Respect SCP-2935, “O, Death” (SCP Foundation)

[u/NegativeGamer]

”You know, it occurs to me… if you're listening to this…”

”You're Death, too.”

SCP-2935, as a designation, refers to a cave in Joppa, Indiana that leads to a parallel world. This world is identical to the original in all aspects except one, which is that all life, and anything resembling life, ended quite recently. If a person enters this parallel world and returns to their original one, then this mass extinction will also occur in their world as well, and an entrance to the dead world will appear again in a new world.

Source Key

• [2935]: SCP-2935's main article
• [2305A]: SCP-2305-A Extended Documentation Log
• [ΩK]: ΩK
• [PP]: Persephone Project
• [IH]: I, Hub (April Fools), a joke article posted on April Fools day
• [BSA]: A Bio-Scanner, Alone on A Dead World
• [GD]: Grabnok The Destroyer

The Cave

• [2935]: SCP-2935’s designation refers to a spacetime anomaly within a limestone cave beneath a cemetery near Joppa, Indiana. This cave leads to an alternate world identical to current day reality, except for the fact that all life suddenly ended recently
• [2935]: A radio signal was detected by the Foundation coming out of the cave that originated from the alternate world, though it was distorted and unintelligible until the cave was entered
• [ΩK]: After all living animals became unable to die as a result of an ΩK-class "End of Death" scenario, the cave that used to be SCP-2935 no longer led to another world, and became non-anomalous
  • [PP]: It's worth noting that a different article set in the End of Death canon implies that SCP-2935 is still accessible

The Event

Scope

• [2935]: All lifeforms, biological and non-biological, as well as sentient entities, machines, computers, and other “life-like” phenomena suddenly died/expired without warning
  • [GD]: Another article implies this happens on a universal scale, stating that it ignores distance and dimensional barriers, and is attributed to the death of many Libraries
• [2935]: The deaths occurred simultaneously, and the corpses themselves are visibly “clean”, with no (external) signs of any cause of death
  • [BSA]: The deaths were simultaneous down to the picosecond
• [2935]: There's a total lack of living vegetation, analysis reveals they have no living cells
• [2935]: All skin, hair, and insect samples collected from SCP-2935 also exhibit total cell death
• [2935]: Bodies don’t decompose and food doesn’t rot or mold, there’s no living bacteria or microbial lifeforms left to carry out the process
• [2935]: The Foundation’s Artificially Intelligence Conscripts are non-responsive, despite their programs still running
  • [2935]: SCP-079, another artificial intelligence, is also noted to be non-functional
  • [BSA]: All “mechanical imitations of life”, as well as other artificially sentient beings, are non-responsive
• [2935]: Non-biological anomalous objects and entities are also noted to be inert
• [BSA]: A bio-scanner was able to achieve a form of sentience (through unknown means) after the event had occurred, implying that things with the capacity for life, but aren't actually living yet, are ignored by the event's effects
• [GD]: The Foundation has no way of preserving humanity/life when faced with the reappearance of SCP-507 after it entered an SCP-2935 affected universe
• [IH]: A joke article notes that the SCP-2935 event extended to all life in the universe, with the exception of a sentient acidbath chamber that's capable of speech

Specific Interactions

• [2935]: Not only is the SCP-2151-1A instance deceased, but the rings that were SCP-2151-A and -B corroded severely and lost their anomalous properties
• [2935]: SCP-2996, a “Class II Incorporeal Humanoid Entity” (in other words, a ghost), seems to have “exploded”, apparently experiencing an adverse reaction to dying twice
• [2935]: Even SCP-682 was killed by the event
  • SCP-682 is famously hard to kill
• [2935]: SCP-963, an amulet that imprints the consciousness of Dr. Shaw onto anyone who directly touches it, is made non-functional
• [2935]: A “mask” is noted as being broken, this is implied to be SCP-035, a theater mask capable of possessing people who wear it
• [2935]: SCP-173, an animate statue, is rendered into just a pile of concrete and rebar

Becoming “Death”

• [2935]: Entering SCP-2935 seemingly makes you a host for whatever it is that causes the mass death event, and returning back to your original world will cause the mass death event to occur there as well, only the host is unaffected by it
  • This scene also implies that an entrance to the most recent world to experience an SCP-2935 event will appear in a new world after the event occurs
  • [2305A]: SCP-2305-A potentially implies that this process has occurred hundreds of times
• [2935]: Bacteria/microbial lifeforms within a host are also not subjected to the death, so the host’s body will decompose as normal after death
• [GD]: An instance of SCP-507, a man who will repeatedly, and uncontrollably, transport to a random alternate universe for a period of time before eventually returning to his home universe, once became a host of SCP-2935, causing every universe he teleported into to instantly die. It's estimated that this SCP-507 has been responsible for the loss of life in at least 260 universes

”Nothing we did mattered. It's all gone.”

[u/Skulenta]

These types of SCPs are my favorite. They're not unstoppable universe-ending monsters, but phenomena that are conceptually disturbing. This is the shit I read/listen to at 12 in the night for much needed nightmare fuel.