Scarlet king

In the tale "Three Short Scenes About Death" the Scarlet King is given a little description. His fist are described as massive and gnarled, holding the chains of his consorts and concubines. The same fists could effortlessly smash a man's throat. The King's voice is described as similar to "the chittering of a billion infinitesimal insects", and swirling and constantly moving. His voice also was neither "high nor low nor cacophonous nor methodical", simply just being. When the Scarlet King first appeared to the Serpent, he took the form of a girl in red clothes sitting on a rocking throne. On other occasions, the Scarlet King was depicted as a gigantic monstrous red whale that swam through the watery abyss, devoured everything in his path and dominated the food chain. According to Tufto's SCP-001 Proposal, the King is more akin to a living idea than an individual entity; in effect, he is the idea of nihilism, the people's dissatisfaction with the modern way of life, and can assimilate an entity thought to be him into an aspect of himself just as it did with SCP-2317-K. He is always depicted as figure with a crown-like ornament over his head showing royalty and associated with the color red, or in the cases of alien cultures lacking the perception of the color red the King would be associated with a color that would be synonymous or close with the color. In SCP-4989, Dr. Simon Kells described looking at the King "like staring at a Pattern Screamer only more hollow". When a group of Foundation agents confronted the physical form of the Scarlet King in his supposed throne room, he appeared as a young malnourished boy with hanging messy hair, crimson red eyes, wearing only a tunic and beaten sandals, and covered in blood, having taken the form of the first child who was sacrificed in his name. Drawn to the chaos caused during the Manhattan Crisis, the Scarlet King manifested himself as a false garden attempting to imitate nature, before battling SCP-2912-JP at which I

In ROUNDERHOUSE's Jade Proposal, the Scarlet King was depicted as a gigantic androgynous red humanoid being with an obscured face and always accompanying his avatar who was depicted as a sleeping man with a long beard, an elaborate headdress and carrying long spears across his back. When approached by Greaves the Scarlet King took the form of a vast red sea, and when he took possession of the lieutenant, manifested at first as Greaves' nervous system glowing red before taking the appearance of a 3 meter tall skinless humanoid with a bare skull, large horns resting atop his head and inscribed with pulsating symbols and markings.

The Scarlet King as an old god from the Abyss was shown to be a cruel, manipulative, and nihilistic individual, though this was more of an image he held to his insecurity and cowardice. After learning about the true nature of existence, he thought that reality should not exist. He became hellbent on destroying everything, especially the tree of knowledge, by any means necessary, enslaving and devouring numerous gods and doing whatever pleased him. It is believed that if SCP-999 were to interact with the Scarlet King, then his heart would change and finally see the beauty of the world and abandon his quest of destruction. It was noted that the Scarlet King was always honest, instead having his subjects lie on his behalf. In Tufto's Proposal, however, it is shown that the Scarlet King has no true personality of his own, instead his nature being shaped by the belief of humanity. Because the Indians became furious at the British colonizers for studying and categorizing their culture, taking away their traditions and "civilizing" them, this caused the idea of the Scarlet King to develop and form a deep-seated hatred against the current state of modern world. Because most people believed that the Scarlet King was an ancient demonic god determined to end all existence, it became so, although it can be interpreted that destroying the world means to only destroy the current state of the world and return humanity to ancient feudalism, which would also result in him completing his mission and ceasing to exist. According to URA-9521, a cephalopod-like monster born from the union of the King and a Daeva matriarch, the King was for the most part a mindless force that learned from the people believing in the ideology he represented, and even advised the Foundation that they should concentrate more on his followers rather than the King himself.

The Scarlet King's true power is unknown, though he can impregnate various females in groups of seven with his Scarlet Spawn, whose birth caused great catastrophes around the world. Legends portray him as capable to conquer and destroy entire worlds and civilizations, and threaten other low elder gods. The Scarlet King is stated to be powerful enough to threaten all of Creation and the Tree of Knowledge itself, making him a multiversal threat. He also feeds on the negative feelings of people as he did with Dr. Clef which resulted in the latter's madness and is apparently responsible for giving most reality-benders their powers. Although he and his followers were able to defeat both Mekhane and Nahash, in another account he was described as being weaker than his aunt Yaldabaoth, the Brothers Death, Ama Kubeya and Sanna, having defeated the latter only through the help of Jeser. In SCP-6765, the King's corpse is shown to be capable of mass destruction and had power over blood and the memories stored in it, as shown when confronted by armed Foundation agents it simply removed their memories on how to operate a firearm. In SCP-8008's altered reality of Eluthertopia, the Scarlet King was the source of the Anti-Magic, a form of creation magic that was sent back in time to convert matter into pure energy, in a way destroying matter, which counteracted the Metegian creation magic of the three goddesses Inanna, Gaea and Mary, though they could be combined and used interchangeably. As a living idea born from humanity's dissatisfaction with the lifeless modern world and the desire to return to the old ways of life, the Scarlet King was created and shaped by humanity, acting as premodernity's vengeance against modernity and as long as modernity exists in its current state the Scarlet King would also persist existing. As a result, the Scarlet King exists as an entity in the noosphere, the human collective consciousness, just like SCP-3125, WAN, SCP-6820-A and possibly the Neon

The Scarlet King is almost always seen accompanied by his seven brides which are known as the Scarlet Brides. The Brides have appeared in various forms which ranged from seven Daeva matriarchs, to the Scarlet King's own daughters conceived from a previous mate, and to a pod of seven female whales. However, the Brides are less than actual entities and more of a phenomenon as the Scarlet King is capable of impregnating organisms in group of seven through numerous means and would then give birth to creatures labeled as the Scarlet Spawn which portray the King as a fertility idol and vary greatly in appearance, behavior and function. Certain Neo-Daevites believe that the Brides have, all but one, been taken by the King and if the final Bride were to give birth then it would cause an apocalyptic event. The Spawn include: the Scarlet Children which are identical to normal humans from both biology and personality and is impossible to tell them apart; the Holy Beasts, known to the public as the Humboldt squids, are cephalopodic monsters engineered by the Daevites for war; and the Scarlet Covenant, a group of humanoid monsters born from the union of the King and several Daeva matriarchs, which are capable of wearing the peeled skin of humans and perfectly impersonate them. The Brides throughout history may have given birth to SCP-166, SCP-682, SCP-999, the whale encountered by the Foundation's Esoteric Warfare Unit, Jack of Spades/Hgan, SCP-4547-B4, the unborn child from SCP-5832, Chòndu'ang and the parent of Òdde. Although SCP-231-7 is once depicted as she herself being the seventh child, rebirthing herself as the Horseman of Conquest. It is also hinted that SCP-231-7 instead of being pregnant with the Scarlet King's child, she is pregnant with the Scarlet King himself, meaning that she serves to birth the physical form of the King into the world. Dr. Dylan King is also the son of either the Scarlet King, the Hanged King, or both.

opinions aboutother SCP gods The arched king says that he is one of his strongest allies but he only sees him as a toy and doesn't care. mekhane/yaldaboth He says that they are annoying and finds their fight stupid that they are inferior and are just more toys. the gate guardian he says she has good hips to give birth is very beautiful and must have a very fertile uterus, the brothers death He finds them annoyingly useless and hates them. ,sephiros says it is unitile ,scp 2845/the deer rare and unique, another toy of the other gods he finds them useless

He usually finishes off entire gods and kills them without mercy unless they kneel and he sees them as worthy of being slaves. He usually kills female goddesses worse if he considers the goddess strong, he will try to inseminate her and have her, he hates everything, he doesn't care about his children, some of them.