Got a new one. I'm note sure if I got across the horror of the ever growing child, who will never understand what's happening to it, os suggestions are welcome, as is grammatical clean up.
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I like it, the reports of the researcher turned O5 really make it for me. +1, especially after the clean-up.
This.
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I like the article very much. What's especially intriguing, if this article is eventually accepted as canon, is the partial inclusion of the birth year. Having the Foundation around since at least the 19th century lends even more mystery to their span of influence. Kudos.
To me, the language doesn't communicate "19th century." I'm not saying there need to be references to handlebar mustaches, but the usual Foundation terseness is at odds with the long, complex sentences with multiple dependent clauses that characterize 19th-century and early 20th-century prose. I'm thinking especially of those final notes, which I think might be too terse.
Perhaps, however, keep in mind that the main body of the article is updated, not a relic of the 19th century.
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A lot of the works on this site imply that the foundation or at least its predecessors have existed for a LONG time, maybe even as long as our species has been around
This feels a little short, and while I understand how the SCP has a faster healing rate, I'm unsure how its heart is still capable of pumping blood to all parts of the body. Maybe there should be an expansion better detailing how it continues on, or how its body is altered to take care of that affect.
I'm also not sure why its creator received continued promotions. Isn't a guy who has deep personal issues with the containment of a humanoid SCP the exact opposite of a successful, likely-to-live-to-see-another-day Foundation worker?
Not something I'd thought of. Suggestions?
As for the promotions, think of it like this. The Researcher has only expressed interest in this SCP 4 times. Yes, everyone understands it's a hot button for him, but he's managed to keep it down to only asking once each promotion. His superiors know whats up, and can understand. Wouldn't you be worried too, if it were your child? His interest is understandable, but easily averted by not putting him in charge of it.
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That's something I've been wondering about. If the O5 members are strictly forbidden from any contact from SCPs, would a researcher who has had contact with at least one in his career be an eligible contender for a seat?
Even if that's true (which I'm not sure of), who's to say that policy was in place at the time?
They are forbidden from contact with SCPs, once they become O5s.
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Or even, they choose to tell us that they're forbidden from contact with SCP objects once they're promoted to O5.
Food for thought.
Heart suggestions (off the top of my head):
1) Artificial heart installed in 19██, when the medical problems became difficult initially. (This meshes well with the support system for its bones.)
1a) Because of lack of technology and/or healing factor interference, heart was not installed in time and damage was present (but healed since?) in extremities.
2) Effects of SCP-███, added during creation process, strengthen heart. (Though one would wonder why it only helps the heart and not the skeletal system.)
3) Healing factor prevents any surgery, no SCP helps. Several new addendums (addendi?) show that SCP-321's condition is increasingly deteriorating and is now bedridden w/ sores as an attempt to ensure that the heart can continue to pump blood to brain. (This is probably the saddest.)
Just some thoughts. By the way, fun touch with Adam and Evelyn.
Aha! Someone finally noticed the names!
So, as may have been obvious from most of my articles, science isn't my strong point. Feel free to add 1a, wherver it fits.
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(Incidentally, it's a little annoying that this one still doesn't have a name in the list. It's still 'Access Denied', which makes it more difficult to search for, etc etc. Someone on chat suggested 'the Child' ?)
Anyway, the comment at the end about how the SCP 'is not now, and never has been, (the researcher's) daughter'. It reminds me of a line from Moore's Swamp Thing.
"He's not Alec Holland. He never will be Alec Holland. He never was Alec Holland. He's just a ghost, a ghost dressed in weeds."
Moore's revolutionary idea was that instead of being Alec Holland transformed into a swamp monster, the [REDACTED] event created a swamp monster that used Holland's corpse and memories as a template.
We start with a bunch of 19th-century SCPs and a dead human infant. At the end, we have…. well, among other things, we have what certainly looks like a live human infant. And it acts like a live human infant.
And it continues acting like a live human infant.
For over a hundred years.
If you start with a dead baby and a bunch of SCPs, and then after [DATA EXPUNGED] you have a live baby… would you care that you still have the dead baby also?
You think it would've been easier to just have sex again, sheesh.
Wow, schub, you're an asshole.
This isn't bad, but it's not…I don't know. There's something about it which is kind of off, especially because the situation is a bit…unlikely.
Unless there were less strict security rules in the 19th century, how would a junior researcher get away with using SCP's to revive something? Also, how would they not be terminated?
ALSO, what year was the fountain of youth brought in to foundation custody, because that would make 05-12 at least 120 years old now otherwise.
Either way, not a bad body horror one, not upvoting, but nowhere near the downvote button either. Good show Bright.
How do we know that O5-12 is the same O5-12 now as he always was? If O5-12 dies, would it not make more sense to get a new O5 and appoint him O5-12? Or, if the numbers are hierarchical, move everyone above 12 up one and put the new guy in at the highest value? I can't imagine that O5 have a long active lifespan, as they have to get to the top of the organisation and then not be so old as their judgement is impaired.
Not to mention, with the last two numbers obscured, this entry could have last been dealt with a long while back.
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I wouldn't be surprised if he did bring it up again and they removed him like they said they would. It just wouldn't be in the article because it's not strictly relevant to containing 321.
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Love this entry; the main body about the SCP itself personally doesn't seem that interesting, but the four notes at the bottom are the most brilliantly compact story I've ever read in their own right. Of course, if I were this "Adam" I probably would have set up plans to murder OS-1 after his response to the final request, but hey; maybe he did, maybe he didn't.
I like this a lot. The first time I read this, I didn't look at the dates; the sense of the weight of time adds a whole extra dimension to this.
In my personal canon, the Foundation keeps this around as a cautionary tale for both O5-12 and the foundation in general, as a way of saying: "This is what happens if you use SCPs for personal reasons. And this was just the stuff we had in the 19th century too, back when we were just [REDACTED]. Who knows what could happen with the thousand-plus we have now?"
This is easily one of my favorite SCPs. The idea of someone going to such lengths to save (?) his child nearly brought me to tears. I love the creepy SCPs, but the ones with a bit of depth and heart hit me hard. Amazing stuff.
For me the full sad horror of this actually took a little while to set in. Especially when you read a bunch of SCPs in a row, you sort of get used to The Horror of people stuck in painful situations and whatnot.
But it struck me about an hour later as I was going to bed just how sad this one is. Because Adam either would have had access to 321's files even if he didn't have access to 321. If he wasn't granted access I'm sure he would have gotten it somehow. So he would have known everything. Just how inhuman it seemed. All about the weird pigmentation, the learning disability (or more like inability), the monstrous size and potential for damaging its environment and itself. So he knew all the strange, disgusting, disturbing, awful things there are to know about SCP-321.
… And still all he saw was his little girl that he loved, and he wanted her to come home.
… And still all he saw was his little girl that he loved, and he wanted her to come home.
Dammit Ari you made me bawl! >:-/
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