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| “ | Seven. Five. Can you hear me? There is a hole shining in the holes between your eyelids. I have never been to Versailles before. I want to be loved. Nine. I am standing behind you now. Five. I am two of us, standing behind you now. The goddess eats the city in the sea. Nine. There's a hole in the floor with an answer waiting in it. Seven. Look, you're hatching. You're hatching!' | „ |
| ~ The Entity communicating with Wilson through a broken radio, subliminally encouraging him to locate SCP-579. |
| “ | They saw that it could not be excised from their kin, they tried and they failed. It was them, it had become them. The disconnected, the incoherent, the unseen, they would have destroy them to be rid of it. After all, what is a parasite without its host? |
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| ~ The Entity's inner monologue in "Oh … so that's how it is.". |
The Entity, later designated SCP-5000-█, is one of the overarching antagonists of the SCP Foundation series. It is a nameless being that plagues humanity within the universe.
Of unknown origin and lesser-known motives, the Entity has apparently attached itself to the collective subconscious of humanity and has subsequently manipulated the thoughts and actions of the race for an untold amount of time. Although its exact reasoning behind its attachment towards mankind is unknown, its ultimate plan is seemingly so destructive and horrific that the Foundation, an organization dedicated to protecting humanity at all costs, deemed it a mercy to ensure the extinction of mankind to prevent it from ever succeeding. After the Foundation was made aware of its existence and began their assault on mankind, the Entity sought to preserve its existence and humanity's by guiding Pietro Wilson to locate SCP-055 to SCP-579 in order to reset the timeline.
It appears as the main antagonist of the SCP-5000 article and may also serve as the overarching antagonist of any tales featuring SCP-682 due to its implied roots in the latter's misanthropy.
Biography[]
Origins[]
While its origins and nature are vague at best, the Entity appeared to be a memetic entity that attached itself to the collective unconsciousness of humanity, inhabiting the noosphere alongside SCP-3125 and SCP-6820-A who were enemies of it. Apparently becoming the source of concepts like empathy and pain, the Entity proceeded to influence humanity from beyond, pushing them towards a path of unspeakable misery and horror. As the Entity thrived off of pain, it introduced the state of existence known as SCP-2718, which caused dead humans to continue decomposing but still feel pain. According to SCP-682, the only way to defeat the Entity is to kill every human on Earth, killing it and freeing the dead from their "endless, disgusting suffering".
Sometime in the early 21st century, the SCP Foundation began its efforts to map out the human unconscious via Project PNEUMA, a mass-amnesticazation project based off of Project KALEIDOSCOPE, and unintentionally discovered its existence. Upon realizing the gravity of what they had discovered and its implications, both the O5 Council and the Ethics Committee conducted a poll, with the vote for the extinction of the human race being unanimous. The two groups then undertook an effort to procure a cure to rid themselves of any lingering influence the Entity might have on them.
The O5 Council then sent out two files to all Senior Staff members and Site Directors. The first file, presumably containing the uncovered information of the Entity, resulted in many who received it to commit suicide or resign while the second file, presumably containing the cure the Council and the Committee developed, resulted in those who received to fully commit themselves to the eradication of the human race. With this, the upper echelons and MTF units of the Foundation were freed of their humanity.
The Foundation's War on Humanity[]
The Foundation started their efforts to halt the Entity by killing their own personnel, human SCPs and human-sympathetic SCPs. The MTF units were later dispatched to slaughter everyone within Foundation-controlled exclusionary sites, which were built to withstand CK-Class Reality Restructuring scenarios, due to the danger the human researchers there posed via their subconscious connection with the Entity. However, one of the Foundation personnel, Pietro Wilson managed to escape being killed by locating and wearing an Absolute Exclusion Harness (which would later be designated SCP-5000), allowing him to flee Exclusionary Site-06 undetected.
As the Foundation directly began their assault on mankind, utilizing many of their most dangerous SCPs to wipe out humanity and combat rival Groups of Interest, the Entity discovered Wilson and apparently realized his potential to aid in its continued survival. Communicating with Wilson telepathically, the Entity instructed Wilson to locate SCP-055, an anti-memetic anomaly, and bring it to SCP-579. The Entity then subliminally directed Wilson to Site-19 to retrieve SCP-055, which Wilson would use to alter his perception of time to make his travel to Site-62 less tedious. It is also implied that it is through SCP-055 that Wilson directly communicated with the Entity, who encourages Wilson to continue his journey and had him delete his own file recordings to conceal its presence and plan, though the deleted files could also be an effect of SCP-055's anti-memetic properties.
As the months progressed and humanity began to dwindle thanks to the Foundation the Entity began to lose its power and influence, as evidenced by Wilson making less progress by viewing SCP-055. Additionally, the figure Wilson witnessed the Foundation attacking is implied to be a manifestation of the Entity, having grown weak enough to manifest in the physical world.
Eventually, Wilson made it to Site-62 where he joined SCP-055 with SCP-579 at the cost of his life.
Return to the Status Quo[]
This apparently triggered a shift in time which reset time back before Project PNEUMA was fully developed. As such, Pietro's corpse was discovered in SCP-579's containment chamber by the Foundation who promptly discover the files documented in his Absolute Exclusion Harness and immediately cease their work on PNEUMA. With this, the timeline of the Foundation declaring war on mankind never occurred and the Entity's existence was concealed with the new-timeline Foundation being none the wiser. It potentially continued to manipulate the actions of humanity unabated.
Possible Endings[]
SCP-001 (Ihp/Locke Proposal)[]
In the ending of the dark mode of the SCP-001 file, Site-100 was able to use its powers at containing Keter-class anomalies to neutralize the threat of the Entity among others, doing all it could to protect humanity and maintain normalcy.
Project Isorropía[]
Following the success of the cross-testing of anomalies at Site-100, SCP-5000-█ was put against SCP-5659. This confrontation resulted in SCP-5659 beginning to grow in size and fighting the Entity. As both entities were immortal, they ended up fighting each other until the end of times, while their respective effects on humanity became nullified.
Oh … so that's how it is.[]
The Foundation became once again aware of the Entity and once again tried to fight it, but this time they learned of their mistakes and made sure the Entity had no access to neither SCP-055 or SCP-579. However, from this war an ΩK-Class "End of Death" Scenario soon occurred, forcing humanity to become immortal and forever suffer for eternity. Despite its victory, the Entity was felt unhappy as through these years it had been affected by human emotions and didn't consider this outcome a victory.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Entity was a memetic parasite inhabiting the human noosphere. It had no physical body and was able to infect the minds of every single human being who ever lived. This allowed it to exist for millions of years and feed on their emotions to empower itself. This can be seen when the Foundation began eradicating all of humanity, the Entity was growing weaker, forcing it to manipulate Pietro Wilson to do its bidding and save it and humanity.
The Entity was the source of all human suffering, causing humans to suffer in order to feed it, and people who were free of its influence were unable to perceive pain. Despite the Foundation finding a cure to get rid of the Entity from their minds, it would unable to completely purge the Entity from the human noosphere as it had become one with the concept of humanity. It was later revealed that the Entity was the cause of SCP-2718. That is, every human who died experienced an eternal fate worse than death as they were forever trapped in their decaying bodies, forced to experience the pain of their gradual decomposition that then transition into an endless indescribable agony beyond human description once they have been completely torn apart, with the Entity feeding off their suffering. If the Foundation had managed to kill all infected humans, the Entity would have disappeared and the deceased humans freed from their torment.
According to SCP-7555, SCP-3125, who just like the Entity also inhabits the noosphere, uses its powers to cancel the influence the Entity had over humanity; by taking away their personality and humanity 3125 could free the human race from the Entity.
Personality[]
At first the Entity appeared to be malicious as it forced humanity to suffer for countless years in order to feed of their never ending suffering. When the Foundation became aware of it, the Entity did anything it could to stop them, such as forcing Pietro Wilson to sacrifice himself to reset the universe. However, it was later revealed that through these years, the Entity was also affected by the human emotions as it also felt pain of its own. In truth, the Entity ultimately decided to be loved by humanity and was aware of its insecurity and disgusting nature and hated itself for this. As the Foundation fought against it, the Entity had grown tired and when humanity became immortal the Entity felt itself as defeated.
Appearance[]
Due to its nature as a memetic entity inhabiting the noosphere, the Entity has no real appearance as it can change shape and form at will when appearing as a hallucination to its infected victims. During the events of SCP-5000, the Entity appeared as a massive humanoid entity with a swinging jaw at right angles and the space around it stretching along with it to the sky, and black gaps were around it appearing like wings.
Quotes[]
| “ | My hands shake as I hold the document. "This is confirmed?" He nods. "We got the report from PNEUMA staff yesterday. It's everyone." "Even us?" "Even us, Tejani. To think I'd find myself agreeing with that damn lizard..." "What do we do?" "You know what we have to do. We'll have to disseminate a cure, I think, among personnel before we get things underway. It'll try to stop us otherwise." "God help us, One." "Don't be like that, Tejani. That's IT talking." |
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| ~ Ethics Committee Head Tejani speaking with who appears to be an Overseer regarding what to do after discovering the Entity's existence. |
| “ | You said invaded, right? Might be one of the last times that happens. Right. Don't say that. It must be worse for you. That's what everyone says after they find out something they don't like. Jesus Christ. It's not something that can be hashed out in a few hours, man. Can you be quiet for a minute? Of course I can't. No, not yet. The feeling of being invaded. Why not? Don't say that! Don't even talk about it. We should have left well enough alone. I keep thinking, like, it would be better to end it all. Not with what we found. How long are they going to take? But it's not like that. Everything I am. You know what they'll say. It is me. It's over. It'll take time. You're germophobic, right? Did you get a reply? We shouldn't have looked. You too. I doubt anyone's going to be talking about anything else anymore. I feel sick. |
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| ~ The continuation of the conversation. |
| “ | They refuse because they've been fooled. They see wrongness and self-consistent evil in the livid eye of God, they've been tricked into agency by an eldritch algorithm. They are IT, IT is them. They can not be given a choice. The indomitable ideal of humanity and its spirit is a lie built upon an alien will. | „ |
| ~ SCP-3125 to SCP-7555. |
Trivia[]
- Its connection (if any) to SCP-579 or SCP-055 are unknown. Although it is also possible that the Entity simply knew that the joining of the two anomalies would result in the timeline resetting. The Entity could've inherited the knowledge of what happens when SCP-579 and SCP-055 are joined from humanity (specifically the foundation)'s knowledge about the subject. It is proven the foundation knows about the reaction by the file for SCP-2998.
- SCP-682 is implied to possess some connection with the Entity, with the latter possibly being the root of 682's hatred for humanity.
- When MTF member Samuel Ross is captured by the Global Occult Coalition and interrogated in Ganzir, he refers to Commander Morrison and Dr. Rhodes, after he apparently told them about the existence of the Entity, as "disgusting", something which the infamous reptile is known to refer to humanity.
- After Project PNEUMA was developed and the Entity's existence was uncovered by the Foundation, O5-1 reluctantly stated that he found himself agreeing with SCP-682 (presumably regarding its thoughts on humanity).
- In SCP-6820, it is revealed that SCP-682 was the physical embodiment of the concept of the line between life and death in the noosphere, which may explain why 682 hated the Entity and humanity.
- The Entity's influence on humanity may be the Pestilence SCP-049 refers to in its quest to rid the world from it, as those "cured" by 049 noticeably lose their sapience and will attack any human deemed to be living.
- SCP-049 implies that it believes that all of humanity is infected with the Pestilence, a sentiment reflected in O5-1's conversation with Tejani regarding the Entity's influence on all humans.
- However, that may not be the case, since during a cross-testing 049 deemed 682 as another victim of the pestilence.
- In the universe of SCP-6001 where the Compendium, a benevolent amalgam organization of different GoIs, took over the world and declared worldwide peace with all anomalies, it is mentioned that they were capable of vanquishing and probably even killing the Entity. With that according to the Immortigon they mention humanity is "no longer disgusting".
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