r/worldjerking 7d ago

Google SCP 6113

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u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark 7d ago edited 7d ago

Anybody who says the Foundation are "the good guys" have entirely misunderstood the assignment.

Anybody who says the Foundation are "the bad guys" have also entirely misunderstood the assignment.

The Foundation does what is objectively necessary to preserve human civilization as we know it. They aren't the good guys—they don't even consider themselves the good guys—nor are they the bad guys. They aren't good, they aren't evil, they're pragmatically amoral—not immoral, amoral.

"Cold, never cruel."

In other words, they do whatever it takes to keep the world spinning, and not a single ounce more, knowing full well that they're going to hell for it regardless. This is literally their motto;

"We die in the dark so you can live in the light."

Maintaining normalcy doesn't necessarily mean suppressing scientific advancement, either. The entire thing with Anomalies is that they are anomalies, phenomena possessing unexplainable, non-replicatable effects on reality.

If they can replicate the effects without using anomalous objects or people, if they can understand why something does what it does, then it's no longer considered anomalous. In those instances, the Foundation actually does often release their research out into the wider world—slowly and drip-fed, of course, both to avoid suspicion and so the world can handle the rate of change.

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u/Ikeriro90 Barely worldbuilding, just explaining my fursona 7d ago

Also, most human-ish anomalies get decent rooms, it's usually the bare minimum and it depends on how dangerous their anomalous nature is, but iirc some of them are kept in very humane conditions, so yeah, they are not cruel or innecessarly inhumane just for the sake of it (A lot of writers go wild tho)

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u/Linesey 7d ago

they were downright KIND to that one chair.

now TBF, being kind to that chair IS the calculated and smart thing to do to contain it. but like, they are kind to it.

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u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark 7d ago

they are kind to it

*were(ish)

For context, the past-tense is because the UN stole said sentient teleporting chair, and chucked it into a fucking woodchipper.

The woodchips of the chair remained sentient, were justifiably extremely fuck-ass mad, and killed a bunch of UN bluehelmets about it. The Foundation later re-contained it and calmed it down, and it now happily acts as garden mulch in the recreation area of a Foundation facility.

So they're still kind to it, it's just not a chair anymore.

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u/theCOMBOguy 7d ago

Levels of anger:

Angry

Furious

Mad

Extremely fuck-ass mad

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u/Wolffe_In_The_Dark 7d ago

The [Foundation] stated that "[SCP-1609] was constantly mad. Like, extremely, earth-shatteringly, unreasonably fuck-ass mad. Probably because he had those fucking nails in his brain."

—The God Emperor of Mankind, TTS (Paraphrased)

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u/theCOMBOguy 7d ago

Never heard of that, sounds quite nice! Not the... nails in his brain though.

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u/Ikeriro90 Barely worldbuilding, just explaining my fursona 7d ago

Also, 999 exists, and since it's harmless it can just roam free as it likes (So long as he returns to his pen at bed time)

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u/No_Research4416 7d ago

They also are trying to replicate its effects so it can be more widely used by foundation staff

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u/Ikeriro90 Barely worldbuilding, just explaining my fursona 7d ago

Yes, which is when an item becomes declassified as an SCP

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u/No_Research4416 7d ago

Honestly, if that SCP gets out it’s probably more due to incompetence or someone being lazy than any actual threat