SCP-106

SCP-106, known to the SCP Foundation as "The Old Man", is a humanoid entity that secretes an extremely corrosive material and has the habit of kidnapping his victims, taking them into his pocket dimension.
==Biography==
===Origins===
The origin of 106 is highly contested; there are multiple known interpretations of 106's creation and early activities.
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|-|The Young Man=Lawrence Fletcher was an orphan British man who was drafted into the British Army during World War I. He trained alongside fellow soldier Theodore Bell Lyman and the two earned the rank of Corporal. They were sent with the British Expeditionary Force to France, eventually being sent to the trenches with reinforcements; though, no-one noticed him before he was sent away. There, his fellow soldiers believed him to be a bit strange, even for the conditions they're in. Though his fellows had differing opinions of him - some even avoiding him - Lawrence never caused any trouble and followed orders adequately. Lyman was the only one to be considered a friend to Lawrence, with the latter jokingly creeping behind Lyman while he wrote letters to his wife.
On Christmas Eve, Lawrence befriended several German soldiers as a truce was formed for the festivities, seeing nothing wrong with it. Unfortunately, once the festivity was over, the battle soon resumed but before that Lawrence attempted to bid a German soldier farewell, only to get himself under the sudden bombardment from English planes, killing the German soldier. Lawrence managed to survive, but all his lively energy he once held was now gone, becoming more cruel and distancing himself from Lyman. Corporal Lawrence and fourteen other British soldiers were sent over the trench and into no-man's-land, where many believed them to have perished. During the next three days, the soldiers began to suspect things of Lawrence; he received no letters, no mentions of home, and constantly spoke of his dreams to other soldiers. The unit started to believe that he was cursed, with his station orders lost and the men who shared a bunkhouse with him receiving trenchfoot.
Contrary to their beliefs, however, Corporal Lawrence and the unit did not die. Despite bracing to see live German soldiers in the trench ahead, Lawrence and his unit found only the grotesque, ritualized bodies of the unit inside covered with a black sludge. He found a large hole near the trench, eventually sliding in headfirst, to the horror of Private Dixon. Dixon quickly called for his unit to rescue Lawrence; however, the hole was extremely dark, with a torch's light barely even penetrating it. After two minutes, a vomiting, sludge-covered Lawrence emerged from the natural chamber.
The entire unit fled the scene with Lawrence, eager to leave that horrific scene behind. While his entire unit was mortified, having to be calmed down by command with explanations of battle fatigue and chemical experiments, Corporal Lawrence seemed more jovial and upbeat than he was before the trip. The men believed him to be even creepier than before, Private Dixon telling a friend about Lawrence standing over him in the dead of night. Dixon was found the next day impaled upon barbed wire.
Everyone in the trench, save for Corporal Lawrence, died of a strange disease that ate away at the bone. Despite relief coming, many died before they ever reached a hospital bed. Lawrence was confined to a mental ward after mutilating a French nurse in an attempted sexual assault. The disease also followed him, as well as continuously unsettling behavior. Though the ward tried to transfer him away, he was a societal enigma; he lacked even a birth certificate due having been an orphan. When Lyman and other men went to the trench to see what had happened to Lawrence, only to witness fellow soldiers vanished in night. Lawrence, in his new form confronted a terrified Lyman, but refused to kill the man he saw as a friend and disappeared, leaving behind the black sludge and a spiral of hundreds of teeth collected from the patients in the ward.
|-|Until Death=Dr. Robert Scranton was an SCP Foundation head researcher, alongside his wife Dr. Anna Lang, in Site-120, who created numerous technologies that dealt with ontokinesis. On January 2nd of 2002, while he and his wife were working on the Lang-Scranton Stabilizer, a mysterious earthquake occurred which caused a Class-C Wormhole to be opened. In the chaos, Scranton was sucked into it and ended up in a dimension appearing as a complete infinite void which would come to be designated as SCP-3001.
Curiously, Scranton found alive despite this new reality being devoid of any matter, except for a part of his control panel which had also be sucked in with him and against all odds was still functioning. He was extremely agitated, repeating to himself his identity and backstory, while attempting to remain calm and thinking about his wife. Being a Foundation scientist first and foremost, he attempted to analyze this new discovery, recording his findings into the panel, seeing that he was incapable of dying though he felt hunger and thirst. His sanity soon began to slip, referring to the panel's red blinking light as his friend and always thinking about his wife.
To his horror, he noticed that as months went by his body was losing its solidity and was unable to feel pain anymore, likely due to reality's low Hume level in contrast to his higher level. Unable to endure this hellish state, Scranton attempted to mutilate himself in a vain attempt to kill himself. He is suddenly hit with unimaginable pain, which made him realize that the dimension was likely breaking down. The panel then deactivated, agitating Scranton as he lost the only friend he had and again attempted to commit suicide, but to no avail. After nine months, the panel finally reactivated, and Scranton glad at having his friend back admitted to it what he did during its absence.
Soon, as reality began folding in on itself Scranton was able to see his reflection and saw how much he had mutilated himself, with whole parts of his body missing. Having completely lost his mind, he, in his unintelligible voice begged "Red" and Anna to give him their body parts, including parts of their brains, before breaking down and asking for forgiveness over his hideous appearance. Six years after the wormhole first opened, the panel returned to baseline reality, leaving Scranton all alone.
However, Scranton didn't perish, and twenty years since first arriving to SCP-3001 he finally returned to Site-120 where he immediately went to search for his wife. Late at night, he appeared in her office, having gained new powers as a result of his stay in SCP-3001. Appearing in front of her, Anna understandibly was unable to recognize her long lost husband, and immediately fled in terror, asking the night guard Frank for help. Scranton slowly made his way towards them, only to be shot by Frank, causing him to fall into hid pocket dimension. Anna demanded Frank to sound the alarm, but he refused, wanting to have a proper report before notifying any MTF, but as she remained adamant to immediately set the alarm he accidentally pushed her aside.
Seeing this, Scranton teleported above Frank and began melting his body, dropping down taking his throat for himself. Anna attempted to flee, only to fall into one of Scranton's portals, arriving to his pocket dimension which had taken the appearance of their apartment in which they used to live together. She eventually managed to get out of the dimension and managed to activate the alarm. The glaring red light at first entranced Scranton, being reminded of Red, but this didn't stop him from catching up to his wife, at which point he began speaking to her using Frank's vocal cords. He revealed to her that he was Robert and had been using his new powers to rebuild himself and their world for her. At last reunited with Anna, Scranton couldn't help himself but to kiss, melting her face and bringing her to his pocket dimension.
|-|Once But Not Now=The old man was once a member of a prehistoric predatory race known as the Rotting Ones which lived in the trees and preyed on the early humans. He was born to a loving mother and lived together with his brothers and sisters, feasting on the dying humans their mother captured. He would grow and have children of his own, hunting humans together and enjoying to be in the company of his people. However, humans soon evolved, developing technology and becoming more capable at defending themselves.
Unable to keep up with the times, the old man and its brethren went into hibernation, until he awoke in the modern times, finding himself to be the last member of his species. Seeing how the world had changed around him, he came across a house where a family lived with their young child. Overcome with hunger, the old man one day snatched the child and ate, causing him to be discovered by the humans.
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===Lawrence's story===
There are conflicting accounts of what Lawrence did following the war:
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|-|Old Roots=Being directed by some outside force, Lawrence found himself on a cargo ship which was smuggling some Nazis over to America. During a heavy thunderstorm, Lawrence stroke and killed all of the passengers and crew, claiming the ship for himself. On the ship, he would met the entity that had directed him to this ship, the absence of a king who wished to use both Lawrence and the ship to spread his influence. However, Lawrence would be separated from the ship, forgetting about his former life and wandering around as an homeless man.
|-|Pain=During World War II, Lawrence began wandering through war-ridden lands like Warsaw and Leningrad where preyed on countless soldiers. Arriving in Stalingrad, Lawrence killed both Nazi and Soviet soldiers, eventually meeting Nikolai. The Soviet soldier, terrified at the sight of an inhuman monster butchering any he saw, tried to ran away, only to accidentally enter Lawrence's pocket dimension. Inside it, the environment around Nikolai took the appearance of Lenin's Mausoleum where the body of Vladimir Lenin among other attendants spoke to him, telling him what Lawrence had been doing.
The pocket dimension then took the appearance of Berlin where Adolf Hitler told Nikolai that pain unified them all. Soon Lawrence himself appeared to Nikolai and just as he did with the other soldiers, he shredded the Soviet soldier, separating his consciousness from his mangled body which left Nikolai in endless pain.
|-|My Pal, Lawrence=Roaming through Eurasia, Lawrence began kidnapping young men, becoming a local urban legend known as the Soot Man. Several rumors arose around his true origin, that he was either a miner or chimney cleaner who had come back to life for revenge. Some time after the war was over, Lawrence went to Lyman's home at night where he saw his former friend through the window reading a newspaper about him. He then took out the newspaper boy, but for some reasons his killing spree stopped.
|-|SCP-5806=Some time between 1962 to 1975, Lawrence was captured by the Department of Abnormalities and locked inside a reinforced patient room inside the Flowered Acres Complete Care Center on the outskirts of Kenton, Oklahoma. There he was taken care by nurse Margaret Belford with whom he apparently fell in love, but the feeling wasn't mutual, appeared to have been treated badly from the staff which worsened his condition. He eventually escaped his room and attempted to claim her, but she resisted, forcing Lawrence to flee though he left a piece of himself in her.
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===Containment===
Eventually, the entity was captured by the SCP Foundation, being designated SCP-106. Devising containment protocols proved to be a constant challenge, as the material he secreted was highly corrosive and ate through chambers. Two were concocted, only to be thrown aside after too many containment breaches. During one such breach, 106 went to a nearby hospital to massacre the people within. A team was sent to capture the old man, but he made quick work of them, just in for the second team's arrival. Comprised of Agents Hon, Billik, Fourteen and Harken, the team went through the hospital, only for 106 to pick them one by one, starting with Billik in the surgery center where he rubbed the agent against a pile of sharp objects, ripping him apart. The three other agents attempted to flee in vain, while 106 chased them down, singing "My Bonnie Lies Over The Sea" all the time. He managed to grab Fourteen and pull her into its pocket dimension, but she managed to temporarily escape and crawl to the main admittance hall where she tried to get help from Hon and Harken. Hon went in to save her, only for 106 to jump at both of them and bring them to its pocket dimension, gently melting their bodies as they sank into the floor. Harken horrified immediately left the hospital, and soon an MTF arrived to recover 106, but found no survivors.
Agent Lament had been tasked by Dr. Gears to help in containing the old man, but one day, while he was working with his friend Researcher Sandlemyer, 106 breached containment after the repulsors failed. 106 began going after them, forcing Lament and Sandlemyer to flee while the former shot at him. They eventually entered SCP-015's chamber which made their escape more difficult as 106 got closer to them. The duo finally arrived to the exit, but as Lament struggled to open the door, 106 caught up to them and grabbed Sandlemyer by the throat just when the door finally opened. Lament sought to shoot his friend to spare him from 106's torture, but the gun was empty, leaving Sandlemyer to suffer at 106's hands. Soon after, a discovery that differing fluids seemed to confuse 106 was taken into account and adapted into the protocols; this iteration is kept to this day.
During one breach, Agent █████ was kidnapped by 106 before being released into reality two hours later. His body was extremely dry and shriveled, though he was alive for a single hour after his return.Entry Page: 106
===Treats===
During transportation on board a train on Halloween night, SCP-106's car detached; this was possibly due to Marshall, Carter, & Dark, Ltd.'s machinations. As a result, 106 breached and headed for a nearby American city. During this incident, he captured or killed many children and parents who were out trick-or-treating. 106 also killed a girl dressed like an angel, two boys named Anthony and David, and a mother and her son in their own home. Curiously, 106 did not kill Jason, who was with Anthony and David when they were attacked by him; instead, he frightened him by shattering a braced tooth of Anthony within his jaws.
106 pursued an MTF team composed of Agents Drak, Parks, and Weng through a large crowd of people. Though Parks fired several shots at 106, he managed to capture Drak within his pocket dimension. Within it, Drak was relentlessly pursued in intervals over the course of four days, chunks of flesh being ripped from Drak as he did; he presumably died from the effects as he wasn't found.
Reinforcements arrived and spotted 106 using his corrosive powers on pumpkins, managing to contain him inside the recovery chamber using two halogen "sun guns"; these were powerful enough to nearly blind two members of the party. Later, 106 expelled a large pile of teeth and bones, separating them by age. He stared at the bones like a child would with candy, before re-collecting them.Treats
=== SCP-187 ===
In Experiment-13 which involved exposing SCP-187 to 106, the latter escaped thirty seconds later. Seeing that 187 could see what his future victims would look like before he attacked them, 106 specifically targeted Foundation staff that were being observed by her. He specifically avoided harming 187 as he wished for her to be his audience. 106 was re-contained while 187 explained how he enjoyed having someone watch as he killed people.Experiment Log 187 1
=== SCP-682 ===
Both SCP-106 and SCP-953 breached containment simultaneously, and in their escape they both entered SCP-682's chamber. Planning to attack each other, the three monsters remained in a stalemate until 106 broke it by opening a portal beneath them, dragging 953 who in turn dragged 682 with her. In his pocket dimension, the three anomalies fought each other, but none were able to kill the other. After five hours, 106 allowed 682 and 953 to leave his dimension, with him returning to his own chamber without a problem.Experiment Log T-98816-OC108/682
=== SCP-978 ===
106 was photographed by a researcher with SCP-978 while he was emerging from a wall. The photo result was 106 roaming in a wheat field, approaching an old farm house where a woman in her sixties was welcoming him.SCP-978 Extended Test Logs
=== Game Day ===
When the Proponents of Paranormal Rights attacked Site-17, 106 was one of the many anomalies that breached containment. He went to kill all of the site security and when Lament attempted to contact the now dead staff 106 smiled to him at the camera. Once the chaos subsided, 106 was presumably re-contained.Game Day, Phase 1: Secure
=== SCP-2718 ===
Following O5-11 Roger Sheldon's failed attempt at convincing the O5 Council in classifying Death as an anomaly that needed to be neutralized, 106 breached containment at which point met with the Overseer. As O5-1 was planning to execute him to prevent other people of learning of his experience after dying, Sheldon willingly surrendered him to 106, opting to be forever trapped in his pocket dimension rather than dying.Entry Page: 2718
===SCP-3030===
At some point, SCP-3030-1 got hold of 106 and transported him to the SCP-3030-2-B section of Site-56, which took the appearance of a labyrinth and his containment chamber, with 3030-1 describing him as a "Review Test".Entry Page: 3030
===He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.===
On Christmas, 106 escaped and took the opportunity to transform into Santa Claus to break inside the homes of various families and individuals. From the 1,066 houses he only killed two adults. In the final home, after phasing through the small chimney, he encountered a seven years old boy named Jacob who believed him to be Santa. Continuing with the façade, 106 manifested a dog plush toy for Jacob, telling him that his mother was right about him being too young to take care of a real dog. Jacob was happy, but soon after 106 revealed his true self and dropped the poor boy into his pocket dimension. Thereafter, he was recaptured, with no Foundation personnel lost.He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
===Snap. Crackle. Pop.===
Breaching containment, 106 went after a researcher before he heard the scream of D-Class from the femur breaker. Abandoning his chase, 106 returned to his chamber, but as he was to get to the D-Class he was met with SCP-173 which killed his would-be victim. Enraged he melted some parts of the concrete statue but when he turned his back against it, 173 snapped his neck. He immediately healed and again attempted to pass his hand through the statue to destroy. To his dismay he found the concrete to be resistant to his liquid, making it hard to destroy it as the staff had trapped both of them in his chamber.
In the ensuing months, the cycle continued, 106 melting bits of pieces off 173 everytime it snapped his neck when not looked at. Eventually, only its rebar frame remained and thinking it was destroyed at last 106 turned away, only for the metallic skeleton to plunge one of its arms through his chest. This left 106 with no other choice but to also melt the metal frame, until only a pile of rust remained. Although SCP-173 was now destroyed for good, 106 was left severely traumatized by the experience.Snap. Crackle. Pop.
===A Nightmare on 17th Street===
Relocated to Site-54, 106 breached containment during Halloween. Cornered by MTF soldiers in Sector 3, 106 went to his pocket dimension to get to D-5321 hiding in a janitor's closet. However, while inside his pocket dimension, the outside reality was changed by SCP-239 into a Halloween environment. To his surprise he found himself on the porch of a small suburban home in Sunny City where he was seen by Sigurros and her friends who became terrified at his sight and immediately ran away. Seeing that he was in a secluded town celebrating Halloween, 106 took the opportunity to hunt.
Seeing a rave happening within a barn outside of the town, 106 began making his way to that location. On the road, he saw as Abe drove down the road on his truck who would've ran over him if 106 didn't descend to his pocket dimension. After Abe checked if he had hit someone, 106 appeared besides him, grabbing him and bringing him to his pocket dimension where Abe got hooked through his chest and locked inside a sarcophagus. Continuing his little trip, 106 came across Jake smoking a joint. Although a creeped out, Jake tried to compliment what he thought was a costume, but 106 just stood there staring at him, further disturbing. After Jake left to go to the barn, 106 went to his friend Franco smoking in his car. An unsuspecting Franco handed 106 some marijuana but it disintegrated in his hand. Franco poked his head out of the car's window thinking he had dropped the drug, 106 killed him by grabbing his neck. He then pierced the gas tanks of every other car in order to prevent the partying teenagers from leaving.
Getting nearer to the barn, 106 saw Maddie picking up Finn's clothes after she tricked him into skinny-dipping in a nearby pool. He got behind her, closing her mouth with his hand to prevent her alarming the other teenagers, and then killed her by taking her eyes out. Wearing Maddie's ghost sheet costume, he got into the water to trick Finn into thinking he was Maddie. Upon getting close to him, 106 revealed Maddie's eyes, shocking Finn who attempted ran away, just as 106 went to his pocket dimension. Unfortunately for Finn, he got stuck in the mud, causing him to trip and as he struggled to get up, 106 opened a portal beneath him. Getting over him 106 stomped on his head, pushing Finn into the pocket dimension where he was placed in a big fish tank where he infinitely drowned. As he was about to enter the barn, 106 saw Katie resting next to a tree after she vomited the beer she had drank, and swiftly killed her.
Noticing the rave's bouncer in a plague doctor costume being led by Vicky to the ruins of a house, and decided to follow them. There he watched on as the two teenagers had sex, and waited for them to finish before he stroke. Once they were finished, 106 melted Vicky's lower back and stomped the plague doctor to death. He then finally arrived to the barn where numerous teenagers were raving, and went around the building, staining the wood with his liquid which rotted the walls and sank the stabilizing post-holes. With that over, he climbed though an opened window and approached DJ Scravecrow from behind. He tipped the DJ on the shoulder, startling him who turned to shout at 106, only for the Old Man to ram his hand into his mouth, melting his head from the inside. Dropping the melting body on the DJ's soundboard, the music deteriorated turning everyone's attention to the Old Man. Reveling in the attention, 106 cannibalized the DJ, terrifying the teenagers who attempted to leave, only for the barn to crumble on top of them.
The other teenagers who had been standing outside, Alex, Spencer and Lance went over the rabble to help anyone still alive. They only found a wounded Ari, but when Alex and Spencer attempted to get her out, 106 grabbed her by the leg. Spencer was startled by the sight, while Alex maintained his grip on Ari, but to his dismay the Old Man overpowered him and took Ari to his pocket dimension where ferocious dogs began surrounding her. As Iris and Guy Hopper went over to Alex who git one of his legs stuck under some rubble, 106 emerged between them and turned to attack Alex. However, he was interrupted by Damien attacking him with his katana which immediately melted upon contact.
106 then sent his hand through Damien's throat, completely melting it and separating the head from the rest of the body. Before he could crush Damien's head, Porkchop shot him with his rifle, irritating the Old Man. Porkchop kept firing at him, but 106 brushed them all off and steadily made his way towards him. Realizing that his attacks were fruitless, Porkchop turned to run, only to bump into a car, causing him to drop his rifle which upon impacting the ground fired another round at Porkchop, killing him. Annoyed that he didn't get to kill him, 106 was about to resume his carnage before both Spencer and Lance returned to the scene on Porkchop's truck, hurting the Old Man with their headlights. The two boys would've collided with the Old Man if he didn't descend to his pocket dimension. After they crashed into the rubble, 106 emerged beside the car and shoved his hand through the driver's door and into Spencer's abdomen, taking out one of his organs.
Spencer opened the door to get out, falling to the ground as his upper body separated from his bottom half. Taunting Spencer, 106 ate his organ right in front of him before stomping him into a portal. Lance immediately attempted to escape, but his oversized astronaut costume caused him to trip over, giving the Old Man enough time to open a portal beneath him and take out one of his lungs. This left Lance to go into shock as he sank into the portal. With no one else to stop him, 106 slowly walked to Alex, Guy and Iris, leaving Alex to give Iris his car keys for her and Guy to escape while he kept the Old Man distracted as he was unable to walk. 106 began circling around Alex to further torment him, but as he got closer his attention went to Iris and Guy leaving on Alex's truck, giving Alex the opportunity to strike the Old Man with a iron tire. This only caused 106 to turn his gaze towards Alex as the metal melt through him, and as Alex mocked him, the Old Man went back to the pocket dimension. Soon a portal opened beneath a car near Alex, and 106's hands emerged to grab Alex's legs. Alex tried to get away from him, leading to his legs dislocating, allowing 106 to bring him to his pocket dimension where a wounded Alex was surrounded by a bloody battlefield.
With Guy and Iris being the only ones left, 106 began following them, and on the road saw that they had crashed the truck, much to his delight. Not far from the crash site, 106 came across Guy lying on the ground, having received a concussion as a result of the crash. As Guy went in and out of unconsciousness, 106 just opened a portal beneath him, bringing Guy to the pocket dimension where he was strapped to a table with the Smiling Man preparing to lobotomize him.
As Iris was the last remaining teenager, 106 pursued in a slow but steadily manner, knowing well she would be unable to evade him. However, Iris remembered that the Old Man got hurt by light, so she turned to him and took out her camera to flash him. Blinded by the light, 106 went back to the pocket dimension, giving Iris the chance to climb up Guy's car, and everytime 106 appeared from the ground she flashed him. Unable to go through the car due to the piping confusing him, 106 attempted to throw Iris off balance by destroying the tires, but thankfully she maintained her balance. Growing impatient, the Old Man opted to throw a tree on top of the car, narrowly missing Iris. As Iris fell to the ground and on her camera, along with being wounded by the tree's branches, 106 finally grabbed her and brought her to his pocket dimension. 
There she witnessed as her friends among other victims were imprisoned in environments modeled after their greatest fears and nightmares. While there she remembered who she truly was, SCP-105, and soon was met face-to-face with 106. As he stared into her, 105 used her powers over memory to reach into 106's mind through the lense of his eye, causing him immense pain. 105 entered the memory of Lawrence from before becoming the Old Man. She brought Lawrence out of his psyche, allowing 106 to return to his former more benevolent self, but unfortunately the Old Man soon began ascertaining control. Struggling for control, Lawrence implored 105 to help get rid of the Old Man, not wanting to hurt no one anymore. Sadly, she hit him with the truth that it was impossible, but asked him to use this temporary control to free everyone from the Old Man's torture. He complied and let everyone out of the pocket dimension, but before he lost himself he asked Iris to not forget about him as he used to be. 
In the next moment, as the Old Man re-ascertained himself, reality returned to how it was. Back to the janitor's closet, D-5321 ran away, but 106 remained stunned from the experience, and allowed security to bring him back to his chamber. Still stunned from his encounter with 105, all 106 could say was her name.
===Tricks===
On Halloween again, as 106 breached containment once again into the nearby woods to massacre people, he came across a woman with a child beside her after killing some teenagers. As per usual, 106 attempted to kill what he thought was a defenseless boy, only for the child to reveal itself to be SCP-2006 assisting the Foundation in capturing it.
SCP-2006 transformed into a monstrous version of an Adonis statue which terrified 106. The Old Man attempted to flee back to his pocket dimension, but was prevented by 2006 who forced him to stare into it as it transformed its eyes into mouths with uncountable teeth. This traumatized 106 so much that he became inert and the Foundation was able to easily capture him.Tricks 106 was then brought to Site-118 where he was placed the labyrinth of the Gamma Wing which he would be unable to escape from.Secure Facility Dossier: Site-118
== Personality==
As a soldier, Lawrence was very reclusive, quiet, and contemplative. He spoke occasionally of his dreams, but was otherwise rather plain in other aspects. Lawrence mumbled in his sleep, disturbing some soldiers, including a private who thought he heard the name of his daughter along with a giggle. His unit thought him cursed, as his bunkmates were all diagnosed with trenchfoot as well as his leaving of strange, musty smells within his residences. The only soldier who knew Lawrence better than anyone else was Theodore Lyman, having trained alongside each other and coming to deem themselves as brothers. Lawrence would occasionally tease Lyman by spying on him while the latter wrote letters, and often spend time together.
During the truce on Christmas, Lawrence befriended some German soldiers, finding nothing wrong with that as they were all people. After returning from the German trench, Lawrence became much more open and talkative, with a constant, noticeable smile upon his face. He seemed to ramble about various topics, including human pleasures and existential ideas. Secretly, he was left traumatized after he nearly lost his life in a bombardment that also killed the Germans that he befriended; becoming more cruel as he took a rat apart, messing with the younger soldiers and killed Dixon after watching him for days. After Lawrence was sent to the mental ward, he disturbed the staff and other patients with his rants and unsettling singing. He was deep down a good individual who was transformed against his will by the rot into a bloodthirsty monster, while Lawrence faded away. Shortly after his transformation he refused to kill Lyman and let him go, though he would later go a killing spree before stopping. When SCP-105 helped Lawrence reemerge and temporarily take over his body he begged her to help get rid of his evil persona as he didn't wish to hurt no one anymore. When he saw that there was no way to return to his former self, he helped 105 free her friends before the Old Man regained control.A Nightmare on 17th Street
As a famous Foundation doctor, he was a highly respectful, determined and pragmatic individual. He assisted the Foundation and other normalcy organizations in containing various dangerous anomalies. He held deep love for his wife and the two almost always worked together in their projects. Like other high members of the Foundation, he was forced to do some morally questionable stuff which he saw would be compensated by the results.Entry Page: 3001
After being trapped inside of SCP-3001, Scranton at first attempted to remain calm and record all his experiences into a nearby controller for his co-workers to learn about this newly discovered anomaly. Unfortunately, as years passed Scranton's psyche would completely shatter, along with his body, going completely mad as he was forced to stay alive while suffering from hunger, thirst and his body being taken apart, and even attempted to kill himself on several occasions to no avail. He found solace in the red light emitting from the module, seeing it as his only friend he named Red, and always held hope he would reunite with his wife. Finally returning to his home reality after so long, little remained of Scranton, just a completely deranged and mindless monster incapable of feeling anything anymore and cruelly killing people in order to take their body parts for himself. Still he went back to his wife, who was unable to recognize, and after a small chase he attempted to kiss her, accidentally melting her.
As the last member of his species, he was normal when compared to his brethren, being a creature of below human intelligence that saw humans as just mindless prey which he didn't particularly care if they had lives or not. He cared for his family, having fond memories of their time together, and lamenting that his whole race had gone extinct. He resented humanity for driving his species to extinction, but as time went on he began forgetting about his early life and slowly lost his drive to hunt.Once But Not Now
As 106, he is callous, sadistic, and has proven to hunt humans for pleasure, not for any form of sustenance. 106 plays with his prey, especially within his own dimension, before killing them as they lay a broken mess. His sadistic tendencies are also one of his weaknesses, as he cannot resist the allure of human suffering; especially by one whose femur was broken. During a breach on Halloween, 106 hunted down several children and parents, collecting their teeth like a child would with candy. Curiously, he did not kill a young boy named Jason; instead, he intimidated him by breaking a braced tooth of his friend, Anthony, between his jaws.
As an acolyte of the Rot, 106 served the living concept of entropy known as the Rot. Every hideous act he ever committed was all in service to the Rot, gathering countless rotting bodies at the Temple of the Rot which was located in his pocket dimension. He wished to help his master spread as much decay as possible, reveling in the death of everything that surrounded him.
== Anomalous properties==
106 resembles an old man from a distance, though from a close distance one could see that 106 had the appearance of advanced decomposition. He causes an extremely corrosive effect on all material he touches, secreting a black ichor that deteriorates most material - especially organic matter - before the effects wear off after six hours. 106 also has the capability to enter his pocket dimension from any nearby surface, such as a wall or ceiling. In his pocket dimension, he can manipulate almost any aspect of it; usually to terrify his prey before killing them.Pain He can only exit through the way he came or from the other side; noticeably, fluids seem to confuse 106 which enabled the most recent iteration of his containment procedures.
106 can remain dormant for up to three months as a luring tactic before emerging in an extremely agitated state, usually causing a containment breach and loss of site personnel. He also displayed immense jaw strength, breaking a human tooth in his mouth in an attempt to intimidate a young boy named Jason. Since his species, the Rotting Men, were known to stalk the Ways, especially those which were damaged and rotting, 106 could probably also affect the Ways.Vision At Betar
106 is not without weaknesses, however. He seems to become confused by fluids when traveling through his pocket dimension, usually stifling his teleportation. 106 can also be countered with "sun guns", which are extremely bright weapons that can be used to force him into containment. In addition, he is also privy to being baited with the pain of humans, especially when one is captured in a femur breaker.
According to the Rot, an immensely powerful being that embodied the slow death of everything, it was it that gave 106, among other Old Men, his powers in order to be turned into one of its acolytes. 106's pocket dimension was a part of the universe that acted as the realm of the Rot.
==Containment procedures==
SCP-106 must be contained in a multilayered, lead-lined steel container, suspended 60 cm (23.6 inches) from any surface with ELO-IID electromagnets. Each layer of lead-lined steel has 36 cm (14.2 inches) of space between each other, with any support struts being randomly placed. This is due to 106 being confused by complex or random assemblies of objects.
The secondary containment around the container is composed of sixteen cells, with random surfaces and supports as well as being filled with a variety of fluids. In addition, an extremely bright (80,000+ lumens) light system is installed within secondary containment, capable of activating instantly without human involvement to force 106 back to his pocket dimension. Corrosion must be reported to superiors, anyone lost to 106 or his pocket dimension are considered missing or KIA, with no recovery attempts being allowed in any circumstance. 
These measures have reduced escape incidents by 43%, which was a stark decrease from the previous electrical fluid suspension system and the original basic containment cell.
==Alternate realities==
===Cativerse ===
In a universe in which all people were sapient cats, SCP-106 was mostly the same apart that he was a cat known as "Old Tom".Nine Tales from the Cativerse
===SCP-106-J ===
See SCP-106-J.
===SCP-001-EX===
As SCP-001-EX worked to successfully contain all anomalies known to the Foundation with the risk of breaching containment being nonexistent, it ordered the O5 Council to let 106 come into contact with a mature asiatic woman and be exposed to audio recordings of her favorite stories, and after two minutes red cinnamon candies would manifest. This worked as it appeared that 106 became less aggressive and hostile, not breaching containment anymore.Entry Page: 001-EX
===Kalinin's Proposal===
106 was one of the many anomalies changed by SCP-001 in order to drive humanity away from Earth. His intelligence was increased, to the point he make full conversations with staff and form more elaborate escape attempts which proved to be successful as the Foundation's has yet to recapture him.Entry Page: 001 - Kalinin's Proposal
===Broken Masquerade===
Following a Broken Masquerade scenario in which the anomalous world became public knowledge, 106 remained in Foundation custody. After the Foundation captured the DeVorn Logistic Solutions' founder Daniel DeVorn due to his greed costing the lives of several Foundation personnel, he was sacrificed to 106, since DeVorn used to be friends with Scranton before the latter transformed into the old man.Entry Page: 3241
===On the Run===
As decades passed, 106 began suffering from malnutrition, as the remains of most of his victims became stuck in digestive system. This caused the Old Man's body to bloat and leak fat. Unable to move, 106 was placed in a vat to contain the corrosive mucus, eventually dying. While being checked by Agents Robert Malthus and Angela O'Hara, 106's obese greenish body was pulled from the sludgy, and as it got stuck in a chute it burst open, letting out its contents, including the Old Man's skeleton, to flow to the vat.On the Run
===The Coldest War===
SCP-106 was a mutated old man the Foundation had found during the Cold War. Foundation neurosurgeon Spinella was tasked with bringing the wheelchair bound old man wrapped in clothing to Site-7 from Poland. In this trip, the old man barely talked, only chuckling madly and always grinning, disturbing Spinella who could do nothing but ignore it. However, while crossing a Russian checkpoint, the old man spoke for the first time in a long while, concerning the guards who went to report them. Spinella attempted to make a run, only for the guards to knock him down.Matryoshka: Part Two
As the two guards radioed to their superiors, the old man used his powers to manifest a door out of his shadow through which Foundation operatives Juhasz, Stillwell, and Coogan were launched into them. The trio battled the Russians and after some struggle they managed to kill them. Fearing that the Soviet would soon come to see what had happened, the four operatives went to a nearby refuge, taking the old man with men as they refused to leave an anomaly for the enemies to claim.Matryoshka: Part Four
Going to a GRU-P safehouse, the four left the old man in a corner of the room while they discussed about their plan. After Sergeant Ekaterina Nechayeva of the KGB also arrived to the warehouse and asked the Foundation operatives to help in preventing GRU from using SCP-1041, the old man fully transformed into a monster and attempted to attack them all. Thankfully, Nechaveva managed to shoot him in the eye, appearing to have perished, but as the five of them left the warehouse, the old man's body disappeared.Matryoshka: Part Seven
===106 Takes Manhattan===
106 began killing people inside the Chrysler Building, prompting Doctor Strange to intervene. 106 jumped off the building to grab Strange, only to phase through him as the Doctor opened a portal to the Mariana Trench so the Old Man would forever be trapped. Unfortunately, 106 opened a portal of his own and reappeared in the Chrysler building, stealing Stranger's Cloak of Levitation which caused the Doctor to fall into his own portal and end up in the trench himself.106 Takes Manhattan
===MZL-1730===
After a FCK-Class "Freaky Friday" scenario occurred which caused the SCP staff to switch places, SCP-106 became the Assistant Director of the Department of Pain and Suffering under the name of Dr. Scranton Oldman. In his MZL Personnel Training Seminar, Dr. Oldman sought to teach new recruits about fear and suffering. In this seminar, Oldman expressed how it was unfair that the Foundation prevented him from eating children and believed a payback was deserved, before displaying a restrained Alto Clef. He explained how Foundation researchers like Clef had abused their powers to torture sapient anomalies, and his department was formed to get back at their station and former captors.
Aided by his undead assistant Anna Lang and nonexistent Red, Dr. Oldman in this seminar sought to teach the recruits the various pain centers of the human body, the psychology of horror and torment, and the steps to increase their efficacy, by starting off with driving a scalpel into Clef's head before smashing the top of his skull with a steel mallet and inserting a hydraulic speculum into his exposed brain. As Oldman puffed Clef's brain with air, he explained that this punishment was revenge for SCP-231-7's treatment, and after letting his mucus drip on Clef he finished his seminar and reminded the new recruits to stay tuned for his next one.MZL-1730 (tale)
===Containment Breach The Musical===
The Department of Multiverse Analysis had once come across a musical known as Containment Breach The Musical in which 106 was played by Hippolyta Ardson. In the story, 106 breaches containment and begins to wreck havoc around Site-19 and killing numerous staff members. Dr. Zynnia Kondraki attempted to stop him by using SCP-408, but when that failed Dr. Elias Shaw bursts in and throws a number of Safe SCPs to stop him. As this attempt also fails, 106 goes to attack Shaw, only for the latter to put SCP-1418 on him, transforming 106 into a beautiful woman. In distress, 106 sought to remove the comb but was captured just in time and brought back to his chamber.Containment Breach The Musical
===djkaktus's Proposal II===
Going to a building, 106 murdered the tenants before exiting to an alley, finding a little girl and a wounded Calvin Desmet after he fell from a fire escape. The Old Man took the girl apart right in front of Desmet who couldn't do nothing but to witness the horrific scene.Moonrise
===April Fools 2020===
SCP-106 was an old rotting predatory tree that remained motionless most of time, but would occasionally breach containment and grow straight up on walls to wait for incoming prey.April Fools 2020
===Keter Duty===
Taken by SCP-001, 106 was placed inside of SCP-3333 where he attempted to bring the creatures inhabiting it into his pocket dimension, but because of the anomaly inside the tower he always emerged inside the tower instead of his dimension. This enraged 106 who killed any inhabitant he came across, while the creatures just taunted him.Entry Page: 001 - Ihp/Locke Proposal
===Aces and Eights===
In this alternate universe which took place in the Old Wild West, the Old Man began terrorizing an obscure town from the nearby woods, preying on its citizens. The townsfolk tried to kill him everytime he appeared, to no avail as the Old Man simply brushed the attacks off. He kept on doing this for an entire decade, and the town didn't leave out of fear that he would surely follow them.
On night, a few deputies from the town went to lure him out and into a trap set by the sheriff. The Old Man soon emerged from the woods, at which point the sheriff detonated numerous dynamites. Unfortunately, the Old Man was undeterred and massacred the people present. As he finished off the last deputy, he noticed outsider journalist Iris Thompson picking up an unconscious little girl and running into a nearby saloon. The Old Man went inside the saloon to seem her out, but heard the voice of the little girl from a cabin, having just woken up and asking for her mother. He opened the cabin and grabbed the screaming child, eating her by starting with her hand. Thompson soon emerged from her own hiding spot to stop him, but in response the Old Man took a bite out of the girl's abdomen, killing her.
Alexander Elkoan soon appeared and shot at the Old Man in the head with his rifle. Infuriated, the Old Man dropped the dead child, exited the saloon and made his way to Elkoan. Elkoan kept firing at the Old Man, distracting the monster long enough for Thompson to get away. Sadly, the Old Man got up to him and took his hand and then his throat slowly killing him. When he turned to Thompson, he was met with a dynamite thrown by her which exploded right in him. It is unknown what happened to him, as he didn't appear after the event, but Thompson was convinced that he was still alive.I crawl a cracked and broken path; if we make it we can all sit back and laugh, but I fear tomorrow I'll be crying
===No Return===
106's containment measures were eventually upgraded with thaumaturgic runes that made it impossible for him to ever escape again. However, when SCP-6500 began occurring, neutralizing all anomalies universe-wise, 106, feeling his time coming to an end, opened one last portal to his pocket dimension and arrived to the deep void of space beneath the Temple of the Rot. Together with his fellow acolytes and their master they rejoiced as they were about to undergo the same slow perishment they had revered so much. Some time later, 106 and other acolytes were met with the arrival of D-11424, and witnessed as the Rot transformed him into one of them and gave him the Mouleur Foci as it saw the death potential in him due to having been cloned numerous times after death.
===SCP-6776===
After Site-19 was overrun by SCP-6776, all of the anomalies contained in it became trapped as the plant began perfectly containing them, which included SCP-106. When MTF Psi-7 "Home Improvement" blew a hole in a wall of the site to get in, 106, momentarily freed by the explosion, attacked the MTF, but was soon re-contained by 6776.Entry Page: 6776
===Rat's Nest===
Following the death of SCP-6170, 106 was one of the many anomalies affected by its death. He became even more aggressive, breaching containment and abducted numerous personnel. Meanwhile, other portals appeared throughout the site, from which hostile creatures similar to 106 emerged, each designated SCP-106-1, SCP-106-2, SCP-106-3, SCP-106-4 and SCP-106-5, aiding the Old Man in massacring people.SCP-6170-A Extended Log
===Abraka David's Proposal===
SCP-106 was just a character created by magician Abraka David. He was able to disguise himself as the old man by covering himself and others in a mixture of morphine, capsaicin and squid ink, using secret passageways behind fake walls to make it appear like he was teleporting, and the portals opening were just lemon juice painted on walls that were then heated.Entry Page: 001 - Abraka David's Proposal
== Gallery ==
File:SCP-106 old.png|The former image for SCP-106 until its replacement on 10 January 2019.
==Trivia==
*The name Lawrence could be a reference to SCP-106's fanon nickname "Radical Larry" from SCP: Containment Breach players.
*The origins of the original image depicting SCP-106 is completely unknown as Dr Gears had simply found it somewhere on 4chan or another part of the internet, and as a result it was taken down and replaced due to possibly infringing copy rights. Though the image is a mystery, it's generally agreed that it's an intricate graffiti painting.SCP-106 image origin
*When Researcher Tanhowser entered 400 yen into SCP-261 when it was powered, it dispensed a replica of 106's head composed of human skin, straw and cherry syrup. As soon as it appeared, Security guard Phillips shot at it, destroying it.Experiment Log 261 Ad De
*Researcher Wood once attempted to put 106's liquid through SCP-914 on the Very Fine setting, only for the experiment to be forcefully aborted.Experiment Log 914 - Part II When Dr. Cleveland and D-1618 put a copy of The Empire Strikes Back on the Fine setting, an exact copy of the film was produced in which the actors were replaced with humanoid anomalies, with 106 apparently being the director.Experiment Log 914 - Part VI After Guest Engineer Regas and Dr. Zavalosa put 1kg iron cube on the Very Fine setting, a living statue of 106 was created which began stalking Zavalosa before it was destroyed by Regas.Experiment Log 914 - Part X
*When Dr. Avenlee had D-9347 give SCP-702-1 a glass of both 106 and SCP-035's liquids, it gave in return a white liquid that could neutralize the two anomalies' corrosive effects.Experiment Log 702
*In the 108th episode of the web series Habil and Qabil, 106 is featured alongside other SCPs as fighters who came to challenge 682 for the title of champion.Habil and Qabil
*During testing with SCP-V1L3-J, one of the romantic stories it produced involved 106 and SCP-4666.V1L3-J Experiment Log
*SCP-7106 is a reimagined version of SCP-106.
*"A Nightmare on 17th Street" could be a reference to the film franchise A Nightmare on Elm Street, with 106's depiction in the tale being based on Freddy Krueger. During the production of "A Haunting At Site-17", 106's rot was depicted similarly to the Venom alien symbiote from Spider-Man 3.
==Meta==
===Kills===
*Private Dixon - Impaled upon barbed wire by Lawrence.
*Entire unit of the British Expeditionary Force - Killed by a wasting disease spread by Lawrence that ate at the flesh before eventually killing them.
*Eighteen men in a French mental ward - Killed by 106, teeth arranged into a spiral.
*Nikolai - Skin and body parts melted.Pain
*Margaret Belford - Melted from the inside.Entry Page: 5806
*Night guard Frank - Throat taken apart.
*Researcher Anne Lang - Killed by 106 by his corrosive effects.
*Agent █████ - Taken by 106, died from the corrosive effects.
*Agent Hon - Taken by 106, killed by being taken apart.Lost Time
*Agent Billik - Killed by being rubbed against sharp objects.
*Agent Fourteen - Taken by 106, killed by being taken apart.
*Researcher Sandlemyer - Taken by 106, neck melted.In His Own Image: Part 5
*George Maynard - Taken by 106.SCP: Containment Breach
*Many parents and costumers - Killed by 106 during a containment breach in a city on Halloween night. 
**Unidentified angel girl - Killed by 106 by his corrosive effects.
**Anthony - Sent to 106's pocket dimension, killed soon after.
**David - Impaled through the eyes by 106 and sent to his pocket dimension, killed soon after.
**Unidentified Mario boy's mother - Impaled through the torso.
**Unidentified Mario boy - Face dissolved from 106's corrosive effects.
*Agent Drak - Taken by 106, presumably died over the course of four days.
*Jacob - Taken by 106.
*SCP-173 - Destroyed by 106.
*Franco (Revived) - Neck melted.
*Maddie (Revived) - Eyes taken out.
*Katie (Revived) - Taken by 106.
*Vicky (Revived) - Stomped to death.
*Plague Doctor (Revived) - Chest melted.
*DJ Scravecrow (Revived) - Neck melted.
*All of DJ Scravecrow's attendants (Revived) - Killed by 106 collapsing a barn on them.
**Six teenagers wearing an astronaut and catgirls costumes (Revived) - Killed by 106.
*Damien (Revived) - Neck melted.
*Porkchop (Revived) - Accidentally shot himself defending himself against 106.
*Spencer (Revived) - Disemboweled and stomped to death.
*Lance (Revived) - One of the lungs taken out.
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 106
*Pockets
*Entry Page: 6500
*Treats
*Lost Time
*Entry Page: 5806
*He sees you when you're sleeping. He knows when you're awake.
*A Nightmare on 17th Street
*The Young Man
*Old Roots
*Pain
*Once But Not Now
*Until Death
*Tricks
*The Lucky Dinosaur
*A Haunting At Site-17
*Pockets
*Call Me
*Entry Page: 5888
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