James Talloran/Synopsis

History and its interpretations of James Talloran.
==Origin==
James Talloran was born to a dysfunctional family with his parents not loving each other anymore but still remaining married, while he and his sister struggled a bit while growing up because of his somewhat abusive father and their harsh surroundings. His mother tried her best to properly raise Talloran, and when he became an adult he struggled with finding a place to live despite successfully writing his master's thesis.
==Working for the Foundation==
Talloran was employed by the SCP Foundation thanks to his skills and was at first stationed at Armed Biological Containment Area-14 where he became the research assistant of Dr. Aimes Johnston who treated Talloran harshly on the pretext of "strengthening" him, much to Talloran's frustration. After Dr. Conrad Scott was suspended due to his belief that SCP-058 was somehow connected to SCP-1981, Johnston ordered Talloran to confiscate all of Scott's research from his office. Talloran begrudgingly obeyed but as he was about to take one of Scott's CD, in which the latter had recorded SCP-058's ramblings, from the CD player, Talloran decided to hear the recordings of the anomaly before bringing them to Johnston and played it. Talloran became horrified at the phrases spoken by 058, but as he was about to take the CD out of the device Johnston suddenly budged in as he had become impatient and demanded Talloran to give him Scott's CDs right away to which Talloran complied. However, after Johnston left, Talloran realized he had forgotten the CD inside the CD player was still there, and thought rushing to his superior to give it to him, but then changed his mind and decided to keep the CD for himself.
Having become curious about SCP-058, Talloran asked Johnston about the monster. Despite Johnston not liking to talk to Talloran, he decided to explain to him the history of how they acquired 058 and the Incidents it caused while under their containment, even showing Talloran 058's document and its related files on his laptop. Talloran became horrified at not only the disturbing history surrounding 058, but also at the fact that Johnston had sacrificed a D-Class to the monster simply because the latter had assaulted Johnston after being left to die during one 058's containment breaches. Talloran then went back to his apartment where his annoying roommates, Mark and Carl, an SCP version of Magic: The Gathering. Talloran decided to avoid interacting with and entered him room where he contemplated whether to listen to the CD he had stolen or return it to Johnston but in the end he decided to hold on to it for the time being. 
After being awoken by the noise emanating from MTF Nu-7's training, Talloran became as the day went on and eventually decided to listen to the CD. However, as he was scared that 058's recordings might have a memetic effect, he decided to play a video game while listening to it. When he heard the phrase "the drooling path" Talloran remembered that was the same phrase which made Dr. Scott go insane and looked it up in internet. This led to Talloran coming across a bizarre review about Atherton Hotel's Room 710, a hotel room in State College that causes its occupants to feel greatly satisfied with it before transforming them into hotel room. Talloran who had no idea about Room 710 became affected by the memetic effects of the customer's reviews, and prepared himself to go there. Thankfully, Mark and Carl were able to stop him before he could leave the apartment, at which point Talloran's mind became clear as the effect dozed off. Talloran went back to bed to wait for his headache to clear, but then came to the realization that Scott might have been affected by the review about Room 710 and fearing that something bad could happen to him, he attempted to call Area-14's emergency hotline. However, this caused his headache to become worse which forced Talloran crumble to the floor and fall asleep. When he awoke he found himself in a replica of Room 710 with no memories but because of the room's anomalous effects he failed to realize anything else strange. 
Upon exiting the room Talloran caught the attention of a pack of armored wolves which began going after him. As Talloran ran through a hallway he made his way to an indoor swimming pool and jumped into hoping the wolves would not follow him there. As Talloran had hoped the wolves remained at the shore, but as they waited for him to get out of the pool, Talloran splashed the water at one of them, causing them to finally leave. After he noticed that the bottom of pool was deep that light couldn't reach Talloran tried to climb up a nearby ladder to get out, but was snatched up by a tentacle which pulled him into the deep bottom of the pool. At that moment, Talloran slowly woke up in his room, the experience he just went through being a simple nightmare, and after noticing his phone immediately called the emergency hotline to alarm the Foundation about Scott. After sometime, Talloran was called to meet with Area-14's Director MacLean. Expecting to be punished, Talloran was surprised when MacLean congratulated him about letting them know about Scott's objective as this had led to the Foundation discovering Room 710, designating it SCP-2432, and SCP-3008, in which Scott had disappeared. Talloran became saddened that he was unable to save Scott, but MacLean assured him that this was probably what Scott had wanted as he most likely found closure to his years of research. MacLean then offered Talloran to make him the new lead of the SCP-058 project, but the latter refused, not wanting to be near that monster, so the director instead offered Talloran to reassign him to Site-17. 
While at Site-17, Talloran became a successful doctor and eventually a Level-3 researcher. During his time in Site-17, Talloran learned of an imprisoned poor anomaly and took pity on it, but this caused distress in him and was later reassigned and forced to make sessions with Dr. Cutler and then Dr. Glass. Draven Kondraki, a special task force agent and the son of Dir. Benjamin Kondraki, eventually developed a crush on Talloran and one day he build up the courage to tell him his feelings to which Talloran reciprocated and the two entered a relationship. During two years of being together, Talloran began doing his best in helping Draven with his father whose mental state began deteriorating over time, but as his condition kept worsening Talloran would try to comfort his partner who was being heavily affected by this. One night when Dir. Kondraki killed himself, Talloran arrived at the hospital where he found a shocked Draven whose sight caused Talloran to be saddened by this, and tried to comfort him, but after two hours he noticed that Draven had in his hands parts of his father's blown head due to Draven trying to put his father back together. After seeing this Talloran grabbed a biohazard bag and guided his boyfriend to let go of the parts, and then tried to clean Draven of the blood before his boyfriend fainted, prompting Talloran to quickly try to catch him.
After Draven woke up in the examination room, Talloran gave him his favorite jacket to wear and took him to his own house where he helped Draven to shower at which point Draven began to scream and cry, until Talloran comforted him, telling him that everything would be alright and after having him drank some sleep pills given to him by the doctor Talloran rested Draven on his bed. After being unable to sleep during the night, Talloran answered Draven's phone when it began ringing and talked to Draven's mother and tried to explain to her what had happened, but eventually he was forced on her request to wake Draven up so he could talk to her. As Draven began breaking down while talking to his mother, Talloran became dismayed by the sight and tried to support his boyfriend and after finding out that he didn't sleep Draven asked Talloran to also take a rest and the two slept together. 
A few days later, Talloran accompanied Draven to his father's funeral where he began to cry along with the rest of the attendants, except for Draven who tried to be close to Talloran, before returning to his home where Talloran cried a bit more, while Draven vomited in the bathroom, startling Talloran. Following that, the two went to bed where Talloran began reading since he was unable to sleep, but after Draven woke up he forced his boyfriend to get some sleep while he read on his own. However, Draven decided to rob his father's ashes from the graveyard and asked Talloran to assist him in spreading the ashes to a place where Benjamin would have wanted, to which Talloran begrudgingly accepted. The couple drove to Łeba and together scattered the ashes of Dir. Kondraki on the sea and then together began carelessly driving around before deciding to go to McDonald's.
At some point, Talloran was appointed to conduct Test 914-0272 in which he would put various Scranton Reality Anchors through SCP-914. However, it was cancelled at the request of an agent due the inherent danger posed by the SRAs if put through 914. This later led to Sr. Researcher Teresa testing SCP-914 in the presence of a SRA to see if it would still work.
==SCP-3999==
After the couple moved into Dr. Kondraki's old apartment to live together, Talloran and his friend Dr. Yamada were reassigned to Site 118, much to Draven's dismay, and upon arriving Talloran was assigned to study a Keter-class anomaly designated SCP-3999. However, upon entering the chamber of 3999, the entity snatched Talloran and began torturing the poor researcher by manipulating all of reality around them. As part of its torture Talloran was removed from contact with the Foundation and put in a secluded area, before removing him from human population and having him commit suicide, but was then removed from all animal life and trapped in a secluded shack. 3999 then had various Mobile Task Forces to kill Talloran's family and friends and proceeded to nail their corpses to the outside wall of Talloran's office where Talloran was forced to watch as 3999 burned the corpses right in front of him. 3999 then had Talloran's colleagues poisoned by trained Foundation agents.
After that Talloran had his memories removed and was made to think that he was a high Fifthist leader named Brian Fredrick Bondiskey who was delivered to the Serpent's Hand alongside 3999, which masqueraded itself as a Fifthist artifact. Talloran was then forced to remain together with 3999 by the Hand who were informed that the leader and the artifact should not be separated. 3999 then used SCP-2432 to create a maze connected with a pocket dimension identical to 2432. Talloran was turned into an inhabitant of the dimension alongside other organisms, but after being discovered by Foundation agent who were exploring the anomaly they killed him following their interview. Talloran was temporarily removed from 3999, reunited with it, temporarily killed, placed inside the entity, and removed again from 3999 but still connected to it. Talloran then found himself inside an unfamiliar site being interviewed by a doctor. Talloran tried to explain his experience to the doctor but he soon realized that the doctor was a construct of 3999 which ate the doctor before causing the floor to vanish and letting Talloran fall into the blackness.
Eventually Talloran was forced to live with his mother until this thing was blown over, and Talloran was forced to assist personnel who were affected by 3999's infohazard. After 3999 faked its death, Talloran was made to think that he was now free and lived a happy life with his loved ones. Following this illusion Talloran was forced to remove himself from his own ego by meditating, but this failed and he was shot in the head by personnel, and after seeing that 3999 was unaffected by this, the entity had the personnel use a submachine gun to shoot Talloran's still living corpse multiple times. 3999 then made Talloran the precious son of the Dursleys family from Harry Potter who were also the leaders of the Global Occult Coalition in the reality created by 3999. After having Talloran witness his colleagues remove their hands and eyes, 3999 masqueraded itself as a Maxwellist artifact while Talloran was made to think that he was a high Maxwellist leader named Max Lipshitz, and were again forced to remain together by the Church of the Broken God. After Talloran was transformed into a scented candle, 3999 went on to rape Talloran's younger sister and after mutilating her it reversed the damage and hanged out with her. 3999 had some children laugh at Talloran's back, and tortured him once a month before playing American comedy specials with MTF Rho-19, Fifthist Patton Oswalt and Talloran's mother.
After Talloran was locked inside a secluded Foundation cell, he tried to get out of 3999's cell via the door, but when realizing that it would not open he tried to leave via another way which left him to return back to where he was. He tried to exit through the door again, but instead slammed into a wall which was part of a pedestal holding a representation of 3999. Talloran tried to think of a way out and decided to desperately claw at the floor beneath him and was successful in opening a hole. However, this attempt failed and he, alongside 3999, were inserted into an incoherent loop show where a family performed an act to impress a talent agent. Talloran tried to fight back, but 3999 forced MTF Lambda-14 to inject him with a great number of tapeworm eggs once a month. After Talloran was forced to feed 3999 some cornflakes, the entity made everyone on Earth hate him due to racism, before making personnel consider Talloran as a product of Prometheus Labs, Inc. which caused them to execute him twice a month, while his father was flayed alive in front of his mother and then burned along with the house. The personnel then inserted a hose inside Talloran's rectum causing his entire body to be filled with water, taking a spherical shape before exploding. After dying repeatedly and forced into complete seclusion again, Talloran was split into several copies who were forced to perform the containment procedures of SCP-2845.
SCP-3999 in the form of Death began chocking Talloran and asked him if he understood the pleasure of drowning in ichor or the troubles that feast upon life to which Talloran responded that he simply wanted to have a happy normal life, and tried to hope for a chance of freedom, but 3999 mentally destroyed Talloran before killing him and breaking reality. Talloran then found himself as a fetus developing within his mother's womb before going to a near light and burning alive. He then found himself in a black room where 3999 took the guises of Talloran's mother, sister and niece and began to slowly kill him with a knife and some wasps causing Talloran to experience his past memories. His body was then transported to a baseball stadium where his parents first met and they began taunting him. However, after being brought back to life yet again Talloran found himself in a movie setup where he came across a projection of Dr. Yamada in a beach resort formed from his memories. The projection told Talloran he was temporarily safe from 3999 and guided him to a projection of Site-118 where he narrowly escaped 3999. He and "Yamada" proceeded to walk under the starry night, eventually entering through a gate where they came across SCP-765. As Talloran began remembering his good memories he accidentally manifested a projection of Dr. Glass who starts a session with Talloran while "Yamada" slowly fades away. As 3999 began to take back control "Glass" informs Talloran that he should accept the bad things that happened around him be it his fault or not before he too faded away leaving Talloran at the mercy of 3999 again.
Talloran was pinned to a conveyor belt of a big machine where 3999 began to bite on his body, but Talloran was unable to feel pain anymore. A confused 3999 discussed with itself about this occurrence and went on to hack away at Talloran's body. After that Talloran was presented with a projection resembling a colorful Rorscharch test which began talking to Talloran in his own voice and asking about his fear and his gender identity. 3999 was then irritated at Talloran's numbness and decided to leave him alone to contemplate at his request and so Talloran became stronger. After countless years of torture, Talloran became bored of 3999's attempts of torment and began talking to 3999 who decided to open up to Talloran and confess about its insecurity. Talloran takes the opportunity to temporarily escape the torment and at that moment saw a number of happy and sad lives that happened in other realities, and after seeing these lives he let himself to be recaptured by 3999. This time 3999 transformed the reality around them into a trial of Talloran for his "crimes" while 3999 became the judge. The crimes Talloran was charged with were: Working for the Foundation Instead of Pursuing a Better Career, Anhedonia, Mental Illness in General, Inability to Cope, Non-Conforming Gender, Non-Conforming Sexuality, Taking Shit Too Seriously, Unable to Care About Others Adequately and Frustration With Hobbies, and was sentenced to more continued self-assessment and prolonged imprisonment. While being crowded by the paparazzi, Talloran used a grenade disguised as an apple to get free and run away. After the grenade destroyed all of reality around him, Talloran kept running through the nothingness hoping to finally escape the hellish torment, and eventually came across a black line in the horizon and upon investigating it he began falling. While falling he began thinking about Draven before crushing through the forums of the wiki's authors and after realizing what was going on he guided the reader to the next tale.
== Possible Endings ==
=== Common ===
He confronted 3999 in an interview and told it that after millions of years he had grown numb to the pain and the suffering delivered by it, and became determined to finally end its reign of terror. However, 3999 simply melted Talloran's body leaving the dunkleowolves to slurp the goo. Despite this, 3999 realized that it was all a waste of time and energy, and that this experience was greatly hurting its mental state and couldn't take it anymore, and so after Talloran reformed himself it decided to let him finally kill both of them and end all of this. Following their deaths, reality was returned to normal with everyone having no recollection of what had happened, with the Foundation only thinking that Talloran went missing for three months. Foundation staff eventually found the unconscious body of Talloran inside the empty chamber of SCP-3999, and besides his body was his phone where he wrote his experience while being tortured by the entity.
=== ...Like Clockwork ===
After talking to the author of the tales about their personal struggles, Talloran finally realized that 3999 was capable of doing all of this thanks to his own existence and he used this to gain control of the situation. At that moment Talloran formed a cord that went around both of their necks and began fighting each other. After the cord snapped Talloran transported both of them in the interview room where 3999 initially snatched Talloran up. Following another heated argument, Talloran strangled it causing the surrounding reality to be destroyed. His unconscious body was found by the Foundation who soon realized that he was still alive and rushed him to the hospital. Upon waking up Talloran lied to them since they probably wouldn't believe him and was reunited with Draven.
While at the hospital, Talloran was given Class-C Amnestics in order to forget all of that horrible experience and after full recovery Draven took him to their home. However, as a side effect of the amnestics Talloran had at first forgotten how to read and this greatly affected him, but Draven comforted him and assured him that everything would be alright. The two eventually got married and had a son whom they named Ben after Draven's later father. Following the Broken Masquerade scenario that happened as a result of SCP-2217, Dr. Kothari gave the couple SCP-6314-K, an intelligent kinkajou named Kristen which enjoys cuddling, as a pet as part of the release of the harmless anomalies.
===Fond Memories===
It was revealed that Talloran killing 3999, marrying Draven and living a happy life together, was in actuality all a lie created by SCP-3999 to further torment him. As reality around Talloran slowly fell apart, 3999 resumed his torture of Talloran until the end of times.
===Beyond the Rubicon===
One day almost all of baseline humanity went extinct due to a Calamity, leaving only the nonhuman creatures or abnormal humans. This included the Talloran who was also wiped alongside other humans.
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