SCP-1762-2

SCP-1762-2 are characters from the SCP Foundation series. They are benevolent entities that resembled various paper dragons that emerged from SCP-1762-1, a formerly Safe-class, now Neutralized SCP which acted as a portal between the real world and the fantasy world, but was destroyed as humanity didn't believe in that sort of stuff anymore.
==Appearance==
They resemble dragons from both Western and Eastern cultures and are made entirely of Kami-type origami paper. Instances vary in size between 9 to 30 centimeters (approx. 3.5 to 11.8 inches).
==Behavior and Procedure==
During one of SCP-1762-1's events, instances of SCP-1762-2 will fly out of the box at speeds of roughly 15 kilometers per hour (approx. 9.3 miles per hour) at numbers ranging between fifty to over four hundred instances (with some exceptions). After spending roughly two to three hours interacting with individuals, they will then return to SCP-1762-1 (which will indicate when it is time to return by emitting smoke). Once all instances of SCP-1762-2 have disappeared passed SCP-1762-1's rim, the box will close and cease activity until the next event. Times between events are always random and inconsistent.
==Personality==
Specimens of SCP-1762-2 are described as being very playful and peaceful towards humans, and love to interact with them.
During the "Jabberwocky Event", messages released from SCP-1762-1 revealed that SCP-1762-2 was at conflict with various hostile species and that they were trying to protect their special relationship with humans (which the other species viewed as inferior).
==History==
===Possible Origins===
====The Enlightened Children====
Dragons also known as "Sky Keepers" were born from an egg created by their father Bahamut and incubated by Pangloss' flames, they also received gifts from the two deities. The dragons ruled the skies for many years, spreading knowledge to the inhabitants below including four people known as "The Enlightened Children" and bestowed upon them each their own gift known as "The Four Noble Oaths". The first danger came to the Sky Keepers in the form of Bahji and her Chuba which resulted in war, ultimately the evil tigress and her spawn were defeated and sealed away by Bahamut along with himself to ensure that the evil does not return. Over time the world became peaceful again but that changed with the birth of twin faeries, one pure (The Inventor) and the other rotten (Queen Mab) as noticed by one dragon in particular named Avalus. Word got round that dragons were found dead in their nest and the culprit was Mab who drained the dragon powers and using the silver woodwind amassed an army which threatened the Sky Keepers' lives. Avalus along with other dragons gathered a great many of the worlds people and fled into another existence in what would be known as SCP-1762 in order to escape "The Mad Queen" until the day came when they could return to world but not before giving the pure twin the Scale Heart to overthrow her evil sister. Those that weren't able to make it hid deep underground in caves within the mountains and would be known as SCP-7629. Years later SCP-1762 would be found by the SCP Foundation.
===Modern Times===
Sometime in the early 2000s, SCP-1762-1 began experiencing a number of strange phenomena dubbed by the Foundation as "The Jabberwocky Event" that lasted for almost an entire year.
In 2004, SCP-1762-1 warmly greeted the Foundation and began its period of events as normal with large numbers of SCP-1762-2, each began interacting playfully and peacefully with Foundation personnel. 
By 2005 however, fewer instances of SCP-1762-2 began to appear, and overtime, it was revealed why: the world that SCP-1762-2 lived in was at war with what they described as "giants" and "elves", which had hostile views towards humans, and wished that the containment area where SCP-1762-1 was stored was "bigger", eventually war broke out in this world (indicated by a single instance of SCP-1762-2 emerging before dying and SCP-1762-1 emitting smoke that was larger and more violent than before, alongside damaged specimens of SCP-1762-2 that died shortly after their expulsion).
Eventually, a message was released from SCP-1762-1, which revealed that the world that SCP-1762-2 had lived in was "gone", eventually the message "HERE BE DRAGONS" on top of SCP-1762-1 were replaced with "HERE WERE DRAGONS" and SCP-1761-1 ceased activity for good.
Nearly eight years after all activity ceased in SCP-1762-1 and instances of SCP-1762-2 were last seen, a book was released from SCP-1762-1 (dubbed 1762-BOL-1 by the Foundation) which contained information about the various different species of SCP-1762-2, which were all listed as being extinct, as well as an amethyst reading "One Last Time", afterwards SCP-1762-1 began emitting smoke once more for forty minutes before ceasing activity once more. When an attempt was made to pick it up by the head researcher Yoshihiro Takenaka, the box disintegrated.
Since the incident, the remains of SCP-1762-1, as well as three deceased specimens of SCP-1762-2 are kept in Takenaka's office as a commemoration to the peaceful species, which as since been reclassified as "Neutralized".
During an expedition into SCP-5795, a gateway between baseline reality and another plane of existence, SCP-1762-2 are seen flying along with large cicada entities around Damien Nowak and his cult group known as "the Children". When the cult addressed what the Foundation had done to them, they are saddened.
===Possible Endings===
====I Did Not Fade====
WIP
==Other Media==
===Unity Remake===
SCP-1762-2 appear in the Unity Remake of SCP: Containment Breach. If the player unlocks SCP-1762-1 using an argon three instances of SCP-1762-2 will emerge from the box soon followed by a multiple others flying around their containment chamber. If the player reloads the game or goes a sufficient distance away only the three first instances will remain. It was planned for SCP-1762-2 to aid the player in future updates before the game was closed down.
==Trivia==
*SCP-1762 appears to have been based on the book The Neverending Story about the magical world of Fantasia being slowly destroyed due to lack of human belief. Coincidentally or not Falkor, one of the main characters of the book, is a dragon himself. The title "Here Be Dragons" is a referring to dangerous and unexplored territories which were marked on maps with dragons among other mythological monsters.
*In "Experiment Log 914 - Part XIII", when Dr. Dorin put inside SCP-914 six stacks of printing paper in multiple colors, one cardboard box spray-painted silver on the interior with measurements similar to SCP-1762, and five photographs of SCP-1762 on the Very Fine settings, 914 produced a detailed origami diorama depicting a fantasy setting with paper dragons looking similar to the SCP-1762-2 instances. While at first it appeared to be not anomalous when staff began moving the diorama to different location inside Site 19, the paper dragons came to life and began flying around Dorin's office.
*In the first experiment in testing SCP-2431, a misfolded cellular protein which forms large, oily and viscous sapient clumps and when exposed to images or origami constructs would emulate them, Researcher Assistant Bates presented to two aggregates of SCP-2431 one instance of SCP-1762-2 which caused the two aggregates to split into 30 new instances that resembled the dragon and began acting like them.
*SCP-3844 is a spiritual successor to SCP-1762 as it also deals with a friendly dragon who slowly ceased to exist due to humanity losing belief in dragons and fantasy.
*In the universe of SCP-6001 where the Compendium, a benevolent amalgam organization of different GoIs, took over the world and declared worldwide peace with all anomalies, countless SCP-1762-2 are seen thriving, roaming Earth, forming nests and acting as stewards to the New Alexandria.
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