in SCP-5000, Pietro Wilson tells us about his father kicking that stray cat to death after Wilson pointed it out, saying it would've been better if he'd done nothing... That's foreshadowing. Better if he didn't try. Better if he didn't save the Collective Unconscious Invader.
He wanted to be a detective as a kid, right? As a kid it was finding out who was knocking those plant pots over, and as an adult it was finding out why your employers were destroying the human race. "Everyone involved would have been better off if I'd minded my own business."
He doesn't understand why he wants to find out, he just wants to know why. This is the first effects. It's the entry after he hears the Collective Unconscious Invader's voice (...his own voice)
They found something there. It's redacted because it doesn't really have a name, and it's not something you'd want to hear anyway. It has invaded the Collective Unconscious though, so I just call it like that. This causes understandable panic, because it is not friendly.
Wilson is possessed by the Collective Unconscious Invader for what we know is the first time. The last thing he says before that is that he's going to investigate more. I'd wager that he found out more than he was supposed to and the Invader 'put him back on track'
the "not round" object is 055, something that can't be described. We don't know what it is. Same with 579, but we know 579 is unstable/violent.
Many people theorize because of these particular lines that the Invader is some ever-present malice also manifesting as SCP-682, but I don't quite like that theory. I'm pretty sure this is just the Invader. Disgusting isn't an underground word 🙈
"That's why you hear your voice."
(figure 1)
"But you wanted to know so badly."
(figure 2)
These very much sound like things that are very likely the Invader communicating with/manipulating Wilson so nah.. I just don't see it. Also I don't like 682 so
Entry 0001-10. First entry that mentions the Invader's weakening state. Before this, Wilson has been using SCP-055 to "skip" (get possessed), maybe because the sight of it fucks with Wilson's brain too much and the Invader has to step in. It can't do that as well anymore.
First time Wilson's actually aware of the Invader, though he doesn't know what it is. Him thinking it's strange the Foundation's fighting an anomaly might be the Invader rubbing off on him to be like "no this is bad", but that's just my interpretation.
Wilson's declining mental state. He's really fucking focused at this point, because brainwashing.
He finally figures some shit out. Well, he knows he's going to die for someone else's story. He's got that much. He still doesn't know who the murderer is, which is kind of understandable given you wouldn't naturally think it's yourself.
This is the final few lines. I like to think he finally figured it all out just before he fell to his death, or got sucked into an alternate dimension or whatever. That'd be nice.
Why is the final image completely black?? Abstract poetry?? No, not really. It's a hidden message. Turn up the saturation and it comes out with this, which translates as follows.
The file itself is called lookcloser.
There is another hidden message within the source code of the page, in the bottom blank space. It is.. this conversation, which I can't make much heads or tails of, but it does confirm the invasion thing.
Some people believe the Invader is made of good concepts but evil, while some believe it's made of bad concepts, but the good concepts one seems to have more backing. It asking to be loved, and the Foundation telling employees to be unempathetic and uncaring.
We know the Invader is malevolent and such a danger to humanity that destroying humanity to kill it is better for the universe than letting it live. Pietro Wilson saved it. He wanted to know. "Everyone involved would have been better off if I'd minded my own business."
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