We can probably all agree that you have to be a pretty messed up person to work at the
Foundation.
There’s absolutely no room for normalcy when the average working day involves preventing
the end of the world, feeding murderous monsters, and dealing with an O-5 council that may or
may not exist in any capacity.
So, of course, members of the SCP Foundation are more likely than most to have dealt with
some pretty scary scenarios.
In fact, a lot of them are pretty scary themselves.
Definitely not a group of folks you would want to sit around and have coffee with.
If you did, someone would inevitably melt, or cause someone to melt.
And the coffee would be laced with some anomalous substance FOR RESEARCH PURPOSES.
And some limbs would be bisected before regrowing at an alarming rate.
All par for the course at any given Foundation Site, but pretty shocking out in public.
Now, there are many different sources to consider when discussing Foundation members, and not
all of them line up perfectly.
The SCP canon is wide and varied, so we’ll do our best to keep the stories as straight
as possible.
But again, when working with SCP’s the truth is questionable at best, and almost always
up for amnestic-fuelled rewrites.
Hello horror heads, and welcome back to the scariest channel on YouTube: Top5ScaryVideos.
I’m your horror host, Keegan Hughes, and today we’re counting down the Top 5 Scary
SCP Foundation Members - Part 2.
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Foundation fables.
Wicked, let’s begin.
NUMBER 5: MOBILE TASK FORCE TAU-5 (SAMSARA) We’ll cast the net pretty wide for this
one, and discuss a whole task force as one person.
They’re all cloned from one source anyways, and I don’t feel like getting into the muddy
waters of what makes a clone different from their progenitor.
Too many paradoxes involved in that.
Tau-5 is arguably one of the strongest, and therefore scariest, of all the Foundation
MTFs.
Immortal cyborg clones created from the flesh of a dead god.
It’s hard to get wilder than that.
These magical machine people use esoteric and experimental Foundation weaponry to investigate
and contain thaumaturgic, magical, and psionic threats.
There are some things that regular biological humans, no matter how highly trained, are
not capable of dealing with.
Essentially, Tau-5 members are all video game characters.
Infinite respawns, regeneration, and potential for using new equipment.
These bad mother truckers have insane regenerative abilties, and can basically recover from anything.
They eat bullets with their bodies like Kobayashi eats hotdogs.
Even if they lose all their limbs, and suffer crippling blows, it won’t be long before
they’re re-cloned and ready for action once again.
They can even re-integrate parts from previous iterations to ensure maximized efficiency.
And like I said before, these folks are magic.
A step above cyborgs, they have been gifted special abilities by the Lord of Endowments,
making them Master Chief level overpowered.
If Tau-5 is after you, just give up.
Your time has come.
NUMBER FOUR: DR.
KONDRAKI A well-known, controversial fan-favourite,
Dr. REDACTED Kondraki is the former Director of Site 17.
Nobody knows for sure where he is now, as he disappeared long ago.
Some say he is still alive and working for the Foundation deep undercover, while some
claim he was DEALT WITH if you know what I’m saying.
A whiz with a camera, Kondraki started out as a low-level researcher with little chance
of promotion.
Soon enough, his finesse as an image-capturer was noticed, and he was brought out into the
field to photographically document new finds.
As time went on, Kondraki noticed that some SCPs couldn’t be captured on regular-issue
cameras, so he began meticulously upgrading his own.
These upgrades may or may not have involved anomalous materials.
In fact, his camera is now classified as SCP-515-ARC, and has undergone extensive testing.
He’s also known for becoming quite attached to certain SCPs.
Like, way too personally attached for a researcher.
He has a worrisome degree of control over the swarm of butterflies that constitute SCP-408,
and has been observed directing them in a concerted effort to incapacitate other researchers.
In fact, his official title is “King of the Booooterflies”
With four O’s, get it right.
Kondraki also has a long and storied history of attempting to defend SCP-239, most notably
when Dr. Clef attempted to terminate it.
Whether 239’s reality-bending properties caused this, or Dr. Kondraki’s genuine affection
for the child is still up for debate.
Regardless, anyone so unpredictable with that much access to Foundation information should
be considered highly dangerous.
Plus, he might have compromising pictures of high-ranking Foundation members hidden
away for emergency use.
Maybe he blackmailed his way to obscurity.
NUMBER THREE: DR.
EVERETT MANN This crotchety old man is a high-functioning
sociopath with massive delusions of grandeur and minimal attachment to reality.
Sure, that doesn’t sound like much in amongst other Foundation members, but he has a long
history of monstrous behaviour and a head full of secrets to boot.
Dr. Mann is the nephew of a mad-scientist uncle who at one point was a person of interest
to the Foundation.
After his uncle was jailed and subsequently died, Mann came into a fairly hefty inheritance,
and put himself through medical school.
Some may call him a mad scientist, but he prefers the moniker of mad doctor.
Because he has his doctorate.
Titles are important, people.
Sporting one hell of a moustache and some serious mutton chops, Mann has a set of old-timey
sensibilities that put him at odds with many of the younger researchers and Foundation
members.
It also makes him very easy to pick out of a crowd.
These sensibilities also lead to some very outdated ideas on ethics, leading to some
horrifying actions in the name of research.
In fact, he knows enough terrifying information to make him a potential danger to the Foundation
under certain predicted future circumstances.
Better to keep him close for now, right?
Possibly the most dangerous thing about him is his knowledge of O-5 secrets.
For whatever reason, members of the O-5 council keep coming to him and letting him know otherwise
classified information.
Much of this is insane, and as such is slowly driving Mann insane.
One story details how he actually used this accumulated information to kill the 13 members
and overthrow the council.
Knowledge is power.
NUMBER TWO: RESEARCHER TALLORAN James Martin Talloran is a tragic figure in
the SCP canon.
Originally a Level 3 researcher, he wasn’t anything special until SCP-3999 became attached
to him.
This reality-altering skip is believed to have reality-altering properties, and is one
of the few Apollyon-class entities being monitored.
It currently poses a ZK Class end-of-reality scenario, and the containment procedure details
a very disturbing and sad procession of events.
For whatever reason, 3999 holds some sort of grudge against Talloran, and forces him
to endure horrible tortures over and over again.
He is made to watch the execution of his family, killed in many different ways, trapped in
a continuous time-loop of a joke, melted and eaten by Dunkleowolves, inflated with water
via hose, and more.
This is all detailed in an extremely confusing, disjointed, and fascinating entry.
Eventually Talloran finds a way to stop 3999, but at the cost of his own life.
For millions of years, he endured the worst possible pain, the rending of his mind, until
he became numb to it all.
Through this numbness he was able to survive, and overcome the tortures inflicted upon him.
Upon investigation of 3999’s containment cell, Talloran’s body was found along with
a cell phone containing a text document.
The document resembled a containment procedure, but written up differently than most.
Honestly, it's a trip to read, and is a surreal look into a writer’s psyche as they come
to terms with their addiction to the SCP community at large.
My description can’t truly do it justice, so I would recommend reading the entry in
its entirety.
Good luck out there.
NUMBER ONE: DR.
JACK BRIGHT Ahhh of course, how could we do another Foundation
Members episode without talking about the immortal goofball himself, Dr. Bright.
It’s very difficult to describe this fellow in one shot, because he’s involved with
so many different stories, and has the potential to be anywhere and anything.
Thanks to a connection with SCP-963, Dr. Bright is effectively immortal.
Bright was killed during a containment breach while hand-delivering the amulet to another
on-site location.
For whatever reason, his death bound his soul to the amulet, allowing him to effectively
take over the body of anyone who comes into contact with it.
He can use this power to essentially do whatever the hell he damn well pleases, and this has
been well-documented indeed.
At this point, Dr. Bright can just throw caution to the wind.
He’s been known to steal bodies, take over non-human entities, and use D-class personnel
as EXTRA LIVES of sorts.
There’s actually a very long and thorough list of things that Dr. Bright is not allowed
to do, and some of the entries are pretty ridiculous.
The current amount of entries on the list is 287, and it's liable to climb even higher.
If you have a favourite, please let me know in the comments.
I want to know definitively what the best Thing Bright Isn’t Allowed to Do is.
Now, what I’ve said already might paint Bright as a comedic character, and at times
he can be!
He is a loveable, affable weirdo with plenty of stories to tell.
But he is also quite dangerous, with plenty of tragedy mixed in as well.
The Bright family has been associated with the Foundation as long as anyone can remember,
some being researchers and Task Force members, others sadly becoming SCPs themselves through
anomalous means.
Jack himself leaves a pile of bodies wherever he goes, and at this point might just be looking
for a way to permanently die.
963 won’t allow that though.
Poor guy will just have to continue on at the Foundation forever.
At least he can have some fun with it, right?
OUTRO Sheesh!
There is a lot of lore out there!
Researching for this list was a journey indeed, but the Foundation seems to grow factorially
every time I learn something new.
Some damned good writers on that website.
What did you think?
Any Foundation members you think should be included?
Which one is your favourite?
Let me know down in the comments.
Speaking of comments, lets have a quick peek at some of your more titillating ones from
last time: Rick a Dick says “The Unlikes are from D-Class
Personnel” If that’s the case, I’ll allow it.
They have enough on their plates without me commenting on their gruesome deaths.
Luke Reeves says “Yay Keegan!
Happy new years!”
Yay Luke!
Happy New Years to you as well!
Got any resolutions?
Sanjeetr says “That mustache…”
I’ve got some bad news for you, mustache fans…
Pardy says “Whips out some teeth - Cousin Johnn’s specialty, want some?
- CRUNCH - MUNCH” There is nothing on planet earth that I want
less than a handful of snacking teeth.
Eugh.
Walter Holt says “aye we got an SCP that kills cheaters”
Technically it kills abusers, but hey the more the merrier!
And that’s all the time we have for today!
Thanks for watching, and I’ll see you next time.