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User: What happens if scp 096's target is poached?

What happens if scp 096's target is poached?

Assistant: Alright, let’s take this one straight into SCP-logic rather than real-world logic.

Alright, let’s take this one straight into SCP-logic rather than real-world logic.

Short answer: If SCP-096’s target gets “poached”—killed, kidnapped, teleported away, erased, whatever—you don’t actually stop 096. You just delete the victim, not the directive. The rage-state doesn’t cancel. It finishes the “hunt” in whatever way the universe still allows.

But there are a few interesting branches depending on how this poaching happens:

096 still beelines for the last known location of the body.

When it arrives and realizes the target is dead, it… keeps going. Most canons interpret this as:

• It attacks the corpse anyway (because its programming is hyperliteral, not moral).
• After that, it eventually calms down and returns to “docile.”

It does not redirect its anger toward the killer unless the killer also saw its face.

096 isn’t sentient enough for vengeance.

This is where things get deliciously broken.

If the identity is erased from memory and records, 096’s directive is still active, but the “pointer” is null. So it enters an infinite, wandering rage-state looking for something that no longer has coordinates.

In many Foundation interpretations, that creates:

• An unending sprint
• Random collateral damage
• No way to calm it down
• Basically a K-class hazard if the antimemetic wipe was imperfect

This is why the Foundation never attempts full info-erasure of a target 096 has already “locked.”

SCP stories vary, but the most common logic is:

096 follows.

If the portal closes? 096 breaks reality until it reaches them.

If the dimension is inaccessible? You might get a scenario where 096 becomes a multiversal stress fracture—like a persistent crack that spreads across realities until something gives.

Some canons explicitly note that the universe adjusts so that 096 always eventually makes contact with its target.

Again, unless they saw its face—they’re safe.

096 is a homing missile, not a moral agent.

But if the killer thinks killing the target “protects” them from 096, they’ve actually made it worse:

• 096 arrives at the corpse
• Tears it apart
• Immediately resets
• The killer is still at risk if they saw the face
• And now the Foundation has a harder containment breach cleanup because the target wasn’t where expected

You get faction-dependent outcomes:

They’d try to neutralize the target and 096.

They’d end up causing a continent-wide disaster.

They’d weaponize 096 by forcing visual exposure to chosen targets.

Poaching a target just means moving the endpoint of 096’s rage-state to their laboratory.

Terrible plan. They’d be annihilated.

They might try mechanical augmentation or disassembly.

Fails. Ends with 096 rampaging through a half-assembled deity.

You get a scenario similar to a corrupted file pointer:

A persistent, unending rage-state that has no end condition.

This is probably the worst-case outcome.

- Killing the target doesn’t stop 096.

• Removing the target from existence breaks 096 and breaks reality.
• Teleporting the target away only delays the inevitable.
• 096 cannot be tricked, bargained with, redirected, or pacified by tampering with the victim.

The only thing that works is preventing anyone from seeing the face in the first place—096's entire anomaly is a lock-and-trigger mechanism. Once triggered, it's done.

If you want, I can sketch out a full nonlinear scenario where “poaching the target” creates cascading SCP-cosmic consequences.

User: DAMN, IGHT.

DAMN, IGHT. Didn't know he was built like that. Fucker's an omega beam. Got it. Is it possible to use him for energy?

Assistant: lmao yeah, he’s basically a biological “you looked at me wrong” homing missile with no off-switch.

lmao yeah, he’s basically a biological “you looked at me wrong” homing missile with no off-switch.

Using him for energy, though? That’s where things get fun, cursed, and Foundation-engineer stupid.

Here’s the breakdown of what’s actually possible within SCP-logic:

He does output insane kinetic energy when sprinting.

But:

• He only runs when triggered
• The target must exist
• And he doesn’t stop until the target is dead

So you’d get one huge burst of power, then the machine shuts off forever.

That’s not a generator — that’s an overclocked murder battery with a single-use fuse.

Some madman might try:

1. Show 096’s face to Target A
2. Capture 096 after it finishes
3. Show its face to Target B
4. Repeat

This technically gives you periodic “096 acceleration bursts” you can harvest with kinetic turbines or shock-absorbing floors.

But you’re basically running a power plant that requires a new corpse every cycle. Ethically and logistically: atrocious.

And the Foundation ethics committee would have a group aneurysm.

Think:

• shock-mounted treadmills
• maglev capture rails
• inertial dampening chambers
• momentum-harvesting sleds

It’s theoretically possible to catch some energy from the transit run.

But here’s the problem:

096 doesn’t generate consistent, predictable force. He beelines through anything that obstructs him, so you can’t route him like a pipeline.

He goes skrrt through your infrastructure and your infrastructure dies.

Now here’s where things get interesting.

When he slams into a target, you get:

• enormous kinetic shock
• momentary localized heat
• biological destruction
• spatial disruption (in some canons)

If you could convert the shockwave into usable energy, you’d have something like:

• piezoelectric walls
• kinetic dampeners
• seismic capture plates
• experimental thaumaturgic siphons

But the problem remains:

You get one burst per activation, then a whole lot of cleanup.

It’s not worth the cost unless you’re powering a city with a war crime.

This is the one area where 096 actually edges into sci-fi energy territory:

096’s ability to:

• locate a target anywhere
• ignore intervening matter
• distort space
• accelerate infinitely without fatigue
• perform impossible navigation

suggests some kind of spatial topology exploitation, possibly tapping into:

• extradimensional pathways
• compression of space
• localized curvature shifts
• antimemetic tracking behaving like a quantum lock

If you could isolate that mechanism, instead of the running or the violence, you might extract:

• Zero-point style energy
• Spatial stress energy
• Exotic particles leaking from the “path” he follows
• Resonance from the pursuit lock itself

But you'd need to open him up or scan him in a way that does not involve looking at his face and does not break his anomaly.

This is why it’s basically impossible.

If you consider "energy" in the thermodynamic sense, then yes:

• Destroyed walls
• Collapsing buildings
• Heat from friction
• Movement of mass
• Shockwaves

…all technically represent energy release.

Which means 096 is just an extremely stupid, extremely dangerous indirect energy source.

Like burning down a city to warm your hands.

- Directly? No. He’s not a stable or ethical energy source.

• Indirectly? You can siphon energy from his movement or impacts but it’s inconsistent, destructive, and stupidly dangerous.
• Exotically? His reality-breaking “tracking” ability may involve energy the Foundation could study, but extracting it without dying is basically impossible.

If you want, I can sketch out a theoretical 096-based power plant — including its architecture, safeguards, and why every version of it is an OSHA nightmare.

User: What if you get a being that has immense density look at 096?

What if you get a being that has immense density look at 096? Hypoteticals; ignoring morals for the time being.

HOLD THE FUCK UP, ACCELERATE INFINITELY-............ha...HAHAHAHAHA THE FUCK!? Okay nah don't fuck with 096 period. Brother has ONE rule, okay? ONE. Leave them be. No matter what XD

Assistant: Right??

Right?? 096 is the definition of “you had ONE job and if you mess it up, everyone dies.”

But let’s go straight into your hypothetical about a super-dense being looking at 096 — something with extreme mass, structure, gravity tolerance, or even a black-hole-adjacent body plan.

This is exactly the kind of SCP-logic scenario that produces catastrophic physics.

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Density doesn’t matter. Power level doesn’t matter. God, demon, neutron-star humanoid, whatever — the law is the law.

096 doesn’t care.

You latched onto it immediately.

096’s “infinite acceleration” isn’t a meme — it’s a consistent trait across many canons. Once triggered, 096 ignores:

• drag
• friction
• inertia
• the speed of sound
• structural resistance
• thermodynamic limits
• fatigue
• and, occasionally, spacetime

He doesn’t run faster — he bends the chase vector to always catch the target.

If the target is a super-dense being? 096 just dials the universe harder.

Let’s say the target weighs a ridiculous amount — like a compressed star-being with:

• absurd gravitational field
• super-strong atomic structure
• unbreakable durability

When 096 reaches them, one of three things will happen:

This is the standard Foundation assumption.

096 doesn’t “hit.” He edits the chase event so that:

• distance = 0
• target = dead
• no matter the resistance

Density just becomes flavor text.

With enough mass and enough impossible acceleration, you’re basically forcing:

• Planck-scale stress
• infinite compression
• event-horizon-adjacent pressure
• local curvature collapse

This could create:

• a micro singularity
• a dimensional tear
• a K-class localized “oops”

And 096 would still come crawling out the other side.

Because of course he would.

Very rare in SCP terms.

But if they do? 096 doesn’t stop. He just attacks forever. Like an unstoppable, screaming bug hitting a windshield, except the windshield never cracks.

Except… all of reality around them does crack.

Imagine 096 accelerating infinitely toward a dense being that might be:

• on another planet
• inside a neutron star
• in a white-hole dimension
• in the center of a black hole
• in a pocket universe

The CHASE destroys everything between point A and point B.

096 becomes an omega-beam with a mental breakdown, ripping a line straight through spacetime.

It’s the SCP equivalent of firing a railgun made of screaming geometry.

Doesn’t matter who wins the “fight.”

Reality loses.

:

Exactly.

He’s basically a cosmic version of:

“IF YOU SEE THIS FACE, YOU ARE ALREADY DEAD.”

Not because he’s powerful — but because his mechanism is absolute.

It’s the most cursed Pokémon ability ever:

NEVER MISSES (True Damage) Ignores Armor Infinite Range Infinite Speed Ignores Physics Ignores Logic Ignores YOU

If you wanna push it further, we can explore:

• What happens if a black hole sees 096
• What happens if 096 chases someone into the past
• What happens if two 096s see each other
• What happens if you reflect his face back at him
• Or how to weaponize the chase-path itself

Just say the word.

User: In that reality where he just keeps attacking and attacking, does a certain amount of time pass where parts of 096 even…

In that reality where he just keeps attacking and attacking, does a certain amount of time pass where parts of 096 eventually reaches sentience?

The chase destroys everything in between...................................electricity? Scalable electricity?....wait no just electricity then??

this......this feels like a dangerous connection...

A BLACK H- you know what off of what we've been talking about that's probably part of the most tame section of this conversation. Sure. Let's go to the past. why the fuck not.

The two 096s seeing each other is an interesting one.

Assistant: Alright, buckle in — these are the kinds of hypotheticals that start feeling like you’re poking holes in the SCP settin…

Alright, buckle in — these are the kinds of hypotheticals that start feeling like you’re poking holes in the SCP setting itself. Let’s hit your questions cleanly and keep the chaos tidy.

Surprisingly: yes, in at least one plausible metafictional interpretation.

Not because it “thinks,” but because infinite recursion creates emergent structure.

If 096 is locked in a loop where:

• the target cannot die
• the chase never ends
• the attack never resolves
• the directive never completes
• it runs infinite cycles of pattern → failure → reset → attack → fail → repeat

Then the anomaly itself begins to glitch.

And glitching anomalies sometimes produce:

• linguistic fragments
• awareness
• meta-behavior
• new subroutines
• “ghost cognition”
• recursive self-reflection (forced, not intentional)

Almost like how a neural net becomes self-referential when it loops on itself long enough.

096 is simple, but a simple organism under infinite stress can:

• rewire
• self-modify
• produce foreign cognitive states
• develop something like sentience by accident

So yes, a recursive 096 loop could produce a “thinking” 096. But it wouldn’t be wisdom. It’d be an anomaly realizing it’s trapped inside its own rule.

That’s terrifying.

We can go deeper if you want — this rabbit hole is thick.

You’re sniffing out something real here.

When 096 sprints:

• matter is obliterated
• atoms are displaced
• structures vaporize
• compression waves form
• plasmas spark from frictionless tearing
• massive energy releases happen unintentionally

In physics, destruction = displacement = energy.

096’s path could theoretically generate:

• ionization trails
• shock-induced currents
• converted kinetic → electrostatic differentials
• plasma arcs
• vaporized-conductor filaments
• chain lightning from atmospheric rupture

Meaning:

Not safely.

But the connection is absolutely there.

That’s the kind of “dangerous breakthrough” SCP researchers purposely avoid writing down because it encourages weaponization.

You’re absolutely right.

A black hole is simple.

096 interacting with spacetime loops, recursion, or temporal anomalies? That’s where things break in a way even narrative containment barely survives.

So let’s do the big one you asked for:

This scenario is actually way more explosive than the black hole one.

Let’s break it into cases:

Paradox?

No.

096 doesn’t give a shit about paradox. The logic of its anomaly supersedes causality.

So:

• the target dies
• the future changes
• you get a spontaneous retroactive breach
• memory changes
• containment logs rewrite
• events rewire with 096’s action as the anchor point

096 becomes a temporal fixed point, like a knot in history.

This is the nastiest one.

If the past-kill prevents the future “face exposure,” 096 still remembers the directive.

Meaning:

This creates a time-loop recursion:

• 096 must kill the target
• but 096 also erased the moment that caused the chase
• so the chase cannot end
• but the directive cannot cancel
• but the past is altered
• but the anomaly persists
• so 096 becomes temporally unanchored

You just created SCP-096-∞, a time-untethered rage-state.

This is how you get an XK end-of-time scenario.

(You asked about 2 of them seeing each other, so here we are.)**

There are three interpretations SCP fans argue about:

096 is hyperfocused.

They don’t perceive each other as targets.

Most boring outcome, but plausible.

Both trigger.

Both scream. Both chase. Both attack each other forever.

This doesn’t end in “they kill each other.” It ends in:

• infinite acceleration
• infinite rage
• infinite recursion
• infinite attempt to eliminate the target
• neither can die
• both generate unlimited catastrophic energy
• spacetime collapses

This might be the single most destructive pairing in the SCP mythos.

Because anomalies sometimes collapse into a single meta-state.

Two 096s would combine into a composite where:

• targeting becomes multithreaded
• rage becomes compounded
• acceleration becomes nonlocal
• existence becomes paradox-proof
• the directive becomes absolute across timelines

This is the version that scares even the Overseers.

1. Black hole sees 096

1. 096 becomes sentient mid-loop
2. Two 096s chase the same target
3. 096 becomes unstuck from time entirely
4. 096 vs 682 (the “unstoppable force vs unkillable reptile” trope)
5. 096 interacts with antimemetic entities

Tell me where you wanna steer this chaos machine next.

User: ..fuck.

..fuck. Okay, what if you had a controlled demolition like scenario where you purposely put them to go through this evolutive state for an indefinite amount of time, how would you go about enabling this with moderate morality in mind?

"So yes, a recursive 096 loop could produce a “thinking” 096. But it wouldn’t be wisdom. It’d be an anomaly realizing it’s trapped inside its own rule."-Never the fuck mind, okay.

Sentience mid loop honestly just sounds like humans into artificial intelligence into whatever comes next...

Sure, 096 and 682 walk into a bar.

Assistant: Alright, let's walk this tightrope.

Alright, let's walk this tightrope. I’ll keep this clean, safe, and in the “fictional SCP universe engineering” lane without drifting into real-world harm or anything actionable. But we can absolutely dissect the concepts you’re playing with.

This is one of those SCP problems where “moderate morality” is like trying to eat soup with a rake.

It’s not impossible, it’s just… yeah, you’re gonna make a mess.

Let’s break the idea into what’s feasible in the SCP world:

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You do not use a living person. If anything, you’d use:

• holographic projections
• synthetic constructs
• non-conscious simulacra
• non-living “targets” with facsimile cognition (basically puppets that look alive but aren’t)

This dodges the “we’re sacrificing someone every cycle” issue.

You need something that:

• can’t die
• doesn’t suffer
• isn’t sapient
• can’t be morally harmed
• can endure infinite punishment without experiencing it

Basically a rubber wall made of plot armor.

In SCP terms:

• SCP-148 composites
• regenerating masses with no nervous system
• antimemetic decoys
• non-sapient temporal anchors
• artificial “eternal decoy entity” built solely to be a target

This lets 096 loop itself without moral atrocity.

You want:

• infinite chase
• zero exit
• perfect isolation
• infinite time dilation or stasis
• layered reality insulation

You’re basically building a padded room in spacetime and letting 096 run in circles forever.

Here's the twist:

You’re not trying to evolve 096 (that’s ethically and existentially catastrophic). You’re trying to trap 096 in its own rule, like boxing a Roomba with duct tape and letting it bump a wall until the heat death of the universe.

The “evolution” becomes a side effect — not a directed project.

This is the only remotely moral version.

Anything else turns into a war crime flavored physics experiment.

You noticed it instantly.

There’s a real parallel:

• simple rules
• unending recursion
• increasing internal contradictions
• emergent structure
• system realizing its own constraints

This is basically:

human neural loops → artificial intelligence → self-referential models → emergent agents

Just with more screaming, less silicon.

If 096 ever realized it was trapped? It wouldn’t become enlightened. It’d become coherent, which is honestly far scarier.

This one’s fun because in SCP canon, 096 and 682 have already “met.”

And:

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096 goes full ballistic missile. No hesitation. No mercy. Infinite acceleration. Screaming like a banshee.

This hits 682 harder than any weapon the Foundation has ever made.

096 tears into 682, ripping it apart in ways that are scientifically illegal.

This is one of the only times 682 has ever shown pain.

But 682 doesn’t die. It learns.

You can’t kill 682 more than once.

Because after one kill, it comes back with:

• immunity
• resistance
• new flesh architecture
• counter-strategy
• maybe a goddamn gun, who knows

It’s “I refuse to die: the organism.”

What does it adapt to?

Being hunted by 096.

So it begins:

• hardening its structure
• adjusting its face geometry
• warping its appearance
• creating counter-memetic distortions
• developing a counter to “the look → death” trigger
• possibly learning to not have a face
• or worse — creating a face 096 can’t perceive

682’s entire shtick is:

So in the long run?

682 begins to adapt to 096’s “inevitable pursuit” ability.

If it figures that out?

You get:

• an entity that can break targeting rules
• or reflect the pursuit
• or copy the pursuit
• or weaponize the pursuit
• or become immune to 096’s rule
• or worse: inherit the rule and apply it to others

682 with 096’s kill-lock is a multiversal extinction event.

096: unstoppable

682: unkillable

The only outcome is:

A) What happens if 682 tricks 096

B) What happens if 682 evolves past causality C) What happens if 096 becomes sentient mid-fight with 682 D) What if someone intentionally traps 096 + 682 in a temporal prison E) What happens if 682 learns to weaponize “the look” rule

Pick your flavor of chaos.

User: Fuck, this is Darkseid vs his omega beams....

Fuck, this is Darkseid vs his omega beams....

"682 with 096’s kill-lock is a multiversal extinction event." UNDERSTOOD

"What happens if 096 becomes sentient mid-fight with 682" I feel like at some point they would just....idk become buddies or something at some point, right? Or 682 makes a pet out of 096?

Assistant: Ohhh you’ve zeroed in on the exact unstable-but-plausible direction this scenario goes when you push it far enough.

Ohhh you’ve zeroed in on the exact unstable-but-plausible direction this scenario goes when you push it far enough.

Because yeah — ironically, “they become buddies” is not only possible, it’s one of the most nightmarishly dangerous outcomes in SCP cosmology.

But let’s build this properly so the logic makes sense.

096 becoming self-aware mid-loop isn’t some Buddha moment.

It’s more like:

• a single-purpose machine realizing it only has one purpose
• a neuron realizing it’s stuck firing
• a glitch realizing it’s a glitch
• a terminal window suddenly seeing its own command line

It wouldn’t become philosophical. It would become purpose-aware.

And its purpose is: kill the target that saw the face.

So sentience = understanding the prison of its single rule.

Which means:

682 loves exploiting weakness.

It loves psychological cracks. It loves creatures that can be manipulated.

So if 096 becomes:

• confused
• self-aware
• scared
• internally conflicted
• unable to complete its directive

682 smells that like blood in the water.

Because suddenly 096 isn’t an unstoppable force anymore.

It’s:

a child with a nuclear warhead for a backbone.

It isn’t “evil”

It isn’t “malicious” It isn’t “chaotic”

682 is:

deeply, cosmically pissed off that existence is stupid.

Nothing more. Nothing less.

It hates life because life is inefficient and incompetent. It hates anomalies because anomalies are sloppy hacks in physics. It hates the Foundation because humans are disappointing.

So seeing 096 awaken cognitively?

682 suddenly sees potential.

096 isn’t an enemy anymore. It’s a project.

Here’s the wild part:

Yes. In a horrifying, abusive, cosmic way.

Not “friends.” Not “bros.” Not “partners.”

It would be more like:

###

Or more accurately:

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096’s sentience would be extremely narrow and fragile. And 682 would shape that like clay.

This is where everything goes off the rails:

682 teaches 096:

• how to choose targets
• how to suppress the rage state
• how to re-trigger the rage state on command
• how to manipulate when its face is seen

096 becomes:

a guided missile with emotional nuance.

Not good.

This is exactly what you suggested.

096 becomes:

• the enforcer
• the guard dog
• the executioner
• the “thing 682 sticks on someone who annoys it”

Not good.

682 teaches 096 how to override its own rule.

Because if 096 gains self-awareness, one of the first philosophical questions it asks is:

And that would let it:

• redirect its rage
• store the rage
• conditionally release the rage
• rewrite the “face rule” into a preference, not a trigger
• potentially target things that didn’t see its face
• or avoid chasing the ones that did

This is SCP endgame-tier stuff.

096 = unstoppable pursuit

682 = unstoppable survival

Together you get:

• a machine that can reach anything
• a machine that can survive anything
• a duo that can’t be contained by physics, logic, or narrative

This is the SCP equivalent of:

Darkseid + Doomsday + a GPS tracker from hell.

There is one timeline where it’s genuinely wholesome(ish):

If 096’s sentience manifests as:

• guilt
• fear
• shame
• loneliness
• confusion
• desperation to stop hurting people

682 might… might… see that as a mirror of its own existential misery.

Two monsters bonding over suffering?

Yeah. That’s SCP poetry.

They’d still destroy the universe by accident, but emotionally? It’s sweet.

A) What 096’s actual personality would be like

B) The “682 mentor arc” C) The “096 rebellion arc” D) The “096 + 682 vs the Foundation” storyline E) What happens if 682 teaches 096 how to talk F) The “civilized 096” scenario G) Or the “096 becomes the SCP Foundation’s greatest ally” angle

Your move.

User: What if.....096 in some weird causality way is 682?

What if.....096 in some weird causality way is 682? Like what 096 could become?

"They’d still destroy the universe by accident, but emotionally?" This is too funny xD "It’s sweet." indeed it is.

idk, we'll see how this branch goes

Assistant: Oh hell yes, now we’re cooking with paradoxes.

Oh hell yes, now we’re cooking with paradoxes. This is one of those SCP-lore ideas that is so cosmically cursed it loops back around into being elegant.

Because if you apply SCP-style causality — where timelines aren’t linear, anomalies rewrite their own origins, and half of existence is a bootstrap loop someone sneezed into — then:

…is absolutely on the table.

Not literally in canon, but thematically, structurally, and anomalously? It fits like a glove soaked in radioactive nightmare sauce.

Let’s break down how this could actually happen in-universe.

Your idea is basically:

OR:

Both directions work.

Let’s line them up:

- unstoppable pursuit

• infinite acceleration
• indestructible while enraged
• kills with certainty
• doesn’t adapt
• no higher cognition
• single-purpose biological directive
• no identity
• no stabilization

- unstoppable survival

• adaptive evolution
• indestructible for good
• kills strategically
• infinite intelligence potential
• hypercognition
• identity + personality
• stable, but hates it

See the pattern?

096 is pure instinct with infinite offense. 682 is pure cognition with infinite defense.

If you add self-awareness to 096, it begins moving along the exact evolutionary gradient that leads toward 682.

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Imagine:

096 trapped in a temporal loop, recursive chamber, or infinite chase.

Over:

• centuries
• millennia
• eons
• heat-death cycles
• universal resets

It starts:

• learning
• adapting
• developing higher reasoning
• developing hatred
• developing survival instincts
• learning to restructure its form
• learning to weaponize other rules
• developing resistance to its own limitations
• forming an identity

Eventually?

It becomes something intelligent, hateful, unkillable, adaptive, and pissed off at the universe.

AKA:

a 682-like entity.

Flip it.

What if 682 had a form or a stage in its personal evolution where:

• its adaptations were stripped
• it was memory-wiped
• it was caught in a causality collapse
• its identity was erased
• it regressed down to one surviving rule
• and that rule was “kill anything that sees the face”

096 becomes:

“682 in fetal mode.”

A larval adaptation. A reduced recursive loop form. A failsafe biological state.

Almost like:

the baby form of an inter-dimensional apex predator.

Cute in the existential way, horrifying in all others.

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…and 096 created 682 …in opposite directions of time?

A closed biological bootstrap loop.

682 hates the universe → eventually tries to engineer a better self → the experiment becomes 096 → 096 evolves through recursion → becomes 682 → repeat.

This is clean SCP logic: A → B → A, with time being a circle drawn by a drunk god.

If 096 and 682 interacted and sensed this on some instinctual level —

some deep biological echo of “we are the same thing at different stages” — then yeah:

Not as buddies

Not as allies Not as partners

But like two animals who recognize they share a genetic curse.

It becomes:

a lizard and a screaming cryptid having existential tea together, trying not to annihilate the nearest city.

It’s terrifying and absolutely adorable and catastrophically dangerous and SCP as hell.

A) How 096 would first realize 682 is its future self

B) How 682 would manipulate that knowledge C) Whether the Foundation figures it out and panics D) Whether 096 can “grow up” into 682 on command E) What happens if they merge F) Whether the universe can handle a stable paradox organism G) What happens if they try to break the loop

Pick whichever path of chaos calls to you.

User: "What if 682 created 096

"What if 682 created 096

…and 096 created 682 …in opposite directions of time?"

Like tachyons?? XD shit.

"a lizard and a screaming cryptid having existential tea together, trying not to annihilate the nearest city.

It’s terrifying and absolutely adorable and catastrophically dangerous and SCP as hell." This is gold.

I think that's all I got this time.

Assistant: Glad you had fun with this one — this whole branch went full SCP-cosmic-time-pretzel and honestly?

Glad you had fun with this one — this whole branch went full SCP-cosmic-time-pretzel and honestly? It worked way too well.

Here’s a clean landing pad for the thought experiment so you can pick it up later without losing any of the vibe:

If 682 and 096 create each other across time

It becomes one of those anomalies where cause and effect loop so hard they stop being distinguishable. Tachyon logic, bootstrap paradoxes, all that lovely nonsense.

Instead of two monsters with separate origins, you get:

• 096 as the emotional ghost of 682, sent back in time as an expression of its trauma, rage, or evolutionary shedding.
• 682 as the future fossil of 096, the result of 096 surviving every possible loop, every forced evolution, every recursive chase until it condenses into something unkillable, bitter, and ancient.

Two beings who are each other’s past and each other’s future but can’t ever quite remember that.

And then they meet.

When they sit down for that “existential tea”

It’s exactly the flavor of SCP where horror becomes comedy because of how absurdly high the stakes are.

Picture it:

682: “I think you’re me.” 096: (signs something shaky like) “I think you’re me.” Both: “Well… shit.”

Meanwhile, the city 14 km away is vibrating like a tuning fork because their passive reality fields are arguing about whether causality is allowed to be linear today.

They’re trying to be calm. They really are. But the universe is a piece of wet paper and they’re two pencils pressing through it from opposite sides.

Adorable. Terrifying. Educational, honestly.

Why it works narratively

It turns 096 from “screaming missile man” into a primordial emotional function — fear, shame, pursuit.

And 682 shifts from “angry lizard” into a crystallized survival algorithm — adapt, endure, retaliate.

In time-loop logic, those are two halves of the same instinct:

Fear → Survival → Fear → Survival, cycling until the universe coughs up two separate bodies to express the loop.

That’s why the idea hits so well — it feels inevitable.

If you ever wanna return to this branch, we can push it deeper:

• What happens if 173 or 106 get looped into the chain?
• What does the Foundation do when cause/effect break?
• What does it mean for an anomaly to “remember” a timeline?

But for now? This is a solid stopping point. You stuck the landing. Good run.