James Talloran

Researcher Talloran, real name James Martin Talloran, is a character in the SCP Foundation series. He served the Foundation, until he became the focal point of the monstrous entity designated SCP-3999 who endlessly tortured Talloran and his loved ones both mentally and physically for countless centuries. Talloran eventually sacrificed himself to end the torture and destruction of SCP-3999.
Talloran is the main protagonist in the "…Like Clockwork" series, and is one of the main characters of "The Drooling Path" series.
==Appearance==
Talloran was described as a man a little shorter than Draven, clean shaven with neat, short hair and an empathetic smile. He also wore a pair of glasses. After his torture at the hands of SCP-3999, Talloran was left with two scars running across his cheeks, from the edges of his mouth to the end of his jaw, most likely left from his lower jaw being ripped from his head before healing.
==Powers and Abilities==
Talloran was a normal human and possessed no abnormal powers at first, although he possessed some intellect. After being tortured for three million years, Talloran was able to use his will and connection to SCP-3999 to manipulate reality around them and after a long time he finally defeated 3999, although the being had surrendered and let him to defeat him.
==Personality==
Because of his tough upbringing and some past traumas Talloran became an introverted man who always put the blame on himself. He was non-binary and despite his anti-social nature he was capable of forming a few friendships with fellow personnel. He especially had deep love for his boyfriend Draven Kondraki, as he was shown to deeply care for him and became distraught when seeing his partner suffer. After countless years of endless torment at the hands of SCP-3999, Talloran was at first broken by the monster, but he eventually gained enough courage and determination to fight back and put an end to this hellish nightmare and fought hard against the monster which resulted in Talloran being finally free. Although he used amnestics to forget his horrible torture, Talloran was still affected emotionally by this experience and had a hard time trying to move on even with the support of Draven.
==Trivia==
*Talloran's creator LordStonefish had envisioned several stories involving his character, but he became so obsessed with him that he once suffered a nightmare involving a jawless Talloran and other monsters based on SCPs mocking the author about his work in the SCP Foundation wiki. This inspired LordStonefish to create his representation named SCP-3999 to torture the character.
**SCP-3999 torturing Talloran through different ways can be interpreted as LordStonefish putting Talloran through different ideas of stories he had originally envisioned for the character.
*Talloran's favorite Beatles song was from Magical Mystery Tour.
*In the comedy tale "Talloran Shoots Archduke Franz Ferdinand", Talloran tried to shoot Adolf Hitler from the Captain Planet series, but he instead shot Franz Ferdinand of Austria and at that moment 3999 emerged and told Talloran that his Jordans were fake.
*In SCP-3999-J, a new researcher is introduced as Guest Researchers Mitch Talloran. It is unknown what relation he has with James Talloran.
*In the tale "The William Penn Iteration", in a reality created by 3999, James Talloran as Frank Talloran was married to Sadie Louis.
*In "Dent on Plaster Cast", an alternate version of Talloran exist in which Dr. Kondraki died according to the tale "The King Is Dead".
*When the Foundation used SCP-978 to take a photo of Talloran, the picture showed him in the body of a woman. This is most likely due to his transgender nature.
*A story produced by Dr. Wondertainment's SCP-V1l3-J told about the romantic interaction between Talloran and 3999 which ended in both of their deaths.
*In 'Excerpts From "How To Survive When Reality Doesn't", by Alto Clef', Dr. Clef became angry at Talloran for giving SCP-3999 the Apollyon object-class when it was supposed to be exclusive to SCP-2317.
*When Dr. Bright was chosen to unlock SCP-????-J's new lock form, in his first attempt he needed to beat both SCP-076-2 and Talloran in a match of SCP-3301 to which he succeeded.
* In SCP-001 (Ihp/Locke Proposal), SCP-3999 is cross-tested with SCP-1893, a story infection which turns anything that mentions it into a fictional story including a new character who is aware of the person reading the story, but will maintain the original message in the form of dialogue. After being introduced to SCP-1893, SCP-3999 began using him as the central protagonist in its stories, while discarding Talloran and threatening SCP-1893 with baseball bat.
*In "1,001 Dark and Stormy Nights", Talloran in his child form was forced by 3999 to kill his brother. It is unknown if Talloran actually has a brother, or it was simply a construct formed by 3999, since this brother is not mentioned anywhere else.
*In "Site-81 Community Cookbook", Talloran shared his recipe for chocolate chip cookies which had been taught to him by Draven.
*When Researcher Madeleine Sailer attempted to write the timeline of the Foundation, causing to be affected by SCP-4010 she compared her experience to that of Talloran.
*In "Red, White, & Blue Reality", while Robert Scranton was being tortured inside SCP-3001, he began thinking that the real theme of the SCP-3000 contest was actually "torture" since just like him, James Talloran was also being tortured by SCP-3999.
*Talloran seemingly enjoyed watching Doctor Who and playing FATE.
*Talloran heavily disliked hotels as he felt uncomfortable using objects and furniture used by other people.
*Talloran didn't believe that SCP-073 was the Biblical Cain, or the absurd stories surrounding Dr. Kondraki.
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