Exploring the SCP Foundation: SCP-6666 - The Demon Hector and the Dread Titania

[@maxthepaladin2147]

Fairies: Oh, great Titania, the humans damaged the night's sky! We beg you, find a way to avenge this sin Titania: Hmmm, monke

[@dustinnabil798]

Monke is the superior lifeforms.

[@bbunny4735]

I died

[@giin97]

@@bbunny4735 RIP

[@ricardohoang8452]

Hector: UNACCEPTABLE

[@cblake4111]

Hector: (bursting through wall) TRRRUUUUUUKKKKKKK

[@textortexel8301]

Ok, can we take a moment to appreciate Hector being an absolute trooper? Cursed, banished and stuck underground for thousands of years, yet still has enough fight in him to pimp slap Titania into containing the world-ending threat.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

It’s amazing how despite being cursed into an abomination by the Fae Princess, he was still loyal to his king and wanted to regain his honor as well as be redeemed by the Sky Kings. I respect that and it honestly makes me feel bad for Hector

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Hehe, "pimp slap". Really makes me wonder how Ogier fared.

[@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement]

@@michaelandreipalon359 Considering that Ogier's curse was Despair, I'd hazard not well...

[@Fulmenn]

@@michaelandreipalon359 we'll know soon enough since kaktus is writing ogier IIRC

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement Considering that the curse clearly affects each of the knights’ behavior, I have a feeling that Ogier will act melancholic or depressed

[@Gammaburst1298]

The broken god looking at the tree and being like, “Oh, so people are fed to you too?”

[@CrimsonKamina]

Broken God taking to Hector: “Foundation accidentally undoing your work to keep humanity safe too huh?”

[@Nyxsayeth]

Hiihy

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@CrimsonKamina Titania: *giggles*

[@Unknown-br1uf]

Fun Fact: SCP-6666 was originally a proposal for the SCP-6000 spot. Obviously, it didn't win, but I knew Kactus would fit it somewhere Somehow.

[@thepublicpotato3887]

@@CrimsonKamina it was actually the church that did that

[@reves3333]

Fairys "Titania please give us big fairies to punish the humans" Titania "big furries? here you go" Fairys "wait no.....ah shit"

[@l-x-10]

Titania: Monkey so brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[@toaster9922]

Hector - Trapped in a massive underground cavern with a dead god. Lancelot - Laying dormant in an ancient floating city where the first man ruled. La Hire - Just casually chilling in a random town in Alabama lol

[@heinrichze-france4089]

La Hire is doing much more than Vibing. Ever wonder where all those Alabama jokes came from? He's part of it...

[@toaster9922]

@@heinrichze-france4089 Indeed, He is the one cursed wirh lust after all.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@toaster9922 You might want to fix La Hire’s name in your comment

[@toaster9922]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 done

[@hesiod_delta9209]

@@heinrichze-france4089 Disgusting creature.

[@dominut_is_art604]

Imagine the smug look in Clef's face as he strode in "God's" containment cell.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

It would be a face that basically says “So much for all that crap of claiming to be God! Ha!”

[@zakkmylde1712]

Alto would either try to convince him he was actually God or try to kill him to prove he's not actually God.

[@minhducnguyen9276]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 The only gods that matter are the ones he can bang.

[@shikikkaneddy]

I imagined it with a bored "done with your bullsh*t" expression

[@ChocorocK]

he probably moonwalked into the room

[@RelativelyBest]

"The princess proceeded to dish out a fair number of curses." Fairy Princess: Release me at once. Humans: No. Fairy Princess: _Cowabunga it is!_

[@325figgy]

Also fairy princess: ...MALAKA...

[@hossdelgado626]

Yet again, the same fairy princess: KRAKATOAAAAAAAA

[@CoolAstrost]

69th like

[@ethantaylor9613]

It’s neat to see Cain and Abel being brought into this anti-diluvian mythos. They are quintessential early articles which means there’s really nothing about them or their personalities or how they really act just a description of what they do anomalously. While I have a soft spot for that older writing style it is nice to see them fleshed out as actual characters.

[@shikikkaneddy]

I want to see the three brothers reunited, though

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@shikikkaneddy I hope so too. These brother have been separated for eons, and it would be very touching to see them reunite and repair broken bonds. Hopefully one day Cain will be allowed to see Seth again and apologize to him for his past mistakes

[@azarinevil]

You should read some of the short stories about them. They actually do have a well defined personality, Cain is atonement and forgiveness, while Abel is revenge. It is a fantastic twist on the classic tale, given thousands of years passed since.

[@A-Z632]

not to be that guy but I'm pretty sure it's antediluvian

[@TheCrazyCapMaster]

@@azarinevil it always felt to me like their personalities should’ve been swapped, but the way you explained it just changed my mind on that 😆 Abel back, Abel PISSED 🤣 Cain regretting it and being much more passive made sense though, Abel was the one who confused me.

[@kevlonk]

Children of Night in SCP-1000: Sad, downtrodden remnants of a once powerful race Children of Night in SCP-6666: *creepy children's laughter*

[@nbmoleminer5051]

Yeah I'm not a fan of how they are portrayed in this SCP but I love everything else about it.

[@Gus-n9u]

@@nbmoleminer5051 gotta say i agree with you on this one. i can see why he used them for this purpose snd i love the fantasy, but 1000 and most connecting articles pointed to them being hyper advanced beings scientifically, and thats how i love them most. its clear kaktus has less passion for scifi, with even the oroborus leaning towards an older more reserved type of technology that leaned hard on Clarketech, which is common for the scp universes, but i still prefer them as precursors.

[@cecollins68]

If you listen to supposed recordings of bigfoot talking and making sounds and whoops it actually does sound eerily similar to children's laughter, like a child trying to speak human words like an adult but actually talking in reverse.

[@timmyreobed5043]

@@trystero1729 I respectfully disagree. They feel super generic now in my opinion. We have more than enough sadistic murder monsters in the SCP records, and honestly these ones don't fo much different from the rest of the lot. Also I feel like every sadistic murder monster after 106 just kinda ends up feeling less interesting and special than the last.

[@clicheusername7182]

@@trystero1729 I'm with you M. Original 1000 was a cool concept, but Kaktus turned them into proper nightmare fuel. Murder monster obviously overdone, but the level of Sadism is well beyond the norm and, unlike a lot of other monsters in the scp universe, you can see the train of logic and emotion there that makes it a whole different level of horrific.

[@jhorseman3410]

"I'm not saying its Adam El Asem, but has anyone seen him outside of the seventh floor? Didn't think so."

[@tuesday6955]

I’ve never seen Adam El Asem in the same room as the Zodiac Killer and it scares me

[@dracula9994]

@@tuesday6955 I understand the joke but he means there aren't anyplace fitting for him except the seventh floor

[@jhorseman3410]

@@dracula9994 No actually I was making a very similar joke as Tuesday did :P

[@Monte_Carlo451]

HECTOR, MY BOY, HAS SUFFERED FOR OUR STUPIDITY OF PLUCKING THE STAR FROM THE SKY

[@connor48880]

For some reason I read this in a Mr. Krabs voice

[@Monte_Carlo451]

@@connor48880 i would be disappointed if you didnt

[@nobodycares99]

@@Monte_Carlo451 absurd legend 🤝

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@Monte_Carlo451 Simping the stars of Titania isn't wrong 🤣

[@robadobflob2320]

I know I'm not the only one who knew Hector was a bro since his debut in the kaktusverse

[@shikikkaneddy]

Can we take a moment to appreciate TES's audio rendition of Hector ? I was just expecting a verbatim reading but then I got blasted and happily amused by the sudden deep voice effect that he added onto the piece. Excellent work !

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I love that he did that too! While it isn’t how I imagined Hector would sound like, I love how he spoke and how mighty it sounded. Definitely gives you the vibe that it’s the words coming from an ancient powerful warrior. I hope he does more voice renditions like this in the future.

[@darklord884]

After the Murphy Law reading, how could you have any doubts left?

[@shikikkaneddy]

@@darklord884 Never had. Seems like he had , though, IIRC

[@Wastelandman7000]

Indeed. I had an urge to raise a spear and yell, "Hail! Hail! Hail Hector the Faithful!!!"

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@Wastelandman7000 Actually it’s Hector the Stalwart. It’s Ogier who’s the Faithful

[@cblake4111]

My theory on how Titania became Dread Titania has to do with the perceptive nature on worship and gods. Dread Titania was born when the Children worshipped her in the only way they knew how: through blood, cruelty and torment. So essentially, the Children fed their vileness back into her in their horrid worship, and she warped to represent them accordingly.

[@overheadcam]

This is the plot of a movie, can't remember the name

[@BerryMcCockiner]

@@overheadcam have you remembered it yet?

[@overheadcam]

@@BerryMcCockiner yes I actually do, it's called Apostle!

[@emyriandragon2277]

This is some 40K dark gods logic and it makes sense

[@velnz5475]

Yes and no, coming back to these comments iv realized theres information gleamed from SCP 2932 - A (Caspan the Dreamweaver) and from SCP 6765 - C (Javert) we learn from Caspan that a creature called Ephelia (whom is a creature im not sure has been mentioned outside of this) a beautiful demon kills the Lord of Night's (A dancing king according to Javert) son to use as a puppet to lure the Queen of Night into the darkness. It appears to imply the Children of the Night are not the vicious creatures you think, and instead once they finished their task of ruining the kingdoms of men took to the world to explore... curious as they were they ran into actual vicious creatures that drove their king mad after the death of his son and wife. Only knowing the cruelty of darkness and bringing war to humanity, they turned to the fae and a red star (titania) to learn what they do to never again have that great sorrow. See the thing was when Titania tore out her own heart, her heart became 2932... meaning she is housing Ephelia (probably drove her mad, just sayin). Also the lord of night (aka the last king of night) is still dancing in a coffin in Audopaupaudopolis (SCP 4840) and the children's black box powers SCP 2000, midsummers night dream mentions a faerie king (Oberon) which is most likely the primordial question entity of the forest (SCP 5935/SCP 4000) whom requires names or the Vinuvinex (the god of ice and stone next to titania in the scp 4840 mural)

[@abadidea8610]

the kaktusverse has one of the densest lore in any franchise and I cant believe we get to see it all for free

[@ffjj3964]

Gotta love all the twist it does with the SCPs. Like 1000, and 343!

[@shikikkaneddy]

@@ffjj3964 Not much on 343 , but definitely on the 1000

[@1estel1ch.42]

well-written? absolutely. dense? definitely. dens*est*? not even close lol

[@vladimirignatov9503]

Sastratts

[@adhiradewa]

@@shikikkaneddy can i ask you what is the twist in scp 1000

[@fordprefect1587]

Yeah, I imagine that “plucking” a *giant multibillion degree nuclear fireball* from a few million light years away, and compressing it into a crown smaller than its shwarzschild radius would definitely cause a few issues.

[@heretotroll1813]

Not funny

[@liam2745]

@@heretotroll1813 man you gotta put in more effort than that

[@TwilitbeingReboot]

The detail of it being an _iron_ crown is a nice touch, since even the biggest stars can't form elements heavier than iron during their normal life cycle.

[@stevenhetzel6483]

Eh, our sun isnt even in the hundreds of millions in temperature even at it's core, multibillion is a stretch. Eta Carenae is a star 100 times more massive than Sol, yet it's surface temps are only twelve times hotter. Multiply our suns core by twelve and you're still looking at around 320 million degrees F. Billion(s?) is supernova territory, but even then they barely break a bil, so multi billions is just not really feasible.

[@geaemgam]

@@stevenhetzel6483 no shit just like the whole story

[@chaosman1760]

Cannot wait for the Demon Ogier and the Throne of Blood.

[@thebruhmoment3329]

same

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Sounds like a Dark Souls/Akira Kurosawa crossover.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Wait what?! Is it already out?! or is that just an assumption of the name of the next one?

[@rubensteinfinsteraarhorn9028]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 djkaktus is still making it

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

@@rubensteinfinsteraarhorn9028 Oh! I see. I was confused because I checked the site and didn’t see it anywhere in the “6000” section.

[@shadowbrain4814]

Just gonna throw this out there: if his self appointed title is even *slightly* accurate, then the fact that 343 is still terrified of the Children of the Night *to this day* speaks volumes of just how deeply they scarred him.

[@cblake4111]

Another creepy thing is when SCP Noah flooded the world and a Bigfoot fell into a flooding pit, it didn't do anything but stand there until it drowned and died. Showing that they actually have no self-preservation and no concept of death, at least not towards them.

[@mattdayman461]

@@cblake4111 the reason the Children didn't do anything is because they couldn't talk, since they only talk through dreams and nobody was sleeping.

[@ricardohoang8452]

shadowbrain4814 I won't try to ruin your 69-like comment here!

[@anche1430]

They do not explain properly or accurately anything about it. It isn’t nearly as small, isolated or insignificant as they suggest. What they call “ the children of the night” is likely an entire mislabelization and they make out like they don’t know anything about it at all. Goes to show how far down the wrong path the scp foundation has been led.

[@mattdayman461]

@@anche1430 They were called The Children of The Night by the Fae, the ones who created them out of hatred for Adam El Asem. Read Project Paragon, it should give you all the answers.

[@dapperdavid3193]

I love when the foundation are a proactive and important part of an SCP, they're doing proper research, learning about the anomaly and its history as opposed to sometimes when they show up somewhere and are like "man, something weird happened here, glad the world didn't end lol"

[@sigmacademy]

Well, you can't have the Foundation just show up everywhere with the answer to everything? That would make the entire universe very boring very quickly. Having them sometimes show up after something has happened preserves the feeling that the SCP Foundation isn't like some god-like organization hovering in the background that knows everything and can do anything - they're limited by their current capabilities and resources (while still leaving room for upgrades in the future) and they can sometimes mess up, leading to unintended consequences (both good and bad). There's a lot they DON'T KNOW, and that leaves the door open for all kinds of third parties to capitalize on, which means they not only have to deal with the world ending potential of some anomalies, but also with the hidden (or public) motives of rival organizations as well. :/ Plus, having mystery left in the universe is a good thing. It means more space for other creatives to swim around and expand the universe with even more disturbing artifacts.

[@dapperdavid3193]

@@sigmacademy all I said is its nice when they're represented this way some times, I'm not saying I ONLY like stories that are written like this.

[@gustajuy5983]

Hector - the biggest trooper in the SCP universe.

[@thebighurt2495]

He should hang out with Mekhane. They can swap stories of almost dying to save Humanity and the Foundation very nearly ruining all their hard work.

[@zanemiracle6121]

Faries: Don't release the children! SCP 343: Don't release the children Literally everyone: Do not release the children! SCP Foundation: Guess we'll see what's down there *Later* SCP Foundation: Oh no Hector: For fucks sake...

[@shikikkaneddy]

*Circus music intensifies*

[@heretotroll1813]

Was this supposed to be funny

[@stevenhetzel6483]

@@heretotroll1813 damn bro you really livin that sad life ain't ya

[@koontz1154]

@@heretotroll1813 were you?

[@cookiemuffin3208]

I mean the vibe I got from this is that the foundation didn't know the CotN didn't know the children were there or that the gas was incapcitating them.

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Over an hour of a Kaktusverse video. This is gonna be as lit as a containment facility's nuke going off

[@Fisinocean]

Or as lit as the sun and as messy as the algamation of humans in when day break!

[@stevepalpatine2828]

Kaktus has to be the most overrated hack writer on that site.

[@f.p.2010]

@@stevepalpatine2828 how lol he literally writes the best SCPs

[@stevepalpatine2828]

@@f.p.2010 The guy who ruined 1730 because he couldnt leave it alone, turning it from a good article into a fucking Saturday morning anime with immortal cyborg super soldiers and a fucking Kaiju fight? Over long, bloated, self indulgent multi thousand word articles that are stuffed with hack narrative are in no way "the best SCP's" An SCP is supposed to be a clinical description of an anomaly, and the methods used to contain it. Kaktus's bloatfests rush through the actual SCP because he can't wait to overstuff it with Logs, Addendums, etc, all filled with High School level writing that gets painful to slog through once you've read enough of his stuff to start to predict where he is going with it a few hundred words in advance. If your standard of literature is middle school level then yeah, Kaktus is great, but if you actually like good writing that isn't based off of tropes and easily predictable plot progression, he gets old real quick. Rounderhouse does what Kaktus does in less words and with better writing. Theres a reason people started calling Ben "Diet Rounderhouse" although really he's "Extra Sugar and Additives Rounderhouse"... And all this is without even mentioning his constant trying to rewrite articles to poach up votes. He's a hack. Sorry. "The Based God" indeed 🤣🤣🤣

[@Fisinocean]

@@stevepalpatine2828 while it differs from mine i do respect your opinion mate, i think its all depends on taste and theres really no need to fight because of it

[@Big_E_Soul_Fragment]

Bigfoot at SCP-1000: please let us back After SCP-6666: *[Readies shotgun]* NOOOOOPE. STAY AWAY.

[@thoughtexperimentsotherstu4680]

you've come to the wrong tree fool

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

While I don’t entirely like this interpretation of Bigfoot in the SCP Universe, it is still very intriguing and a great attempt at tying them to this lore. I hope he explains in the future why he interpreted them in this way. Those I honestly don’t think the Bigfoot describe in SCP-1000 and the Children of The Night describe in SCP-6666 are actually the same creatures.

[@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement]

More like: OH SHIT, OH FUCK, OH SHITTING FUCK, KILL THEM WITH FIRE!!!!!

[@Solkard]

We’re you going to use that on yourself? Because it’s not gonna do much against them.

[@Center-For-I.E.D.Mismanagement]

@@Solkard It was stated in this very article that FIRE is the ONE thing to which The Children of The Night are either vulnerable, or expressly averse. Whichever the case, my aforementioned hysterics still stand.

[@Jack-kn1mr]

Imagine one giant graphic novel of the Kaktus verse, shit would be wild.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

OH MY GOD YES!!!

[@gremlinfifty2308]

It would have to cut some stuff out

[@gremlinfifty2308]

It would have to cut some stuff out

[@IndeedVancho]

I need it

[@azarinevil]

Given how much DJ Kactus has given us, and how damn good it always is.. I am shocked they don't have horror novels on the NY Times Best Seller lists.

[@zaregoto6022]

My Boi Hector be like: "It ain't much but its honest work"

[@CaptainObliviousV]

The comment section: -50% Appreciating the absolute chad that is Hector -50% Appreciating Kaktus’ work Perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

[@stevenhetzel6483]

Seeing as how Hector is his creation the pie chart literelly overlaps there bud...

[@taigor97]

Finally 343 gets called out for only acting like a god. Never bought into his story

[@shikikkaneddy]

Honestly I had mixed feelings about that one , but it grew on me.

[@joroc]

Reality manipulator can't scape?🤔

[@xXDarkxIdealsXx]

Lol nah. They fucking ruined 343 with this pothole bs. Yes 343 was not CNF rmed to be god, but he had insane abilities and knowledge and the original author's intent was CLEARLY for it to be ambiguous so people would be split into thinking "well shit maybe he is god". Personally I've always believed him to be the "God of Abraham" the one who appeared to Moses at Sinai. But that doesn't necessarily make him "creator of the universe". In fact the name YHVH that Hebrews refer to god as was the name of the SON of the chief Canaanite deity EL (which is where cactus got "El Asem" from. So if anything it implies 343 as more of a "son of god" Christ-like figure.

[@taigor97]

@@xXDarkxIdealsXx well 343 did say that he does not know who his father is, maybe Kaktus will developp on that one day and give him even more backstory (although i doubt it). Like you, i also liked the ambiguity of the character, the fact that he might be god was interesting (even if i didn't buy it) but I think that Kaktus doesn't want a "true god" figure in his universe so he had to give him another origin story.

[@nobodycares99]

@@xXDarkxIdealsXx you realize nothings cannon, ignore it💀

[@Hugh_Amungus]

41:12 "What could possibly go wrong?" Murphy's Law: _Allow me to introduce myself_

[@jesseberg3271]

Remember the Corollary to Murphy's Law: Murphy was an optimist. Even things that can't go wrong, will still go wrong.

[@endofuwu2146]

@@jesseberg3271 even things that went right go wrong

[@michaelandreipalon359]

Murphy's Law. BOOM!!!

[@Yotarnn]

"what could possibly go wrong?" *Instant ad*

[@michaelandreipalon359]

@@Yotarnn Welp, I just got two ads for pork cubes and the BTS meal. You called it.

[@chrisdupuis2523]

>life signs detected >thousands of them >emaciated figures >lying in a fetal position >hands covering their faces OH NO 😳

[@Qurosia]

Oh i just clocked that once you put it together!

[@TheMrBrosef]

Can you explain this and/or give the SCP number you're talking about? I don't get the reference.

[@johnryu2317]

@@TheMrBrosef SCP 096...Shy Guy

[@TheMrBrosef]

@@johnryu2317 oh shit, that clicks now. Thanks

[@Evelyn-pl3we]

Can you explain why they were found lying in the fetal position with holes in them? I seemed to have missed that part.

[@VDiddy5000]

Can we just take a moment to appreciate Noah here? He pulled a “World’s Gone Beautiful” and did something so drastic the world actually thought it was ending, 001 style. Speaking of 001’s, I wonder if Kaktus’ is gonna be making them kinda canon to his ‘verse. He could easily fit the Gate Guardian in there somewhere, if others too.

[@dirkgently1863]

IIRC the Gate Guardian showed up in one of kaktus' 001 proposals?

[@diogene_s8032]

The guardian is canon in the Kaktusverse. It appears as a drawing inside 4840

[@VDiddy5000]

@@diogene_s8032 Thanks for letting me know; it’s hard to keep up with all the kaktusverse, much less all the 001 proposals and references overall. I’m always sad that When Day Breaks isn’t referenced more, despite how damn bleak it is. That whole thing has “Sarkik or Daevite ritual gone Horribly Right” written all over it.

[@rhazortrhazort3003]

He is the Dread Sorcerer Noah el Mehtoh. He gets to cool shit with a title like that

[@IdiotinGlans]

Gate Guardian and the Factory are canon in cactusverse

[@fudgegorilla]

Love how this is just a real-ass fantasy novel that Happened in the background of the SCP foundation's universe.

[@brandonvelde5774]

Honestly, compared to some of the other 6000 proposals, this actually feels a lot more grounded. Heck, even a little sci-fi.

[@thedukeofchutney468]

BOO-YAH! I swear the Kaktusverse has some of the best SCPs!

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I agree to that! So many amazingly written SCPS and lore!

[@mattdayman461]

All hail the Shadow Master djkaktus.

[@BLK_MN]

Wait, the Foundation is on series 7 already? Man, I haven’t read anything in a while.

[@MylesMarrero]

6000 contest ended at the beginning of July, so series 7 just properly began. The next few months will be a great time to be an SCP fan, to say the least.

[@broadsk8tr]

My thought exacly 😂

[@MylesMarrero]

@DEEPFOXJUDE In the SCP canon, each series consists of every 1000 numbered SCPs in the canon. Series 7 essentially consists of SCPs 6000 through 6999. Though there are a good amount of the new entries already written thanks to the 6000 contest, the majority of the series has yet to be finalized.

[@ricardohoang8452]

@uwau Wait until Series 8 in the next year

[@jellosapiens7261]

@@MylesMarrero Has the winner of the 6000 contest been decided yet?

[@darkmaterial95]

Love these longer vids, feels like a mini audiobook every monday

[@inkedseahear]

Titania: I am the Goddess of the Children of the Night, for the Fae had abandoned them of their cruelty, I shall cherish and protect them, rip out my own heart for their prison. Hector: Yo you gotta release paralyzing fog to freeze the Children. Titania: _At your service, my king_

[@_AnCub_]

But Hector pierced Titania with his spear, and this is why gas is emitting from her

[@MrTigracho]

What a shitty goddess.

[@ohok45624]

The children of the night are sad wookies.

[@ricardohoang8452]

Those children are almost closed as the emo kids

[@juancarpenter364]

i feel bad for them

[@sigmacademy]

I could make the "Wookies pulling off stormtrooper arms" joke here, but in this case, it would be too dark a theme for this story? ;) :P

[@EnvisionerWill]

Or scary eldritch Wookies, if you see them in red light.

[@michaeltalpas]

"What could possibly go wrong?" It isn't the possible things that are worrying me.

[@Qardo]

What if Dr. Bright said it? Worried now? I would be. I'd also find the closes Janitor's Closet to hide in.

[@michaeltalpas]

@@Qardo When Dr. Bright says it, I'll go hide in the Library.

[@Qardo]

@@michaeltalpas Tried that. Yet some creepy Clown thing was guarding the door and told me. I needed a Library Card...so the Janitor's Closet it is. No, clowns....I think....do you spell cotton candy?

[@ricardohoang8452]

@@michaeltalpas Time to teleport to the Library and meet Doctor Moose, Claire Bright and Alisson Chao L.S 😁

[@michaeltalpas]

@@ricardohoang8452 Well, that hardly sounds safe. But then, what could possibly go wrong? :D

[@sambasedsamurai9338]

I actually got some sort of memetic effect from this one. I am really impressed by just how terrifying the Children of the Night are portrayed, how weirdly alien and cruel they are, and their supposed invincibility to the means of harming them, damn, I almost start to see those eyes in the dark corners of my flat. For some reason this entry scares me more that other supposedly more eldritch and unfathomable god-things in the SCP universe, Kaktus-verse is awesome, wouldn't mind it becoming an actual canon.

[@cecollins68]

It's strange because there was recently a Bigfoot researcher that "supposedly" had an encounter with Bigfoot like entities that was eerily similar to how they are described in this SCP story, I can't remember the name of the guy or the video but apparently he's a big name in the youtube crypto zoology space. the video was straight up chilling to watch and it was just him being interviewed on a zoom call he broke down crying for most of it, I'm talking this is a big burly man who apparently aside from being a Bigfoot researcher was also an avid hunter for most of his life and in the video says after his encounter he will never enter a forest or national park again for as long as he lives because he only managed to escape by dumb luck and prayer, after hearing what happened to him I don't blame him. It's one of those videos that makes you sleep with the lights a few days afterwards and you kinda regret watching it because the implications are just that terrifying, part of me is hoping that he just took some really good drugs unsupervised and had a psychotic break that lasted for a few days, but if even half of what he says is legit then Bigfoot is a straight up hostile interdimesional entity in a hierarchy of entities that hunt humans for sport and have strong ties to the "missing 411" cases. There is also videos with supposed recordings of what Bigfoot sound like and it's creepy as fuck like a recording of a child trying to sound like an adult but sped up and played in reverse.

[@alexanderjohnson4638]

Q

[@fk64911]

Because the children are fathomable

[@antthefool7637]

@@cecollins68 you remember the guy’s channel?

[@jonathanseely9441]

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I walk to to work at night and it takes about 40 minutes down some poorly lit roads next to some wooded areas. When this particular narration comes on I get all bristled and try to get away from the wooded areas. Doesn't help having fireflies lighting up randomly around the woods and scaring me half to death.

[@microwavedcheetos]

I cant wait for the 10 hour long compilation of the Kaktusverse

[@jason.larsenthedanishgreek1226]

It will be a TEN HOUR compilation which will anomalously waste ELEVEN

[@dracula9994]

That's the kind of videos I want to see

[@sethstewart9704]

Man, I could easily imagine Fromsoft making a game based on the journey of Hector. Doom-driven hero, y'know?

[@rhazortrhazort3003]

Man, an entire game on the Antedeluvian mythos. The Daevites, the faeries, the Children, the gods [Fucking Adam had Yaldaboth, The Deer, Mekhane, the Scarlet king and Wondertainment in it's court]. Fucking Dread sorcerer Noah, Daeva Hero Gilgamesh against Sarrus II in the fields of Jerusalem. Everything sounds like a cool AF RPG

[@Terminalsanity]

He does have a lot of Atorias Vibes don't he?

[@Hyperversum3]

The reason why I like Kaktus writing so much it's that It really feels like a mix of old style classic SCP writing and fantasy in the Silmarillion style, more mythical and less personal. Which is fitting for a setting that has unknown monsters and an history of multiverses that go to a degree of absurd as Lovecraft dreamland period. Also I like the scale of It. These are stories about the universe we know, even if mythical and enormous. I liked Palisade, but I think that the Wiki it's kinda too filled by "the Foundation is more black than Grey" and eldritch horror more primordial than freaking Azatoth, Kaktus Is the exact opposite. The stakes feel real, and learning more of the world is actually interesting. When you throw in a random Alternate Universe n°1749160 It doesn't feel as compelling as building on what already is known

[@BLK_MN]

Even on first viewings I typically just push play and listen in the background. So I kinda stopped and looked up when I heard. “Let’s strap ourselves in and begin” Holy moly. One hour and 20 minutes? Gotta love that Kaktus-verse.

[@thewonderfulweeaboootaku8502]

SCP Foundation: *Makes things worse* Hector: Hey could you fuckin' not mate?

[@shikikkaneddy]

The Foundation most of the time they go explore some place : kzbin.info/www/bejne/sJvIlX-bi6yWnKc

[@cblake4111]

Foundation: Don't worry, we make these mistakes at least once.

[@thebighurt2495]

Interestingly, people make fun of the UIU for being "bumbling idiots" and yet, the Foundation has botched, busted, broken or damaged something or pushed a button that should have been left alone DOZENS of times.

[@fotnite_]

That moment when Methusala looked out at the tree was so chilling

[@robertdiffenderfer5185]

Okay, look. I just came to learn about some weird tree, not the extended take of Lord of The Rings. Either way I'm 40 minutes in and now I'm too invested into the lore. This is actually some really good writing.

[@thecuriousspiritofopportun1144]

41:13 "What could possibly go wrong?" is possibly the scariest phrase in the English language, in my opinion, right next to the scariest word: "Oops". Especially in the SCP universe.

[@mr.pebblestheii6495]

Always a fabulous day when The Exploring Series uploads!!!

[@kuyachaswhub3086]

Just as I thought. Exploring Series can't help it but cover djkaktus's entry to 6000 entry. Thank you Exploring Series!

[@jacobpascale4858]

If you haven’t already, could you please make a playlist with Kaktus’ SCPs that you have covered? They feel like their own canon, and I really dig his narrative skills and world building!

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I’m pretty sure they ARE part of his own canon

[@jacobpascale4858]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Yeah I guess that part from me was a bit redundant.

[@marlocieraad9461]

@@jacobpascale4858 it is a good idea though. Perhaps he can eventually do them for other cannons.

[@jojolafrite90]

I'm pretty sure the author of this SCP was a Dark Souls player and lore enthusiast.

[@Catglittercrafts]

It feels more like the Arthurian myths mixed with Shakespeare/Greek mythos

[@hossdelgado626]

Well, Miyazaki took influence from western influences, so it may be both April Rants point and jojoafrite90's. He Took from The Japanese manga, Beserk (one of few Japanese direct influences), Harry Potter ( the layout of Seathes' archives), and he took architectural designs from not just western architecture like the aqueducts, but as well as some other Asian architecture like the demon ruins supposedly having been based on Indian structure and style. I'm no expert on these things, so please feel free to fact check me. I just vaguely remember mentions of these

[@Catglittercrafts]

@@hossdelgado626 Berserk is so good

[@kyler5923]

This feels like a love letter to the scp universe. You can tell just how deeply the author cares about it

[@kenzorabaca2252]

ah yes, series 7 blessed us with a masterpiece

[@redapplefour6223]

blessed us with many

[@Lunar994]

You sure like djkaktus's work. Can't blame you for that, though.

[@Jack-kn1mr]

He is indeed a man of culture

[@copyrightstrike4666]

Definitely one of the more well written and interesting canons on the site.

[@Gus-n9u]

Every SCP KZbinr has a niche. TES is on a short list of not fearing a video that is over 45 minutes, thus he is one of the few that could take on DJs Pre-Indiana lore bonanza, which I assume is all leading up to one of these paradimensional fucks making Indiana the anomaly center of the universe.

[@Fulgrim2]

That opening picture is giving me subnautica flashbacks.

[@VincentGonzalezVeg]

The ocean isn't fully explored yet

[@nvicious]

@@VincentGonzalezVeg terrifying to think about

[@Kalu4n]

The picture in distance remind me of Aza'gorod, the Nightbringer c'tan shard

[@derekdrake8706]

Reminds me of the plants growing on the bottom of the ice in SUBNAUTICA: Below Zero.

[@lukamilenkovic9578]

It's amazing to think how large the SCP Foundation mythos has become.

[@griffynstainbrook2420]

One of the best stories to come out of the SCP-6000 contest in my opinion, it was seriously mind-blowing for me.

[@WolfCry791]

I love how much Irish lore Kaktus writes into his work. It's actually respectful of the Sidhé, and that blows me away. His writing and your videos are the only time I get to have that since I'm dyslexic (This is the second time I've watched this one, and I think it's my favorite)

[@CarsonZXY]

Is anybody else going to bring up the fact that Appllyon means "destroyer" in Hebrew? So yeah, all of humanity is descended from the House of the Destroyer. Edit : someone corrected me. Apollyon is Greek, Abaddon is the same word in Hebrew, my bad.

[@Oilperson]

Make sense for what we're doing with the world right now

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

Man, that’s very dark when you think about it and with what you know about the Kaktusverse

[@noahsalonicchio2221]

As a hebrew speaker i dont know this word... משמיד=Mashmid maby?

[@noahsalonicchio2221]

But i do see simlertis with the nephlim and big foot in contexst of the flood

[@cazao24]

Apollyon is not hebrew, it's greek. Abbadon would be it's hebrew term.

[@djhokasha7410]

Oh my God! You actually did this. My man, I love you.

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

I know! I’ve been waiting for the day he’d do this SCP the moment I first read it during the 6000 contest

[@djhokasha7410]

@@undeadprinceofchaos3731 Yeah! This was very esoteric, I really needed this to understand more of it.

[@rubensteinfinsteraarhorn9028]

wait a minute is that pfp the children of the night?

[@djhokasha7410]

@@rubensteinfinsteraarhorn9028 yes

[@cypherzer0589]

This is by far my favorite SCP, listening to this for the first time was riveting and I'll never get tired of rewatching this one. Thanks TES.

[@kevindenis9551]

This would make an awesome dark fantasy video game, seriously. Can imagine exploring the entire area with the inverted tree always being present in the background, the goal being to reach the very bottom and help Hector escape and at long last fulfill his mission. Would be cool to have his roars grow louder and louder the closer to the end you get. A really good story this one was to listen to, really liked all the artwork shown in the video.

[@henryeckert3963]

i'm a simple man; i see a feature length exploring series upload, i click

[@JohnBrown010]

Sci-fantasy is quickly becoming a favorite genre of mine. Kingdoms of Amalur was my intro I guess you could say

[@shikikkaneddy]

Agree

[@tomkerruish2982]

Oh good, I was getting worried when local midnight passed and there was no video. Thank you for what I'm sure is another outstanding production!

[@undeadprinceofchaos3731]

So did I! Thank god it was just an half hour late than usual

[@lostgirl.1987]

I dont know why but the story of the faries and children of the night is now my favourite bedtime story

[@alfredmarcos1761]

Scp foundation: what could possibly go wrong? Reality: hold my beer

[@davidchambers6654]

Reality benders: am I a joke to you

[@benkavin1473]

Me watching this video and seeing the amount of references to SCP's that tie in to each other: "Oh, yeah. It's all coming together."

[@MelvinFett]

Damnit I'm only just now realizing that the staffs weird dreams were them experiencing the Children of The Night's fear and nightmares of Hector attacking them and Titania. I wonder now if that's their interpretation of what Hector has done to them or if Hector is physically capable of harming them on his own.

[@heretotroll1813]

This makes no sense, please try to develop some braincells before you leave a comment

[@zap4th368]

@@heretotroll1813 wdym? It makes a lot of sense. The children are alive, the can enter dreams, and are terrified of hector.

[@Vapor817]

@@heretotroll1813 dis u🤓

[@TryckSpot]

Its weird how this interesting RP story-verse grew and grew into something so devilishly mysterious that it gives me more pause in consideration of reality than the flat-earth theory.

[@hossdelgado626]

What about the time cube theory?

[@fort809]

@@hossdelgado626Time IS cubic, that’s not a theory. Your ignorance of the Harmonic Cube is demonic

[@hossdelgado626]

@@fort809 your lack of faith in the octagonal space time continuem needs to be stopped ✋️ 🛑

[@Bastit3hman]

Love the subversion that Hector is the thaumiel SCP rather than Titania which it seems like at first.

[@KirigayaKazutoBeater]

I think they're both Thaumiel though. Hector is only able to contain the children due to Titania's poison

[@invertedoroboros4122]

This is my favorite one you've made so far. It blew my mind like 30 times. I never would have been able to understand it the way I do, and apreciate it the way I do without you and the way you break it down for us. I watch alot of SCP channels, like alot, and you're the best one doing it. Better than the Volgun. For real.

[@ZG-qe6ck]

6K Con just ended and we're already getting a vid on a series 7 >__< All of the contest entrants did an amazing job and it's awesome to see them getting some well-deserved appreciation so soon after the con!

[@DenethorDurrandir]

DJ Kaktus, the SCP powerhouse, well deserved shoutout there

[@wolf_skin]

I just love the Kaktusverse. I've read this in amazement and I will listen to this just the same.

[@eddiemaiden4192]

Coming back to this particular series, I’m now convinced DjKaktus just wanted to write a grand fantasy epic and used scp as their ticket to doing it

[@constantdadmode7885]

If the SCP Wiki ever acknowledges a “canon” it better be the Kaktusverse

[@thebighurt2495]

Plot Twist: Day Breaks is the final canon. Wail before our gelatinous future.

[@lolosh99]

@@thebighurt2495 D:

[@actualturtle2421]

What I love about the kaktusverse is that it's not fantasy, it's mythology. I do think people try to read too much of it like Lord of the Rings when in reality it's more along the lines of the Bible in the sense of just being presented as a record of things that happened rather than fanciful things that could happen. I had a hard time getting into the story before I made that connection but once I did it just clicked.

[@djhokasha7410]

Now, my eyes will be wide open, and I'll start noticing things that I didn't before in the article:).

[@peteryoble9227]

Is that profile pic of yours what I think it is?

[@djhokasha7410]

@@peteryoble9227 ;)

[@spedrun]

You know an article is good when the exploring series makes a video on it two weeks after it's written.

[@roseflood1612]

I've always loved the pure animosity that goes into "Picking an apple,".

[@strawhatshinigami9190]

Crack Theory : Adam El Asem is the true leader and founder of the SCP Foundation ,while still being contained in some way .

[@nono9543]

There is a version of the 01 council where Eve O5-01 I believe

[@natzo89]

@@nono9543 That is also from the Kaktuverse, the Orouborus Cycle.

[@strawhatshinigami9190]

@@nono9543 Really ? I need that link .

[@strawhatshinigami9190]

@@natzo89 With that knowledge ,I feel like I may be on to something

[@nono9543]

@@strawhatshinigami9190 Look up SCP O5-01s. She's one of the many proposals and they state she is Adam's second wife. It's debated on though if she's SCP-073, 076's real mother or if it's Lilith though. I guess it depends on who you believe.

[@Swimzer]

I've listened to this three times now and I still can't get enough.

[@Adcium]

djkaktus is my favorite writer on the SCP wiki. Glad you did this one, I don't have as much time as I used to, so I can't read them as much as I like to. I'll put this on tomorrow when I'm doing chores.

[@maxhatterschannel5140]

These Long stories are so good and the way you represent this makes it so epic

[@TeeJayXL]

It took a few days to get through this but damn the story telling is A+... I need to know more about Adam El Asem

[@Vash_Carrison]

We're gonna need a playlist of these specific connected stories. I wanna binge them all in one go once they're finished being told.

[@egonieser]

Absolutely love the long ones!! The longer the better! Keep them coming, it's so much appreciated 👌👍

[@kainslegacy78618]

Neat how this article confirms and bring some details on the ancient unrecorded history of humanity before the Sumerian civilization that is usually only vaguely hinted at by some of the most ancient of sentient SCPs...

[@exoticbreadstick8661]

this one was my favorite, such a creative idea!

[@TheRealsemaJ]

This is exactly the SCP I was hoping you'd do, excellent as always.

[@huntermoore436]

Man these fuckin stories are insane. Can't wait to hear the rest of them

[@biskuat]

This is my favourite entry in the 6kon. It expands on the kaktusverse immensely. Glad to see your video!

[@thehellionrevisited2704]

Ahh monday morning 3 am and The Explorer has a long tale to tell. You make my night shifts alot better.

[@notsalty001]

This was an absolutely amazing piece, djkaktus always manages to outdo himself each time, my belief is that the 7th floor does contain Adam, but I can never be sure.

[@Bluesit32]

What a guy, that Hector. Tortured by both his curse and the fog all those millennia...then these metal things show up and hose down the tree with a foam, stopping the fog. What does he do? He partially breaks free from his old prison just so he can tear open a new hole in Titania and let that torturous fog back out. The Foundation should see about giving the guy some morphine or something. Dude deserves some relief. I also dig the idea of Noah being the cause of the flood, not a chosen survivor. The fact he sacrificed his life for it is even better. He REALLY wanted the Children dead.

[@malcolmgruber8165]

I love how there are gods even in the SCP universe making some of the biggest, world ending, mistakes. Clearly these gods are naive children who make rash decisions.

[@strawhatshinigami9190]

Sounds like a typical God to me

[@felixrowan646]

The biggest questions this whole storyline brings to my mind is does this take place before or after the events of the Ouroboros Cycle? Is the O5-1 in this article the same one that had to restart the Foundation after nearly destroying it? If so, it makes the bits at the end regarding the SCP-1000 article hit differently.

[@aguyinpurgatory8558]

Considering that the department of abnormalities was brought up,in which lucifer's sword is being kept, wich was used by o5-1, the events in this article most likely take place after the ouroboros cycle.

[@rubensteinfinsteraarhorn9028]

@@aguyinpurgatory8558 correct lol

[@hesiod_delta9209]

@@aguyinpurgatory8558 I suspect that "him" is referring to The Administrator, who is trying to free the Nights Children as part of his "cycle". Although I suspect that the DoA was established to free the foundation from whatever Fredrick Williams did, so this makes the Admin's presence in 3790 a little weird.

[@dracula9994]

@@hesiod_delta9209 I'm a bit late but I asked kaktus himself on reddit when he commented on my post 2 days ago He answered generously and said that the ouroboros cycle is canon in this universe and Calvin Lucien is O5-1 one who wrote the note about 1000 on the end

[@hesiod_delta9209]

@@dracula9994 Interesting. This also mildly validate my theory about The Administrator being involved in the resurgence of the Night's Children.

[@heinrichze-france4089]

Mean green mother intensifies greatly. Also that Hector voice was just amazing, it almost sounded like the scream from the article, you really should consider voice acting! And I love the Text damaged stuff as well!

[@SCPFoundationLORE]

LETS GOOOO! ALL HAIL THE KAKTUSVERSE!

[@woegarden]

your reading of how hectors people, his king, his love for his country betrayed him made me cry. such unjustness and callousness. my heart breaks for you hector

[@firerulezz116]

The moment you mentioned the department of abnormalities, I just started swearing. I got halfway through your video on *that* topic before swearing it off, unable to follow the insanity of it. I guess I need to go back now, huh? Anyway, amazing video! Absolutely love it, and I love the kaktusverse stuff as a whole... even if the department of abnormalities goes well over my head (at least it was a brief and simple mention here).

[@WD_Gaster66]

I mean, it's not a complicated topic really. What goes over your head about the DoA?

[@WD_Gaster66]

@Dimitrius Didimitrius huh?

[@WD_Gaster66]

@Dimitrius Didimitrius What are you talking about?

[@WD_Gaster66]

@Dimitrius Didimitrius Ah, see, there's the problem. I've never watched the X-Files