Nux - "This is SCP, it might scare me, but it won't emotionally hurt me. Come ON." Also Nux - "One word, one WORD, and it blasts a HOLE IN YOUR CHEST..." These are the good ones.
Depending on your definition of "original" I'd definitely disagree. I mean the Hitchhiker SCP is just any other hitchhiker story but thrown into SCP universe. Or the Where's Waldo? SCP that's literally just Waldo but what if he was evil? I like them all the same, but a lot aren't original at all compared to others like Shy Guy or Hard To Destroy Reptile. I mean is God an original SCP?
For those, who do not fully understand, the Box, was once a room and gateway to Fantasy, another world where fantasy originates, the denizens of Fantasy originally could come to our world as their full selves, but the more we try to cut off Fantasy from reality, try to put out our imaginations and dreams, the more our Room reduced, and the more the dragons changed when they come to our world, they became 'paper thin' much like our belief in them has become, what was once a stone corridor is now nothing but cardboard
It does make sense when you look at it from the perspective of the Foundation. They are an organization based on logic and reason, in hopes to contain and explain all that is seen as anomalies. Because of that, there is no room for Fantasy, only Science and Logic. Without the power of imagination and creativity, Fantasy ultimately dies, and in this case where once Dragons Be, now they only Were.
SCP-5000 'Why' is a massive document and will probably need its own livestream to go over. It is a horrific story of the fall of humanity by the foundation itself with more questions than answers in the end. Even hints at the possibility that it simply repeats itself after a while.
Yeah, I brought it up in an earlier episode's comment section too. Though I do think Nux should wait until after seeing some of the other SCP entrees first, as it really does rely on a lot of them for context. Imagine if he experienced it prior to his 682 experience, where he essentially only went in depth on 049. There's a lot of context missing in said scenario.
SCP 5000 is an amazing story, but i dont think its time for him to delve into it yet. 5000 really needs some context into the extended world of SCP in order to really get the full impact.
That, could possibly be the NEXT thing he explores, about the SCP-VERSE. After that, he could POSSIBLY learn of SCP-971, The Kumiho. A Lady, with fox-tails.........................who eats the liver of the men who get attracted to her, as well as tries to eat the livers of those who get close enough to her.
Same here, when I saw the video I immediately got PTSD for when I first saw tale foundry's video but I persevered to see nux go through what I went through and although tears were shed again on my part it was worth it
This one changed the way I see the world for years. It's such a terrible day for rain. 😭😭😭 By the way, saying SCP is just scary is definitely not giving it enough credit. It is basically every genre, depending on which one you read. It's just a really diverse universe.
It is the truest essence of an alternate universe. Unlike what modern media wishes to shove onto that idea, SCP successfully embraces it in a way that keeps it open for all to experience and embrace in return.
The SCP foundation in it's cold containment principals effectively KILLED this SCP. One of few who were a untapped source of wonder, slaughtered by Mankind's callousness
The way the foundation perceives Fantasy is vastly different to how a child sees it. The SCP foundation guts the fantasy to make sense of the anomaly. Effectively dissecting its concept for it to be scientifically catalogued and understood. They don't believe in fantasy, they believe in science.
@@theconductor2969You dont need to believe in something for it to exist. Plus Im pretty sure that while the Foundation does understand that the Fantastical does exist for it to be in Reality it's not longer a Fantasy. Meaning it can be understood Logically...and thats what they do with most of the SCPs, sure the Secure Contain and Protect but they also research them using Logic
It's understandable, their objective is to protect humanity. It would make no sense to waste resources on a SCP that have no positive nor negative effects on the survival of humanity when they have to battle thousands of world ending anomalies everyday.
The dragon SCPs seems to hit ya in the feels. There is another one where a dragon slowly fades in power as the world better understands him. The fantasy is stripped away, so he goes from mighty fire breathing dragon to a mere winged lizard capable of human speech.
This was clearly based on the song/story "Puff the Magic Dragon", which was all about a kid leaving his fantasy land of dragons behind when he grew up.
I saw this movie when I was a kid, and even though I don't remember almost anything about it, I know it left an impression. Enough to remember it here. I gotta re-watch it.
Thanks for this reaction. I'm glad you didn't go with the infographic rewrite for this. There's a counterpart, (something like The Dragon in the cave) which starts with an almost godly powerful beast, that the Foundation could never hope to contain, held at bay because one director broke the rules and expecting death, took his whiskey and went to talk. A strange friendship held the dragon back, until they were ready, until the the 05s could be convinced, until he could fly without consequence, but in the end ... as we understand more of the world, as the unknown shrinks, as the magic and alchemy becomes science and doctrine, there is less space for dragons.
Nux: "I thought SCP's were supposed to scare me, not scar me." Well, most SCP's will scare you *then* scar you (assuming you can sense them coming for you or you manage to survive their attack) but this is one of the exceptions. As for another potential exception, SCP-999 is a must to watch (Heck, you might even want to buy yourself a 999 plushie after seeing it).
There is a lot of context that is left out, specifically the foundation the entire time was trying to communicate with the box, but as tale foundry states, they didnt know who made the box, and every attempt to communicate they tried failed. What makes this the saddest SCP isn't that the box died, it's that the box died WHILE the foundation was trying anything and everything they could to try and communicate. But nothing worked and so they really had no choice but to watch this tragedy unfold
Scps truly are a genre of their own and yet... they touch on every other kind of genre in all of fantasy. They are not just horror, they are so much more than that, and this SCP is a testament to that.
@@Jpx0999Technically they won't, they are cold not amoral, they would protect humanity, but would also sacrifice some human for the majority to live, they not good but certainly not evil, just the government
@@90bubbel60 yep, D-class is completely made up of death row inmates, so even if they werent picked up by the foundation, they'd be dying (just probably far less horribly💀)
SCPs can be so much more than terrifying. You’ve got simple ones. Epic ones. Some that are downright hilarious and ridiculous, And in cases like this, absolutely depressing and heart wrenching.
I cannot recommend the channels “TheVolgun” and “The Exploring Series” highly enough. They may not have as much happening visually, but you’d struggle to get a more accurate and unaltered version of SCP articles and stories.
The update about the book was created by the original writer 8 years after the initial story. They… had only a couple months left, and could barely work a pc, and this was the very last post they were able to make. As one of the Actual 05 Council (what we, the original old-school net post forum writers called ourselves when we formalized the writings we were making into a more public form in 2005) and one of the last still around, this story hits a Lot harder than for most. Not to mention that i actually had such a box as a child. (The writer was amazed that in our tiny council more than one of us did.) and yeah, no matter how many times i hear this, there will be tears. And if i ever end up in an SCP facility somehow, and find the overseers whom let this happen… i shall make sure that they never make it to clock out.
@@thesaltybeard1793 sorry man, if they ask, just mention “we did not deserve the dragons, they deserved better before they left”, i promise that you will not be the only sob case and you will have a lot of sympathy. And as far as our lost friend… yeah, we all fucking bawled our eyes out and miss them every time we remember this, but also smile at the worlds they brought us
21:46 No Nux. Not everyone had the same experience with the last Jedi. Everyone has a unique dis for the movie, for example: "Even the artists can't redeem this travesty."
i always think of this scp as the toy boy from dragon tales, a toy chest that 2 children used to imagine a bunch of dragons in a fantasy land with fantasy creatures. The kids would go to the fantasy world to save them every episode. so to me its like the kids grew up and gave the chest away and no one else ever helped the dragons
Effectively the plot for The Neverending story, a lack of belief (the Nothing) destroys a fantasy world. I remember seeing someone playing a video game of this scp I think.
Glad to see Tale Foundry getting some much deserved love! They’ve quite easily become one of my all time favorite channels this year, and it warms my heart to see a video of theirs here!
Not all SCPs are this sad, but they all hit you with something. Some are sad, some are joyous, and some are horrific or terrifying…..but one they they all share, is they are beautiful and well written.
I am reminded of the Never ending story. "What is the Nothing?" "It is the Emptyness that remains. Like despair." "People have begun to lose hope, and give up on their dreams. And those without hope, are easy to control."
You should also look into SCP-1230, A Hero Is Born. It's another story that's both very sad and very wholesome, as well as just has that medieval magical adventure vibe everybody loves.
This is what I love about SCPs. Sure, you've got the generic murder monsters and dime-a-dozen apocalyptic scenarios, but there are also a lot of creative, really well written entries like this.
This is SCP at its most beautiful. Honestly one of the ones I'd recommend to a newcomers to the series even more than the popular ones. While the popular ones are terrifying, they are just usually surface level horror in a world of both terror and with beauty. And because its the internet it is easy to get caught up in the horror of it.
I'm hoping that the Volgun's portrayal of SCP-2316 will hook you. Once I realised how it connected to the trench, to the year book, to Syncope Symphony, to Yellowstone, though there's no "true cannon", the narrative and explanation that emerges from the existence of all of these (and more) completely blew open my mind.
As an scp fan I would recommend Chucks videos on the scarlet king and 682(because it is way more powerful than the 682 video you watched made him out to be) he also goes deeper into the cosmology and world building itself.
*BELIEVE DAMN IT, I BELIEVE I LOVE DRAGONS BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE, WEAVE BELIEVE BELONG WEAVE BELIEVE BELONG!!!* Damn, especially with my younger brother growing up on Dragon Tales, this is... oh god the humanity. That or I just rewatched Coco recently, got those vibes too damn, once no one is there to remember you... from dust to dust you go. 25:45... reminds me of the song in the credits of the Hobbit 3 movie... which is in reference to Fellowship of the Ring lol, when Bilbo leaves his birthday party... I bid you all, a very fond farewell. It is the song I also hope plays at my funeral whenever that happens. I may have had many demons haunting me, monsters, remember me for what I did, who I was when I wasn't in a corner crying to myself, for what I achieved, as I die with a smile on my face knowing I did the best I could, and hopefully at that point helped my dreams to fruition, if not, that they can lie in good hands, of someone I trust... I bid you all a very fond, farewell. Also had given my dog, back in 2019 when we had to put her down, we drove her back home to bury her, the song in the 3rd LOTR movie, credits, Into the Sea. Lay down your sweet head, night is falling, you have come to journey's end. At some point, whether it's us growing up, or our actual selves dying, yes the dreams do die, but death isn't always the end. For those tales can continue on, for others to see. Whether something is after death, no one can say, and it terrifies me, but even then, as long as my dreams can continue without me... that is what is most important.
I remember reading this for the first time, and my usually stoic demeanor got obliterated. I contemplated it, its themes, and its meaning a lot, and wept more than once about it. Even hearing about it now, I get quite saddened.
The truly sad part is that no ne knows how to help this SCP. Whether it's general belief from children around it or if the children that created it had anomalous abilities that sustained it's existence.
One of my favorite SCPs, but I prefer forgetting about it. I guess we are all worth being remembered for our own reasons, but we soon realize we are almost always lost to reality.
Upon seeing the title, I went from laughing in anticipation to immediately somber. Sorry for the sadness, Nux. But the beauty in this one do be cuttting deep.
This one was a sad one. It broke my heart as well. And as someone else in the comment said the best part of scp is they arent all scary. Some are wonderful. Some are sad. And this is an incredibly sad one.
The you tuber The Vulgun covers this SCP but in more of a class room or lecturer hall setting but he read the book about there world. It's about 1 to 2 hour so more of an on your own time then a stream but its a something I would love to see.
Ok I'm up and I've got my coffee, now its take to take a critical stab at my own heart and cry a bit for the morning. It hits me hard because I didn't really have a childhood growing up so my imagination has always been slightly out of reach for me, I can read and picture it, but its like a fisheye rough sketch, little color or details to make it more vivid.
Episodes like that makes me feel like an alien. It's one of those things that doesn't make me feel sad even though I feel I should be. Maybe because I never had a fantasy world I believed in. I had a fantasy world and even though I never have a belief in it's reality.. it still with me. It never disappeared. It's always been much darker then real life so maybe that's why "Here were dragons" doesn't really affect me that much. The saddest thing for me in this kind of stories that I'm sure that many people went through something like this
I see this SCP as the concept for "The Death of Imagination." The Child's belief in the "imaginary," brought forth a "Gate" that would allow him to traverse into the world of "fantasy". A thing any child could do, linking the fantasy world to ours, but only with the genuine belief in those entities. The child that we follow in this story is just one of the last children that had genuine belief in dragons. The dragon's, being one of the most famous fantasy creatures, had the strongest connection to our reality which is why they had the ability to come to our world. Eventually humanity as a whole loses its belief in fantasy creatures being "real" due to the SCP Foundation keeping these types of creatures in the dark. Without humanities belief in them, the fantasy creatures fade from creation. The dragon's Gate is just one of many gate's in my theory, that connect to the fantasy realm. There may be other box's name "here be gnomes" or "here be elves," though, the foundation only has the one gateway. It's entirely possible that in the untold lore, the Serpents Hand or GOC may have their own versions of the boxes. I love that the cannon story isn't known so we're left to guess ourselves.
Another aspect that makes this beautiful is it harkens to how fulfilling it is to leave these fantasies behind so that yet another, your children and your children's children can be born and create their own fantasy. To protect and preserve their childhood is important but is only possible by leaving your fantasies behind.
Everytime I read or hear this one, it always destroys me. And Foundry and Nux put it perfectly, it makes me so nostalgic. It makes me think how I wanted to be a veterinarian, a paleontologist, an archaeologist. When all my family members were alive, exploring the forest around my grandparents house, of my grandmother telling me a story of a young boy going behind his house and finding young dinosaurs who could speak and he befriended (I loved and still love Land Before Time), of my grandfather taking me to his work where he painted billboards and he would slip me money. Of my grandfather on my father’s side always getting me a Boston creme donut from Dunkin Donuts and my grandmother on that side making the perfect spaghetti and meatballs. Playing Nintendo, my father surprising me with a SNES. Trips with him and my stepmom around Christmas time to wander the city, see a play, and go to one of those goofy themed restaurants. Biking with my friends, full tilt down hills because we knew not many cars came around the area, sleep overs, my first trip to Disney World, my first time at a renaissance faire. It’s so nostalgic and makes me smile, but also hurts my heart. But thankfully I held onto some of it, through my son. We both collect LEGO, and my wife has said my eyes brighten just as much as my son when a holiday comes around. When we lift those brightly-wrapped gifts and hear that wonderful sound of bricks against bricks. Anyway, I’m gonna end this wall of text and grab some tissues
I remmber watching this when i stumbled over it here on TH-cam i wept for days becuse it was a very harsh reality. Now rewatching this months later it hit me even harder. Ty for this reaction nux.
A better way to look at it as looking at our relationship to the dragons needing to change. If we cannot see them how we used to, then we have to see them in a new way. A door closes but a window opens.
Ever since I first heard of this SCP about a year ago, I've been reflecting on its implications, and I think they're almost the reverse of what TheTaleFoundry suggests. Yes, Fantasy dies due to having been abandoned, but if that death had been inevitable, there would be no tragedy to it, any more than there's tragedy to a battery running out of juice. They're right to say that each person's fantasy is different, but precisely for that reason, each of your fantasies is uniquely yours, and it will only be abandoned if you make the choice to abandon it. If you choose not to abandon it, you will never experience its loss, and this is the case with every fantasy and every myth. Not just dragons, elves or giants, but interstellar travel, alternate realities, traversing the dimension of time, the depths of the mind and soul, and yes; even immortality. I think there are good reasons to believe these things are possible, but even if immortality were not possible, and I was doomed to eventually cease to exist, there would be no point in time when I would be forced to recognize that fact. Before that point, no one could force me to give up on my dreams, and then after that point, I wouldn't be able to give up on my dreams, due to not existing anymore. To paraphase Lt. Worf of Star Trek, they can kill us, but they can never defeat us.
there are so many good SCPS like this one and SCP-5000 "why", SCP-1730, SCP-2786, SCP-1936, SCP-2845, SCP-3002, SCP-5001 and my favorite SCP-1281 "The Harbinger"
"Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end." American Gods, Neil Gailman
Honestly, TheVolgun has a deep read off the Wiki, and its honestly just *chefs kiss* this doesnt even get into all the wild and wacky creatures that live there.
We've had videos on some of the scary SCPs. We've seen a video on the emotional weight of some SCPs. Now I think it's time to get a video on how _weird_ SCPs can be. A video on an SCP like... _me._ You know, _me, SCP 426?_ The toaster?
Oh there are plenty of SCP entities, objects and phenomena that aren't just "this thing exists" and have whole stories about them, quite a few of them heartbreaking.
Nux - "This is SCP, it might scare me, but it won't emotionally hurt me. Come ON."
Also Nux - "One word, one WORD, and it blasts a HOLE IN YOUR CHEST..."
These are the good ones.
This is the beauty of SCPs. Most are psychologically scary, some are funny, some are beautiful, some are sad, all are original and captivating.
Couldn't agree more 👏
Faxtual statement
Yeah, 5000 and 914 are probably some of the very best IMO.
Depending on your definition of "original" I'd definitely disagree. I mean the Hitchhiker SCP is just any other hitchhiker story but thrown into SCP universe. Or the Where's Waldo? SCP that's literally just Waldo but what if he was evil? I like them all the same, but a lot aren't original at all compared to others like Shy Guy or Hard To Destroy Reptile. I mean is God an original SCP?
Some are weird, some are cringe, all are original and captivating...from a certain point of view.
For those, who do not fully understand, the Box, was once a room and gateway to Fantasy, another world where fantasy originates, the denizens of Fantasy originally could come to our world as their full selves, but the more we try to cut off Fantasy from reality, try to put out our imaginations and dreams, the more our Room reduced, and the more the dragons changed when they come to our world, they became 'paper thin' much like our belief in them has become, what was once a stone corridor is now nothing but cardboard
And the Family is humanity.
It does make sense when you look at it from the perspective of the Foundation. They are an organization based on logic and reason, in hopes to contain and explain all that is seen as anomalies. Because of that, there is no room for Fantasy, only Science and Logic. Without the power of imagination and creativity, Fantasy ultimately dies, and in this case where once Dragons Be, now they only Were.
And yet, a single man reignited that spark, and brought back the dragons @@aidanjackson5084
@@brianl8481 and considering that dragons are are a somewhat common theme in medivel times make sense
Scp is everything, dark, funny, stupid and wholesome. After all its thousands of different writers, so expect as much takes
Also love how they have canonical scp classes for stupid stuff that either goes against the guidelines or removed from the site.
Aren't they marked with a j before or after their Identification Number?
@@thebush6379
Nux needs to react to some SCP-J
@@O_CABBAGEyes, we need Nux to react to
789-J
And 001-EX-J
SCP-5000 'Why' is a massive document and will probably need its own livestream to go over. It is a horrific story of the fall of humanity by the foundation itself with more questions than answers in the end. Even hints at the possibility that it simply repeats itself after a while.
What happened to site-13 is good too
@@naatashaclarke5723 610 is an old and particularly disturbing one, especially if you include the exploration logs
I love what happened to site-13! ANother one of my favorite scps Is scp 001 The ouroboros cycle
Yeah, I brought it up in an earlier episode's comment section too. Though I do think Nux should wait until after seeing some of the other SCP entrees first, as it really does rely on a lot of them for context. Imagine if he experienced it prior to his 682 experience, where he essentially only went in depth on 049. There's a lot of context missing in said scenario.
SCP 5000 is an amazing story, but i dont think its time for him to delve into it yet. 5000 really needs some context into the extended world of SCP in order to really get the full impact.
Now I can't wait for Nux to see Dr. Bright and the list of things he's not allowed to do at The SCP Foundation.
That, could possibly be the NEXT thing he explores, about the SCP-VERSE.
After that, he could POSSIBLY learn of SCP-971, The Kumiho. A Lady, with fox-tails.........................who eats the liver of the men who get attracted to her, as well as tries to eat the livers of those who get close enough to her.
YES, Dr. Bright!
O my god yes that wood be great
I didn't have to go through this again. But I do need to see Nux suffer with me.
Same here, when I saw the video I immediately got PTSD for when I first saw tale foundry's video but I persevered to see nux go through what I went through and although tears were shed again on my part it was worth it
Saaaame
yes
The 3 magic words that make every SCP fan cry:
Here
Were
Dragons
This is true
It huuuurtss!!
@@menaatefadly passes the hot chocolate
And let me guess: there is “A PONY SCP” like this as well; or something similar…….
@@anthonyrausch5708mlp? Probably not. Horses maybe. There is a Minecraft scp
This one changed the way I see the world for years. It's such a terrible day for rain. 😭😭😭
By the way, saying SCP is just scary is definitely not giving it enough credit. It is basically every genre, depending on which one you read. It's just a really diverse universe.
It is the truest essence of an alternate universe. Unlike what modern media wishes to shove onto that idea, SCP successfully embraces it in a way that keeps it open for all to experience and embrace in return.
@@therealdaemion9094 SCP-3143 is my favorite example
As a massive fan of anything dragons, this is by far my favorite scp. Even if it is sad.
The story that can make any person cry or feel very sad to someone level oh joy.... honestly this story is punch to the feels ever time.
The SCP foundation in it's cold containment principals effectively KILLED this SCP. One of few who were a untapped source of wonder, slaughtered by Mankind's callousness
Not their fault for not believing in fantasy (in the modern world)
That makes no sense. If the foundation didn't believe in any of this stuff the organization itself wouldn't even exist.
The way the foundation perceives Fantasy is vastly different to how a child sees it.
The SCP foundation guts the fantasy to make sense of the anomaly. Effectively dissecting its concept for it to be scientifically catalogued and understood.
They don't believe in fantasy, they believe in science.
@@theconductor2969You dont need to believe in something for it to exist. Plus Im pretty sure that while the Foundation does understand that the Fantastical does exist for it to be in Reality it's not longer a Fantasy. Meaning it can be understood Logically...and thats what they do with most of the SCPs, sure the Secure Contain and Protect but they also research them using Logic
It's understandable, their objective is to protect humanity. It would make no sense to waste resources on a SCP that have no positive nor negative effects on the survival of humanity when they have to battle thousands of world ending anomalies everyday.
The dragon SCPs seems to hit ya in the feels. There is another one where a dragon slowly fades in power as the world better understands him. The fantasy is stripped away, so he goes from mighty fire breathing dragon to a mere winged lizard capable of human speech.
This was clearly based on the song/story "Puff the Magic Dragon", which was all about a kid leaving his fantasy land of dragons behind when he grew up.
I saw this movie when I was a kid, and even though I don't remember almost anything about it, I know it left an impression. Enough to remember it here. I gotta re-watch it.
Thanks for this reaction.
I'm glad you didn't go with the infographic rewrite for this.
There's a counterpart, (something like The Dragon in the cave) which starts with an almost godly powerful beast, that the Foundation could never hope to contain, held at bay because one director broke the rules and expecting death, took his whiskey and went to talk.
A strange friendship held the dragon back, until they were ready, until the the 05s could be convinced, until he could fly without consequence, but in the end ... as we understand more of the world, as the unknown shrinks, as the magic and alchemy becomes science and doctrine, there is less space for dragons.
i love Tale Foundry.. he's got some good videos about character writing..
I'm just glad that Tale Foundry is getting some love! They do great work and absolutely deserve to be shared!
Right? They have caused so many tears and I don't cry for anything. The way they tell the story is beautiful as well
Nux: "I thought SCP's were supposed to scare me, not scar me."
Well, most SCP's will scare you *then* scar you (assuming you can sense them coming for you or you manage to survive their attack) but this is one of the exceptions. As for another potential exception, SCP-999 is a must to watch (Heck, you might even want to buy yourself a 999 plushie after seeing it).
There is a lot of context that is left out, specifically the foundation the entire time was trying to communicate with the box, but as tale foundry states, they didnt know who made the box, and every attempt to communicate they tried failed. What makes this the saddest SCP isn't that the box died, it's that the box died WHILE the foundation was trying anything and everything they could to try and communicate. But nothing worked and so they really had no choice but to watch this tragedy unfold
Maybe he should also see some of the happier ones like Eye Pods or 999.
Scps truly are a genre of their own and yet... they touch on every other kind of genre in all of fantasy. They are not just horror, they are so much more than that, and this SCP is a testament to that.
Imagine if the Foundation just kidnapped random kids to put in the room with the box.
They would totally do it
@@Jpx0999Technically they won't, they are cold not amoral, they would protect humanity, but would also sacrifice some human for the majority to live, they not good but certainly not evil, just the government
Also those kids would have a warped imagination because in your scenario "were abducted"
@@franklangston3004 Yeah, isnt the majority of d-personel criminals?
@@90bubbel60 yep, D-class is completely made up of death row inmates, so even if they werent picked up by the foundation, they'd be dying (just probably far less horribly💀)
SCPs can be so much more than terrifying. You’ve got simple ones. Epic ones. Some that are downright hilarious and ridiculous, And in cases like this, absolutely depressing and heart wrenching.
I remember when this was titled “Here Be Dragons” or “Here Were Dragons”
Makes me want to work on my Zelda story more than I already do. To flush out my dream and eventually share it.
Good luck with the making of your story!
The SCP's that are really touching and have a great story behind them besides all the gore and horror of it all I love these the most
I cannot recommend the channels “TheVolgun” and “The Exploring Series” highly enough. They may not have as much happening visually, but you’d struggle to get a more accurate and unaltered version of SCP articles and stories.
The first scp I ever saw was "To Slay a Dragon" by TES. That one still stings.
Oh gods to slay a dragon broke me
Where the dragons went hurt, but to slay a dragon was way worse
I already cried about this SCP back when it was first added in SCP containment breach
The update about the book was created by the original writer 8 years after the initial story. They… had only a couple months left, and could barely work a pc, and this was the very last post they were able to make. As one of the Actual 05 Council (what we, the original old-school net post forum writers called ourselves when we formalized the writings we were making into a more public form in 2005) and one of the last still around, this story hits a Lot harder than for most. Not to mention that i actually had such a box as a child. (The writer was amazed that in our tiny council more than one of us did.) and yeah, no matter how many times i hear this, there will be tears. And if i ever end up in an SCP facility somehow, and find the overseers whom let this happen… i shall make sure that they never make it to clock out.
WHAT!?!? IM AT WORK I CANT BE CRYING LIKE THIS RN WTF
@@thesaltybeard1793 sorry man, if they ask, just mention “we did not deserve the dragons, they deserved better before they left”, i promise that you will not be the only sob case and you will have a lot of sympathy. And as far as our lost friend… yeah, we all fucking bawled our eyes out and miss them every time we remember this, but also smile at the worlds they brought us
One. Last. Time. 😭RIP
This I think is probably the first time I have seen him actually get emotional
21:46 No Nux. Not everyone had the same experience with the last Jedi. Everyone has a unique dis for the movie, for example: "Even the artists can't redeem this travesty."
This is one of those things that I don't like to come back to too often because every time I do, it makes me cry.
i always think of this scp as the toy boy from dragon tales, a toy chest that 2 children used to imagine a bunch of dragons in a fantasy land with fantasy creatures. The kids would go to the fantasy world to save them every episode. so to me its like the kids grew up and gave the chest away and no one else ever helped the dragons
Effectively the plot for The Neverending story, a lack of belief (the Nothing) destroys a fantasy world. I remember seeing someone playing a video game of this scp I think.
Glad to see Tale Foundry getting some much deserved love! They’ve quite easily become one of my all time favorite channels this year, and it warms my heart to see a video of theirs here!
Not all SCPs are this sad, but they all hit you with something. Some are sad, some are joyous, and some are horrific or terrifying…..but one they they all share, is they are beautiful and well written.
I am reminded of the Never ending story.
"What is the Nothing?"
"It is the Emptyness that remains. Like despair."
"People have begun to lose hope, and give up on their dreams. And those without hope, are easy to control."
27:00 you can actually read the book too they wrote a story for the book so you can know what the world inside was like
You should also look into SCP-1230, A Hero Is Born. It's another story that's both very sad and very wholesome, as well as just has that medieval magical adventure vibe everybody loves.
Never have I felt so guilty, for experiencing closure. Only now do I feel both, and mourn that very fact. I need to go share a story with someone.
This is what I love about SCPs. Sure, you've got the generic murder monsters and dime-a-dozen apocalyptic scenarios, but there are also a lot of creative, really well written entries like this.
This is SCP at its most beautiful. Honestly one of the ones I'd recommend to a newcomers to the series even more than the popular ones. While the popular ones are terrifying, they are just usually surface level horror in a world of both terror and with beauty. And because its the internet it is easy to get caught up in the horror of it.
I'm hoping that the Volgun's portrayal of SCP-2316 will hook you.
Once I realised how it connected to the trench, to the year book, to Syncope Symphony, to Yellowstone, though there's no "true cannon", the narrative and explanation that emerges from the existence of all of these (and more) completely blew open my mind.
The Dragons left, but they found another box. One with cars in it
As an scp fan I would recommend Chucks videos on the scarlet king and 682(because it is way more powerful than the 682 video you watched made him out to be) he also goes deeper into the cosmology and world building itself.
*BELIEVE DAMN IT, I BELIEVE I LOVE DRAGONS BELIEVE BELIEVE BELIEVE, WEAVE BELIEVE BELONG WEAVE BELIEVE BELONG!!!*
Damn, especially with my younger brother growing up on Dragon Tales, this is... oh god the humanity. That or I just rewatched Coco recently, got those vibes too damn, once no one is there to remember you... from dust to dust you go.
25:45... reminds me of the song in the credits of the Hobbit 3 movie... which is in reference to Fellowship of the Ring lol, when Bilbo leaves his birthday party... I bid you all, a very fond farewell. It is the song I also hope plays at my funeral whenever that happens. I may have had many demons haunting me, monsters, remember me for what I did, who I was when I wasn't in a corner crying to myself, for what I achieved, as I die with a smile on my face knowing I did the best I could, and hopefully at that point helped my dreams to fruition, if not, that they can lie in good hands, of someone I trust... I bid you all a very fond, farewell.
Also had given my dog, back in 2019 when we had to put her down, we drove her back home to bury her, the song in the 3rd LOTR movie, credits, Into the Sea. Lay down your sweet head, night is falling, you have come to journey's end.
At some point, whether it's us growing up, or our actual selves dying, yes the dreams do die, but death isn't always the end. For those tales can continue on, for others to see. Whether something is after death, no one can say, and it terrifies me, but even then, as long as my dreams can continue without me... that is what is most important.
I remember reading this for the first time, and my usually stoic demeanor got obliterated. I contemplated it, its themes, and its meaning a lot, and wept more than once about it. Even hearing about it now, I get quite saddened.
The truly sad part is that no ne knows how to help this SCP. Whether it's general belief from children around it or if the children that created it had anomalous abilities that sustained it's existence.
One of my favorite SCPs, but I prefer forgetting about it. I guess we are all worth being remembered for our own reasons, but we soon realize we are almost always lost to reality.
Now you know the sadness the rest of us have. Because now you know the truth. Of where the dragons went. 😢
My mind is a fantastic cemetery of all my dead dreams; enshrined to be never achieved and never forgotten.
Upon seeing the title, I went from laughing in anticipation to immediately somber.
Sorry for the sadness, Nux. But the beauty in this one do be cuttting deep.
This one was a sad one. It broke my heart as well. And as someone else in the comment said the best part of scp is they arent all scary. Some are wonderful. Some are sad. And this is an incredibly sad one.
One of my all time favorite SCP'S
The you tuber The Vulgun covers this SCP but in more of a class room or lecturer hall setting but he read the book about there world. It's about 1 to 2 hour so more of an on your own time then a stream but its a something I would love to see.
The family is us,the humans,the ones with the most imagination. It's heartbreaking.
Ok I'm up and I've got my coffee, now its take to take a critical stab at my own heart and cry a bit for the morning.
It hits me hard because I didn't really have a childhood growing up so my imagination has always been slightly out of reach for me, I can read and picture it, but its like a fisheye rough sketch, little color or details to make it more vivid.
Episodes like that makes me feel like an alien. It's one of those things that doesn't make me feel sad even though I feel I should be. Maybe because I never had a fantasy world I believed in. I had a fantasy world and even though I never have a belief in it's reality.. it still with me. It never disappeared. It's always been much darker then real life so maybe that's why "Here were dragons" doesn't really affect me that much. The saddest thing for me in this kind of stories that I'm sure that many people went through something like this
I see this SCP as the concept for "The Death of Imagination." The Child's belief in the "imaginary," brought forth a "Gate" that would allow him to traverse into the world of "fantasy". A thing any child could do, linking the fantasy world to ours, but only with the genuine belief in those entities. The child that we follow in this story is just one of the last children that had genuine belief in dragons. The dragon's, being one of the most famous fantasy creatures, had the strongest connection to our reality which is why they had the ability to come to our world. Eventually humanity as a whole loses its belief in fantasy creatures being "real" due to the SCP Foundation keeping these types of creatures in the dark. Without humanities belief in them, the fantasy creatures fade from creation. The dragon's Gate is just one of many gate's in my theory, that connect to the fantasy realm. There may be other box's name "here be gnomes" or "here be elves," though, the foundation only has the one gateway. It's entirely possible that in the untold lore, the Serpents Hand or GOC may have their own versions of the boxes. I love that the cannon story isn't known so we're left to guess ourselves.
this is by far my favorite scp because of the story. it is one of the most tragic story ive read in scp.
(Edit for spelling) If you want one that made me ugly cry, it's SCP-2273. Major Alexei Belitrov.
Especially when it was read by TheVolgun .
We need a happy one after this Nux you should watch a video about SCP-999
Another aspect that makes this beautiful is it harkens to how fulfilling it is to leave these fantasies behind so that yet another, your children and your children's children can be born and create their own fantasy. To protect and preserve their childhood is important but is only possible by leaving your fantasies behind.
It had been I while since I had heard this story. I forgot just how it hits the heart harder than Dio slamming a steamroller into Jotaro.
istg tale foundry has some of the best content on youtube, a must watch for pretty much anybody that appreciates stories
MY HEART AHHHH
Also 26:05 awww
Nux on Tale Foundry is a W 👏 👏 👏
Love my boy Tale Foundry
Not all scp’s are scary, some are wholesome and even funny.
Everytime I read or hear this one, it always destroys me. And Foundry and Nux put it perfectly, it makes me so nostalgic. It makes me think how I wanted to be a veterinarian, a paleontologist, an archaeologist. When all my family members were alive, exploring the forest around my grandparents house, of my grandmother telling me a story of a young boy going behind his house and finding young dinosaurs who could speak and he befriended (I loved and still love Land Before Time), of my grandfather taking me to his work where he painted billboards and he would slip me money. Of my grandfather on my father’s side always getting me a Boston creme donut from Dunkin Donuts and my grandmother on that side making the perfect spaghetti and meatballs.
Playing Nintendo, my father surprising me with a SNES. Trips with him and my stepmom around Christmas time to wander the city, see a play, and go to one of those goofy themed restaurants. Biking with my friends, full tilt down hills because we knew not many cars came around the area, sleep overs, my first trip to Disney World, my first time at a renaissance faire. It’s so nostalgic and makes me smile, but also hurts my heart. But thankfully I held onto some of it, through my son. We both collect LEGO, and my wife has said my eyes brighten just as much as my son when a holiday comes around. When we lift those brightly-wrapped gifts and hear that wonderful sound of bricks against bricks.
Anyway, I’m gonna end this wall of text and grab some tissues
NOOOO!!! I'M NOT READY FOR THE SADGE!!!
WAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!
I ain't watching this one again right now. "We will not forget you, we hope you will not forget us."
I remmber watching this when i stumbled over it here on TH-cam i wept for days becuse it was a very harsh reality.
Now rewatching this months later it hit me even harder.
Ty for this reaction nux.
A better way to look at it as looking at our relationship to the dragons needing to change. If we cannot see them how we used to, then we have to see them in a new way.
A door closes but a window opens.
Ever since I first heard of this SCP about a year ago, I've been reflecting on its implications, and I think they're almost the reverse of what TheTaleFoundry suggests. Yes, Fantasy dies due to having been abandoned, but if that death had been inevitable, there would be no tragedy to it, any more than there's tragedy to a battery running out of juice.
They're right to say that each person's fantasy is different, but precisely for that reason, each of your fantasies is uniquely yours, and it will only be abandoned if you make the choice to abandon it. If you choose not to abandon it, you will never experience its loss, and this is the case with every fantasy and every myth. Not just dragons, elves or giants, but interstellar travel, alternate realities, traversing the dimension of time, the depths of the mind and soul, and yes; even immortality. I think there are good reasons to believe these things are possible, but even if immortality were not possible, and I was doomed to eventually cease to exist, there would be no point in time when I would be forced to recognize that fact. Before that point, no one could force me to give up on my dreams, and then after that point, I wouldn't be able to give up on my dreams, due to not existing anymore. To paraphase Lt. Worf of Star Trek, they can kill us, but they can never defeat us.
Nux watching Tale Foundry, and it’s a video on SCPs…
Can this day get any better!?!?🤩🤩🤩
there are so many good SCPS like this one and SCP-5000 "why", SCP-1730, SCP-2786, SCP-1936, SCP-2845, SCP-3002, SCP-5001 and my favorite SCP-1281 "The Harbinger"
the one about the russian soldier from another world was great, too
Nux really needs to see scp-999
another good scp video by scp explained story and animation.
"scp 5000 why? full compilation". its about a hour long
this video is the first stime i ever heard of " where the dragons went"" then i read it, then i heard an audio drama of it, both time it made me cry.
Thanks the edge never seemed closer than today
I’m watching this in the hospital right now. I just wanted to say thank you for making me feel better. 😊
When I watch this video I felt like my heart was torn apart
"Gods die. And when they truly die they are unmourned and unremembered. Ideas are more difficult to kill than people, but they can be killed, in the end."
American Gods, Neil Gailman
"there's no emotional damage incoming"
oh yeah, there is a shit ton of emotional damage incoming.
More like an emotional warhead.
Thats why my 40 page DC comics AU timeline is saved digitally. It will never corrode
SCP Explained is the only scp channel worth watching in my opinion
Thanks for both of your take.
Honestly, TheVolgun has a deep read off the Wiki, and its honestly just *chefs kiss* this doesnt even get into all the wild and wacky creatures that live there.
Dang it i though i was ready and watching the joker that is nux. Yet here i am, crying
This is just like playing your last minecraft world with all your pets eagerly waiting for you
We've had videos on some of the scary SCPs. We've seen a video on the emotional weight of some SCPs. Now I think it's time to get a video on how _weird_ SCPs can be. A video on an SCP like... _me._ You know, _me, SCP 426?_ The toaster?
Yeah, Nux needs to make a video on me, i'm quite a funny SCP.
I should sleep, but I need this
you havent even touched the surface, Nux......you're still floating above it.
Great News, everyone!
There's a sequel to this SCP file
Finally a good channel to watch about SCP
Watch gate guardian vs when day breaks from SCP illustrated it’s so cool
OH a compilation of things dr bright is not allowed do.
that is a really good scp video
Oh there are plenty of SCP entities, objects and phenomena that aren't just "this thing exists" and have whole stories about them, quite a few of them heartbreaking.
Would be enough for a full video, but I really want to experience the hilarious, weirdness of scp safe-j.