SCP Foundation

The great thing about having a fluid canon on this site is the fact that we can pick and choose what we like, not just from our own perspective, but from everyone else's. Every single one of us has a Foundation in their heads, and no two are alike, but they are constantly changing, and redefining themselves based on the others. Characters and concepts evolve by popular demand.

This thread is for helping that process along. There may be aspects to your Foundation that you only ever touch upon in your tales and skips, or perhaps you can't even find a way to include them at all. So tell us something about your headcanon that nobody knows much about. It could be anything, from a scarcely mentioned Foundation department, to a different perspective on a GOI, to a character that's always in the background turning out to be monumentally important. You never know, someone might like the idea.

For me, I will dump my headcanon on Foundation v.s Chaos Insurgency.

The contrast between the two groups is simple: Order (Foundation) v.s. Chaos (CI). The Foundation wants to maintain status quo (the established order of things) at all costs (even up to totalitarian levels). Hence, they are a literal Foundation.

On the other hand, CI embodies chaos and goes against the Foundation's order. To the CI, chaos and anomalies are the natural order of things (a la Second Law of Thermodynamics, where entropy increases in a system). They are not the good guys, but they see themselves as "freedom fighters" who war the Foundation for the sake of the Universe (in contrast to the Foundation, who fights anomalies for the sake of humanity).

Foundation has very little influence in China for most of the Chinese modern history. They've only recently established a foothold on China with a treaty between the Foundation and the Communist Party, establishing an organization inside China that:

• Upholds all goals and aims of the Foundation
• Answers to the Chinese Government first
• Answers to the Foundation Central Command second

Along with some other treaty terms. This organization is colloquially referred to as SCP-CN, though it has some official names within the country I haven't came up yet.¹²

China also has no centralized extranormal institute for a long time, and only had a few loose independent groups of collectors and researchers. In China's ancient times, there existed a central scholar's society that handled anomalous things³, but in my head canon the organization was wiped out sometime late Qing dynasty, and many loose organizations took over as the leading force in anomaly control.

My headcanon is that many/most of the relatively safe (but not necessarily Safe) "weird objects" are side effects of innocuous processes/events happening in other realities w/ differing physical laws. Kinda like how engine oil gets dark and dirty and gritty with use, but that doesn't mean that the engine "intends" anything bad for the oil. It's just a side-effect of usage.

I've even written a couple where this is a deliberate secondary interpretation, even if nobody gets it. :P

I headcanon that 90% of anomalies are inadvertantly created by humans or a worldview shared by groups of people. If you get enough humans to think about sonething, it will gappen.

Reality benders or anyone who can create anomalous objects are people who can exert more concious control over this ability. Most people aren't able to do more than passively create the Placebo/Nocebo effects on themselves, and can only do the really weird stuff in large groups, typically about 250 being the magic number. So, if a large cult honestly belives in magic, they will end up actually performing magic.

The Foundation is maintaining the status quo, since it's beneficial for humanity's long-term survival to share a worldview where everything is bound by immutable laws, than a worldview where a monster can pop out if your bed and eat you because a kid down the street had a night terror.

The only existing anomaly in the universe is the foundation itself. The reason why anomalies appear so disconnected and random from one another is because of the influence of the foundation itself forcing reality to conform to their idea of normalcy. In reality, ALL the SCPs are normal but the foundation is a force or entity seeking to dominate reality.

The foundation not only subjugates the anomalous, but exerts a minor reality warping effect on the local universe i.e earth that "blocks" certain entities from existing. However this effect is weak and is growing weaker over the years. Ergo anomalies still appear

Humanity is not a natural species but was the result of the foundation capturing certain anomalies as well as slightly warping reality such that earth's history appears inconsistent. You and I would still exist if the foundation didn't come to be but none of us would be human. Instead, we'd be a disconnected bunch of aliens, gods,reality warpers, monsters, angels, demons etc

The anomalies all together would still make up a universe with order but it would be VASTLY different from our own.

I've always liked the idea that most of the anomalies have no viable explanation. Some of them can get explained over time, but others? Nope. They're just… there. This leads to the idea that the universe is just naturally weird of bizarre, and that there isn't necessarily a linchpin for everything. The majority of stuff the Foundation contains is just some cosmic accident, like the universe having a little hiccup and creating things that don't belong or make sense to universal laws. Then there's also the category of stuff that is explainable, but is beyond our comprehension.

I also like to think that at least some of the anomalies are so out of place because they come from a time when their properties made sense, in some universe or timeline that has since been erased and written over by our own. And those anomalies- in that case- would just be bits that the universe forgot to wipe out, a glitch in causality or something that allows it to keep existing in a place and time where it really shouldn't/can't.

Tl;dr: The universe is a lot stranger than we can even begin to grasp, and even if we could, there would still be anomalies because sometimes the universe has little glitches, and the results of those glitches are the anomalies (or, you know, at least most of them).

Just gonna leave this here because it's probably the most important one.

One random bit of headcanon I’ve always had is that the Foundation has a front organization which produces paranormal shows similar to Animal X, UFO Hunters, or Ancient Aliens.

They are purposefully made to be over the top and ridiculous, so that they attract many of the people who would normally believe in the anomalous world and expose them to memetic agents embedded within the shows which promote a sense of doubt and disbelief in the paranormal.

Even if the exposed people are resistant to the subliminal messages, the shows present woefully inaccurate information and further research into anything that they talk about will lead viewers to forums and websites where they can easily be monitored by the Foundation agents.

Coldposts ("half-baked" articles) that are marked for deletion are fake documents created by an unseen anomaly that exists to screw with the Foundation. There is an entire team of people in the Foundation that have to constantly check SCP documents to destroy the fake ones. The Foundation blames the Chaos Insurgency, but it's just speculation.

Also, Wondertainment is a mascot for a company and not an actual person. The founder of Wondertainment Enterprises has the alias "Dr. Wondertainment," but really he's just a generic boss in a suit.