You want to know where exactly everything went wrong, don't you? What led to the current predicament of the Foundation? I can tell you...

I woke up to a cold, sterile room. The walls were gray, the floor was gray, and the ceiling was gray. The only thing that stood out was the door.....

Completely new story, not in SCP Archive wiki!

“What were you, Harken?”

“…what, like in a cosmic sense? Probably a dog or something.”

“Must you always be an asshole?”

“No, it's a choice.”....

We all know SCP-106, but do we REALLY know where he came from? Here is set of most compelling possible origin stories for The Old Man.

Sometimes, when he closed his withered eyelids, the old man could see the prairies of his youth, the moonlight grasses, feel and hear the gentle whiskers of the wind..............

The narrow alleyways of the Armenian Quarter of Old Jerusalem were beginning to darken as twilight stretched the shadows of the ancient stone buildings over them..........

"So there I was, in a power plant what was about to explode, surrounded by the enemy."

An idle thought; it's how Max would have started the story, if he'd survived. He'd have come up with some clever, improbable solution......

Min Yu Zhang, servant of the New-Moon Emperor, wiped the sweat from his brow. He was not usually a man to tremble, but nonetheless he was humbled by the great stone tomb.....

Content Warning: Explicit descriptions of transphobia, sexism, homophobia, antisemitism, and physical, emotional and verbal abuse.