FAULT: an SCP SBI AU

This is an au that has consumed me. This blog will just be a terrible mess of whatever I’m stuck on for the week, likely with little explanation and heavy spoilers. Anyway, the general vibe + anomalous properties are below cut:

Commissions: Writing and Art. Starts at 5$

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Project Guide

The tag 'crumbs to tide you over' is how I organize ficlets, wip sippets, and fic announcements. Personal tag is something to nom on. Wilbur tags are noms Wilbur or scp Wilbur if you want to block tags, and my PR response to that is here.

Ao3 fics:

Fault. The titular SBI SCP AU. SBI trapped in the Foundation. Lots of angst, large exploration of trauma, dehumanization, moral philosophies, and messed up found family. Tags are fault au, fault memes pog, sbi scp au, fault analysis, etc. This is a whole series and has many associated works. Long Fic.

>Also Where, then, do your loyalties lie? for AU where human Phil works for the Foundation and tries to free kid SCP Tommy. Complete.

Mandatory Family Reunion. Techno kidnapped by criminal dark SBI and handles it very poorly AU. Heavy dark em duo. Explores different types of abuse, motivations, delusions, and how love causes harm. Tag is Mandatory Family Reunion, sometimes mfr. Long Fic.

The Lambs Wolves Wear (Ficlet is here; starts at the Reveal and currently goes further than the ao3) Fully dark SBI where Philza's children were replaced by monsters. Demon "Tommy", changeling "Wilbur", and ghost army "Technoblade" are violent and traumatized, their tensely conflicting infiltration motives jeopardizing the lives of everyone in a twenty mile radius. As they experience love for the first time, will the wolves in sheeps clothing be tamed? Tw for abuse and horror. Long Fic.

Way more below, those are just my main projects ^-^

It’s all Techno’s known, gills stinging with every choked inhale, unable to see more than ten feet ahead from the murky water, littered with scars from bumping into things and sudden attacks and sharp garbage floating in the water. Techno is utterly alone in the riverbed, and doesn’t even know it. Poor little merfolk! So Kristin decides to save him.

Harder than she expected, nearly catches him the first time cause he couldn’t see it coming, but managed to wriggle out. Techno swam as fast as he could away, only to slam into a second soft wall that folded and tried to crush him beneath pillars. He pivots, but a second one swings in from nowhere, the little merfolk panicked and trying to maneuver out of the way. They’re unbelievably coordinated, but he’s clever and small and fast. Techno has absolutely zero way of comprehending the thing he’s fighting against. Thrashing as he’s scooped out of the water, terrified of asphyxiation. Only the creatures somehow hold enough water? He’s swimming in circles, viscerally aware limited water is leaking from the thing?? Carrying him??????

Then he’s put into a tank (not that he can even recognize that) in a plastic bag to acclimate and he’s fruitlessly thwapping the bag with his tail when a thing swims up to him. Not fish. Kinda fish. Looks like…him? Because Techno is so endangered he’s never even seen another merperson. Partially bc of the heavy water pollution he’s used to. He’s confused why he can see so far and feels exposed cause of it, or why each breath doesn’t sting, or why it’s so easy to get to the surface because there’s no layer of garbage.

The other, bigger him is miming stuff with their hands cause sound cant get past the invisible barrier. His spanning green and white striped fins flare out in amusement as Techno startles and tries to get away, slamming into the invisible barrier over and over trying to find some gap in it. The little black fish surrounding the other him poke at the barrier curiously, when they should be fleeing because they look delicious.

Techno cautiously acclimates to the other him’s presence. But spooks again when the giant fleshy tentacles begin shifting the bag, lowering so the top is open to the rest of the water. Other him says his name is Phil, and looks horribly sad when Techno asks what he is, and looks happy when asked about the tentacle monster. Hands, he explains when asked, pointing out into the depths where just barely Techno can make out an incomprehensibly gigantic face. Its teeth bare as he notices it. That’s my wife, Phil explains cheerfully.

Seeing as Phil is evidently insane and/or evil, Techno attacks him mercilessly.

1.Unfortunately Philza turns into an annoying neighbor constantly cheerfully pestering the confused techno who has never held a conversation in his Life. Territorially, Techno tries to drive him off constantly. It doesn’t work. 

2.Techno not understanding glass and being terrified when he realizes he’s trapped in a tiny territory

3.Techno hiding for days under a sea shell whenever he sees Kristin (he’s bad at it, his eyesight is terrible after living in muck all his life)

4.Techno refusing to eat fish pellets. Or half a giant fish. But live prey he eviscerates with gusto

5.Shell being lifted up. Fear. Terror. Metal spears chasing him relentlessly, maneuvering so fast, before trapping him between (the tweezer prongs). Techno struggling in vain, getting a light squeeze in response, and screaming before going limp. Kristin immediately releases him, and Techno darts away immediately, laughing that the trick worked. Now armed with knowledge of how the tweezers worked he evades them for days.

And then cold. So horribly horribly cold. Techno feeling sluggish and lethargic, only able to thrash weakly as the tweezers gently seized his middle and lifted him up. Some weird bristle thing began stroking his tail (tooth brush) until the grime of a life in polluted waters began to scrub off. Almost felt nice, brain too sluggish to do much more than the mermaid equivalent of purring. Phil resting his head in his lap and combing out wild tangled hair as his crowfish symbiotically clean Techno’s scales. Working together to patch up Technos wounds and many many scars while Techno shivers and hugs Phil. The bigger merfolk just laughs and teases him for being used to a tropical environment.

6. slowly getting used to the giant woman, stops hiding from her, eagerly pokes out his head in case there’s more food when she passes. Still won’t go up when her fingers dangle in the water. Phil is still crazy nd insisting he’s married to the weird terrestrial behemoth. 

7.After a few weeks of Techno healing, adjusting to not living in a cesspit, curing his chronic malnutrition, figuring out Phil is crazy but harmless, Techno gets captured again. Taken to the ocean. Sees what his habitat was meant to be like this whole time. This vibrant coral reef and dozens of merfolk everywhere he looks and so much food and water as far as the eye can see. And techno cautiously explores, hiding behind Phil when anyone approaches since he’s never really been in a social environment before. Beginning to adjust. Beginning to realize how bad his life was before.

8.Techno gets his own cleaner fish swarm but they’re so noisy for a guy used to the isolated silence of what’s basically a dead zone so he starts calling them chatter, and then just chat for short. Or voices either way

9.And then one day he ventures out past the reef to where the water plunges down cold and dark. And among the depths he sees a familiar giant face in the swirl of tendrils and fins.

And he finally realizes: oh maybe Phil really is married to the giant woman

Niki’s life is going perfectly. When she manifests magic, that mean it can only get more perfect, right? She’s excited for the blossoming possibilities, burning with brilliant new passion. Niki drives off wary mutters with the glowing optimism that she can use her power for good. No one’s doubts can get to her (especially not her own).

But Techno has long been doused. Resistance only ever burns the people wielding it, and he’s tired of the scorch scars on his hands, on his friends. So he bites his tongue and indoctrinates his naive apprentice into the living weapons they’re meant to be.

Everything is going PERFECTLY and Niki is so HAPPY with being in the lively capital (being kept from her home), AMAZED with learning magic with Techno (learning how to hurt people), EAGER to learn how the world works (and the lies necessary to maintain it).

But as Niki’s fuse grows shorter and shorter, something might just spark a revolution.

Word of course spreads of the powerful, skilled warrior all alone in his fortress of tomes and wolves. And for someone else who is scared of hurting anyone around them, it sounds perfect. Right? But Techno refuses to let Ranboo into his heart, and ends up hurting them when they needed a safe place the most. And Ranboo, who is an incredibly powerful witch who was only looking for a mentor to help him manage his wildly uncontrolled magic, accidentally curses Techno into become a horrible disgusting pig monster that terrifies all who look at him.

Techno sets up a new location far far away, a fortress on an island surrounded by jagged rocks and freezing sleet. The choppy waves sink the mightiest of vessels and so only Techno and Techno alone can reach the island.

Or, so he thought. He’s been hearing snickering from the rafters for a few days, found a few russet feathers too large for normal birds. Someone has taken roost in his home, and was clearly waiting for the right moment to plunge from above and cull Techno’s life. So Techno feigns obliviousness, waiting till the dead of night to stalk his prey.

Techno is rather disappointed to not find a hero to murder. This is no Theseus plunging into the labyrinth to slay the beast at its heart; just some avian chick. Thing is weak and tiny enough he hadn’t a chance of actually hurting Techno, and as such it is hard to summon the usual rhetoric about inevitable betrayal and pain and heartbreak about a pipsqueak. Ehh. Maybe this one can barely escape a harrowing encounter by the skin of his teeth.

Techno’s crossbow bolt explodes into the rafters, stray embers barely grazing the slumbering avian. He jolts awake, throwing himself to the next rafter and scrambling on out of sight. Techno seizes the pillar, using all his might to crush through the stone base and send it slamming to the ground. The avian tumbles through the air, barely catching himself from splattering against the floor.

With a growl Techno drops to all fours, charging for the avian frantically flapping as he tries to take flight. But Techno corals him into a corridor where there’s no escape, barreling down as just the right speed where the prey can exhaust itself barely escaping. He throws in lots of growling and stopping to rip apart downy pillows he decorates the house with for such purposes.

Unnnnnfortunatly Techno accidentally herded him into a dead end. The avian presses against the corner, feathers fluffed up as if that can make a tiny chick seem bigger to the looming boar behemoth. “I- I’m not scared of you!” the boy shouts.

Techno blinks. “Oh. Huh. That usually works.” He mulls over the problem. “I could rip your arm off in a splatter of blood?”

The boy stands up straight, head jerked up. “So could a dog. And I love dogs. So I reckon that won’t make me scared either.” Scowling, Techno starts running a list of heinous acts by the kid, but he’s horrified to discover that Tommy “Careful Danger Kraken” Innit is actually immune to all fear and most torture methods. Finally Techno settles on offering to just straight up kill him painfully and slowly.

The boy sniffs, like he’s offended at such a paltry attempt. ”Actually, my Dad works for Death, and says that I get a pass on my first death, (but will be grounded).”

“What about your second death?”

“uh. Yep no you also can’t kill me that way, I’ll just be double grounded. Blgh lots of chores. And! His boss will have to have a word with you. That's company policy, right, gotta do paperwork about it. And- taxes? Yes, lots of death taxes.” Tommy nods sharply.

Technically, the curse will supposedly kill Techno when the last petal of a wither rose drops but like, it’s a spell from a untrained mage twerp so it’s probably not that good. And how in the heck is a flower determining if he lives? Seems made up. Technoblade literally never dies. Still, Techno wouldn’t like the specter of Death to take him up on that bet.

Panicked that this twerp will spread word of his cool hide out (or worse: that he’s kinda cringe at being a scary monster), Techno snarls that he’s a prisoner and can never leave!

…why is Tommy pumping his fist in the air and cheering? What does ‘my castle now, *****’ mean???

Tommy is frankly only nominally a prisoner, and they both know it. In truth he could fly away any time he pleases, which was what Techno expected. Who cares if Tommy told the whole country about where to kill a scary monster- nothing could be worse than talking to the kid at dinner. Or getting pestered all day and night to recount grand stories of Techno’s life. Or the chick trying to make a nest in his mane. Or laughing every time Techno growls at him.

Yes Techno is very careful to keep Tommy at arm's length.

All individual frames:

My favourite is the second btw cause his fur looks like roses and it's just generally creepy. Also we haven't really got a canon not-Tommy design, I think, besides canine teeth and 4 twisting horna so I took creative liberties.