SCP-3090 / Discussion

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Author's Post - When I'm gaming I tend to forget about sleeping. Sometimes I even forget to breathe.

Decibelles 04 Jun 2017 19:08

Thanks to the following people:

• th4nkyoub3n for writing the original (which had very very good ideas and concepts) and working on this rewrite with me. He is my co-author.

• Roget, Taffeta, and A Random Day for tone and phrasing stuff.
• kinchtheknifeblade for backstory stuff that helped me out with this a bit.
• DolphinSlugchugger for general feedback.
• The SomethingAwful SCP thread. Not for helping me with this, but because I read about 75 pages of it on a binge one night and was amused and entertained by both their good and bad opinions.

If I forgot anyone else, lemme know! The original can be found here.

Stuff that's canon that I had no way of incorporating naturally into the article:

1. She speaks in a metallic-sounding voice.
2. Her "moms" are Dahlia and Andressa, aka hetcopogg and gaycopmp4.
3. The redaction contains scientific technobabble related to the pink blood (so to speak) and its similarities to real blood and oil, which I didn't wanna include cause it clashes with the tone of this article. You need to be Level 3 and above in order to see that stuff, or working on 890's team.
4. It respawns at that GameStop. Her moms picked her up.
5. Heather is a reference to Heather Mason. You know the reference.

Author questions:

1. Are you a true gamer?
2. What sort of person do you think SCP-3090 was in her old life, before becoming a MAW?
3. How do you think Dahlia helped out with the creation of SCP-3090?

What I Listened to While Writing: A lot, actually. So how about this skip's unofficial theme song?

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+ Ported from my author page discussion thread.

This is my best writing on the site simply because it expresses a lot of what I want to tell about the Foundation in a simple, streamlined way. The interactions between humanoid anomaly and researcher, the line of treating the anomaly like an object versus a person, mental health, video games, being gay, being trans, etc.. I could (and absolutely can) write an entire article on each of these subjects alone, but figured each of them can make an interesting part of a whole story in one article. Mental health is a big thing for me, something I'm both hurt by and fascinated by. How does one react under certain situations? The whole mantra of showing and not telling applies here, but I wanted to tell a bit to get it across. Heather escapes in video games in a sort of real literal sense, while alive and while an anomaly. It's a good way to escape anxiety and depression, and I feel much the same way.

Plus, any article people will cite it as an example of the SCP Wiki failing, being shitty as a whole merely by existing, being too SJW, or act like immature babies over is a real successful one. It weeds out the people who read fiction for the wrong reasons and don't want to look closer into. Plus, I feel like I've succeeded in creating a character I genuinely love with this. I've never written a character before that I was really into, either merely liking or writing only in service to the story. So, yeah, this is my favorite thing of mine and maybe the best thing I've written.

There's also a contingent of people who hate this solely because it has any association with Gamers Against Weed, to which I say, come the fuck on. The main thrust and core of this article only uses that as a launchpad to run with something else altogether. Anyone who read this, saw the GoI, and downvoted never had an interest in connecting to or reading or analyzing this article on any sort of scale IMO. It'd almost be entirely the same without the GAW connection. The only major things I'd lose are the sense of community and the theme of minorities carving their way out in the world of anomalous happenings, both of which I think provide necessary background to make this more than "cute girl with TV for head does stuff to video games". It adds a layer to this that makes it more human. I will admit that not every reader is gonna be connected to someone who's trans and gay and is a girl, and who has a defensive guard surrounding that to dictate their actions. But also, nearly everything I write on this site now is filled with LGBT themes, so it's just par for the course if you're reading my stuff.

Last edited on 30 Sep 2017 23:27 by Decibelles Show more

Translations!

Decibelles 20 Jun 2017 15:43

To promote translations of my work and thank all the authors for their hard work, I am linking to them here in addition to my author page.

• Japanese by C-Dives
• Chinese by The_Reaper_Kindred

Thank you all!

Last edited on 03 May 2018 23:42 by Decibelles Show more

kinchtheknifeblade 04 Jun 2017 19:19

Dahlia would make a good mom.

Penton 04 Jun 2017 21:02

Good to see that the misters against weed are filling up rather nicely, i have a few ideas to mention for 'Mr. Finale'. Why not have his anomaly be either:

He is always the last to arrive for anything

or

his abilities somehow relate to being disappointing or anticlimactic (referencing bad tv show finales)

Or i don't know, maybe GAW couldn't come up with anything so they just made a guy who reads aloud the script to crappy tv finales. (Not really)

Last edited on 04 Jun 2017 21:03 by Penton Show more

Author's Post - What the hell's going on? Can someone tell me please

th4nkyoub3n 04 Jun 2017 19:32

Decibelles did such a good job on this rewrite. She understands the SCP style well, and came up with some great ideas to help ground Mad About Video Games in Gamers Against Weed culture, something that I felt like I couldn't do. I like that she's a girl and also lives with Dahlia. She's just going to stay home and play video games like a piece of shit and not have to worry about anything stressful.

While we were working on this draft, I came up with an idea for another cross test because I thought it would be funny.

I'm not actually sure if this SCP item will stay up for very long, but I hope you enjoy it while it lasts.

Roget 04 Jun 2017 19:41

I really enjoyed the characterization in the interviews and how much work you put into this to make it shine. Well done. +1

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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!

NatVoltaic 04 Jun 2017 19:51

Stories like this are why I love Gamers Against Weed. You wrote 3090 so well that it was like you could feel exactly what they were going through, and the ending hit hard.

+1

NaxinD 04 Jun 2017 20:02

if die, then revive somewhere else

Thats pretty much what happens when i sleep in my VAIO, and then, when i wake up, i am in my bed.

+1

(account deleted) 04 Jun 2017 22:15

Poor Heather :(.

+1.

Ihp 05 Jun 2017 20:16

Being a little pedantic, but:

Lucas from the game Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Lucas is originally from Mother 3. Maybe have "Lucas from the game Mother 3 as they appear in Super Smash Bros. Brawl?"

Decibelles 05 Jun 2017 20:59

You're right; he is from Mother 3. The thing here was supposed to be that 951's appearance there was changed to resemble Lucas as he appears in Super Smash Bros Brawl, but that'd be a more clinical way to put it. Fixed.

th4nkyoub3n 05 Jun 2017 22:07

My own idea was that whoever wrote that log doesn't know what Mother 3 is because it wasn't ever localized. The gap in the SCP Foundation's knowledge sounds really implausible, now that I think about it.

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Snipes88 05 Jun 2017 22:09

Um, I don't mean to be that guy but it's "Mr. Mad About Video Games" and changing the gender from what's on all of the other lists is sort of jarring

Decibelles 05 Jun 2017 22:25

GAW does what GAW wants. Why would GAW care about set genders of their Misters?

Snipes88 05 Jun 2017 22:28

In the original draft, MAVG was male. Also, if someone wrote Zapatista as a male, would that go over as well? Just wondering.

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Decibelles 05 Jun 2017 22:45

Dahlia and Andressa asked chat if they could make Mr. MAVG a girl instead. Everyone was fine with it. They made it. This was after some of the Misters¹ had already been made. Regardless of what the other lists said, GAW was fine with it, and so it came to be.

If someone wanted to write Ms. Zapatista as a male, well, they could, and they could technically use the same reasoning as above, but it sort of ties into how popular media and culture doesn't have nearly as many girls as it does boys, with how severely underrepresented they are. That's why I made a Mr. a Ms.; because I thought there could be more female representation as far as the series list went. It's more deep than the creators in-universe gave it, because I want to make my writings more representative and less "white cishet guy" (she's obviously none of those) than what sci-fi/horror/fantasy writing usually comprises of. So, if you wanted to make Ms. Zapatista Mr. Zapatista, there should be a good reason for it.

Footnotes

1. Which ones? IDK. Whichever ones work chronologically.

th4nkyoub3n 06 Jun 2017 01:14

I think MAVG's new gender suits her better. The only reason I didn't consider it before was because I didn't feel comfortable taking too many liberties with things that were previously established.

Similar to how only Mr. Hax's list has the Humble Waterfilter Merchant and how that can't be added to existing articles without permission of the original authors, I don't want other people to edit current lists to change Mr. to Ms. unless they are the authors of the articles. Did jockjamsvol6, creator of Mr. Bernie Sanders, left GAW before Ms. MAVG was finalized? I don't know. I don't feel like it's my choice to make. I just know that the list Mr. Ominous made had it as Mr. Mad About Video Games

I did change the list on Mr. Literal Serial Killer, however. None of the names on that list matched the original in the first place so I felt like that list was beyond such a restriction.

This is just me speaking about my own gender headcanons at this point, but I feel that Mr. Deadly Sins does not identify as any sort of gender and presents as whatever the community would find "trustworthy." Mr. Deadly Sins male assignment is superficial in nature.

Last edited on 06 Jun 2017 01:23 by th4nkyoub3n Show more

kinchtheknifeblade 05 Jun 2017 22:53

The lists aren't a hard and fast set of rules like a Wondertainnent product. This is a bunch of friends making shitty jokes. You ever look at a video game's concept art and notice they changed someone's entire look or gender from what they originally intended? It happens

So, Danganronpa huh? (And some other drabble)

Lepus Lied 06 Jun 2017 08:28

The nods to Danganronpa were nice, especially the death of 3090. Chiaki would be proud.

Easter Eggs aside, the writing was fantastic. The use of D-Class in this was logical, but what if you would have brought in some actual gamers to test the anomalous aspects of 3039? I think that would alter the variables, as you would have people better skilled in playing, instead of simply disposable subjects that could be harmed simply because they play the game casually, instead of strategically or competitively.

Just a thought, but I digress.

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