Goodday everyone and welcome to a special video covering the entire When Day Breaks
canon me and Cimmerian have developed over the last few years. There have been a fair
few characters and storylines established so far and with so many of them and with some
of these storylines and characters starting to overlap, I think now is a great time to
just take a step back and make sure everyone is up to date on where we are at and where
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Right, so let me set out the storylines we have and then we will work our way through
them. There is original Logan Igotta storyline.
The Unlondon storyline. The IKEA storyline. The Dr Bright storyline. The SCP-106 storyline
and the SCP-682 storyline. This list isn’t final so there might be some more storylines
to come, I haven’t had any others come to mind but who knows. There are some one-off
tales too, they have their own section. These aren’t actually part of an ongoing storyline
though; they are just one off self-contained stories.
Let’s now go through them storylines, give you all the cliff notes, point out where these
stories overlap and give you an indication of where things are headed.
Firstly, we have the original, Logan Igotta from Site 46. Her story was the very first
one we covered. A very touching and emotional tale that summed up what the When Day Breaks
event was as well as her slow decent into crippling depression and insanity following
the loss of her partner Ari and Logan’s failed attempts to bring her back from the
dead. It is implied at the end of the tale she overdosed on a bottle of pills. The individual
who stumbled across Site-46 and found these files did not however find the body of Logan.
The unnamed individual was discovered by the flesh. The individual’s fate is unknown
but the ending implies they were taken by and likely converted by the flesh. Logan briefly
appears in a crossover with SCP-106’s storyline, something we will get to later but otherwise,
her storyline ends here.
Next, we have the Unlondon storyline. This one initially follows a large group of SCP
staff members taking refuge in Unlondon. They had been working down there when the event
begun. However, following an attack from the flesh, only 3 survivors escaped Unlondon as
it burned to the ground. Jacob, Elise and Kira. Jacob was a containment specialist;
Elise was a research assistant and Kira was the head of security. The creator of Unlondon
provided sanctuary and transport and invited them to Undublin where the creator shared
his plan to take the fight to the flesh. By starting a nuclear Armageddon using SCP-1984,
a Russian Cold War relic that promises nuclear retaliation in the event of a first strike
from the west, the flesh would be largely wiped out while the sunlight would be blocked
out for a time giving humanity a chance to try and find a long-term solution. It was
revealed another SCP staff member Director Moose was escorting survivors to the Wanderers
Library via a gateway in Undublin. Elise elected to stay behind to assist in the evacuation
efforts. Jacob and Kira headed back out into the world, accompanied by a small contingent
of bobbies to act as a security detail and as escorts, to find a nuclear submarine to
put the creator’s plan into action. While we know from other tales, that the plan to
start a nuclear Armageddon was successful, we have yet to explore their storyline further
but we will.
Next, we have the IKEA storyline. Following a breach of the Infinite IKEA by the Flesh.
Jamal and a group of survivors were rescued by members of MTF-Epsilon-9 the Fire Eaters.
They were then evacuated and recruited into the SCP Foundation’s ranks as a separate
task force working alongside MTF-Epsilon-9 to recover high value surviving SCPs. Their
storyline is still to be continued however we know from the end of SCP-682’s tale that
both them and MTF-Epsilon-9 are trying to locate and recover SCP-682 and SCP-053. Why?
Time will tell.
We now move to the Dr Bright and Dr Cimmerian storyline. Dr Bright was converted to flesh
right at the start of the event. However, the properties of the amulet that holds Dr
Bright’s soul refused to part with Dr Bright and so the Sun was unable to claim and hold
Dr Bright who instead is now stuck in limbo in the flesh consciousness but retains all
his intelligence and personality. Dr Cimmerian and a band of survivors composed of MTF members
and researchers were taking refuge inside an SCP site. Following a communication blackout
with a large part of the team, the rest ventured out to discover them all dead. The flesh form
of Dr Bright then appeared to them all with a plan of his own to activate SCP-2000 to
restore humanity. All but Cimmerian decided against this plan staying behind while Cimmerian
and Bright ventured off out into the world towards Yellowstone. The last we saw of the
pair was them taking shelter in a bunker as a nuclear missile detonated over SCP-2000.
Now the SCP-106 storyline. SCP-106 was freed in the very early days of the When Day Breaks
event by a mysterious woman from the Wanderer’s Library. Her reasons and motives are as of
yet unclear however the terms of the Old Man’s freedom are simple. He carries the worthy
to his own dimension to die away from the sun’s corruption and in return he is granted
total freedom and he can consume as many children as he pleases, so long as they die in his
dimension. The woman however, holds the power to entomb him in his cell permanently should
he break the deal. It was revealed as well that Logan Igotta’s body was never recovered
from Site-46 because SCP-106 offered her peace at last in his own dimension. An offer she
accepted. SCP-106 made a brief appearance in the SCP-173 tale where he and the woman
were seen escorting another soul to safety.
Lastly, the SCP-682 storyline. Following years of experimentation and cross-encounters, 682
and 053 have bonded and become best friends. 682’s hostile nature is slightly lowered
in the presence of 053 and 053 thinks of 682 as both her best friend and a teacher of sorts.
It has been revealed to us that 053 is immune to the sunlight for an, as of yet, unexplained
reason. The flesh will even turn to ash upon physical contact with her. In contrast, 682
however is vulnerable to the sunlight and is currently sheltering both himself and 053
under an inorganic canopy attached to his hide. They are both currently on the run from
the flesh. At the same time, MTF-Epsilon-9 and the IKEA team are trying to locate and
recover them both for unknown reasons, on the orders of a character only known as “2”.
And finally, we come to the one-off tales. In a Halloween special we saw a survivor hiding
from the sunlight in the sewers below California. He found a young girl who he tried to save
as the flesh chased them through the remains of a taken settlement. The young girl eventually
was revealed to be flesh all along and the survivor was taken for conversion.
In another, we caught up with a small group of Foundation researchers inside one of 179’s
monitoring stations. SCP-179, true to her nature, indicated the sun was a threat to
humanity prior to her then being destroyed by the sunlight. In a recorded message received
shortly after the When Day Event began, it is revealed that the Sun has turned on humanity
and that there is nowhere to go and nothing to be done, only to hide.
In the next tale we find Murphy, a lone engineer living in a damaged SCP site in the middle
of the desert with only the SCP-131 twins for company. SCP-049 and a horde of his creations
are contained in the basement with no understanding of what is going on in the world and are hell
bent on finding him. The doctors’ creations finally disable the defences and kill the
131 twins before cornering Murphy. In a fit of rage, grief and despair, Murphy opens the
site to the sun that melts all of the doctors creations to flesh dooming both SCP-049 and
ultimately himself. We catch up with SCP-096 who is doing his
thing, crying and mooching about in the ruins of a dilapidated SCP site. He befriends a
blind girl after killing her mother and both cares for her and loves her. After the flesh
lures the blind girl out to the sun, SCP-096 gives his life in an attempt to save her from
the sunlight. SCP-096 is seen melting in the sunlight overlooking the sea while the fate
of the blind girl is left unknown. SCP-173 makes an appearance in the next tale.
This tale takes place several months after the When Day Breaks event has begun with most
of the SCPs in this site are long gone and only the rotting corpses of the staff are
found littering the halls. The flesh manipulates 173, giving it the attention, it craves and
persuades him to come to the sunlight where it is taken by it. SCP-173 however, does not
dismay or attempt to save himself but rather rejoices in the admiration and love it is
finally receiving. The inanimate stone remains are destroyed some time later by a nuclear
missile detonating nearby. And finally, the flesh assaults the Garden
of Eden leading to a spectacular battle between the biggest titans the flesh can muster and
Uriel himself as they fight for the security of paradise. The Deer itself is used as a
weapon against Uriel. They battle to the death and are both finally killed by the raw power
of Eden being used as a weapon by Uriel to destroy the flesh deer.
And that is where we are so far. There are new entries being written for the 106, 682
and IKEA storylines. As it stands all the storylines now need to reach the Nuclear Winter
section before I can start going past it. Once we hit that bit where the storylines
are at the same point in time, me and Cim can start introducing the last couple of storylines
and moving the story forward from there. There are also some more standalone tales
planned as well covering more SCPs and their response to the When Day Breaks event.
Two big mentions I would like to take the time to point out and thank are S D Locke
for writing SCP-001 When Day Breaks, who would have guessed that one video would have encouraged
so many of you to put forward more ideas that eventually blossomed into its own developing
canon. And massive thanks to Dr Cimmerian as well,
my co-author throughout this project. Please go to his channel and drop him a comment thanking
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