on . , 1954. claims he was given the note by another agent 
whom he did not recognize. Full account of the incident can be 
found in Document GOI-006-001: "Nobody: First Appearance". 


The text details information on the supposed group or individual 
entity referred to as "Nobody." The information is vague and 
inconclusive. Known information includes: 


¢ No two individuals operating under the alias "Nobody" have 
been seen active at the same time. 

¢ Frequently, though not always, "Nobody" appears to be an 
elderly male human of European descent, dressed in a grey or 
black suit. 

* "Nobody" often provides unwarranted assistance to the 
Foundation. In other cases, "Nobody" will attempt to 
undermine the Foundation. 

¢ "Nobody" is generally non-violent and non-hostile towards 
Foundation personnel. 


Agents are required to immediately report any individual matching 
this description or self-identifying as "Nobody." Caution is 
recommended when dealing with this entity. Command will decide 
appropriate reaction to "Nobody" on a case-by-case basis. 


Original Text as Follows: 
Dear Sirs and Madams of the Foundation, 


| hope that this letter finds you well. You do not know who | am yet, 
however, | fear that our paths will cross many times in the future. | 
am sending you this letter with the wish that our relationship will not 


SCP-683-3 produced do not appear to decay or spoil as long as 
they are kept within the unit. 


SCP-683-2 is a child's (age approximated at between 5 and 7 years) 
drawing on standard 8.5" x 11" white paper, oriented as a 
landscape, and affixed by unknown means to SCP-683-1's exterior. 
SCP-683-2 appears to have been created with pencil and felt pen, 
showing evidence of moderate water damage at some point in its 
past. The drawing depicts a mountainous exterior landscape with an 
anthropomorphic sun, a house, a well, a dog, various vegetation, 
and a central figure which appears to be wearing a chef's toque. 


Any person either uttering disparaging remarks about SCP-683-2 or 
attempting to remove it from the surface of SCP-683-1 begins to 
incur damage to both internal organs and skin/musculature upon 
ingesting any food item. The damage manifests as the excision of 
tissue from various locations on the body equal in mass to the food 
ingested. This effect ceases once the victim has ingested .42 
kilograms worth of food and an equal amount of tissue has been 
excised. Though observably painful, tissue is excised seemingly 
instantaneously following each bite of food, and has yet to strike any 
internal structure that would cause the death of the subject before 
the .42 kilogram threshold is reached. All subjects have expired 
within twenty-six (26) days of last excision. 


Once the .42 kilogram excision of tissue is complete, a brown 
"lunch" style paper bag (hereafter SCP-683-3) will appear in the 
interior of SCP-683-1. SCP-683-3 has consistently been labeled with 
the name "Eric". Text appears symmetrically in capital letters printed 
in black ink. Writing style appears consistent with each sample of 
SCP-683-3. With each appearance, SCP-683-3 has contained the 
following: 


« A sandwich consisting of two (2) pieces of white bread (crusts 
removed) and .21 kilograms of various excised flesh and 
viscera. DNA analysis has confirmed it to be that of subjects 
who last disparaged or attempted to remove SCP-683-2 

* Aplastic zip-top bag containing .21 kilograms of various 
excised flesh and viscera. DNA analysis has again confirmed 
it to be that of subjects who last disparaged or attempted to 
remove SCP-683-2 


be entirely hostile. 


Of course, | know that your organization can never officially adopt a 
policy other than open conflict with me, simply due to my very 
nature. For this reason, | hope to address not the Foundation as an 
organization, but as a group of individuals. On those inevitable days 
that we meet in the field, | hope that you will remain amicable with 
me. It is for the safety of you and yours that | ask this. 


In order to demonstrate my goodwill, | will endeavor to reveal some 
truths about myself. In this career, as you surely understand by now, 
secrets are a form of strength, and | hope that this debilitation will be 
a gateway towards copacetic relations. 


Surely, the first question you must have is the question of who | am. 
Unfortunately, this is a difficult answer for anyone to give, and 
perhaps more difficult for me than most. All | can say is that you will 
recognize me. 


The next question, as to my objectives, is equally difficult to respond 
to. Often, you will find that our goals will overlap, and | will attempt to 
assist you. In other times, we will surely be in conflict. | hope that 
you will not cause these conflicts to escalate beyond what is 
necessary. 


And now, the final question, and perhaps the most important and 
enlightening one. My motivations, or why | am doing this. Here at 
last is an answer | can give without imprecision. | am not whole in 
the way that others are. | am not significant in the way that others 
are. | am unable to affect the world in the way others are. In the 
most literal sense, | am a person without importance or influence - a 
nobody. All my efforts are an attempt to resist my very nature and 
undermine these truths about myself. Like all sentient beings, | 
desire my existence to have meaning. 


| would also like to inform you that | currently act alone. However, it 
has come to my attention that there may be others that share my 
unique qualities. In the future | hope to work alongside them, 
although it is equally likely that | will always be merely an individual. 


At this moment, | am certain that you are beginning to question the 


veracity of this letter, and the information that it provides. This could 
be a trick or a falsity orchestrated by one of your many enemies. 
Unfortunately, | cannot offer any evidence other than my word. You 
will have to concede on faith that | exist and that this information is 
accurate. 


However, | do hope that you will take my message to heart. Fate 
may have set us at odds, but that does not mean that we have to 
accept it. 


With All Due Respect, 


A Nobody 


Notes: 


Immortality Amulet 
A Part of Nobody 


Universal Collision 


Tales: 


Just Another Nobody 
What Nobody Wants 


SCP-1880 


The Person in Rags 

All Words Are Lies 

Won't You Be My Neighbor 

Faceless 

Killing Knowledge 

Pretty Magic Gaiden Mecha Tokyo-Mon Demon Ninja Sailor 
Clef 

SCP the Anime, part 4 (Gears/Iceberg, Clef/Kondraki, Rights/ 
Light, Kain, monkey!Bright) 

all i ever wanted; all i ever deserved 

Point In Line 


¢ A Poem for Nobody 

Library Lifeline 

Alternate Character Interpretations 

* Mental Mazes 

Prelude: A Terminus 

* Favors-Part Two 

Postlude: A Terminus 

* To The Dreams He Is No Nobody 

¢ The Man Who Wasn't There Hub 
Favors-Part One 

Interviews with Prospective Groups of Interest 
* Nobody Wants To See You Succeed 
Adventuring Interlude 

Foreign Aid 

¢ Concerto in D-Major, Orchestrated for Paintbrush and Fedora 
¢ The Stranger and the Secretary 

¢ Thrive 

* Factory-Finding Mission 

¢ Nobody Dies 

* Snippets From The Serpent 

¢ Empty Unmarked Grave 

* Mission Statement 

¢ The Cool War 

* Nobody Knows 

* Quiet Days 


Greetings, writers and readers. If you are viewing this page, it 
means that you have at least some interest in writing Nobody. 
Therefore, | will attempt to organize my thoughts into an essay about 
this particular Group of Interest. | hope that my ideas can help you 
refine your own. 


Part I: Who is Nobody? 


Writing for Nobody presents a unique challenge. One of Nobody's 

core themes (and possibly the only theme that is consistent among 
all his appearances) is "Mystery." Unlike the other GOIl's, which are 
relatively straightforward in their motivations and methods, Nobody 


has tons of varying interpretations. 


In many of his incarnations, the reader is never 100% sure who he is 
or what his motives are. In his appearances where you do learn his 
true nature, authors have interpreted who he is in many vastly 
different ways. These include: (White text to avoid spoiling some 
awesome tales) 


(No more white text). 


So, the first step to writing anything about this GOI is figuring out 
who is Nobody, what his/her/its/their/ goals are, and how they are 
going about accomplishing those goals. Even if you don't reveal this 
information to the readers, | believe that authors need to know in 
order to focus their writing. 


Part Il: How to Write Nobody 


Due to the unique nature of Nobody, there is a lot of freedom to 
write the character in any way that you wish. There are cons, 
however, as there is less to build off of. 


The trick, | think, is making sure that the core ideas and themes that 
you have are fitting with the Nobody character. If you get that right, 
you can really do some wild stuff with the plot. You do not even 
need to worry about conflicting with headcanons as much (at least 
compared to other GOls). 


So, with that said, here are what | believe to be the core themes of 
Nobody: 


Mystery: Sure, you knew this one already. Still, this can be tricky to 
write if you are not careful. After all a mystery is only as good as its 
solution. As | mentioned previously, | think the most important thing 
here is that you start with a concrete plan of who Nobody is, what 
they want, and how they are going about accomplishing that goal. 


Once you have that idea, you can begin scaling back what you are 
going to reveal to the reader, to allow that sense of mystery. You'll 
want to reveal just enough to keep people interested, but too much 


would ruin the suspense of the character. 


Tangled Webs: Nobody is often involved in everything. He has his 
fingers in a lot of pies, and, Nobody is perhaps more involved with 
other GOIl's than anyone else. Because of this, | think a good 
Nobody story has to have solid world-building. I'm not sure that it is 
possible to have a good Nobody story in which he doesn't interact 
with another group... though that might make for an interesting 
writing challenge. 


The only advice | can really give here is to read up on other stories 
on the wiki. Try to imagine what Nobody would think of certain 
events and characters. If he could have involved himself in the plot 
of the story, how do you think he would have accomplished it? How 
do these groups’ actions affect Nobody and his goals? 


Fate and Control: This is a big one that | tried to focus on in my 
writing. When Nobody appears in a story, it is always significant. 
And, there is often no real way to fight against Nobody. Usually, 
even the almighty Foundation has to just allow him to do what he 
wants. 


This brings up some interesting points about agency. If Nobody can 
appear anywhere and just mess everything up, how much control 
does anyone really have over their surroundings? In my writing, | 
tried to invert this theme and show that it is actually Nobody that has 
little control. Regardless, | think asking the question "Who's in 
control?" in your writing will really help make it interesting. 


Part Ill: How to Write Nobody 
Objects 


When considering how to write objects, | think it is important to first 
consider how one Is going to write them rather than what they are 
going to write. | believe any good object can tell the story of the 
Group without explicitly telling anything. Simply using syntax and 
phrasing to tell a story. 


Considering that Nobody is (likely) operating alone, it wouldn't really 


make sense for him to have formal documentation. However, 
considering how involved he is in the anomalous it world, it makes 
sense that he would need to have some data written down. This was 
the inspiration on how to do Nobody's "object" format. 


Essentially, Nobody's objects are notes and memos that he makes 
to himself to remember important information. This includes plans, 
where things are located, and even what the different GOI's call 
certain objects. 


| think that this is an interesting way to hit all of Nobody's core 
themes. Firstly, it shows mystery, because Nobody would not need 
to remind himself about everything. Therefore, some information is 
left out and excluded from the reader. Second, it shows the all the 
tangled webs Nobody is involved in by showing all the data he has 
on different groups. And finally, and perhaps most importantly, it 
deals with fate and control by focusing on "how the object can be 
used." 


One drawback to this approach is that the objects must be incredibly 
short. This makes it difficult to tell a compelling story in this format. 
To mitigate this, the goal was to try to create a "popcorn" or "potato 
chip" type effect. Just a bit of narrative, and short enough that you 
are encouraged to read more. 


"But, Nighkos, | didn't want you to ramble on about this kind of stuff! 
| just needed the syntax/format for writing a Nobody Article!" 


OK, then, here you go: 
+ Source Code: 


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One problem is that 
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as the things Nobody would want to remember. 
However, you 
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can change it up. Remember, it's not a formal 
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