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SCP-7791/the embodiment of ethics before WOZNY. they locked me in a room. a rubber room. a rubber room with the declass. its the platonic ideal of personifwhump im going to cry

translation notes:

my initial plan was to look for a classical design that already existed because i think SCP essophysics were made with classical personifs in mind rather than the newer g(a) fandom things. the problem is that there was no classical design for ethics. so i made one. though i don’t have a good handle on the required iconography so it’s really just my usual translation process with a classical veneer

ancient ethics is MASSIVELY overrepresented im sorry it just gives me more visual material than twentieth century things

her headdress is literally just the trolley problem

the feather is the feather of truth from egyptian mythology

her hair is black and white and she has green and red trimmings on her clothes because black and white morality and red for incorrect and green for correct choices do you catch my drift *gestures vaguely*

gold eyes gold other things because the golden rule is a part of like. the vast majority of ethics systems in the world. you dont even have to be human to get it if you are a reasonably intelligent animal and you live in small relatively egalitarian groups you understand the utility of it

the gold thing with the balls she’s carrying is supposed to resemble both justice’s scales and the. the thing they use to demonstrate newton’s third law i don’t know the name because reciprocity and the consequences of one’s actions are also things ethics likes to think about

the book is a book of law

her clothing is a combination of court dress and general classical garb. once again dark grey and white

yin yang is self evident. i didn’t really like just sticking it there but i didn’t know what else to do

the oldest schools of ethics are egyptian chinese and indian so those were the groups i tried to base her appearance off of. not really sure it came across properly though

all my information comes from britannica or wikipedia i only did two days’ worth of research and i didn’t look in depth at any of the types of ethics

i tried to focus on her function, which is telling us the most moral ways to live, rather than the different ways people have conceived her

the background images are just things relating to her. i put the universal declaration of human rights on there twice because i like it

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MARIA NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

i just i. she made RAISA. that was the worst possible way for her to go. and also wait she has a daughter in canon that was. never mentioned before? in any case. maria im going to cry

i am also happy about the times she referred to RAISA as an organism. i need to draw her with the personif sometime. i love maria’s hypercompetent ass that is the absolute worst way to go. RAISA who used to be ISA and leslie……….

(scp-8976)

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someone on or offsite described the site 17 deepwell ethics committee as leashed so obviously i had to draw that

that is not my foundation design im still in the process of trying to make her retranslation not look like my physics teacher

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ive read every article in the canon dedicated to her shittiness i know what i need to translate and yet i do not have a workable design for site-17

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finished the prologue of my original scp series! (Requires a bit of context from scp-6500 as it is my interpretation of the no return vanguard timeline)

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okay okay I just thought of a very cool tale for vanguard and perhaps just the no return canon in general.

so in scp-6500 it’s mentioned how there were levels of decontainment occurring before the actual O5 vote and the split between threshold and vanguard. and it mentions how humanoids were released on masse and stuff

now, site-17 is the biggest site containing humanoid anomalies and in a lot of canons (including one with a vanguard timeline), the site director is mentioned to be one Thomas Graham who is presented as a very conservative and often cruel person in regards to his directorship at site-17.

what I think would be an interesting tale or series of events is if Graham or other pro-containment advocates within the Foundation decided to basically refuse the initial 6500 containment procedures and try to lock down their sites and the Foundation would have to respond to it.

in the threshold timeline they’d probably just concede after the vote but in the vanguard timeline. Oho. It would be so interesting to see Vanguard try to do a siege of Site-17 (funnily enough, mirroring General Bowe’s siege of site-19 in the old foes canon) and “liberate” the humanoids

I’ll probably throw a reference to this idea in my next chapter for crossroads to apotheosis since my two main characters are on the ethics committee as all but I’m gonna let this idea set for now

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i feel like something happened here

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i feel like something happened here

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quick ethics before bed shes basically the same as her former self

translation notes:

orangish red hair because 8980’s discussion page finally confirmed that i am not the only one who associates the committee with orange (you should read 8980 but HEED THE FUCKING WARNINGS its as harrowing as they say it is)

the glasses look exactly like vanguard’s

eyes are the same shade of grey as the foundation’s

the atrocious tie is the lightbulb joke

white suit because purity and transparency and such

black gloves because the hand on her insignia is black and i needed contrast. also the foundation wears gloves too. and something about her purpose being investigation and bringing shit to light but using methods as cloak and dagger as anyone else in the foundation and her hands are black

the open cuff looks like the greek letter omega because omega-1

shes trying. most of the parts of her really are trying to be a functional conscience but shes still beholden to an upper avatar whose harmful habits shes had to take on to function and scp foundation ethics committee is an oxymoron you cant legislate a humane way to imprison checks notes low risk humanoids. she can only reduce harm

shes probably one of my most normal looking personifs but thats okay shes designed to fly under the radar

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information

canons: site-17 deepwell, no return/from 120’s archives. third law to a lesser extent, mostly for thaumaturgy meta.

this blog is themed as site-17 because she’s where the essophysics department sits, though i don’t hold articles in the realm of 4755 to be canon, or anything else that conflicts with the Impasse and onwards. thomas graham is a bastard pass it on.

i click out of any article that discusses a*ron siegel in any capacity, sorry (i have nothing against him as a character lmao its just Memories). i also block anyone whose blog features him a great deal, again i’ve got nothing against you. i pretend the guy in ralliston’s proposal is named something else.

i don’t do senior staff except for anybody who plays a major role in vanguard. they’re fine i just don’t find them interesting.

the SCP number for personifs is NOT 10985.

this is separate from the thing i was doing with @/imadewritingmyjob for hopefully obvious reasons. the thing that sucks is that i did a good job the first time (barring the omegaverse au which was a legitimate crime committed against me) so a lot is going to look the same.

otp tags (will likely be expanded):

foundation x goc—a common interest

ethics committee x raisa—the eye of the law

thomas graham x site-17—with the push of a button

(no directors and their sitespirits are NOT supposed to be fucking but it’s thomas graham. who im pretty sure goes out of his way to not follow ethics codes.)

glossary of terms:

SCP SPECIFIC

first hytoth: the ortothan concept as on the wiki; the personif number was 10985 during it, but nobody in the second hytoth in-universe knows that.

PERSONIF GEN

nationalism: crack for countryspirits.

nationalist: a person with a personif kink. not all people with personif kinks are nationalists.

personif: exclusively human-used shortening of personification that i use for ease of typing. i invented it, so anyone else who you see using the term is probably a friend.

personiftranslation: when i personify something.

avatar: in-universe term that is basically the equivalent of personif. i got it and a lot of other stuff from The City We Became by NK Jemisin.

OPC: original personif character, as in i made both them and what they personify.

ODAC: original demiavatar character. explained further down.

ceremonial avatocracy: a mode of government in which the personif is the ceremonial head of state.

true avatocracy: a mode of government in which the personif actually runs herself. democracy is the closest viable system that is not anarchy that we’ve found so far. i think communism was eventually supposed to transition into it. any system that believes personifs are capable of surviving without caretakers has the goal of true avatocracy.

exchange: the process by which a personif feeds herself and maintains an ideally symbiotic relationship with her humans. community service feeds the personif; gaining the hours that you need to pass high school and presumably the feelings of satisfaction are what the personif gives back. our ability to identify with people we don’t know personally is the result of personif exchange. generally, actions are humans feeding the personif, and feelings are the personif feeding the human. the feelings behind the actions still determine how nourishing the action is, though.

(nation-) whisperer/demipersonif/demiavatar: all children of personifs, adopted and biological, who aren’t personifs themselves. can be produced as long as one parent is a personif, or another whisperer.

demanifestation: what personifs do when they’re not getting enough exchange. the avatar—the personif as we see her—is only the way the consciousness/true body of the place/people communicates with the world, and it takes energy derived from exchange to maintain.

OTJ: Old Triumvirate Jurisdiction. any personif who isn’t primarily based in the Internet.

NTJ: New Triumvirate Jurisdiction. personifs who are primarily based in the Internet.

STJ: Shadow Triumvirate Jurisdiction. any personif of a fictional group of people.

Internet: the space metaphorically/literally (it depends where you’re standing) inside the Fourth Wall. perfectly in between Reality and Fiction.

Fourth Wall: everyone’s brains, in the most literal sense.

Reality: the side of the Fourth Wall our bodies live in.

Fiction: the side of the Fourth Wall everything not-real we think of lives in, and Guardians.

Guardians: our avatars in Fiction; souls, if you will. they’re personifs of each of us and some of them help keep the creatures where they belong. some of them also manage personifs.

Nao: my Guardian avatar. they help manage personifs.

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a very incomplete list of personifcoded things on the scp wiki

-SCP-8190. Featuring the sapient concept of containment/worship of the Founder and Foundation facilities that build themselves in a manner, and I quote, “comparable to single-celled eukaryotes such as slime moulds”. There’s also a bit on how to murder organizations. It is an ADMONITION article so like, be warned.

-SCP-1761. Either a countryspirit or a demi of one. You can’t hurt him until he declares war on you. He announced he would be closing his borders one time and nobody could come within a 1 meter radius of him. This was the first SCP file I ever read actually.

-Fall Witness, Part 2. The fae just straight-up generate an avatar of the O4 Council (and they call the avatar an avatar too). Also gets bonus points for being set in a Vanguard canon.

-SCP-7079. 7079 takes the Ethics Committee out on a date (or doesn’t). Shares an author with 8190 and thus is equally as mindfuckful.

-SCP-8889. VKTM x William Wettle.

-SCP-8499. They desecrate a goddess to build Amoni-Ram. She’s conscious through all of it.

-SCP-5513. It’s uh, basically the OG goihumans.

-Essophysics from the Site-17 Deepwell canon.