Alto Clef/Synopsis

History and its interpretations of Dr. Alto Clef from the SCP Foundation wiki.
(Note: Due to the lack of canon in the universe of the SCP Foundation, there are several versions of Clef. They are described below.)
== Common ==
=== Possible Origins ===
==== SCP-4231 ====
Francis Wojciechoski was a human reality-bender born around 1961, living in the town of North Access, Cornwall, England. He was conceived by an old long-lived witch known as Lady Agora who raised him all on her own due to his father's death, telling him to never use his powers and apparently homeschooling him as well, until she was forced to abandon him. When he was a child, Francis met a fellow reality-bender named Lilly and the two became friends as they grew up together. As they grew up, they would they recreate scenes from Poltergeist, change the channels on the radio with their minds, and bend pennies without touching them, which eventually led to them becoming a couple.
However, due to them being reality-benders Lilly became increasingly more uncaring and egotistic as they matured. She became worse after finding a translated copy of the Erikesh Codex left from Francis' mother, learning about the evil god known as the Scarlet King who she soon came to worship. As a result, Lilly became cruel and abusive towards Francis, constantly arguing with him over their finances, berating, insulting and mocking him for his appearance and inability to satisfy her sexually. She would gaslight him into thinking he was extremely lucky to have her, and occasionally raped him, leaving Francis heavily scarred from the experience. Since Francis didn't open up about it to anyone, he failed to realize that what Lilly was putting him through was torture, believing that the pain he was experiencing was normal and his fault, and continued loving her despite all of this.
Lilly proceeded to use her powers to alter their building to include a large underground cellar in which she created a shrine dedicated to the Scarlet King, and soon captured and imprisoned six girls to turn them into effigies of her god's brides through torture, while Francis was completely unaware of all of this. The girls became pregnant with the Scarlet King's spawn, but because Lilly also tortured Francis he became an effigy of the Scarlet King's first bride as well, resulting in Lilly herself becoming pregnant with a Scarlet Spawn which she named Meri.
=== Global Occult Coalition ===
In 1981, Francis was recruited by the Global Occult Coalition, quickly rising through the ranks and becoming one of the best operatives under the title of Agent Ukulele. As a Strike Team leader, he fought against several anomalies like Dr. Wondertainment's mascot LTE-7433-Goodrick-Kringle, a monstrous beast KTE-5988-Red, an alien disease KTE-7859-Silver, a mutant human KTE-0467-White and a frog-human hybrid KTE-9245-Pink. At some point he also went after Aleksander Foxx's family back when he was just a kid, but only managed to kill the boy's mother. Francis kept his employment from the GOC a secret from Lilly, but she became suspicious of his daily absences and would demand him to tell her the truth, and when he lied that he didn't know what she was talking about she would try to beat the truth out of him to no avail.
As Francis let out his anger on the targets the GOC set him against, Francis began to slowly dissociate his self from his Agent Ukulele identity, becoming a completely different person everytime he worked in the GOC. In his line of work, Francis secretly observed each member of the SCP Foundation's O5 Council, gaining information regarding each Overseer's past and true identity, writing it all in his journal that came to be known as "Swallowed Tail". This journal would later on fall into the possession of future Chaos Insurgent Calvin Lucien which he would use to assassinate the entire council. Francis was eventually assigned to be part of the GOC's Ichabod Campaign, a planned genocide off all reality-benders, which he eagerly accepted.
Having developed a hatred towards his own kind due to Lilly's abuse, Francis had no problem killing countless reality-benders, regardless if they were adults or children, seeing them all as selfish monsters which plagued the world. In 1988, Francis and his team were in Salem, Oregon to take out a reality-bending girl named Sophie who had ran away after she accidentally scared people with her powers. They managed to snipe her, but found that she was in the company of Icky the Magic Clown and the Man with the Upside-Down Face of Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting, and decided to go after them. Manny managed to hide himself, while Icky proceeded to slaughter every GOC member, except for Francis who was forced to use his powers to protect himself. Despite Icky's best efforts, Francis was able to evade her attacks, but fortunately for her before he could kill her she tricked him into letting Manny affect his mind. Using Francis' horrible memories of Lilly, Manny caused him to break down, allowing him and Icky to escape, but not before manipulating his memories to make Francis forget about them. After completing his missions, Francis called Lilly on telephone to know if she and their daughter were alright, but she immediately began insulting him, causing Francis to cry and the Agent Ukulele persona to overtake and block his painful memories.
On August of 1989, Lilly went into labor which coupled with her powers caused the entire town to be flooded. The GOC took notice of this and believing this was the work of a Nature Goddess trying to execute a devastating ritual, planned to liquidate her. Fearing for the safety of his lover and child, Francis went rogue and left the GOC to protect his family. In their home, Francis helped Lilly to deliver their daughter, ignorant that the water outside turned hot and began boiling the citizens and a GOC squad alive. Lilly successfully gave birth to a baby girl and upon looking at his daughter for the first time, Francis was so overwhelmed with happiness and joy that he couldn't help himself but imagine a world in which Lilly became kindhearted, together they would raise their daughter and be a happy family. Francis soon came to his senses and came to accept that Lilly wouldn't redeem herself and she would most likely mistreat and corrupt Meri like she did with him. Unwilling to let her harm their daughter, Ukulele replaced Francis and after giving the newborn to her he took the shotgun from the place he had hidden while she was distracted. Noticing the destruction she brought, Lilly attempted to tell Francis something but in that moment he shot her in the head, killing her.
He took his crying daughter and attempted to flee from the house, but because the building had been fundamentally altered due to the imprints he and Lilly had left, the staircase stretched for so long it took him days to finally exit. By the time he finally got out, the SCP Foundation had arrived to contain the incident, and noticing him the Foundation agents attempted to capture him. Francis tried to flee, but as his capture was imminent he left Meri in a secluded Catholic monastery known as Our Lady of Mercy Convent in County Galway, Ireland before allowing the Foundation to contain him. He was brought to a Foundation site where the personnel attempted to heal his injuries, but because of the trauma he went through he subconsciously reinflicted those injuries to himself. After stabilizing him, the Foundation attempted to question him, but Francis was highly uncooperative, using his powers to prevent the cameras from recording his face and constantly being distracted. Having learned from other sources what apparently had happened, the Foundation saw the usefulness in Francis and made a deal to unofficially revoke his SCP designation, allow him to go to different colleges to give him proper education and employ him as a Foundation doctor.
=== SCP Foundation ===
Francis began working in the Foundation's Site-19 where he assisted in the training of future Mobile Task Force operatives and there he befriended his fellow colleagues like Dr. Kondraki, Agent Strelnikov, Dr. Gears, Prof. Pathos Crow, Dr. Cimmerian, Dr. Shaw, Dr. Glass, Dr. Rights and Dr. Light.
In summer of 1992, as the funds of Site-87 in Sloth's Pit, Wisconsin were being drained by the Crimataphagi, creatures resembling dollar sacks that ate money, the administrative center sent Francis to act as a liaison between the two sites and help with problem. He met with Dir. Nina Weiss, Dr. Tyler Bailey and head of accounting Jerome Brisby, but as the three discussed about means to counteract the losses, Francis had his own idea and went outside the site to organize a bake sale, manifesting delicious food to sell and garner money. However, he was immediately confronted by Weiss accompanied by MTF Sigma-10 who demanded to know what he was doing. Francis simply stated that he was helping earn money by selling pastries to the residents which so far had been going pretty well. Frustrated, Weiss left Francis do his job in the company of a sentient enormous four-eyed cat while she went to call Site-19.
After talking to Site-19's director, Site-87's personnel found that the potato salad Francis had manifested was abnormal and quickly contained it, while Francis kept overseeing the bake sale and as he played his ukulele the cat keeping him company began referring to him as Alto Clef which he ran with it. When it was discovered that the potato salad was actually a red herring fish, the Crimataphagi appeared outside the site and were immediately slaughtered by Clef's cat. Despite the creatures responsible for eating their money were now taken care of, Weiss injected Clef with a drug to suppress his powers and his fractured mind. Temporarily returning to his former self he apologized for the incident and soon returned to Site-19.
In the days leading to the 2000 election day, it was discovered that a extradimensional entity had attached itself to the Vice President Al Gore and sought to make him the new president in order to bring its entire species to Earth. Clef and Crow analyzed the entity, designating it SCP-4444, and the extent of its powers, finding out that it was almost impossible to contain it without harming Gore. In the meeting between the Foundation and the Unusual Incidents Unit held at the Pentagon, Clef and his co-workers relayed their discoveries to the rest of the attendants, coming to the conclusion that the only way to prevent the invasion was for Al Gore to lose to his opponent by rigging the elections. The problem was mostly resolved thanks to Shaw in the body of George Bush winning the elections, though SCP-4444 still remained at large.
Helping Dr. Gunsther with archiving some of the latter's old files, Clef and him came across the file of SCP-342, a ticket for the holder to use it on a public transit and causes the user to be unable to exit the vehicle before completely disappearing. After discussing the history of Gunsther's failed experiments with SCP-342 which needlessly costed several lives, he and Clef went to watch Repo! The Genetic Opera alongside Rights and Kondraki. However, as they entered the theater, Clef noticed Gunsther becoming concerned when presenting his own ticket and told Clef to go ahead and reserve a place for him. Gunsther arrived shortly after, but Clef saw that he remained distressed throughout the show, but chalked it up to the opera's subjects. Following that, the doctors decided to drink to a nearby bar, except for Gunsther who told them it was time for him to go. Before boarding onto a taxi cab he handed Clef an envelope, telling him to keep it safe, thanking him for the great evening they just had and bid him farewell. Opening the envelope Clef discovered SCP-342 inside it, and realizing what had happened went to the direction Gunsther's taxi took, only to be met with a brick wall. Grieving the loss of his friend, Clef requested for SCP-342's file to be permanently closed and no further experiments involving it were to be taken.
During testing with SCP-447, the personnel assigned to the testing ambushed Clef in the hallway and immersed him in a bathtub filled with SCP-447-2. Clef became furious at this and threatened to kill them all, but decided not to for now due to the experimental protocol. When the staff attempted to cross-test SCP-447-2 with the ashes of a dead body, the experiment was immediately aborted by Clef as the ashes also counted as a dead body which should never be near SCP-447. After the staff submerged SCP-999 in SCP-447-2, causing it to completely cure depression, it was suggested to keep doing this cross-test to turn 999 into an antidepressant, only for Clef to turn the suggestion down. After the staff submerged a katana in SCP-447-2, Clef quickly confiscated it before it could be used for harm. After a vial of 30 days old SCP-447-2 was submerged in more SCP-447-2, creating SCP-447-3, Clef took the vial to conduct his own experiments with it. When two $1 dollars were each submerged in SCP-447-2 and SCP-447-3 respectively, a US $100 bill and a US $2,500 bill were created. Clef prevented the latter from being used outside the site and warned the staff to not further improve SCP-447-3.
In their attempts at neutralizing SCP-682, Clef was forced inside 682's chamber. Surprisingly 682 didn't attack him and just stared at him, Clef doing the same. As the two stared at each other, Clef requested to be let out and after his requests were ignored he steadily placed a plastic bomb to the door. Upon destroying the first set of doors the second doors closed due to emergency lockdown. The two maintained their state before Clef managed to escape. After Guest Researcher Dr. W introduced two children to 682 to see if he could replicate the results from the cross-test with SCP-053, the monster unsurprisingly devoured the children. Disgusted by this, Clef had Res. W fed to 682, deeming him a sadistic moron. However, in an alternate account, Guest Researcher Leah Way had been killed by agents after she learned something she shouldn't have from 682, while Francis' alter ego was blamed for her death.
In his line of work, Clef became concerned over and distrustful of SCP-239, and one day after she brought a dead bird to life Clef admonished her over this action, threatening to kill her. Because of this, SCP-239 began fearing him, which possibly intensified Clef's hatred of her due to her allegedly affecting everyone around her subconsciously into changing their personalities to the way she saw them. Eventually in 2008, Clef decided that it was time to kill 239, since despite posing a threat to the world almost all of the personnel assigned to her adored her, coming to the belief she was using her powers to make them her friends against their wishes. Equipping himself with SCP-1023-ARC, Clef sent a report to the O5 Council, explaining his plan to kill 239. Unfortunately for him, he sent this message en clair which allowed the Site-17 staff to learn about his intention to kill 239 and prepared to prevent him from going through with his murder.
Figuring out his time to act was limited, Clef arrived at Site-17's entrance, shooting the present agents with tranquilizers, but as he entered he noticed the walls changing. At first Clef believed this was because of 239's manipulation but soon figured it was just an illusion formed by SCP-408, Kondraki's illusionary butterflies. Kondraki himself then arrived accompanied by three copies of himself conjured by 408 equipped with an anomalous camera. Clef tried to shoot him, but ended shooting at an illusion while Kondraki used his camera to blind and burn Clef. Clef managed to quickly recover and took out Site-17 Security Team Bravo after the latter had been turned by 239 into a group of knights. He proceeded to enter the chamber of a wood nymph designated SCP-091-ARC and hugged her, causing his body to be infected with plant life and grow flowers from his body which began producing a pheromone that knocked SCP-408 out.
Clef was then confronted by SCP-336 with whom he had possibly been in a relationship in the past. She tried to convince him to abandon his plan of killing 239, but after seeing that Clef was determined to get the job done she decided to stop him by ordering him to tell her the truth. Clef tried to retaliate by damaging his own ears before attempting to shoot SCP-336 with his shotgun. As he recovered, the flowers grown from his body withered and died, allowing 408 to regain consciousness and swarm Clef. As he made his way down Hallway G-7, Clef encountered SCP-547-D who attempted to use his elemental powers to stop him. This caused all flammable objects to be set on fire as temperature rose, creating a thick smoke. In the smoke, Clef shot SCP-547-D at the chest and head, killing him and clearing the smoke.
Eventually, Clef came across Dr. Bright who had been compelled to carry a satchel containing SCP-018 and SCP-776-ARC to Site-17, killing him and taking the latter anomaly for himself. He then used SCP-776-ARC to completely freeze Hallway G-8, cutting Sector 7 off from the rest of Site-17, before making his way to 239's cell. There he finally found her, but in the company of Gears and Kondraki, the latter immediately taking his sword from his camera tripod to engage in a fight with Clef. Having run out of ammunition, Clef took out SCP-1023-ARC and fought Kondraki, asking why he was protecting 239. Kondraki pleaded Clef to stop it as they both didn't want to kill anyone, but Clef told him he had no choice due to 239 subconsciously affecting him.
In that moment, 239, under the instructions of Gears, launched a "magic missile", a high-energy plasma bolt, at Clef, breaking his sword. Clef attempted to retreat, but in that moment Crow riding SCP-244-ARC broke through the ice barrier. Having told 239 that the reason Clef was acting in this hostile manner was due to being possessed by an evil force known as the "Great Darkness", Gears had her purge the malevolent creature from Clef. A mass of black light came out of Clef and took the form of a dragon which broke through the roof of the atrium and began wrecking havoc. As Kain fought the dragon, Kondraki grabbed Clef's unconscious body and with 408's help managed to escape. Following the incident, Clef was taken into custody and was suggested to contain him as an anomaly.
A day later, Kondraki interviewed Clef, wanting to know why exactly he took such actions and how he was able to do such things. Clef tried to feign ignorance, but Kondraki demanded Clef to tell it to him straight. Clef proceeded to tell Kondraki that he was in actuality the Devil or Adam who had cast humanity out of Eden and wanted to kill 239 due to her being God. Kondraki was stunned, only for Clef to take it all back and tell him he was lying as per usual, though he left it ambiguous if he was actually lying or not. Furious Kondraki attacked Clef, causing the latter to fall off his chair. Kondraki then bashed Clef's head nine times against the corner of the desk, resulting in the fracture of his skull and his neck being snapped, leaving Clef paralyzed.
Three months after being rendered paraplegic, Clef was approached by Gears who told him that the O5 Council was willing to heal him through the use of SCP-427 and restore him to his Clearance Level 4 if he helped decommission SCP-531. Clef accepted the deal and upon being healed requested the help of Kondraki's 408 for his plan to kill 531. Making up with each other, the two formed Operation: Spoil the Rod which involved Clef playing to SCP-531 Elvis Presley's "You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog" that was secretly altered with SCP-061, a music program that convinces the brain to stop all thought and allows the body to follow commands, that command being to go to sleep, transporting both of them to Location 9 at Mare Imbrium on the Moon through SCP-120 where they would be placed within a thin, airtight glass cell planted with explosives disguised as 531's cell by 408.
Putting their plan into motion, Clef entered 531's chamber, interrupting the latter's attempt at raping Dr. Rebecca Flanders which greatly infuriated him. Clef forced Flanders out and introduced himself to SCP-531 as the new head researcher assigned to him. Sitting in front of 531, Clef began playing the song, causing both of them to go to sleep and allowing MTF Sigma-6 to pass them through SCP-120 to Location 9. Waking up in the glass cell that 408 made it appear like 531's chamber, Clef conversed with the young reality-bender, talking about 531's Xbox which was the signal for him to be replaced by an illusion of him and prepare for the detonation of the bombs. Leaving the kill zone, Clef kept talking to 531 from afar, eventually devolving into insults which angered the reality-bender. In that moment, Kondraki and Clef dropped the illusion and exploded the cell, exposing 531 to outer space which proved to finally kill him. With their plan a success, Clef and Kondraki began drinking beer together on the moon. As they drank, Kondraki asked Clef what he was exactly, and he replied that he was also a reality-bender who had locked his powers and turned himself into a reality-sink, but the former didn't believe any of it which the latter didn't mind.
With SCP-531-D's decommissioning being a success, Clef was allowed to decommission another anomaly he saw as problematic. He came across SCP-316, a human with a healing factor, and decided to interview him. The interview went surprisingly well as Clef took a liking to 316, but it was this moment that made Clef realize that 316 had the power to make everyone around him like him as Clef never liked anyone at first sight. To prove this hypothesis, he had Kondraki fight 316 in a friendly fencing battle which ended in 316 winning. Despite losing the battle Kondraki enjoyed the battle and commemorated 316's skills, which confirmed Clef's suspicions as Kondraki was a sour loser and never admitted defeat. Clef saw this as enough of a reason to decommission SCP-316, and wanting to avoid the same mistake he did with 239 he recruited the help of Dr. Gibbons, Assistant Director Iceberg, Agent "Catdrake", Agent "Butler" and Dr. Palmer. As part of his plan, Clef went to fight 316 with his sword before he was joined by his accomplices except for Palmer and Iceberg. As 316 recovered from the battle, Palmer in the role of the sniper shot at him, allowing Clef to make his next move. Furious over being manipulated, Clef used a pneumatic hammer to drive a railroad spike into 316's brain, heart, spine and testicles. As those body parts failed to regenerate completely, Clef hid 316's body within a compartment in NASA's Hermes space probe which was sabotaged to crash into the sun, eliminating any possibility of 316 resurfacing.
On September 19th of 2008, as the Foundation's Site-43 began accumulating too many instances of SCP-6121, a series of fifty living humanoids resembling empty mascot costumes that appeared out of nowhere in major public events held in Canada and resembled the events' major mascots but behaved differently from the characters they portrayed, the O5 Council send Clef to the site as a Special Counsel to discuss with the local staff about the anomaly. Discussing it with Drs. Allan McInnis, the All-Sections Chief, Harold Blank, Trevor Bremmel, Xinyi Du, Delfina Ibanez, Émilie LeClair, Lillian Lillihammer, I. Mitchum, Michael Nass, Noè Nascimbeni, Nhung Ngo, Udo Okorie, R. Ullis, Eileen Veiksaar and Noor Zaman, Clef tried to argue that Site-43 was unable to properly contain SCP-6121, and despite a few of the personnel trying to object Clef convinced the Council to transfer the anomalous creatures to Site-19. Upon their arrival to the site, Clef with the approval of the Council proceeded to decommission all of the SCP-6121 instances via a blowtorch. However, they soon regenerated completely, prompting Clef to use other means to kill them but all of them failed. Seeing that SCP-6121 were immortal, Clef saw use in them and decided to train the living mascot costumes to turn them into his secret assassin squad which he nicknamed CAPSLOCK CREW.
His daughter was eventually rediscovered by the Foundation when an individual visiting the monastery saw her and reported it to the authorities. Fearing the GOC tracking her down to kill her, Clef had the Foundation contain her for her safety, divulging valuable information he had gathered from his time under the employment of the GOC. After she was successfully contained without a problem at Biocontainment Zone C at Site-19 and designated SCP-166, Clef would attempt to make her stay as pleasant as possible and try to talk to her directly, but almost always faced opposition from Dr. Light and the Council, deeming it inappropriate for an anomaly to be granted too much liberty.
During Halloween, SCP-239 wanting to celebrate altered reality into a Halloween environment. In this alternate reality Clef lived in a house in Daleport, with the door being the same as SCP-2317, but otherwise was left unaffected and knew exactly what was going on. As 239 and her friends Fiona, Stella and Cindy went trick-or-treating, they went to Clef's house to get some candies. Clef confronted her, perplexed by 239 still coming to meet him despite all the bad rumors about him. She explained that she didn't believe he was a bad man and deep down he was actually good, but he told her that she was naive to believe everyone were good, including him. He then proceeded to stab her with SCP-668, returning things to normal and leaving 239 back in her medically induced coma. Having missed Site-17's annual Halloween party, Clef decided to go to the facility's roof to watch the sunrise. There he was joined by Kondraki and together began shooting at various decorative pumpkins while laughing along.
Clef was visited in his office by Doctor Lorenzo with the request to look over Director Janice Valentine's decision to have SCP-784, formerly known as MTF Omega-7's Agent Adrian Andrews, work with MTF Delta-9 despite the anomaly being highly aggressive and unpredictable. Annoyed by this request, Clef told Lorenzo to cut his middle finger if he was certain about it. Lorenzo did so and demanded Clef to do something about this situation as he feared that a disaster would soon strike. Clef checked Andrews' chamber and the revised containment procedures and despite Dir. Valentine's suspicious behavior, deemed things under control and didn't give any more thoughts on it. During the chaos caused by Kondraki riding 682 to decommission SCP-083-D, Andrews managed to breach containment due to Valentine having entered his chamber to pleasure herself, killing almost all of Delta-9 while a separate piece of himself took over Valentine's body. Clef managed to destroy the main body of Andrews by using a HERF grenade, and once that was over he went to the infirmary where he found Andrews inside Valentine's body using his nanomachines to heal his lover Beatrix Maddox. Clef decided to let them escape as he was needed to help with Kondraki's rampage and promised to let them live in peace if Andrews got rid of all his nanites.
Some days following the containment breach, Clef and a Foundation team were sent to track down and kill both Andrews and Maddox. Finding them near a lake in Tuscany, Italy, one of the snipers swiftly killed Maddox, while Clef confronted Andrews. Andrews attempted to retaliate by disemboweling Clef, feeling angry over him breaking their promise and killing Maddox, but Clef simply told him that no one was innocent in this world. Seeing that he was going to die anyway, Andrews spared Clef but told him that he was a pathetic man who hid his true nature by mistreating others, and allowed the Foundation agents to take him out. With his mission complete, Clef returned to his usual routine, but was plagued by Andrews' words which led to him thinking of ending his life before deciding not to and continue with his work.
Having worked relentlessly hard for the Foundation, psychologist Dr. Glass requested that both Strelnikov and Clef take a deserved vacation to Brazil which would be paid by the organization. Although the two were reluctant to take the days off since they enjoyed their work, Strelnikov and Clef accepted and prepared themselves to go to the airport. However, before Clef could go to the airport, Are We Cool Yet?'s Friday Exhibition turned into a disastrous catastrophe after serial killer Pico Wilson dosed his pile of dead bodies with a stolen amount of SCP-447-2. After the incident was resolved and several anartists were taken into custody, Clef brought into his office the recently amnesticized Agent Green who had greatly helped in containing the situation. He informed Green of what happened since he was forced to forget about most of the incident, before closing their conversation by congratulating Green for doing his job well and leaving him to interrogate the captured AWCY? members.
At the airport, as they waited for their plane to get ready, Clef and Strelnikov got drunk at the airport's bar and remained there until noticing that everyone else had left due to being late. They got into the plane and during the journey, Clef passed time by hitting on a stewardess named Lucy. However, the plane was suddenly hijacked by a trio of Chechen terrorists and as they held every passenger at gunpoint one of them found Strelnikov in the bathroom and forcefully brought him out of it. Strelnikov acted quickly and killed two of the terrorists, leaving the third one who threatened to blow up the plane with his grenade. With Lucy's help, Clef took out the terrorist and grabbed hold of the grenade.
Remembering that they needed to have a relaxing uneventful vacation, Clef told Strelnikov they needed to leave as to not be associated with this incident and be found out by Glass. Knocking out the stewardess, the duo got her keys and accessed the baggage compartment to get their stuff before leaving. Strelnikov refused to jump out of the plane without a parachute, and instead opted to wait near the plane's wheels and jump out when the hatch opened during the landing. As the plane was landing on a abandoned military base due to having been misdirected by the terrorists, Clef and Strelnikov jumped out through the wheels' hatch and immediately got out of there and into the road. Being left stranded in the middle of nowhere the duo found out that they were in Texas and having no vehicle to move through decided to go hitchhiking. Eventually a couple of Texan rednecks driving a truck stopped besides the duo and began making fun of their outfits and manner of speech. Angered by their attitude Clef and Strelnikov beat up the Texans and stole their truck.
Unfortunately, their newly acquired truck soon gave in, frustrating both of the Foundation personnel who bickered with each other for a bit. Soon they were approached by a car carrying three beautiful women who seeing that the two men were having a problem with their truck invited them to ride along. The two men eagerly accepted, immediately getting in their car and on the road they flirted with the women while drinking the lemonade they were offered. Unbeknownst to them, the trio were undercover GOC agents who were alerted of Clef and Strelnikov by Lucy who was also an undercover agent, and had infused the drinks with sedatives which quietly knocked the duo out. Clef and Strelnikov awoke tied up to chairs and confronted by three GOC men who wanted to interrogate the duo on suspicions that they were after them. Clef and Strelnikov admitted that were just going for a vacation but had accidentally gotten mixed up in this mess, confusing the agents as they revealed that they had also captured Agent Yoric who was being held inside a GOC base in Brazil.
At first, Clef and Strelnikov pretended they didn't know Yoric but later managed to break free of their restrains and take out the GOC agents. They then stole their seaplane to go to Brazil where they rescued Yoric and together proceeded to properly experience their vacation, spending the Foundation's funds on drinks and hooking up with numerous women. Once the vacation was over, the three personnel were confronted by Glass who was furious over the fact that they extended the vacation for more days than was originally planned and wasted high amounts of money. When the trio told Glass what had happened, he didn't believe any of it as he deemed the story too ridiculous, until Clef, Strelnikov and Yoric took out of their pockets newspaper headlines about the incidents they were involved which supported their claims.
While conversing with Strelnikov in Site-17, after sending his new assistant, Agent Andrea Adams, to fetch them a few drinks, the site was attacked by the Proponents of the Paranormal Rights. This forced both Clef and Strelnikov to act fast to minimize the containment breach, but were soon confronted by the attackers. Strelnikov fought the enemies and although he and Clef were able to take them down, the duo were left heavily injured. Luckily, Adams found them and quickly took them both to the Infirmary 12 of Site 24 where they recovered. There he was visited by Kondraki and as they talked, Kondraki mentioned Dr. Edison attempting to help with the incident but failing spectacularly. Although Kondraki found it hilarious, Clef on the other hand felt bad for Edison, believing it was his and Kondraki's fault for the young doctor's actions. Clef clarified that because of their unusual behavior and the over-the-top actions they took had inspired the younger personnel to try emulate them, and told Kondraki that they were being bad examples. Kondraki didn't care about any of what Clef said, being convinced that it was all Edison's fault for what happened to him and not really caring what he himself did.
Clef and Kondraki eventually entered in a relationship with each other and began hanging out in the ensuing days. One evening, Kondraki called Clef over to his apartment due to a private problem he was having. Thinking that Kondraki was about to admit he had hemorrhoids, Clef was shocked to see that his boyfriend had somehow gotten his penis stuck inside a water bottle. Bursting into laughter, Clef immediately called Kondraki's son Draven to tell him about his dad's latest mess-up, but the latter soon got annoyed and hanged up on him. Embarrassed and furious Kondraki asked Clef to help him get the bottle off. Clef assured Kondraki to help by bringing him to Site-69 and use a machine to cut the bottle, but as he was talking Kondraki's building suddenly caught on fire. Forced to evacuate, Clef decided to also put another bottle on his own penis in order to make Kondraki more comfortable. After dressing identically to each other to become indistinguishable the couple left the building and boarded on their car to drive to the site, while being witnessed by all of the evacuated tenants and present firefighters. After Kondraki removed the bottle, Clef invited his boyfriend over to his house to eat waffles with maple syrup. As Clef cooked Kondraki arrived, and wanting to have some intimate fun Clef lowered Kondraki's pants and underwear, but accidentally put another bottle on his penis, annoying Kondraki. Their date ruined, Clef called a taxi cab for Kondraki to leave, shocking the driver at the sight of a man with a bottle stuck to his penis.
Having had enough of Kondraki's antics, the O5 Council formed a plan to have him assassinated. This plan involved taking away SCP-408 from Kondraki and send Clef to him to make it appear that he was going to kill him. This phase of the plan worked as after being forcefully separated from 408 Kondraki attacked Clef, unaware of what was really going on, when the latter attempted to pass some time with him. As the two fought, Kondraki retreated to Gears' office where Gears swiftly killed him by shooting a bullet to the back of his head. Following the successful assassination, Kondraki's death was ruled as a suicide, but Clef knew better and confronted Gears about this, but the latter maintained the coverup.
Clef and his colleagues later attended Kondraki's funeral, and as it finished Clef was the only one still left. Standing over the newly formed grave, Clef reminded Kondraki how the latter had attempted to uncover the former's true origin and nature, and told him that his life was, much like 408, an illusion and Clef could be anything people thought of him. Clef then said that he knew Kondraki had somehow survived and had used the butterflies to make an illusion of his dead body within the coffin and told him to come out and greet him, but after awhile he realized that it was just his delusion and Kondraki was in fact dead, causing Clef to leave in disappointment and grief.
Testing various individuals at the Foundation's disposal with SCP-1841, a tourist guidebook which towards the end talks to the reader and encourages them to visit a place personal to them in order to not die with regret, Clef was among those chosen to read it. The book told Clef to that Kondraki had let go of their grudge and forgave Clef, urging him to go back to Kondraki's place and hear the first footsteps of his friend's child. Following this, Clef was plagued by dreams of visiting the place, but he refused to go back to Kondraki.
On January 18th of 2013, while Clef was playing poker with his co-workers in the Research Wing A of Site-19, the Wing area inexplicably grew a pair of chicken legs and tore itself from the rest of the site before running away with the personnel inside. Despite the chaos happening inside and the majority of the personnel having left the game Clef continued playing poker with the remaining participants. After some failed attempts at containing it, the facility ceased to move and soon demanifested its legs, returning to normal. This entire event was designated SCP-4852 and was theorized by Dr. Jean Karlyle Aktus that it was caused due to being inhabited at the time by the most abnormal staff members.
On 2014, after SCP-105 used her powers to take down some attackers known as The Ones in Black, the O5 Council decided to revitalize the previously defunct MTF Omega-7 into Mobile Task Force Alpha-9, since this type of team was necessary for the Foundation. The following day, Clef went to Crow's garage with a watermelon, wanting to spend some time with his old friend. As the two conversed Clef told Crow of what had transpired yesterday and predicted that both of them would be recalled to help with the upcoming project. Clef and Crow thought of refusing to join in, since the higher-ups disregarded them once they weren't needed anymore and now wanted to put them back in business without their consent. Unfortunately, the duo figured that the Council would most likely blackmail them, leaving them no choice but to return to their previous lifestyle.
Two weeks later, Clef was assigned to oversee the new MTF, but he refused as deemed himself unfit to return to action, only to accept when the higher-ups blackmailed him by using his daughter. However, he accepted on the condition his former assistant Adams was assigned to the MTF as well, which was approved. Although she was glad to finally join an MTF Adams became annoyed when she reunited with Clef who welcomed her regardless of her feelings towards him. In order to prove herself suitable to join Alpha-9, Clef tasked Adams to form a plan to decommission a troubling reality-bender they had under containment. Adams successfully killed the reality-bender through a simple but risky plan, stunning Clef. He then decided to form a new MTF independent of the Council, designated Tav-666 though it would be known on the outside as Lambda-2 and naming it "Clef's Bisexual Assassin Squad" to tease Adams.
Adams, angry over Clef making fun of her, went to change the MTF's name to tease him back. In the following days, both Clef and Adams went back and forth like this, changing Lambda-2's name to insult each other. This went until RAISA's director Maria Jones noticed their childish fight and decided to confront them. She scolded them for wasting her subordinates' time, and using her influence through RAISA she left Clef's small MTF nameless.
After Adams and her friends took SCP-105 out to a night drinking and we're chased by a trio of GOC agents, Clef scolded her over this careless decision. Fearing that the GOC was unto them, Clef requested Crow to provide Adams a slick power suit to empower her. Although Crow was reluctant to endanger his creation, he gave Clef the suit. Equipping Adams with the suit, Clef ran some tests on her to measure her new capabilities, which included Adams' enhanced vision system and mind structure, superhuman strength, speed, reflexes and durability. During a break, Clef explained to Adams the history behind the Bowe Commission, how it started and its disastrous end. Once the tests were over, Clef and the Council deemed Adams and 105 ready for mission deployment.
Both Adams and 105 were sent to assist MTF Beta-5 in containing an outbreak of an altered strain of SCP-008 in Marshall, Carter and Dark's Happy Acres Youth Camp. Beta-5's commanding officer Ron Spaulding sent emails to both Clef and Dr. Light explaining the situation thoroughly. After the mission was accomplished, Adams sent Clef a report, telling him her and 105 were successful in their assignment, though she requested additional adjustments to her suit. Clef would later recruit into Lambda-2 Agents Dietrich Lurk and a reformed Foxx, and just like with Adams he tasked each of them with special missions to prove themselves, sending Lurk to gather information and having Foxx take out an internal spy.
Following Adams and Foxx's infiltration into a MC&D facility and theft of some information, Clef brought in Lurk and his new companion Dr. Bridge. He revealed to the newcomers the true nature of Lambda-2 as Tav-666 which served as a contingency plan to squash Alpha-9 if it were to go rogue like Omega-7. He the had the duo assist them in cracking the information Adams had acquired, officially making them members of Lambda-2, though leaving them under the care of Foxx and secretly spying on them.
Clef accompanied a group of Foundation personnel in the discovery of SCP-3220, an underground silo in Hashima Island, Japan that contained countless statues that resembled and functioned like SCP-173 and previously belonged to the Department of Abnormalities. Upon its discovery, Clef commented that it must've been some weird Japanese fetish, causing his co-workers to accuse him of being xenophobic, though Clef considered his suggestion a genuine possibility.
On May 9th of 2018, Clef was set to go to a conference in Site-53 but on his way he stopped by a McDonald's. Arriving to the site later, he found that most of the personnel had the mind of Dr. Shaw, collectively designated SCP-4498, and seeing an opportunity to have some fun he began acting like he was one of them. When Mann, Agent Lament, Dr. Everwood, Dr. Desei, Gears and Crow arrived for the conference, Clef alongside the SCP-4498 instances chased them throughout the facility. Assisting Dr. Kiryu who was also turned into a SCP-4498 instance, naming herself Pirate Queen Elias Shaw, Clef and other instances captured Lament, tied him up and beat him with a trout. After Mann's team found the original Shaw, they offered Kiryu to exchange his amulet for the mystical cat statue that caused all of this, which she accepted. 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, Clef revealed he had just been pretending to be a SCP-4498 instance to have fun.
On the night of December 16th of 2020, while he was sleeping Clef arrived to the Oneiroi West Collective in the dreamworld where he proceeded to make his way on his motorcycle to the Somnia Coffee Bar at 278 Carol Street. There he attempted to order a vanilla beverage, but the barista, named Crispy Demitasse, was confused over his order which angered Clef who threatened him with his shotgun. Upon Demitasse threatening to call the local police force, designated SCP-4917, Clef shot him and realizing the situation he got himself involved burned the building, also "killing" Demitasse's coworker Solar Wreath. He attempted to flee on his bike southbound on I-21, but hit a curve too fast, sending him flying three miles away into the trees before being arrested. Clef was set to be trialed for second-degree homicide, manslaughter, possession of an unregistered firearm, arson and disabled parking abuse, forcing Stationary Task Force Phi-23, also known as "Dream Defense" to intervene.
STF's Agent Tempest managed to convince the jury that Clef was a penguin taking the form of a human, since he was wearing a black jacket, which prevented a harsh punishment from being delivered to animal life. However, if he was deemed guilty Clef could still face jail time, leaving Tempest to become his defense attorney. The prosecutor Mr. Hammer called forth seven witnesses, including one of the police officers that arrested Clef and the victim himself, and although all of them confirmed that Clef was the culprit responsible for these crimes, Tempest attempted to twist their claims into being speculative and unfair, angering those present. This ultimately worked as the jury deemed Clef not guilty of most of the crimes, except for parking in the handicapped space, fining him only $500.
The newly formed Foundation Elimination Coalition in their campaign to take down the Foundation took over Site-19 among other sites. The Foundation fought back, retaking the sites and battling the remnants of the Coalition in Site-19. Clef helped in the battle with the assistance of both Adams and 105, guiding Adams through enemy lines while 105 used her powers to help with the situations, until SCP-1233 came to help by crashing into the building riding SCP-058. They then helped the Foundation in battling General Bowe and the remaining enemies.
At the start of 2021, as the Foundation personnel began using the "Meanwhile, in Australia" meme to ridicule the various famous personnel and contained anomalies, the personalities and characteristics of those depicted in the memes were inverted causing them to turn to their opposite selves. This also included Clef who became an empathetic and respectful person. Holding a meeting with Drs. Dan, Light, Lillihammer, Moose, Sinclair and Varga in Area-09, they discussed how to fix the mess created by this newfound anomaly, designated SCP-5883. During the discussion, most of the attendants were weirded out from the sudden behavioral change of both Clef and Moose, and soon ascertained they had been affected by SCP-5883. Eventually, the effects of SCP-5883 were all reverted thanks to Lillihammer creating a countermeme that returned the affected subjects to normal.
Near the end of 2021, Clef became the supervisor of Agent Jeremy Rivenclark, an agent who helped claim SCP-668 but was left severely traumatized in the process. Clef assisted the agent in improving 668's containment procedures, but seeing that it was taking a toll on Rivenclark Clef had him hang out together and sometimes would be joined by Glass. Eventually, Rivenclark began having therapeutic interviews with SCP-343 in order to improve his mental health, only to have the exact opposite reaction as the agent would feel worse following his meetings with the anomalous man. Clef tried to comfort him to no avail, so he messaged Glass to help him with Rivenclark, but unfortunately Glass was busy in the following days. Surprisingly, Rivenclark became suddenly cheerful and wasted no time in working on 668's containment procedures. Although Glass believed that he was improving, Clef was able to see that something inside of Rivenclark was snapping and became cautious of what he was about to do.
Some years after the Administrator of the Foundation's Korean Branch, Grace Choi, discovered SCP-1953-KO, an injured infant kumiho, and began raising her as her own daughter, Clef sent a message to her, advising her to not get too attached to the creature. Following the confrontation between SCP-953 and her estranged daughter Hoya, Clef sent the video of this confrontation to Choi, since SCP-1953-KO was also 953's daughter and Hoya may be going after her little sister. Soon Clef visited her at Site-01K after SCP-1953-KO's containment procedures were updated, wishing to support Choi in this stressing situation, but when she expressed uncertainty on what to do Clef simply responded to keep being a parent. Following Choi sacrificing herself to protect SCP-1953-KO from Hoya who she begrudgingly killed, which led to the last remaining kumiho joining the Dinodon's Hand, Clef was among the high staff members who rejected the proposals of using her in diplomatic relations with the Hand. Clef later attended Choi's funeral alongside Prof. Noe Su-Jong, Prof. Yoon Geum-Seon and Dr. Chiika, and were soon joined by SCP-1953-KO. She paid respects to all of the attendants, and once the funeral was over they escorted her outside of Site-01K, allowing her to return back to Dinodon's Hand.
=== Possible Endings ===
==== Ecce Perago ====
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. In this plan he recruited the help of Clef to take out O5-11. Clef was successful in killing the Overseer by electrocuting him to death through the chess board they had been playing on.
Though he felt somewhat bad for killing O5-11 since Clef had known him before he became an Overseer, he didn't care much since the Overseer hadn't kept any of his promises to improve the Foundation. Not trusting Mann to be on top, Clef decided to claim the title of O5-11 for himself.
==== CryogenChaos' Comment Tales ====
One day, for unknown reasons, every single anomaly which ever existed was either neutralized or normalized, much to the shock of all of the GoIs. Clef was unable to cope with this new state of reality and as a result committed suicide.
==== The Decoy ====
After Dr. Rights left the Foundation with her memories intact, Clef was tasked to take her out along with her baby daughter. Breaking inside her house while she was asleep, Clef stood over her and with a heavy heart quietly shot her in the head, killing her. He then went to the baby's room where he found her also sleeping in her crib, but as he also shot her in the head, he found that it was actually a porcelain doll. The doll now broken, revealed Rights' posthumous letter, telling Clef that she knew he would come for her and her daughter, and had Ali Ibn-Bijhan rescue the child and detonate a bomb inside her house. Clef appeared to perish in the ensuing explosion, while Bijhan drove away with Rights' baby.
==== GFC ====
When Strelnikov was hospitalized following a grievous accident, Clef and Dr. Gerald went to check on him. Seeing the state he was in, Clef assured Gerald that Strelnikov would be alright, with Gerald agreeing since Strelnikov had survived the Chechen wars. However, at the mention of the Chechens, Strelnikov in a crazed state broke through the apparatuses and attacked the first individual he could get his hands on, that being Clef. Strelnikov then proceeded to break Clef's neck, while Gerald ran away in panic.
==== The Death Of Alto Clef, aka Agent Ukulele, aka Adam ben Yahweh, aka Lucifer, First of the Fallen, aka That Bastard, etc. ====
Clef eventually died, and with him dead the sun also went out.
==== The Lesser of Two Evils ====
Dealing with a dangerous cult, Clef was sent by the Foundation to kill its leader. Reaching the desolate city where the cult was situated, Clef was captured by the cult and transformed into a reptilian humanoid with a tv for a head, just like all the other cultists. The cult's leader then appeared before him, telling Clef that his disappearance would attract more Foundation members who would suffer the same fate as him, and once the number of cultists reached a certain amount the leader would achieve apotheosis. Clef, however, retaliated by pulling out his gun and shooting down each member of the cult, decreasing the number of cultists henceforth weakening the leader.
==== Unfinished Business ====
One day, Glass held a secret discussion with both Clef and Kondraki (who in these tales he was still alive), telling them how Bright's mind was deteriorating everytime he switched bodies due to carrying pieces of the personalities of the people he possessed, and needed to kill him to not only prevent him from needlessly destroying harmless anomalies, since he was promoted to director of Site-19, but to also release him of this agonizing existence. The three of them formed a plan to kill Bright and his security guards, who carried copies of his consciousness, get hold of SCP-963 and convince the higher-ups that it needed to be destroyed for the good of everyone. Unfortunately, despite killing Bright's current body and his security team, they were unable to find 963 due to Bright having hid it, and now would be a matter of time before they were arrested. Clef set up several traps in his office to defend himself, which took the shock troops four hours to pass by before subduing Clef which took two further hours. Clef was immediately sentenced by putting him in cryogenic stasis for an indefinite amount of time, and was soon followed by Glass and Kondraki.
Eleven years later, as SCP-239 grew and was becoming extremely difficult to contain, Bright requested for Clef to be awoken and have him finally kill her. Upon awakening, Clef was greeted by a woman going by the title of Dr. Lore, but Clef was able to figure out that she was actually Bright in a new body. "Lore" told Clef that he was required to kill 239 and debriefed him on the current situation, informing him that she was now even more powerful and was damaging reality. Forming an elaborate plan to kill her, Clef requested for SCP-093 and an armor of SCP-148 to be handed to him before convincing SCP-343 to assist him, since in the past Clef had helped the old man to hide his true nature as another reality-bender and therefore owed the doctor a favor. During the preparations, Clef was approached by ex-GOC operative Commandant Schmetterling who handed him the Atomic Revolver to help him in his plan. With all of Site-19 completely evacuated, Clef put his plan into motion and awakened 239. She immediately began distorting reality around them, prompting Clef to shoot her with the Atomic Revolver which destroyed parts of her body. Having infuriated her, Clef ran to the room where 343 and "Lore" were waiting for him besides a mirror and waited for 239 to catch up to him.
As soon as 239 entered the room 343 used his powers to contain her's, while Clef's Revolver recharged. Pushing Lore aside he subtly got hold of 963 before going behind 239 and shooting her again with the Revolver. Seeing he had weakened her, Clef ram her into the mirror attached with SCP-093, sending them both into the alternate reality of E-093. Due to being a different reality from their original one, 239 was rendered powerless, allowing Clef to snap her neck and end her life. Going back through the mirror, Lore went up to Clef and shot him in the abdomen, revealing herself to have indeed been Bright all along. However, to his horror, Clef showed Bright he had gotten hold of 963 and went back to E-093. Bright tried to follow him, but before he could Schmetterling shot SCP-093, chipping it and forever closing the portal between the two realities. As he laid dying Clef decided to swallow the amulet, opting to peacefully die by having Bright possess his dying body instead of suffering a painful death. Much later, a nearby Unclean found Clef's rotting body and consumed it, along with 963, which caused Bright to possess the being.
==== All They Want is the Blood ====
As Clef became an old man he went to work within SCP-450 to keep the haunting ghosts at bay by smearing human blood on the front wall of the execution chamber. Clef was eventually joined by the newly recruited but inexperienced Agent Xavier Garcez to help with the containment of SCP-450, much to his annoyance. Clef explained thoroughly to Garcez the history of the anomaly and what they were required to do in order to prevent it from claiming innocent lives. Despite Garcez being prepared to uphold the containment procedures after a month following his assignment to SCP-450, he got distracted on his way to the wall, causing the evil spirits to kill him by forcing his body through the prison bars. Disappointed, Clef went to finish the job himself, but upon reaching the wall he noticed that the blood he currently held in his bucket wouldn't be enough due to the second bucket in Garcez's possession having been lost. With no other option, Clef cut his own wrist to draw blood to use, but instead of retracing the Seal of Solomon, he instead wrote "Come and get it mother fuckers". The ghost were appeased by Clef's blood sacrifice, but as he laid dying they claimed him, leaving only his silhouette.
Since he had been a benevolent and honorable individual for most of his life, the goddess Mekhane decided to preserve his dead body and buried it alongside the bodies of other deceased heroes within SCP-2783, a pocket dimension that contained a Mekhanite graveyard which was used by the ancient Mekhanites to bury their most greatest warriors.
==== Doctors of the Church ====
During a IK-Class "Collapse of Global Civilization" Scenario, also known as the "Great Breach", which regressed all of human to a medieval state, Clef had managed to kill both SCP-173 and SCP-682, becoming known as Saint Alto and Asser Clef. Surviving to the present he became Doctor Cardinal of the Holy Foundation and the new Thirteenth vicar of the messiah Bright. Learning of 239 still being alive, after her partner Jaelen blew a horn to summon Clef to help the city of Rivershrine which had been plagued by war, he slowly made his way to the city to finally execute her.
==== Bellerverse ====
Following some unknown catastrophe which the Foundation was unable to stop, humanity became nearly extinct, forming tribes which began worshiping the notable Foundation personnel as gods. Clef became known as Kalef, the god of the underworld where he sat on a throne, governed over a vast empire and waited for the righteous dead arriving to him in their final day. He was also seen as a god of riches who struck bargains with the mortals, though he would twist the deals to his advantage.
==== Father of Lies ====
At some point, Clef perished but because he had become one of the most famous and legendary personnel employed by the Foundation, the O5 Council decided to cover up his death and continue his legacy by having various competent personnel take up the mantle of Dr. Alto Clef. In the fifteen years following the original's death, four individuals have taken the name of Dr. Clef so far, the latest one being Agent Jason Suthers.
==== A Suicide Note ====
As time went, most of Clef's coworkers would be gone, with Clef mercy killing Crow who was left in a agonizing state. Wanting to cut loose ends, Clef crippled 343 before procuring SCP-035's or SCP-075's acidic liquid from SCP-294 to kill 239. After killing her by injecting her with a cocktail of the liquid, arsenic and other matters which melted her body completely, Clef noticed that things turned back to normal as she had in fact changed reality to turn the personnel into buffoons. Having no other reason to keep living, Clef decided to kill himself but not before leaving his suicide note and will for the higher-ups to find. It is unknown if he managed to go through with his suicide as his body was never found and he himself was unsure if he could die.
==== Revised Entry ====
One day, SCP-173 all of a sudden began inexplicably multiplying itself, creating countless copies of itself in a matter of days. A Broken Masquerade scenario soon ensued due the SCP-173 copies breaching containment and slowly taking over North America. After the demise of Drs. Phillips and Mathews, Clef was put in charge of 173's containment, but he too would perish, followed by Gears and Kondraki.
==== The Pale Horse (The Wayward Children) ====
When numerous gods began attacking Earth, including SCP-343 and the Gate Guardian, Clef was in the newly-built Area 1032 overlooking SCP-682 which had been mostly motionless recently. Suddenly 682 transformed into a winged celestial being and proceeded to effortlessly breach containment, forcing Clef to grab his powerful weapon the PSX820 to stop it from escaping. He attempted to attack the monster, but 682 managed to brush off the shot and soon sprouted some tentacles that ripped through Clef's body. Awakening in a pool of his own blood, 682 began speaking to Clef in clear English, telling him that it made sure he wouldn't die but would require weeks to fully recover. Clef demanded to know what was going on and 682 answered that it was the Steed of the Apocalyptic Horseman of Death and before leaving the facility to reunite with her it apologized to Clef for the lives it had taken in the past.
==== Broken Masquerade ====
After a Broken Masquerade occurred following the disappearance of North Korea, the Foundation had to readjust itself in order to keep working but this time under the public eye. In the new unveiled world, Clef helped bring out the positive side of the Foundation to the public by participating in The Oprah Winfrey Show, in which he justified the reasons why the Foundation did the scrupulous things it had done previously and how the organization was needed to keep the world safe.
As he was forced to work in the public, Clef was required to get a driver's license since he had no need of it while under the veil. However, upon entering a DMV office, he faced some difficulties due to his face being unphotographable. As he discussed his anomaly with the DMV clerk, he revealed that he had driven without a license which was a crime. The clerk had to report him, and despite Clef telling her that thanks to his employer he was above the law, she didn't care and proceeded to pick up her phone. With no way out, Clef launched a smoke bomb to escape, tripping over several chairs on his way out.
Clef eventually retired from work and began living somewhere north of Phoenix, Arizona. In the days leading up to the congress meeting in which it would discussed what to do with the anomalous individuals like the reality-benders, Clef wrote some documents about how all such individuals should be killed as soon as they were discovered. However, since he had retired by this time, Adams would go attend the meeting, and seeing Clef's proposal as too ruthless she made changes to argue that the anomalous individuals should instead be peacefully detained and grow up in a controlled environment. Moments before she entered the meeting, Adams spoke to Clef through phone, the latter seeing the meeting live on C-Span. He tried to argue against the decision of containing the anomalous people instead of straight up killing them, despite most of them being children, and was left disappointed from the decision the meeting took.
==== Rat's Nest ====
As the entire world was slowly being destroyed, what remained of the Foundation retreated to the broken down facility of SCP-2000. Clef was among those personnel, using the machine to resurrect their deceased members, which included Crow and Kondraki. As almost all of humanity was mutated, Clef worked hard to preserve the few remaining pure humans in the facility, while helping the scattered groups in the rotting world. On August 13th of 2119, as he and Crow drove through the Sylvan Grove, Kansas, they crashed their car, attracting the attention of a young woman and boy named Gersha and Allen respectively. Excited to find new people to interact since she had been stuck at the bottom of SCP-087 until recently, Gersha went to meet them, though Allen became suspicious of them and attempted to stop her. Seeing an opportunity to use her to repopulate the world, Clef decided to take Gersha in before threatening Allen with his gun. Allen was soon surrounded by the Walking Sticks, humans who were mutated into enormous mindless stick figures, as he had killed a number of them in the past. Clef and Crow noticed that SCP-517 had hidden itself inside of him, prompting him to kill the teenager and leave his dead body at the hands of the Sticks. Kondraki soon arrived on his helicopter to take the three of them back to their base, though he was upset that Clef mercilessly killed an innocent person.
During their flight, they were featured on the latest episode of Laugh is Fun which decided to prank them by manifesting numerous dead bodies of Allen inside the helicopter. The three Foundation personnel were startled by this, while Gersha laughed as she knew it was the work of Laugh is Fun due to having watched them for most of her life. The helicopter was unable to carry so much weight and soon it began falling down. Luckily for them, the helicopter fell into a portal manifested by the witch of the west Tatty who also summoned the Wing Guardian Leviticus to prevent the vehicle from crashing. Although Kondraki, Crow and Gersha were safe inside the helicopter, Clef had been pushed out of it by the bodies, causing him to fall into the portal, but thanks to the portal being a connected loop he ended up landing on the vehicle's roof. As Tatty floated near the helicopter to talk, Clef recognized her as an older 239 and planned to kill her while she was distracted. Gersha explained to her that the three of them had kidnapped her to be used as part of their breeding program, and despite Crow trying to argue that it was for the good of humanity, 239 didn't want to hear any of it and teleported the three personnel to Daeva.
The trio ended up near a farm belonging to a local Sarkite named XixZiv. The Sarkic farmer offered the three of them to regain their energies inside his organic home and told them that the only way out was beyond a border where the flesh immediately ended. Thanking XixZiv for the hospitality, Clef, Crow and Kondraki quickly left before they would succumb to SCP-610, making their way to Mongolia which had been taken over by SCP-217. As they traversed the blood river on their boat made out of bone, the trio began to slowly succumb to 610. Fortunately, 217 had secretly gotten inside their bodies and cancelled out the other virus from their systems, curing them much to their surprise.
==== End of Death ====
When the embodiment of Death was destroyed and all life became immortal, Clef continued working for the Foundation. Taking notice of Crow looking at files regarding some specific SCPs, Clef went to talk to his old friend, inquiring on why he was reading those files which were about Death-related anomalies. Crow replied that he was just curious to know how those anomalies now functioned after death was gone, but Clef was unsatisfied with this answer. Discovering Crow's latest project which was about turning SCP-244-ARC into a movable life-support machine for Crow, Clef had one of the personnel working for the project, Junior Researcher Luke Sheppard, secretly install a failsafe mechanism in order for Clef to easily disable it in the case it was to be used against him.
Clef then met with Shaw in the surgical observation deck overseeing Crow's surgery to hook him to the modified SCP-244-ARC, revealing that he knew Shaw was secretly aiding Crow in his secret project. Shaw attempted to shut down these accusations, but Clef told him if their project was identical to the failed Olympia Project, it would end in disaster and threatened to have the O5 Council involved. As both Crow and Shaw were nowhere to be found, Clef presented his evidence to O5-2 who granted him their Level-5 certification to access Crow's SCiPNET account. Skimmia through the files read and edited by Crow, Clef didn't find much besides the project revolving the modification of SCP-244-ARC. He then remembered to access Shaw's account, finding a secret file which had been locked. Spending three entire days trying to dig through the lock, Clef finally managed to open, discovering the file titled Project Persephone. This project involved infecting SCP-053 with SCP-2333, putting Shaw's SCP-963 on her, have SCP-049 perform his usual procedure on her body and then have her pass through SCP-2935, as a mean to create a being capable of bringing back Death. Realizing that Crow and Shaw were about to reopen the entryway to SCP-2935, Clef got ready to stop them.
On April 5th of 2049, while Clef was conversing with Gears in the latter's office, a unknown woman suddenly entered through the door. Gears deduced that she was an intruder as she didn't have any visible badge, prompting Clef to raise his gun at her. As the woman got closer to them, demanding that Gears come with her Clef shot a tracking round at her arm, forcing her to teleport away. Following the tracker's signal, they discovered a technological facility in Antarctica which housed different versions of Gears in cryogenic stasis. After making sure the woman left the facility, the Foundation contained the facility, designating it SCP-4056, and interviewing one of Gears' counterparts learned that the woman was a Black Queen, an alternate version of Gears' daughter. With this information, Gears authorized Operation ICEBOX which involved MTF Alpha-99 led by him and Clef waiting for the Black Queen to return and ambush her. On September 8th, she returned and after some struggle Gears was able to capture her.
==== The Tombstone of Alto Clef ====
Through time, Clef became tired of his work and wished to have quiet peace. Following his latest mission, he asked Light to be put on reserve, but she outright denied the request, telling him he was one of the Foundation's best assets and couldn't afford to lose him. He tried to argue that he wasn't fit anymore but Light simply told him to take this discussion to the O5 Council. Things apparently didn't go well, as O5-3 had Clef killed, and covered up his death as a car accident. His body was buried in a Foundation cemetery under the name of Jonathan Sealee, and during his funeral not many people attended though both Light and Bright also arrived and we're the last to leave.
==== Us and Them ====
Eventually, as he got old, Clef retired from the Foundation and began living alone in a cabin near SCP-765. One night, his cabin was approached by Sunny, Alex, Seph and Machine-Head, four lost anomalous teenagers escaping from the private military company Myrmidon International, seeking temporary asylum. Clef threatened them with his shotgun, suspecting they were government agents, but after learning they just wanted a refuge he decided to let them stay for some time, figuring they would break in regardless of his response.
Clef treated the teenagers with hospitality and food, earning their trust as they warmed up to him. Alex even opened up to him, revealing how she felt guilty for having used her powers to harm people, with Clef responding he too had done bad things but was able to come to terms with his past and try to improve himself. Before leaving to gather some firewood, Clef fearing that Myrmidon's forces would soon arrive he left his car somewhere nearby for the kids to use as a gateway vehicle. His fears became true as Myrmidon's Quietus soldiers arrived to capture the teenagers, but thankfully the group managed to evade their chasers and escape on Clef's car.
==== Starch and Cream ====
One day, the Foundation lost control of SCP-871, leading to the cakes multiplying so much that they quickly covered the entire world. During the calamity, Clef completely disappeared, having either perished, deserted or moved to a safer site.
==== SCP-001 (ROUNDERHOUSE's Proposal) ====
Clef was elevated to the post of O5-12, gaining the title out of necessity for a leader to help with the Chaos Insurgency crisis. He greatly helped with the war across the world, but became greatly disappointed after he was restricted to desk job and denied any action. By the 2050s, most of the other Overseers passed away, leaving only him, the Administrator and O5-13 alive, until Clef himself also perished in a battle. The Administrator F. Williams would honor Clef by implementing a memorial in Site-01's basement comprised of Clef's bar cart.
==== The Adventures of Siggy and RoboMonkey ====
One day, while Clef was stationed at Site-118, the site experienced some containment breaches that killed nearly all of the personnel. Clef attempted to evacuate the survivors but the Chaos Insurgency had suddenly arrived and completely blocked the entrance which was the only way out. The two sides fought each other but remained in a standstill, neither side advancing. Learning that 239 was located at the bottom of the enormous facility, Clef decided to use her against the enemy, sending the immortal mummy designated SCP-138 through a portal to go to the last floor, befriend her and convince her to go with Clef. 138 succeeded in his task and found in the company of SCP-2006 and following their conversation Clef arrived shortly after under the name of Dr. Kaleph Uhlda.
Clef asked 239 to come with him, telling her that her caretaker Lana Trondeheim was with the rest of the personnel, which was enough to convince her to join Clef since he appeared as a trustful doctor. 2006, however, was distrustful of Clef, but 239 opted to still go with him and leave 2006 since it had failed to protect her from an instance of SCP-939. As Clef and 239 made their way to the portal, numerous 939 instances began closing in, prompting them to quicken their pace. Unfortunately for Clef, 2006 and 138 soon caught up with them as 138 had betrayed Clef by telling 2006 the truth. Seeing 239 having second thoughts about leaving her newfound friends, Clef grabbed hold of her and attempted to make a run to the portal, but was blocked by the 939 instances. As he fought against the monsters using his special blade, 239 managed to escape his grasp and fall on her broken arm. Clef tried to grab her again but 2006 ram into him, sending Clef a few feet away from 239 and before he could get back on his feet 138 threatened him with his own blade. As 138 accused Clef of being a cold-blooded murderer, the latter plunged his sword into the mummy's stomach and getting on top of him massacred 138 to death. Exhausted, Clef again tried to grab 239 only to be pierced from behind by 2006 with 138's sword. 2006 told him to leave 239 alone, and having grown fond of her due to her reminding him of his daughter, he obliged, returning to Floor Zero and destroying the portal in order to prevent anyone else from using it.
In the three ensuing years, the trapped personnel would organize into a large community known as the Front, but as it was engaged in a lengthy battle with the Insurgency another community was formed in the middle of the site where the personnel could raise their children and work in agriculture to provide food. This community came to be called Greattown which was led by Trondheim under the eye of Clef. 239 and 2006 eventually arrived to Greattown but upon reuniting with Trondheim, the latter rejected and insulted 239, not wanting to have anything to do with her anymore. Saddened and enraged, 239 fell to the manipulation of SCP-1048 who convinced her to help it create a vast army of its duplicates riding numerous instances of SCP-3199. This monstrous army proceeded to raze Greattown and mercilessly kill innocent civilians, forcing the Foundation personnel to evacuate to the Front. Clef arrived to Greattown and ordered Trondheim to go to the tallest tower to talk 239 down while he helped with the attack. Sadly, 239 didn't listen to her and instead began torturing Trondheim, until former security member Alina Wojcik brought 2006. 2006 managed to bring 239 to her senses and have her destroy the monstrous army she had created before falling unconscious in its arms. With the attack over, Clef made his way to the top of the tower, furious from the needless loss of life. Demanding payment for the deaths 239 had indirectly caused Clef attempted to kill both her and 2006 but as he brought down his blade down on them 239 woke up and teleported herself and 2006 away. With Greattown in ruin, Clef was left to relocate the survivors to the Front.
Three more years went by after the Greattown's destruction, and becoming desperate to take down the Insurgents Clef decided to put his personal feelings aside and again ask 239 for her help. Alina met with a scavenging 2006 and asked it to bring 239 to the Front so she could use her powers to help in their near decade long battle, promising both of them would be safe. 2006 agreed to help and brought 239 to the last floor, leaving her in the care of Alina while it went to meet with Clef. Informing the two anomalies of the plan to destroy the Insurgency base, Clef and Alina escorted 2006 to the entrance of a vent that led to the Insurgency's base in order to have it sneak into the vent, attack the Insurgency from within and destroy the Insurgency's Reality Anchor that would allow 239 to use her powers.
2006 was reluctant to kill people and leave 239 behind, but Clef forced it to go on with the plan, he and Alina trailing it from behind as it crawled through the vent so they could assist it in the attack. Upon arriving to the base, Clef urged 2006 to attack the unsuspecting Insurgents by surprise but it failed to act immediately, forcing Clef to kill the Insurgents instead. The trio quickly made their to a metal door that concealed the Anchor, but soon Insurgency soldiers began pouring in. 2006 and Alina attempted to push back against the unprepared soldiers to buy Clef time to unlock the door. After finally opening the door Clef immediately went through it and deactivated the Anchor before blowing his horn to signal 239 to attack. She did so and obliterated the Insurgency's defenses, allowing the Front's forces to swarm in and defeat the Insurgents at last. Near their victory, Clef confronted the Insurgency's commander, only to be informed by him that the outside world had ended due to some calamity and he and his troops were just surviving. This revelation maddened Clef who killed the commander and began laughing maniacally. 239 who had just joined them attempted to calm him down, but in that moment he used his sword to slash her chest open, causing her to fall to 2006's feet.
2006 immediately came to her side and begged Clef to help her and let her live, offering itself to be killed in her stead. Clef refused and went to turn on the Reality Anchor so he could prevent 239 from regenerating herself. Alina attempted to stop him, taking one of the Front's youngest soldiers Chancey McMillan hostage to threaten Clef, only for him to use a nearby Insurgent's firearm to gun her down and avoiding McMillan. As Clef became increasingly more and more mad and ready to kill them both, 2006 fought back, taking the form of SCP-939 to attack Clef. It used the monster's powers to kill Clef, but he successfully avoided most its attacks and delivered grievous damage to 2006 using his blade. 2006 then shapeshifted into SCP-3199 and continued to fight Clef who only mocked it. Seeing that Clef wasn't going down, 2006 took the appearance of Clef himself, with him ridiculing it for fearing him. Eventually, Clef got the better of it, slashing its throat and causing 2006 to collapse. Clef got over it and prepared himself to stab its head with his blade. In that exact moment, 239 used all of her power left to stop the time around them. Having bought herself some time, 239 slowly but steadily regained her power and made her way to 2006 and Clef to intervene. To her horror, Clef revealed he was still conscious since he was a reality sink and attempted to fight back against the time freeze by slowly descending his sword onto 2006. Acting fast, 239 attacked him by throwing fire and kinetic blasts at Clef as she was taught by 138, slowly destroying his body. Clef's body endured at first, but as she continued attacking him he soon succumbed. Having completely lost his mind, Clef just continued laughing, and even after he was completely destroyed his laugh's echo was heard for a while longer than usual.
==== Vanguard ====
When the event only known as SCP-6500 began neutralizing all of the anomalies due to the Foundation containing most of them, in the "Emissary's Path" the Foundation rechristened itself Vanguard and deliberately caused a "Broken Masquerade" scenario in order to stop SCP-6500. Clef went on to work for Vanguard, as he was needed thanks to his experience with containment. He was present in the meeting with Vanguard's newly established Board, looking at the news of Dr. Dan talking to the UN General Assembly in New York City, and commemorating the doctor and his fellow board members on the well done job in informing the entire world of the anomalous reality. Meanwhile, his daughter would be released from containment alongside other safe and benevolent anomalies, and joined the Manna Charitable Foundation.
As part of their work with the normalization of the anomalous world, Dir. Moose tasked Clef to assist Karcist Varis in leading MTFs Psi-13 and Zeta-9, with the added force of the FSB agents, to raid the Neo-Sarkic Russian mafia known as the Hunter's Black Lodge in order to earn the Russian government's favor. Arriving to the base of the Lodge after the police cleared the area out, Clef instructed Zeta-9 to explore the underground tunnels utilized by the Sarkites, while he and Varis led Psi-13 and the FSB agents into the building. As soon as they entered, the Lodge's members opened fire, injuring Clef and killing several of the Vanguard operatives. Varis used his powers to heal Clef and take control of the criminals before advancing to the underground chamber of the Lodge's Mothers. Led by a nonviolent member, they found the Mothers serving the awakened Klavigar Orok who threatened to kill them unless they explained themselves. Varis told Orok that the world had changed and in order for the Sarkites to become accepted the criminals needed to be arrested. Orok became convinced by this and promised to force the Lodge to change for the better. With their mission mostly successful, Clef and Varis prepared for their next assignment.
Soon enough Clef again accompanied Varis, this time going to the town in Massachusetts that had been affected by SCP-2480 where some Sarkic monsters and civilians had been blocked by an enforced wall equipped with defenses. Tasked with normalizing the town, Clef and Varis went to the Armed Biological Containment Area-14 to interview the ex-Director previously tasked to contain 2480 Karcist Karvas for additional insight on the town. Confirming Varis' suspicions that the town had been used by an imposter impersonating Grand Karcist Ion, he decided to look at the town by himself, bringing Clef with him since unlike the former the latter could perceive the true nature of the town as a landscape filled with black fleshy buildings and monstrous creatures. Coming across a small of civilians professing to Adytum's Wake's faith, Varis sympathized with them and as the GOC was on its way to destroy the town he asked Clef for a advice to protect his newfound people. Clef helped Varis hold a press conference to reveal that despite the horrors plaguing the town there innocent civilians who only wished to coexist with the outside world and expose the GOC. Not wanting to be seen in a bad light for massacring innocent people, the GOC decided to abandon its plan to exterminate the town.
Continuing their work in dealing with the Sarkic anomalies, Clef and Varis, accompanied by six agents of MTF Psi-9, next went to the Hoia Forest in Romania to confront SCP-2191 in hopes of finding Klavigar Lovataar. Entering the church and descending into the underground tunnels, they fought through countless instances of SCP-2191-1 which Varis was unable to communicate with or control. Finally reaching SCO-2191-3, Varis attempted to communicate with the creature which was supposedly Lovataar but failed to receive any response, instead agitating the creature and causing a earthquake. To their surprise the actual Lovataar soon emerged from the flesh and offered to explain everything once outside. Returning to the forest, Lovataar explained that SCP-2191-3 was a piece of her that had grown out of control and had attempted to contain its threat during this time. Subsiding the effects the monster had caused, Clef confronted both Varis and Lovataar about the lives she had indirectly taken and needed to take proper responsibility for this. The two Sarkites agreed with Clef, and with Lovataar on their side Varis expressed to his partner his plan to find the two other Klavigars and rediscover the long lost city of Adytum.
Soon after, Clef, Varis and Orok, this time in the company of Agent Lucretia Popescu, traveled to Syria to access SCP-3989, Orok's orchard which he created in hopes of forming a vast army. Upon entering the pocket-dimension, they encountered one of the enormous colossi before the living temple spoke to them telepathically. The orchard didn't recognize Orok as the real Klavigar as Ion had come to it and ordered to continue amassing a great army and attack those who interfered. The colossi immediately attacked them, forcing the four of them to fight back and make a run to the living temple. As they took out some of the colossi, Clef grew tired of running, prompting Popescu to carry him on her shoulder. Arriving to the temple, the Klavigar found it had changed during his absence, having grown what appeared to be an antenna, and as they were about to enter the atrium Clef remained behind, telling the rest of the group that he would be further observing the structure, though Orok could feel that he was actually planting bombs all around the temple as a contingency plan if things were to go sour. Joining the group, they found countless mutated humanoids prepared for battle, and then the temple again spoke to them, telling they would be sacrificed for Ion's glory, before opening the ceiling to reveal an alien sky. Orok urged Clef to detonate the bombs, which he immediately did, damaging the temple, allowing the group to flee. However, as they fought through their way out, the temple got up on its legs and charged towards them. Luckily, Orok managed to split the temple in two, destroying it and rendering most of the orchard non-anomalous. With SCP-3989 neutralized, Clef discussed with Varis how the orchard had also been corrupted by the false Ion, and needed to find a way to stop him from causing further damage.
==== SCP-6747 ====
By 2029 Clef had retired from working for the Foundation. When the Foundation attempted to resurrect the recently deceased Dir. Jonathan King though SCP-6747, a theoretical process that served to revive deceased personnel through the manipulation of the Narrative of reality by extracting their fictional versions from SCP-6747-A3 which was a pocket-dimension based on the main reality created through the imagination of fictional scenarios, King became corrupted by SCP-2747, turning into an evil powerful god designated SCP-6747-C. This entity went on to create fictionalized but self-aware versions of the personnel the original King had considered friends, which included Clef designated SCP-6747-CLF, intending to use them as his minions. As their world was becoming a chaotic mess, SCP-6747-C explained to "Clef" and the other personnel that 2747 was rising through the narrative layers of reality thanks to them and soon their reality would intersect with the main one.
However, Clef and the rest of the personnel didn't care about any of SCP-6747-C's plan, simply wanting to have fun as nothing made sense in their world. In order to stop SCP-6747-C, the Foundation turned SCP-6747-A3 into a comedic parody of their universe, coming to be known as "lolFoundation", which caused it to garner the attention of the Authors and making it a full on alternate reality parallel to the main universe. This version of Clef would go on to be involved in several whacky adventures like accidentally destroying most of Atlantic City after starting his day with eating waffles, forcing several D-Class personnel to stare at SCP-173 in order to have a peaceful and romantic date night with it, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Foundation, going back in time to kill Adolf Hitler before Kondraki and Cimmerian could, crashing Shaw's family gathering and interviewing several Groups of Interest.
==== SCP-7004 ====
Through time Clef was elevated to the post of O5-4. One day all of humanity began succumbing to SCP-7004, a infohazard that caused mindless feral humanoids to burst out of people's bodies, and before Clef himself could be affected he deployed the two women MTF Mu-7, who had their brains mutated to be resistant to memetic and infohazardous anomalies, to go to SCP-2000 and revive the human race. Clef appeared to have been revived after the MTF activated SCP-2000 to not only resurrect humanity but integrate into their society the humanoids, designated SCP-7004-1, since they were revealed to have been humans from a doomed alternate reality trying to evacuate to the main universe, and with this unnoticeable change he deleted the SCP-7004 file.
==== SCP-7878 ====
During the invasion of the Administrator's clones, they activated a reality-bending machine inside of Site-17, completely changing the inside structure. O5-1 ordered Clef to locate and destroy the machine, which he obeyed and went to the site's Wing C, killing numerous clones in the process. The clones fought back, but Clef remained undeterred and fought through them, eventually reaching the machine. He successfully destroyed it, but succumbed to his wounds and crumbled to the ground. It is unknown what happened to him after the Administrator successfully overtook the Foundation.
==== Beyond the Rubicon ====
One day almost all of baseline humanity went extinct due to a Calamity, leaving only the nonhuman creatures or abnormal humans. Among those who were spared included Clef and Crow who had been working in a unused sector of Site-19 and barely noticed anything for a bit. Suddenly Clef became aware that things had gone too quiet and had Crow check out the cause of this deafening silence. Exploring the site they found completely deserted except for the contained anomalies, and alarmed they raced to the Director's office, finding it devoid of Moose's presence. Clef then checked Moose's computer and found out that every single mapped Foundation facility had gone inactive, meaning they were all empty of personnel. Clef began freaking out at the sight of this, while Crow attempted to calm him down by stating that they could fix it if they learned what exactly happened. Clef checked the computer again for more information and learned that the mostly human anomalies had also vanished without a trace, meaning that the entire human race was gone. Shocked by the fact that most of the humanoids they had contained had been more human then then, Crow proposed to simply go to SCP-2000 and revive humanity which Clef agreed. Going to the site's rooftop to take a plane to fly to Yellowstone park, the duo were surprised to see the city of New York still active, seeing that the sapient creatures and the anomalous humans had taken humanity's place and began using their capabilities to make the world a better place. With this in mind, Clef and Crow deemed the Earth to be better off without the human race and decided to leave SCP-2000 be forgotten, celebrating together the new state of the world.
==== 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. Clef was among the survivors who managed to momentarily evade them, and kept contact with Lament. Unfortunately, Clef stopped messaging Lament, meaning that he probably perished.
== Eventyr ==
The man who would become known as Alto Clef was born in England on March 20th of 1963 of Indian descend. He was raised by a single mother who was Catholic but had incorporated other aspects to her religion. Being AFAB, Clef transitioned early in his life, but found it difficult to fit in this cruel world mostly due to being a reality bender. He would witness the horror of his fellow reality bender and what they could do, and decided that the world would be a much better place without them. He was convinced to join the GOC under the codename Agent Ukulele and take part in the Ichabod campaign, expecting to die on duty before the age of 25. To his dismay, he proved to be an expert in exterminating reality benders, causing Ukulele to resent himself for chosing this path.
On October 19th of 1999, after the GOC got hold SCP-8166, a music box belonging to Hans Christian Andersen, and activated it, opening a portal to a pocket dimension that resembled Eden. The garden's guardian soon appeared to protect it, only to get killed by the GOC. With the portal open, both the GOC and the Foundation decided to collaborate in exploring the garden. It was decided to send in Agent Clef and Foundation Archivist Luca Armaro and have them determine the garden's exact nature. Traversing the garden, Ukulele found Armaro difficult to work with and opted to explore the environment separately. While exploring, Ukulele came across a deer woman named Reverie, stunning him with her appearance. Reverie was friendly with the stranger and attempted to befriend him since she hadn't met any other intelligent being, but Ukulele remained cautious during this time. However, he was shocked when Reverie decided to tell him a story that matched his past. Despite being somewhat disturbed by her capabilities, Ukulele took a liking to her and promised to come back the next.
He and Armaro reported their findings back to their respective organizations and were prepared to return to the garden. The next day, the went back to the garden where they set up a camp, while a storm was rapidly forming. Going to their previous destinations, Ukulele went under a large tree to cover himself from the rain and there he reunited with Reverie. Changing his wet clothes, Reverie saw the scars that covered his body, causing him to slowly open up more to her. Reverie decided to bring Ukulele to a structure carved inside a mountain where the wind went through which caused a beautiful melody to be produced. Inside the mountain, he marveled at the beauty of the structure and the music it produced, and as a result grew closer to Reverie. As they went up through the structure, Reverie nicknamed Ukulele alto clef due to the tune he was singing the wind's music. She then told Clef how she had been all alone in the massive garden, with her only companion being the spirit woman known as just Kindred who raised. Clef felt bad for Reverie having no knowledge of the outside world, promising her to get her out of the garden and explore the world's beauties together.
Suddenly, the two were attacked by Armaro, who had merged with Kindred to transform into a four-winged angelic being and become the new guardian of the garden. Armaro sought to kill Reverie to prevent her from becoming corrupted and cause destruction by taking control of the garden. Clef, unaware of the full picture, battled Armaro, and as a result of the magic surrounding him, transformed into a dragon. During the fight, Armaro managed defeat Clef, turning him back to human, but was left in a weakened state. Reverie, having become disillusioned with Kindred and what she had been taught all her, took control of all of garden, planning to use her newfound powers to remake the world as she saw fit and take down anyone who stood before her once she got out. Seeing that Reverie was becoming a monster, Clef was forced to shoot her, killing her and preventing the incoming destruction.
Armaro returned to his senses and tried to apologize, but Clef didn't want to hear and just wished to go back and forget about this event. However, as they were about to leave, Armaro heard a baby crying somewhere near in the garden and led Clef to the location. They two found a baby deer girl born following Reverie's demise, and adopting her as his daughter Clef named her Meri after the poem Reverie told him. Wanting to ensure her safety, Clef went to the Foundation, joining the Foundation as an agent while both Meri and Armaro were contained and designated SCP-8166-2 and SCP-8166-3 respectively. Dr. Light allowed Clef to meet Meri once a year on her birthday.
As a member of the Foundation, Clef befriended several other employees such as Light, Gears, Kondraki, Adams and especially Strelnikov. As part of his job he would give lectures to the newcomers, but one day he was unable to find his papers, forcing him to instead use illusions to train the new agents and researchers. Light would reprimand Clef destroy office supplies and messing with his co-workers, but wouldn't go beyond just warning him which didn't sit right with him. On April Fool's Day, Clef decided to prank everyone by changing files on the database about the personnel and the contained anomalies into parodies of characters from My Little Pony. Light found out about this and confronted Clef about this, but this Clef urged her to punish him as this was the right thing to do. Confused by this Light relented and had him suspended for some time.
On August 12th of 2017, while Clef was returning home from a mission in London, Ohio, his car accidentally rammed into an animal, either a bear or a boar. Injured and left somewhere in Ohio, Clef attempted to call back site but couldn't receive any signal. Meanwhile, the staff learned of the accident, and assuming Clef had died, they celebrated his death and made various jokes. Clef eventually managed to call Light after finally receiving a signal. Light arranged for a pickup, but then Clef checked the Foundation's web site and saw a thread about the personnel making fun of his death.
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