Can I make the Demogorgon into an SCP?
Can I make The Demogorgon into an SCP?
Sincerely, Erlhyenaplays,
CEO of Erlhyenaplays INC,
Can I make the Demogorgon into an SCP?
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I want to make the Demogorgon into an SCP
Sincerely, Erlhyenaplays,
CEO of Erlhyenaplays INC,
It’d be in exceptionally poor taste to take a franchises murder monster to prop up your own work.
Also, doubt it’d be interesting enough of an SCP, without its own twist. Besides Stranger Things, and DND, not really sure if the demigorgon has any real life basis, so you could work from that angle.
Just don’t use material you haven’t spun yourself. Slender man doesn’t make a good SCP, the Crooked Man however rewritten in a new light with Slender-esque traits does. Somewhere in the 700 block of series I if I remember correctly. Check it out, along with 1000. Work can be derivative to support your story, while not standing on someone else’s hard work.
Respectfully dissenting from the other replies here. Seeing as the demogorgon was written about 1600 years ago, it’s safe to say the creature is in the public domain. Not the Stranger Things version of the creature design specifically, but the name and any attributes derived from the older mythology are ok in terms of licensing.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demogorgon
You could, but that’s not to say you should. As shown by the other replies here, people do strongly associate it with Stranger Things as that popularised the creature in recent times, although it’s mentioned in a lot of older literature (ie. Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, Dungeons & Dragons resource books). Regardless, straight up SCPifications of creatures from popular media or mythology tend not to do well here, as evidenced by deletions logs. Unless you had a particular idea to subvert or expand on aspects specific to the demogorgon’s mythology, probably better to avoid using it.
Only reinforcing that a complete rework or new adaptation could still play. The adaption of Cthulhu to the Foundation-verse in a way that no one would possibly expect made it completely different from the enormous use of him in popular media.
If you can take the base ideas, write them in a fresh way, and get positive feedback, it should be fine to add as part of the (SCP) series.
More importantly, it may be better to take the things that inspire you from that specific creature, and fold it into a new idea. Pepper the things you like into something that doesn't relate to the same concepts, and try to use it in a way that people won't immediately relate to familiar media.
Someday, something will inevitability end your life. Until that day, nothing else can. -Å
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