Troy Lament/Synopsis

History and its interpretations of Agent Troy Lament from the SCP Foundation series.
==Working for the Foundation==
Not much is known about the origin and past of Troy Lament apart that he was previously named Jeremiah Colton. He was conscripted from an enemy faction by the SCP Foundation at the age of twenty-three and was given Class-A amnestics to forget about his family and most of his previous life. He originally worked in Site-29, outside of San Matteo where he worked on various projects, including SCP-919, a mirror in which someone's reflection came to life and would die if the real person walked away from it. He also came across SCP-113, and was allowed to use it to fully transition into a man.
On September 13th of 1997, Lament was transferred to Site-19 where he, alongside four other junior agents, met with their tour guide Dr. Djoric. During their tour, Lament met with several longtime personnel like Dr. Clef, Agents Strelnikov and Lombardi, while being informed of the location of the on-site quarters, mess, armory and equipment reserves, and the scheduled days off before finishing the tour. Once finished, Djoric assigned each of them to work under the Senior Staff, with Lament being assigned to work as Dr. Gears' new assistant, after the last one, Dr. Iceberg, committed suicide.
In the ensuing months, Lament helped Gears in containing some anomalies, such as reinforcing SCP-106's special containment procedures by using chromium plates and suspending its cell with magnets. He also had psychological sessions with Dr. Glass as he found working under Gears quite stressing.
While working with Gears in his office in Security Floor D-9 of Site-17, a containment breach suddenly occurred as a result of an attack by the Proponents of Paranormal Rights, causing the office's back wall to crumble. Helping an injured Gears get up, Lament heard as the screams of the personnel suddenly went quiet and on Gears' instructions they went to a secondary access area that served in the case high priority staff was trapped. As they traversed through the aftermath of a massacre, they attempted to contact security but were unable to reach anyone due to SCP-229 having taken over the site's electric system after integrating with SCP-682. With no other choice they decided to wait by the door until a rescue team blasted through to save them. Lament then attempted to go back to his office, only to find countless instances of SCP-705, living miniature clay soldiers. He immediately shut the door, but fellow agent Dodridge quickly arrived and unaware of the anomaly's presence, shoved Lament aside to get to his office before seeing the clay soldiers and immediately closing the door again. They attempted to block the door with nearby furniture, but unfortunately SCP-705 managed to break through the door. Once the breached subsided Lament was interviewed by O5-4, questioning him where he was during the incident and what his course of action was. 
During their work, Gears tasked Lament with retrieving SCP-884-4 from the Chaos Insurgency, causing him to work hard on it, but thankfully his fellow assistant and friend Sandlemyer was there to help him, suggesting to infiltrate the Insurgency, and in turn Lament advised him to use a box comprised of SCP-148 to destroy a thoughts producing book. As he was about to go to bed, Lament was notified that chromium didn't work and a reassessment was required.
On All Saints Day, nearly one year after starting to work in Site-19, Lament had a conversation with Gears in which the latter "expressed" disappointment in the former telling Sandlemyer to use a telekill box, making Lament feel somewhat bad. While at lunch with his colleagues, they informed Lament about Iceberg's fate, warning him that if he worked for a prolonged period of time under the emotionless Gears he might be driven mad, and advised him to seek a transfer as soon as possible. Learning of Iceberg, Lament agreed to this and sent a transfer request to the higher-ups.
Unfortunately, Drs. Sorts, Vang and a unnamed woman refused his transfer, causing Lament to furiously demand why as he was unqualified for this type of job. They refused to elaborate, only telling him that a supervisor should approve it first and with it Lament was able to figure out that Gears was the one responsible. He confronted his superior, demanding to know he wanted keep him around, and in response Gears explained that he still needed in helping with SCP-106's containment and offered to request Sandlemyer's assistance in this effort, knowing the two had become best friends. Lament could do nothing but agree with continuing the work and informed Sandlemyer on their upcoming collaboration.
The two were present in 106's chamber, overseeing the containment of the monster, but suddenly the repulsors went down, allowing 106 to escape. Lament and Sandlemyer quickly dashed down a hallway and into a room as 106 chased them. The duo found themselves in SCP-015's containment room where tried to find the nearest exit. They finally found it after what felt like hours, only for the keypad besides it denying Lament's access code. This allowed 106 to catch up with them, just in time for the door to finally open. Lament immediately turned to leave, but to his horror when he looked back at his friend he saw 106 had gotten Sandlemyer by his throat and dragged him back to the hallway. Lament attempted to use his gun to kill Sandlemyer in order to spare him of 106's torture, but sadly he had emptied the gun when fighting the old man.
Following the nightmarish incident, Lament was left deeply scarred by the experience, which further intensified after seeing Sandlemyer's still living mangled body. Gears proceeded to inform Lament that 106 had played with them, using them for its amusement, causing Lament to go into hysteria. Gears planned an appointment for Lament to have a session with Glass, and during the session, Glass told him that it would be better to simply forget about Sandlemyer altogether by taking some amnestics. Lament outright refused, not wanting to anything important to him, even if it pained him deeply.
One month later, near Christmas, after organizing 106's file Lament turned to finally finish his other assignment which was retrieving SCP-884-4. He decided to call Agent Strelnikov to find an agent capable of infiltrating the Insurgency and successfully reclaim the anomalous shaving mirror. In the meantime Lament kept working for Gears, and in the ensuing years he grew closer with his colleagues, especially with Dr. Sophia Light after meeting each other in a containment breach, with the two slowly falling in love with each other.
When Dr. Rights gave birth to her daughter, Lament was there to support her. As a result of her postpartum depression, Rights began worrying about not being a good mother, but Lament assured her that she was going to be a great mother and just needed to adapt, an advice that didn't help her much.
After nearly a decade, Agent P█████ at last was able to reclaim SCP-884-4 and now that it was in their possession Lament looked back its previous holders and how it had affected them. From this he came to the conclusion that the shaving mirror, besides compelling people into cutting their face and held directly, it could indirectly cause people near it to struggle with making decisions, leading to incidents. With the SCP-884-4 project now closed, Gears in his own way complimented Lament on his work which the latter appreciated.
Over a week later, on Gears' birthday, unable to work for his superior anymore, Lament requested to be transferred to another site. Before leaving he took the picture of Site-19's personnel that had been taken some time ago in which Gears attempted to smile and decided to frame it in chromium as a parting gift. After telling Gears that he would be going to Site-14, Lament gave him the gift and bid him farewell.
Working on other sites, Lament gained a new friend in Dodridge, working together in missions. Roughly four years later, while in Australia they were ordered to decommission SCP-723-D, a D-Class whose body reflected any direct attacks, a task they accepted. In the ensuing days, Lament and Dodridge attempted to kill him through various ways which included: a gun, C4, SCP-117 which was a multitool that used the materials in the user's body to make tools to help the user in any situation they are encountering, a humvee, paintballs, a Red Stag bottle, other fourteen SCPs and cement, all of which failed spectacularly. This took a toll on both agents as they began drinking and throwing random ideas at each other, with Dodridge suggesting to use SCP-623 only to be reminded that the anomaly was in a different site, leaving Dodridge to suggest taking SCP-723-D there via a helicopter. They attempted to do so, but were arrested by the police, though they managed to break out. Having grown tired of trying to kill him, the two drunk agents decided to take SCP-723-D drinking at a bar, and as they passed out the D-Class ate a bar snack which contained peanuts, causing him to die from his peanut allergy. After they were recovered by Mobile Task Force Delta-5 the two agents were promoted.
Three months later, Lament and Dodridge were temporarily transfered back to Site-19. While there, SCP-940 breached containment, leading to an infestation. Lament hid in Gears' office where he remained for the remainder of the breach until he was found and sent to be treated. In the aftermath, after talking to Dodridge Lament was reunited with Gears who requested his help on a level-2 threat which he agreed.
As the Church of the Broken God retrieved a piece of their god and began reassembling it, Lament and Dodridge were handed SCP-423 in order to use him to create an army comprised of warriors from fictional books. The two agents gathered numerous war-themed, fantasy, science fiction and post-apocalyptic books, including "The Man from Maple Street" and "Fallen Monuments, Fallen Gods", for SCP-423 to jump into and gather warriors capable of fighting the Church. Thankfully, 423 was able to not form a formidable army that manifested in the real world but was also able to form a smaller version the bomb only mentioned in one of the books. This resulted in death of both the army and the Church, while Lament and Dodridge retrieved 423 and discarded the books which had become incoherent following the loss of their characters.
At some point, Lament was partnered with Dr. Mann, and with that he was handed a remote to detonate a bomb secretly implanted in Mann in the case he caused any major problem. One day, Mann discovered the bomb and managed to take it out, leaving the bomb in Lament's car as he went to his partner to tell him about this. Believing a GoI was responsible for putting a bomb in chest Mann deduced that Are We Cool Yet? was responsible and forced Lament to accompany him in tracking the group down. They arrived to a office building as Mann was adamant that a group like AWCY? would be based on the unlikeliest of places. The duo checked almost the entire building, finding nothing, and as they were about to give the search up they came across an AWCY? cell hiding in the last floor. The group ambushed the personnel, but when Mann accused them of putting a bomb into his chest they denied doing it and prepared to torture them by having them look at their deadly art. Lament was able to trip the group's leader, causing him to look at his own art. Lament and Mann were able to free themselves and escaped to the elevator, and as they descended Mann remembered that it was him who put the bomb in his chest but had forgotten due to being amnesticized. A MTF soon arrived to detain the AWCY? members and bring Lament and Mann to safety.
After Prof. Kain Pathos Crow went missing during a mission, Lament and Mann were tasked with retrieving him. At first they thought Kain was mistakenly taken by a shelter, and after bickering with each other they went to the Spokane Animal Control Office as it was the only shelter that had recently acquired a Golden Retriever. Under the cover of a pair of travelers, Mann assuming the identity of a dog whisperer named Ricardo Mestabulan while Lament took the identity of his companion Percy. They checked the two retrievers that were present in the shelter found that none of them were Kain. The duo then went to the place where he had disappeared, coming across a cult. As they spied on them, Mann accidentally set his flashbang, blinding Lament and blowing their cover. The cult found Lament and attempted to help him regain his senses, and as soon as his vision cleared he dashed away from them. Resting in a park Lament and Mann discussed where Kain could be, and in that moment a truck stopped nearby and the driver asked them if they were looking for a dog. He revealed that he had taken Kain, mistaking him for a lost dog and allowed him to be reunited with who he thought were his owners. With Kain safe and well, the three of them returned to the nearest site.
All of a sudden, Lament received an apology letter from Mann. In it Mann explained how he had taken Lament's sedan, cell phone and gun to chase a new creature, but were all destroyed when he was attacked by the Insurgency. He further clarified how he proceeded to go to Lament's house where he resided with his friend Paul, only to be attacked again, this time by the Church of the Broken God, resulting in the house's destruction and Paul's death. Mann finished the letter by encouraging Lament to pay for the damages he caused.
Lament, alongside Mann, Dr. Everwood, Dr. Desei, Gears, Crow and Mann went to a conference in Site-53, only to see that most of the personnel had the mind of Dr. Shaw. The personnel, henceforth designated as SCP-4498, began going after them, and despite his best efforts to run away Lament was eventually captured by Dr. Kiryu, herself an SCP-4498 instance who accused him for lollygagging, offending her and fornicating with a duck instance of SCP-4498. She planned to execute him by stabbing his butt, unless the real Dr. Shaw arrived to surrender his amulet in exchange for Lament's life. The group, now joined by Shaw himself, agreed to give SCP-963 but in exchange for the mystical cat statue that caused all of this, while a tied up Lament crawled back to the group. Once the cat statue was activated again, Kiryu was returned to her normal self, but all the other personnel of Site-53 still retained the mind of Shaw, causing the group to flee, with Clef carrying Lament over his shoulder. In the aftermath, Lament was left disturbed by the experience.
During the formation of MTF Alpha-9 Lament was offered to run it, but thinking it was a bad idea which would end like the previous iteration of the MTF, Omega-7, he turned it down, leaving the job to Dr. Light. In the incoming meeting with the O5 Council, O5-12 sent Lament to talk to O5-10/The Archivist on his behalf. Lament didn't let O5-10 to meet with O5-12, telling her that the Overseer was busy, but he did tell her that he was against the formation of Alpha-9. With this, Lament prepared to transfer again, before Mann barged into his office. As he was about to announce that he became part of the newly formed MTF, Lament cut him off by telling him he already figured it out. Lament told Mann about the offer which he had refused, disappointing the excited doctor. Mann hoped that they could still keep in touch, unaware that Lament would transferring as soon as he exited the office.
Lament and other Task Forces were assigned with the containment of SCP-4812, three ancient beings that served a long forgotten Fae princess. After the Global Occult Coalition unearthed the now mummified princess, all of the three beings began agitating, forcing Lament to bury SCP-4812-S with lead and concrete while demanding for SCP-4812-K to be shot down.
==Possible Endings==
===Annon===
Following the promotion of Dr. Everett Mann to the position of O5-4, he decided to dispose of all the other Overseers in order to gain total control. After O5-12/The Accountant was killed by his brainwashed assistant, Lament arrived to the scene. He took the dead Overseer's sunglasses and was declared by the assistant as the new O5-12.
===Post Finem===
Lament suffered a jetski accident in Texas, rendering him in a comatose state. A week later, the Foundation decided to orchestrate his funeral using another dead body which no one noticed. Almost fifteen years later his brain died due to a blunt force trauma delivered by a Church of the Broken God's member, and some months later his heart stopped beating, cancelling any chance to resuscitate him using any anomaly. His body was subsequently cremated and his ashes kept in a jar that was marked and sealed with concrete. As time went on, Lament's files were all cleared and his friends forgot about him, causing him to be completely forgotten by anyone who knew him while his office was taken by a new staff member.
===They Who Find Darkness Loving===
Lament apparently died at some point during a unspecified accident. Dr. Avery Solace would see Lament as a monstrous being covered in black liquid, akin to 106, and start subtly tormenting them. Solace would always try to ignore him, dismissing as nothing more than a hallucination caused by their time working in the Memetics Department.
===Ganymede===
When numerous gods began attacking Earth, including SCP-343 and the Gate Guardian, Lament in the form of an angelic figure went to Site-01 where he found the last remaining Overseers, O5-1 and O5-2, who were in fact alternate versions of him and Light from another reality. Killing them with his flaming sword, Lament entered into his counterpart's computer to announce all Foundation sites the execution of the Ganymede Protocol.
===SCP-001 (djkaktus's Proposal III)===
Lament joined MTF Alpha-1 and was tasked with going after the Chaos Insurgency, often clashing with Insurgent Calvin Lucien. Eventually, Lament for unknown reasons was turned into a cyborg akin to MTF Tau-5, and was stationed in Site-01 where he acted as a conduit for the Administrator, the living idea embodying the entirety of the Foundation, earning him the title of Purpose. When Calvin Lucien arrived to Site-01 to kill the last remaining Overseer, Aaron Siegel, he encountered Lament who directed him through the site. Following Lucien taking the post of O5-1 for himself, Lament presumably continued to work for him.
===SCP-001 (ROUNDERHOUSE's Proposal)===
Around the 2050s Lament was elevated to the post of O5-11, having replaced Kondraki following his death. Though being confined to a desk job wasn't ideal for him, he decided to remain on the condition to still go on field missions from time to time. On May 3rd of 2063, as Site-34 in Levant was going through some turmoil due to the questionable loyalty of its personnel, Lament decided to go there to assure that the Overseers still had things under control. Unfortunately, on his way to the site one of his bodyguards betrayed him and stabbed him in his autolimo. Lament fought back, killing his assailant with his own knife, but sustained too much damage and he himself died shortly after. The Administrator F. Williams would honor Lament by implementing a memorial in Site-01's basement comprised of Lament's armory.
===SCP-7450===
When the being known as 981-AJAX attacked Earth on October 14th of 2025, the O5 Council had no choice but to go public and unleash SCP-7450, four angelic beings created by the Foundation to combat the invading force. However, three years later, SCP-7450 achieved godhood and soon began devastating the world on their own accord, brainwashing countless creatures into their followers. Lament was among the survivors who managed to momentarily evade them, aimlessly going from site to site to gather resources. He eventually locked himself in Site-43 where he kept one of the brainwashed staff named Henderson for questioning while receiving updates from his fellow survivors like Light and Clef. Skimming through the database he discovered the truth behind SCP-7450, learning that they were four little girls experimented upon by the Foundation and left buried until they were needed. He lamented over how hopeless the situation was, and despite this by April 19th of 2036, having lost contact with both Sophia and Alto, Lament was still unwilling to give up, planning to make his way to Site-89 and Site-104 but not before burning his hears and eyes in order to avoid perceiving any SCP-7450 instance.
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