The Database (SCP)

> We found out that there is a God, and it is SCP-001. And it’s a bunch of horror writers.
>
>

## Summary

**SCP-001 (S Andrew Swann's Proposal)** is one of the many SCP-001 proposals. It describes a series of humanoid entities affecting all of known reality through their writings, forcing the world to fit a certain narrative. These entities are recognized as the writers of the SCP Foundation itself and their effects on the world has been a great cause of concern for the Foundation.

Extended canon expands on SCP-001. This term includes all writers and readers of the SCP Foundation website in the Alpha Layer, the layer of reality above the Foundation's. All of them can affect the Foundation narrative in some ways. As each writer and reader have their own idea of the Foundation, its narrative is often split up in several separate yet connected realities. All of those "headcanon" spaces form the greater SCP Foundation narrative.

The Foundation has interacted with SCP-001 several times in various ways, resulting in several SCP classifications for separate interactions with SCP-001 entities. SCP-5500 refers to the phenomenon following the death of SCP-001 entities, often due to the S.W.A.N.N. Engine used to communicate with those hyperreal entities. SCP-5309 refers to the event of an SCP-001 entity rejecting the existence of the narrative, a possibility created through Operation WALLBREAKER, which intended for SCP personnel to enter hyperreality. SCP-5999 likely refers to a kill hazard created by the Foundation meant to kill SCP-001. SCP-3309 refers to a phenomenon in which badly written articles would cause both it and the anomaly it corresponds to getting erased by SCP-001, which the Foundation abused in order to erase troublesome anomalies.

Later pataphysical models split the SCP-001 entities into two separate narrative layers. The normal Swann layer, and the Proxyverse. The Proxyverse is a layer between the Foundation narrative and the Swann narrative. It represents the SCP Wiki itself, and is inhabitated by beings embodying the online persona of the true authors. They run a gigantic computer, which runs the SCP narrative as a simulation. They receive all of their creative input from the higher layers, re-creating the SCP Narrative in their simulation.

## Powers and Stats

**Tier:** Low 1-C | 0 | 0

**Civilization Type:** **Higher-Dimensional Civilization** | **Transcendent Civilization**

**Name:** SCP-001 (S Andrew Swann's Proposal), The Database, A bunch of horror writers | Proxyverse, SCP-5500-Omega entities, swn001-1, Author Entities

**Origin:** SCP Foundation

**Classification:** Hyperreal Beings, Online Writing Community

**The Kardashev Scale|Kardashev Level:** **Type VII** (Exists on a higher level of energy even compared to the infinite dimensions that make up the layer beneath it)

**Age:** Unknown | Unknown | 12 years on the time scale of their layer of reality, likely Inapplicable on the time scale of the Foundation's reality

**Population:** Unknown | At least 9,245 individuals, potentially infinite | At least 9,245 writers, millions of readers

**Territory:** Unknown | The Proxyverse (A layer of reality above the Foundation's, often referred to as the Alpha layer. The Proxyverse rules over almost all of its infinite size) | 4-narrative dimensional world (Swann entities live in a world similar to the real world in a higher plane of existence, although they do not rule over all of it)

**Technology/Abilities:**

* Article Canon
* Proxyverse and Extended Universe
Superhuman Physical Characteristics, Reality Warping (Can affect and rewrite entire sections of reality), Causality Manipulation (Can make it so certain aspects of reality never existed), Void Manipulation (Can erase objects or events from existence), Plot Manipulation (Can control the story of the Foundation universe), Creation (Created the entire Foundation world), Text Manipulation, Data Manipulation, Memory Manipulation (Can erase memories of certain events), Higher-Dimensional Existence (They exist as humans existing in a higher reality), Fourth Wall Awareness

Same as before, large size (Type 11), Beyond-Dimensional Existence (Type 2), Acausality (Type 5), Transduality (Type 3. Exists far beyond the Noosphere and should have abilities superior to it. They see even other transdual entities, such as the SCP-3125|Constants, as equally fictiona, transcending their entire system of transduality), Subjective Reality (All of the Foundation narrative depends on their perception. Even simply imagining certain aspects of reality causes it to match their vision), Transmutation (Can change a person's physical appearance should they choose to), Conceptual Manipulation (Type 1; Able to completely erase anomalies and anyone who worked on them from existence, to the point that people forgot that those working on the anomaly even existed, and reality reforms itself such that they never did), Mind Manipulation (Can alter someone's entire personality), Time Manipulation (Should possess similar abilities as The Overvoid Lurk, as the writers of the kind of story it embodies)

**Attack Potency:** **Low Complex Multiverse level** (SCP-001 sees the entirety of the Foundation universe's space-time, as well as adjacement dimensions, as mere fiction to itself. It can retroactively edit the entire universe, removing large parts of its history at will. It is theorized that the universe would cease to exist should it die) | **Boundless** (The Proxyverse exists in a 3-narrative dimensional space compared to the Foundation's 2-narrative dimensional space, making them see it in its entirety as fiction they entirely control. Anything from 0-dimensional beings to Pataspheres or Constants are all equally fictional to the authors) | **Boundless** (The true authors exist even beyond the Proxyverse, seeing them as equally fictional as the Proxyverse sees the SCP narrative)

**Speed:** **Unknown** | **Immeasurable** (The Proxyverse vastly transcends the Noosphere and the SCP-001 (I.H. Pickman's Proposal)|Patasphere) | **Immeasurable**

**Power Source:** Unknown | Unknown | Likely uses the same power sources as normal humans, except on a far higher level of reality

**Industrial Capacity:** Unknown

**Military Prowess:** Unknown | Millions, possibly infinite individuals | SCP-001 possesses thousands of writers, although not all of them are actively contributing to the Foundation narrative. Millions of readers contribute to a small extent each to the Foundation narrative.

**Notable Individuals:**

* **Writers:** Writers are the primary driving force of SCP-001. They're the ones responsible for a great portion of the Foundation narrative and set up the bases for it. What they write influences the Foundation narrative, resulting in additions or removals of aspects of the narrative. Authors generally can only affect their own part of the greater Foundation narrative, although their writing can affect the writings or headcanons of other SCP-001 entities, resulting in greater changes to the narrative.

* **Readers:** Readers are a smaller part of SCP-001. Although they do not directly write the narrative, as shown by SCP-5500 and SCP-5309, a reader's interpretation of certain unwritten details can affect the lower narrative. Anything that isn't explicitly written down by Writers can be changed simply by readers imagining it in a certain way. This can include the personality or appearance of a character, but can also include larger parts of the world. Readers can also more rarely reject things written by writers, if it does not fit their headcanon, thus erasing those parts away from their own headcanon space for the Foundation narrative. Each reader thus has its own headcanon version of events, which is included as part of the greater Foundation narrative.
	+ **You:** The reader of SCP-5500. They are accidentally forced into the mind of Dr. Sinclair due to the SCP-5500 events leading to the death of SCP-001 entities. Together with the Pataphysical Scientists, they must go and try and figure out who is the one behind the SCP-001 entities murders. In the true ending, they figure out Dr. Bright is the murderer and either helps him and his alternate universe counterparts find a universe not affected by pataphysics so they can live in peace or simply gather all the SCP-963 instances and locking them away.

**Weaknesses:** None notable | Certain universes without pataphysics exist, lessening SCP-001's effects on them (Although these are likely still created by SCP-001). Individual SCP-001 entities have limited control over the entire Foundation narrative, as said narrative is the product of the entire community of SCP-001. Thus the control a single entity has over the lower narrative tends to be limited to only their own headcanon space.

**Note:** This profile covers the Placeholder/Ike model of pataphysics and thus only this version of S Andrew Swann's proposal. Lower versions of the authors exist in specific canons, such as the Kaktusverse, however those versions are not included here.

**Key:** **Article Canon** | **Proxyverse** | **Extended Canon**

## Others

1. ↑ Word of God, 4th page
2. ↑ SCP-6747
3. ↑ Sandbox WoG