissions when he can’t decide on a name; at that, SCP-8000 confesses that his name has always been Wallace, and he was only being so critical over what name Lague gave him to show him how he recanted each name at the small resistance he posed instead of following his intuition of calling him "a 'Bill' William".

In General

  • Author Avatar: Director Paul Lague is this to author PlaguePJP, with a few other authors' authorsonas being the supporting cast. Paul Lague's Want to Be Special becomes an Allegory to how after PlaguePJP wrote his SCP-001 Proposal, The Ones That Got Away, he felt that anything he made afterward could never compare, but support from his peers helped him through his depression, with the in-universe 001 Proposal by Lague also marking the character's decline.
  • Bad Future: In late March of 2024 — due to Lague tampering with the Project Seeker machine to reach his unreasonable demands — the entirely of Site-322 is destroyed in the ensuing meltdown, killing Lague and everyone on-site. SCP-8000 shows Lague this tragic event before it can happen, giving him the opportunity to prevent it.
  • Bait-and-Switch: In further spite of Lague's grand hopes, the Seeker machine finds an anomalous Tickle Me Elmo™ like he disparagingly joked about. Lague asks SCP-22-SEEK whether it also eats children (like almost all of other anomalies found with the Seeker), to which it laughs at the notion that a monster would consider eating kids… especially when the adults have much more meat.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: Director Lague receives the O5 Council's approval for an experimental Prescience by Analysis machine with the hopes of proving his worth. Once it is built however, the result of relatively mundane (and consistently cannibalistic) discoveries does not meet his expectations, to the point in a Bad Future, Lague inadvertently kills himself and all of his peers after tampering with the machine, causing it to go into meltdown and vaporize the entirety of Site-322.
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy:
  • Bookends: The Seal of Approval starts and ends with a stub of an entry on the newly discovered SCP-8000.
  • Dead Hat Shot: Director Lague can't even Discover His Own Dead Body in the crater that was Site-322 in the Bad Future. He can only find wooden splinters of his desk and his keycard in the sulfuric mud.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Sent back with a new outlook on life, Paul Lague recognizes his colleagues for the support they have given him and strays away from the path the lead to a Bad Future with all of their demises. With the final test of Seeker, calibrated to search only their reality, the find of SCP-8000 leaving after a job well done is enough to satisfy the humbled Director Lague.
  • In Medias Res: SCP-8000 intervenes in Paul Lague's life after the twenty-second test of the Project Seeker machine sometime in late March 2024, but shifts between perspectives directly cover events starting from February 13th to after what would’ve been a Bad Future.
  • Joke and Receive: Upset by the fourth test of Seeker, Director Lague confronts the engineering team on why the machine is only finding cannibalistic anomalies, stating it couldn’t get any more humiliating a failure unless it next finds a Tickle Me Elmo™ that eats babies. Eighteen tests later, and Lague finds himself interrogating SCP-22-SEEK; a Tickle Me Elmo™ that eats adults because they have more meat.
  • Killed Mid-Sentence:
    Lague: All I need to do is push th—
    ''(Camera feed dies.)''
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Dir. Lague inquires on why SCP-8000, after making an SCP file on themself on his behalf, he chose the eight thousandth slot. SCP-8000 explains he didn't as "that was out of my hands." It was in the hands of the 427+ users who upvoted PlaguePJP's submission to first place.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: A future-tense example; Director Lague is horrified when SCP-8000 shows him a future where his pursuit for glory leads him to inadvertently killing himself and hundreds of others.
  • Mythology Gag: Director Lague's questioning SCP-8000 on its plans with him has a reference to SCP-3999.
    Lague: What about torturing me for millions of years? Burning my family alive in front of me? Driving me to insanity over and over again? Anything like that on the table?
    SCP-8000: How oddly specific.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: In his pursuit to prove himself to his colleague, Lague could've killed all of them in his obsession.
  • Prescience by Analysis: The Project Seeker machine. Using a localized wormhole and quantum computing, the machine analyzes not only the entire planet but millions of parallel Earths to search for potential anomalies yet to be discovered. By overloading it to search for an impossible expectation of a grand discovery, Lague caused the Seeker to instantly meltdown and reduce Site-322 to a crater.
  • Punny Name: The article's title on the SCP wiki is "Seal of Approval", and SCP-8000 resembles a seal.
  • Running Gag: The Seeker machines is most proficient in finding man-eating anomalies, to Lague's frustration.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: By showing him where his actions would’ve taken him, SCP-8000’s intervention with Paul Lague successfully shows the site director the error of his ways, avoiding from bring himself and those who care about him to ruin.
  • Staging an Intervention: Dr. Cimmerian stages an intervention for Dr. Lague to help him with his depression, inviting several of their friends (and SCP-5595). It does not go as planned however, as Dir. Lague gets in shouting matches with Dir. House and Dr. Asheworth; SCP-5595 insults everyone; Dr. Coix finds out SCP-5595 has been docking his overtime pay; Dr. Thereven reads a eulogy for Lague's dog who died a car crash (Lague has never had a dog); and Dr. Cimmerian and Dr. Blank are the only Straight Men.
  • Stealth Pun: Spaghetti Jones and his steed Ricky-Tony are a cowboy made out of spaghetti noodles riding a horse who thinks it's the 1870s. This makes him a literal Spaghetti Western.
  • To Serve Man: It becomes a Running Gag, mostly delivered due to the Project Seeker device.
  • Token Good Teammate: Of the four SCPs shown to have been found in Project Seeker, SCP-13-SEEK is the only one who is not one To Serve Man.
  • Two Lines, No Waiting: The Seal of Approval cuts between two perspectives — the Foundation's records leading up to and markings a Bad Future where Site-322 and everyone there are destroyed, and Director Lague's consciousness as he is taken from before his deadly mistake.
  • The X of Y: The Seal of Approval.

SCP-8001 — The Edge of the World

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SCP-8001, by Amamidori.
Author: djkaktus
Posted: February 18, 2024
Contest: 3/123 (8K)
SCP-8001 is the edge of the planet Earth, located in the southern Pacific Ocean and accessible only through a specific navigation route. It contains the Isle of Last Watch, on which lies the Tower of Sunset, containing documents from different civilizations around the world at different points in history. The tower is looked after by its only remaining inhabitant, a mechanical humanoid named Aurélie, classified by the Foundation as SCP-8001-A.

The Edge of the World won third place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 392, further receiving award as "Last Posted".


  • Abandoned Area: Prior to the SCP Foundation's discovery of SCP-8001 in 1943, it has only been inhabited for non-contiguous centuries across three thousand plus years beforehand, being the lifetimes of the caretakers settled there between the times of the next arrivals.
  • Alien Geometries: Earth is demonstrably round, yet SCP-8001 somehow exists at an edge as though it were a Flat World. It can be accessed only along a certain latitude while sailing in the southern Pacific Ocean, and study indicates it is on the same plane of existence as the rest of the Earth and not a pocket dimension; telecommunications are still possible between the Island of Last Watch and the rest of the world, and flares launched from within can still be seen by people outside SCP-8001.
  • Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: Jason — the mythological hero of the Hellenistic Epic Poem, Argonautica — is the earliest known person to have discovered SCP-8001, implying that the land of Colchis the Argonauts quested to may not have been a part of what is now Sakartvelo as the story tells.
  • Bottomless Pits: Past the world's edge, the ocean's waters flow into a void with no apparent bottom.
  • Derelict Graveyard: The shallow shoals of Last Watch is littered with the wrecks of several ships that have failed to properly dock or sail away from SCP-8001… at least not the ones that have been swept over the edge and lost to the watery abyss.
  • Despair Event Horizon: Dr. Mann and Aurélie conclude that this is what the many explorers who arrived at the Isle of Last Watch experienced, realizing that since they were at the end of the world, it meant there was nowhere else to explore, which ran contrary to their adventurous spirits.
  • Didn't Think This Through: As noted by Aurélie, the builders of the lighthouse at the Isle of Last Watch meant to use it to guide ships safely towards the island so they wouldn't get swept by the waters flowing off the edge, but forgot the very important detail that lighthouses are typically used to turn ships away from the dangerous rocks they stand on.
  • Gratuitous Latin: A Portuguese map from circa 1502 found to have to have documented SCP-8001 lists the imprecise location as Oceanus terminum — "Ocean's end".
  • Irony: With how out of place Last Watch and its lighthouse are and the hazard the waters around the isle pose to any sailors who investigate or attempt to leave, SCP-8001-A grimly proposes that the Tower of Sunset is "the only lighthouse in the world where the danger is anywhere but directly towards it."
  • Island of Mystery: How and when Last Watch and its tower came to be is unknown. The simple means of how SCP-8001 is even able to geographically exist in our same plane of existence remains unexplainable.
  • Lighthouse Point: The centerpiece of SCP-8001 is a large masonry-built tower primarily of Ionic architecture with refurbishments in subsequent styles with an oil lamp and reflector at the top. Sometime in the 18th century, the light was retrofitted with an automatic re-lighting system that has been tinkered with for improvements over the subsequent two centuries.
  • Mysterious Mist: SCP-8001 is shrouded by a mist of water vapor, ostensibly from the roaring ocean waters that fall over the edge. The mist gets significantly thicker for any aircraft that attempts to enter, making it impossible to navigate to SCP-8001.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: One of the brave souls to successfully find and leave Last Watch was — of course —none other than the esteemed Gentleman Adventurer, Lord Theodore Thomas Blackwood. His journal left behind in SCP-8001's library was uncharacteristically terse and somber for the quintessential Brit's usual writing, to Dr. Ivan Mann's concern. Questioning of SCP-1867 confirmed it was by him and not a Ghostwriter, explaining that he was simply disenfranchised with Last Watch as it gave him the impression that "the world is not nearly as big as [he] had once dreamt it to be."
  • Passing the Torch: As far back as the library records on SCP-8001 and potentially before that, there has occasionally been someone staying behind on the island to tend to it as others have come and gone. By Aurélie's knowledge, he is the sixty-third such caretaker since Jason of Iolcus settled over three millennia ago.
  • "Ray of Hope" Ending: The article ends with Aurélie suggesting that despite the apparent despair that reaching the end of the world means there's nothing else to explore, maybe even the edge of the Earth has adventures to be had and stories to be told.
    Maybe there is nothing beyond these falls, Ivan. Maybe this really is the end of the story. There are so many who believe that to be true. But perhaps… perhaps it's not the back of the book. Perhaps this is just the turning of the page. Perhaps, even here at the edge of the world, there are still stories left to be written.
  • Schizo Tech: The Tower of Sunset is built with a combination of techniques from different times and places across history, and contains technology from various eras.
  • The X of Y: The Edge of the World.
    • SCP-8001 is known to its caretakers as the Isle of Last Watch, named by the Jason of Iolcus fabled in the Epic Poem Argonautica and his successor when it was engraved in the former's tombstone.
    • The signature stone tower of the isle is called the Tower of Sunset.
    • One of the prior caretakers of Last Watch, Adán Sedano, gave himself in his journal the epithet of Keeper of the Tower.

Tropes about Aurélie, SCP-8001-A:

  • Brain Uploading: With the abilities of a man named Armond, a 16th century French explorer named Aurélie had his consciousness implanted in automaton after sustaining a mortal illness or injury (the specificity of which he cannot recall). Still operating in the 21st century, SCP-8001-A is the longest lived of Last Watch's groundskeepers.
  • Clock Punk: Described by the Foundation as "a clockwork entity, whose locomotion and speech are controlled by a complex series of gears, diaphragms, pistons, and pulleys, all designed to mimic human behaviour".
  • Do I Really Sound Like That?: Inverted. When Dr. Mann played back a recording of Aurélie's voice, the latter was delighted at the sound.
  • First-Name Basis: Calls Dr. Mann by his first name, Ivan.
  • Mayfly–December Romance: Implied to be the case with Armond, as Aurélie tells Dr. Mann that "I believe that before my transfiguration we had been more than friends", and later says "I think Armond realized then what I would not understand for some time after - the time I had been granted was significantly more than what he had left".
  • Really 700 Years Old: Before becoming a clockwork contraption, Aurélie was a 16th century French explorer. This would make Aurélie around 400 years old by the time the Foundation discovered the Island of Last Watch in the 1940s.
  • Transhuman: A former human who was transformed through unclear means (even Aurélie doesn't remember the details) into a mechanical contraption with humanoid features.

SCP-8002 — Maslov's Fire

Author: bigslothonmyface
Posted: February 11, 2024
Contest: 7/123 (8K)
SCP-8002 is a vast subterranean complex housing the Foundation's main medical-treatment facility, harnessing the healing CLERIC radiation available there.

Maslov's Fire won seventh place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 236, further receiving awards as "Best in Thaumiel Class" and "First Posted".


  • From Bad to Worse: With production of CLERIC radiation tapering off as SCP-8002-1 finishes healing itself, the Foundation resorts to inflicting major injury on it to force it to produce more of the radiation to heal itself. Instead, it redirects all but a trace of its healing ability to deal with this new injury, abruptly cutting off almost all of what little radiation it was still producing.

Tropes about Dr. Andrea Maslov:

  • Healing Hands: Dr. Maslov is a powerful Type Red (a healer). She'd been unable to use those powers for three years due to an anomalous injury, but regained them when SCP-8002-1 healed her just prior to the Foundation reinjuring it. Her abilities in this regard are nowhere near enough on their own to make up for the total lack of CLERIC radiation, though.
  • Vetinari Job Security: Her skills and abilities are too critical to the Foundation's healthcare infrastructure for them to risk moving against her, and she knows it. This allows her to chew out Director Torres without fear of reprisal, and later on to extract major concessions from the O5s as a condition for her care of SCP-8002-1 (including greatly-increased hiring and training budgets, increased overtime and sick pay for all facility staff, and measures to reduce unnecessary MTF deployments and wean the Foundation's healthcare system off its dependence on CLERIC radiation) which effectively solve the ongoing care crisis.

Tropes about the phoenix, SCP-8002-1:

  • Healing Factor: SCP-8002-1 produces CLERIC radiation as part of the process of healing itself; the Foundation piggybacks on this process to use the emitted radiation to heal their own personnel.

SCP-8004 – The Life and Death of Vincent Bohart

Author: DodoDevil
Posted: February 12, 2024
Contest: 24/123 (8K)
SCP-8004 is an act of card shuffling that places a standard 52-card deck into a state of quantum superposition, allowing the dealer to draw at their discretion any of the 80,658,175,170,943,878,571,660,636,856,403,766,975,289,505,440,883,277,824,000,000,000,000(52!) possible orders of the cards. SCP-8004 can only be performed by Vincent Bohart, Director of Site-333.

Or could, because he's dead.

The Life and Death of Vincent Bohart won twenty-fourth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 120.


SCP-8005 – The Fool

Author: daveyoufool
Posted: February 11, 2024
Contest: 8/123 (8K)
SCP-8005, aka Hammie, is a one-eyed, one-foot-tall automaton constructed by the SCP Foundation for Project Yurodivy. He will stop at nothing to achieve his primary objective: to find, and touch, a hamburger. A stupidly simple directive. But when SCP-8005 reactivates in an empty Foundation site, he finds himself in a changed world. A world where America has frozen over. A world where brutish crude trolls run rampant. A world that has become much harder for little Hammie to find a hamburger in.

The Fool won eighth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 218, further receiving the award "I'm So Meta Even This Article" for being the highest rated submission tagged with meta.


About SCP-8005

See Characters.SCP Foundation SC Ps.

In General

  • The Ageless: The trolls are biologically immortal.
    The immortality we have is NOT "never die" immortality, it's "NEVER GROW OLDER" immortality. Cry harder about it, CHILD.
  • As the Good Book Says...: SCP-8005 comes across a town sign in Virginia that cites the Gospel of John, John 3: 16 a message that is undermined by the fact that an SK-Class Scenario has left humanity enslaved as livestock by the corrupted remnants of the SCP Foundation, and twelve human heads have been nailed to the sign with railroad spikes.
  • Breaking the Fourth Wall: This excerpt of the text tree in Act IV with SCP-8005 and his newly developed consciousness, Judgement.
    SCP-8005: ...uh, am I going North or not?
    Judgement: You are, it's just taking a very long time, and nothing of interest has shown up yet. It's the tops of buildings jutting out of the snowfield all over, same as the first half of Act II.
  • Extinct in the Future: The entirety of the Bovidae family was eradicated by Compound-Nandi-18, Nanomachines designed to decompose their very genomes and render all humans allergic to any surviving beef. Project Yurodivy deployed them before the Skogslottet could fully take over the SCP Foundation, incentivizing SCP-8005 to find a way back in time to prevent the Apocalypse How for cattle and mankind alike.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • In the original SCP-8005 document, it notes that if any additional instances of SCP-8005 are discovered, they are to be designated SCP-8005-1. Strange since he’s created by the SCP Foundation; they should know how many they made. This alludes to how SCP-8005’s true purpose is to Set Right What Once Went Wrong by finding a Time Machine and bring his creators warning of a Bad Futures so the Foundation can prevent them.
    • In “Act II - The Porphyrios”, SCP-8005 can choose to leave Site-59 by trying to fly down from the fire escape, only to remember he can’t fly and plummet into the snow. In “Act VI - In the Hall of the Mountain King”, his Heroic Second Wind is marked by him shapeshifting wings to fly up to the Great Bøyg to kill it.
  • God of Knowledge: Largely Inverted with the Great Bøyg of Etnedal, the Troll’s Ethnic God who exercises Laser-Guided Amnesia to the point of Unpersoning. Played Straight relative to the Trolls, as they lose their sanity when SCP-8005 slays the Great Bøyg.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: Compound-Nandi-18 is the name of the bull mount of the Hindu god Shiva, with नन्दि meaning “happiness”, “joy”, and “satisfaction”. A very Ironic Name for Compound-Nandi-18, as they are Nanomachines designed specifically to destroy all cattle and beef, a vital component of SCP-8005’s motivation.
  • Gratuitous Greek
    • The Foundation shipping vessel SCP-8005 finds frozen in the ice is named the SCPS Porphyrios. Porphyrios (Πορφύριος, “purple boy”) was the name of a whale that lived in the Sea of Marmara during the 6th century that terrorized Byzantine sailors off the coasts of Constantinople. This colorful name may allude to how this is where SCP-8005 encounters his first of the blue-skinned, purple-blooded trolls.
    • Compound-Elysium-1 is named after the Elysium Plains (Ἠλύσιον πεδίον), the afterlife in several Greek religious and philosophical sects.
  • Gratuitous Russian
    • The program that oversaw SCP-8005’s creation, Project Yurodivy. юродивый, translated as “holy fool”, refers to an individual with an ascetic and often-religious devotion to an ideal, to the point of perceived as a complete Cloudcuckoolander. SCP-8005, with the codename of the Holy Fool and an obsession with hamburgers, is apt.
    • The experimental, hyperflexible, self-regenerating metal alloy invented by Project Yurodivy to create SCP-8005 was named Dospekhy Boga (Доспехи Бога), “Armor of God”. As much as 23% of its composition is sourced from SCP-682, who is certainly of god-like ability (and lineage, in some canons).
  • Inner Monologue Conversation: In Act IV, SCP-8005 has a moral debate with his consciousness before deleting it. When he continues hearing Second-Person Narration afterward, the narration assures himself that it’s his inner monologue subroutine.
  • MacGuffin: Not the first time a MacGuffin has been a Big Mac, as SCP-8005 was hardwired with the desire to make physical contact with hamburgers. Exploited as the SCP Foundation assured that, in the event of an Apocalypse How, all hamburgers would be destroyed by Nanomachines, requiring SCP-8005 to Set Right What Once Went Wrong in order to achieve his directive.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: Subverted when the Great Bøyg shows SCP-8005 the document on Compound Nandi-18, revealing how all cattle and beef in the world has been destroyed. In the bad dialogue route, this causes SCP-8005 to Heroic BSoD via Logic Bomb; but in the golden route, he unlocks a message from his mother that helps him realize how he Grew Beyond His Programming, giving him a Heroic Second Wind to kill the Great Bøyg.
  • Our Trolls Are Different: The Trolls are large, blue-skinned, horned humanoids with biological immortality and an appetite for humans They are The Chosen People of a god who hides with a Perception Filter and erases threats to its worshippers from existence. They were rendered extinct by the downwind of Russia’s first nuclear tests, but the Great Bøyg and its human devotees, the Skogslottet, infiltrated the SCP Foundation, taking it over and turning everyone in the “Skogslottet Crown of Peace Foundation” into a new population of trolls.
  • Remembered I Could Fly: Inverted when SCP-8005 remembers he can’t fly after jumping off Site-59’s fire escape expecting to.
  • The Scottish Trope: Before she was neutralized as a threat by the Great Bøyg, SCP-001-THE was only to be referred to as by [THE THREAT] so as to not extend her influence.
  • Set Right What Once Went Wrong: SCP-8005’s true purpose is to wake up as a Manchurian Agent in a post-apocalypse (devoid of hamburgers) to acquire the knowledge of the threat, find a way back to the past, and report to the SCP Foundation so devastation may be prevented. The SCP-8005 followed throughout the story finds SCP-001-LRD and goes back to the early Pleistocene, waiting in a cave under the future location of Site-01 until he would be recovered two decades before his creation.
  • Shout-Out
    • Ending F is titled “I Have No Burger And I Must Ham”.
    • Act VI is titled "In the Hall of the Mountain King", named after Edvard Grieg's 1875 orchestral music famously used in Peer Gynt. The troll-centric play and even the Dovre mountains mentioned in the original Norwegian title, "I Dovregubbens hall" (In the Dovre man's hall) are important to The Fool.
  • Weakened by the Light: The trolls are this, as they used to live in caves lest they be Taken for Granite. The original population of trolls went extinct, dying of extreme radiation poisoning from the fallout of the first nuclear weapons tests conducted by the Soviet Union during the Cold War. After the Skogslottet took over the SCP Foundation and the Great Bøyg turned them into trolls, Weather Control Machines were hijacked to bring about an Endless Winter, clouding the skies and expanding the bitter cold of the Arctic Circle to as far south as Virginia.

SCP-8008TIME PERVERT

Author: LORDXVNV
Posted: February 11, 2024🛈
Contest: 11/123 (8K)
SCP-8008 was a spontaneous tachyon burst of unrecorded magnitude centered that marked a significant CK-Class Reality Restructuring Scenario, the effects of which were far-reaching and had tremendous implications on the nature of baseline reality. What caused it? An inescapable timeline that was controlled by the SCP-001 of it; a depraved egotistical Reality Warper living out countless Erotic Power Fantasies.

TIME PERVERT won eleventh place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 177, further receiving awards in “Biggest Offense to Good Taste” and “MAST’s Nightmare” for respectively being “judged as heinous by qualified moral authorities” and having the most tags (35).


About SCP-8008-B

  • Been There, Shaped History: And how, given he retroactively redesigned the entire human species to fit his sexual preferences. The visual distinction of humans from other primates and the sexual dimorphism between men and women fits what was his original timeline standard was oppai loli porn.
    H. sapiens antiquus centesimus is humanity prior to direct and brute-force evolutionary tampering on the part of SCP-8008-B.
  • BFS: Möngke Khan recalls one of his battles with SCP-8008-B that the "Golden General" would wield a "ridiculous, oversized sword".
  • Doppelgänger: Aside from hypertrophy of the muscles, the corpse of SCP-8008-B is physically identical to science-fiction author and Artificial Intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky. The SCP Foundation is uncertain whether SCP-8008-B is merely a Loony Fan who assumed the appearance and identity of the Yudkowsky of his timeline or if he retroactively altered reality so an Alternate Self would have the material wealth of the one from the current timeline. The final conference prior to the operation that killed him even suggests it might've been the work of a conclave of his enemies, working to give him something to do besides masturbate all day while arguing on the Internet.
  • Double-Meaning Title: Möngke Khan gave him the name "Time Pervert", intending it to mean one who perverts time. The other meaning of pervert happens to also be very applicable.
  • Freud Was Right: In at least one story, he had to "regretfully" castrate a male sidekick because the man's powers were reacting badly with his male sex organs. This seems to be a running theme.
  • Hypocrite:
    • In one of his alterations to the human species, he makes the females have less prominent body hair… despite having a fetish for cat girls.
    • He looks down on fat people as lacking in discipline, even though he used to be overweight and his own Heroic Build is 100% a product of his reality warping rather than any actual effort on his part.
  • I Have Many Names: SCP-8008-B potentially stole the identity of an Alternate Self of Eliezer S. Yudkowsky, but had previously used such as the First Citizen of Eluthertopia, Benefacor to Eluthertopia, the Administrator-sama, Henry John Smith Glas, Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres, Tengoku Tensai (天国天才), and SCP-001.
    The Mad God. The Golden General. The Shifter. The Secret King. The Time Pervert. Known by many names, he had constructed an entire false world.
  • Heroic Build: His corpse is noted to have extreme muscular hypertrophy.
  • Loony Fan: SCP-8008-B an unflattering caricature of a number of online and tech sector personalities. Exactly which one he's an alternate universe counterpart to, if any of them, is deliberately ambiguous. But he probably wasn't all of them, and he repeatedly shows his desire to put half-baked terminally-online ideas into practice once he's practically omnipotent. An entirely credible read of the evidence is that he isn't actually Yudkowsky, but "just" idolized him enough to turn his ideal self into a perfect clone of him, only buff as all get out.
  • New Life in Another World Bonus: SCP-8008-B assumes his reality-warping Time Master powers come from him being transported into another universe, unaware that he was a dormant one all along. The fact that he unlocked his power during a self-pleasuring session doesn't help either.
  • Never My Fault: Subtextually. SCP-8008-B's fantasy scenarios all go out of their way to absolve him of responsibility for bad situations he reaps the benefits from (ex. these attractive young ladies have been turned into sex slaves by the bad guy, and there's no way to undo it so he might as well be a "good master" to them, Ilsa dies in childbirth giving him a son) or, at worst, paint his more morally-ambiguous deeds as a sad necessity (ex. using social undesirables, including children, as living magic batteries fueled by torture, having to castrate all his male sidekicks because otherwise their maleness would react badly with their powers). But of course, these things are only true because he wants them to be true in the first place.
  • No Celebrities Were Harmed: SCP-8008-B physically resembles Internet personality Eliezer Yudkowsky, best known for writing the fanfic Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality and founder of the website Less Wrong.
  • Occidental Otaku: Evident by his obsession with Hentai and kemonomimi porn, wielding a BFS, at least one of his Isekai identities being Japanese, and giving him the Japanese Honorific sama in another, even when it doesn't fit the setting at all.
  • Parody Sue: He's presented as a Deconstruction of a invokedMarty Stu. To his playthings, SCP-8008-B is the ever charming, righteous hero of whatever plot he concocts. It is clear to Delta-T and the reader that he was a cruel, vain dictator full of paranoia and lust. What makes him especially dangerous is the fact that he's actually a invokedGod-Mode Sue.
  • Reality Warper: One of the most powerful ones to ever exist, capable of creating entire alternate histories and destroying the future to fuel his fetishes, all at a whim. It takes a simultaneous combination of creating a bootstrap paradox, hard-resetting the universe, and altering the past to finally take him down.
  • The Sociopath: While he's also a power-tripping Manchild with zero self-awareness, it's hard not to look at some of the things SCP-8008-B does with absolute power and not
  • Strong Family Resemblance: It's strongly indicated his children are basically genetic clones of him, and living manifestations of his narcissism. It may go even further, considering his firstborn son is apparently born with a moustache.
  • This Loser Is You: While the average reader probably isn't a sociopath or a pedophile, it's very possible many readers familiar enough with the anime references being made are also going to see something uncomfortably familiar in his Power Fantasies and the way they treat other characters in his "story."
  • Time Master: Part of the infuriating trouble with getting rid of him is that he is both a Time Master and a Reality Warper, meaning he's ridiculously hard to kill, and even killing him just means another version of him ends up taking up the same role.
  • Villain Protagonist: SCP-8008-B is the central character, but certainly not a moral one.
  • Watsonian versus Doylist: A running theme. In the context of his narratives, the horrible things SCP-8008-B does are often treated as Necessarily Evil or otherwise absolve him from responsibility... but the catch is that as a godlike Reality Warper and Time Master, they're only necessary because he made them so. Goblins only exist as a horrible living plague that exists for self-perpetuation and destruction because he wanted to live out his vaguely-problematic genocide fantasies guilt-free (and also because he thought Goblin Slayer was cool and wanted to rip it off). Social undesirables in his utopia are turned into living mana batteries fueled by torture, but he's more than capable of just producing infinite energy anyway. And, most obviously and infamously, women are always being enslaved by the antagonists of his stories in ways he can't reverse, so he has an excuse for enjoying their sexual favors as slaves who can't say no.
  • Would Harm a Child
    • When confronted with an Abandoned War Child that blamed him for his parents’ death in a conquest for oil, and Foreseeing His Death upon trying to view the boy’s future, SCP-8008-B opted to personally execute the boy.
      “His life is forfeit to the Harvest.”
    • A Usenet forum archive from SCP-8008-C indicates that he was a pedophile, as he would photoshop pictures of women to look years younger to the disgust of the other forum users. The conversation in the thread shows that Girls With Mustaches was a previously a sign of maturity in female human and SCP-8008-B didn't like it, so he used his Reality Warping to make what was Lolicon and Shotacon in his original timeline the beauty standard for adult women.

In General

  • Bigger on the Inside: SCP-8008-A, the residence upon which SCP-8008 was centered on geographically, is stated to have larger interior dimensions relative to its exterior.
  • Brown Note: The SCP-8008 file is protected by a memetic kill agent; “timepervertsplash2.jpg” consists of a heavily edited image of downtown San Francisco overlaid with the Venus of Willendorf, Gratuitous Greek, and kaleidoscopic effects.
  • Call-Back: The Ethics Committee’s reason for reviewing interactions with sexual anomalies cites a paper made by Dr. Cimmerian and his colleagues titled “Factory Porn and the Casting Couch: Proper Controls in the Study of Anomalies with Sexual Aspects”, calling back to SCP-1004 — Factory Porn and how SCP-1004’s latent addictive effects were discovered.
  • Content Warnings: SCP-8008 – TIME PERVERT has ones on both sites LORDXVNV uploaded it to.
    • On the SCP Wiki, it is kept behind an 18+ adult content warning, attributed to “Explicit depiction of sexual acts” (kind of obvious given the title) and “Depiction of torture”
    • On Archive of Our Own, it is rated Mature and has the generally contentious tags of “Mind Control”, “Implied Sexual Content”, “Horror”, “Psychological Horror”, “Dubious Consent”, “Extremely Dubious Consent”, “Perversion”, and “Politics”.
  • Death by Childbirth: One of, if not the first Ilsa SCP-8008-B ever turned into a Sex Slave died giving birth to his son/copy, partly because he self-admittedly didn't care about women as anything but sex objects enough to bother learning how their bodies worked in his first life and partly because he didn't actually care enough about her as a person to bother using his powers to save her. Disturbingly, it's noted that this trope was one of the most common causes of death for corpses in SCP-8008-A, and specifically stated that none of Ilsa's copies ever died of old age, meaning he might've actually repeatedly put her counterparts through this as some twisted motif in his work.
  • Expy: References are made to a Scarlet King that embodies all of his previous incarnations using pataphysics and is invoked in the context of a fantasy setting, making him a watered-down version of the Chinese branch's Scarlet Demon that downplays its villainy. He also lacks the Demon's Mythical Motifs that give it its more nuanced portrayal, and is merely a stepping stone for the exploits of the rest of the cast rather than a main character.
  • Fetishes Are Weird:
    • Double-subverted. At first, it appears most of the porn on 8008-B's anomalous hard drive is actually just vanilla... but then it gradually becomes clear that this is purely because 8008-B altered all humanity to bring us more in line with what would have been truly disturbing fetishes in his original timeline and world.
    • Used for horror fairly quickly, with one of the worlds he created being one where a percentage of women are lactating constantly, and he nobly is the one to, erm, relieve the excess from Alice. The full significance of that is revealed later, where it turns out that originally women didn't have breasts at all unless actively lactating, but he altered them to further serve his fetish.
    • One of the recovered documents is a forum post made by 8008-B prior to awakening his powers where he posts a picture of a woman, with all the comments reacting in disgust. The really disturbing part? In the unaltered world, she was an example of his loli and breast fetishes. To the readers, she just looks like a normal woman.
  • Girls with Moustaches: It's stated that before SCP-8008's modifications to reality, women had facial hair just like men — to the point where a picture of what would be an otherwise unremarkable woman to the reader is derided for "photoshopping breasts on to a literal child".
  • Godzilla Threshold: SCP-8008-B's threat to The Multiverse is such that even the Foundation agrees with the GOC's plan to eliminate it.
  • Gratuitous Greek
    • The memetic kill agent contains the Ancient Greek phrase δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω (Dôs moi pâ stô, kaì tàn gân kinásō), “Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth”; a quote famously attributed by Pappus of Alexandria to the polymath Archimedes of Syracuse.
    • The name of the Free City of Eluthertopia is a Portmanteau of “eleutheria” (ἐλευθερία) and “utopia” (ουτοπία), the former meaning the embodiment of liberty.
  • Gratuitous Japanese: The world under his thumb tends to throw in completely out-of-place Japanese words and honorifics.
  • Hero's Slave Harem: Repeatedly invoked, as intended genre criticism. The narratives SCP-8008-B spins always absolve him of responsibility for the women who end up being his sex slaves, but as the figurative (and, from the reader's perspective, literal) author of all their troubles it only happened because he made it happen to thrill his libido.
  • Life Will Kill You: Some of corpses in SCP-8008-A has been identified to have simply died of old age (unless it war Rapid Aging), with notably none of the ≈300 corpses of Ilse Reynders having died this way. (Whether this is because she was a personal favorite whose aging he eternally suspended or because he repeatedly had them die via amniotic rupture just like the first such Ilsa is ambiguous.)
  • Porn Stash: Of the non-anomalous/accessible portion of SCP-8008’s hard drive, a staggering 96% of its contents is pornographic material (a fifth of which is the Hentai genre). That leaves to wonder what SCP-8008-B had on the anomalously designed/potentially infinite remainder of the hard drive.
  • Public Domain Character: One of the members of the group fighting against SCP-8008-B happens to be one Möngke Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan.
  • Punny Name: In at least one world, 8008-B turned Dr. Ilse Reynders into a reindeer girl.
  • Rainbow Speak: The title of TIME PERVERT is listed on the Series XI in multicolored text, the closest color approximation of which has been replicated here considering the limitation of TV Tropes’ text colors. 🛈 There appears to be no overarching significance to this in the story.
  • Reality Warper: SCP-8008-B was a particularly potent example, to the point where its effects managed to affect baseline reality even after its neutralization.
  • Shout-Out: Not all of them affectionate...
    • The Sequence Node Extending Execution Radix (SNEER) clubs pay reference to r/SneerClub, a subreddit that was dedicated to mocking people for being pretentious with their rationalist ideologies.
    • One of SCP-8008-A's past lives was as Harry Potter in Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality.
    • Another one of his fantasies he titled Goblin Reaper, the goblin-slaying premise a rip-off of Goblin Slayer.
    • In Chapter 209: "Dawn of the Final Battle", SCP-8008-A cites the Zerg from Starcraft to compare the goblins to as rapidly-breeding deformed vermin.
  • Slave Collar: The Bostrom Alignment Collars prevent their wearers from acting against their masters' desires.
  • Socially Scored Society: In the reality of Elutheropia, SCP-8008-B mentally tallied everyone in a system of what he called Elutherian Social Assessment Scores (ESAS), seeming to cap off in the positives at around 1,000. However, given his raging narcissism and fluctuating whims, the ESAS is far from fair, even for his three most trusted sycophants as they fluctuate a few dozen below that max score. He is willing to penalize pedestrians if he considering the possibility they could have treasonous thoughts; he punishes anyone who makes accuses him or questions his actions while also rewarding them as the accusation/question acknowledges he has the power to have done it/knowledge to answer; and put a distraught frail Street Urchin the negative thousands for believing he considering attacking him, and subsequently had him executed for his score.
  • Stylistic Suck: The fanfic excerpts throughout the article are very poorly-written even when they aren't explicitly fetish-fuel, full of Protagonist-Centered Morality, shoehorned sexualization, terrible pacing, sudden diatribes about the author's political opinions, lazy exposition, and a boring Invincible Hero. That's to say, they're very believable erotic power fantasy fics that you can find thousands of around the internet.
  • Take That!: The SCP offers a rather unflattering critique of Isekai-styled stories, down to their seeming endorsement of slavery, genocide of "lesser" beings, and the sexualization of subservient women. It also provides a criticism of "techbro" thought, given the references to Silicon Valley, blockchains, and Eliezer Yudkowsky.
  • Transhuman: Homo sapiens sapiens are the transhumans. Prior to SCP-8008-B reshaping the species to fit his sexual preferences, Homo sapiens antiquus centesimus was like other primates; females had estrus cycles, seasonal Breast Expansion, and as much body hair as males; males had baculums (a bone in the penis); a two-year-long puberty was reached at around eight, adulthood reached at ten with the complete loss of neotenous features; and an average adult lifespan of 60 years with no onset of infertility. The horror of this is that SCP-8008-B willingly made humans be adolescent for longer, retain features of children into adulthood, and lose the biological incentive for breeding once they are no longer visibly youthful.
  • The X of Y: Like SCP-8225 — The House of All Our Gods below, SCP-597 is made mention to as the Mother of Them All.
  • Virtuous Character Copy: Deconstructed. SCP-8008's Scarlet King is functionally a morally superior version of the Scarlet Demon in that he has absorbed variants that pulled a Heel–Face Turn, but in sharing the Demon's lack of a central intelligence (both require other versions of the King to act of their own accord), this means that despite his overwhelming power, he is little more than a living Background Magic Field for the Foundation and 8008-B to harness against each other.
  • Visual Innuendo: The icon for HANAZONO.AIC, the Artificial Intelligence Construct assigned to parse through SCP-8008-C’s contents, is a pink lotus flower with a purple dot on the dark pink petal in the center; a perfect example of yonic imagery.
  • Visual Pun: LORDXVNV went with 8008 as their leading runner up number for the contest because “BOOB”.
  • Vulval Flora: The Foundation created the Artificial Intelligence HANAZONO.AIC to parse through the contents of SCP-8008-C, a Reality Warper's computer with a digital Hammerspace of storage for his Porn Stash. HANAZONO (Gratuitous Japanese for "flower garden") is represented by a yonic icon of a pink lotus flower with a purple dot on the dark pink petal in the center.

SCP-8021 — Life in a Snapshot

Author: Penton
Posted: February 11, 2024
Contest: 104/123 (8K)
SCP-8021 is the apparent slowing of the passage of time in the universe, observable only by entities from outside local time and space - with the sole exception of a specific SCP Foundation member's daughter: One Elizabeth Morris, designated SCP-8021-3.

Life in a Snapshot won one-hundred-and-fourth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 10.


  • Apocalyptic Log: The events of SCP-8021 are documented mainly by the large quantity of recovered journals, papers, photographs, and other documents and items written or otherwise created by Elizabeth Morris, the only known human not to have been subject to the anomaly.
  • Bittersweet Ending: SCP-8021-2 and its eggs are destroyed, and the reality it came from is theorized to no longer exist, but the time anomaly itself is still active with no known way of correcting it, and Elizabeth is left to live out the remaining fifty-plus years of her life completely alone and out-of-sync with the rest of the universe.
  • Time Stands Still: Although time is still moving, it's at a rate so slow that, to entities not affected by the time anomaly, everything else appears frozen in place.
  • Year Inside, Hour Outside: A slightly atypical case, in that the "inside" and the "outside" are the same place, but unaffected and affected entities experience time at vastly-different rates nonetheless.
Tropes about SCP-8021-2:
  • Humanoid Abomination: It takes the form of a large, legless humanoid covered in burns and scars, trailing loose flesh from where legs would normally go.
  • Nightmare Face: Its head has nothing remotely resembling a proper face, just an empty hole which it uses to eat heads and lay eggs.
  • Off with His Head!: It kills its victims by biting off and eating their heads. Only their heads, for some reason.
  • Time Master: It's thought to be the reason time slowed to a crawl, implied to have been done to allow it to hunt without its prey being able to escape. It itself, along with its offspring, are unaffected by the time anomaly it created.
Tropes about Elizabeth Morris, SCP-8021-3:
  • Move in the Frozen Time: SCP-8021-2's massive slowing of time has no effect on Elizabeth, with her continuing to experience time at the normal speed (the only living thing native to local reality for which this is the case).
  • Sole Survivor: Elizabeth is the only human, or indeed living thing of any description native to our universe, not affected by SCP-8021.
  • Time Master: Downplayed; Elizabeth is unaffected by the slowing of time, and anything that she or her blood touches "unpauses" and begins to experience time at the same rate she does, but things she's unpaused only stay unpaused as long as they stay within about five feet of her or her blood. She also can't (successfully) unpause living creatures, and she has no way of reversing the time anomaly even after defeating SCP-8021-2.
  • Took a Level in Badass: Goes from a college dropout working as a barista, to someone who figures out how to take down a monster that's effectively paused time for the rest of the universe, to an expert on time-related anomalies whose knowledge of anomalous time manipulation surpasses even the Foundation's.
  • Touch of Death: When she tries to unpause one of her neighbors, it kills him with symptoms similar to those of an acute subarachnoid hemorrhage. The same thing happens a bit later on when she tries to unpause a duck. She stops trying to unpause living creatures after that.
  • Unique Protagonist Asset: Elizabeth was already catalogued by the Foundation in its list of anomalous items, being amnesticized after they confirmed her singular anomalous property and remotely monitored by her mother, Researcher Rachel Morris. Said anomalous property was her being unaffected by the stoppage of time and similar phenomena, which proved extremely important when SCP-8021-2 massively slowed down time for the rest of the universe but left her unaffected.
  • Walking the Earth: After killing SCP-8021-2, she sets off on numerous journeys throughout North America in her efforts to understand the time anomaly, the vast majority of these travels being to the locations of contained SCPs.
  • You Can't Go Home Again: Well, she technically can, but she can't undo the time anomaly or make it affect her as well, so she's stuck temporally out-of-sync with the universe for the rest of her life.

SCP-8022 — Build Your Dreams, One Brick at a Time

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Author: JorgeMtzb
Posted: Feb 18, 2024
Contest: 106/123 (8K)
SCP-8022 is a seemingly ordinary red clay building brick with no anomalous properties. However, when struck by SCP-8022 hard enough to induce unconsciousness, people experience astonishingly vivid wish-fulfillment dreams, with stronger impacts producing more intense dreams.

Build Your Dreams, One Brick at a Time won one-hundred-and sixth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 5.


  • Lotus-Eater Machine: According to the addenda, its original owners were recreationally using SCP-8022's anomalous properties on a regular basis, even risking brain damage and death for the sake of living out their dreams. This ultimately got one of them arrested for "assault" and SCP-8022 confiscated.
  • Tap on the Head: Subverted; the article specifically notes that the brick doesn't have the power to protect affected individuals from suffering the very real effects of head trauma, which can include death if enough force is applied.

SCP-8036 — I Love the Theater

Author: Clacky2000
Posted: June 13, 2024
SCP-8036 is a sapient movie theatre named Living Pictures Theater, who possesses the ability to teleport itself seemingly anywhere in the world, staffed by manifestations of its will in the guise of theatre employees. With the occasional exception, it shows only films that were cancelled, left unfinished, or never existed at all.
  • Abominable Auditorium: Subverted; despite initial suspicions that the employee manifestations that Liv speaks through might have been real people kidnapped by the theatre, it turns out that they were conjured from whole cloth, and Liv is entirely benevolent.
  • Heroic BSoD: The realization that Reale was spying on it for the Foundation just about breaks 8036's heart, prompting it to lash out in anger and order Reale out, before retreating to the one place where it can be alone - the sun.
  • Eldritch Location: On top of being sapient, conjuring humanoid avatars, capable of showing films that doesn't exist, Liv's layout makes no sense by theatre standards, lacking employee-only areas, kitchens, storage areas, or access points to upstairs projection rooms.
  • Interspecies Romance: The article ends with Agent Reale and Liv mending their fences and ending up in a committed relationship.
  • The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday: It can relocate itself anywhere, including the surface of the sun.
  • Genius Loci: Fully sapient, intelligent, and even capable of speech via its various humanoid manifestations.
  • Pet the Dog: Represents one of these to the Foundation, who have actually designated SCP-8036 "Exempt" - with all containment measures on hold, no further surveillance deemed necessary, and civilian audiences allowed to attend showings. For good measure, Site Director Vasquez points out that it poses no threat to anyone, even being happy with Agent Reale for falling in love with it.
  • Speaks in Shout-Outs: Played with; when Liv is upset with Reale for lying to it, it expresses its anger entirely through spliced-together audio clips from various movies, as a sure sign of just how furious it is with her. At all other times, 8036 is fully capable of expressing itself in its own words.
  • What the Hell, Hero?: SCP-8036 is not happy when it learns that Reale was spying on it after claiming to have befriended it.

SCP-8046 – A Bedroom Without a House

Author: Pinoccappuccino
Posted: June 10, 2024
SCP-8046 is a snowy clearing in the Norwegian wilderness, occupied only by a lonely door (SCP-8046). Passing through the door brings a person to a recursive iteration of the clearing (SCP-8046-i) occupied by bedroom furniture, complete with a frozen murdered corpse on the bed (SCP-8046-B), the murder weapon (SCP-8064-C) still in him.
  • Alien Geometries: SCP-8046 isn’t a set location, appearing randomly in the Hvitskauen forest.
  • Attack on the Heart: SCP-8046-B was Slain in Their Sleep with a knife plunged into his chest.
  • Black Widow: This is heavily Implied to be the case, as SCP-8046-A was killed in a sense of security, and whoever has the matching wedding band has yet to come forward and identify the two of them.
  • Creator Provincialism: Defied. A Bedroom Without a House is set in the fylke of Trøndelag, Norway; a long way away from the author, who has never set foot outside of California.
  • Gratuitous Foreign Language: Some Norwegian is used; a given due to the setting. Hvitskau and its declinations mean “white forest” (Hvitskausmannen = White Forest Man, Hvitskaunvegen = White Forest Road), and the phrase "Ola og Kari Nordmann" is the Norwegian equivalent of “John and Jane Doe
  • Mr. Smith: Norway’s placeholder names of “Ola” and “Kari Nordmann” are used. Non-compromising information on SCP-8046-B is publicized as an “Ola Nordman” with the murder victim alias of “Hvitskausmannen”, or the “Hvitskau Man”.
  • Mythology Gag: SCP-8046 — A Bedroom Without a House was inspired in name as a Russian Reversal of SCP-1046 — A House Without a Bedroom (which would be rewritten for Pridefest2024 as Black Me Out only two days after SCP-8046 was posted).
  • No Name Given: Downplayed, as no one has been able to identify who the body in the Hviskau is; he’s just known as SCP-8046-B privately and the Hvitskau Man publicly.
  • Portal Door: SCP-8046-A is one leading to a close copy of the SCP-8046 clearing it is found in.
  • Slain in Their Sleep: What happened to SCP-8046-B via an Attack on the Heart.
  • Thermal Dissonance: Despite SCP-8046-i being in constant sub-zero temperatures, SCP-8046-C maintains warmth at average human body temperature while SCP-8046-B does not. SCP-8046-C gets hotter from attempts to move it but cools down at a rate a metal knife should.

SCP-8056 — The Far Fall

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the On Guard 43 folder.

SCP-8066 — Phobophobia: The Only Thing to Fear

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SCP-8066, by Amamidori
Author: MontagueETC
Posted: September 30, 2024

  • Forced to Watch:
    • Dr. Owings' ultimate fate after SCP-2006 manages to unlock its full potential and entrap the entire universe in an endless nightmare is to be forced to witness the torture of everyone else in the universe while they're trapped inside their own personalized boxes.
    • In the SCP-8066 Fear Logs, Carteckan from SCP-7999's box involves it being forced to watch the remaining Keradids die off until it's the only member of its species remaining.
  • Gaslighting: SCP-2006 pulls this off in his attempts to frighten Randall Owings by slowly but noticeably changing the appearance of Verity Price and later the appearances of Owings' other colleagues at Site-118.
  • I Never Told You My Name:
    • During Incident 8066.3, Dr. Owings realizes that SCP-8066 is localized to him instead of Site-118 as a whole and that the break-in of his house was tied to SCP-8066 after the dispatcher he called following the break-in refers to him as "Mr. Owings", despite the fact that the dispatcher wouldn't have a way of knowing his name due to Randall never telling it to the dispatcher.
    • Later during Incident 8066.9, Dr. Owings begins to wonder why SCP-2006 called him "Randy", as the latter would logically not know Randall's first name because most people at Site-118 only refer to him by his last name. Shortly after this event, SCP-2006 reveals himself to Randall as the latter comes to the horrifying realization that the former was behind SCP-8066 and has now managed to unlock its full potential.
  • "What Do They Fear?" Episode: SCP-8066 puts every sentient being into "boxes" which force them to live a personal hell that terrifies and mentally breaks them the most, and unfortunately, none of them have the ability to escape it. There's even a "Fear Logs" page for more fates of both SCPs and personnel, such as Christopher Byrnes being humiliated, harrassed and made insignificant, or Carteckan forced to watch the remnants of his species die off until he's the Last of His Kind.

SCP-8076 – Awan

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SCP-8076 By Kuukikyu
Author: IvanNavi
Posted: February 18, 2024
Contest: 100/123 (8K)

Legends tell of the lost city of Awan. As The Foundation gets closer to this city, one researcher has to confront the losses that have defined her life—and risks unleashing what made this city lost in the first place.


Tropes about SCP-8076-1: City of Awan

Tropes about SCP-8076-2: Awan Bat Hawwah

  • All for Nothing: Her search for the city, years of magical training, seeking revenge mean nothing as the monster has long since been dead.
  • The Archmage: One of the earliest magic users, and responsible for teaching magic to those in the City of Awan.
  • Been There, Shaped History: Suggested that Awan has done that namely that she played a role in the King Tut discovery.
  • Dark and Troubled Past: Her youngest sister was lost and never found, one brother killed another, fleeing a disaster she lost her sister presuming her dead, her mother presumed died in the disaster, her husband and daughter died in a flood they were trying to escape, then a city she help establish and people she taught were a killed while powering her up as she tried to defend them. That resulted in cursing her with immortality. Yeah, she’s had a rough life.
  • Driven to Suicide: Hinted at, wanting to die because of the guilt of letting everyone in the city die. Wanting to die giving them revenge, or failing letting the Foundation kill the Rabisu.
  • Due to the Dead: Request that the Foundation bury the residents of Awan, and give them proper burial.
  • Everybody's Dead, Dave: She blames herself for the death of everyone in Awan, and believes her extended life and youth a result of it.
  • Forced Sleep: Induces this on half the Foundation staff on the base, so the half that was awake could carry the other out when things got dangerous.
  • Hidden in Plain Sight: The mage Awan is the archeologist Ava Clarke who was looking for the city and insisted on remaining on the dig.
  • Meaningful Name: SCP-8076-2 is the sister of SCP-076-2.
  • Light 'em Up: Creates her own light.
  • Outliving One's Offspring: Her biography mentions how her daughter died in a flood.
  • "Ray of Hope" Ending: Someone left a note for Awan, suggesting she’s not as alone as she thinks she is.
  • Walking the Earth: A Partial Timeline show that she’s been in Mesopotamia, Connecticut during the witch Trials, Victorian England, and Woodstock among other locations.
  • Who Wants to Live Forever?: Awan never wanted to live this long, certainly at the cost of so many, by the end its hinted she just wants to end it.

Tropes about SCP-8076-3: Rabisu

  • Dead All Along: The monster that killed the city was trapped and starved to death a long time ago, making Ava’s centuries long crusade to kill it pointless.

SCP-8078 — The Perilous People Pleaser

Author: A Brick In A Sock
Posted: March 31, 2024
SCP-8078 is a polymorphic mass of black and gold fluid capable of transforming into a wide variety of shapes. However, it has limited intelligence and a very childlike personality, with no understanding of sarcasm, lies, injuries, or even death. Most notably, it's been conditioned to obey orders without question, no matter how vague - making it very valuable to certain unscrupulous researchers...

Tropes about SCP-8078

  • Deconstruction: 8078 could be interpreted as a deconstruction of the concept behind SCP-999. Like 999, 8078 is a friendly blob thing with a childlike mentality that wants to be helpful to people. It's so helpful, in fact, that it will let itself be used as a punching bag, assassin and sex toy.
  • Extreme Doormat: Thanks to its conditioning, it will compulsively obey anything it perceives as a command and doesn't know how to disobey an order.
  • Healing Factor: Instantly regenerates virtually any wound; about the only thing it can't immediately recover from is fire.
  • Like Father, Like Son: 8078 is even more of an Extreme Doormat than their father, SCP-7955.
  • Otherworldly Innocents: A compulsively obedient mass of Ominous Obsidian Ooze with incredible shapeshifting powers and a powerful Healing Factor. It also has the intelligence and personality of a rather squirrelly child, being Oblivious To Sarcasm, Literal-Minded, Super Gullible, and unable to understand permanent harm or death. Unfortunately, unscrupulous Foundation scientists exploit its obedience and gullibility to conduct illegal experiments, excusing any deaths as "games" so it won't spill the beans. Horrifically, one of them even uses the same excuse to get 8078 to turn into his ex-wife and have sex with it.
  • Questionable Consent:
    • 8078 has a childlike mind and will do anything it's told. Pelion exploits this to make it turn into his ex-wife and rape it.
      Pelion: I didn’t rape anyone! I asked for consent! Everything I did was with Sam’s consent!
      Teo: Oh sure, Pelion. It can’t say no, can’t disobey an order, and will do anything it can to please you, including salving your conscience. That just screams “consent,” doesn’t it? But then, you didn’t bother to think about that, not when it might have put those romantic delusions of yours at risk.
    • In a later interview, 8078 objects to being called "Sam", Pelion's ex-wife, and further comments on the name feeing "wrong" to it, heavily implying that 8078 is traumatized by Pelion raping it.
  • Spin-Offspring: 8078 is actually a "descendant" of 7955.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: It can shapeshift into humans, animals, objects, and other liquids. Plus, regularly shapes itself into an abstract humanoid form during conversation.

In General

  • The Alcoholic: The stress of working for the Foundation drove Pelion to alcoholism and destroyed his marriage, which made him very jaded and bitter.
  • Big Bad Duumvirate: Dr. Pelion and Dr. Raznakovic, both of whom seek to exploit 8078 for their own ends.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Pelion and Raznakovic are done in by the very scheming they indulged in and 8078 remains traumatized by recent events. However, the much-kinder Teo is now assigned as 8078's new Head Researcher and the entity has developed a rudimentary ability to object to things; the article ending with Teo encouraging 8078 to make their own decisions.
  • The Caper: Pelion and Raznakovic plot to smuggle 8078 off-site and sell it to an interested buyer, using the funds to escape the Foundation and/or retire. Turns out the O5 had been investigating the duo for quite some time, they were just waiting for it to escalate to the point they had to get involved. Researcher Teo manages to swap 8078 with a decoy shortly before Raznakovic leaves the site. By the time Raznakovic's privvy to what happened, the buyer shows up and retaliates.
  • Creepy Clingy Caretaker: Mike Pellion is a jaded research assistant assigned to SCP-8078, a compulsively obedient shapeshifting blob creature that's implied to be a child of whatever species it belongs to. As the article unfolds, Pellion comes to believe that 8078's obedience isn't a result of its conditioning, but proof of 8078's love for him specifically - driving him to groom and eventually rape it... multiple times. For good measure, not only does he completely fail to acknowledge the rape, but he also escalates to committing murder to cover up his crimes.
  • Do Wrong, Right: Raznakovic repeatedly calls out Pelion for his increasingly-bizarre behavior towards 8078, citing professionalism and the act that 8078 is involved in an O5 Council project. it's not because she's concerned for 8078's welfare, it's because she's found a black-market buyer that's willing to pay handsomely for 8078 and doesn't want anything to ruin that deal. She eventually gets fed up and cuts him off; changing the date of the deal behind Pelion's back.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death / Fate Worse than Death:
    • It's unclear which one will befall Michael Pelion. Either he will die from super-cancer developed by 8078 cells in his body or they will mold him into a giant womb, that will produce new member of 8078 species. The latter case is implied to be the end result of the ritual that produced 7955, given that it was supposed to moderate the really nasty effects of internal exposure to shapeshifter cells.
    • Razkanovic at one point informs Pelion that if he tries to blackmail her, she will use every connection she has in the Foundation to ensure he wakes up in SCP-953's cell naked, with his feet superglued to the floor and his genitals covered in wasabi sauce.
  • Good Is Not Dumb: Amanda Teo is considered to be 'soft' for a foundation employee, having mourned an SCP ( 7955) in the past, and showing the most concern for SCP-8078's wellbeing. She ends up being the one to uncover Razkanovic's and Pelion's plans and in her final confrontation with Pelion, she absolutely, and rightly, tears into him.
  • Grooming the Enemy: Pelion initially has this view about 8078, deciding that the Foundation should be willing to use its SCPs as assets (writing off contained anomalies as "hotel guests" that get everything they want until they inevitably snap), much of his early research centered on that. He eventually develops a more unhealthy obsession with 8078.
  • Horror Disguised As Play: Early in the article, a research assistant has a Freak Out during a containment breach and beats 8078 to a pulp; once he's lucid enough to realize he needs to keep it from telling anyone, he excuses his actions as "just a game." Later, after realizing that he can exploit 8078's naivete, the research assistant uses it for illegal experiments and even assassinations, all of which are excused as secret games to make sure 8078 doesn't blab to security. Even less pleasantly, the research assistant uses the same excuse after getting 8078 to take the form of his ex-wife so he can have "bedroom games" with it.
  • Karmic Death: While confronting Pelion, Teo reveals that 8078's pieces instinctually seek each other out to reform and if they can't, they overwrite whatever they're clinging to and use what's there to birth a new entity, akin to cancer. Dr. Pelion's lechery towards 8078 resulted in bits of the entity clinging to him afterward, making him fine material. 72 hours from that exchange, Pelion loses all sentience and is turned into a mindless womb for a new 8078 instance.
  • Lecherous Stepparent: As Pelion bonds more with 8078, he adopts this role; occasionally cuddling the creature and eventually showing it adult material under the guise of teaching it more shapes. This eventually escalates to him having sex with it.
  • Sequel Hook: Next to Raznakovic's body Foundation agents find a message from "Tegid Foel", strongly impling it is another entity like 8078 and 7955
    CONSIDER THIS A STALEMATE. YOU CAN KEEP THE CHILD - FOR NOW.
  • Spanner in the Works: Dr. Teo is assigned to 8078 during Pelion's sick leave. Her kinder demeanor and gentleness coaxes 8078's knowledge of the researchers' plans out of them. Teo is justifiably disgusted and reports it, which gets the O5 Council involved.
  • Stealth Sequel: As the story progresses it becomes clear it is the one to SCP-7955, as 8078 was born from an experiment on 7955's remains enacted by Dr. Aristaios, and Pelion's replacement is Research Assistant Teo.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Michael Pelion, big time.
    • Having sex with 8078 despite knowing microscopic parts of it will enter his body and any separated part will be trying to reconnect with the main body. Needless to say, he gets super cancer.
    • When he knows it's only a matter of time before Foundation finds out what he is doing and Razkanovic set up a plan to get both of them and 8078 out, and then she comes to work and disappears. He decides it's a sign he can now do whatever he wants, not that he should run.
    • Then there is the fact he continued pressing his obsession with 8078 even after realizing the SCP is somehow connected to Dr. Aristaios' research done under direct O5 oversight. Teo thinks he is particularly dumb for not realizing he's begging to get O5's attention.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Raznakovic doesn't think much of Pelion's supposed replacement, on the grounds that she once locked herself in the bathroom to cry over a dead SCP 7955. It takes Research Assistant Teo seconds to uncover what Pelion and Raznakovic are doing and planning to do and she personally ensures each of their downfalls.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Once Raznakovic's attempt at stealing 8078 is foiled, she tries to reschedule with and placate "Tegid Foel". Foel immediately realizes what's going on and murders her.

SCP-8093 — Ship of Theseus (But it's Bones!)

Author: ParallelPotatoes
Posted: October 25, 2024
SCP-8093 is a phenomenon where successfully managing to replace every single bone in one's body will cause them to have their identity replaced. This would normally not be an issue, if not for the fact that the world the article takes place in apparently has an entire society of Friendly Skeletons with their own Veil and a tradition of switching bones on the regular.
  • The Comically Serious: Much of the article's humor comes from how utterly unflappable the Foundation and the skeletons are in the face of a very comical portrayal of the living dead that hits pretty much every comedy stereotype about them.
  • Detachment Combat: Implied with how the Bone Bureaucracy has checks against unauthorized "weaponizable bones."
  • Friendly Skeleton: At least 740 of them, possibly more since the Foundation has separate standard disinformation protocols just for skeletons.
  • Meaningful Rename: Played for laughs with Skeleton 27, who after becoming an SCP-8093 instance decides to rename herself to... Skeleton 28.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: One surprising benefit of SCP-8093 is that there is now a skeleton in every Group of Interest spying for the Foundation without actually putting on any sort of disguise beyond the bone-swapping, since nobody recognizes them from files.
  • Serious Business: As the article progresses, it becomes apparent that the skeletons take having "unique" bones very seriously for both physiological and psychological purposes, to the point where most of the problems that arise from SCP-8093 have less to do with the anomaly and more from the fact that avoiding it requires stunting them.
  • Xylophones for Walking Bones: It's mentioned the Bone Bureaucracy does "xylophone tests" with a completely straight face to verify the identity of SCP-8093 instances.
  • You Are Number Six: The skeletons in the Bone Bureaucracy only refer to themselves by specific numbers.

SCP-8097 — Ƿ is for the Ƿaylaid Ƿallflower

Author: Ihp
Posted: April 29, 2024
The original SCP-8097 was Gregory Arnoldson, who was essentially a slasher movie villain with unknown anomalous capabilities that rampaged through the halls of a high school in Hunter's Creek, Massachusetts on their 2012 senior prom. A decade later, copycat killings begin taking place, and the Foundation sends an agent to investigate, who ends up teaming up with the Final Girl from the first round of killings.
  • Adults Are Useless: The original 8097 instance had a shooter risk profile (which is an actual thing in American schools) that indicated he was abused, had assaulted other students, and was sexually assaulted by a teacher; despite this, the faculty at the school did absolutely nothing to help him.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not 100% clear if Weeks let Marshall subdue him so he wouldn't have to bring her in, or if Marshall attacked him largely unprovoked.
  • Artistic License – History: Lampshaded. Robinson tries attacking Weeks and Marshall with a chef's knife that's a replica of SCP-668, the knife which was allegedly used in the infamous Kitty Genovese killing. Marshall points out that the actual knife is a hunting knife that's in a museum somewhere; Weeks says he'll ruminate on that more later.
  • Cover Identity Anomaly: Wendy immediately clocks Weeks's "FBI agent" cover story as phony, due to his badge being severely out-of-date and anachronistic, on top of the fact that there's no way the real FBI would send just one person to investigate a serial killer; Weeks manages to recover his fumble by claiming he's a true crime junkie trying to get the FBI involved.
  • Deconstruction: Of the Slasher Movie trope of all characters other than the Final Girl being essentially expendable and forgotten soon after their death; Wendy tries to organize a memorial and have the victims remembered in some way, but whatever the original 8097's anomalies included, among them was making his victims antimemetic. This is also used as a metaphor for how victims in school shootings are treated, swiftly forgotten by the press once the next tragedy pops up.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: The SCP is basically a look at what would happen if a slasher movie scenario was treated more like a mass shooting.
  • Driven to Suicide: Wendy states that she attempted suicide in the past, having taken 'Tylenol with an Everclear chaser', but that it failed. This may be due to her being a new instance of SCP-8097, complete with immortality.
  • Final Girl: Gwendolyn "Wendy" Marshall; she's not the Sole Survivor of the massacre, but she is the one to end up killing the original SCP-8097.
  • Meaningful Name: SCP-097 is one of the oldest Halloween-themed SCPs on the site, and this was originally intended for the 2022 Anthology series, even having the same naming scheme of [Letter] is for [Thing]. (e.g. "E is for Eternity"). It's "Waylaid" because it was posted over a year and a half after the rest of the 2022 anthology.
  • Private Detective: Wendy becomes this after surviving the original 8097 attack.
  • Shout-Out:
    • The scene where Wendy asks a member of the Foundation to pass their (fake) ID to them through a meal slot recalls a scene in The Silence of the Lambs where Lecter asked Clarice to do the same.
    • When grilling Weeks about his fake FBI badge, Wendy questions if "Playing Agent Mulder" is really the best way to get the FBI involved in the investigation.
  • Sucky School: Hunter's Creek High seems to have been this; before the attack, they ignored severe abuse towards at least one of their students, and got a $100,000 grant to fix up one locker room for the men's football team when the rest of the district didn't even have air conditioning. Weeks points out that this is true of basically every public school district in the US; Wendy retorts:
    "Just because it's raining shit everywhere doesn't mean I have to like the smell."
  • Teen Horror: The first act of the SCP is a slasher scenario unfolding on prom night.
  • Trashy True Crime: A good part of the article is spent eviscerating True Crime fans as a concept, pointing out that real people suffered in various tragedies, and that only a scant few victims, if any, get remembered, while the monsters that killed them are practically worshiped.
  • You Kill It, You Bought It: By killing the original SCP-8097 instance, Marshall gained his anomalous properties, including nigh-on immortality and the ability to teleport.

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SCP-8147 — Worldbuilder

Author: radian628
Posted: September 4, 2024
SCP-8147 is an enormous bronze ring. When it's powered on and attached to a keyboard, the user can type in text, and after hitting the "Enter" key, the ring will eventually become a portal to a world that fits the written prompt. As it turns out, the process of making these worlds is a lot more hands-on than the Foundation first anticipated.
  • Conditioned to Accept Horror: SCP-8147-2 has worked on these worlds for god knows how long, and yet, he seems remarkably put together despite his apparent humanity.
  • Everyone Has Standards: Played for Laughs. Judging by the complete halt of testing, making the lone construction worker work for way, way longer than he has to is too much for the Ethics Committee to tolerate.
  • Punny Name: The imaginative exercise of worldbuilding gets a way more literal take here.
  • Time Abyss: The construction worker claims he's spent two and a half quadrillion years on world 296 alone.
  • Year Outside, Hour Inside: From the researchers' perspective, the worlds only take a few hours at most to generate, but from the construction worker's perspective, they take literal eons.

SCP-8156 – We All Go Down to Deep Sea

Author: Pinoccappuccino
Posted: March 11, 2023
SCP-8156 is (or once was) the 3rd Eastern Shore Infantry Regiment, a detachment of the Union Army. After going missing towards the end of the American Civil War while on mission to Atlanta, a century later the SCP Foundation now keep track of the regiment that somehow ended up walking the seafloor of the Atlantic.
  • Alliterative Name
    • SCP-8156-A243 has been aliased "Pvt. President" by the Foundation, as nobody has been able to properly identify him, including himself.
    • One of the MTF Gamma-6 members who discovered SCP-8156 was Pvt. Bastien Babin.
  • An Arm and a Leg: Some SCP-8156-A have lost their body parts. Maybe from wartime injuries, maybe from the sharks and eels in the water.
  • Been There, Shaped History: According to SCP-8156-A001, the 3rd ESIR fought in Seven Day Battles (June 25 – July 1, 1862) and the Battle of the Wilderness (May 5–7, 1864).
  • Berserk Button: Combatants of the Confederate States of America. The only SCP Foundation personnel (aside from D-Classes) to have been killed by SCP-8156-A may have been a “southerner suck-up” whose great-grandfather served on the CSS Shenandoah. Following this incident, the Foundation surveys everyone for any ancestral or ideological ties to the Confederacy before being given assignment to SCP-8156.
  • Cast Full of Crazy: All the SCP-8156-A are plagued by some mental illness and delusions.
  • Cavalry Officer: SCP-8156 is in possession of seven horses and a whale shark for cavalry and cargo. The cavalry includes Colonel Homer Brighton (SCP-8156-A001) and Lieutenant Colonel David Pullen (SCP-8156-A003) who respectively ride Chesapeake (SCP-8156-D1) and Radishes (SCP-8156-E).
  • Chromosome Casting: All SCP-8156-A are white men, Justified as the overwhelming majority of the Union Army was that and women were relegated to nurses.
  • Crazy Homeless People: The delusional SCP-8156-A have no homes to go back to as their immediate families are long gone and they themselves are Legally Dead, and are completely uncomprehending of this fact.
  • Creator Provincialism: Downplayed. We All Go Down to Deep Sea is technically set in the author’s home country of the United States, but he’s from the West Coast; the entry is centered around the north Atlantic Ocean at the East Coast, with some focus given to Nova Scotia and the Bahamas.
  • Drums of War: SCP-8156's military band, complete with seven drums. The band performs whenever SCP-8156 takes stance before the shore.
  • Exactly Exty Years Ago: Subverted, as SCP-8156 was discovered June 27th, 1963, a month after the 99th anniversary of their May 10th, 1864 disappearance.
  • Flayed Alive: One SCP-8156-A skinned himself to "keep [him]self clean of ticks." Technically though, he's no longer alive.
  • Food Theme Naming: Col. Pullen named his "horse" Radishes.
  • Frontline General: Lt. Homer Brighton (SCP-8156-A001) leads the charge during Euphotic events, as well as occasionally marches and hunting parties.
  • Guns Firing Underwater
    • Exaggerated with SCP-8156-B1. The rifles and pistols only fire whenever they are submerged in saltwater.
    • Subverted with Captain Cavell and his team, who are equipped with gyrojets, amphibious guns from the time.
  • Hallucinations: The SCP-8156-A frequently suffer from them, especially that Atlantic marine life are Appalachian terrestrial life.
  • Identity Breakdown: One SCP-8156-A, A243, goes by many names, all of which are just the names of the US presidents and vice presidents that preceded Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin.
  • I Reject Your Reality: Most attempts at MTF Gamma-6 explaining to an SCP-8156-A the watery nature of their existence results in them responding with denial or doubt before forgetting being told in the first place.
  • Legally Dead: All of the 3rd Eastern Shore Infantry Regiment disappeared in 1864 and, sometime after the Pinkerton Detectives Never Found the Bodies and closed the cold case in 1867, were declared dead in absentia. It wasn’t until 1963, when they realistically would've dead from natural causes, that the SCP Foundation found them unalive.
  • Madness Shared by Two: Exaggerated, as the 300-odd SCP-8156-A all share the same delusion that they are fighting the war on land, with many sharing further illnesses such as post-traumatic stress and No Sense of Direction
  • Meaningful Name: Their SCP number, 8156, is an anagram of 1865, the year the American Civil War ended.
  • Mood-Swinger: Some SCP-8156-A are noted for their erratic tempers, getting angry and calming from panic at the presence or absence of triggers.
  • Moment of Lucidity: The SCP-8156-A go through some in their interviews with MTF Gamma-6, sometimes when being told they are underwater zombies, only to forget the information or any ramifications of it. One lieutenant, SCP-8156-A076, has a dulled but chronic notion that something is wrong about his existence.
  • Monochrome Casting: All SCP-8156-A are white men, Justified as the overwhelming majority of the Union Army was that and segregated the "colored units" that weren't.
  • Mr. Smith: Before SCP-8156-A302 was identified as a previously undocumented SCP-8156-A, his corpse was referred to as "8156 Doe" upon discovery and autopsy.
  • Neat Freak: SCP-8156-A018 is noted to had gone off the deep end of Creepy Cleanliness, having flayed himself (un)alive.
  • No One Gets Left Behind: Zig-Zagged. The SCP-8156-A will patch up their wounded and go out in search of the lost, but sometimes stragglers end up lost themselves and maybe even forget who they were looking for in the first place.
  • No Sense of Direction: SCP-8156-A have been in a Wandering Walk of Madness from Nova Scotia to the Bahamas in search of Atlanta, Georgia, but they have no idea of where they are. Even when their colonel gets convinced they are headed towards the battlefield, they will eventually forget the directions they were given and continue to wander were the sea floor takes them.
  • Nuckelavee: Its implied that under all of the coralline algae, Col. Brighton and his horse have fused together into something like one.
  • Ocean Madness: Have all gone insane walking the ocean floor for decades in search of Atlanta.
  • One-Steve Limit: Averted, as two historical Jameses are mentioned in the same sentence; Brigadier General James C. Veatch and Major General James B. McPherson.
  • Only in Florida: “Florida Man” Bill Gantry — when told to evacuate in anticipation of Hurricane Andrew — opts to sit out the storm on the beach with his shotgun and a couple of cold ones, only to get outmatched in a gunfight with SCP-8156.
  • Our Kelpies Are Different: All the SCP-8156-Ds’ hooves are reversed at the pastern; backwards hooves are said to be a way to identify a kelpie.
  • Politically Incorrect Hero
    • The SCP-8156-A have a frequency of making sexist and racist comments typical of northerners in the mid 19th century. This is Truth in Television, as the American Civil War was not a matter of civil rights for most Union soldiers but patriotism to the United States.
    • Captain Joseph Cavell calls SCP-8156-A in his field report "it(s)" and "morons". By The '60s, "moron" was still in use in psychology and eugenics to refer to people considered to have "mild mental retardation".
  • Public Domain Character: Various passing mentions are made of historical figures from 1860s United States, such as Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, James B. McPherson, and George Meade.
  • Pun-Based Title: We All Go Down to Deep Sea plays upon a verse from “Union Dixie”.
    Way down, sunken, in the land of waders
  • The Remnant: SCP-8156 is an undead remnant of the Union Army’s XVI Corps that walks the ocean floor looking for Atlanta over 150 years after the American Civil War ended.
  • Rouge Angles of Satin: Captain Cavell's old handwritten field report, which was transcribed with typos and shorthand sic erat scriptum.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: Most SCP-8156-A suffer from post-traumatic stress disorder from their service in the Civil War.
  • Shout-Out
  • Shown Their Work: The author, Pinoccappuccino, researched several aspects for historical and geographic accuracy.
    • The 3rd ESIR’s service history is accurate to real-life orders of operations for battles in and leading up to General Sherman’s Atlanta Campaign, history of the 1st and 2nd ESIRs of which the fictional 3rd ESIR is based on.
      • The 3rd ESIR would’ve been from Ocean City, Maryland, but the author changed it to Salisbury (founded 1732) as opposed to Ocean City (founded 1875) to avoid an Anachronism Stew.
      • The Union Army did have a small and short-lived “Balloon Corps” for aerial reconnaissance that saw limited use and quickly fell apart after less than two years once its founder retired in 1863.
    • During the Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln did highly involve himself in exonerating deserters and commissioning the Pinkerton National Detective Agency for investigations.
    • Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua), Christmas tree worms (Spirobranchus giganteus), dulse (Palmaria palmata), Forbes sea stars (Asterias forbesi), whale sharks (Rhincodon typus), and various species of coralline algae are endemic to the northwest Atlantic Ocean.
    • Underwater geolocation wasn’t really possible until 1978, when ARGOS was launched by the CNES (France), NASA, and NOAA (both USA).
  • Spotting the Thread: In 1965, while SCP-8156 was portly understood and containment procedures unrefined, MTF Gamma-6 encountered a problem while posing as the U.S. Coast Guard to redirect civilians away from SCP-8156; the owner of a yacht was a retired U.S. Coast Guard and saw through the agent's façade, so MTF Gamma-6 was forced to commandeer the vessel by force.
  • The Symbiote: Most if not all SCP-8156 individuals and items have some form of marine epibionts or parasites clinging to them.
  • Team Normal: The SCP Foundation is unable to identify any outright paranormal properties or behavior in SCP-8156-E, and is only given SCP designation due to her association with the rest of SCP-8156.
  • Threatening Shark: Played With.
    • Played Straight for whichever shark attacked SCP-8156-D5, leaving an open bite wound on his right side.
    • Inverted with SCP-8156-E, as she’s a whale shark.
    • Implied to have been the Uncertain Doom for a few SCP-8156-A. SCP-8156-A103 appears to have some Repressed Memories of SCP-8156-A018 getting eaten by a “bear”, and Word of God states that all that’s left of SCP-8156-A182 is his tracking tag, located in the stomach of a shark that migrated to the Mediterranean Sea.
  • Through the Eyes of Madness: To their knowledge, SCP-8156 believe they are traversing through northern Georgia, headed towards Atlanta to fight their latest deployment. They don't get that they're underwater and the war ended over a century ago.
  • Trigger-Happy: SCP-8156-A are not very cautious to using SCP-8156-B.
  • Uncertain Doom: The fates of several lost SCP-8156-A have never been discerned.
  • Unusual Ammo: SCP-8156-B2. SCP-8156-B1 transmute and fire out anything that can be dropped into their barrels as musket balls, often reshaping pebbles and cowrie shells.
  • Walk, Don't Swim: SCP-8156 traverses the northwest basin of the Atlantic Ocean on foot, hoof, and wagon wheel.
  • Wandering Walk of Madness
  • Warrior Undead: SCP-8156-A are considered undead as they don't drown and some have survived loosing limbs or all their blood.
  • Water Is Air: Despite being terrestrial animals, SCP-8156-A and -D are able to breathe the sea water to no harm.
  • Went Crazy When They Left: The 3rd ESIR disappeared, only to be found as undead underwater zombies with No Sense of Direction or Time.
  • Would Not Shoot a Civilian: Defied.
    • When taking position on longshore, SCP-8156-A blindly fire out of the water. Their bullets can hit anything, from seagulls, to beachgoers, to D-Class personnel.
    • Four SCP-8156-A gunned down a Foundation diver once; they claimed they were Justified in doing so because he drew his Harpoon Gun and was a Confederate sympathizer.

SCP-8167 — Hot Wheels

Author: Solios
Posted: June 15, 2025
SCP-8167 is a collection of 152 Hot Wheels toy cars. If the collection is divided, anyone who enters REM sleep in the room housing the largest portion of the collection will experience nightmares proportionately worse depending on the number of toy cars missing, towards an individual named Gideon. If a toy is destroyed, the individuals responsible will instantly fall into a comatose state. Commercially identical Hot Wheels purchase from a supermarket can be introduced to SCP-8167 to restore its numbers, but this nor anything else will not wake individuals rendered comatose.
  • Palette Swap: Of the 152 toys comprising SCP-8167, 134 are different models with the remaining 18 being duplicates.
  • Ship Of Theseus: Theoretically, it is possible to entirely replace SCP-8167 of its original collection by destroying and replacing them over time.

SCP-8176/SCP-276-ARC — Foundation of '76

Author: Cathy Autumn
Posted: August 23, 2024
SCP-276-ARC refers to the corpses of five high school students permanently warped by occult magic after a disrupted ritual ended in their deaths.
  • Adaptational Villainy: The article's version of Dr. Kondraki is racist, gleefully kills his targets (including minors) for flimsy reasons, and lies to the Foundation about important matters, a far cry from most of his other variants.
  • Alternate Continuity: Of the Class of '76's story. Here, it starts and ends in 1976 due to the anomalies at play being unable to persist beyond death and having a significantly weaker grasp on humanity compared to their prime counterparts. At least, that's what the Foundation can hope for...
  • Ambiguous Situation: The -ARC classification comes from the SCP vanishing during a renovation in 1990. Given the article's portrayal of Kondraki, it's implied this may have been purposeful, but it's never clarified.
  • Cliffhanger: The article ends with the disappearance of the SCP never being resolved. The reader is left to decide if they buried Kondraki's crimes, if he somehow stole the evidence in 1990, or something else entirely.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Kondraki kills all five of the students in ways that are either exceedingly violent or would be extremely inappropriate for a child target:
    • Goldman is executed with two gunshots to the back of the head.
    • Craig's neck is snapped, and shot in the chest.
    • Kent has her face stomped on until it implodes. Kondraki apparently enjoyed doing this.
    • Sato has his knife ripped out with enough force to shatter his fingers while trying to run away, then is stabbed repeatedly until Kondraki gets the knife stuck in his eye socket. He then screams a racial slur at Sato's corpse, and lies to the Foundation that Sato had charged at him.
    • Rees is shot three times because Kondraki could not stand the idea of simply interrogating her.
  • Deconstructed Character Archetype: Kondraki has never been the most pleasant individual, especially with his violent streak, and tends to coast on Rule of Funny and Vetinari Job Security to get away with what he does. The article shows what would happen if he was to show his nasty side in a context devoid of humor or ends to justify his means.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Despite the Kirk Lonwood choir students being able to summon an actual monster, the actual antagonist of the article is Dr. Kondraki, who slaughtered all of them even after the threat subsided just because he could.
  • In Spite of a Nail: While it's implied Syncope, the original Class of '76, and SCP-2316 don't exist in this universe, there are still records of a colossal mishap involving the Foundation, Kirk Lonwood High School, and the year 1976.
  • Kick the Dog: Kondraki shoots the last surviving student, Rees, just because the Foundation wanted her alive for information.

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See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the Site-17 Deepwell Catalog folder.

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SCP-8212 — Mornings at the Starlight

Author: habaniah
Posted: July 15, 2024
SCP-8212 is a pattern screamer who gained first omniscience and then physical form... and a job at a South Dakota diner.
  • Batman Gambit: Dr. Fessler speculates, and 8212 confirms, that it'd've been almost trivially easy for her to use her omniscience to ensure that the Foundation would never find her once she gained human form. Instead, she deliberately makes herself easy for the Foundation to capture, specifically so that she can get herself amnesticized of all her memories of her prior half-existence as a pattern screamer and forget she was ever anything but a normal human woman. For good reason, as not only does she not want to be anything other than said normal human woman, but her prior half-existence was... not a pleasant experience.
    SCP-8212: Well, when I told you I didn’t remember my original gender, I was telling a little bit of a fib. The truth is that I was a lot of them. Parts of a lot of them. The Pattern tears through more than your flesh. I’m a tiny little spoonful of countless pulverized consciousnesses. Sliced and torn. Left there for eons like a flayed man on a stretcher. I mean, Judd, try and imagine what that’s like.
    Fessler: I don’t think I can imagine it. Hell, I wouldn't want to.
    SCP-8212: Then what makes you think I like being able to remember it?
  • Become a Real Boy: 8212 wants to be a normal human rather than a tortured half-existent soup of countless fragmented consciousnesses. She does this by leveraging the fact that, as a pattern screamer, her existence is determined by how she's perceived, first selectively modifying the noosphere to implant associations between her and various human qualities in the minds of various residents of Pierre, South Dakota, which causes her to manifest in the city in humanoid form, and then interacting with additional residents of Pierre to lock her into her new form and render her a non-anomalous young woman, at the same time making herself easy for the Foundation to capture so she can be amnesticized of her own memories of her prior existence.
  • Closet Key: While semi-existent and omniscient, 8212 sees Kate in the aftermath of her Last Het Romance and only barely aware of her own queerness. She flat-out states that Kate's the reason she incarnated into human form as a woman; by the end of the file, she and Kate're Happily Married and have a child together.
  • The Omniscient: Prior to attaining humanoid form, 8212, during a period of semi-existence, leveraged an unrelated increase in noospheric porosity caused by a containment breach of a different noospheric anomaly to give herself access to the entire noosphere, making her effectively omniscient. She used this access to figure out exactly how to tweak the noosphere to set in motion her plan to attain human form; in the process of gaining human form, she's implied to have lost her effective omniscience, but she doesn't seem to miss it.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: In more than one way. Being a pattern screamer, the only reason 8212 exists at all in the first place is because someone perceived her in some form of nothingness. Additionally, the form she takes is dependent on how she's perceived, which she leverages first by using the omniscience she gained (as an indirect result of an unrelated noospheric anomaly breaching containment) to figure out just how, exactly, to tweak the noosphere so that certain specific residents of Pierre associate her with various human qualities, which causes her to initially incarnate in humanoid form in Pierre, and then by interacting with other residents to entrench her perception as a nonanomalous human woman and thereby solidify her existence as said nonanomalous human woman.

SCP-8225 – The House of All Our Gods

Author: Djoric
Posted: February 18, 2024
Contest: 43/123 (8K)
SCP-8225 is a series of anomalous or otherwise unexplained phenomenon pertaining to a Magical Dream Land named Doèshyatoan (SCP-8225-α)
  • SCP-8225-β: The Pilgrim’s Road, a Type-06 traversible Rosen-Fortune Bridge that connects Doèshyatoan to baseline reality.
    • SCP-8225-β-2: Peregrinus somnovium, the Magic Mushroom needed in the ritual to traverse the Road.
  • SCP-8225-γ: Anxeqaamat (literally “the House of All Our Gods”), the primary settlement of the land, built around the temple of the same name.
  • SCP-8225-δ: The eshannu, the humans and Human Subspecies inhabiting Doèshyatoan.
  • SCP-8225-ε: A population of diverse woodland spirits who limit themselves of names, many of whom live in coexistence with the eshannu.
  • SCP-8225-ζ: Sapient fauna present within Doèshyatoan.
  • SCP-8225-η: Non-sapient fauna present within Doèshyatoan, some of which are extinct on Earth.
  • SCP-8225-θ: Catch-all designation for all subcomponents relating to the social, cultural, religious, and magical practices.

The House of All Our Gods won forty-third place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 63, further receiving the award as “Most Tolkien-like” for the Conlang trope.


  • Alien Geometries: The geography in much of Doèshyatoan and Pilgrim’s Road changes every time someone leaves and comes back. Locations of interest and the distances between them remaining more consistent, with exception to the Road, as it also changes in length every travel, winding for somewhere in the range of approximately 400 to 900 kilometers.
  • Alternate Self: Word of God states that the “Lady Yasuke” that Dr. Douglas talks with is an Alternate Universe’s counterpart to SCP-2085-A-1, one of Djoric’s oldest characters on the SCP Wiki. It’s close to our timeline, if her account of feudal Japan is anything to go off of.
  • Beast Man
    • Some of the eshannu and their fellows in the woods have animalistic features, from the Mole Men living under Anxeqaamat to the otter-folk in Lake Olupyaru.
    • A clan of Honorable Elephant people migrate through Doèshyatoan at the beginning and end of summer. Their matriarch, called Ganuka the Greatest Grand-Mother, is a blind Gentle Giant of untold age; fitting given she appears to be a Not So Extinct member of the genus Palaeoloxodon.
    • Chòndu'ang is a Fish Person with traits similar to the giant oarfish.
  • Been There, Shaped History: According to Lady Yasuke, she had been alive centuries ago in the 16th and 17th centuries of Japan. She was a retainer to the Sengoku Period daimyō Oda Nobunaga until she was forced into exile after his ousting in 1582. After fifty years living in the wild, she returned during the Edo and joined the Shimabara Rebellion under Amakusa Shirō and survived their siege and subsequent loss of Hara Castle in 1638.
  • Binding Ancient Treaty: The Uganugurrit, meaning “Law of Gifts Given”, is the peace agreement between the eshannu and the fae who coexist.
  • Bizarre Alien Sexes: The Amatànnaq people recognize a third gender they call kokyo'anga; this gender is intertwined with a school of shamanism of the same name and the folktale “How Yama Crossed the River”.
  • Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Justified, as the eshannu speak their own Conlangs. In Icheya, for example:
    • The Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti are called shushèngo (“hairy old men”) and the Chupacabra called chaameya (“nightsingers”).
    • The Icheya words for flying squirrels and ground sloths are chiche and tungguk respectively.
  • Catch-22 Dilemma: For eons, one that has been come to known as the “Leusan Hemoparadox” has been a common skepticism of the Ortothan belief; how could the Koru-teusa — who need blood donations to survive after their apotheosis — have survived for the billions of years before life in the Second Hytoth arose and evolved to have blood or equivalents (collectively “aímact”)? This argument, however, doesn’t account for survivors of the First Hytoth who may have had some.
  • Character Name and the Noun Phrase: In-Universe with “Lus-Lus and the Missing Mask”, an Amatànnaq Puzzle Thriller with extensive Audience Participation, following an Inept Mage stumbling through a Mystery Fiction.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Colored and emboldened text is used similarly (but a bit differently) to how it is in Taboo and the others SCP entries inspired by it. Generally, green refers to the nameless allies and enemies of Doèshyatoan, yellow for the vague descriptions of Doèshyatoan’s relative location, and red whenever the Pilgrim’s Road is named. The common names given to specific groups of the spirits of the land each have their own color however; the Hearth-rakers and Summer Lanterns are marked in shades of orange, the Big Blue Eyes and Spirit Lights in silvery-teals, the Flower-maidens get pink, and some nearly black with barely any saturation.
  • Conlang: The Common Tongue of Doèshyatoan is one called Icheya (meaning “of many”), with three others also spoken being Bragh Do, Ng!tu, T'áátsíí. Some Icheya words and even a pronunciation guide are provided in SCP-8225, with the author Djoric clarifying what he has so-far is something semi-functional (regardless, it won an award for having the most in-depth one of all the 8K Contest’s submissions) and is considering making a full write-up.
  • Continuity Nod: In SCP-8225 — The House of All Our Gods, Djoric calls back upon two of his earlier writings on the wiki, SCP-2085 — The Black Rabbit Company and SCP-2636 — The Last Daughter of Thsassashan’aa (Retconning the latter regarding SCP-2636 as the Last of Her Kind).
  • Cool Gate: The entrances to Anxeqaamat consists of seven ceremonial archways, comparable to torii or hongsalmun. Like the seven districts of the city, they are named the Sun Gate, River Gate, Stone Gate, Moon Gate, Dusk Gate, Star Gate, and the Broken Gate.
  • Cosmic Motifs: Most of Anxeqaamat’s districts and their accompanying gates are named after celestial aspects; those being the sun, the moon, the stars, and the dusk.
  • Creation Myth: The Storytellers in Anxeqaamat have different stories for the world’s creation, differing between the Amatànnaq family houses and the pilgrims who come to the city.
  • Disabled Deity: Chòndu'ang, a son/grandson of the Scarlet King who is missing three-quarters of his legs but still wields a mean war club.
  • Dream Land: Doèshyatoan seems to be a rather liminal location, as the people who do physically go there must be in a dream state induced with a certain Magic Mushroom. Once there, oneiric observations indicates that the land has a fluctuating but stable Hume reading, which would explain the inconsistent geography outside of Anxeqaamat.
  • Eldritch Location: SCP-8225-α is noted to have a "fuzzy geography" with the center point of Anxeqaamat being the most normal, as other locations of interest only have general shapes and set distances between each other, with land not staying consistent between travels. The Foundation isn’t even sure what kind of domain to classify SCP-8225-α as and are considering whether to rehaul and add transitionary categories to the Stevens Categorization Schema; since Anxeqaamat and its immediate surroundings appear to be a Type 3-C (Baseline Subdomain), while everywhere else in Doèshyatoan behaves more like a Type 2-B (Stable Oneiric Territory).
    • The Kube Otsiya and the Pilgrim’s Road that goes through them are otherworldly enough on their own. The mountain range (or rather, mountain ring) encompasses the entirety of Doèshyatoan, and the only path in and out for most people changes every time someone walks it. It leaves one to wonder how long the Kube Otsiya goes on for, since to the travelers’ perspective, the Road is a weeks-long trek that is always several hundred kilometers in length.
  • Enchanted Forest: The forestland of Doèshyatoan, the Ko'abyaru. Aside from the flora and fauna, it is only ever inhabited by the nomadic Telékę culture group.
  • The Fantastic Trope of Wonderous Titles: In-Universe with one Amatànnaq narrative, translated from Icheya into English as “How Choma went to the Moon and brought back Lòx, and how she fought the Bloody-Cunt Demon”. The story itself is lengthy too, traditionally being told in full across five nights, but now it is more commonly condensed and told in just one night.
  • Fantasy Pantheon: Various deities are worshipped and even met by the eshannu and their guests.
    • The resident Nälkän folk religion believes in Grand Karcist Ion having nine Klavigars instead of the four in contemporary denominations, with the females ones (Lovataar and Saarn) being seen as two aspects of the same individual.
    • Residing in the River District is Chòndu Baro'ang (meaning "of the seventh", Chòndu'ang for short), a son/grandson of the Scarlet King through his daughter A'habbat who shares his mother’s hatred. He’s a Disabled Deity, as he’s missing both legs; he wears a wooden prosthetic below the right knee, but walks with a crutch as his left leg is entirely gone.
  • Farce: In-Universe, the eshannu tell a farce that translates as “Flying Squirrel and Ground Sloth Cause Problems for Everyone”, which consists of the two animals trying and failing to steal honey from the Queen of Bees.
  • Fictional Greetings and Farewells: The eshannu bid travelers with a “Tsune tamin!”, an Icheya phrase meaning to have a safe travel, or more literally “good Road”.
  • Fish People
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: Dr. Douglas has a conversation with Dèzha Toryis of the Bharsûmata, an Alien Princess from the Bharsû city state of Ey'leyium. The form projected down from her spaceship is a blubbery red humanoid, but Word of God states her true form is reminiscent of the Martians from The War of the Worlds.
  • Fun with Acronyms: In true Foundation fashion, they use the front of the “Seven Celestial Precepts” to pose as just another religion on a pilgrimage to the Tanoqaamat.
  • Genocide Survivor: A population of the Chupacabra (Potrix caprarum sapiens) in SCP-2636 — The Last Daughter of Thsassashan'aa are revealed to be alive in SCP-8225-α. The chaameya (“nightsingers”) and the eshannu are aware of their genocide at the hands of the Spanish colonization, and the humans sacrifice aurochs to them in reparation.
    Luto: They do not forgive us, not yet. Perhaps someday.
  • Gratuitous Latin
    • The previously undiscovered species of hominins found in SCP-8225-α have been given binomial nomenclature by Foundation taxonomists. Three have been given species names meaning “star-admirer” (H. astromirator), “virgin” (H. parthene), and “false otter” (H. pseudolutra).
    • The species of Magic Mushrooms of incertae sedis in the order Boletales have the binomial nomenclature of Peregrinus somnovium; this roughly means “state of foreign slumber”.
  • Half-Human Hybrid: Doèshyatoan is home to several definitive crossbreeds of modern humans and neanderthals, which the Foundation taxonomizes as Homo × sapienthalensis.
  • Human Subspecies: The eshannu consist of about a dozen species of hominin, most of which are extinct or are not known to exist in baseline.
    • Homo neanderthalensis is the second-most populous after Homo sapiens, with whom they have the hybrid Homo × sapienthalensis.
    • A subspecies, Homo neanderthalensis cordyceps, are an isolationist but pacifistic tribe of Mushroom Men who live in mutualistic symbiosis with a non-fatal strain of Cordyceps fungus.
    • Homo sapiens idaltu and Homo denisova have been reported, but the Foundation has yet to confirm whether they are distinct species or subgroups of Homo sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis respectively.
    • Homo floriensis and Homo heidelbergensis are rarely seen in Amatànnaq, more often being seen in living amongst the K!atwàsh and Telékę.
    • Three specimens of Homo erectus live in the River district, where they are known to the other villagers as the Odi-Odi and have the reputation of non-verbal Cool Old Guys who play a matching game everyday outside the brewery.
    • Homo astomirator are an insular species of taller, slimmer, and hairless hominins living in the Dusk District, known for their fragile bones and wearing of ceremonial garb in public.
    • Homo parthene are a One-Gender Race of six linages of clones. Regardless of who they bear the child of, the mothers give birth identical daughters.
    • Homo pseudolutra are an amphibious Beast Men living in and around Lake Olupyaru strongly reminiscent of otters, complete with fine hydrophobic fur and water-tight orifices.
    • The only SCP-8225-δ that haven’t been classified as members of Homo are the Paranthropus sapiens, a sapient species of the robust australopithecines who typically avoid interaction with other eshannu.
  • Invented Linguistic Distinction: Foundation researchers have taken notice that the youngest generation of Icheya speakers are undergoing a phonetic drift, as the /q/ consonant is beginning to merge with /k/, and the /ə/ vowel is in the process of being dropped entirely in favor of /à/.
  • Land of Faerie: SCP-8225-α is one for an amicable population who share the land with several human species, who call the depths of woodland inhabited of their forest-dwelling neighbors the Atsàbyaru.
  • The Lost Woods: The Atsàbyaru, the deepest thickets of Ko'abyaru, Doèshyatoan’s forest region. It is the domain of the land’s nameless ones and thus no permanent home to any eshannu, who only ever hunt there in times of scarcity and with extreme caution.
  • Lost World: Doèshyatoan is not just home to fantasy fauna but the forgotten as well. Several European and North American genera that went extinct on Earth in the late Pleistocene, including megafauna and archaic humans, are still alive. Even SCP-2636’s people, as those who survived their genocide from the Spanish conquistadors have aurochs sacrificed to them as reparations.
  • Magic Harms Technology: Electronics become inoperable within an hour of entering SCP-8225-β, and remain useless in SCP-8225-α even after completing the weeks-long travel of the Pilgrim’s Road. Anxeqaamat has an electrical infrastructure of limited supply and use due to some biological solar collectors received in trade, but the only computer of any kind in Doèshyatoan is a clunky, water-powered enchiridion node built by some Mekhanites in the past.
  • Magic Mushroom: SCP-8225-β (Peregrinus somnovium), a psychoactive mushroom of uncertain taxonomy aside from being a bolete. The consumption of these mushroom are necessary for someone to enter the state of being require for a person to disappear to the Pilgrim’s Road and travel to Doèshyatoan.
  • Magical Society
  • Master Swordsman: Dr. Tamahori and Dr. Douglas encounter two during their expedition to Doèshyatoan.
    • Dr. Malaki Tamahori meets in the Empty Quarter an observant wanderer who calls themselves Tabbassum ibn Falāsifa al-Ḵasāra, having hailed from Islamic Córdoba and seen through the Foundation researcher’s façade. They are mystic with their sword wielding, as they show the ability to teleport by beheading themselves with their own sword in coincidence with a lightning strike.
    al-Ḵasāra: And now our time is up. Goodbye for now, Doctor. I'm certain I'll meet your people again.
    • Dr. Dominic Douglas meets a youthful, yet world-weary swordswoman known as “Lady Yasuke” amongst the Sun and River Districts. Trying to put up her two swords, she tells Douglas of her experiences from feudal Japan, and her tiredness toward the unending conflicts across the Earth.
    Yasuke: There comes a time in every task, when one must either rest or die. I chose to rest.
  • May the Farce Be with You: In-Universe. To get involved in Amatànnaq storytelling culture, Dr. Douglas created “Saga of the Sky-House”, a Cultural Translation of the Star Wars Original and Prequel Trilogies with narrative commentary.
  • My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Downplayed, when Dr. Douglas has a conversation with Dèzha Toryis of the Bharsûmata on how her ship and her sailors are visiting Doèshyatoan. It is only when Douglas inquires on how her and her crews were able to sail up the Te'otakana river does the princess realize she mixed up the Icheya words for a watercraft with a spacecraft.
    Toryis: (in Icheya) Oh! I'm sorry, I think I may have used the wrong word earlier. My ship isn't on the river at all, it's... (points to the stars) There it is, the Tuvya. My true body and the sailors are all up there, sleeping until it is time to return.
    Douglas: (in English) Huh. I'll be damned.
  • Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: Once every seven years, the Court of the Green arrives in Anxeqaamat during the night, to where they are welcomed by the Amatànnaq with paper lanterns and Spirit Lights. This is to herald the arrival of their Lord of the Forest, who performs the ceremony that renews the Binding Ancient Treaty between the eshannu and the woodland ones. Dr. Douglas outright compares this event to the Hyakki Yakō tradition, with the Icheya equivalent translating to “unexpected guests”.
  • No Such Thing as Alien Pop Culture: Defied, as the Amatànnaq have their own storytelling culture and genres.
  • Non-Indicative Name: The binomial nomenclature for Homo parthene (meaning “virgin human”) would imply that they are Truly Single Parents; this isn’t accurate as they require a male Homo sapiens to have offspring, which will be daughters identical to the mother, giving the illusion of parthenogenesis.
  • Not So Extinct: Doèshyatoan has extant populations of many species of megafauna from the late Pleistocene; megatheriidae (ground sloths), machairodontinae (saber-toothed cats), glyptodontinae (giant armadillos), toxodontidae, macraucheniidae, phorusrhacidae (terror birds). Ancestral genera of modern species include the Camelops, Elasmotherium, Mesohippus, and Palaeoloxodon. Even the Chupacabra (Potrix caprarum sapiens) are there, even though the SCP Foundation previously thought SCP-2636 was the Last of Her Kind.
  • Numerological Motif
    • With the number four:Tabbassum ibn Falāsifa al-Ḵasāra, a traveling swordsman Dr. Tamahori comes across, considers SCP-8225-γ one of four divine cities in some sort of cycle, “each forever eating the tail of the other.”
    • With the number seven, see Rule of Seven below.
      al-Ḵasāra: How much numerology do you know? Likely a good deal of sevens and fives, but the number for today is four.
  • Our Dwarves Are All the Same: Averted with the Chagh-u-Njoa. They are a reclusive population of miners living in the Kube Otsiya mountains and the primary source of metal for the other eshannu, but they aren’t the traditional idea of dwarven race; they’re just a culture group of neanderthals.
  • Our Fairies Are Different: The ones without personal names found in SCP-8225-α come in a wide variety of appearances, and the amicable ones who follow the treaty fortunately allow themselves to be categorized and referred to with collective nouns and pronouns.
    • The Wild House consists of various Talking Animal, otherwise unremarkable in appearance.
    • Hearth-rakers are House Fey who protect the dwellings of the eshannu they live with.
    • Flower-maidens are Plant People with flowering hair who tend to the old and sessile Treants of the forests.
    • The Thin-Not-Men are pale faceless humanoids only ever seen from afar.
    • Like The Mothman, the Moth Princes are bipedal humanoid moths of great size and nocturnal habit. The Princes are recognized as Portents of Doom, but not as the cause of the misfortunes.
    • Summer Lanterns are Big Creepy-Crawlies reminiscent of lightning bugs, feared for luring people of pathways at night to where they are alone to be devoured, and carry the skeletons of their victims around in hollow, glowing abdomens.
    • The Diggers are friendly Mole Men living in tunnels underneath Anxeqaamat.
    • The Big Blue Eyes are named sure enough for Creepy Blue Eyes, and are harmless in spite of appearance.
    • Skatcha-Skatcha have a Repetitive Name for the repetitive noise they make, as they are Peeve Goblins who live to annoy.
    • River-Cats (who have nothing to do with SCP-796) are Playful Otters of serpentine proportions known for Delighting in Riddles, Sticky Fingers, practical jokery.
    • Too-Big-Prick, a man with the Non-Human Head of either a goat or a bison aptly named for having a Gag Penis so long, he needs to coil it up and carry it, over which he cries by himself in the woods.
    • The respectable Moss-Beard-Men have bodies of stone and hair of moss, and use their Older and Wiser experiences to guide tsalegos in training.
    • The despicable Basket-Mother have the appearances of bony, filth-covered women who carry baskets woven from grass to abduct children in; given this, they are definitely not one of the ancient forces at peace with the eshannu, and a Home Guard called the War Society actively hunts them among other violent neighbors.
    • Spirit Lights are luminescent clouds found near places of great spiritual potency or sacredness, or “qama” as the eshannu call it.
  • Our Worm Holes Are Different: SCP-8225-β, known as the Pilgrim’s Road, is a wormhole that is only accessible by those who enter a dream state using a certain psychoactive mushroom after a fast while facing any westbound road, arriving once unobserved. To those traversing the Road, it appears as mountain path of variable features and lengths, stretching for between 400 and 900 kilometers in a 25-to-45-day trek, with occasional stone shelters and fellow pilgrims along the way.
  • Photographic Memory: SCP Foundation personnel on expedition into SCP-8225 are required to have up-to-date training in A4 or A5 Eidetic Recall conditioning, as by nature it is impossible for them to record their interactions in SCP-8225 electronically.
  • Power Trio: Of the Eight Princes of Corbenic worshipped, the Prince cultists found in SCP-8225-γ favor the triad of MUZD, HAJHETI, and VUUOU, rather than the traditional Top God, JALAKÅRA.
  • Rainbow Speak: Colored text is used to denote certain groups, characters, and locations of some nomenclative anomaly.
  • Rule of Seven
    • The city of Anxeqaamat is divided into seven districts; named Sun, River, Stone, Moon, Dusk, Star and the Empty Quarter. Each’s entrance is in the form of a symbolic gateway of the same name and numebr (except for the Empty Quarter, which has the Broken Gate).
    • In SCP-8225-α, the SCP Foundation’s personnel operate under the pretense of being scholars from a religious organization by the name of the Seven Celestial Precepts.
    • Every seven years, the Lord of the Forest and his Court of the Green visit Anxegaamat in a Night Parade to renew the Uganugurrit.
  • The Scottish Trope: Downplayed when compared to the forest violent to nomenclature. In the case of the nameless bound by the Uganugurrit, they allow the eshannu to use common names, titles, and pronouns for ease of communication so long as they do not provide them with given names, and do not take issue on behalf of the non-friendly folks who are violent regardless to whether they are named or not.
  • Sex Comedy: In-Universe, in the case of one story telling of a dozen suitors bumbling for the affection of a renowned beauty, translated as “The Twelve Lovers of Wide-Hipped-Woman”.
  • Shrines and Temples: There are two temples within SCP-8225-γ. Worship is primarily in Anxeqaamat, “The House of All Our Gods” (from which the city is named), and it is host to the various religions native to Doèshyatoan. The other is Tanoqaamat, “The House of Other Gods”, a temple outside Star Gate that provides a place of worship for pilgrims visiting Doèshyatoan to keep practicing their faith and share it with those who are curious.
  • The Wall Around the World: The entirety of Doèshyatoan is surrounded by a seemingly infinite mountain range known as Kube Otsiya to the eshannu, who say it the home of giants and where the moon sleeps.
  • Wandering Culture: The Telékę, the semi-nomadic culture group of the eshannu who live and wander in the forested regions of Ko'abyaru.
  • The X of Y: The House of All Our Gods (as Anxeqaamat translates to.)
    • Also, “The House of Other Gods”, as is Tanoqaamat.
    • A recurring (but unhelpful) description of SCP-8225-α’s location is “east of east and west of west ”.
    • Various epithets for SCP-8225-ε; the firstmost of the age, those ancient of days, Court of the Green, the good folk of the woods, the Lord of the Forest, the Children of the Stars and Earth, the spirits of living places, the good people of the Taboo, those of the mystery, the powers of the world, and the First and Last of the World.
    • The Law of Gifts Given, the English translation of Uganugurrit.
    • “The Twelve Lovers of Wide-Hipped-Woman”, an Amatànnaq Sex Comedy, and “Saga of the Sky-House, Dr. Douglas’ Cultural Translation of Star Wars.
    • al-Ḵasāra considers there to be four divine cities, which they refer to by the epithets of the City of Stone (Anxeqaamat/SCP-8225-γ) the City of Light (Lampeter/SCP-7005), the City of Rust (what place this is isn’t clear) and the City on the Shore (Al-Gáyḍa/Alagadda/SCP-2264-B).
    • Like SCP-8008 — TIME PERVERT above, SCP-597 is made mention to as the Mother of Them All.
  • Yank the Dog's Chain: Temou-Ge-Hwadha, an Ortothan proselytizer who came to Anxeqaamat asking for blood donations to Rakmou-leusan, only to be laughed at by the Amatànnaq who doubted that any god that Needs Prayer Badly is a powerful god. One woman offered to give the alien some blood in a week’s time… only to laugh and give him a basket of rags stained with her dried menstrual blood. Dr. Kerr was kind enough to allow Temou-Ge to draw some of her blood for tribute.
  • You Are Number Six: Downplayed quite a lot for an SCP file. The native names of SCP-8225 phenomena are used in preference over their SCP designations because, as the RAISA notice at the beginning of the file puts it, you are reading a “front-facing documentation [that] substitutes proper names in place of numeric designations for the purposes of clarity.”

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SCP-8307 – The Arthurian Cycle

Author: sailorenoch
Posted: February 20, 2025
Contest: 6/24 (Public Domain Con)
SCP-8307 is a sword that, when bestowed upon a person, initiates the newest stage of a cycle wherein the person who receives the sword becomes the newest incarnation of King Arthur, and a number of people around them become the incarnations of various Knights of the Round Table. There is always an Arthur and a Lancelot, and they always wind up dead within five years...

The Arthurian Cycle is the first of the King Arthur articles written for Public Domain Con. The team placed 6th overall.


  • All for Nothing: None of the cycles ever end with any outcome other than a whole lot of people tragically dying, and to nobody's benefit.
  • Based on a True Story: Later in her life, Kate wrote a manga series based on the events of her cycle.
  • Bratty Half-Pint: Kate is a very snarky and sarcastic child who doesn't really like anyone other than her sister.
  • Cruel Twist Ending: Thirteen years after Kate dies of natural causes, the cycle starts up again... and the new Arthur is Dr Dehlavi's daughter, Azar.
  • Doomed by Canon: Because they're acting out the story of King Arthur, most of the characters are doomed. Laurette, who studied the Arthurian myths, is painfully aware of this.
  • Dying Declaration of Love: Laurette's last words are telling Alys that she loves her. Alys then tells Kate that she loves her before drowning herself.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: Alys drowns herself with Laurette's body to keep Kate alive.
  • Letter Motif: Everyone in a cycle is linked to a character whose name begins with the same letter as theirs: all the Arthurs have names starting with A and the Lancelots have names starting with L. Kate becomes Sir Kay, Gabrielle becomes Sir Gawain, and Peggy becomes Sir Percival.
  • Sadistic Choice: Laurette asks Alys to run away with her, but Alys doesn't want to leave Kate behind. When Laurette makes it clear that it's either her or Kate, Alys hesitates, and Laurette leaves.
  • Sole Survivor: Kate Fenwick (later Hayashi) is the only survivor of the 1940's cycle.
  • Spurned into Suicide: After Alys refuses to run away with her, Laurette disguises herself as the 'Black Knight' and tricks Alys into killing her.
  • Trauma Conga Line: Kate lived through World War Two as a child, was sent away from her home during the war for her own safety, and then saw her friends and only sister die around her.
  • Uncertain Doom: Peggy goes questing for the Holy Grail and never comes back. SCP-8191, 'Fisher Queen', reveals what happened to her.

SCP-8317 — Nothing of Value

Author: Ihp
Posted: April 4, 2024

  • Alternate Self:
  • "Better if Not Born" Plot: In a world where Harry Potter was never written, everything associated with the fantasy genre is improved.
    • The Lord of the Rings is one of the highest-grossing film series, rivaled by the DC Comics equivalent of the MCU, and The Hobbit is one single film, and highly regarded as a faithful follow-up. Sir Ian McKellen notably doesn't have his infamous breakdown.
    • Earthsea is adapted into a series of films that are credited with reinvigorating the fantasy genre after Lord of the Rings ended.
    • The Old Kingdom becomes is adapted into a film series that is seen as a invokedCult Classic. Emma Watson (here going by her middle name Charlotte) gains a greater level of success than in OTL, including being the first actress to win an Oscar for their role in a fantasy film.
    • The Chronicles of Narnia film series manages to reach the final book in the series, and ends with a post-credits scene confirming that Susan joined her family in heaven. Prince Caspian's actor would go on to land a leading role in a new Star Trek series.
    • The A Song of Fire and Ice book series is finished on time, and Game of Thrones lasts for ten successful seasons. This results in an explosion of dark fantasy novels being made into shows, including The Wheel of Time on Amazon, The Twilight Saga on Netflix, and Mistborn on Disney+.
    • The fourth Witcher game has come out, and the Netflix series never lost Henry Cavill.
  • Butterfly of Doom: Inverted. Man U. Eternal causing a four day train delay and accidentally erasing Harry Potter from the timeline proves to have, if anything, a postive impact on the world and fantasy fiction media in particular.
  • Close-Enough Timeline: The Foundation ultimately discovers that no historical events of real importance are in any kind of jeopardy of being drastically altered in the new timeline. As for the unimportant historical events (such as most of the other Harry Potter child cast members not having film careers and several fandom websites not existing at all), they decide that there seem to be no real benefits and pretty much only downsides to restoring the timeline to its original form, and as such choose to let it be.
  • Contrived Coincidence: Time-travelling Football Hooligans attacking a train station in support of Manchester United leads to Harry Potter never being written, and J. K. Rowling being a fairly obscure author by the mid-2020s. It also somehow resulted in Henry Kissenger dying 14 years earlier than in OTL. The Foundation still isn't sure how the two are related.
  • Football Hooligans: Time traveling ones called "Man. U Eternal" who, of all people, are responsible for erasing Harry Potter from the timeline, almost certainly by accident.
  • In Spite of a Nail: A few:
  • Ret-Gone: As to be expected:
    • The Harry Potter series and all it's adaptations and spin-offs naturally as the core of the SCP.
    • The 2004 Earthsea miniseries and Tales from Earthsea animated film are also gone, replaced by an acclaimed film series that is credited with reviving the fantasy genre after the conclusion of The Lord of the Rings films.
    • The other two film parts of The Hobbit are gone, replaced by a single, well recieved film.
    • The infamous seasons seven and eight of Game of Thrones are gone, replaced by a seventh, eighth, ninth and tenth season that were all received favorably.
    • It's also mentioned that several fansites including "wikis, blogs, and art-hosting websites" are gone since sharing Harry Potter fanworks was what motivated their creation in the first place.
  • Serious Business: Euro Footy to Man U. Eternal, naturally, given they travel back in time to interfere with a match between Manchester United and Arsenal.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Man U. Eternal distrupting serivce at the Manchester Piccadilly railway station for four days (which is blamed on the Irish Republican Army) somehow results in Harry Potter never existing (and Henry Kissenger dying in 1999 instead of 2023)
  • So Okay, It's Average: In-Universe. A member of the Serpent's Hand, who still has access to Harry Potter via the Wanderer's Library sumarizes the series as this, at least at first, which is the final push that makes the Foundation give up trying to restore the series to the timeline.
    N.L.Z.: It still exists in other timelines, so I was able to track down some copies in the Library. It's pretty mid. I can see how you could latch onto the first few books if you were ten and it was your first experience in the genre, but the vibes get increasingly bad as the series goes on and the plot starts falling apart. Overwhelmingly white except for token characters with no influence on plot or character development, no LGBT presence at all except for some lightly coded characters who get killed off, presents the abolition of slave labor as a position worth mockery at one point. Definitely not worth four months in the Deep Stacks trying to find it.
  • Take That!: The entire SCP is dedicated to showcasing an Alternate Timeline where Harry Potter doesn't exist due to a shift in the timeline, and the fantasy genre as a whole seems healthier.

SCP-8320 – Seven Hundred Million Wizards

Author: Raddagher
Posted: February 11, 2024
Contest: 4/123 (8K)
SCP-8320 is the global phenomenon wherein on June 4th, 2025, the Earth’s entire population of approximately 700,000,000 domestic cats (Felis cattus) was turned into Wizard Classics. These wizards, designated SCP-8320-1, have the traditional personas and (a fraction of) the intelligence of fantasy mages, however retaining the common sense and animal instincts of their original forms. Fortunately, a fatal blow to the head neutralizes an SCP-8320-1 and returns beloved pets to what they once were unharmed, so the Foundation and several Groups of Interest collaborate to restore the cats before the hungry wizards can devastate the Earth’s songbird population.

Seven Hundred Million Wizards won fourth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 274, further receiving three awards: “Best in Keter Class”, “Most Media” for having the most images and audio files, and “Most Liked By psychicProgrammer's Mom” for… ???


  • Abnormal Allergy: At least one SCP-8320-1 claimed that they are allergic to lying… and bee stings.
  • Aerith and Bob: SCP-8320-1 have identified themselves with names as mundane as “Jeremy”, as antiquated as “Ulric”, and as fictional as “Axar”.
  • Arc Number: The number “32” – primarily used in the SCP number — whose importance is illustrated under Meaningful Name and Shout-Out below.
  • Boom, Headshot!: The most effective means of returning an SCP-8320-1 to a cat is to shoot it in the head, as Dr. Helit accidentally discovered when he instinctively shot his cat-turned-wizard when he found them sitting in his house.
  • Broken Masquerade: Naturally, neither the SCP Foundation, Global Occult Coalition, nor any other group can keep the world oblivious of the global population of cat being replaced with dimwitted, territorial, bird-eating wizards. The SCP, GOC, and UIU operates publicly under the front of the “Sourcery Initiative” to turn the SCP-8320-1 back into cats, and believes that once everything is physically back to normal, they’ll be able to restore the Masquerade after a fair bit of Laser-Guided Amnesia.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Agent Nitt is a somewhat-scatterbrained Gadfly who has problems managing her schedule, but she must be proficient for the Global Occult Coalition appoint her to organize with the SCP Foundation and FBI UIU in handling the wizard crisis.
  • Cannot Tell a Lie: “Morgo the Magnificent” tells that a wizard cannot reasonably lie, as doing so causes them to break out in hives. That doesn’t mean all SCP-8320-1 have a coherent backstory.
  • Cats Are Magic: Played With as it is not the cats themselves, as they are turned into magical (but moronic) wizards.
  • Content Warnings: SCP-8320 is simply provided with the one of “Gun violence”, with additional notice that audio files may not play for mobile users.
  • Death Trap:
    • One anartist’s idea, Project Proposal 2025-032 “Wizard Exploder”, entailed using a pigeon in a birdcage to lure an SCP-8320-1 into a rune circle that would detonate and hopefully neutralize the specimen. In execution it was successful, however it turned out that blowing up an SCP-8320-1 doesn’t turn them back into a cat but instead a flock of fifty assorted birds.
    • After AWCY?’s result of exploding SCP-8320-1 reached the New Zealand, the government went about (un)killing two birds with one stone by exterminating SCP-8320-1 and restoring their bird population en masse after luring an untold amount into a “grand wizard tournament” held in a lot vacant aside from explosives.
  • The Dragons Come Back: Neutralizing SCP-8320-1 with explosives does not turn them back into cats but instead spawns exactly fifty assorted endemic birds; this includes recently extinct species, as when Are We Cool Yet? first blew an SCP-8320-1 up, they brought the passenger pigeon (Ectopistes migratorius) back from extinction. The New Zealand government capitalizes on this by eradicating the country’s stray cat population while restoring the endangered and extinct bird populations.
  • Fireballs: One form of Projectile Spell used by SCP-8320-1 are bolts of lightning they throw (often at each other),
  • Fun with Acronyms: In the chaos of conservative American gunowners gunning down any wizard they can find to revert all SCP-8320-1 back into cats, a lawsuit is waged by the NRA against another similarly abbreviated group called the NRFA that got caught in the crossfire.
    Agent Nitt: The what?
    Dr. Weatherwax: The National Rifle Association and the National Renaissance Fair Alliance.
    Agent Nitt: Ah.
  • Gun Nut: The National Rifle Association, as a given.
  • Hanging Up on the Grim Reaper: Played for Laughs with “Jeremy the Trespasser”, who believed he could physically run and hide from death. MTF Sigma-32 showed him otherwise.
  • Human Traffickers: After it is discovered that blowing up SCP-8320-1 spawns endemic birds, Marshal, Carter, & Dark begin capturing and selling them to countries seeking to rebuild their endangered and extinct populations.
  • Ironic Allergy: Dr. Weatherwax, the Foundation lead in the SCP-GOC-UIU effort of neutralizing SCP-8320, is allergic to cats, which extends to SCP-8320-1.
    Dr. Weatherwax: The wizards must have worse dander, I think.
  • Mage Tower: SCP-8320 summon and center their territories around tall, spindly, stone tower. As Morgo the Magnificent put it, “all good wizards have towers.”
  • The Magnificent: All SCP-8320-1 identify themselves with a given name followed by an adjectival epithet, from “Lucian the Garrulous” and “Nigel the Broke” to “Axar the Lackadaisical” and “Mazdor the Overconfident”.
  • Meaningful Name
    • The numbers of SCP-8320, PoI-8320, MTF Sigma-32, and Project Proposal 032 allude to the thirty-two years that Terry Pratchett published his Discworld books.
    • The Magnificent names of some SCP-8320-1 are quite fitting of their personalities from what is seen of them.
      • It is apt that “Lucian the Garrulous” (meaning excessively talkative, especially on trivial matters) would provide Purple Prose answers such as “from over the tallest mountain and through the widest river.”
      • “Thaddius the Nasty” unfavorably refers to the common folk as “the unwashed masses."
      • The wizard searching for a place to Hang Up on the Grim Reaper is none other than “Jeremy the Trespasser”.
  • Multiple-Choice Past: Physical evidence indicates that all SCP-8320-1 were created due to the actions of a man from Brentwood, New Hampshire, but the SCP-8320-1 don’t have a concise account of their origins, stating they came from anything such as “over the tallest mountain and through the widest river” or “my mummy and daddy.”
  • Mortality Phobia: “Jeremy the Trespasser” appeared to have this, as he stated his goals were “running away from death. He'll never find me here." This answer is what allowed MTF Sigma-32 to identify him as an SCP-8320-1.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain!: A member of Are We Cool Yet? who just wanted to kill a hapless wizard using Stuff Blowing Up inadvertently discovered that doing so summons a flock of fifty birds and ended up bringing the passenger pigeon back from extinction.
  • Noodle Incident: Agent Nitt causally mentions frequent chaotic events in and outside of her life as a GOC operative to little to no further elaboration, from her daughter wrangling feral squirrels to how the GOC gets pipe bombs in the mail, all to no serious detriment to herself.
    Nitt
    hey sorry I'm tardy to the party everyone, I got hit by a car
    I'm alright though
    thanks for the update about hte pigeons
  • Our Mages Are Different: SCP-8320-1 are an epidemic of hammy low-level Reality Warpers of stereotypical Wizard Classic attire transformed from the global population of domesticated cats.
  • Painting the Medium: A text chat between Weatherwax, Ogg, and Nitt is told in the format of SMS messages from Ogg’s phone.
  • Patient Zero: SCP-8320 started when PoI-8320 tried to use an unknown anomaly to turn his cat into a “magical creature”. The wizard his cat turned into, SCP-8320-A, is by far more cognizant yet magically inept than any of 699,999,999 or less other SCP-8320-1 on the planet.
  • Punny Name
    • The Bunny Ears Agent in charge of the Global Occult Coalition’s involvement in SCP-8320 containment has the surname (or Code Name) of “Nitt”, as in the word nitwit.
    • The Mobile Task Force Sigma-32, organized for neutralizing SCP-8320, has the humorous Code Name of “Propagandalf
  • Right on the Tick: SCP-8320 manifested, turning the entire cat population into wizards, instantaneously at 3:08am on June 4, 2025.
  • Robe and Wizard Hat: SCP-8320-1 are characterized as wearing “large hats, usually pointed or otherwise eclectically shaped” and “floor-length robes, tunics, or capes in bright colors, often embroidered with simple shapes like stars or crescents”.
  • Running Gag: GOC Agent Nitt being late to joining talks with SCP Dr. Weatherwax and UIU Dr. Ogg, whether it be for power outages, squirrel attacks, car accidents, or simply forgetting what day it was.
  • Rule of Three
    • Three examples of questions used in SCP-8320 questioning.
    • GOC Agent Nitt is late for her video meetings with Drs. Weatherwax (SCP) and Ogg (UIU) for varying reasons; first was because of a downed powerline, second was because she had to remove a wild squirrel her daughter brought into the house, and third simply because she forgot which morning the meeting was scheduled. Counting the text chat she caught the end of after she was hit by a car, what is ultimately her fourth reason she was late is the one time that it was ostensibly due to her own fault, in contrast to the prior three involving outside factors.
  • Screwball Squirrel: Agent Nitt is late to one of her meetings because her daughter brought a squirrel into the house, later attending visibly disheveled and scratched after she got it back outside.
    Agent Nitt: Shame the wizards aren’t eating rodents, too. Ignore me. I’m going to schedule a rabies shot, though. In case you hear me typing.
  • Shock and Awe: One form of Projectile Spell used by SCP-8320-1 are bolts of lightning they throw (often at each other), with the creation of small localized thunderstorms also being within their capacity.
  • Shout-Out
    • As Raddagher explains in the discussion page, SCP-8320 is one big Homage to Terry Pratchett’s Discworld.
    • The mobile task force organized for neutralizing SCP-8320, MTF Sigma-32, has the Punny Name of “Propagandalf
    • The agents of MTF Sigma-32, at least those in Unit 67D, operate under callsigns referencing various mages of fiction; “Gandalf”, “King Gizz”, “Merlin”, “Oz”, and “White Witch
  • Stuff Blowing Up: An American AWCY? member devised a Death Trap for SCP-8320-1 by these means, of course framing it as some patriotic art piece that mixed the ongoing Wizard Hunts with the aesthetics of fireworks. The success of it inspires others, including MC&D and the Government of New Zealand.
  • Too Dumb to Live: Anyone stupid enough to dress up as a wizard and attend Renaissance Fairs while government agents and civilians militias are searching the planet to exterminate wizards deserves to get blown up or shot in the head.
  • Trigger-Happy: In true American fashion.
    • In response to finding a wizard in his home, sitting in his good chair, Dr. Helit’s panicked instinct was to shoot the intruder in the head. After the corpse turned into his unharmed pet cat, the doctor knew what to do when he heard that Site-109 was dealing with another wizard.
    • The National Rifle Association enters yet another legal case due to their members’ penchant towards this; this time for gunning down one or two cosplay wizards at a Renaissance Fair.
  • 20 Minutes in the Future: SCP-8320 is set in June 2025, sixteen months after the SCP Entry was posted in February 2024.
  • Understatement
    We have a very big problem on our hands and that problem has appeared in the form of about 700 million wizards.
    Memo from Dr. E. Weatherwax
  • Wizard Beard: All SCP-8320-1 have long hair and beards, regardless of their sex.
  • Wizard Classic
  • Wizard Duel: New Zealand gathered the SCP-8320-1 infesting their country by purporting to host a “grand wizard tournament”, in actuality a Death Trap designed to explode them all into a massive flock of birds.
  • You Got Murder: An aside comment from Agent Nitt states that the Serpent’s Hand has repeatedly sneaked pipe bombs into the Global Occult Coalition’s mail.

SCP-8328 — No Big Deal

Author: Kothardarastrix
Posted: July 5, 2025
SCP-8328 is a specific order in a 52-card deck that destroys the system or universe it is in whenever it appears.
  • Life Will Kill You: The entire point of the article is to illustrate how an SCP could be Apollyon but still drag its feet in destroying the world. Theoretically, 8328 will inevitably activate and destroy the world, but the odds of any one deck manifesting the required order are practically nil (there are 80 unvigintillion - or 8*10^67 - possible permutations of a deck, so trying for a specific one is a fool's errand.) It is practically guaranteed that someone or something else will bring about the end long before then.
  • Million to One Chance: Eighty unvigintillion to one to draw 8328, to be exact.
  • Move Along, Nothing to See Here: The Foundation eventually decides the best way to deal with 8328 is to forget about it completely, since the exact order required to trigger it has already been excised from all forms of knowledge. The only person who can read the document is the Administrator, and even then Fritz (or whoever) seriously considers just throwing it out as well.

SCP-8332 — How Much Could an Hour Cost?

Author: PoufyPoufson
Posted: May 22, 2024
SCP-8332 is an event where researcher John Mahler was spontaneously gored with no clear cause.
  • The Alcoholic: Mahler and Ramirez got each other admitted twice for alcohol poisoning and have histories of mental health problems, implying they're heavy drinkers.
  • Due to the Dead: The article is basically a eulogy to Mahler and Ramirez, lamenting that SCP-8332 could have been contained if the Foundation had looked a little closer.
  • Exact Words: The Apollyon object class refers to any anomaly that is currently objectively impossible to contain or counter; at no point is the end of the world ever specified in its general definition, only that anything powerful enough to end the world and have the Foundation forfeit generally falls under that umbrella. SCP-8332 once was containable, but the Foundation never knew it existed until it killed Mahler; technically, this makes it an Apollyon. The file's since been marked as such as the Foundation beats themselves up over what could have been.
  • It's All My Fault: The implication of the Apollyon object class; the world isn't ending, there's no unstoppable monster on the loose, and the laws of reality are still intact, but the article's version of the Foundation clearly isn't taking their failure to protect Mahler well.
  • Synchronization: Mahler accidently bent reality when he became a blood brother with his classmate Declan Yuu Ramirez as a child, causing them to experience identical fates even after they forgot about each other and Ramirez moved to Japan. Eventually, when Ramirez is hit by a car, Mahler is crushed to bits in the exact same manner as he is.

SCP-8339 — Photophobia: Live in the Dark. Die in the Light.

Authors: AnAnomalousWriter, C-Dives, Ecronak
Posted: October 8, 2024
Once upon a time, humans lived in great cities above the surface, basking in the warmth of light.

But that was long ago. One day, the Luminaries, unstoppable predators attracted to the light spectrum, appeared and began to engage in the wholesale genocide of humanity. The Foundation tried everything to snuff out the light and drive out the Luminaries, but all means of hiding from them failed. All except one: to convert the Sites into burrows for the survivors to repopulate, and to rewrite the human genome to make Homo sapiens a cold-blooded species.

It is not known how long has passed since then. But somewhere down the line, humanity soon learned that freedom from the Luminaries was not freedom from monsters...
  • After the End: The article takes place many years after humanity was driven to near extinction by the Luminaries and devolved into Mole Men.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: The reader recounts humans still found ways to feud with and kill each other in the middle of an apocalypse, and executions for heresy are apparently commonplace. Devolving into Mole Men did nothing to make this look any more pleasant.
  • Light Is Not Good: To the extreme. The Luminaries see the entire light spectrum and when they kill their victims they explode into a burst of light. Because of this humanity grown a fear of all light even after the Luminaries left Earth and humanity devolved into Mole Men.
  • Mole Men: The author of the Oldletter message, who had initially been led to believe humans were largely unchanged from before the end, discovers that living underground has devolved them into mostly-blind mole people.
  • Nightmare Face: The end of the article features an image of a human's face with primitive graphics, confirming that humanity has indeed devolved into Mole Men with no hair, sunken eyes, and sharp buck teeth.
  • Perpetual-Motion Monster: The Luminaries had no need to eat, drink, or sleep. Coupled with their blinding speed, their ability to detect any creature that emits even the faintest light, and being able to move through walls led to human society being quickly wiped out and humanity's near extinction.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: Humanity devolved into Mole Men as a consequence of living in the dark, eventually going blind. Those that regained their sight found this out the hard way.

SCP-8381 — Call of the Hyphae

Author: DrBleep
Posted: January 3, 2017
SCP-8381 is a previously undiscovered strain of brewer's yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) that acts as a human pathogen, indistinguishable from non-anomalous strains until infection. The yeast is extremely contagious, spreading through infected body fluids, direct physical contact, aerial spores, and aerosolized particles. When SCP-8381 makes physical contact with a host, it will begin branching into a series of multinucleated fibers, which will penetrate the surrounding tissue and convert cells into further instances. Over the course of 12-48 hours, a "toadstool" will gradually sprout through the host's reproductive system, usually measuring 9-50 m in height with a stalk 1-13 m in width, and a spore-producing structure 3-20 m in diameter. These structures, dubbed SCP-8381-1, emit aerial spores at a constant frequency consistent with multicellular fungi, but the fruiting body never rots and continues releasing spores for an indeterminate duration. Eventually, the former host's body is dissolved, releasing a dense network of hyphae which will embed itself into the first surface it falls on. SCP-8381 also emits and receives a number of radio transmissions at 900 MHz. Analysis of the transmissions has revealed a number of details about SCP-8381's origins and a possible person/entity of interest, dubbed SCP-8381-2, responsible for the creation and propagation of the pathogen.
  • Retcon: Call of the Hyphae was originally listed in Series II under SCP-2381. In 2025, DrBleep moved this to Series IX, putting her new story Oh Little Manta Ray in the vacant spot.

SCP-8399INSURGENCY

Author: MisterFrown
Posted: April 10, 2024
SCP-8399 is the Own-Ramirez Precognitive Engine Overheating (ORCEO) Complex, a facility containing an eigenweapon complex used for the extermination of the Chaos Insurgency throughout The Multiverse. Unfortunately, as several other universes have already learned, the Foundation will soon come to realize that chaos as a philosophy is more insidious and complicated than the simple notion of it being evil.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's not explained why the Foundation chose not to go after SCP-CN-2000's universe. While it is a scathing critique of the Foundation's philosophies to the point of asserting that SCP-5000's Kill All Humans protocol is objectively selfish and backwards with no room for debate and serves as Foreshadowing for the moral decay of the main Foundation, there's also a number of additional nuances and the genuine ideological deadlock of that world that could have served to scare them off.
  • Call-Back:
    • One universe visited is the main universe of SCP-5356, a mausoleum that houses the remains of deleted SCPs if they are still referenced somewhere else on the site. Having been referenced in Project Isorropia, the Foundation finds out that in lieu of a proper Insurgency, SCP-5356's universe only has the remains of the Engineer and Engine from the deleted King Pogan's SCP-001 proposal.
    • SCP-7959 (a completely-impenetrable universe floating around in the Foundation multiverse) is mentioned and suggested to be the result of the universe of the Deepwell joke SCP-001 proposal (a non-anomalous well that the Foundation kept falling into) being quarantined by 8399's universe.
  • Cerebus Retcon: All "joke" SCPs are actually real anomalies in doomed timelines where the Chaos Insurgency defeats the Foundation, causing their narratives to experience decoherence. The Department of Other (already a department that collects real -J SCPs because nobody else wants to take them seriously) uses their files to study the effects of such destabilization.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: Other articles set after 8399's events reveal the Control Institute emerged as the moral victor of their universe, with other worlds deeming them its resident normalcy organization instead of the Foundation.
  • Foreshadowing:
    • It is stated early on that a world without the Insurgency is not completely doomed to monotony, so as long as the Foundation takes control of the chaos they once embodied. The article ends with an institutional "Freaky Friday" Flip, with the Foundation falling victim to the Insurgency's teachings and the splinter group abbreviated "CI" carrying the original ideals of their origins.
    • SCP-CN-2000's universe has had all records of its history scrubbed from 8399's universe. In that article, the Chaos Insurgency was formed to prevent the Foundation from halting humanity's progress and repeating the events of SCP-5000, decrying their treatment of IT and certain other anomalies as fundamentally corrupt. This is the second major sign that the ORCEO Complex is causing the 8399 Foundation to slowly lose their grip on reality, and the Control Institute is ultimately founded on similar anti-corruption creeds.
  • "Freaky Friday" Flip: By the end, the SCP Foundation is the one using Engines to carry out the chaotic principles of the Insurgency, while the Insurgency itself/the Control Institute plans to ensure their original teachings survive past 8399's corruption.
  • History Repeats: The 8399 universe experiences a schism that leads to the establishment of the Control Institute in order to maintain the Balance Between Good and Evil, the same as the worlds of SCP-CN-2000 and King Pogan's SCP-001 proposal.
  • Ragnarök-Proofing: The Engine from what was once the world of King Pogan's SCP-001 proposal is thought to still be functional despite being chewed up by a reality failure, spat out into SCP-5356's universe, and left to rot for an unknown period of time.
  • Take That!: The events of the Ouroboros Cycle are considered statistically impossible, and the article subtly suggests the Insurgency of that world may have literal Plot Armor to the max.

    8400-8499 

SCP-8413 - Ashes to Ashes, Dust to Dust, 9 to 5

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the Site-17 Deepwell Catalog folder.

SCP-8420 - THE WIZARD II (Also Known as Wizard Reborn 2, Swann Fever, Ballad of Swann Lake, Electric Avenue, Fantasia 2000, the Reckoning, Revenge of the Dumbass, Tokyo Drift, A Bad Case Of Redeye, Porygon Boogaloo, Shadow Wizard Money Gang, This Time it's Personnel, The Warlock War, The Sorcerer's Sequel, An Exercise In Self Indulgence, Wizard Harder: Return of the Rise of the Revenge of the Planet of the Wizard, Etc.)

Authors: DrowningDutchman, DtheAussie, Rhineriver, TroutMaskReplica, Twibz
Posted: February 15, 2024
Contest: 65/123 (8K)

THE WIZARD II won sixty-fifth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 33, further receiving the award as “Best in Decommissioned Class”.


SCP-8443 — American Necrocracy

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the On Guard 43 folder.

SCP-8480 — Onuxophobia: Maladaptive Autocannibalism

Authors: Queerious
Posted: October 17, 2024
SCP-8480 is an anomalous trauma response in children that causes them to eat off their fingers and gain a Healing Factor to cope at the expense of an addictive effect in doing so.

    8500-8599 

SCP-8500WTH_LUV_FRM_ADA.zip

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/scp_8500_1.png
"My name is Synthia Wren."
Authors: Guaire, IronShears
Posted: February 12, 2024🛈
Contest: 5/123 (8K)
SCP-8500 is PARADISE.exe, a Virtual Reality Simulation, developed between 1989 and 1995 by an early predecessor of the Church of Maxwellism. There’s only one occupant of the simulation, SCP-8500-1; a mental copy of the project’s volunteer, Cynthia Wren, in the form of an elven avatar named Synthia. It wasn’t long after that SCP-8500 came to the Foundation’s possession, and Cynthia’s ex-girlfriend, Ada Stroustrup, entered their employ.

Now, it’s 1997, Dr. Stroustrup has been reassigned, and a new junior researcher has been left to handle SCP-8500-1 at their discretion.

WTH_LUV_FRM_ADA.zip won fifth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 264, further receiving the award of “Most Interactive” for being the highest rated submission with interactive elements. IronShears also won the “Artist Award” for their artwork in the entry.
  • Beeping Computers: SCP-8500 plays a constant ambient humming iconic to 1990s and 2000s era computer, with furthers sounds to Paint The Medium such as fans straining while booting up and that error sound notification for when you click outside of a window that won’t let interact with anything but it until you minimize or close it (you know what I’m talking about).
  • Brain Uploading: The only volunteer for the PARADISE project, Cynthia had her consciousness copied to the simulation as Synthia.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: SCP-8500-1’s dialogue is in pink while your dialogue options are in blue.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: After the SCP Foundation seized SCP-8500, the real Cynthia Wren was amnesticized and continued a normal life unaware of Maxwellism and Synthia.
  • The Namesake
    • On Wikidot, WTH_LUV_FRM_ADA.zip comes from the name of the In-Universe .zip file Ada made containing an program to modify SCP-8500.
    • On GitHub, the backend for SCP-8500 is titled Synthia after SCP-8500-1.
  • Our Elves Are Different: SCP-8500-1’s avatar is that of a geeky, purple-skinned elf girl in Maxwellist-print sweatpants and shirts. She originated as a character Cynthia made for Dungeons & Dragons, and was reused as a placeholder for the PARADISE project which ultimately stuck after a few tweaks to her design.
  • Painting the Medium: SCP-8500 is told in a way so unorthodox for an SCP entry, it technically isn’t even on the wiki because Wikidot doesn’t have the capability for it; it’s a browser game with the GUI of a late 90’s computer hosted on GitHub. The In-Universe SCP-8500 document is a file on the player character’s computer, and the SCP wiki page is just an embedded window to https://ironshears.github.io/8500/.
  • Punny Name: SCP-8500-1 name of Synthia Wren, reflecting her nature as a synthetic Cynthia.
  • Scunthorpe Problem: The In-Universe sign-in prompt at the starts has a filter for profanity and slurs, but acknowledges that this trope might happen. If the filter detects something, the game window soft locks and tells the user to leave a message in SCP-8500’s discussion if they believe it was a false positive.
  • Take That!: There is a filter for “names” typed into the beginning that are just slurs and swears. The only exception to this is the name “Bright”, which was done so to jab at Jack Bright’s author, AdminBright, who was banned from the site for sexting minors.
  • Year X: Averted. Set in the year 1997.

SCP-8501 — Truck-Kun

https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/boxtruck.jpg
Author: Coldsmith
Posted: February 13, 2024
Contest: 80/123 (8K)
SCP-8501 is an extradimensional entity taking the form of an Isuzu Elf truck that enters baseline reality through dimensional ruptures in order to run over specific people.
  • Healing Factor: What little damage can be inflicted on SCP-8501 is almost instantly repaired.
  • Hero of Another Story: Its victims, mostly depressed, isolated, or unfulfilled teens and young adults who are fans of isekai anime/manga, reincarnate in other worlds where they're better able to make something of themselves, running the gamut from high fantasy to science fiction based on the glimpses we get of those worlds from a dimension-hopping Foundation agent sent to investigate them.
  • The Juggernaut: SCP-8501 cannot be prevented from ultimately tracking down and striking its target, despite the increasingly-extreme measures the Foundation takes to try and stop it. Eventually the Foundation just gives up and classifies it as Ticonderoga, meaning that it can't be contained and doesn't require containment.
    • Putting the target's university under lockdown to keep them off the streets resulted in the truck looping its way through the neighborhood for the duration of the lockdown, and running them down when the lockdown was lifted after several days.
    • When a steel containment cube was placed around the forming entry rupture, and the surrounding streets filled with barricades, spike strips, and an anti-vehicle landmine, the truck battered its way through the cube, drove over the spike strips and landmine with only cosmetic damage, and smashed straight through several Jersey barriers, before crashing through the front window of a coffeeshop and striking its target.
    • The thirteenth attempt at containment involved an armed convoy transporting the target to a waiting helicopter for extraction by air; the truck (after again breaking through several barricades and other obstructions) launches itself off a hill to collide with the helicopter in midair, resulting in the target's death.
  • Nigh-Invulnerability: Nothing the Foundation tries is able to deal significant or lasting damage to SCP-8501, and what damage does occur repairs almost instantly.
  • Reincarnate in Another World: SCP-8501 is the classic "Truck-kun", sending its victims to other worlds upon death.
  • Running Over the Plot: It homes in on its targets and runs them over so they can reincarnate in another world where they can have a more fulfilling life.

SCP-8542 — The Swollen Head of Johann Froben

Author: jtdn
Posted: September 20, 2025
Contest: 76/158 (9K)
The perfect nomenclature was a key.
We never asked what door it opened.
The Swollen Head of Johann Froben won seventy-sixth place in the SCP-9000 Contest with a score of +43, and is the only submission to the catalogued outside of Series X.
  • The X of Y: The title, The Swollen Head of Johann Froben.

SCP-8558 — Hedonophobia: Carnal Rotting

Author: OriTiefling
Posted: October 12, 2024
SCP-8558 refers to a couple of interconnected anomalies: SCP-8558-1 is a species of humanoid, amphibious creatures resembling Atlantic salmon, whose reproductive organs have adapted to carrying offspring internally. SCP-8558-2 is a viral infection within SCP-8558-1, which manifests during spawning season and causes flesh to slough off, facilitating access to their reproductive organs.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: Harrison gives Hanneman a big one, calling him out for his mistreatment of Researcher Pollus.
    Harrison: Aaron. Were you ever planning to let him know that you were just going to leave him to rot away? For the benefit of the Foundation?
    Hanneman: And humanity.
    Harrison: Right. 'Humanity'. What humanity? I don't see any in this fucking room, not if you think it justifies letting a man rot in a cell.
  • Body Horror: SCP-8558-1 under the effects of SCP-8558-2 lose flesh in order for them to reproduce. This also ends up happening to Researcher Pollus when he gets infected, and it's even worse since he's not allowed to mate, which would have triggered the regeneration.
  • Bury Your Gays: Played for Drama. Researchers Benedict Harrison and Aaron Pollus are a gay couple who unfortunately don't make it to the end.
  • Downer Ending: Researcher Pollus wastes away from the effects of SCP-8558-2, and a despondent Researcher Harrison ends up Mercy Killing him before killing himself. To add insult to injury, the Foundation decides to keep their remains in separate locations, denying them even being Together in Death.
  • Fish People: SCP-8558-1 are described as humanoid creatures resembling Atlantic salmon.
  • For Science!: Dr. Hanneman continues to keep Researcher Pollus under quarantine even as it becomes clear that all it's doing is keeping him rotting away, under the guise of scientific research.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: Overall, SCP-8558 is simply an odd, but ultimately benign anomaly based around the reproductive practices of its associated species. The real horror comes in when a Foundation researcher gets infected, and is left to slowly rot and die as his fellows isolate him under the excuse of research. To boot, the Foundation doesn't even give him and his partner the dignity of their remains being stored together.
  • Mate or Die: SCP-8558-2 causes its vectors to steadily lose flesh and body parts for as long as they haven't mated. The Foundation uses Researcher Pollus to discover this effect, to horrifying results.
  • Together in Death: Subverted. Researcher Harrison gives himself a lethal injection shortly after doing the same to euthanize his lover, Researcher Pollus. The Foundation then stores their respective remains in separate locations.

    8600-8699 

SCP-8630 - Pin the Dart on the Donkey

Author: Yossipossi
Posted: December 3, 2024
SCP-8630 is a glove that ensures that a "dart" thrown by the wearer will always hit its target during a "game of darts", though what exactly qualifies as a "game of darts" for the anomaly is loose.
  • Who Shot JFK?: The end of the article reveals that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't assassinate John F. Kennedy by shooting at him. Instead, he used SCP-8630 to throw the second and third bullets at Kennedy after his first shot with a sniper rifle failed, which triggered SCP-8630's anomalous effects and caused the bullets to directly hit the president.

SCP-8654 — Acrophobia: Up is Down

Author: LizardWizard
Posted: October 25, 2024
SCP-8654 is the inverted relationship between animals and gravity, meaning that animals specifically are pushed away from gravitational sources rather than pulled toward them. SCP-8654's initial manifestation in October 23, 2036 resulted in "the Capsize", wherein 97% of the human population dies either from falling up to their deaths or from the resulting social collapse, resulting in what remained of mankind seeking shelter in the Foundation's Sites.
  • After the End: The bulk of the article details how the remnants of humanity struggles to survive in the Foundation's Settlements, suffering famines, rebellions against Foundation rule, and other such hardships.
  • Apocalypse How: Class 2. Two billion people immediately fell to their deaths the moment the Capsize happens, followed by billions more as human civilization unravels. All in all, 97% of all humans died in the first three months of SCP-8654's existence.
  • Apocalyptic Underground Refuge: All surviving Foundation Sites are repurposed into Settlements to house the remaining human populations. Over the decades, these Settlements bloomed into Underground Cities housing millions of people, all linked together by the International High-Speed Tunnel Network.
  • Arc Words: "And you fell." The tale-like snippets throughout the article all end with the point-of-view character falling to their deaths.
  • Bittersweet Ending: Leaning on bitter. Project TOPSIDE, humanity's last hope in restoring normal gravity is irreparably sabotaged by the work of Director Barlow, forever condemning mankind to living underground and fearing the sky. However, this also means that all the people who were born after the Capsize don't have to die to restore the world exactly to how it was before SCP-8654, allowing the new generation to prosper in their own way.
  • Gravity Screw: The force of gravity is inverted for animals and only animals, leading to almost all flightless animal species to go extinct and forcing humankind to retreat underground.
  • Population Control: Overpopulation in Foundation settlements in the years after the Capsize caused the Foundation to institute a system where non-essential personnel are executed when they reach the age of 65. This was later extended to 75 after much controversy.
  • Status Quo Is God: Deconstructed. Director Amelia Barlow explains that the reason why she wants Project TOPSIDE to fail is because its success would allow the Foundation to use SCP-2000 to restore the world exactly to how it was before October 23, 2036, meaning that all the people who were born after the Capsize would not be allowed to exist.

SCP-8676 — The Dreamer and the Savior

Author: IamtheKyleKnight
Posted: August 11, 2025
SCP-8676 is a 24 year old woman named Angela Acosta who has the ability to create objects and different phenomenas after drawing a symbol denominated SCP-8676-1 that appears in her dreams. She initally began presenting this properties at the age of 17 and activates when she draws said symbols. Some examples of this include:SCP-8676-1-Φ is a SCP-8676-1, created by Angela as a vengeful form of Dr. William Knox, a doctor who was monitoring her but decided to help her escape but failed in doing so. After manifesting, it tries to help him get back at the Foundation that hurt both of them, with the SCP-8676-1-Φ taking over him to kill the "vermins" that he considers are unworthy to let them live.
  • Arc Word: "Vermin".
  • Bittersweet Ending: Angela is now free from captivity of the Foundation, at the cost of her William's life (although it turns out he survived). She now has joined the Serpent's Hand in order to break the mask of the Foundation.
  • Evil Me Scares Me:William is terrified of SCP-8676-1-Φ and his extreme ways of achieving their goals.
  • Disney Death: What it first seemed that it was the end for Dr. Knox, he turns out to still be alive, albeit with anomalous properties, now in custody of the Foundation.
  • Expy: SCP-8676-1-Φ is similar to the take on Kris in the game Deltarune in the Weird Route. Made especially poignant with the "Proceed", which is a word that is heavily used in the Weird Route.
  • Face–Heel Turn: William Knox, who used to be a kind doctor who just wanted to save Angela from further dream exploitation from the Foundation, becomes a mass murderer who Angela can't recognize anymore, tearing up when she hears he had killed her friends as well.
    I am sick of them all. Sick of human beings. They are a disease that must be consumed to kill it. A chance to hunger. And I will feast.
  • Not Brainwashed: It seems that SCP-8676-1-Φ takes control of William to make him do all this but deep down, Dr. Knox actually enjoyed doing the massacre, having given in to the Demon to do all of this. His partnership with him allows him to have some anomalous properties for himself such as fast regeneration for an example.
  • Oh, Crap!: In a bid of Heroic Sacrifice, William commits suicide in order to stop SCP-8676-1-Φ from harming it Angela, with the Demon actually stuttering when he takes the shot.
  • Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: William, after being influenced by SCP-8676-1-Φ, kills a man in cold blood after he discovered that the man raped a woman for bumping his car. Asshole Victim indeed, as William called him a vermin.
  • Reality Warper: Angela has the ability to change the world around her and affect it with her dreams and drawing a symbol she saw in them. She produced an extremely violent instance of SCP-8676-1 when she had a nightmare.
  • Ungrateful Bastard: When he is on a rampage on the site where Angela is trapped in, he releases some other sapient and humanoid anomalies that were in there. When they see the blood bath of William, they reject him and call him out on his actions. SCP-8676-1-Φ then tells him they are being ungrateful to him and tells him to murder them. Ir also tells William to do the same thing to Angela when she discovers what William has done.
  • Yandere: A platonic example as they bonded together given the circumstances they met together but William turns into this, obssessed with Angela and massacring the entire site she was in just to get to her. Understandably, Angela is horrified of what William has done and when he rejects him, he decides that she is an Ungrateful Bitch and also tries to kill her.

SCP-8688 — Memory Leak

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons A To M under the Forgotten Memories folder.

    8700-8799 

SCP-8700 — In the Court of the Dragon

Author: Dr Balthazaar
Posted: February 14, 2024
Contest: 41/123 (8K)
SCP-8700 is a colossal sword driven into a stone deep within a fortress hidden within the roots of Mt. Vesuvius, watched over for centuries by a stern but well meaning guardian, lest a terrible dragon be unleashed into the world once again.

In the Court of the Dragon won forty-first place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 69.


Tropes associated with SCP-8700, its history and those involved:
  • Ancient Artifact: A huge sword with an anomalously sharp edge plunged into a stone, acting as a seal to keep an ancient evil trapped beneath Mt. Etna.
  • Artifact of Attraction: It tends to cause people to become obsessed with pulling it free of its stone. Aggressive reptiles are also continuously drawn to its location, with particularly bad cases spontaneously manifesting dangerous reptiles on the spot.
  • Asshole Victim: Just in case you felt bad for Director Eddings being assimilated by the Wyrm, at the end of the page it is mentioned that in the aftermath of the 2024 Excalibur Event, the Foundation investigated him and found that even before being assigned to SCP-8700, he was already corrupt and selfish and had embezzled plenty of valuable Foundation resources.
  • Excalibur in the Stone: Played with. The sword has no connection to the story of King Arthur, instead being shown in the Foundation's files to have its own, distinct origins, but it's a sword in a stone, and attempts by SCP-8700-2 instances to pull it out are referred to as Excalibur Events.
  • Made of Explodium: Pretty much everything within a 400m radius of SCP-8700 suffers from this, as a result of its partial withdrawal from the stone allowing the beast it seals away to exert influence on the world.
  • No-Sell: SCP-8700-2 Alpha tries to use its coercion abilities on Supervisor Fiore, but it doesn't work. After the incident, the Foundation finds that Fiore scored in the top 1.9% in anti-coercion tests.
  • Volcano Lair: Plunged within a stone, held within the keep of a castle located deep beneath the surface of Mt. Etna.

Tropes associated with Macarius Vschar, SCP-8700-A:

  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: His sword, classified by the Foundation as SCP-8001-A1, is not only remarkably sharp, but is also noted to never dull.
  • The Ace: Can appear as this, being an effectively immortal, extremely strong and skilled warrior, SCP-8700-A is perfect for its intended task, but not much else.
  • Ancient Keeper: The designated guardian of SCP-8700 who has violently upheld his duty for centuries. Under his watch, no one is going to touch the sword.
  • Animated Armor: SCP-8700-A is the preserved essence of a knight named Macarius Vschar, rendered effectively this by means of a soul jar. It is anomalously durable and resistant to high temperatures.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Just by observing Foundation personnel using modern firearms, Macarius figures out how to competently use an LMG, allowing him to save Fiore's life at a critical moment.
  • Batman Grabs a Gun: Per Foundation policy, SCP-8700-A is not allowed to use firearms. During the 2024 Excalibur Event, Macarius sees Supervisor Fiore in immediate danger of an instance of SCP-8700-2 and reaches for a light machine gun to shoot the creature before it kills Fiore.
  • BFS: His longsword, SCP-8700-A1, is 1.95 meters long and is noted to be much heavier than ordinary longswords, weighing 7.3 kilograms.
  • Blood Knight: Has shades of this. While it doesn't voice any particular enjoyment regarding violence, the brutality of its actions suggest this.
  • Combat Pragmatist: In spades. SCP-8700-A will use any weapon, safety device, tool, cleaning supply or structure as a weapon when combatting SCP-8700-2.
  • Cool Sword: Has one, made of similarly durable material as itself, but safely kept locked in the on-site armory.
  • Dual Wielding: Goes into the final confrontation with SCP-8700-2 Alpha with his sword in one hand and a grenade launcher in the other.
  • Excessive Mourning: SCP-8700-A is profoundly driven by the memory of his long dead sister, Eve. Mentioning her name is a good way to spur it to violence, and a key part of the events of the 20/02/2024 Excalibur Event Incident was SCP-8700-A's insistence on seeing her grave.
  • Fatal Flaw: His anger. While dedicated toward protecting SCP-8700, when angered it tends to throw caution to the wind and enters a blind rage. This is exploited by SCP-8700-1, who repeatedly hammers on SCP-8700-A's berserk button.
  • First-Name Basis:
    • He calls Supervisor Fiore by his first name, Ignatius.
    • By the time of the final confrontation with SCP-8700-2 Alpha, Fiore starts calling him Macarius instead of 8700-A.
  • Fish out of Temporal Water: SCP-8700-A was born in the fifteenth century and it shows. It considers most machinery to be sorcery, maintains a stiff, elitist attitude befitting a knight, will not tolerate what it perceives to be personal insults, and is fascinated by modern technological advancements.
  • Hope Bringer: While generally a stuffy, taciturn figure, SCP-8700-A is quick to boost the confidence and morale of those around him, particularly in regards to protecting SCP-8700.
    It is not the might of one's arm that is of value. It is your heart. In the court of the dragon you will know your worth. I believe that worth is great indeed. Perhaps greater than you know.
  • Improvised Weapon: Even without his sword, he can fight with whatever objects are lying around, typically by throwing them or using them as bludgeons. During the 2024 incident, he uses a broken axle and a broom handle.
  • "It" Is Dehumanizing: Deccoco calls out Fiore for referring to SCP-8700-1 as "he" instead of "it", causing Macarius to object.
  • Knight in Sour Armor: While undoubtedly in the side of good, having dedicated itself to protecting the world from SCP-8700-1, it is curmudgeonly, arrogant, impatient and quick to resort to violence.
  • Made of Iron: Excessively durable, even by the standards of magic steel.
  • One-Man Army: Centuries of combat experience combined with a large frame, super strength and a single minded determination to protect SCP-8700 means that very little will be able to stand against it in combat.
  • Shell-Shocked Veteran: The years of guarding SCP-8700 from monsters has left it numb, grief stricken, lonely, and profoundly unhappy.
  • Title Drop: Says the SCP page's name verbatim while giving an encouraging speech to Fiore:
    In the court of the dragon you will know your worth. I believe that worth is great indeed.
  • You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Encourages Supervisor Fiore, who is full of self doubt and had never dealt with a crisis before, to believe in himself and push forward:
    Supervisor Fiore: Well their blood's still on my fucking hands isn't it!? First Dom and then Francis! I'm not strong enough for this!
    SCP-8700-A: Yes you are. It is not the might of one's arm that is of value. It is your heart. In the court of the dragon you will know your worth. I believe that worth is great indeed. Perhaps greater than you know.

Tropes associated with the Wyrm, SCP-8700-1, and with SCP-8700-2 entities:

  • And I Must Scream: SCP-8700-1 has been trapped within the magma chamber of Mt. Etna for millennia now. That can't be fun. Those turned into SCP-8700-2 instances experience this as well.
  • Big Bad: SCP-8700-1 is this to large chunks of history. Implied to be Typhon of Greek Mythology, SCP-8700-1 is the source of all 8700-2 instances, various monsters, and every bit of grief experienced during the 20/02/2024 Excalibur Event Incident.
  • Body Horror: The process of becoming an SCP-8700-2 instance is this. Most people are slowly twisted into a draconic monster with only a vague resemblance to the people they once were.
  • Breath Weapon: Both SCP-8700-1 and 2 have this, blasting streams of flame, superheated blood and magma from their mouths.
  • Determinator: SCP-8700-1 has been trying to escape its prison for centuries, and is definitely not stopping any time soon.
  • Draconic Abomination: SCP-8700-1 is generally described as being a colossal dragon with varying numbers of heads, capable of fighting divine entities such as Zeus. All SCP-8700-2 entities are these as well, being people twisted into hideous draconic creatures.
  • The Dreaded: All literature and documentation of SCP-8700-1 carries heavy tones of fear.
  • Evil Only Has to Win Once: In Eddings's journal, SCP-8700-1 explicitly says this to the Foundation, reminding them that while they must succeed in every single Excalibur Event, the Wyrm only has to break out once:
    You must succeed in battle against me until the end of days to keep my jaws from your throat. I need only succeed but once, and you are so much LESS than you were before.
  • Evil Sounds Deep: Its speech is written in bold and even changes the font of documents recording its voice.
  • Father Of A Thousand Young: If the theories of SCP-8700-1 being Typhon are correct, its definitely this. Even if not, it conjures up draconic creatures every few years to retrieve SCP-8700 from its stone.
  • Hero Killer: It took the deaths of many notable figures to seal SCP-8700-A within its prison, including the ambiguously human original wielder of SCP-8700 and numerous named Foundation agents.
  • Manipulative Bastard: To extreme degrees. Through a combination of goading, verbal manipulation and heavy doses of mind rape, SCP-8700-1 Absolutely loves to trick people into serving its goals. This is taken to a new extreme during the 20/02/2024 Excalibur Event Incident, where it Slowly corrupted Site Director Eddings over a period of weeks through mind rape and manipulation, using him to engineer a scenario where a false attack was defeated, only for the now unguarded site to be overrun from within by dozens of SCP-8700-2 instances. This is also its best weapon against SCP-8700-A, manipulating it into making tactical errors and blundering into traps.
  • Regularly Scheduled Evil: Every four to six years, SCP-8700-1 "Awakens", causing increased volcanic activity, bad dreams and the creation of one or more SCP-8700-2 instances, which will carve a path of destruction from their generation point to SCP-8700 itself in an effort to draw the sword from its stone and free SCP-8700-1.
  • Sealed Evil in a Can: SCP-8700-1 is a titanic dragon capable of twisting people into monsters, but they're trapped within the magma chamber of Mt. Etna.

SCP-8710 — Necrophobia: This Goddess Kills Fascists, The Great Lady of Valencia

Author: DrBleep, Smaugnolia
Posted: November 1, 2024
SCP-8710 is the city of Valencia, Spain. A city where the inhabitants revere the dead and resist oppressors with easy defiance, as older rulers of this city had attested and what Foundation will soon learn.
  • Bad Powers, Good People: "The Great Lady of Valencia" is a Necromancer can raise the dead and causes unease, however she only uses these power to encourage Valencia's citizens and defend Valencia from invaders.

SCP-8770 — Submechanophobia: I Miss You

Author: Dino—Draws
Posted: October 27, 2024
SCP-8770 is a shipwreck with an anomalously-clean interior and surroundings. It is capable of rearranging its structure and broadcasting a memetic influence that causes unease within its radius.
  • Exact Words: SCP-8770 is devoid of life except for itself because everything that stays is absorbed into the ship. So the photo of a vibrant reef within that seemingly contradicts the initial statement? There is only one lifeform depicted, and that's the ship.
  • Genius Loci: SCP-8770's effects come from a sapient consciousness. It mourns the state of the ship and is so love-hungry from solitude it absorbs any lifeform that comes across it in a desperate plea for companionship, unaware that this would be imprisonment and a grotesque maiming for anyone else.
  • Haunted Technology: The memetic effect of SCP-8770 is far more than a Supernatural Fear Inducer, as it can affect text files accessed remotely. Like some other articles, this is denoted in blue.
  • I Just Want to Have Friends: The ship's Genius Loci is desperate for companionship and accomplishes this by fusing any and all life into its structure, seemingly unaware that this is not what they desire.
  • Obliviously Evil: The ship doesn't seem to be aware that assimilating lifeforms is an extremely painful and terrifying process that would likely condemn them to a Fate Worse than Death, insisting to them and possibly itself that it is some sort of heaven. At one point, it even believes Command would agree with it, when in reality they're scared shitless, screaming for any sort of response from Gamma-6 once they lose contact.

SCP-8771 — Whale

Author: syuzhet
Posted: June 26, 2025
SCP-8771 is a whale that travels through an ocean of blood representing the bloodstream of all humans — or rather, the human bloodstream for short. While the existence of sea creatures in the blood sea are not considered anomalous, SCP-8771 is singled out for being intrinsically evil, which poses an ontological threat to humanity as pollution of the sea with remains from the animals it devours will trigger spontaneous embolisms in the human population.
  • All Animals Are Domesticated: Life in the blood ocean does not follow conventional ecological theory, as all organisms within are friendly to each other regardless of what species they resemble. SCP-8771 is anomalous not because it exists, but because it is evil and attacking an ecosystem that quite literally does not understand what predation or even conflict is.
  • Anti-Climax: George W. Bush, the GOC, and the Foundation pour in untold amounts of resources to kill the whale in a way that won't simply turn the human population to mush. Ultimately, however, the GOC lands the killing blow with absolutely no fanfare or description of how that was accomplished.
  • As You Know: The article's only footnote is an extended tangent reminding in-universe readers of what a "wall of woe" is, which out-of-universe serves to explain how its use of noospherics is much more physical and literal than other articles.
  • Blood Knight: SCP-8771 hunts the inhabitants of the blood ocean just because it can (and also because it is evil.) The millions of people dying is likely an added bonus.
  • Body Horror: If a fish or other creature dies in the blood ocean, its remains are purged into the bloodstream of one or more humans, killing them instantly from an embolism.
  • Cool Ship: The FSS Galatea, a boat capable of tunneling into "firmaments," aka what this version of the Foundation calls the different conceptual spaces that include the one containing the blood ocean. It's equipped with numerous conceptual weapons and otherworldly technology that allow it to try and fight SCP-8771 without exploding some poor sod back on Earth.
  • Insistent Terminology: Although the blood ocean would be considered by other canons as the physical representation or essophysical embodiment of the human bloodstream, the article insists on simply calling it "the human bloodstream" and its inhabitants "inside the human bloodstream." This is the least confusing part of its model of noospherics.
  • Monster Whale: It's an evil whale inhabiting a region of conceptual space where no evil is supposed to develop naturally.
  • Rivers of Blood: The article revolves around a pocket dimension containing a vast ocean of blood that serves as the physical manifestation of the concept of the human bloodstream. For whatever reason, aquatic lifeforms were able to evolve in this realm, and SCP-8771 causes humanity to learn the hard way that any impurity in the sea will be reflected in human bloodstreams worldwide.
  • The Stoic: Weaponized by the GOC. They have majority jurisdiction over a realm representing grief which grants them superhuman control & suppression of any related negative emotion, and many of their officials have their minds placed in "white-rooms" that cause psychic attacks dependent on negativity to "teleport" around them. The Foundation doesn't like this, since their probing techniques fall under that umbrella.
  • World of Weirdness: The article appears to be set in a universe where advanced noospherics, conceptual warfare, and manipulation of the human soul are common knowledge, resulting in the document being filled with jargon that serves as shorthands for these topics.
  • Your Mind Makes It Real: The sea creatures in the blood ocean survive by believing they are also blood, which also prevents humans from sensing whatever they get up to in the depths. SCP-8771 is a threat because creatures killed by it obviously can't believe they are blood, which causes them to be violently expelled from the realm by generating rifts in human bloodstreams.

    8800-8899 

SCP-8800 — Reception

Author: Afrokrator
Posted: February 18, 2024
Contest: 18/123 (8K)
SCP-8800 was a phenomenon that isolated Earth from the rest of the universe, making communications and travel between Earth and outer space impossible, with only sunlight being able to pass through. Any objects trying to leave the planet would appear elsewhere in the sky at an inverted trajectory. The anomaly lasted from 29 September to 8 November in the year 2023, after which it was declared Neutralized.

Reception won eighteenth place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 125, further receiving awards in “Best in Neutralized Class” and “Reread The Prompt”, the later for being considered the most Science Fiction of the contest entries.


  • Arc Words: "Good morning Earth, are you receiving us?" Spoken by many people across the centuries at the beginning of their transmissions, representing the undying hope that the anomaly will end one day and Earth will open up again.
  • Broken Masquerade: Since covering up the anomaly is impossible, the Foundation declares a partial Lifted Veil scenario. In outer space, the Veil is completely lifted, as the only civilians in space at the time are the crews of the ISS and Tiangong Space Station, which together only add up to ten people.
  • Downer Ending: The civilization formed by the humans stuck in outer space initially prospers, but is eventually killed off by an unrevealed threat between 2444 and 2458. After SCP-8800 demanifests 1714 years later (or a little over a month from Earth's perspective), the Foundation only finds the remains of what once was.
  • Last Stand: The Foundation of All Mankind gathers its fleet around Earth to face the mysterious threat for the final time before getting wiped out.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Defied; when the anomaly begins, a satellite launched by SpaceX winds up in the Korean peninsula and is shot down with missiles, so the Global Occult Coalition intervenes before this causes hostilities in the region.
  • Unseen Evil: The threat that wiped out the spacefaring civilization born from the Foundation's Lunar sites is never revealed. It starts when a crew is sent to investigate "something lurking out here" in 2444, and it keeps getting worse until an entire space fleet makes a Last Stand on Earth's orbit in 2458.
  • Year Outside, Hour Inside: On Earth, the anomaly lasts a little over a month. In outer space, it lasts 2149 years.
  • Walking Techbane: Implied with the threat that wipes out the Foundation of All Mankind. The Grand Admiral's transmission gets increasingly corrupted by static as her fleet prepares to engage, and when the SCP Foundation investigates after SCP-8800 demanifests, they find that the fleet never actually entered combat.

SCP-8805 – Sixteen Missing in Pennsylvania

Author: Dysadron
Posted: July 6th, 2025
Contest: 20/155 (CLASSIC CON)
SCP-8805 is a series of disappearances in an undisclosed Pennsylvania forest. Bodies begin turning up under bizarre, mysterious circumstances.

Sixteen Missing in Pennsylvania won 20th place in the CLASSIC CON contest with a score of 106.


  • Bag of Kidnapping: According to his 911 call, Theo Rudge Jr. thinks he's been trapped in one of these. The truth is far stranger than that.
  • Cruel and Unusual Death: Document 8805-b42 shows that the missing individuals are somehow trapped within a doe's womb and drowned in amniotic fluid.
  • Death by Irony: Not specifically to the hunters, but ironic for anyone trying to kill another living being. They're trapped in a doe's womb until they drown in amniotic fluid, after which the doe ejects their corpses in a twisted birth of sorts.
  • Don't Go in the Woods: 16 individuals go into a forest, 0 come back.
  • Womb Horror: A rare case where the horror centers around the womb itself instead of what's inside of it. The missing persons are bound within the womb of a doe until the amniotic fluid drowns them.

SCP-8835 — A Life of Possibilities

Author: mouseatemyhouse
Posted: August 29, 2025

SCP-8835 is a phenomenon that causes those affected to be incapable of perceiving refusal, with any such form of language being rewritten into their opposite meanings.


  • Ambiguous Situation: The unnamed editor (who is also the victim assaulted in the incident log) believes SCP-8835 is actually them, compelling people around them to act according to its description instead of manifesting randomly, something that is corroborated by the Foundation choosing to bury the anomaly's existence and certain facets of its nature to contain it instead of taking a more proactive approach. At the same time, it is clear they are not thinking straight and are driven by intense self-loathing from both the incident log and their prior relationships, making the truth unclear.
  • Blaming the Victim: The Foundation appears to be granting an uncomfortable amount of leeway to SCP-8835 subjects, as a couple of lines indicate they believe the trauma responses of those impacted by them are some sort of anomalous imprint.
    In controlled interviews, subjects exposed to SCP-8835 describe interpersonal relationships, including family and friends, as illusory. Expressions of care or love are later reinterpreted as elements of SCP-8835's recursive structure. Researchers have noted that this conception persists even when subjects are confronted with verifiable, positive evidence to the contrary. Attempts to break this interpretive cycle have so far failed.
    Attached footnote: Don't give me that shit. I look at your face and I know that you're lying.
  • Does This Remind You of Anything?: The entire article is a thinly-veiled metaphor for the rhetoric of sexual abusers, based on the author's own experiences with the subject. In this case, it explores the fallacy of implied consent; where abusers consciously twist cues into affirmation and ignore actual refusal, the SCP effectively does this for them. The unnamed editor eventually concluding that they are the actual SCP also represents the trauma responses caused by these people and how abuse works by shifting the blame of the perpetrator's actions.
  • Driven to Suicide: Implied. The article ends with the editor believing SCP-8835 to be themselves, and them ending their writing with "Goodbye." Scrolling down then has the article say that it no longer exists, implying that they have killed themselves to "contain" SCP-8835.
  • History Repeats: SCP-8835 has been previously documented an unknown number of times; judging by the article's ending, each iteration was expunged, corrupted, or deleted beyond recognition. Part of the article's horror is the callous acceptance of how this has simply happened, and how the Foundation remains all too eager to resort to information suppression to contain it in spite of knowing this fact.
  • Take That, Audience!: A subtle one to the "tale in disguise" form of criticism; at one point, the article calls out the reader for potentially scrolling past the personal logs embedded in the file.
  • Tomato in the Mirror: The lines in the incident log begin partially dissolving from "get the fuck away from me" to simply "get me," implying the reader is also infected by the SCP.

SCP-8880 — Isaac Seder: Son, Warrior, Foe

Author: Sonderance
Posted: February 17, 2024
Contest: 64/123 (8K)
SCP-8880 is a well-worn copy of an Interactive Fiction book named Crisis in Gregland: Save Us All!. While its anomalous properties are not fully understood, its role in the disappearance and death of a boy named Isaac Seder are well-attested.

Isaac Seder: Son, Warrior, Foe won sixty-third place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 33.


  • Antagonist in Mourning: The Hunger was aware they were never supposed to win, so they're genuinely horrified when Isaac accidentally falls on their knife and is killed instantly and mourns him together with his father Abram.
  • Diabolus ex Machina: The Hunger was only able to defeat Isaac because the latter tripped, landing headfirst on the giant knife the Hunger was wielding as a weapon. They're dumbfounded at the result, but it was enough for them to pay respects to Isaac's grave.
  • Due to the Dead: Both the Wizard and the Hunger go to Earth to pay respects to Isaac after his death.
  • Edible Theme Naming: The characters from Gregland are named after portmanteaus of Italian and Mexican dishes (for example, Molenesca combines "Mole" and "Puttanesca"). Justified, given that the Crisis in Gregland book was made to promote Italian-Mexican fusion cuisine.
  • Facial Horror: Isaac's body is found with his skull nearly split in two; the Foundation arranges for a copy of his body without the head trauma to be turned over to his family as a cover-up.
  • Foreshadowing: The Wizard is introduced paying his respects at Isaac's funeral service, and ends up tripping face-first into a stair that gives him a facial injury. Isaac is later revealed to have died by tripping face-first into the Hunger's giant knife.
  • I Should Write a Book About This: The bottom of the webpage does cite Sonderance as the author (as is the standard on the SCP Wikidot), but the "author-label-source" component just below the rating module displays "by a son and a friend", clarifying it is indeed Sonderance if you hover over the text.
  • Kid Hero: Isaac is a Deconstruction. It's made clear that in spite of his seeming status as The Chosen One, he's still just a regular kid who's way in over his head trying to help save a fantasy world. He's defeated not by an epic battle against the Hunger, but by tripping and landing face first into the giant knife his nemesis wields. Quesiago is also aware of the folly of Isaac's role, saying that Gregland sent a child to their death rather than a valiant warrior, but Molenesca tells them they can't reveal the truth, because the idea of what Isaac was supposed to be for them is all they have left.
  • Trapped in Another World: The book was somehow able to transport Isaac to Gregland, given its connection to his disappearance. Given how the characters from the book are able to manifest in reality relatively easily, it's hinted that Isaac could have gone back if he so chose, but he chose not to.

SCP-8888 — Eight-Ball

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the On Guard 43 folder.

SCP-8889 — The Wondrous Wedding of William Wallace Wettle

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the On Guard 43 folder.

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SCP-8918 — death was written large everywhere

See Recap.SCP Foundation Canons N To Z under the On Guard 43 folder.

SCP-8935 — Tokophobia: The Virgin Birth

Author: djkaktus
Instances of SCP-8935-A are young virgins capable of childbirth from the town of Woods Holler, West Virginia. Instances of SCP-8935-B are their severely malformed children. SCP-8935-C is the entity that lives in the Tanny Mine outside of town, that demands the sacrifice of the children.

  • Creator Thumbprint: This is not the first time djkaktus has written about supernatural pregnancy and its potentially devastating results.
  • Misplaced Retribution: The creature in Tanny Mine is said to be the spirit of a woman who was raped and gave birth to her own deformed child, who was then thrown down the mine to cover up the crime. She now takes it out on the young women of the town, forcing them to suffer the same fate. That is, if you believe Reverend Waters.
  • Tragic Villain: If the entity's origin story is true, she was a young girl raped and forcibly impregnated by her family members who then became a monster.
  • Unreliable Narrator: An autopsy of one of the victims shows that she had bruising on her wrists and forearms, implying she was held captive. However, the doctor records that all her injuries are consistent with difficult childbirth.
    • The only source for SCP-8935-C's origin is Reverend Waters, who is noted to have developed the lion's share of the protocols for its containment.

SCP-8980 — Ergophobia: Without Regards

Author: Yossipossi
Posted: October 6, 2024
SCP-8980 is Lillian Marley, a programmer working for the Foundation who suddenly starts to cause electronic devices in her proximity to malfunction, often in embarrassing ways.
  • Alternate Continuity: Despite taking place in Site-17 and mentioning Thomas Graham, it takes place in a separate universe from the Deepwell Catalogue and No Return. Specifically, it's set in SCP-7777's universe, prior to its creation.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Due to the fact that some of the alleged anomalous effects are still humanly impossible to recreate in the timeframe Byrnes was given, it's been suggested SCP-8980 is Real After All, just localized to him instead of Marley.
  • Bad Boss: Dr. Christopher Byrnes has been using his position to get away with abusing Lillian Marley for years, and is implied to have fabricated her anomalous properties as a form of Gaslighting in order to better manipulate her.
  • Central Theme: Post-article supplementary material tends to carry a message of how punishment for perpetrators and remediation for victims are not the same thing; in other words, torturing or killing Byrnes for his actions wouldn't fix anything he had actually done without sweeping changes to the system that enabled him.
  • Downer Ending: In the end, Lillian is left horribly traumatized, her abusive boss is a Karma Houdini, the financial compensation the Foundation gives her upon learning about what happened to her is much smaller than it should be due to budget issues going on at the time, and the person assigned to care for her during her recovery secretly views her as nothing more than a burden.
  • The Ending Changes Everything: The Stinger reveals the article is a prequel to SCP-7777, which massively recontextualizes the portrayal of the seemingly-compromised Ethics Committee in that article. It can reasonably be assumed that them being stonewalled in handling 8980's review was the inciting incident for the creation of 7777 and its use in a coup, as Marinos appears in both articles.
  • For the Evulz: There is no stated reason for Byrnes to be doing any of this beyond personal amusement. When Marley hits her ultimate breaking point, tells him he wins and offers anything, including sexual advances, for him to stop, Byrnes simply laughs at her and tells her he already got everything he could ever want from her. He then leaves and continues the abuse for more than a decade.
  • From Bad to Worse: In the final video transcript, Lillian is shown to be completely mentally broken by all the psychological torment she has been subjected to. She tells Dr. Byrnes that he wins and adds a "Please, I Will Do Anything!", if only he will show her just a little mercy. Dr. Byrnes just smugly laughs her off and wishes her a "Happy first year anniversary", adding a chilling "Here's to many more" before leaving her alone again. That transcript is dated to March 2006. The next is a postscript added after Dr. Byrnes retired the month before, where it is written that a routine check-up under the new department head revealed that Lillian didn't exhibit any of the claimed anomalous properties claimed in the SCP-8980 case file, and that the anomaly is pending classification as "Netrualized" and Lillian is to be released from containment. Said postscript is dated to January 2015. Lillian spend over a decade of her life locked up while being regularly tormented by Dr. Byrnes.
  • Gaslighting: It's strongly implied that SCP-8980's anomalous properties were made up by Dr. Byrnes in order to break Marley's mind and bend her to his will. He'd mess with any electronic devices she came into contact with in order to convince her she was causing these malfunctions, all so he could justify keeping her in containment and under his control.
  • Godzilla Threshold: The Ethics Committee has significantly-reduced power in this universe, forcing them to call upon otherwise-immoral resources once it becomes clear Byrnes has caused and represents bigger problems beyond abuse:
    • While discussing how to formulate a response to the case, they ask the Fire Suppression Department to do something, anything, to get Marley's expertise back. They respond saying that they were secretly trying to intervene for several years, but the lack of anything resembling their MO in the article suggests nothing worked.
    • The article leads directly into SCP-7777, where they employ the exact same tactic Byrnes used to conduct his abuse (pretending that technology is anomalously malfunctioning to expose and embarrass key personnel) to seize control of the Foundation, returning them to the usual portrayal of their power.
  • Go Mad from the Isolation: When Lillian turned herself in for containment, she thought it'd only take a few weeks tops for them to neutralize her anomalous properties and let her go back to her normal life. The process ended up taking far longer than that, and being kept in a cell for so long ends up horribly affecting her mental state, pushing her into a deep depression. The abuse she suffered at the hands of Christopher during that time certainly didn't help with her mental health, though.
  • Hate Sink:
    • While Christopher Byrnes doesn't seem that bad at first, his true colors are gradually revealed over the course of the containment logs. It's shown that he horribly abused Marley, with her anomalous properties being strongly implied to have been fabricated by him just so he could exert his power over her. During Marley's amnesticization, Byrnes seems to revel in sadistic pleasure as he lists off all of the memories and concepts he's about to erase from her mind as she helplessly screams, cries, and begs him not to do so.
    • Furthermore, "Regardless" is a possible timeline where Byrnes did not do any of this, but intentionally created the illusion that he was this trope for the express purpose of pardoning actual examples and simply pushing them somewhere else. In other words, while this version of him has no actual crimes, Byrnes has no remorse living as though he were at least seven other people like his original portrayal all at once and using that to excuse their behavior — effectively making him the same as it ever was.
  • He-Man Woman Hater: A somewhat subtle, but constant element. Dr. Brynes' writing in the case file gains a slightly misogynistic overtone at times, something the Ethics Committee noticed as they repeatedly call him out for a clear lack of professionalism in their annotations. It is a lot less subtle in regards to his abuse of Lillian, which has many, many uncomfortably sexist conations to it.
  • Hope Spot: During therapy, Lillian seemingly has an emotional breakthrough when her therapist suggests that she treats her current predicament as a challenge to overcome. She appears to be much happier after switching to this mindset, and becomes vastly more productive. It turns out that her improved emotional state was due to her coming up with the idea to create an Arbitrary Code Execution exploit that gives her access to the internet, and when the Foundation learns of this, she's amnesticized and pushed to the Despair Event Horizon.
  • Humans Are the Real Monsters: The horror in the article doesn't come from Lillian's Walking Techbane status, but from how Dr. Byrnes exploits the situation to abuse her. Not only is it implied that Lillian was never anomalous to begin with and her status was due to Dr. Byrnes' gaslighting, the Foundation's leadership ultimately wash their hands of the matter, and the Ethics Committee is pushed to their absolute breaking point and convinced It Is Beyond Saving, planning what would become the violent coup from SCP-7777.
  • I Want My Mommy!: One of the biggest sources of emotional distress for Lillian during her containment is her inability to contact her parents. When she uses an Arbitrary Code Execution exploit to access the internet, one of the things she uses her newfound freedom for is to chat with her mom, and she seems especially distraught at the realization that Byrnes is going to erase those memories using amnestics.
  • Karma Houdini: In the end, Dr. Byrnes gets off scot-free, as his abuse of Lillian Marley is only discovered after his retirement. Since the retirement process involves a full amnesticization, Byrnes would have no recollection of what he'd done to Marley, making it impossible to prosecute him. There's also speculation in tales that the Foundation fears punitive action even with mnestic regimens would just make things even worse, since it'd be too easy to spin whatever would happen to Byrnes as mere posturing or performativism.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: The Stinger assumes the reader has read SCP-7777, which is another constructed anomaly, but unlike 8980 was revealed to have been made for the purpose of empowering the Ethics Committee under false pretenses.
  • Mind Rape: Lillian's amnesticization is conducted by Dr. Byrnes personally, who deliberately makes it as painful and traumatic as possible before erasing an unknown extra concept from her mind solely to hurt her further, erasing the audio of what he said to make sure it could never be recovered no matter what and leaving Lillian with only a vague understanding that something very important was taken from her forever. The damage from this and years of Byrnes' more mundane coercive control and abuse is catastrophic. By the time Byrnes' abuse of Lillian is finally over, she has been ground down into a shattered wreck of a person — she cannot do even basic work in her field, form positive relations with other people, or even meaningfully engage with therapy, and her behavior is so neurotic that even people meant to help her can barely stand her. There is little hope that she will ever significantly improve, or that she will ever be successful, liked, or respected again.
  • Nothing Is Scarier: When Lillian is being amnesticized after she'd performed an Arbitrary Code Execution exploit to access a computer without the Foundation's permission or knowledge, one of the concepts Christopher erases from her mind is unknown, as the audio recording was corrupted while he said it. Whatever it was, Lillian has an especially strong reaction to the realization that she's about to forget this, but it's left up to the reader's imagination to fill in the gaps about what this concept is.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: Byrnes is a diehard misogynist, but according to his writer, SCP-2006 once probed his mind and discovered he is also racist, as SCP-8066 features him getting very upset that a black researcher gets to be praised over him.
  • Sadist: Dr. Byrnes is slowly exposed as one over the course of the article. His behavior toward Lillian gets ever more cruel and controlling, culminating in his targeted erasure of her memories. When a completely broken Lillian breaks down and tells him that she'll do anything he wants to escape his abuse, Byrnes gleefully tells her that controlling and tormenting her is what he wants, and that it will never, ever stop. It is also heavily implied that he faked her apparent anomalous properties whole-cloth solely for the (implicitly sexual) sadistic pleasure of controlling and abusing a woman.
  • Stealth Sequel: The article ends a few years before the creation of SCP-7777 and the coup that followed and is being read from the perspective of Liaison Marinos from that article. This calls into question everything that paints that universe's Ethics Committee as objectively evil, indicating the situation is far from black and white.
  • The Stinger: At the very end of the article, the reader logs out of the terminal, and is identified as Ethics Committee Liaison Marinos. This places SCP-8980 in the same universe as fellow constructed anomaly SCP-7777, where the Ethics Committee used it to stage a successful coup against the Foundation. Whether or not this is a good thing is deliberately left ambiguous, especially since that article ended with the successful arrest of Site-17 Director Thomas Graham.
  • Walking Techbane: Electronic devices used by SCP-8980 tend to malfunction, and these malfunctions appear to be specifically intended to humiliate her: video games glitch out in ways that make her lose horribly, text messages have words altered, emails get sent to the wrong address, and in one case, a PowerPoint presentation she was giving had a slide randomly replaced with hardcore porn. Due to concerns that this could result in confidential information being sent to those who don't have permission to view it, her access to electronics has to be heavily restricted at all times. It's strongly implied that these incidents were actually fabricated by Dr. Byrnes as a form of Gaslighting: when she manages to create an Arbitrary Code Execution exploit that gives her full control over a computer without Byrnes' knowledge, no anomalies occur, and all anomalous properties are found to have ceased sometime after Byrnes' retirement.
  • The Worf Effect: A horrifyingly-mundane example. The infamously-efficient and unfettered Fire Suppression Department attempted to intervene at some point in the case, but no evidence of their handling can be found even when the Ethics Committee is forced to beseech them to find a faster solution to Marley's recovery. Given that their purpose is to identify and eliminate obstacles to the utility of employees at any and all costs, it can safely be assumed Byrnes and Crawford somehow managed to stonewall them, showing how deep the corruption of the Site Directors runs in SCP-7777's universe.
  • Written by the Winners:
    • The original SCP case file was entirely written by Dr. Byrnes, and in this light it gradually becomes clear that the entirety of it is his attempt at covering up and retroactively justify his over a decade long psychological torture campaign against a completely innocent woman, which he carried out for an apparently no more complex reason that he found sadistic enjoyment in tormenting her and having power over her entire life.
    • The Stinger reveals SCP-7777 may be an attempt at this, as that article omits the reason the Ethics Committee staged the coup during its events to begin with. Said reason is ''the entirety of SCP-8980''.
  • You Are What You Hate: The article is a direct prequel to SCP-7777, meaning that in the Ethics Committee's despair over what had happened to Marley, they adopted the same tactics as her abuser to Never Be Hurt Again.

SCP-8999 — Feeding the Trolls

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A group portrait drawn by SCP-8999, retrieved from Zakarias Öberg's records
Author: J Dune
Posted: February 14, 2024
Contest: 2/123 (8K)
SCP-8999 are an unknown number of as-of-yet unseen creatures living in a cavern under Åby Parish in Kalmar, Sweden. First discovered by the late priest Zakarias Öberg, who referred to them as "trolls", the SCP-8999 are picky eaters, communicate through drawings and have the ability to cause earthquakes. The priest was able to figure out their diet and regularly fed them using a lift system in the basement of the parish, but after his death, his nephew Emil Öberg was entrusted with their care, but was unable to satisfy them. The Foundation eventually came into contact with Emil and took over in looking after the trolls.

Feeding the Trolls won second place in the 8000 Contest with a score of 406, further receiving awards in "Best in Euclid Class" and "Contestant's Choice".


  • Camera Shy: The trolls don't like being seen, and attempts by the Foundation to record them by sending cameras down the lift have proven futile. The only reference for what the trolls look like are their own drawings of themselves.
  • Complexity Addiction: For all the increasingly elaborate methods the Foundation attempts to figure out what the trolls eat, it never occurs to them to conduct a search for the late priest's cookbook.
  • Dead Man Writing: Father Öberg wrote a letter to his nephew in his final days, anticipating his natural death.
  • Good Shepherd: In life, Father Zakarias Öberg was a kindly and devout priest who showed compassion for The Morlocks that are SCP-8999, seeing them as another one of God’s creations. Until the day he died, he would gift them food and read scripture to them nightly.
  • He Who Must Not Be Seen: The SCP Foundation have not made any visual correspondence with SCP-8999; the only visual profile they have are the drawings made by SCP-8999.
  • Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday: After three days of no contact, it's on October 31st when SCP-8999 resumes communication to request more humans after consuming Dr. Perelli. The SCP file ends there.
  • Language Barrier: It's unknown what propensity for language SCP-8999 have. Despite how Father Öberg would read Bible verses to them, they shown no capability to read, write, or speak any human language, Swedish or otherwise. The only known way to have any extent of communication with them is by Playing Pictionary. It is not effective.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!: By sending the head researcher down to attempt more direct contact with SCP-8999, the creatures acquired a taste of human flesh.
  • Overcomplicated Menu Order: Inverted, with the trolls' drawings for the food they want being too simple for the Foundation to interpret.
  • Passing the Torch: Before dying from natural causes, Father Öberg entrusted his nephew Emil to tend to the church and care for the trolls lying deep below it. This was Subverted however, as Emil couldn't find the care instructions his uncle claimed to leave for him, and his contacting the police for the tremors they were causing lead the Foundation take over operations.
  • Picky Eater: In his last memoir, Zakarias tells Emil that the trolls eat fruits and vegetables, but that they are "particular in their preparation and presentation".
  • Playing Pictionary: Due to a Language Barrier, communicate through drawings with conservative use of pictograms. This still isn't successful once they enter containment by the SCP Foundation, as despite trial and error, researchers are unable to deduce what fruit a simple misshapen oval is meant to represent, let alone what squares and triangles mean.
  • Poor Communication Kills: Father Zakarius Öberg claimed to have left a cookbook and other instructions for his nephew to follow and care for the trolls, but problems arise as Emir and later the Foundation are unable to find any such instructions among the late Zakarius' belongings, leaving the Foundation to work from scratch. They aren't successful in Playing Pictionary with SCP-8999, leading them to cause tremors with their subterranean tantrums. This culminates when, with little to no clarification beforehand, the head researcher opts to go down into the depths to negotiate with them; only for SCP-8999 to assume and accept the doctor as an offering of food.
  • Pun-Based Title: On the internet, "don't feed the trolls" is an adage about not engaging with toxic or inflammatory users, as engagement is what encourages them to continue their disruptive behavior. However, this page talks about "feeding the trolls" more literally, revolving around trying to give food to tunnel-dwelling creatures.
  • Riddle for the Ages: While they become satisfied after eating Dr. Perrelli, it is never revealed what food the trolls were originally asking for. The Foundation is presumably still working on it.
  • Shown Their Work: There is an Åby Parish in Kalmar, Sweden, and the image used in the story is of said church.
  • Terrible Artist: A good portion of the entry is told through textless crude scribbles. While this is pragmatic on the Foundation's behalf, SCP-8999 lack of detail is due to the fact that they are uncivilized underground monsters.
  • To Serve Man: After the Foundation gives up trying to feed them, the trolls start causing stronger earthquakes that are costly for the Foundation to cover up, so Dr. Perrelli decides to personally travel down the lift to try to communicate more directly. The earthquakes stop shortly afterwards, and the trolls send a series of drawings saying they're satisfied and explaining that they ate Dr. Perrelli after finding that the latter had no food on him.

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