Eric (SCP Foundation)

Eric is a character in the SCP Foundation mythos. He is a mysterious child or teenager who is involved in the creation of several anomalies like SCP-066. Although the character is extremely mysterious and some of his anomalies have caused harm to others, he is often written as genuinely good kid who only wants friends and be happy.
He has minor roles in "What a Wonderful World" and "Team Bird" series, and a central role in "But A Dream" series. In the site he is voiced by Oboebandgeek99.
==Biography==
(Note: Due to the universe of the SCP Foundation having no official canon, there is also no official origin or biography to Eric. The biography below is composed of several different sources of the SCP wiki, which can work together, but necessarily do not.)
Eric Herring was born to the founders of the Dr. Wondertainment company Chester Williams, an African-American owner of the company, and Maria Herring, a reality bending toymaker. From early age he was recognized as a child prodigy who inherited his parents' talents, with his first creations being displayed in the Herring Hall of Fame inside Wonder World's Wonder-Tower and was apparently a well known and respected figure in the company. Some of his creations included a living plush toy snake named Sebastian, SCP-168, a living calculator, SCP-5102, a living diary, and SCP-6080, a living cardboard box that produced VHS tapes of various cartoons that could mentally affect watchers. However, in his early childhood his mother was overprotective of him and even had him homeschooled, while his father had become somewhat abusive towards him, despite having been much kinder in the past. Because he was secluded from the outside world, his only friends were his living toys and his pet dog Jelly, but was still unhappy with his life as shown when he requested Wondertainment's SCP-4046 to see how his life would be if he was simply happy, but the microcomputer refused to work due to either not recognizing the request or Eric was too old to use it at the time.
While living with his parents in a cheap apartment, Eric would hear at night their nextdoor neighbor, a sick knitter, gagging violently. Eric told his father about this, prompting the latter to go check on their neighbor out of concern. The man after learning that he had disturbed a child decided to knit him a toy out of yarn which he infused with his bodily parts as he vomited during the process. Late at night, the man knocked on Eric's door, disturbing the child who was the only one awake. Eric reluctantly opened the door to meet the man who gifted him a mass of wool that would become SCP-066. Eric accepted the toy but before saying goodbye to the man he advised him to never grow up as he himself hated the fact he wasn't a child anymore. Eric would later grant the new toy life, causing the wool mass to become sentient and produce music. He at some point created his own entertainment magazine titled "ERICS MEGA ZINE VOL 50: THE CUTOUT ROOM", made of collages of his drawings and other magazines. In this magazine he wrote about the SCP Foundation and the various anomalies the organization had contained like SCP-173, SCP-2521, SCP-2774, SCP-040-JP, SCP-048-ARC, SCP-085, SCP-610, SCP-993, SCP-015 and SCP-087 among others. This suggests that Eric was either aware of the Foundation or unconsciously created the Foundation and the afromentioned anomalies from his imagination.
He enjoyed drawing, creating various drawings that became anomalous due to his hidden powers. Although his friends were amazed by his anomalous art, his parents were disturbed by this and had a member of Are We Cool Yet? to "fix" his drawings. This member, seeing potential to profit of the young boy's drawings, encouraged Eric to keep drawing and present his art to him. Eric at first was enthusiastic at this, but his excitement was shattered when the man expressed dissatisfaction with his drawings, telling him to get better before taking all of his drawings. The man would sell Eric's and share his profits with his parents, while exposing the boy to memetic paintings that forced him to improve his drawing skills. Even though he did improve, Eric didn't feel he improved on his own and as he was forced to keep drawing he desire to create art slowly faded and soon began hating to draw. Eventually, Eric decided to run away from home and later on would create SCP-683, a refrigerator with a drawing that removed people's organs if they attempted to remove the drawing.
As Eric grew, he discarded almost all of his toys due to forgetting them in various places and not bothering to retrieve them as he had grown out of his imagination. Unbeknownst to him, the Foundation would find several of his toys and contain them, causing the organization to go looking for Eric. Eric began spending vast amounts of time on the internet to talk to people online, although he desired to have actual friends to hang together rather than just type to each other. While roaming the hackers forums he met Jonathan Harris of the Church of Maxwellism who learned of Eric's modified cyclist helmets which allowed the wearer to have their consciousness transported to the internet. Harris manipulated Eric into making more of these helmets for him and in exchange he would become his friend. Eric complied and proceeded to create as many helmets as possible for Harris and his friends to use. However, later on Harris asked Eric for his toy raygun which could imbue objects with anomalous capabilities and even life, and although Eric was at first apprehensive of handing it over in the end he did as he was asked. Following that, Harris ceased communication and soon Eric found out that people were dying because of Harris giving them the helmets. Horrified what he had done, Eric decided to assist the Foundation in neutralizing his helmets which the organization had dubbed SCP-4688. He achieved this by sending valuable information about Harris and his Maxwellist friends who had used him, along with apologies for what he did. The Foundation was able to undo the damage done by SCP-4688, but unbeknownst to all the users were returned to their rotting bodies, unable to tell anyone they were still conscious but trapped.
Eric eventually began attending high school as a sophomore, while meeting his therapist Katherine. At first he found it difficult to fit in due to being unfamiliar with most of the other students and not knowing how to properly interact with people. However, he was eventually approached by a jock named Jake who invited him to eat together during lunch, but was stopped by two other students Martin and Liv who were seemingly at odds with Jake. As Eric began frequenting them he entered a relationship with Liv. However, while hanging out with the two and smoking weed together discovered that Martin and Jake used to be together but had broken up. Eric tried to comfort him but felt attracted to him. Eric realized that he was bisexual, but feeling more attracted to Martin decided to break up with Liv. Unfortunately for him, after breaking up with Liv Eric discovered that Martin and Jake had gotten back together. To make things worse, his father had went through his journal and discovered that Eric was bisexual, causing him to throw Eric out of their home, but not before Eric got hold of Jelly. Outside on the streets he met with Jake who upon learning what had transpired offered Eric to stay at his house, but refused due to believing that he messed everything up and his friends hated him. Jake assured him that Martin and Liv were still his friends and insisted that Eric stay at his home for the time being. Later that night, Eric explained to Jake the situation between him and both Martin and Liv, expressing how he felt jealous of him, but Jake understood Eric and assured he had no hard feelings towards him and considered Eric his friend. Feeling overwhelmed from the situation he found himself in Eric decided to run away from everyone in order to regain his senses. Before leaving he left letters for Jake, Martin, Liv and his mom, telling them he would be alright and that he was sorry for how things turned out. For this father however, he left a letter insulting him along with SCP-1248, a Walkman recording device that allowed the user to get the memories of the person who recorded themselves with it, in order for his father to see things from his perspective, since his father was actually angry with his own failure and had been lashing out at Eric.
Eric eventually gained new friends, Tobias, Sherry, Oliver, Riley and Rachael and apparently had improved his relationship with his father. While hanging out together they decided to go to a theater to watch some play. However, the play they decided to watch was SCP-701, a play that caused everyone involved to go mad and slaughter each other. After the Ambassador of Alagadda manifested itself as part of the play, everyone attending the play, which included Eric and his friends, as expected went mad and began attacking each other, with Eric even killing a few of his friends himself. Fortunately, he was able to regain his senses and realize the horror that was happening around him. He attempted to escape but was stopped by the Ambassador itself. Thankfully, Nobody was there to intervene and help Eric by shoving him through the exit. After escaping the chaos, Eric made his way to the nearest hospital as he had been gravely wounded. He remained at the hospital for five days, thinking back about the horrible experience, being haunted by sight of the Ambassador and his friends dying, while his father was there to comfort him. On the fifth night he awoke from his nightmare about the Ambassador, and found his rescuer the Nobody checking on him through a nearby window. After making sure that Eric was doing alright, Nobody quickly left just as he appeared, while Eric felt comforted by his presence and was slowly able to get over the experience.
Following SCP-6080's battle against their trauma that came from their mistreatment from their previous owner after Eric, a grown up Eric was there to support them and help to readjust themselves. They relocated themselves on the Mnemosyne Expanse near their old home and went to a nearby playground to pass some time. There the two decided to send the Foundation a message and so Eric began recording SCP-6080 in their humanoid form. SCP-6080 explained how they were now in a much better place where they could grow up like a normal child after getting over their past and they understood that the Foundation meant well. After sending the recording to the Foundation, Eric presumably began taking care of his old friend.
Eric at some point began working for the Foundation and climbed through the ranks, possibly becoming even a member of the O5 Council. With his new position, Eric went to reunite with SCP-168 in its containment chamber. SCP-168 was glad to be finally reunited with its owner and suggested that Eric should also visit SCP-066 as it had also missed him. After Eric promised to come back to visit it, he left the chamber to continue his work for the Foundation.
==Appearance==
Not much is known about Eric's appearance apart that he resembles an ordinary male teenager as seen in photos of SCP-066 and SCP-168 produced by SCP-978. In "ERICS MEGA ZINE VOL 49: AN INTERMISSION TO KEEP YOU HANGING", Eric drew himself as a Caucasian kid with black curly hair and wearing a blue shirt.
==Personality==
Eric was a very creative, imaginative and intelligent kid who loved doing various projects with his stuff but longed for friends as he didn't have any during his childhood. His only friends were the family dog and his living toys whom he loved dearly. Since he was isolated from the outside world because of his overprotective mother, Eric was quite naive and inexperienced with life, not knowing how things actually worked and being easily manipulated by others who promised to be his friends in exchange for his creations. Eric appears to be insecure and somewhat of an introverted and unfocused person, and was possibly even depressed as he had no real friends along with his father not respecting his privacy and often yelling at Eric over small things, which led to him going to a psychiatrist. Eric would later abandon his toy friends, dismissing them as nothing more than imaginary friends who were never alive in the first place, despite the opposite being true. This lead to him unintentionally abandoning his friends, causing some of them to try to get back to him, others resenting him for mistreating them, and the rest simply moving on from him.
==Powers and Abilities==
Eric is a smart kid who is capable of bringing his toys to life, along with creating some other anomalous objects. It is believed that he could achieve this through the use of his reality bending powers which he seemingly inherited from his mother. However, it is later shown that he used a toy raygun to bring the toys to life, meaning that he can only create anomalous toys and objects which can function differently from each other. His MEGA ZINE seems to suggest that he either possessed knowledge on the Foundation and the anomalies they've encountered or he unconsciously created them all simply from his imagination and dreams.
== SCPs associated with Eric ==
==Gallery==
Eric draw.jpg|Eric's self-portrait from "ERICS MEGA ZINE VOL 49: AN INTERMISSION TO KEEP YOU HANGING".
Scpride.jpg|Eric among other LGBTQ+ characters.
Eric herring.jpg
==Trivia==
*Eric was introduced in SCP-066 which is one of the few SCPs whose real authors are unknown after their import into the SCP Wiki.
*In "The Leak" forum thread the author of SCP-066's rewrite and SCP-1248, Communism will win, explained that Eric was a reality bender who did drugs and referred to SCP-066 as Mr. Fuzzy.
*Eric like other notable recurring characters has a character tag of his own for all of the articles he appears. However, for a time his tag had been deleted by the staff in order to make him more mysterious, but the tag was soon added back.
*When answering a question to Eric_h, Lord Blackwood revealed that he had met with Eric and his artifact collection, at which point Eric_h also revealed that Eric was his great-uncle.
*Had the "But A Dream" series continued as originally intended, it would have been revealed that the Eric who wrote the MEGA ZINE was a real life person who imagined all of the SCP Foundation universe, while the Eric who owned the anomalous toys was his representation in the fictional world.
*Due to the lack of canon, details about Eric greatly contradict each other, especially when it comes to his parents as their depictions in tales ranged from loving and supporting to abusive who Eric cut contact at different points in his life.
==External Links==
*Eric on the SCP One Canon Project Wiki
*Eric on the SCP Database Wiki 
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