Quite entertaining, even if I might have a hard time keeping it the fuck away from my headcanon. Good work, Eskobar.
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Nice use of SCP-055 and "Are We Cool Yet?". But I'm not sold on 682 being respectful in any possible way. Besides, he doesn't just hate humans. He hates all earth life, including plants and Animals. And if he was told there were humans on other planets he'd find a way to get them too.
He probably wouldn't. He'd just stay away from those planets. An entomophobe doesn't try to seek out and destroy all insects, he'd try to avoid them instead. If he had no choice, as 682 does, then he tries to kill them. But the first choice is avoidance.
Well, think about it this way: could a bear in the woods construct a vat of acid to dunk it in? Would a flock of geese design intricate, modular weapon arrays just to keep it off guard? Is a grove of apple trees going to detonate nuclear warheads? Of course not. With humans (and all other intelligent beings, one would presume) no longer on the planet, 682 could run roughshod and kill, kill, kill, until there's nothing left to kill and Khorne is a happy chaos god.
…. Or at least he would have if he wasn't zapped with magic-future-tech and then nuked into oblivion.
Enh. Another one that just doesn't work for me.
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(account deleted)I've been growing gradually less fond of stories involving senior staff over time, even the ones meant to deconstruct the earlier ones tend not to work for me. This one wasn't like that. Upvoted.
While I enjoy the tone and style, I can't say I'm too fond of the message. This is the organization that has restructured reality several times. That has contained reality benders and made people accept the concept of colour (SCP-8900-EX). I can't see a few cities being damaged by the eternal antagonist causing them to change their mandate.
The Foundation is more than just a bureaucracy who changes their motive based on public opinion/knowledge. It is not in the business of forgiveness or mercy, for these concepts have no bearing on containment for the sake of the maintaining peace in a war against a hostile universe. It is an extension of human fear, doubt and blind hope made manifest.
Think of it this way: The Foundation has seen no choice but to do horrible things. Now they have a choice. Their mandate hasn't changed, but 682's actions have enabled them to do things differently. And I can also see the Foundation throwing its hands up after the Rampage and deciding that the new world needs a new approach, now that amensiacs are kind of pointless, other organizations have an increase in membership…
If it's a brave new world, then perhaps it requires a brave new Foundation.
Also, they probably realize that it's only a matter of time before they become exposed, and they'd rather have things happen this way.
In my head-canon, Jack/Bright uses the Secret Chord at the end, just to be sure.
I was actually waiting for the part where everyone on Earth is just a couple hundred miles away, hoping that 682 doesn't call their bluff.
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