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Aldon and Finnegan

A duo of anomalous artists who really don't like Are We Cool Yet? and have created several SCP objects.

A list of their appearances can be found here and here.

Alliterative Name: All of the tales that involve them have alliterative names.
Starving Artist: They're not exactly flush with cash. The main reason they decided to create SCP-1781 was because they were offered around 2000 dollars to do it.
Those Two Guys: The two are rarely, if ever seen apart.

General Bowe

A general in the United States military who was the Foundation's liaison to the US government, their primary funding for several years. He was practically obsessed with the weaponization of SCP objects, namely the ill-fated MTF Omega-7 "Pandora's Box". This came back to bite him, as the Omega-7 fiasco caused the Foundation to sever ties with him and decrease their dependence on US funding. Bowe plays a significant role in the "Resurrection" canon.

A list of his appearances can be found here.

General Ripper: He doesn't have any particular opponent in mind, but he'll still try to weaponize any SCP he can get his hands on. Even the peace doves!
Mysterious Backer: Not he himself, but he served as the Foundation's liaison to the United States at a time when they got the majority of their funding from them.
Small Role, Big Impact: The amount of works that Bowe makes an appearance in are in the low double-digits, but they are a large part of the reason that MTF Omega-7 failed.

dado

A brilliant pharmacist and entrepreneur with an absolutely terrible grasp of communication skills, marketing and especially the English language. He's responsible for the creation of several anomalous medicines and products whose effects tend to be as marvelous as they are deadly when not used correctly, or if he has a particularly bad misunderstanding of a client's request. More recently, he's begun diversifying his income with ventures into everything from mundane dry cleaning to anomalous convenience stores.

A list of his appearances can be found here. He also has his own hub page.

all lowercase letters:
- How he writes. He says it's because his uppercase key is broken. In a few instances, what appears to be hand-written text by dado is written in all-lowercase with the same excuse, and trying to write down his speech gets memetically warped into being similarly-lowercase. Stories where he has a working uppercase key are considered to be of questionable authenticity by the dado hub. At least one correspondence sees him correct someone who spells his name "Dado".
- One of his possible origins in SCP-5442 suggests that he was literally never taught about uppercase letters after he abandoned the identity of the Greedy Thing, as he was stuck in a computer with broken shift keys and did not have access to text with uppercase letters in the surrounding area, while another in Capitalize Key Broken suggests he became dado after the concept of capitalization was removed from him, resulting in him being unable to communicate in uppercase letters, and making it impossible to write his name in uppercase letters as well.
Ambiguously Human: It's hard to tell if dado is a foreigner with a bad grasp of English, or a foreigner with a bad grasp of human. The fact that he also markets to anomalous entities and never asks if you're human or not only makes things more confusing. SCP-4348 suggests he may be the latter, since his journal is written in perfect informal English, but at no point mentions any terms only humans would be familiar with (only human equivalents for scientific and historical terms easily looked up), suggesting he may be a Sufficiently Advanced Alien that happens to be totally unaware of Earthling lingo. SCP-5442 conversely offers the possibility that he's a demon possessing a computer with literal broken Shift keys due to a complicated Deal with the Devil involving a government agency. Capitalize Key Broken suggests he's a former Factory worker who came out a bit scrambled after putting himself through one of their devices, becoming detached from the concept of capitalization.
Ambiguous Syntax: dado often gets confused by this during conversations, mostly because he thinks very literally. Unfortunately, he doesn't know he's misunderstanding.
Berserk Button: The one known time he's made something that intentionally targeted a consumer in a bad way, it was because said consumers, in this case American police officers, were witnessed on TV assaulting his other customers. The results of that one were donut dispensers that worked fine for most, even the National Guard, but would cause cops to crap a live, flailing and terrified pig a few hours after consumption.
Character Catchphrase: "u trust dado".
Chemistry Can Do Anything: His "medicine" can do just about anything, from making hundreds of bananas appear inside someone's stomach to cooking a burger that flies instantaneously into the mouth of whoever buys it.
Cop Hater: dado does not like cops, thanks to seeing his customers getting assaulted by police officers; as a result, he created a new anomaly, a donut-dispensing machine that gives "special" donuts to cops which make them eject live, full-sized pigs out of their rectums (and the more offenses committed by the cop, the bigger the pig). He even ups the ante by trying to advertise the machine directly to law enforcement personnel though unfortunately his tentative grasp of the English language makes his placations...unconvincing at best. He later extends this hatred to the Foundation after they dismantle the aforementioned donut stands, producing a new donut just for Foundation personnel made with dado's "special blend"—which happens to be a stale donut with frosting made of pig feces.
Crippling Overspecialization: The one time he made a product that satisfied all of the client's requests to a tee, it worked in such a way that only the client would maximize its benefits, while anyone else who took the product would end up being harmed by the effects.
Deal with the Devil: In SCP-5442, dado is a demon that can switch places and function with something the summoner loves the most in exchange for boons. The US ATF originally had a UIU equivalent called the Department of Anomalous Drugs and Ordinance, until director Timothy McKnight sold it out to protect the DADO's members from being fired by the Foundation through the Reagan Plan (essentially a means of idiot-proofing the UIU and related agencies by seizing their assets if the government is too inept or corrupt to handle them). The demon tries to betray McKnight, until he informs them that by controlling the DADO, they have lots they could gain themselves...
Everyone Has Standards:
- dado makes it clear he creates anomalous medicines and such, not recreational drugs. He created energy drinks for a client to party with but refused the idea of creating something that would get them high.
- He also disapproves of Police Brutality in general, creating SCP-5740 as a means of punishing Rabid and Dirty Cops by having them crap out pigs upon eating his donuts.
- dado also consistently pays his US income taxes. While said taxes are delivered via missile to a rural post office in the state of Washington (not Washington, D.C.) in the form of random valuable items, dado has only "filed" later than January once (far ahead of the official deadline), and seems to be accurately calculating payment with no attempts at hiding his true, apparently quite substantial, income.
Genius Ditz: dado is a brilliant pharmacist who can make medicine that does just about anything. Unfortunately, he is a terrible communicator and often misunderstands requests. Even when he does understand a request, his solutions are distinctly off-the-wall, as seen with SCP-3521.
Greed: Two of his possible origins paint him as an avaricious spirit. SCP-4348 makes him an all-powerful alien who manipulates spacetime for a quick buck, while SCP-5442 makes him a literal greed demon who assumed his current identity after his last summoner gave him his powers through their contract and proceeded to teach him about capitalism. A third, Capitalize Key Broken, gives him a different association with greed by having him originally belong to the Factory, whose philosophy is capitalizing on things to their utmost, getting as much profit as they can out of their resources, and after they cut ties with him because they thought he'd lose them money, he decided to create a company which would bring in enough profit they'd take him back.
Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: dado is completely unaware of his poor grasp of English.
I Know You're Watching Me: An incognito Foundation agent investigates dado's donut shop and asks why he's giving donuts to cops that make them shit out full-sized pigs. The agent and dado have a perfectly polite conversation that ends with dado saying "thank u again for contact dado-nut customer servicings. u have nice day foundationman".
Literal-Minded: dado doesn't do well with turns of phrase or words that sound identical.
Mad Doctor: Well, mad pharmacist.
Multiple-Choice Past: Either a Sufficiently Advanced Alien that knows English but not humanisms and is more in control of his situation than he lets on (in SCP-4348), a demon that took over an anomalous drug agency in exchange for preventing its ex-members from being poached by the Foundation (in SCP-5442), or a Factory worker who came out scrambled after putting himself through a device that converts people into information and back again (in Capitalize Key Broken).
Obliviously Evil: dado's not malicious, just prone to misunderstanding his clients' requests and possibly too-removed from humanity to properly grasp their nuances. Unfortunately, his misunderstandings often result in some prime nightmare fuel.
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: A couple of times dado tries to speak live. It's in the same broken syntax, but in a bizarre inconsistent high pitched accent halfway between Latka, Popeye and a space alien.
Poor Communication Kills:
- His entire motif. He misunderstands euphemisms, syntax, homophones and even forgets to ask if the customer's human when he's marketing to anomalous beings too.
- It's even part of one of his origins. In Capitalize Key Broken, he misunderstands a co-worker grumbling that he'd been dealing with the concept cluster of capitalization in the sense of capitalizing letters as having been dealing with the concept cluster of capitalization in the sense of profiting, and decides to put himself through the device his co-worker had been experimenting with in the hope of making himself profitable to the Factory, but ends up mentally scrambled and without the ability to capitalize letters.
Side Effects Include...: When getting into actual marketing rather than commissions, he at least had the decency of bringing up the fact the product was not for human consumption.
Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: Jeff Bezos seems to be one for him, overlapping with Unknown Rival.
Stylistic Suck: Anything he tries that isn't actual product effectiveness generally turns out pretty terrible, especially packaging (beaten-up aluminum cans with sharpie scribbles) and advertising (comic sans on a white background for TV ads).
Sufficiently Advanced Alien: The recovered notebook from SCP-4348 suggests he may not be of this world. To elaborate, he has contacts to somewhere on Pluto that's giving him capital, is keeping several universal and historical constants in check just to prop up his businesses, has true aspirations in supporting an unseen starship industry, is more unfamiliar with Earthling lingo than the English language itself, and is on the run from extradimensional and/or extraterrestrial invaders that mob him shortly after he closes up shop three years ahead of time in 2017.
Suspiciously Specific Denial:
- His reaction when the Foundation tell him they find it hard to believe that giving cops donuts that make them shit pigs isn't intended to be a political statement:
  it is true. certainly is having nothing 2 do with dado seeing peoples on dado television (now on sale at dado electronics mart and fish emporiums) being smack about by police. no sir says dado. nothing 2 do with so many fine dado customer being harass and threaten and beat upon by police. dado certainly is feeling no obligation for dado to come to defense of consumerbase. dado certainly is not taking stand against fine local policemen, only sell upon policemen some fine dado-nut. all policemen like dado nut.
- A television advertisement for the donut shops also displays lines such as "thank u mr cop," "definitely not trap," "all cop r friend to dado," "donut not dangerous" and "why would dado lie".
- He wants to make it very clear that he has no fear of spiders. He thinks they're gross, and he'd like if you could get them away from him, but he is not scared of them.
Sweets of Temptation: One of his business enterprises is SCP-5740, a series of donut-dispensing machines that advertises free donuts for cops. If a cop eats one of those donuts, it causes a live, full-sized pig to magically appear inside their rectum which they have to crap out over the course of a few hours (and the dirtier the cop, the bigger the pig—the worst cops have gotten pigs weighing up to 500 pounds). When asked why this was happening by an incognito Foundation agent, dado answered with a Suspiciously Specific Denial about how it had absolutely nothing to do with seeing his customers being harassed and beaten up by cops on live TV.
Third-Person Person: dado frequently refers to himself in the third person due to his poor grasp of English.
Unusual Euphemism: SCP-4348 suggests his references to "Amazon Prime" might actually be referring to an entirely different kind of delivery, since he can't get his goods if the speed of light or Planck's constant are out-of-sync with what we understand them to be, implying they're shipped from off-world.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: In one story, his stupidity manages to frustrate an AI meant to help people write SCPs so much that it ascends to godhood from shear Unstoppable Rage and ends all life on earth.
Villains Out Shopping: He's more Obliviously Evil then actually villainous, but SCP-888-EX sent the Foundation into a tizzy when bizarre, seemingly threatening flyers and billboards show up from dado promising "cleaner clothes and dirtier skin" at a certain location. It turns out to be a legitimate, perfectly non-anomalous laundromat and tanning salon that dado bought and operates, which he was trying to advertise for in typically confusing and ham-fisted fashion.
Wild Card: He'll gladly do requests for assassins and scammers, but was also willing to work pro bono for a child with cancer; whoever makes a request is good with dado, so long as they're not competitors.
Yank the Dog's Chain: When he ventures out into Minecraft cheats, he finally makes an anomaly that works as intended, a potion designed to help you autoclick without getting busted by making your finger vibrate in the real world (even if you have to chug a full cubic meter of milk to turn it off). Then the Foundation discovers his next product in this line, a potion to grant an undetectable "killaura" hack. In usual fashion, this turns out to blast the user with lethal amounts of radiation, thus creating an "Instant Death" Radius in the real world.

Eric

A mysterious Type Green child (or teenager) who creates dangerous Living Toys as part of his desire to have friends. His last name is Herring in the What A Wonderful World canon.

A list of his appearances can be found here.

All There in the Manual: "The Leak" reveals an interesting thing or two about Eric, straight from the author themselves; apparently, he is a Reality Warper. Oh, and he does drugs.
Child of Two Worlds: In What a Wonderful World, Eric's father was a non-anomalous black man and his mother a reality-bending white woman.
Children Are Innocent: In contrast (or sometimes in combination) with Creepy Child below, some stories imply that he's a genuinely nice kid who's simply too young and/or sheltered to understand or anticipate the consequences of his actions.
Creepy Child: Considering what his toys and other possessions are like, he is this for some authors.
Depending on the Author: Is he a malicious Creepy Child or an innocent but misguided reality-warper? Is he still a young child or has he grown up? It varies from story to story.
Friendless Background: Most works involving him, be they SCP articles or Tales, imply that him creating psychotic living toys is the result of him being extremely lonely.
The Ghost: There used to be an entire tag devoted to him until the mods decided that it made more sense to keep Eric an enigmatic, unknown individual, invoking this trope in the process.
Heel–Face Turn:
- This short story implies that he grew up to be a particularly important member of the Foundation, if not an overseer.
- In SCP-4688, the revelation that he was manipulated by the Maxwellists into helping them forcibly trap people's minds on the internet, often killing their real bodies, drives him to help the Foundation neutralize the SCP.
Hidden Depths: When SCP-4046 asked him what he wants to be when he grows up, he responded with "Happy".
I Just Want to Have Friends: A lot of the anomalies Eric created were made to be friends or to help him make friends. The apparently fake fan letters posted in his magazine also imply that he really wants people to like him.
It Runs in the Family: His reality bending and toymaking abilities follow in the footsteps of his mother, Wondertainment's original Toy Tinkerer.
Mook Maker: Many SCPs have turned out to be his "toys," and according to Word of God, he's the one who brought them to life. A few of them, like his calculator, don't like being separated from him. According to the author's comments on ERICS MEGA ZINE, Eric is also the creator of a ton of other SCP objects which he brought into reality unknowingly just by imagining them.
My God, What Have I Done?: In SCP-4688, he discovers that the "mind control helmets" he created to make his parents buy him toys have been being used by the Maxwellists, and is manipulated into helping them make more. When he realizes that they're using them to forcibly upload people to the internet, often killing their real bodies, he is utterly horrified and uses his powers to send the Foundation a series of profuse apologies along with a boatload of valuable intel on the Maxwellists.
Named by the Adaptation: Eric was just known by his given name until he was provided the surname "Herring" in the What A Wonderful World canon.
Reality Warper: How he brought his toys to life. He appears to be a relatively low end one though.
Related in the Adaptation: One canon, What a Wonderful World, affirms that his parents were Chester Williams and Maria Herring, the two founders of Dr. Wondertainment. According to And I Think To Myself..., Eric is considered by the company as a toy-making prodigy, with a "Herring Hall of Fame" made in his name.
Stylistic Suck: He uses stylistic suck in a style similar to Sweet Bro and Hella Jeff for a weird magazine he writes called ERICS MEGA ZINE.
Vague Age: General consensus is that he's a Creepy Child, and indeed, most of his creations are children's toys. However, testing logs on SCP-168 (his caculator) with the Desire Camera describe the person 168 wants to be with most as a teenager and 168 itself claims to have been alive for twelve years. Made even more confusing is that Eric was used as a test subject for SCP-4046, which can only activate with 100% certainty if used by a child in the 9-11 age range, but will occasionally activate for children in the 12-16 age range as well. Eric's didn't activate, but it's unclear if this means he was too old or his request was invalid. And this is all without mentioning the possibility that Eric isn't even a single person or a human being at all.

Jean Durand & Mátyás Nemeş

Drs. Jean Durand and Mátyás Nemeş

Ostensibly

, a pair of eccentric doctors from 20th century France and Hungary, respectively, who create terrifying engines of war. Both seek to end all wars, but approach their task with completely different mindsets; Durand intends to use his inventions to make the very concept of warfare a terrifying and unthinkable thing, while Nemeş seeks peace through conquest. However, neither are at all what they seem...

In general

Ambiguously Human: Both of them. Nemeş borders more on Humanoid Abomination, with Durand even implying that he isn't human at all, but is literally wearing someone's skin. Durand himself is heavily implied to not really be human, as he says he will lead "these humans" to peace.
Body Horror: Their weapons do absolutely terrifying things to the human body, such as fast-growing malignant tumors, leaving men's souls trapped in their own blown-apart corpses, and inducing hallucinations that make the victim tear themselves apart to escape. And that's just scratching the surface.
Humanoid Abomination: One or both are implied to be this.
Long-Lived: Implied-to-stated with both. In 1917, Durand recalled first encountering Nemeş in 1854 at the Battle of Inkerman, more than 60 years prior to the Battle of Husiatyn Woods. Durand is confirmed as having been alive since the French and Indian War, namely due to his work with SCP-2776 following the Braddock Expedition of 1755. This puts the doctor at an age of at least 162.
Not So Similar: Both believe that world peace can be brought about through violent ways; Durand by making warfare so horrifying that it'll no longer be considered an option by anyone, Nemeş by conquering the world to unite humanity under a single uncontested regime.
Uncertain Doom: It is unknown what happened to Durand and Nemeş following the Battle of Husiatyn Woods.
Well-Intentioned Extremist: Both of the scientists seek simply to bring an end to war once and for all, but their methods are absolutely horrifying.

Dr. Jean Durand

Bavarian Fire Drill: Unlike what Nemeş had with the Germans, Durand did not appear to have any ranking in the Imperial Russian Army. By offering his services and promising victory with his arsenal, Durand asserted himself into a Russian regiment so thoroughly even their superior officer conceded command to him.
The men took it upon themselves to elect me commander, citing my knowledge of the new weaponry as well as experience with tactics. I accepted command graciously, although my mind turned to thoughts of mice selecting a king from among their doctors. The erstwhile leader of the group, a Cpt. Toropov, seemed thankful to be relieved of his duties.
Beethoven Was an Alien Spy: By proxy. Durand was involved in creating SCP-2776, an automaton that was the same George Washington that led America through the Revolutionary War. He might've also been the creator of SCP-172, another automaton that served the House of Romanov in the months prior to the Battle of Husiatyn Woods.
For Want Of A Nail: Off-mentioned in Ties That Bind, some of Durand's schematics were rediscovered in the 1990s. The man who found them, Vincent Anderson, went off of the findings to start his business venture into paratech, Anderson Robotics.
French Jerk: While not done out of malice, his attempts as help procured villainous results upon both sides of the battle.
Meaningful Name: Fitting his mysterious nature, his name (or alias) is equivalent to "John Doe". "Jean" is the French cognate of "John," and "Monsieur Durand" a French variant of an homme de la rue.
Omniglot: Durand can read or write in English, French, Russian, presumably Hungarian, and an unknown language resembling Indus script.
War Is Hell: Durand's intention isn't just to merely Invoke this trope, but completely blow through it by introducing military equipment which is so horrifying that the mere concept of war itself terrifies humanity out of even considering it.

Mátyás Nemeş

All Germans Are Nazis: Preceding the Third Reich, Nemeş wrote political pieces that argued that since Humans Are Superior, order should be brought to the world by will of might under Germanic rule. He also reasoned that there were some people from the lands down southeast deserving of death.
Berserk Button: Betrayal.
While traitors and radicals are hung properly in the manner of the dogs that they are, there is no execution sufficient to quell the embers of treachery that burn in the hearts of the Balkanites.
Kaiserreich: Nemeş was active during the Second Reich and was a vocal supporter for the regency of Franz Joseph I of Austria.
Dig Your Own Grave: Nemeş' sentencing for deserters of his unit, which he made especially punishing.
Meatgrinder Surgery: Nemeş' response to wounds is to practice this on himself. Borrowing from donors who are still alive.
Up Through the Ranks: By the time of the Kerensky offensive, Nemeş (then a lieutenant) was promoted by Gen. Felix Graf von Bothmer to the position of advisor for a unit in the German Empire's Southern Army.

Adam el Asem

The first king of men, who ruled the city of Audapaupadopolis before recorded history. As the father of Kain and Able, Adam has been mentioned in several articles but never appeared directly. The most complete description of him is from the account of Set el Adam, his third son.

Adaptational Villainy: Biblical Adam can be described as flawed, but at least he wasn't a cruel tyrant and conqueror like he is in SCP-4840.
The Dreaded: The Children of the Night were terrified of him, and kept him confined in the deepest level of their most secure prison.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Asem is described as having "loved no living thing more" than his youngest son Seth.
Founder of the Kingdom: While he may not have been the first human (or he may have been, depends on the author), he was the first king of men.
Gold-Colored Superiority: In SCP-4840, he is described as "golden and beautiful," and depicted as a golden man in the murals of Audapaupadopolis (although whether this is in-universe artistic symbolism or an accurate depiction of Asem's appearance is unclear, especially as his sons all have normal skin tones).
Meaningful Name: In-Universe, the word "Asem" means "IS," representing Adam's power over creation and his godlike abilities. It also bears a resemblance to the Hebrew word "Hashem," or "the Name," a term used to refer to God.
The Ghost: Despite playing a big part in the Kaktusverse as the first king of men, and being the father of two prominent SCPs, he's never appeared in person, only in secondhand accounts.
Reality Warper: Reading between the lines in several articles implies that he was one, and an immensely powerful one at that.
Start of Darkness: His path to becoming a tyrant and conqueror started when he reached into the heavens and plucked out a star in the shape of an iron crown at the request of his son.

Kit

A unlucky, brain damaged, drug addict who keeps encountering bizarre things. His adventures are collected here.

Addled Addict: Badly addicted to a Fantastic Drug called bloom. It has left him out of touch with reality. And his disconnection to reality is made worse by his very real encounters with the supernatural, as he can't always tell the difference between what is a hallucination and what is a real supernatural experience.
The Cassandra: He has had several very real encounters with the supernatural but his brother, who secretly is a Foundation agent, dismisses his claims as delusions due to Kit's drug problems.
Cosmic Plaything: He somehow keeps running into all kinds of anomalies.
Locked Out of the Loop: Both his brother and his ex-boyfriend are members of The Foundation. He doesn't know this.
Loser Protagonist: He is a drug addict and his life is in shambles.
Sanity Slippage: His mental stability was always a bit questionable but it really started to go downhill after his boyfriend broke up with him and erased his memories, which left him with brain damage.
Unfazed Everyman: His frequent encounters with anomalies, his drug problems, and his mental instability has made him used to seeing some incredibly strange things.

The Kind Man

This is not an entry; it is a hole where someone has passed through on their journey as they seek a story that they love enough to stay with 'till The End. Their footsteps can still be felt, impressed into the pages.

Like Pangloss, The Kind Man is a mysterious character who appears in the background of several SCPs. Sometimes he doesn't seem to make an appearance at all but his character tag is present on a page anyway as the only obvious hint of his presence. He may be the creator of some of these SCPs or he may briefly show up to perform a simple act of kindness. He also has assisted the Foundation with dealing with troublesome humanoid anomalies under the identity of Dr. K.M██.

A list of his appearances and associated SCPs can be found here.

The Ghost: He usually does not make a proper appearance in the SCP documents that have his tag. Even when he does make an in person appearance he is never given a proper description.
Intrepid Fictioneer: It is strongly implied that he is a metafictional entity similar to Fred and Murphy Law as he is described as traveling between stories.
Mysterious Protector: He frequently show up to creatures and people who are suffering and does something small to ease their pain just a little bit.
Mercy Kill: He shot, or will shoot, the two children trapped in SCP-2909.
Nice Guy: Everyone who meets him calls him a kind man.
Only Known by Their Nickname: Everyone calls him "a kind man" and he has never been given any other name. He even uses this as his name when infiltrating the Foundation. It isn't known if he even has a real name.
Perception Filter: The Foundation does not seem to be aware that all of the mysterious persons who are all called "Kind Man" are the same person. He even has infiltrated the Foundation using that same description as his name and they still don't catch on and no one even comments on the odd name. The only time he has really caught their attention is when he visits a large number of SCPs in a single night.
Psychopomp: He acts as a guide for the children who become SCP-747 when they die.
Santa Claus: He probably isn't actually Santa, but he is able to play the role very well by somehow being able to visit an impossible number of SCPs in a single Christmas.
You Can't Fight Fate: He has the ability to travel between stories but he is unable to make a story have a happy ending if it isn't meant to and is limited to only doing small acts of kindness to make the suffering of the characters a little better. He cannot save SCP-682-CU from dying of neglect but is able to give it a little comfort.

Gods and Divines

The Scarlet King

The Scarlet King / Khahrahk / Harak of the Third Brood / Khnith-hgor / Shormaush Urdal

Artistic representation of the Scarlet King, by SunnyClockwork

Formerly known as Harak, son of the Third Brood, this mysterious figure is an ancient demonic god, untold amounts of eons old, whom the SCP Foundation apparently keeps at bay via Procedure 110-Montauk and serves as the main antagonistic force in most of the mythos. There is also a SCP-001 Proposal entry

of him.

Abusive Parents: Let's see, the guy forced all seven of his daughters to be his brides, completely broke them physically and mentally (save for A'habbat), and has been fathering legions of demons and monsters with them to continue his war on creation. Yeah, that totally sounds like Father of the Year material.
Always Someone Better: SCP-5317 presents a morbid scenario where the Scarlet King is a second banana to SCP-2747's anafabula. And in a sense, it's a perfectly logical conclusion; the anafabula purges entire universes from existence just for playing out the wrong way, whereas the Scarlet King merely kills worlds once the seventh chain breaks, the seventh "bride" gives birth, or something like that... which, despite its supposed inevitability, hardly ever seems to happen in practice. Suspicious, isn't it?
Ambiguous Situation:
- Very little of him is actually known besides the fact he is an immensely evil elder deity who represents a major threat to the multiverse and is also connected to certain SCPs, most notably 231. And since there's no canon, what he truly is tends to vary a lot. He's most commonly portrayed as a demonic tyrant who once fell from divinity and got sealed in an alternate dimension at some point, but is now trying to find his way back in order to bring the Apocalypse. Tufto's proposal, however, noticeably suggests he is actually the manifestation of the clash between ancient feudalism and newer enlightenment, having taken on a form of its own due to all the suffering caused by the violent contrast of two extremely different ideologies.
- Some have also speculated that the gargantuan demon imprisoned within SCP-2317 may be the Big Red Bastard himself, but Dr. Clef (the author) personally considers both beings to be completely separate characters. But given there is no canon, it is ultimately up to the reader to decide whether both are one and the same or not.
- SCP 6140 has its own unique take on the Scarlet King that adds to his ambiguity. The Scarlet King doesn't even exist at all; he was completely made up by SCP-140's author to downplay the role of the Daevite matriarchy. Of course, that leads to a new question of who or what is causing the anomalies related to him.
Apocalypse Cult: The Children of the Scarlet King that worship him. In Tufto's proposal, they want to cause the Apocalypse so he stops existing in his active form; they believe the Nature Is Not Nice world he would create is better than anything modern.
Arch-Enemy: According to Dust and Blood, his most hated enemy is the Tree of Knowledge, a metaphor for the Wanderer's Library. The Burning of the Library is often used as a Sign Of The End Times in the Foundation universe.
Archnemesis Dad: To his youngest daughter A'habbat, the only one of his brides who tried to defy him. She raised her children by him to become mighty hunters and heroes, hoping that they might one day overthrow the children of her sisters.
As Long as There Is Evil: According to Tufto's proposal, he's not really an entity of his own, but rather the embodiment of the conflict between modernism and pre-modernism and the suffering brought about as a result, and was more specifically focused and manifested when the SCP Foundation began its activities. Its essence will remain as long as modernism and premodernism clash, but the SCP Foundation is what allows it to exist as the Scarlet King.
Been There, Shaped History: He's strongly implied to be the source of multiple evil figures in most ancient cultures of the world, including the traditional depiction of Satan in Christianity.
Big Bad: He's consistently portrayed as the most prominent threat in the Foundation's lore, as well as those specifically focused on the mythos surrounding him. Even ones that aren't actually him to a slight degree, such as 2317, due to his past-altering Clap Your Hands If You Believe properties. In Tufto's proposal, he may be something of a candidate for Big Bad of the Foundation as a whole, as his very existence will always be something that runs counter to the Foundation's own existence.
Big Bad Duumvirate: He's commonly portrayed as being in cahoots with other fellow evil eldritch gods, most notably The Hanged King and his court. SCP-6747 implies that he may be part of one with the anafabula from SCP-2747, whether or not he's aware of it.
Big Red Devil: He's a massive, cataclysmic entity of pure, undiluted evil and destruction that is usually associated with the color red. They don't call him "Scarlet King" for nothing. And he's also quite a Satanic Archetype on his own.
Clap Your Hands If You Believe: In Tufto's proposal, he is actually the conflict between modernism and premodernism given life (referred to as the 'law of blood' vs the 'law of concrete'), and its form and even its past is dependent on what its believers and worshippers perceive it to be.
Color Motif: Scarlet, obviously. He gained the motif after the death of his wife, Sanna, as he emerged bathed in her blood.
The Corruptor: He's the villain responsible for turning Mr. Redd into an Ax-Crazy psychopath. Some stories imply he's the one who turned Able into a murderous Blood Knight.
Create Your Own Villain: In Tufto's proposal, he is essentially the sheer essence of Anarcho-privitism manifesting itself as a long-forgotten god of ancient humanity representing the most primal emotions and acts of our species.
Dark Is Evil: At least, he came from the dark, arising from the Abyss with the intent of destroying the Tree of Life and the rest of creation.
Deity of Human Origin: According to Tufto's proposal, he's actually the manifestation of our conflicting philosophies regarding modernism and premodernism and all the chaos caused by them, having gained consciousness and will of its own.
Depraved Bisexual: In "Three Short Scenes About Death," he's depicted as mistreating a harem of enslaved concubines that are "men, women, and others," implying he's actually a Depraved Pansexual.
Do Not Call Me "Paul": Downplayed as he shows no particular aversion to his birthname, but the fact that no one in his court calls him Harak implies that he prefers to go by his many titles. In fact, the only one who dares to refer to him as Harak of the Third Brood is the All-Death.
Dystopia Justifies the Means: In Tufto's proposal, his followers wish to enslave the whole world to him to show the meaninglessness of modernism and premodernism.
Eldritch Abomination: A powerful Lovecraftian demon who aims to destroy all of existence itself. In the 001 entry, he doesn't even have a true form, only defined by the meme of his own existence.
The End of the World as We Know It: Just as with all the other skips in his mythos, if he manages to breach into our reality, the world is doomed. In Tufto's proposal, that's what the Foundation thinks he will do, and so he will.
Fire and Brimstone Hell: His home dimension is heavily implied to be this, with all the red smoke and screaming coming from rifts as it opens and the entity's fire motifs.
God-Eating: In his origin story, he rose to power and declared his war on creation by devouring his fellow divine brothers and sisters.
God of Evil: A god of evil and chaos worshipped by the Children of the Scarlet King.
Greater-Scope Villain:
- Is by far the most powerful evil in the mythos (well, some times), but has not been encountered directly by the Foundation. According to SCP-4231, he's also indirectly responsible for Clef's insanity.
- He created the Daevites and the Children of The Scarlet King to worship him and spread chaos. He is also responsible for inspiring James Anderson to create his vile Factory. SCP-3838-8 is another tribe inspired by him to do his evil acts. The citizens of SCP-4547 formed a cult called the Blood Children in worship of him.
- Some stories imply he is partly responsible for Abel becoming a murderous Blood Knight.
- Plenty of SCPs are connected to him in some way. For example, SCP-682 and 999 are his kids and SCP-035 and Bobble the Clown are members of his court.
The Heartless: Tufto's Proposal depicts him as one for basically all civilized life in the universe as the order of modernity overtakes the chaos of premodernity. Notably, as the Foundation took more and more steps to order itself throughout its formative years, the Scarlet King grew stronger and more focused.
Humiliation Conga: "When We Came Home" and some other tales concerning his death make sure it's as humiliating as possible: Not only is he defeated, Dr. Wondertainment is one of the saints that do him in, his soul is claimed by the least of the Brothers, and the Library he worked so hard to burn is immediately rebuilt.
I Have Many Names:
- Was first called Khahrahk, and later Khnith-hgor, before laying with the subjugated goddess Sanna for seven nights. Upon rising in her blood, he is known by the name of Shormaush Urdal, the Scarlet King. If SCP-2317 is not a Red Herring, his true name is "(REDACTED), Devourer of Worlds".
- The King is also known by a multitude of other epithets, including Crimson Monarch, King of The Darkness Below, Crimson Khan, Red Shah, The King who rose from the Bleeding, Defiler of Worlds, Lord of the Throne of Despair and even Satan, among others. All of them sound so friendly, don't ya think?
Immortals Fear Death: Because he has killed more people than anyone else in all of creation, The All-Death visits him yearly on his birthday to remind him that he will inevitably die someday, which he is terrified of. He allows his second-in-command to witness this as a warning that this yearly terror will pass to them if they ever betray and overthrow him.
Killed Off for Real:
- This happens in both "When We Came Home" and "The Real Adventures in Capitalism," two Tales chronicling the end of the multiverse in the "Verse of an Endless Song" series and the "Et Tam Deum Petivi" canon. The King succeeds in burning the Library, but all forces of divinity and humanity come together to halt him, including the rebuilt Mekhane and even the Three Brothers Death let their host march on the King. He is ultimately killed by seven surviving warriors^note with his soul being personally harvested by the Youngest Brother Death followed by Isabel Wondertainment and Eldest Brother Death setting out to remake the multiverse.
- SCP-6659 has him unceremoniously disposed of by the titular machine as a show of its power and the overconfidence of the alternate Foundations in the Deepwell articles.
Luke, I Might Be Your Father: Is usually believed to be the father of SCP-682 and SCP-999. On the receiving end on this trope, he is speculated to be the nephew of Yaldabaoth, a god worshiped against by the followers of Sarkicism.
Multiple-Choice Past: Due to the lack of canon, the Scarlet King's true nature often changes a lot, but there are four prominent backstories for him:
- "Dust and Blood," the most famous and popular one, portrays him as a god from The Darkness Below who was born with the curse of self awareness, who came to perceive existence as a cruel, painful fate and fell into disgrace when he devoured his own siblings, becoming a demonic warlord who has declared an eternal war on Creation which will last until the end of time.
- "Channeling Flows" portrays him as an ancient denizen of Alagadda who was sealed away into another dimension by multiple alchemists, many of whom lost their lives in the process.
- Tufto's SCP-001 Proposal portrays him as a conceptual entity created at the boundaries of the modern and the premodern, that is, the manifestation of two brutally contradictory ideologies under the guise of an ancient god.
- SCP-6747 also portrays him as a consequence of the Foundation's actions, but here it's directly the result of an ill-advised attempt to use pataphysics to revive Dr. Everett King after being Killed Offscreen in the ADMONITION saga. For complicated reasons, King ends up becoming a corrupted instance of SCP-2747's anafabula, then is implied to use its powers to create the concept of the being that would become the Scarlet King. Here, the Scarlet King is a conceptual entity that exploits the Story-Breaker Power trope to drive worlds to boring and unsatisfying endings, which are ultimately what its interpretation of the anafabula looks for when consuming stories.
- SCP-6140 portrays him as a fictitious entity created by Thomas Bruce, the creator of SCP-140, as a way to frame Daevite culture in a patriarchal fashion.
Nature Is Not Nice: In Tufto's proposal, he's the very concept of the trope being given new permutations by those who fight against "old" concepts.
Omnicidal Maniac: Wants very much to destroy the whole world and enslave any survivors. In Tufto's proposal, his cult sees the conflict that the King himself truly -IS- and believe the only way to assuage it is to show that no one has any agency or control of their lives. All must surrender to Chaos to satisfy the Scarlet King's wrath.
Order Versus Chaos: In Tufto's proposal, he's practically the embodiment of the Chaos to the Foundation's Order; in a sense, he only exists due to the conflict in the first place.
Parental Incest: Forced his daughters to be his brides after Sanna gave birth to them, and fathered abominations with them. According to some canons, SCP-682 is one such creature, and is merely a hatchling.
The Power of Hate: In Tufto's proposal, this is what sustains its form as the Scarlet King, the chaos against the order of the Foundation.
Satanic Archetype: He used to be a god who fell from grace after devouring all of his brothers and sisters, cursing him to be a deadly demon who is a constant menacing presence through the Foundation's mythos.
Story-Breaker Power: Exploited in SCP-6747. Here, the Scarlet King is a conceptual entity that is indeed so powerful that to act would be to rob the reader of an interesting plot... but that dissatisfaction is what SCP-2747's anafabula needs to sustain itself, so it tricks what is either its own creation or just an all-powerful tool into using that power to make a boring story so that it can devour it.
Straw Nihilist: His entire motivation. When he was born as Kharahk, he was a weak, small and pathetic being feeling an unbearable amount of pain and loneliness in The Darkness Below. After consuming all of his brothers and sisters, his hatred increased and he cursed the Creation and its Creator, deeming existence as nothing but a painful, twisted punishment and vowing to destroy it.
Unwitting Pawn: SCP-6747 suggests he may be serving the function and/or goals of the anafabula or an entity related to it, likely without his knowledge. This allows them to wreak untold destruction much more efficiently than he can while the Scarlet King himself remains none the wiser, thinking that the Arc Number seven and the role of embodying chaos are his, merely an "chained idol" of the power that's actually in control.
Villains Out Shopping: The tale Dust and Shopper's Rewards shows him going to Walmart, apparently the closest place on Earth to the Darkness Below.
Voice of the Legion: In the short story "Three Short Scenes About Death," the King's voice is described as similar to "the chittering of a billion infinitesimal insects," and swirling and constantly moving. His voice also was neither "high nor low nor cacophonous nor methodical," simply just being.
You Cannot Kill An Idea: In the light version of the revised Keter Duty SCP-001 proposal, the Scarlet King is ultimately felled by weaponizing the logic of 'pataphysics: he may end up destroying as many worlds as he pleases, but the narratives they leave behind as understood by S. Andrew Swann and I.H. Pickmann's proposals remain - and because of the authors and their tropes, that's all that matters.

Sanna

A goddess subjugated and raped by Scarlet King, who died after she was forced to give birth to their seven daughters.

Beauty Equals Goodness: She was said to have been both wise and beautiful.
Death by Childbirth: After Khnith-hgor raped her for seven days and seven nights, he rose in her blood as she gave birth to seven daughters, and took for himself the title of the Scarlet King.
Defiant Captive: "She had not remained in the King's realm willingly, but her escape had been prevented by circumstance. She obeyed the king with her words, but not with her soul, and for this goodness she is mourned".
Meaningful Name: Her name is a variation of Sedna, the Inuit goddess of the ocean. Her title is the Mother of Those Beneath Us, a place also known as the Darkness Below and described as a sea.
Satellite Character: Sanna has little characterization of her own, and exists mainly as part of the mythos of the Scarlet King.

Brides of the Scarlet King

In General

The seven daughters that were born from the rape of Sanna by the Scarlet King. Forced to become the King's brides, they gave birth to seven legions of monsters that formed the King's army in his war against all Creation.

Child by Rape: They were born from the King laying with Sanna for seven days and seven nights.
A Day in the Limelight: Most of their characterisation comes from the Foundation tale "Dust and Blood".
Historical Villain Upgrade: In-Universe. According to SCP-6140, the Seven Brides are actually the Seven Mothers, powerful matriarch goddesses in Daevastan's mythology. The "anthropologist" that created SCP-140 was an extremely bigoted, arrogant man who believed the idea of an empire ruled by women was a mistake in the country's historical records. Combined with his fascination with the darker aspects of Daeva history and overall orientalism, his "chronicle" depicted the historical female rulers as the abused daughter-brides of an evil god.
Monster Progenitor: Mothers of the Scarlet King’s armies.
Mother of a Thousand Young: Enough young to create entire armies of monsters and soldiers.
Parental Incest: Forced to lay with their father to create legions of monsters for his army.
Satellite Character: The daughter-brides only exist as part of their father's story, showing what a horrid bastard he is, and have very limited characterization on their own. Even A'habbat, whose role in "Dust and Blood" is greater than her sisters, is only defined by her resistance against Harak. SCP-6140 suggests this to have been an Enforced Trope in-universe, as the writer of SCP-140 wished to downplay the role of matriarchy in Daevite history due to his own personal biases, hence the creation of the Scarlet King.
Theme Naming: Each of their names begins with "A," followed by an apostrophe.
Tragic Villain: None of them chose to be born, yet here they are, producing new legions for the King's army.
Who Wants to Live Forever?: Be honest, who would want to live forever when the entire point of your existence is to be constantly raped and impregnated by your dad (who is basically Satan himself no less) to give birth to endless tides of monsters out to destroy all Creation?
Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds: Even the most loyal of them are only faithful to their King from having been completely and utterly broken.

A'tivik

The Bad Guy Wins: According to "Dust and Blood," her children will lead the Scarlet King to victory in his war against Creation.
Co-Dragons: She can be considered this with Jeser since she is said to have been beloved of the King for her loyalty.
Daddy's Little Villain: The most loyal of her sisters.
The Illegible: Downplayed, but in the comedic tale Dust and a Shopper's Rewards, she writes her shopping lists in cursive, which Khahrahk has difficulties reading.
Quality over Quantity: She had few children, but because of her loyalty to the King, they were made wise above all others and knew well the ways of war.
Undying Loyalty: To her King, although there is some implication that it's only because she has been completely broken and dominated by him like the rest of her sisters.

A'ghor

The Eeyore: "A great hole was rent in her soul that she could not fill, and so she despaired and wept".
War Goddess: "She brought forth many children, and her children brought forth armies in a tide unthinking, to go forth and conquer".

A'distat

Ax-Crazy: She's described as incredibly destructive and violent, giving birth to children that mowed down armies and drowned battlefields in tides of ash and blood.
Driven to Suicide: While in custody of the Foundation, a girl representing her in a ritual self-terminated during the application of Procedure 110-Montauk.
Hates Everyone Equally: She hated all her sisters.
War Goddess: "Her children ride out to declare the triumph of the King, drowning battlefields in blood and ash, spreading pestilence and fear in their wake".

A'zieb

Beast of Battle: She is said to have taken the form of a great beast, vast, powerful, and terrible to behold.
Greater-Scope Villain: According to some tales, she is the mother of SCP-682, one of the biggest and most persistent thorns in the Foundation's side.
Healing Factor: She could regenerate from any injury, like her "son," SCP-682.
Nigh-Invulnerability: "Her children were like her, and feared no weapon nor magical spell, for their injuries were healed, and their hides impenetrable".

A'nuht

Bookworm: Implied in "Dust and a Shopper's Rewards," when she asks Khahrahk for a new bookshelf from IKEA.
Greed: "The thirst and the thirst of her children was never quenched," although the story does not describe exactly what they were searching for.
Squishy Wizard: She was intelligent, but physically frail. Her children possessed great magical power, but were crippled by the King to prevent them from rising up against him.
The Unfavorite: Her father raised up her sister A'tivik's children and made them wise, but crippled her children to keep them from using their power against him.

A'tellif

The Quiet One: "She spoke not, and held herself private".
Support Party Member: It seems that A'tellif and her children did not fight directly on the front lines, but helped the Scarlet King's war to spread around the universe.
Thinking Up Portals: Her children opened Ways between worlds and made way for the war to spread.
Voluntary Shapeshifting: Her children had the power to change their faces.

A'habbat

Antagonistic Offspring: To her dad, although in this case it's a very good thing.
Clashing Cousins: She hopes for her heroic children to overthrow her sisters' children who fight for the Scarlet King.
The Determinator: She was the only one of her sisters who was never completely broken by the King, and the only one with the courage or the strength of will to stand against him. No matter how impossible it seemed, she never gave up hope that her children would be able to defeat him someday.
Earn Your Happy Ending: If you consider "When We Came Home" canon, she's ultimately able to kill her father, with her spear being the last to pierce his black heart.
Failure Is the Only Option: According to "Dust and Blood," her children will eventually all be slaughtered, despite their efforts to defeat the Scarlet King.
Good Parents: She raised her children to become mighty heroes and warriors.
Greater-Scope Paragon: "Dust and Blood" implies her to be the progenitor of the human race—which, if true, would make her one of the reasons the Foundation is able to exist in the first place. "New Job" posits that she is the mother of SCP-999, and he may some day have the potential to reform the Scarlet King himself.
Hope Bringer: A'habbat and her children are one of the few forces in the multiverse with the potential and the willingness to defeat the Scarlet King.
Missing Mom: Some Foundation lore says she (or a mortal girl used to represent her in a ritual) is the mother of SCP-999.
Sealed Good in a Can: Like her sisters, a seal of immortality was forced upon her.
Token Good Teammate: The only one of her sisters able to rise above her suffering and become a benevolent hero instead of a Tragic Villain.
Tragic Hero: In sharp contrat to her sisters, A'habbat keeps resisting her father, no matter how futile and hopeless it might be.
Her seal was xokib, "hope", for she was doomed to know of what she could not achieve.
Youngest Child Wins: Unlike her sisters, she gave birth to heroes instead of monsters in her efforts to defeat the Scarlet King.

Jeser

Also known as the Prince of Many Faces, Jeser was a proud and narcissistic god who sold out his worlds to the Scarlet King when the latter invaded to join his royal court, becoming the second-in-command in his army.

Co-Dragons: With A'tivik, being the official second-in-command of the Scarlet King's army, although, unlike the King's loyal daughter/bride, he has no loyalty towards the King at all.
Dirty Coward: The asshole didn't hesitate to sell out all he controlled just to have an advantageous position under the Scarlet King.
Manipulative Bastard: In his spare time, he creates chaos and conflict among his fellow gods.
Sadist: He enjoys causing as much suffering as possible, and thanks to his position he can do so to countless worlds.

The Serpent

The titular serpent of the Serpent's Hand, lord and creator of the Wanderer's Library. The serpent snakes in and out of the Foundation mythos, often as a neutral or even benevolent force in the background responsible for bringing Knowledge into the universe.

Arch-Enemy: While the Serpent and Scarlet King rarely star in tales together, the King's hatred of the Library would imply that he has this sort of relationship to the Serpent.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: Common knowledge in the library is that the Library was built upon the back of the Serpent. This could be metaphorical, but knowing this universe, it probably isn't. One tale depicts it as bigger than the Earth.
Biblical Motifs: It is a serpent associated with knowledge. Some stories make this explicit by having it be the actual Biblical Serpent who told Eve to eat the apple.
Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Whatever it is, it is most definitely not a snake.
Domain Holder: Within the Library, the Serpent stands above all. The Foundation are refused entry and cannot force their way in, the Hanged King was kicked out at some point, and even the Scarlet King can't enter by force (yet).
Eldritch Abomination: Big time. The Serpent has been around since creation, it created the hub of the multiverse and it knows pretty much everything.
God Is Neutral: The Serpent stays largely away from the affairs of the multiverse, staying in the Library. It only seems concerned with things that affect its books directly, not even intervening when O5-10 and the Chaos Insurgency get into a fight in the Library's basement.
King Mook: In the Ouroboros cycle, it appears as a large Librarian. Which is definitely not a serpent.
The Maker: Of a sorts, although it wasn't involved in the making itself. SCP-4840-A's creation myth claims that the world was made from IS and IS NOT, the central truths of reality. Once IS' work was done, what remained of it turned into the Serpent. IS NOT turned into Anantashesha.
Satan: Occasionally. It did give humanity Knowledge, though it thinks that we would eat the apple anyway, so it doesn't hold itself responsible. In Et Tam Deum Petivi, one of its agents even refer to it as Satan.

He-Who-Made-Dark and He-Who-Made-Light

He-Who-Made-Dark, He-Who-Made-Light

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Artistic representation of both by SunnyClockwork

Alien Geometries: So much that even He-Who-Made-Dark's shadow will remake the very structure of space where it touches.
Dark Is Evil: He-Who-Made-Dark is an Omnicidal Maniac of darkness that wants to annihilate all life in existence, should he be free from any light source for a mere 90 seconds.
Eldritch Abomination: Both of them are pretty eldritch light/darkness-themed entities.
Evil Versus Evil: Both brothers are in conflict with each other, and they seem to be equally malevolent and dangerous.
Light Is Not Good: He-Who-Made-Light isn't any more friendly towards humans than his brother. His definition of light also encompasses the entire electromagnetic spectrum, including ionizing radiation.
Sealed Evil in a Can: He-Who-Made-Dark, inside SCP-435-1. And he's going to be unsealed if it's in the dark for longer than a minute and a half.
Sibling Rivalry: They don't like each other.
Sibling Yin-Yang: Sort of. At the very least there's the obvious light/dark dichotomy.

The Hanged King

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Artistic representation of the Hanged King, by SunnyClockwork

First introduced as the titular focus of SCP-701

(The Hanged King's Tragedy), an anomalous five-act Caroline-era revenge tragedy whose performances causes sudden psychotic and suicidal episodes among both its observers and participants. In reality, he's an ancient sorcerer-king who was killed by his rebellious servants after he slaughtered scores of them in a bid for immortality. However, he has since been resurrected and rules over the extradimensional city-state of Alagadda, though it's all but stated that he Came Back Wrong and is now just a Puppet King to the Ambassador of Alagadda.

And I Must Scream: He forever sits on a throne covered by sharp rusty spikes with a noose tied tight around his neck making him feel like he is constantly being strangled.
Bad Boss: Not only did he horribly torture and mutilate his own servants, but he also sold their souls to "ancient gods in the abyss" while trying to make a bid for immortality.
Be Careful What You Wish For: According to "About the Serpent," the Hanged King wished for eternal life and needed to drink the blood of all of his servants in order for his ritual to succeed. He failed to drink it all, though, and so Came Back Wrong.
Big Bad Duumvirate: He and his court are usually portrayed as working with the Scarlet King.
Deity of Human Origin: He has long since passed beyond being human and is now something on par with the Scarlet King, Mekhane, and Yaldabaoth in terms of power.
Eldritch Abomination:
- He is a "god-shaped hole" whose mere presence moved his entire city-state out of normal reality.
- According to the Only Game In Town canon, he's merely an aspect of a greater entity that embodies the fear of the unknown.
Expy: Of the King in Yellow. He's an Eldritch Abomination known as the "[adjective] king," is associated with a play in his name, and has ties to a mysterious, unearthly city (Alagadda and Carcosa respectively).
The Good King: In one version of his backstory, he was a benevolent ruler until the Ambassador tricked him into becoming an Immortality Seeker, which ascended him to godhood but also trapped him in his current... state.
I Have Many Names: According to the Wanderer's Library, "he has more names than the stars". The only known names given to the King are "Apotheon," "Pinyin Si" and "Nergal" (which is known to be false).
Immortality Seeker: Used to be one. He got what he wanted.
Motive Decay: In "Theology of a Snake," he begins his road to godhood because he wants to bring back his wife, who died in childbirth. By the time of his final ascension, however, that goal is long forgotten. After all, what god needs a bride?
Multiple-Choice Past: Like every character related to the Foundation, there are multiple different versions of his backstory. Unlike most other, they are not mutually exclusive, as his backstory is highly debated in-universe, even by the Serpent's Hand. Most versions involve him being some kind of king even prior to his ascension, but the means by which he accomplished said ascension is debated.
Mysterious Past: According to the Serpent's Hand, he used to be a resident of the Wanderer's Library until he was kicked out around the 11th century when his influence made the Library increasingly depressive and insular.
The Power of the Void: The Mobile Task Force investigating Alagadda describes him as being "a god shaped hole" in reality, and "About the Serpent" portrays him as requesting the aid of "the Great Abyss" when seeking immortality.
Puppet King: To the Ambassador of Alagadda, who is the real power in the city.
Time Abyss: The earliest known records of both him and his city-state of Alagadda date back to ancient Babylon, and it's known that they are also both far older.

The Ambassador of Alagadda

The second-in-command of the court of Alagadda, the Ambassador is in truth the true ruling force of the realm.

Dragon-in-Chief: While technically serving as The Dragon to the Hanged King, he in truth uses the latter as a Puppet King.
Manipulative Bastard: In Theology of a Snake, he manipulated the still-human Hanged King, usurping his royal court and leading Alagadda to become the twisted realm it now is.
Sadist: When an MTF squad comes to explore SCP-2264, he uses his Psychic Powers to force them to torture each other and then has the surviving agent see the Hanged King's face.

The Masked Lords of Alagadda

Three (formerly four) entities who collectively serve as the third-in-command of Alagadda.

Color Motif: Each of them is associated with a certain color and emotion: The Red Lord, Wearer of the Mirthful Mask; the Yellow Lord, Wearer of the Odious Mask; the White Lord, Wearer of the Diligent Mask; and the Black Lord, Wearer of the Anguished Mask.
The Exile: The Black Lord was banished for some unknown political reason. It's implied that he became trapped by the Foundation, and is now known as SCP-035.

Brothers of Death/Three Brothers Death

The Three Brothers of Death/Three Brothers Death

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Artistic representation of the Brothers Death, by SunnyClockwork

In many of the Foundation canons, the Grim Reaper is in fact three individuals, often called the Brothers. The Small-Death represents the death of the individual. When someone dies alone in bed or bleeds out from their wounds in a back alley, this is the reaper who comes for them. The Second, who has no name, represents the death of the many. When you die in war or terrorist attacks, he comes for the souls. The All-Death represents the death of all, those deaths that are far beyond human control. His portfolio includes death in natural and supernatural disasters.

Always a Bigger Fish: While it's unclear if they could actually defeat him, they appear to be higher in the cosmic pecking order than even the Scarlet King.
Archnemesis: To the Scarlet King. Specifally All-Death, who in Three Short Stories About Death makes it a point to visit the King every year on his birthday to remind him of his inevitable detruction; he even makes a point of calling the King by his true name. In When We Came Home, all three brothers are the one who lead the final war with the King. Upon his death, the Brothers dispose of his remains, and All-Death leads in recreating and restoring the mulitverse after the King destroyed it.
Barred from the Afterlife: As the arbiters of all afterlives, this falls within their power, something the old man from nowhere can attest to.
Cavalry of the Dead: In the Tale "When We Came Home," the Brothers lead the host of the dead in battle against the Scarlet King while the Library burns around them. The brothers play a significant role in the Scarlet King's demise, and claim his body upon death.
Decomposite Character: In the Foundationverse, The Grim Reaper seems to be three people, and they each represent different aspects of death.
Did You Just Flip Off Cthulhu?: In "Three Short Scenes About Death", the eldest of the brothers - All-Death - shows up to the Scarlet King's birthday simply to remind him of his inevitable destruction (see "When We Came Home"). The King can do little more than give empty boasts and threats, while sinking back into his chair. This is apparently a yearly occurrence.
Don't Fear the Reaper: They're usually depicted as True Neutral at worst, and in "Empty Nights," the All-Death claims that they have collected the souls of the dead to protect them.
Evil Is Petty: For a given definition of "Evil". They certainly didn't take well to SCP-1440 beating them in a card game. Granted, they were fine with simply letting him go once he beat them once. It was when he started gloating that he really got on their nerves.
I Know Your True Name: In "Three Short Scenes About Death," All-Death successfully intimidates the Scarlet King by using his true name, Harak.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While they can be quite cruel to people that trick them, such as SCP-1440, they're also genuinely kind to the souls of the dead. Furthermore, it's highly implied that the youngest brother that SCP-1440 speaks of is actually SCP-4999, who gives comfort to those who are dying alone.
Psychopomp: They come for the dead.

Saturn Deer

A "serial reincarnator" and oftentimes false prophet who possesses vaguely understood abilities to control written texts - of which are directly connected to his hugely overblown ego. Deer's primary motivation is either to scam someone, to humiliate them, or both (preferably at the same time).

A list of his appearances can be found here.

Butt-Monkey: Deer's been hunted down and killed repeatedly by the Church and related parties since the late 1600s, and is considered to be an absolute joke by the Horizon Initiative.
Fourth-Wall Mail Slot: As seen in "Letters to a Prophet" and its sequel, Deer tends to get quite a bit of in-universe mail.
Historical Domain Character: Word of God states that Saturn Deer is based off of Sabbatai Zevi, a 17th century Messiah claimant.
Jerkass: A troll/con artist wannabe who encourages someone to kill himself.
Meaningful Name: "Saturn Deer" is derived from Sabbatai Zevi: Sabbatai comes from Sabbath, which is Saturday (the day of Saturn) and Zevi (צְבִי) is Hebrew for gazelle, which are similar to deer.
Meta Guy: He knows the kind of world he lives in, and he shows it.
Snake Oil Salesman: Markets bootleg and scam products to the anomalous world.
Troll: His entire reason for being seems to be to fuck with people for his own amusement.

Pangloss

A mysterious, benevolent figure whose only interactions with the Foundation have been via various notes left at the sites of several SCPs. The messages on the notes are cryptic, but always idealistic and poetic in nature.

Composite Character: Seems to take traits from both his namesake (see below) as well as the Greek God Prometheus. Both characters are god-like figures who care for humanity, and his note left at SCP-1612 (a plant which secretes a small constant flame) implies he is also responsible for stealing fire.
Don't let the fire die
-Pangloss
- It's also worth noting that the plant was initially found at the base of Mount Kazbek, which, in Georgian mythology, is where Amirani (the Georgian equivalent of Prometheus) was chained for stealing fire and giving it to mortals.
Mysterious Protector: If his actions regarding SCP-1936 are any indication.
Mysterious Watcher: He was only seen once from a distance and even then only left a note.
Odd Friendship: "Crack Fic About Gods" portrays him as having one of these with SCP-2845 ("THE DEER").
Omniglot: Evident by his name, which is Greek for "omniglot".
Playing with Fire: When he arrives to protect a group of Foundation MTF members and Daleport civilians during the events of SCP-1936, he is depicted as a radial organism made of fire that carves burning runes of protection into the sides of churches.
Tuckerization: Shares his name with a character from Candide, and some character traits as well (optimistic, philosophical, benevolent).

Characters / SCP Foundation: Other

Other Recurring Characters and Persons of Interest

Aldon and Finnegan

General Bowe

dado

Eric