niceness :) (and other stuff)

682-B is a good boy. nice lizard. works 9-5 like anyone else

holiday shopping with the nice scp anomaly gang

I really liked the 682-B concept/story you came up with. I do wonder one thing. What would happen if 682-B met his canon self? How would they interact with each other? Who would win in a fight?

about as well as you'd expect.

Styx Nacht II and Trevor, just a fun pair of dudes

“I always feel a twinge of trepidation when I offer guests assistance” claims SCP-682-B, the immortal waiter. concrete statue refused to comment

What do you imagine 682-b looks like to normal humans? Like, what does human him look like

it changes subtly from person to person looking at him, but generally he's a tall, bulky-framed, funny-looking, kinda long-faced man. Sometimes with a beard, sometimes without.

however, the more resistance you have to anomalous memetic effects and illusions, the more "off" he looks.

If you're already aware of what he is, you'll likely see him as a lizard. The last one is how Trevor usually sees him.

I saw your SCP-682 comics (among many other masterpieces) and i just gotta ask- SCP-5000 reveals why 682 finds humanity so disgusting, so I'm wondering if -B also noticed *that* and how'd they take it

Very good question. There's some kinda... weird aspects of SCP-5000, and implications made by project Dammerung-related stuff, but I fully confess I mostly understand it second-hand from voice-over work from the likes of the Exploring Series, and SCP Explained.

Gonna ramble a long while about my own headcanons, and finally what Styx would likely think; in brief, he sees "It" as mostly just a benign tumor.

If anyone is unfamiliar with any of this, please scroll on by. This is long, and requires knowledge of SCP-5000 and SCP-2718 for context.

What I gathered though is that "It" is why humans feel pain, and that if the afterlife is just being a self-aware corpse as O5-11 described, feeling constant pain "feeds" "It". Hence, "You're not supposed to feel pain". Cure yourself of "It", and you'll get to not feel empathy, or pain, and die without issue.

A lot of the story is left up to interpretation, but it's presented as a nightmare scenario in the most literal sense, where the idea is scary enough to make you want to suspend your disbelief so that it has full effect. There's weird... holes to it, though.

When properly examined, "It" is something that exists in the collective unconscious of humans, but... animals feel pain. Animals feel empathy, at least in some capacity. It's a practical chemical reaction and instinct-complex to strengthen pack bonds.

I have to assume SCP-5000's canon isn't "materialist", as in, humans aren't just neuron-signals in meatsuits and nothing more. In that case, the "Individual consciousness" is implied to be sacrosanct, and anything else exploiting the "Individual" is a malicious, unjust force. There's a strong objectivist/individualist moral implication about SCP-5000, which already by default doesn't sit so right with me, as "no man is an island"; no matter how much you want to act like a unique individual, there are natural beliefs every individual will latch onto, such that the formation of a collective unconscious is just inevitable, and therefore the formation of "It".

I think beings like canon 682 see this as an inherent moral evil, and rationalize this evil as suffering, as from an empathy-less perspective, the individual is always supreme, so anything that subverts the individual is "disgusting". Even still, if the Foundation is trying to do humans a favor, what is the motivation? Just that the wailing of humanity is disgusting to them, and they'd like it to be silenced? That doesn't really justify anything short of a clean scorching of the earth, rather than the bizarrely sadistic approach taken by the Foundation in SCP-5000. If SCP-2718 only works via "It's" influence, then taking the inefficient, weird sadistic approach to exterminate humanity implies a motivation on their part that doesn't stem from empathy (that they aren't supposed to have) or logical self-interest (that they'd supposedly be left with). If all humans were wiped out, there'd be nothing for "It" to feed off of, and it's not a stretch to assume the Foundation could've done way more efficiently than they did.

All information we get as justification for wiping out humanity from the changed-Foundation's and 682's perspective is already biased, and riddled with logical inconsistencies that only more inconsistent conjecture can explain. Supposedly, "It" is such a threat that wiping out humanity is the more humane alternative, but with this information and these deductions, I feel that you can't really rationalize that or ignore some clear bias the heartless Foundation has.

So to finally answer your question: Ideally I'd rather just assume in my canon that the entity doesn't exist, but if it were to, SCP-682-B/Styx Nacht II would figure that "It" is not something separate from humanity, nor is it the same as humanity itself. "It" is "civilization" and "society", something that inevitably manifests in the unconscious of any species that becomes developed enough. Society isn't "good" or "evil", but the purpose of empathy is to keep the bindings of "society" strong.

So in his opinion, the ideal is to neither fear "It", nor believe "It" to be "supreme" over your own self. Hold this belief, and your afterlife will be fine, and the entity can't exploit you. Completely shackling yourself to empathy will make you suffer, but you'll still suffer if you try "hardening your hearts". The answer lies in the middle. "Suffering" is inevitable, even without "pain". Killing the entity doesn't solve that, and something else would take its place anyway. This is what he'd understand, and that normal 682 wouldn't.

I like SCP-5000 for the sprawling horrific scenario it is, but on a logical level, even with Foundation-canon weirdness, it kinda just comes across as a biblical apocalypse story written by an objectivist having a nightmare.

Hopefully I.. sort of explained myself, and didn't write something totally incoherent.

consider - 682-B paying a visit to A Perfectly Normal, Regular Old IKEA aka SCP 3008

Now I'm thinking that he wandered in once and got assaulted by the Staff. he kept trying to avoid hurting them but after a while he kinda gave up and started killing them each with one punch. He can eat them but they taste awful due to being mostly skin on-death.

Then he found some humans and helped them out. Defends human settlements in the IKEA from staff, and begrudgingly acts as a garbage disposal for the bodies. He adapts some kind of advanced echolocation/radar and eventually finds an exit for everyone. It's an exit into the wrong universe though, in which he goes "Aw, fiddlesticks", and then it's a whole story about him trying to get back home to his own world with a pack of equally lost and confused humans.

I like that while there's the horrific reality of 682 always surviving whatever's thrown at it, there's then the comforting assurance that when Styx encounters a hostile anomaly he will always adapt and survive his way out of it, too. Doesn't mean he can save all the people he comes across though, which adds a tragic element to his existence. A superman who can mostly only save himself, but every now and then manages to make someone's life better.

maybe using the IKEA as a nexus is how he can meet canon 682 in the first place? I'm still not 100% sure on whether -B is just another member of the species, or literally 682 from a distinct universe. I'm not sure if, for eldritch, inter-dimensional beings, there's even a difference.

SCP-682-B will serve patrons come rain, snow, or task-force gunfire. sometimes he isn't informed ahead of time who he's serving, though

last image was supposed to be standalone joke but I choose to believe he did that afterward

Butler!SCP-682 x Random UIU Agent

(they are boyfriends now)

SCP-682 is known for being able to adapt to any situation.

just a well-adjusted, mild-mannered man, and his human pal

more SCP-682-B x UIU-Agent nonsense, for you

“disgusting” is a catchphrase for most SCP-682 instances, regardless of how naughty or nice they are