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I love the city. I love it all. I love its alleyways and its theatres, blaring white light into their moaning and shrieking faces. I love the pristine slums, scrubbed to the bone, like any self-respecting city should have. I love its ancient monuments, destroyed and cast again in metal, to be destroyed again and recontextualised in the future. I love it all. And most of all, I love the lights. I love those lamps, on the tops of the buildings where mountains used to be, where tombs used to be. I love their colours, flickering red, green, yellow! The grass looks lovely, splayed in yellow. I want to be in it. I give myself to you, O city. I want to be one of them. A neon light, blaring outwards, outwards, outwards forever. Let me light the world. Let me show them how it's done.
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~ Excerpt of a document written by a worshiper of the Neon God.
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We did it. Our hubris. Our desire for connection, for purpose, for more and more and more, for the destruction of countless universes in the name of one single reality, individuals living whole lives on our line with no connection to land and time. We did this. We wanted a unity of all things, and we got one - a unity buried under a city of the night.
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~ John Lampeter.
The Neon God is an antagonist in the SCP Foundation series. It is a powerful deity embodying the concept of a city and the desire of humanity to feel connected and stick together with others for as long as possible. It was created in a universe which it transformed into one massive city, causing the Lampeter family to construct SCP-7005, a multidimensional transport network, to escape from the Neon God, but this allowed it to no longer be restricted to its universe and spread itself to all of the multiverse, slowly but surely transforming the entire existence into one enormous city.
The Neon God is the overarching antagonist in SCP-7005 which is an entry in the SCP-7000 Contest that won fifth place.
The Neon God was first created in Universe Z999 when the concept of cities came to exist as the ancient peoples began gathering together and forming conglomerations in order for not all of them to deal with farming but with other things. This soon evolved into a desire humanity had to be connected with each other which could be achieved through the formation of cities, and as this progressed the Neon God came to embody this desire and act on it. The Neon God became active around the 13th century first starting with the village of Peiriant in Argentina and soon began transforming the whole world into one city. As it was unstoppable, the Lampeter family built a multidimensional transport network, later known as Lampeter and SCP-7005, to escape the doomed universe. However, this paved the way for the Neon God to utilize SCP-7005 to spread itself to other universes, eventually engulfing the entirety of the "Multiversal East" and making its way to the center of the multiverse.
As the inhabitants succumbed to the Neon God they formed a religion dedicated to it, with the Lampeters becoming known as its prophets. Around 2021, John Lampeter, the last member of the family and the then CEO of the Lampeter Non-Euclidean Shipping Company which previously managed SCP-7005, went to discover the origin of his family's achievement only to find the true origin of the Neon God. The revelation drove him mad and he soon burned the company's archives, while a letter in which he explained his discovery would fall into the hands of one of the possessed refugees fleeing their lost universes.
Spreading Through the Multiverse[]
The Neon God was so far successful in converting countless worlds into one connected city while the inhabitants either tried to flee or succumbed to it, leaving them as lifeless people who simply lived in the newly formed city. The SCP Foundation's Department of Interdimensional Logistics of the "main" universe became aware of the Neon God's existence after gaining the control of SCP-7005, but didn't act immediately as it would require millennia to reach their universe. Despite this, the Foundation still took in numerous refugees while attempting to study the nature of the Neon God.
Foundation Doctor Rosie Hartlepool was sent by the Department to explore the various universes connected to SCP-7005 in order to gain more information regarding it and the Neon God. During her travels Hartlepool would encounter several people who had been overtaken by the Neon God who became aware of her through those people and attempted to bring her to it, but she was able to fight back and evade it and its worshippers. Meanwhile the Foundation decided to do nothing about the Neon God's case as after learning about the true nature of the multiverse they came to think that nothing really mattered and became uncaring on the situation befalling countless universes.
Possible Endings[]
Tears of a Neon God[]
In one universe, a storm occurred over the Neon God's city. Since the city lacked a sewage system, the city quickly began flooding and soon the buildings and their electronics ceased functioning. The inhabitants regained their senses as the Neon God's influence was breaking as a result of the destruction. After the storm ended, the freed inhabitants were finally able to see the starry night in the absence of the drowning lights and rejoiced in the defeat of the Neon God. Hartlepool was also present and planned to assist the inhabitants in rebuilding the city to how it was supposed to be. This only occurred in a few universes, however, while others came close to being freed from the Neon God who still proceeded with its personal agenda.
Appearance[]
Being a living idea created of human thought, the Neon God has no real appearance and it depends on how humanity see it. Rosie Hartlepool described the Neon God as a massive wall filled with yellow artificial lights, which formed unknown words, and countless cables connecting it to the other buildings.
Personality[]
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Are the words upon the new billboard gibberish, or are they a dialect of multiversal Tengrii carried by refugees from the Steppes? Is that illogical intersection a tendril of the Neon God, or is it merely the result of contradictory zoning laws? Was that street a one-way road yesterday, or is this an infrastructural reform that was relegated to a byline on the thirtieth page of a newspaper?
You cannot tell, and so the once great NeoAmerican cities lie empty. How can you feel safe, in your cities full of beauty and wonder and diversity and life, when forces beyond your control might warp it into something unrecognizable overnight?
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~ From "The Smog-Wastes of NeoAmerica".
Being the embodiment of the human desire to live together with each other, the Neon God didn't really have a personality of its own and only sought to achieve that desire by converting all land it came across into one city. Moreover, it didn't have any real understanding of what a city was or how it was supposed to work, and instead the city it created just superficially resembled one, with chaotic and nonsensical placement or proportions of the buildings with a random number of rooms which attempted to become real regardless of the God's efforts. The inhabitants after becoming possessed, they lost their minds, becoming emotionless and obsessed in living lives that were befitting to citizens. Its worshipers made their own interpretation of the Neon God as a being which represented the negation of everything and the destruction of all meaning, making it appear as a much more complex and profound being than it actually was. The God was shown to be emotionless with no real understanding of life or mind of its own. Beside wanting to transform all land it encountered into one unified city it also sought to bring in numerous people to become the inhabitants of its city. It was later stated that the Neon God felt some jealousy on how to other cities it had witnessed appeared and worked, and it wished to create a city of its own, but again it didn't understand how those other cities came to be and how they were supposed to work. When parts of its city were destroyed as a result of natural occurrences the Neon God was described as crying as its city couldn't withstand destruction.
Powers and Abilities[]
The Neon God is a living idea created from the concept of the city and the desire to feel connected, similar to how the Scarlet King was created from humanity's dissatisfaction with the modern world. The Neon God was capable of transforming any land it came across into parts of one endless city. Upon being done with consuming its original world, the Neon God used SCP-7005 to expand its influence to the wider multiverse. This process started with the manifestations of random structures in small populated areas such as poor villages which would eventually transform into large buildings with neon lights and connected cables while being separated with different types of roads.
However, the city the Neon God built didn't function as an actual city at all, instead just bearing superficial resemblance to one. When observing more closely its bizarre features become apparent as the proportions of the buildings were abnormal with the rooms being randomly displaced. This was because the Neon God didn't understand the concept of a city and how it should work. The inhabitants were also affected by the Neon God, losing all personality, identity and will to properly live as if being possessed and just mimicking expected civilian life. Despite this, some of the inhabitants were seen still retaining their minds as they could still talk as normal and came up with their own interpretations of the God they came to worship. This caused the worshippers to be physically changed, the most notable change being their eyes that were replaced with foglights.
Although the Neon God was apparently unstoppable and would inevitably take over the entire multiverse, it was stated that because of the nature of how the multiverse worked, following the Neon God's takeover a second multiverse would be created in which the God didn't exist or takeover. In one universe taken over by the Neon God a simple but strong storm proved to be capable of destroying the false city it created, which also freed the inhabitants from the God's influence.
The Neon God was also capable of affecting the highways that connected to its megacities, stretching infinitely in order to be constantly used for countless vehicles. Because these highways exist for vehicles to drive, they can connect to different other universes not yet infected by the Neon God and suddenly but subtly snatch unsuspecting vehicles driven by people who were going on their usual business. One such highway was SCP-7034 in which drivers on the United States Interstate Highway System ended up after being lost. This highway is eternally occupied by an inescapable traffic jam covered in thick smog coming from the tunnel, and often drivers get crushed when speeding through.
Gallery[]
Images[]
Dr. Rosie Hartlepool looking at a city affected by the Neon God.
Videos[]
Exploring the SCP Foundation- SCP-7005 - The Neon God
Trivia[]
The Neon God was originally envisioned as another Proposal for SCP-001 titled "The Neon God They Made", but the author Tufto was unsatisfied with it as he described it as a simple horror story and deleted it. He eventually rewrote the concept of the original Proposal into the Scarlet King, while in SCP-7005 he expanded on the Neon God by making the story about, existentialism, finding and giving yourself a meaning in the face of desperation.
Since the Neon God can be considered as representing the lifeless modern way of life, it is possible that it is the modernity the Scarlet King is fighting.
Like the Scarlet King, the Neon God bears resemblance to the Idea of Evil from Berserk, being a living idea that affects reality created by humanity's dark desires.
The story of the Neon God was likely inspired by the song The Sound of Silence by the American folk rock duo Simon and Garfunkel. The song also mentions a "neon god" that is a false manmade deity whose influence spreads "like a cancer".
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