…I just got it.
Well played, hah, well played.
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spectacular. i've been waiting for this one to come up, and wanted to see how it would be handled. i dont think this could be better
great job team, on the whole thing :D
becoming mister collector. it was an obvious conclusion to draw from the way the list was phrased. i've been waiting for this story from the first time i saw the list on mister forgetful :P
I was wondering if the "Become Mr. Collector" bit might be literal as soon as I saw "Mr. Love" on this slip. I was not, however, expecting an O5 to take the fall. Interesting touch.
But who else would become Mr. Collector; the Level 1 Researchers are in contact with a single SCP, Site Administrators are only in charge ('own') the SCP's housed in 'their' site. Only the O5's are in charge of ALL sites and ALL SCP's.
Now it looks like we've got Series 2 of the Misters to deal with…
The wording on the containment procedures for the various Misters struck me as implying they were stored at the same facility, Mr. Lost notwithstanding. It would follow that the site director there would be Mr. Collector.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
Perhaps it's a 'chain of command' type of link. If A orders B to secure item C, once Item C comes into B's possession it is considered the property of A.
Mr. Lost notwithstanding
Therein lies the problem: Seeing as how someone became Mr. Collector, whatever the Foundation is doing to contain Mr. Lost counts as "owning" him. The Site Director obviously doesn't have control over Mr. Lost, considering that he's somewhere else entirely.
A Site director probably wouldn't have authority over an MTF or surveillance crew for an SCP that's not at his/her site. In fact, chances are the only person to have jurisdiction over both the contained instances and Mr. Lost would be an O5.
if your reading this your gay
Therein lies the problem: Seeing as how someone became Mr. Collector, whatever the Foundation is doing to contain Mr. Lost counts as "owning" him. The Site Director obviously doesn't have control over Mr. Lost, considering that he's somewhere else entirely.
Technically, no.
See, the Misters have different lists. You only need to collect all the ones on any single list to become Mr. Collector. Which means either 19 or 20 (depending on discontinuations - I don't think any of us ever set something in stone for that). You just need to find a Mister with a list that doesn't have Mr. Lost, and you're fine.
But still, if disparate Site Directors were overseeing capture of the Misters, but O5-4 personally oversees everything - including the pseudo-containment of Mr. Lost - then it would be O5-4 who collected them all. As we see in the story, of course.
Okay, I think we are over-analyzing this. He found all of them on a become Mr. Collector list. Had he gotten those on the become Mr. Twist list, nothing would have happened, because you don't need to find those. It's either rather bad luck or engineered in some way.
So was the Little Misters series a booby-trap for the Foundation?
My personal interpretation(not canon or anything) is that no, it wasn't a booby trap for the Foundation. Anyone could have found 20 Misters (or 19 Misters, perhaps, depending on whether discontinuations count) and become Mr. Collector (even if you were a Mrs./Ms. beforehand). In fact, as far as we know, there could have been multiple individuals aiming for this goal. But the Foundation got there first. Ironically, perhaps the last people who would actually want that reward.
Also, this is one of my favoritest in this series.
"Typically, the process of appointing someone to fill a vacated position in the O5 takes months, but this time it had sped through in only a week. In short order, the council passed many new regulations on the treatment of humanoid SCPs with the goal of preventing a debacle like the Mister hunt from happening again. Many Safe-class were dosed with amnesiacs and let free. Not Mr. Redd. As the instigator of the affair, and the Foundation's most likely link to Dr. Wondertainment, he was retained for containment and interrogation. Much interrogation.
Things were, the new O5-4 decided, sitting satisfied in her office, looking up."
But yeah, I may actually write a story about a guy (entirely unaffiliated with the Foundation) trying to become a new little Mister, likely Mr. Love.
I can't picture the Foundation releasing any humanoid SCPs, unless once they were all collected they lost their "Mister" traits and reverted to being ordinary humans.
I like this idea otherwise, though.
Yeah, the Foundation wouldn't release humanoids at all.
That was actually an issue with the Never-Hungry Man (real-world, not in-universe). The original article had him as just never needing sustenance w/o any reason why, so they let him go. That simple, kinda-sorta happy ending was… unsatisfactory to some people, and the article got editted into its current horrific form.
There's also an example in Iris' article of what the Foundation does even IF it appears that anomalous traits have vanished off a humanoid.
Giving bearhugs to the unsuspecting since 1872.
I always hated the changes to that article.
Anyhow, it's not entirely the Foundation anymore, considering the new O5-4's capabilities. I agree that it would be massively out of character for them otherwise.
That would be pretty out of character for the Foundation, though. They want to preserve normalcy as the general public defines it. At best I think they'd give a harmless humanoid SCP some sort of nice setup somewhere, but still contain it. At best.
'Course, no canon and all that.
I'm going more by pre-edit Never-Hungry Man here. I suppose you're probably right here, that is rather more permissive than even an influenced Foundation would want to do. Still, that's not an actual part of the story or anything, it's just a random thought I had about how the Foundation might be being deliberately manoeuvred into having this happen, but not by Dr. Wondertainment, and just a step in a larger plan.
My interpretation is, O5-4 knew about the Little Misters thing and instigated it. He arranged for Mr. Redd to lure all of the Misters to the Foundation, knowing that when it happened, he would be Mr. Collector, which he hoped would let him "collect" all of the SCPs, and maybe give him kewl powerz. Of course, he didn't count on losing his identity and getting arrested, but for most of the time he thought he knew exactly what he was doing and exactly what would happen.
if your reading this your gay
Not really going to comment on your interpretation, but getting arrested probably isn't too big of a deal. The loss of identity (and the fact that telekinesis actually isn't all that handy for getting more SCPs) is the much bigger problem with this.
Somehow, the whole "you love your collection" and the other psychological lines perfectly contrast with him remembering that he is an O5. It was chilling.
I like this one very much. +1
Oh wow. Just read the whole series, and I realize this finale exactly echoes an idea I had, but even better than how I'd imagined it.
The basic idea was a communique from Mr. Redd, pleading with whoever read it not to collect all the Little Misters and become Mr. Collector, because then "Dr. Wondertainment would 'have them'". What's here fits just perfectly with that idea (other than my characterization of Mr. Redd) and then goes beyond it. So now I have one less thing to worry about writing later!
Thanks for making a great series of stories. I do love Wondertainment and the Little Misters so.
"I've done my job." I could give less of a shit about how much they want to study me, I was getting out.
"Ah, yes, but you're an SCP object yourself."
"Boss, please." I placed a look of desperation on my face. Just biding my time.
Karma is REAL! And the collector becomes the Mr. Collector becomes the collected.
There's something soothing about having.
Feels like there's a word missing somewhere in there.
Otherwise, I like this, it's a pretty neat ending. Have my +1.
There's something soothing about having.
Feels like there's a word missing somewhere in there.
No, gerunds are nouns and can be the direct object of a prepositional phrase, even if you are more used to seeing them as a noun complement. This sentence is saying the act of possession (having) is itself soothing, independent of the possessions.
Sure, I have all the basic skills: I can diagram a sentence; tie three basic knots as well as a necktie; cook a three course meal; orienteer with only map and compass; speak passable tourist German and Klingon, do single variable calculus; field strip an assault rifle; perform CPR; suture a wound; identify chemicals with IR and nMR spectography: fight with spear, arming sword and buckler; change an oil filter; insert a transgenic sequence into a bacteria via a plasmid vector; kill, dress and cook a goat; you know, the usual. I was a boy scout like thirty years ago.
Hey, I was a boy scout too! I believe I missed the lesson about gerunds, though…they mostly taught us to wrestle wolverines. :P
Whoa.
I, uh… I can raise Mourning Cloak butterflies from the larva stage, fold three different kinds of shuriken-based paper throwing projectiles, make basic clothing alterations to things like Akatsuki cloaks and Jedi robes, create flower arrangements using chrysanthemums and daisies, hand-pollinate a spider plant so it bears fruit, and a bunch of other stuff that probably makes me seem cool but usually only to people who are less than 10 years of age. >.>;;;
I am impressed. I can't do any of those. You also can moderate a significant piece of Internet culture and make anybody cry with a thousand words or less. You can take pretty decent photographs. I think you maybe know some Japanese too?
My parents are Chinese, but my Mandarin is so heavily-accented with American tones that my cousins laugh at me. I wish I knew more Japanese (my sole experience is watching subtitled anime, reading Naruto wiki articles with Google translate on standby, and my Japanese friend teaching me the word for "sleepy" during a three-hour chemistry lab).
But that discussion's for the general forums or my (shamelessly self-promoted) staff askthread.
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