Seeking Greenlights: Yeah, duh
Genre: Comedy
Page Type: SCP Article
Elevator Pitch: An article that creates humor from awkward situational comedy confrontations with the SCP and contradicting actions between the researchers and the SCP.
Hook/Attention-Grabber: Focuses on creating laughs instead of creating horror.
Central Narrative: The thing I'm struggling with the most is the anomaly itself. I don't just want the anomaly to be "funny things start happening around the guy, haha", but I still want the anomaly to add to the comedy in an original way. Not having the anomaly nailed down means I can't craft a narrative yet, so I would like your suggestions for this if you will. If possible, I would like this SCP to make fun of some overused SCP troupes, unless a better idea comes up.
Edit:
Here I will brainstorm ideas for comedy in my article and ideas for the SCP anomaly itself.
- The ACS classes are all either super high or super low for no reason, which will do two different things depending on the anomaly I choose. If the SCP is super simple and safe, then having the ACS super high will contradict expectations set at the top of the page, creating comedy. This could also play off some paranoid scientist overestimating the threat of the SCP, also creating comedy. Underestimating the threat will do the same, instead we have some lazy inept scientist who does so. Maybe the paranoid and inept scientists could argue on things, once again creating comedy.
- The containment procedures long, but super basic and boring, "SCP-XXXX is to be held in a 5m x 5m x 5m concrete cell. It is to be fed twice a day and given only the basic necessities…", etc. The containment procedures would also go on into tangents about the very specifics of containment, when it was contained, what to do during a containment breach, what food it likes and doesn't, etc. Sprinkled into the long paragraph are random bolded words like PENIS or SEX that will catch the reader's attention and make them want to read the whole paragraph to understand the context of the words. Doing so will reveal that the words have no relation to the containment procedures at all and are just there to grab your attention. The immediacy and action of the bolded words contrasts with the boringness of the containment procedures. This plays off the joke that no one reads the containment procedures, and forces you to read an otherwise long boring paragraph. How this would be explained in universe…I dunno. Though the article itself isn't trying to create a believable world inside the document, it's trying to be funny.
- Idea for anomaly: Previous files of SCP-XXXX are lost in a power outage, and no one remembers why this person is anomalous or why it was contained in the first place. The whole article would be the researchers trying to figure out how it's anomalous. In the end they can't figure it out and just throw him out into the world after being anmesticized. Or maybe there could be a better ending?
Additional Notes: I either want the SCP to be a human or some object, both have some anomalous effect that creates comedy through either building expectations and contradicting those expectations, or through awkward situational comedy, or both. I would love to hear your suggestions.
(Edit: Changed summaries due to confusion)
