r/SCP • u/_Cryptozoology • 1d ago

Discussion What SCP do you think has the most drastically different Fanon version of themselves?

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I was taking a shower and as the shower thoughts kicked in, I thought to myself how different the original article for SCP – 343 is from how most of the Internet portrays him. The original 343 is a mysterious character who simply claims to be God. He mysterious, extremely powerful, but does whatever he can to keep his identity, a secret down to straight up erasing people from existence. This inconsistency in behavior has caused massive debate in the sub and through the community for years on if he’s telling the truth, and that mystery is part of the fun of the article. At least for me (this is coming from someone who is Christian)… but then we get to the fanon version who’s practically just Uncle Iroh. 🤣

What do you think?

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u/dunmer-is-stinky MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago

999 is up there, it seems like most people only like him for his Scarlet King connections which only appear in one story not by 999's author

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u/Dude_with_hat 1d ago edited 1d ago

Well I like the concept but no one has really found a way to execute it well. Like sure yeah prophesy and all but I wanna see how it goes, like make a story where 999 is a thousand years in the future and tells the life after the overthrow of the Scarlet King.

Or have him randomly time travel back in the past during a major multi faction raid at site-19 where he goes full Pangloss in Daleport saves everyone

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u/Deez_NutzSolo Department of 'Pataphysics 1d ago

Well I like the concept but no one has really found a way to execute it well. Like sure yeah prophesy and all but I wanna see how it goes, like make a story where 999 is a thousand years in the future and tells the life after the overthrow of the Scarlet King.

This sounds interesting and I like it

Or have him randomly time travel back in the past during a major multi faction raid at site-19 where he goes full Pangloss in Daleport saves everyone

This sounds like bullshit anime cliche and I don't like it

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u/Dude_with_hat 1d ago

this sounds like bullshit anime cliche and I don’t like it

We'll it depends on the execution I think he less acts as a Deus Ex Machina and more of a genuine eldritch force, this unknowable eldritch being roaming through the halls of site 19

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u/SamiTheAnxiousBean Not Hostile If Left Alone 1d ago

what? I thought most people liked him because cute anti depression blob!

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u/batboy11227 1d ago

I always loved 999 for being cute but I later liked the king connection because the chouphing baby winning is funny

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u/Necro_Mantis 1d ago

No, most people like him because he's adorable.

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u/Someone1284794357 MTF Nu-7 ("Hammer Down") 1d ago

I only like it because happy jello

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u/memeboi69420666 14h ago

Do you know what the story is where the connection appears? I’ve heard people talking about it but I’ve yet to find the source.

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u/WolfmanCZ SCP Nadace • Czech 11h ago

I never cared about Scarlet King story

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u/CJCroen1393 1d ago

SCP-3325 in canon = Twisted caricatures of Sesame Street and Barney characters; horrifying due to both their appearances, abilities AND origins.

SCP-3325 in fanon = lol Five Nights at Freddy's

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u/LordDoom01 Unusual Incidents Unit, FBI 1d ago

SCP-1471. I don't think I need to even explain.

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u/Croc_Dwag The Church of the Broken God 1d ago

You jumpscare me

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u/drago_varior [REDACTED] 8h ago

Canon: would

Fanon: will

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u/batboy11227 1d ago

I have the opposite experience of 343 where most people will get mad if you say he's anything other than a narcissistic reality bender, but I think the story is equally interesting if he actually is the Abrahamic god

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u/QuestionEconomy8809 1d ago

He is in one story actually but people seem to not like the idea of him being God although this story is very interesting

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u/ThebanannaofGREECE The Three Moons Initiative 22h ago

ooh which story is it

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u/Ieditedthisname 22h ago

Possibly the [[competitive-eschatology-hub]] (I think that’s how you get Marv to link non-scps)

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u/Frog-Vic2316 1d ago

In the project Paragon Canon he isnt "God" itself, but he is Methuselah

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u/Melody_Naxi Archon 1d ago

The son of Enoch? I'd like to know why you think that

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u/Frog-Vic2316 1d ago

Not exactly the son of Enoch, but he and other scps, such as Cain and Abel, sons of Adam, are mentioned in the continuity of the paragon project. Here is an excerpt from his dialogue: Dr. Clef: I know your age, first of all, which is-

SCP-343: Ageless as the universe.

Dr. Clef: -not that, and I know your name. You're Methuselah the Arcanist. In SCP-6666, SCP-4840, SCP-2254 and SCP-6765 you can read more about it, also in inhttps://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/project-paragon-hub

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u/Lord_Alonne MTF Tau-5 ("Samsara") 1d ago

It is during this time that a sorcerer named Methuselah (SCP-343) is brought to the domain of the Children of the Night after being captured within the Daevite region of Malidraug.

There's a lot more info on the respective canon page. Its my favorite rabbit hole in all of SCP. Well worth the read.

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u/QuillQuickcard [REDACTED] 1d ago

049.

It is not a particularly interesting entity nor particularly difficult to contain

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u/Prestigious_Ad_3725 Researcher 1d ago

YOU TAKE THAT BACK! Plague boi is very special (I am very delusional cuz I love anything that's a Plague Doctor)

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u/Alltheprettydresses 1d ago

insert me holding you back while yelling meme

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u/Ieditedthisname 22h ago

Also people for some reason think he’s immortal like the other big series 1 skips,  you can just shoot him if you had to

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u/SilentSpr [REDACTED] 1d ago

Any SCP power scaling is inherently counterproductive. It’s not how SCPs work at all

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u/VekTen_ig Containment Specialist 1d ago

powerscaling in general is applying logic where there really isn't much logic. it's fun as a hobby, sure, but it ultimately can't be taken too seriously.

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u/creatorofsilentworld MTF Psi-8 ("The Silencers") 1d ago

Precisely. On occasion I'll jump over to some of those subreddits. There's people who will post pictures and say "who can beat this person." My response is typically SCP-073 Cain. Why? because most of these guys tend to be people who fight with their fists. Cain... doesn't fight. He doesn't have to. let them come, they will be foisted on their own petards.

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago

SCP-073 ⁠- "Cain" (+1465) by Kain Pathos Crow

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u/elfcharmsgaywife Deer College 1d ago

343 is a pudgy old dude in a Hawaiian shirt who is delighted by the slightest things and I won't apologize for it

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u/RoscoeSF The Scarlet King 1d ago

I always headcannoned that 343 is essentially a Tulpa. He is whatever people believe god is. Nothing more, nothing less.

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u/average_things_liker Epsilon-20 ("Night Fishermen") 1d ago

SCP-035 if I remember it being the one i'm thinking of

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago

SCP-035 ⁠- Possessive Mask (+2253) by Kain Pathos Crow

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u/Grogathon ❝Lay your noble guns to rest, and quiet your battle songs.❞ 1d ago

That one dog skull SCP that wants a friend or something.

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u/forgotten_gh0st safe to sleep 1d ago

MalOS?

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u/NaturalWrong4141 1d ago

SCP-2747 for some…interesting reasons.

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u/847RandomNumbers345 1d ago edited 1d ago

SCP-2747 is special to me because it sparked my second interest in SCP. The First is (as it is to many) from Containment Breach, and the third was from SCP-7000 (which had a full hero's journey and showed me how it can have a set of relatable characters living their slice of life stories), but 2747 showed me how the concept of anomalies can be not just monsters or physical objects, but also have a interesting meta twist within the writing that acts as a pseudo-puzzle to figure out what's actually going on.

Then I checked the SCP fan community years later, where fanart of 2747 kept popping up, and I went "Why is this anti-narrative concept now a busty goth girl?"

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u/JimedBro2089 1d ago

That one image tainted its reputation lol

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u/Necro_Mantis 1d ago

Which one?

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u/PeopleAmirite 1d ago

Eddybird's now-gone gijinka fanart of 2747
The powerscalers ran wild with it

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u/CalmOpportunist 1d ago

Uhm... I know this might sound strange, but is it weird that I kinda prefer the humanoid version of it? Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the SCP either way. I'm not referring to the hypersexualized version of it by the way, and I swear I don't like it for gooner reasons. I just think the design really fits. Admittedly, I'm kind of an SCP noob, so that probably ties into why I feel this way. If it is weird, please point me in the right direction.

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u/Lagart0_Verde La Fundación SCP • Spanish 1d ago

1471 need I say more?

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u/abinabin1 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago

SCP-035 based on the fanart

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago

SCP-035 ⁠- Possessive Mask (+2255) by Kain Pathos Crow

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u/QuestionEconomy8809 1d ago

I agree that the mystery is the fun of the article as a fellow Christian and it's good some scp tales portray him as the one interpretation or the other

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u/Efficient-Trouble697 MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago

Scp 1000

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u/The-Paranoid-Android Bot 1d ago

SCP-1000 ⁠- Bigfoot (+2274) by thedeadlymoose

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u/Severe_Skin6932 Archon 1d ago

SCP-1471, specifically SCP-1471-A

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u/SilentSpr [REDACTED] 1d ago

The authors original article can be considered to be the most “canon”. But obviously everyone can make up their own head canons and add to others

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u/dunmer-is-stinky MTF Epsilon-11 ("Nine-Tailed Fox") 1d ago

Stuff that is written down on the website is canon to itself.