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[hakusins]

Excuse me for asking, and don't think you have to answer this, but what is SCP?

Hello dear anon!! I'm more than happy to answer!! (visibly buzzing with excitement)

The explanation on Wikipedia is the best explanation for this as a whole, it states that The SCP Foundation (or rather the SCP series as a whole) is a fictional organization featuring independent stories from the SCP wiki, which you can just imagine as a wiki-based collaborative writing project.

In short: It is basically a fictional world that was created by random users on the Internet, where they will add little bits and pieces of lore as well as 'entries' which are the anomalies/characters in this situation, to flesh out the world as a whole. There's no definitive 'author' who started this project and it's treated as a really big writing project that anyone can partake in!

It's why I was so in love with the SCP project as a whole, and it's so so interesting because I don't think I've ever come across a series or a piece of work that came to life not by one singular author but multiple authors who are strangers. None of this is coordinated, there's overlaps and it's just so real and creative!!!

Anyways now that I've established where this came from and what it is, now its to at least explain a bit of the 'story' itself. In all honesty, I recommend you go to this youtube video to get a concrete understanding of the entire world as a whole:

It sometimes glosses over a few things, but it's a good introduction to the SCP series as whole, especially as someone who is a complete newbie.

Anyways if you don't have time for it, I will give the rundown that is relevant to the DOL x SCP AU, which I'm assuming is the reason why you're asking in the first place!

SCP stands for 'Safety Containment Procedures' and the SCP Foundation is a shadow organization dedicated to the containment or neutralization of anomalies. These anomalies are strange or dangerous entities, beings, people, organizations or even concepts, that threaten the fabric of our reality by existing. Thus, the SCP Foundation is dedicated to the containment of these anomalies to ensure the safety of the human race. Often times, the Foundation does things that are immoral or downright horrible, for the sake of containing these anomalies. But it is all for the greater good.

When you see SCP - XXXX (insert number here), this is the designation code for an anomaly. In official reports, anomalies are often referred to using this code. But when talking with other members of SCP personnel or fans, they call them by their nicknames. So for example;

'SCP-096 is known as 'the Shy Guy' in the SCP Foundation and it is an anomaly that is usually very docile in custody, but becomes extremely hostile when someone looks at its face or a picture of its face. The size or how clear the picture is irrelevant, because there have been reports that SCP-096 would go into his rage state even when someone views a singular pixel of his face in a photograph. Thus, SCP-096 has been classified as Euclid.'

SCPs is also the nickname that is often used to collective refer to these anomalies, even though SCP as an acronym stands for 'Safety Containment Procedure'.

SCPs are given a classification on top of a designation number, these range from Safe, Euclid and Keter or in some cases, Neutralized. KEEP IN MIND, a 'Safe' Classification does not mean an SCP is 'safe' to interact with or is a 'safe' SCP overall. These classifications refer to how easy it is for an anomaly to be contained. Most dangerous anomalies are in Keter yes, but some times the anomalies in Keter are also 'harmless' anomalies that are just hard to contain and have the greatest risk of interacting with civilian populations. Hence why they are designated as 'Keter.'

So just keep in mind = Safe (Easy to contain, don't worry abt it), Euclid (Can be contained under specific conditions, be wary), and Keter (Extremely difficult or impossible to contain). The SCP Foundation is not fond of neutralizing SCPs but they will do so if they're forced to. Neutralized (SCP is dead, does not exist anymore and thus do not pose a threat to the Foundation or anyone.)

I think that covers the basic stuff about the SCP Foundation!! If you have any further questions, anon. Please feel free to ask me again! I'm more than happy to answer any questions you may have!!