Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-7840 - U is for the Unstrung

Written by: Grigori Karpin

Artists Include:

[tonyblitz]

I really love this take.
"You're never getting out of here, he's a moron and he'll never figure it out"

The concept of an ancient eldritch being, sealed away by, in their many eyes, the equivalent of a 2+2 math problem, and stuck there because they act like an impatient parent/bad teacher and absolutely cannot get down to their child's level to instruct them.
And possibly throw some extreme learning difficulties into the allegory.

[deltawolf]

Agent: Gizzy did you murder that security guard!?
Gizzy: No It was 682! *Gizzy's nose grows long*

[DarthCalculus]

This really puts the "no" in "Pinocchio"

[louissabor]

Dude, im not sure if you recorded all these all at once or over a period but I gotta give credit to the consistency and quality the uploads man I know your not done yet but love this stuff.

[MidoriNatsume]

With all that talk about real boys and the woodworker making stuff for an Eldrich Horror, I was a bit afraid on how the femake agent could have ended up.
A coma is a pretty sweet alternative.

[johnliedmann]

To me this has a particular Lovecraftian touch to it...
The German voice speaks about the pixie as an entity belongoing to an eldritch race, inhabiting earth long before the dawn of men... So this creature bares a close resemblance to the great old ones or even the outer gods...
Their ways of thinking are described as incomprehensible to humans and this proofs as the reason, why gazeem (I hope that's the way his name is spelled) was unable to fulfill what the entity demands in order to become a real boy... Because you can't finish a task which you even can't understand in the first place....

[rugdg]

We've heard of Eldritch horror underestimating lesser beings only to be proven wrong. But I think this is the first time we've seen an Eldredge being overestimate a lesser being.

Her: Just do the real boy thing, and we're good, okay? 👍🏾

Him: what real boy thing? This? 🔪🕸️🍝

Her: NO, the OBVIOUS real boy THING that you can totally do, right now.

Him: JUST tell me what to do!

Her: I LITERALLY AM, JUST DO IT!

[rwberger]

The azure pixie forgot to teach Gazem about the birds and the bees before sending him to "do what boys do".

[fishy]

5:23 casually whisper a cognito hazard

[nyarparablepsis]

"What real boys do" - that last bit reminds me of a song by Austrian songwriter Ludwig Hirsch, in which there's the following lines (translated from German): I wanted to know, so I went down into the canalisation, to the darkness where there is no light. There, I saw a father teaching a boy how to kill.

[moonlight_scribe]

"To see its purpose completed" is language that definitely marks the departure into SCP territory

[thebosspopthebeast]

Been years already but this will never get old

[Evelyn-plwe]

Man, after watching the original Pinocchio and Del Toro’s adaptation, I was SO excited for this SCP! I think what Gizam was supposed to do is put on (or “wear”) human skin/entrails, which is why the agent drug the body in and began pointing at it.

I also think that the bigger theme is what makes someone human, other than flesh and bones, their humanity/soul/wisdom. Their hearts.

[grigorikarpin]

Thanks for doing such a good job covering my SCP!

I like how you ended it.

Also, FYI, what Gizem has to do is in the article if you pay attention to the German voice and see what Gizem was doing over the years (but I chose not to make it entirely clear)

[polygonfighter]

ok so i've been reading over the article and wracking my brain over it. I know what gizem was SUPPOSED to do was laid out in the article in teeny tiny pieces, but im still at a loss for whether my assessment is correct or not.
i THINK, that Gizem is supposed to like.. 'wear' a human and use the entrails to summon the azure pixie, OR to be a woodcarver akin to his father and 'Make' her a body for her to use, a new puppet. However Gizem, like the real Pinocchio was not very studious and knows very little (since we see that he's either lied or is incapable of grasping certain concepts, having difficulty with time). I suppose he might also need to transfer his soul into a human body, but at this point Im grasping at straws at what he needs to do.
i feel like the 'laying the entrails out in a spiderweb pattern' could be something akin to a summoning circle though

[Enigamis]

I hope you are resting your voice after recording all these entries. Truly a highlight of October for me, it's been a rough month and these entries have really brought me out of the rough times. Thank you .

[demitribeck]

Couldn’t sleep until I knew you dropped the next part of the series!!! Thanks for the gold king

[canned]

A lot of these could be avoided if they didn't just ignore them for decades

[jamesmcv]

I got a kick out of the agent shit talking the eldritch entity that puppet was a moron. And she was right since what the possessed agent told the puppet went over his head.

[nyroony]

Considering how the puppet refers to her as a 'pixie', all the talk about being a race before humanity, speaking to them in dreams, and the many eyes (though admittedly the sewing needles are a neat new touch), I think it's likely the entity is either an ancient fairy or even one of their gods, which usually seem to take on naturalistic forms such as plants and animals, and famously have too many eyes. So, in a way, Gazim and his creator were right, and yet oh so horribly wrong. Maybe she was sealed away when humanity took the world, or even by the fey themselves or the children of the night. It would also explain somewhat why Gazim doesn't know what to do and why she doesn't know how to explain it to him, as the thought process of modern humanity and the fey- especially a godly, ancient one- are two very different, nearly parallel things.