Charles Gears

Dr. Charles Ogden Gears, M.S. (18 August 1956-) is a prominent scientist at the SCP Foundation. Gears is the current Director of Site-17,Dr. Cimmerian Hits Reply All the previous Director of Euclid-level Containment at Site-19, and the former Facility 23 supervisor. Gears is also an active contributor to the SCP database, having created numerous entries and documents.Dr.Gears' Personnel File
==History==
===Before the Foundation===
Born with the initials "COG", little is known about "Charles Gears" other than the fact that he was born on August 18, 1956. It is also rumored that he is the son of O5-1, also known as "The Founder",O5 Command Dossier who had put Gears through a traumatic upbringing in order to develop his anomalous power which he had inherited from him. Gears has been unable to communicate feelings since childhood, and his mother claims that he rarely cried, despite the fact that he felt emotions.Entry Page: 1799 Gears married Leanne Zhu Chao, and the couple had a daughter named Alison.Black Queen HubPersonnel and Character Dossier Gears would spend time with his daughter and had fun together;Entry Page: 4982 once, she tried to draw him with the wrong colors, and he laughed.
Gears eventually caught the attention of the SCP Foundation and was recruited. After being amnesticized and forgetting the majority of his life prior to joining the Foundation, he was eventually brought into the Scientific Department at Site-19, unknowingly abandoning his wife and daughter, who were heartbroken by his unexpected disappearance. When Gears first joined, he was given the code name "COG" because the Foundation's strategy at the time was to derive code names from initials. Over time, the Foundation drained him of feeling, leaving him a cold, calculating man who aspired solely to complete his tasks thoroughly. He left an epitaph in Tasmania for a future assistant to follow in his footsteps.
===Work under the Foundation===
Gears swiftly progressed up the ranks, eventually becoming a valuable doctor in the Scientific Department due to his no-nonsense approach and determination to complete any experiment.
Eventually, a now-classified event at Site-19 caused him to experience serious internal bleeding and partial blindness. Despite his injuries, Gears completed his experiment and arrived at the medical ward approximately half an hour later.
Gears later had a crucial annual meeting with an O5 Council member, during which they addressed Gears' views toward the anomalous.
===Recovery of 882===
Gears oversaw SCP-882's recovery, finally ordering SCP-2519 to be played on repeat due to multiple accidents during the recovery procedure, allowing the Foundation to relocate 882 to the appropriate containment facility. He also interviewed Richard Wright, who indirectly educated him about 882's cognitohazardous risks. This interview helped Gears develop the correct containment techniques.Entry Page: 882
===Test 914-0101===
Gears was soon chosen to be the supervisor at Site-19 Facility 23 in 2008, overseeing all experimentation relating to SCP-914.
He conducted Test 914-0101, in which he ran four clockwork pocket watches that belonged to him through 914 on Fine for each. The first produced a clockwork bird that emits a robin's call when its tail is pressed, the second a toy clockwork train, the third a functional miniature grandfather clock, and the fourth a small metal sculpture of a piano.
In his notes, Gears wrote that 914 had a high degree of chance when utilizing it, primarily utilizing the original object's composition as a baseline; as an example, he stated that a metal bar would likely get a simple metal object rather than an internal combustion engine, but its still possible.Experiment Log 914
===Test 914-0102===
Gears conducted another experiment utilizing three copies of documentation relating to SCP-914. These were ran on different settings for each. The first was ran on 1:1 and produced the a folder containing all documentation in chronological order. The next was ran on Fine, producing the 914 Diagram Book, a 400 page book containing extremely complex code that details the internal structure of 914; two partially translated sentences took Foundation cryptographers 225 work-hours. 
The final copy was ran on Very Fine, which produced the 914 Documentation Page, a singular page that when turned over, shows what should be the next page. This continues until the documentation ends, to which one could flip the other way to access it. It's been determined that is significantly easier to store, though is time consuming to navigate. 
General ████████ exclaimed in a note that 914 was messing with the Foundation despite the lack of sentience from the machine. Gears noted that there was some difficulty determining the difference between Rough and Course settings, noting that the machine either operated on a scale of complexity or of simplification.
===Termination of Duke===
In the aftermath of Dr. Benjamin Kondraki's termination of SCP-083-D, Gears was interviewed regarding the incident. He stated that Kondraki's actual goal was to instead ride SCP-682, using the failed termination of 083-D as an excuse to do so.Duke 'till Dawn
===204 Containment Breach===
Gears and Agent Williams were assigned to oversee the cleanup of the recent breach of SCP-204. During their search across many bodies and pieces of rubble, the two discovered two survivors; this was highly unusual for 204, as they killed anyone who could possibly harm 204-1. The survivors were Assistant Researcher Ann Wells and her daughter Jill. After some time, Gears realized that Jill was a 204-1, and he sent her to be contained as an SCP. Her mother was amnesticized and sent to work at another site. Though Williams initially protested, Gears reminded him that he is not to treat SCPs as humans, even if they seemed as such.Lullaby
===Experimenting on Kramer===
After the Foundation got in their custody a cyborg girl named Kramer after she escaped her previous captors Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd., they were unsure what to do with her and decided to classify her as an SCP. However, Gears intervened by submitting a report on how Kramer's advanced technological system was inefficient and had room for improvements. Since the Foundation at the time were looking into brain-machine interface, they sought to use Kramer as part of this research and had SCP-212 conduct several surgical augmentations on her, but it eventually refused to work on her anymore as it didn't see her as human, leaving the Foundation to just keep her for the time being.Reflections
===SCP Foundation: The Movie===
In order to cover up a Foundation document leak in the public, Dr. Michael Edison kidnapped a couple of low directors and several famous actors to create a movie based on the Foundation and its anomalies to make it appear like it was all fiction. One of the characters in the movie was Gears portrayed by Ben Stein. Although, Gears, unlike most of the other personnel, thought that his portrayal was accurate to him, he was repulsed by the rest of the movie.SCP Foundation: The Movie
===Termination of Ben===
As SCP-1016-D was becoming more harder to contain due to him accessing the site's internet and being violent to staff, the higher-ups formed Termination Order 1881712-DDrt-1016 to decommission him which involved exposing 1016-D to Memetic Kill Agent 11010 that would shut down his mind, allowing the staff to take him apart and use his components for other uses. Dr. Gears was chosen to carry out the order and so he went to SCP-1016-D's chamber and requested to follow him to Testing Area 8-B where his abilities were needed. Upon arriving to the testing area, Gears instructed SCP-1016-D to connect to the computer server present in the room, lying to him that a file sequence had been deeply encrypted. SCP-1016-D unsuspecting of anything did what he was asked, but was exposed to the memetic kill agent, causing him to fall to the floor and breakdown while leaking both bodily and machine fluids.
With the first stage of the decommissioning complete, Gears moved on to the second. He picked up the nearby tools and used them to take apart SCP-1016-D's body, separating the biological components, such as his still beating heart, from the valuable technological ones. After all necessary components were claimed and stored, Gears was to have a post-Incident psychological evaluation with Dr. Glass. During their session, Gears displayed no remorse, guilt or shock over his actions, leaving Glass to end the session early as per usual, simply describing Gears as 'axiomatic preoccupations with duty, and complete lack of empathy'.Termination Log SCP-1016
===Work with Iceberg===
Gears woke up early due to an explosion occurring as a result of a new agent stepping inside SCP-236's containment area. The explosion was fortunately contained, while Gears prepared to go to work. After leaving his dormitory, Gears was approached by another doctor about a new subject to be introduced to SCP-212 following the last one's disastrous death and tasked Gears to supervise and document the proceedings tomorrow. Gears spent the morning preparing documents for transfer to the Central Records as it was decided to update the database to all-digital format, although some concern arose about the sheer size and risk of being breached.
During lunch, Gears witnessed as MTF Zeta-9 "Mole Rats" began bragging about their exciting missions and making fun of the other teams which was soon followed by a fight. It was later resolved when Agent Dorlin used his augmented body to separate the parties involved. Near the end of lunch, SCP-529 came and stole a piece of ham from Gears' plate. He reported it to Site Security who assured him that it was normal for 529. After Gears scheduled an interview with SCP-172 he was notified that he would be receiving a new assistant following the last one's exposure to SCP-008, to which he found relieving.
The next day, a false alarm occurred which caused a brief lockdown in the morning. Gears then met up with Dr. "Iceberg" who was assigned to work alongside him. He first tasked Iceberg with compiling several stacks of reports to be sent to the Central Records. Gears was then notified that the experiment with 212 was to be postponed due to the subject failing drug screening. He went on to interview 172 who presented Gears with schematics about an air gun for nonlethal combat and his other projects. Gears requested 172 to finish the gun although he was wary about his other projects and planned to ask Site Supervision if the anomaly was allowed to work on them.
During lunch in his office, Gears noticed that Iceberg had done a good job on the reports. He decided to have him assist in the testing of SCP-882 since the anomaly had been inactive and it would prove a valuable learning experience for Iceberg as he had yet to come across a high-security SCP. Gears later learned that SCP-076-2 had breached containment and attacked some nearby personnel after mishearding some of their comments, but was fortunately resolved quickly with casualties.
The next day, while on their flight to SCP-882's containment area, Gears was notified that the anomaly while being transported to the testing area had left its secured transportation tank and stroke a large metal door, bonding to it and trapping several agents and staff with it. Upon landing, Gears was also notified that a snowstorm was approaching and they would be forced to stay for at least two weeks. Although most of the containment area was unsealed, several other areas near the site had been infected by 882. The personnel had been able to separate all connections to the accident site and purge the infection from several rooms and halls, although two agents, one doctor and three D-Class were still stuck inside the affected areas. Despite the turn of events, Command decided to continue with the testing regardless, instead focusing on the group dynamic when under stress. Gears tasked Iceberg with setting up a central observation post with several CCTV and other monitoring devices as they don't appear to have been infected.
Gears began observing as 882 became active and started to convert nearby metal into its mass while the personnel stuck with began hearing noises emitting from it. Iceberg observed as D-882/1 had fallen victim to the anomaly's effects and during the night he became drawn to it which caused him to be consumed by 882. This alarmed the other trapped personnel who began begging to be rescued. When it was daytime, the storm arrived and trapped Gears and Iceberg to their research area and were informed that several equipment had been damaged and they may lose contact with the infected area in the ensuing days.
As food was running low and the available equipment were lacking, Command sent an emergency supply drop the next day during a break in the storm. It landed several yards off its mark, impacting with an agent's jeep. Both Gears and Iceberg help unloading, getting the necessary equipment, medical and food supplies. Meanwhile, one of the trapped agents had committed suicide, the other attempted to destroy the cameras, and the doctor began feeding 882 some metal to make its noise stop. This greatly concerned Gears as he feared that 882 would expand itself but was assured by the other personnel that they were out of its range and he and Iceberg would be safe since their working area was lined with SCP-148.
Unfortunately just as Gears had feared, it was revealed that 882's range had been large than previously thought and the majority of the personnel had compromised for the exception of Gears and Iceberg. Soon the whole area erupted in chaos, with the personnel allowing 882 to properly breach while attempting to get to Gears and Iceberg who had barricaded themselves in their shielded testing area and contacted the Foundation for an Emergency Response Team to intervene, but due to weather conditions it was unknown when they would arrive. The response team arrived six days later, at which point the majority of personnel had been dead to various causes, with the rest recovered and quarantined. SCP-882 was successfully contained and its containment zone was reconstructed. Thankfully, Gears and Iceberg were safely rescued, with Gears suffering minimal damage while Iceberg's injuries were a bit more severe as he had been the one who mostly fought the maddened personnel. Gears fearing that Iceberg might have also been mildly affected by 882 and had him assigned to Dr. Glass while he himself decided to ask 172 to construct a special combat device for him to use in future events.Personal Log Of Dr Gears
At one point, Iceberg and Gears were testing explosives for application to MTF usage. Though the tests initially went fine, a slowbomb resulted in serious injury for the two, necessitating a trip to the Site-19 infirmary. There, Iceberg inquired to his name, his nature, and why Gears is the way he is. Though he left more questions than answers, Iceberg continued to work under the mysterious company man.Epitaph
===Incident 239-B - Clef-Kondraki===
As the containment procedures for SCP-239 were failing, Dr. Clef decided to terminate her himself, since most of the Foundation refused to neutralize her despite the threat she posed, and some personnel even formed some attachment to the girl. While Gears and his partner and friend Prof. Pathos Crow were working on SCP-244-ARC, the alarm was activated due to Clef forcefully breaking into Site-17 utilizing several SCPs. Wanting to stop Clef from going through with his plan Gears rushed to SCP-239's containment chamber, while Crow equipped himself with SCP-244-ARC.
Upon entering 239's chamber the two embraced each other before Gears instructed the little reality-bender to use her "spell book" to banish the "Great Darkness" that had possessed Clef. When the two confronted Clef, who had been battling Dr. Kondraki in a sword fight, 239 used her powers to banish the darkness, but this resulted in the creation of a dragon from Clef's body. As the dragon began to further destroy the facility, Gears took 239 to a safe room in order to keep themselves safe. He then injected 239 with some chemicals which sent her into a coma. While she began falling into a comatose state, Gears said her "good night", while Crow used 244 to kill the dragon. Following the incident, Gears was among the involved individuals who were interrogated about the incident, in which he was scolded for his actions.Incident 239-B - Clef-Kondraki
===Incident 076-2_682===
After SCP-682 breached containment and destroyed a populated area in Northern Canada, killing all civilians, Gears alongside Crow and two Generals accompanied Mobile Task Force Omega-7 "Pandora's Box" in order to supervise and observe the recapture of the monster, much to SCP-076-2's annoyance. The personnel then witnessed 076-2 battle 682 which ended in both anomalies incapacitating each other and allowing the Foundation personnel to recontain 682.Archived Incident 076-2_682
===Dr. Rights' Birthday===
When the birthday of Dr. Rights came, she became grumpy and disruptive, since no party was planned for her. After Gears informed an agent on what her deal was, the agent tried to wish Rights a happy birthday, but this only maddened her even more. Gears thought that this needed to stop so he alongside several personnel decided to make a surprise birthday party for Rights in Site-19's break room. He lied to Rights that he needed some assistance in the break room for a private matter, but Rights interpreted in another way and complied. Gears led Rights to the break room where the personnel shouted "SURPRISE!!", while one of them put a party hat on Gears, much to the shock of Rights.Rights' Birthday Party
===Interviewing Mr. Laughs===
During Gears' visit to Site-55, the Foundation had just contained SCP-1799. After Dr. Justine Everwood found it difficult to interview him due to constantly laughing, they requested Gears to conduct the next interview as he possessed high memetic resistance and was unable to express any emotions, but the real reason they requested his assistance was to see him laugh for once. At the start of the interview 1799 refused to speak, but after Gears assured that he wouldn't laugh at him and if he accidentally did would immediately end the interview 1799 decided to finally talk in order to get over it. However, 1799 was shocked and pleased when Gears didn't in fact laugh and so the interview continued. The two decided to ask each other questions as 1799 was also curious about about Gears.
Gears asked 1799 about his creation by Doctor Wondertainment and his relationship with his creator and fellow products, and after the latter answered he proceeded to ask Gears if ever laughed. Gears informed him about that time his daughter attempted to draw him, causing 1799 to inquire more about his daughter, but Gears simply responded that he had lost contact with her after being forced to work for the Foundation. Despite this, 1799 continued asking Gears about his relationship with his daughter, until the doctor ran out of questions, leading to him closing the interview and leaving much to 1799's dismay.
===Termination of Kondraki===
As Dr. Benjamin Kondraki was increasingly becoming extremely problematic while demanding loyalty from his subordinates, the O5 Council had enough of him and decided to form a plan to secretly assassinate him and appointed both Clef and Gears to do the job. The first step was to take SCP-408 away from Kondraki in order to weaken him. As part of the plan Gears presented Kondraki with false documents stating that the illusionary butterflies were capable of entering a third life stage and had Agent Dmitri Strelnikov contain them inside a chamber. As expected Kondraki caught up to the scheme and attacked Clef as he suspected that he was the one sent by the Overseers to kill him. The two shot at each other, forcing Kondraki to retreat to Gears' office. Gears offered to assist him in his injuries, but when Kondraki wasn't looking Gears quickly pulled his gun and shot his fellow doctor through the head, killing him. Shortly after killing him Gears felt remorse over his actions and grief over the loss of his friend, but as ordered by the Council he proceeded with the rest of plan. The assassination was covered up as Kondraki mentally breaking down and committing suicide.The King Is Dead
===Iceberg's Suicide and Agent Lament===
Eventually, after ten years, as Iceberg realized that he was becoming more like Gears, he decided to end his own life rather than being a living puppet to the Foundation. Before killing himself, Iceberg left a note which was found beside his corpse by Gears, who informed the O5 Council about this incident.In His Own Image: Part 3 Despite not showing any emotion, Gears deep down felt grief over the loss of his friend.In His Own Image: Epilogue Following Iceberg's suicide Gears gained a new assistant, the newly arrived Agent Troy Lament, and the two got along very well.In His Own Image: Part 1 During their time working together, Gears assigned to Lament the duty to improve containment of SCP-106 and SCP-884.In His Own Image: Part 2
After a year working together, Lament sought to transfer from his current position due to becoming unsatisfied with his job, but it was denied by Gears because he believed that Lament could help improve the containment of SCP-106 and decided to also recruit the help of Assistant Researcher Sandlemyer since the two were best friends and worked well together.In His Own Image: Part 4 However, when 106 breached containment and killed everyone except Lament,In His Own Image: Part 5 Gears tried to comfort his assistant as best as he could and had Lament take a psychological evaluation with Dr. Glass.In His Own Image: Part 6 Some years later, after Lament was able to retrieve SCP-884 from the Chaos Insurgency,In His Own Image: Part 7 he once again requested to transfer which was this time accepted. Lament informed Gears about this on Gears' birthday and after giving him a present bid him farewell.In His Own Image: Interlude 6
===Appointment to 2000===
At some point, Gears was tapped to become SCP-2000's HMCL supervisor. He accepted historian Henrietta Eisenhower's request not to set the device's resume date to more than 20 years, agreeing that another world war wasn't needed. Gears also ordered that new proposals for behavioral modifications on the BZHR units were not to be accepted anymore, as the Foundation has found an optimal solution already.Entry Page: 2000
===Catching up to current events===
Gears went to his office to log into SCiPnet to report on the latest CK-class Restructuring Scenario that had affected SCP-049, only to notice that the Foundation's logo had been changed to include a Rainbow Flag with additional colors. Fearing that the database had been breached by a GoI, possibly the Gamers Against Weed, Gears called Clef to report it to him. Clef upon learning Gears' concern explained to him that the organization had changed the logo to include the Pride Flag for the Pride Month to support their employees of the LGBTQ+ community and those of color. Gears was perplexed at this as he had been mostly isolated from the outside world and thought that the Foundation wasn't concerned with politics, and asked Clef on why he was taking it that well. Clef clarified that it is a good thing to support the minorities and not be affiliated with xenophobic groups before explaining that the reason he was so accepting was so he could be invited to Draven and Researcher Talloran's wedding. As Gears became assured that nothing was wrong with the database dismissed Clef and continued working although he was still confused over all this case.Over(thinking) the Rainbow
===Brief reunion===
Following the capture of a Serpent's Hand operative Joanna Cross in Site-17, Gears was set to oversee the interrogation between the captured person of interest and an operative of MTF Tau-9 "Bookworms". Only two researchers of the MTF were available, Rita Butler and Kendra Campbell, and because Butler was Cross' half-sister it was decided to have Campbell to interrogate her. Campbell was given a script of questions to ask Cross, but this went nowhere despite Campbell interviewing Cross multiple times. Campbell inquired to Gears why she was assigned to interview Cross with useless questions, but that was above her clearance level and he simply responded that she was the only one available.Prisoners
Cross eventually managed to breach containment and together with her companions, which included Gears' grown up daughter Alison, now under the title of the Black Queen, assisted SCP-239 in defeating a Neverwere that had manifested near the site. In the aftermath of the battle, as the Foundation personnel recontained the anomalies that had breached during the event, Gears was in his temporary office when he was visited by the Black Queen. He recognized her as Alison Chao and told her that he was here as a result of her containment breach to which she responded that she would be leaving. The Black Queen offered her father an anise rose from an alternate universe which Gears took before bidding each other goodbye.Sisters
===Temporary Leave===
During the formation of MTF Alpha-9 "Last Hope", Clef had Bright force Gears to go on a temporary leave from on-site duties, although he would remain on-call. Gears met up with Crow and explained to him the situation, stating that the both of them were required to work somewhere else in order to contribute to the Alpha-9 project. Gears also showed Crow a present given by Clef containing a Hawaiian shirt of his size and silicon dildo with a handwritten note telling Gears to loosen up.
The Foundation employees decided to go to work in an old facility in northern Alberta, Canada, which was previously used for Crow's Olympia project before being restructured into the F-44 archives. Gears had brought his own sleeping bag since Crow was the only one still using the facility and had switched the bed for a futon. As they discussed their work, Crow revealed to Gears that he had read about him and his family in the archives and inquired if what he read was true. Gears was at first taken back at this, but eventually confirmed to be the case, explaining that what his father did was all customary. He then at the request of Crow displayed his ability to activate all clockwork machinery in his proximity. Gears made Crow promise to keep this classified information to himself, and moved on to the topic of their work.
===Affected by SCP-5883===
Dr. Gears was one of the subjects whose photos were used in SCP-5883. This caused his personality to be inverted and start having lewd thoughts. Within one week he had harrassed seventeen separate personnel in Site-19, forcing the Foundation to suspend him from duty. Gears then returned to his normal self when memeticist Dr. Lillian Lillihammer formed a countermeme to undo SCP-5883's effects.Entry Page: 5883
===Conversation with Clef===
After Clef's proposal to use SCP-5109 for sex was refused due to Site-19 and its personnel being considered boring, Gears was went to his office to discuss the matter. Before entering, Gears opened the door from aside in order to avoid Clef accidentally shooting at him. Although Clef had raised his shotgun he didn't shoot since he saw Gears through the door's window and asked him if they were boring to which Gears simply replied that he at least was described as such as he entered the office. Clef in anger threw the refusal letter at Gears who caught it, arguing that his reason for using SCP-5109 was valid. Gears then presented Clef with proposal to use the anomaly for sex, and despite Clef arguing that SCP-5109 would help with it Gears didn't believe that was the real reason.
Clef then admitted that he had requested SCP-5109 for Dr. Everett Mann who needed it for a science project of his and in exchange Mann would tell him who had been stealing his sandwiches as he had unable. Gears surprised at that promised Clef that he would make a few calls regarding the matter.Many Last Words
===Interviewing Dr. Cimmerian===
When the Foundation began noticing that Dr. Jeremiah Cimmerian had survived every attack and accident some of which shouldn't have been possible to survive, began investigating on a potential anomaly surrounding him.
Gears was appointed to interview Cimmerian about his luck. The two started the conversation small, with Cimmerian just reporting about his latest hairbreadth escape before Gears confronted him about all the other close encounters. Cimmerian at first tried to reason with Gears but seeing that he had been caught broke the Fourth Wall and explained to the reader that the reason why this kept happening to him was because his Author wanted to immortalize his self insert in the event that he himself died. Gears understood that and had the anomalous event surrounding Cimmerian designated as SCP-7700 and the doctor himself as SCP-7700-1.Entry Page: 7700
===Working on SCP-9005===
Dr. Gears was put to work on SCP-9005-1, a song which when repeatedly sang to children will have severe mental effects turning the children into instances of SCP-9005-2 who will then attempt to create a new environment using present materials. He worked on this project alongside Dr. Weston, examining two girls who had become instances of SCP-9005-2.
After three years have passed, Dr. Gears presented Weston with an updated file of SCP-9005. However, after she read it, Weston left the site immediately, and Gears was able to deduce that she had unconsciously sang the the song to her daughter, Emily and sent a task force to detain both of them. The task force was successful in capturing the little girl, but it is unknown what happened to the mother.SCP-9005-2
==Alternate realities==
===Ecce Perago===
In this universe, Everett Mann ascended to the rank of O5-4 and systematically killed the rest of the O5 Council before taking the mantle of the Administrator. After his father, O5-1, died, a message was sent to Gears from him. He explained that the position of O5-1 had now went to Gears, saying that he was proud of him. Gears contemplated this, finally feeling something years after he purged his emotions.Annon
===Quiet Days===
Following the neutralization of all anomalies in existence, Gears was one of the few of last personnel to remain within Site-19, helping his fellow colleagues to readjust to their new normal lives. He noticed most of the former personnel were either happy that it was all finally over or angry because they would struggle with starting over since their job was unknown to the public, but Gears became surprised at some who were saddened from the cessation of the anomalous.
After some days had passed, Gears prepared himself to also leave the site, but just he was about to he looked back and remembered his struggles with SCP-682, the fun he had testing SCP-914, and his time spending together with the other personnel, making jokes and hanging out with each other. He then remembered the moment when the anomalies were neutralized, with Dr. Bright finally dying, Dr. Clef committing suicide since he couldn't cope in the new state of the world and the usually joyful Dr. Rights who left the Foundation in a state of sorrow. As he looked through his memories, Gears for the first since his employment was hit with a wave of emotions and began crying.CryogenChaos' Comment Tales
===Cack Hard===
Dr. Charles Giers was the director of USMABO-Site-19.Entry Page: 4952
===SCP-5000===
In the alternate universe of SCP-5000, Gears was one of several Foundation senior staff members to resign on 19 December 2019, not willing to partake in omnicide, even if it theoretically saved humanity.
An assassination team was sent after him on Christmas Day, though it is unknown if the team was successful in his death or not.Entry Page: 5000
===Yesterday===
In this early version of the universe, Gears did not kill Dr. Benjamin Kondraki; though, it was believed by many that Gears killed him. After a worldwide containment breach in 2020, Charles Gears was targeted by Dr. Alto Clef on the orders of O5-12 Troy Lament in order to satisfy the Bloom's activation procedures. Gears discovered this from O5-1, and had Crow willingly enter into a medically induced coma. but not before giving Gears a poison vial for Dr. Clef.
When Clef began killing key Foundation staff members on the order of O5-12, he arrived at Gears' office where Gears awaited him. He explained to Clef that he was aware of his orders and accepted his fate, giving Clef the poison vial and the location of his comatose body; additionally, he gave Clef coordinates on where to find Kondraki. Gears was then shot and killed. After the people on the list were killed by both Clef and Dr. Sophia Light, the Bloom's conditions were satisfied, and Light entered the new iteration of the universe.Yesterday
===Bellerverse===
In the alternate reality of Bellerverse, after most of humanity went extinct, Gears and his fellow staff members tried to preserve what little of humanity was left in Site-23. They began utilizing the previously contained anomalies to benefit them and eventually were seen as gods by the tribes of the desolated world. Gears became Geyre, the god of smithing and technology, and the chief of the new pantheon of gods. It is rumored in some tribes that he constructed the old cities, and then destroyed them when they didn't please him anymore.Writing History
===Classical Revival===
In this alternate reality, Dr. Connor Owen Gerry was was born in 1949 and was a close friend and once-roommate of Dr. Adam Pathos Crow who would found the SCP Foundation. Gerry was one of the researchers who joined the Foundation, serving as Crow's second in command, but was attacked by SCP-173, leaving him with permanent brain damage which caused him to act as a robot. He was eventually killed by Agent Ukulele during a mental breakdown.Classical Revival Index Page However, he managed to survive, and then came to the revelation that Machines are the true superior beings rather than humans, and he, alongside Crom, Nala and Grape were part of the Machine. So he decided that in time, he would spread the influence of the Machine, possibly kickstarting the Church of the Broken God.And So It Is Now
===Unfounded===
In the universe in which the Foundation never existed, Gears was named Charles Ogden Geirs. He began working for the Unusual Incidents Unit,Text of a Condolence Letter - Federal Bureau of Investigation, Unusual Incidents Unit but when looking over their failed operations he noticed that the investigations were deliberately abandoned, most likely due to corrupt agents. Geirs attempted to properly look into these operations himself, one of which was about Vincent Anderson's company which made a secret agreement with UIU Special Agent Rikhart to hide his nefarious schemes.Putting a Ghost in the Machine
===House of Gears===
In this reality Gears possessed a photographic memory and was never married. While Gears was fixing an uncooperative laser printer near SCP Object Zulu Hotel Echo's containment chamber he heard several security guards engaging with an intruder. Interrupting his work Gears decided to observe what was going on and witnessed a masked person passing through the ceiling while playing on whistle a long note descending into a pitch. As Gears summarized that the person was a female human and the intruder, the woman drew a gun and an object and ordered Gears to describe the latter. Gears took the object and analyzed for a bit, figuring that it was a simple wooden toy plane, but the woman became displeased that he didn't recognize it. She then proceeded to put away the toy and used a pair of handcuffs to restrain him explaining that her name was Alison and would take him away from the Foundation. However, at that moment SCP Object Zulu Hotel Echo breached containment and attacked her, forcing Alison to use her anomalous gun to retaliate. After some struggle, an injured Alison was able to incapacitate the hostile creature by burning it.
Gears at that point tried to escape from the room as it was being engulfed in flames, but Alison pleaded to him not to disturb the ring she was forming with green powder because it would save them. She then drew out some jewels which she used to open a Way for both of them to leave the universe, while the powder was revealed to be in fact explosive which was set off when it came into contact with the flames.House Of Gears, Part One Gears then found himself on an examination table in which he was being scanned for possible abnormalities by an alternate version of him designated C-44. C-44 explained that he had been transported to a place outside of the multiverse known as the House of Gears where 218 other versions of him resided. He further explained that he had been taken by Black Queen Persephone who was an alternate version of their daughter and showed Gears the majority of the facility where he would live from now on. After doing a full tour around the facility and witnessing numerous versions of him working together on various scientific experiments, Gears was designated B-85 and given an apartment-like chamber.
In the following days, Gears began working around the facility, getting a job at the labs and further exploring other areas with C-44. While completing the tour, a warlock version of Gears who had been a member of the Chaos Insurgency went out of control and began attacking the other versions of Gears, forcing Gears and C-44 to call it of for the day. After making sure that he wasn't affected by the warlock's magic, Gears planned to properly meet him while continuing his work inside the facility.House Of Gears, Part Two
===End of Death===
In this alternate reality, in which the Foundation destroyed the existence of Death, Gears' history was similar to the main one with exception that his wife and daughter had died in a car accident before his recruitment into the Foundation.
Sometime after all life in the universe became immortal, Gears was having a discussion with Clef in his own office in Site-17, until a version of the Black Queen, designated PoI-4056 infiltrated the Site and broke in his room in order to abduct him. Thankfully Clef was able to fend her off by shooting her with a bullet-shaped tracker. As she left, the Foundation were able to locate her somewhere in northern Alaska. Upon arriving at the location after PoI-4056 left, Gears and accompanying personnel found a facility which contained 550 people biologically matching Gears, held in a cryogenic state thanks to some technology similar to Prometheus Labs, Inc.. Having designated the facility as SCP-4056, they then proceeded to awake the less abnormal looking Gears, designated AVN-966315, with the intent of interviewing him. AVN-966315 explained to Gears that PoI-4056 was alternate version of his daughter who had been kidnapping different versions of him throughout the multiverse and putting them in this universe in order to keep them safe.
After that, Gears, Clef and MTF Alpha-99 "Fridge Raiders" organized an operation to capture PoI-4056 when she returned to the facility. As soon as she arrived, she was ambushed by the Foundation forces, but was still able to fight back, until Gears himself intervened. He confronted her, telling PoI-4056 that she would be captured by the Foundation, but she tried to talk him out of this, telling Gears that she was still his daughter despite coming from another universe. Gears however, wasn't affected and proceeded to shoot her with his stun gun. After her capture, Gears interviewed her, wanting to know why she had been kidnapping his different versions from the other universes, with PoI-4056 responding that she deeply cared about him and didn't any iteration of him to die. Gears remained unfazed by this and before ending the interview he told her that she would be held in a special containment chamber by the Foundation.Entry Page: 4056
===Blackened===
In an alternate reality, Dr. Gears was deemed an anomaly by the Foundation and designated SCP-8211, but despite this he seemingly still worked for the Foundation. Eventually, SCP-682 breached containment and began killing the staff members, which included Gears who got disemboweled by the monster. His daughter Alison arrived to be reunited with her father, but it was too late as he had died, while 682 continued its rampage.Blackened
===Castling By Hand===
In an alternate universe in which a bloody revolution broke out in America, Gears was seen still working for the Foundation which was unaffected by the outside conflict. Suddenly, a Black Queen under the guise of Dr. Julia Bitterfield broke inside the site where Gears was working. After encountering him, she quickly knocked Gears out using her taserspike and both got out of the site. After settling inside an abandoned apartment, she explained to Gears her story of her and her father which prompted him to also explain his version of his story about him and his daughter. After he gained enough trust from the Black Queen the two hugged and at that point Gears used his own taserspike to knock her out, allowing the Foundation to detain her and give her the designation of SCP-AATR.Castling By Hand
===Aces and Eights===
In this alternate universe which took place in the Old Wild West, Gears was originally a scholar before becoming a commander who fought during the Civil War in Yellowstone. He was able to win the war by inventing his own tactics, and took part in the celebration parade alongside his daughter.
Years later he began living alone in his mansion with his servants. One day he was approached by the journalist Iris Thompson who intended to interview Gears about the war. When she arrived Gears insisted to eat first before talking. After finishing eating, Gears interrupted Thompson as she was about to ask him, correctly assuming that she wanted to learn about Yellowstone.Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone
===T-6722===
In the Timeline of T-6722 an EK-class scenario happened for some unknown reason which resulted in the demise of humanity of that timeline. Dr. Gears of that timeline was able to escape by amnesticizing himself and fleeing to Timeline L-99. In this timeline he took antimemetic properties and became a Nobody with no memories of his prior life.
Eventually he found out about Richardson Island, also known to this timeline's Foundation as SCP-8249 with its anomalous properties being that people who go there will have their lost memories back, while also experiencing hallucinations of the past, the future or about something else related to them, but also causes those people to be disfigured. Gears now a Nobody decided to go there alongside some Foundation operatives in order to have his memories back. However, when he arrived at the boat early in the morning, he instead met with this timeline's Black Queen who had stolen the boat. He figured out she was going to the same island, and both of them reluctantly decided to work together.
After arriving on the island, they were subjugated to its anomalous properties, such as finding themselves in the same position while walking for kilometers and having various appendages growing out of their bodies. They also began experiencing hallucinations, with Gears seeing a female Nobody who revealed to him his original timeline which he didn't understand and remembering the EK-class scenario. When the Black Queen had an hallucination of her lost father she tried to go after him, but was stopped by Gears who remembered about his own daughter and that she was the Black Queen and apologized for abandoning her.
However, when they tried to get out of the island's woods they forgot their memories again and when they finally arrived at the boat they were confronted by an MTF. Gears surrendered himself, seeing that there was nothing he could do, but the Black Queen sneaked past the MTF and took one of them hostage. She offered them a deal in which they would leave both her and Nobody free to go in exchange for Nobody's journal in which he had written his experience. After leaving the island, the two parted way, but Gears was sure that they would met up again or at least he would meet a different version of her.Self. Similar.
===SCP-6463===
When the Foundation discovered SCP-6463, an alternate dimension resembling a salt flat with a solid and reflective surface and possessed only a single tree designated SCP-6463-A which let anyone inside the dimension know its location despite the distance, Dr. Gears set out to explore the dimension only for him to get lost. Due to the dimension granting any individual inside it biological immortality Gears ended up wandering the dimension for around 450,000 years while recording his experience. However, despite his newfound immortality Gears' life eventually came to an end at which point he decided to rest against the tree. Following his death the Foundation was able to find his body after accessing the dimension again.Entry Page: 6463
===SCP-6820===
After finding out that SCP-682 was in actuality a physical manifestation of an alien idea in the Noosphere, Dir. Gears alongside O5-8 became the leaders of Project ANTIKILL and with the collaboration of Dr. Placeholder McDoctorate and various departments such as the Essophysics Department, created SCP-6820 which was capable of killing the idea behind SCP-682 and allow the Foundation to finally kill it for good. Following 682's death everyone forgot about it and the reason why they hated it so much including Gears, who theorized that the reason they hated 682 was because of some memetic effect, and so they designated the removed idea as SCP-6820-A. However, Gears feared that they may have all been manipulated by the idea into creating SCP-6820 for its own reasons, and sure enough Gears' fear came true as the sentient weapon became possessed by the idea, since SCP-6820 stored the information regarding SCP-682 inside it, causing everyone to try find a way to destroy it. Foundation personnel tried to neutralize SCP-6820 through different means, but every time they put it against an anomaly the weapon fought against it and adapted to its effects which caused further problems. After finding out that SCP-3125 also became involved and was helping SCP-6820-A, the Foundation decided to use SCP-055 to kill it. Unfortunately this actually allowed SCP-682 to achieve its perfect form and then proceeded to destroy the entire universe, most likely including Gears.Entry Page: 6820
===Site-19 Xbox Incident===
While Dr. Iceberg was heading to the newly installed Site-19 game room, he nearly received an Xbox controller to the face that pierced through the wall behind him. Gears apologized for nearly killing him, having become angered at a multiplayer match on Call of Duty. He then asked Iceberg to inform a user with the gamertag xxDarkShadow42069xx that Gears had intercourse with his mother the previous night. The next day, Gears found a small punching bag and a note from Director Jean Karlyle Aktus that informed Gears that if he nearly kills his assistant again, he would be thrown out of the Site.Dr. Gears' Heated Gaming Moment
===NIGHTFALL===
In the reality of the Kingdom of Xerophylla, Gears was a professor in the Arcana Institute. He was of the Bile Class which allowed him to draw the power of thought. He had a daughter named Allison who inherited her powers from Gears but were later separated, prompting Allison to try to reunite with him.The Road To Arcana
==Personality==
Gears is a cold and calculating character, and his limited friends and total focus to his missions contribute to his enigmatic nature. Gears is an ordinary human, yet he appears to lack discernable emotions, a startle reflex, and a fight-or-flight response. Because of these conditions, coworkers believe Gears is a robot or an SCP item. 
Gears does, in fact, sense emotions; yet, due to the SCP Foundation's machinations, his feelings have been shunted to the sidelines in order to accommodate his duties. He withdraws his emotions to the point of sending a child from her mother to be catalogued as a SCP. His father and daughterCat's in the Cradle are among the few people to whom he has expressed affection. Gears has also demonstrated a concern for humanity, as evidenced by his refusal to participate in omnicide in Universe-5000. Gears could speak Mandarin, but he regularly mispronounced Chinese words, as his wife and daughter continually pointed out.
Gears' perspective on anomalous beings is that he doesn't believe they all intentionally desire to hurt people, but rather that it's in their nature. He also believes that their presence is merely a deterrent to human life, and that more powerful beings regard SCPs as equivalent to spark plugs or children's toys. Gears also believes that anomalous beings exist not to attack humanity, simply existing. He feels the Foundation's dilemma is that they want to believe there is a reason or story behind these items' existence. Gears believes that humanity is alone, and hopes that the universe does not care about them. Gears appears to be aware of the Foundation's true ruthless character, as when he discovered an essay written by his daughter about theoretical space-time anomalies, he wrote her a note warning her not to seek him out because he did not want her to become associated with the Foundation.Splinters
==Attributes ==
Gears eventually revealed that as a result of his terrible upbringing, he had the unusual ability to operate clockwork-based devices and equipment around him. According to him, his family lineage is predicted to have exceptional abilities due to the manner they were raised. Although Gears' power was deemed generally useless owing to its limits, he simply regarded it as customary and kept it a secret from practically everyone around him save the Overseers and his close friend Kain Pathos Crow.Loosen Up A Bit
==Meta==
===Kills=== 
*Dr. Benjamin Kondraki (possibly) - Shot in the head with a .45 handgun by Gears.The King Is Dead
===Appearances===
*Entry Page: 882
**Interview 882-1
*Experiment Log 914
*Duke 'till Dawn
*Lullaby
*The King Is Dead
*Epitaph
*Annon
*Entry Page: 2000
*Experiment Log 914 - Hub
*Yesterday
*Entry Page: 5000
*Unfinished Business
*Unfinished Business II
*Date Night
*Quiet Days
*sex at frigid temperature
*Dr. Gears' Heated Gaming Moment
*Okay, That's Enough, Let's Get You Home
*I need you to leave
*This is not a Place of Honor
*Welcome To Site-19!
*Biweekly
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