#scp 8643

I ask this due to two reasons:

1: In 8643, Murphy seems to be really close to Fred, he calls Fred "Freddie", and even said something like "he is the only man I could trust, if anything goes wrong with him, I'm going to use violence".

2: I have an OC that has an unrelated familial connection with Murphy (Rudy Pluvia/Forr Drizzle), I wonder if it's out-of-character for Murphy to stay silent in front of her.

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I personally don't have huge interests on "Murphy x Fred" content. I sometimes draw them having interactions too, but it was never on "Fred is the only man I could trust" level.

If I remembered it correctly, Fred only appeared twice in the tales before--as a driver helping Murphy on chasing The Nobody, and as agent Frederick in Murphy Law's page, describing Murphy as "he's cool, but it's not our story, so let's kill him, he could take it". Because of this, I don't really get it when 8643 Murphy goes very protective on Fred.

I understand that Murphy serie is a relatively small serie, and there are a lot of things to be explored in future, however, I personally would like a step-by-step connection more.

Taking Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson as an example, Watson isn't a close friend with Sherlock at the very start. They share the same house first, having a lot of conversations and interactions within the story, and then they slowly get close as the story goes on.

To me, Fred feels more like a cameo in Murphy's stories than a close friend. Most stories are about Murphy solving things alone. I agree that Murphy would protect Fred when danger arrives (I headcanon Law as someone who'd sacrifice himself over and over simply due to he doesn't care about his own life), and I would believe it if they have casual interactions like going to party, drinking, chatting about stories, but to me, they'd go different ways immediately when the scene is over.

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Rudy Pluvia is the type of character who's willing to describe Murphy in good way endlessly. She calls him "little clover/little colorful clover". Her day will literally go bright if she can pat on his back, ruffle his hair, kiss his forehead, hear him say how much he loves everything about her, or just hear him call her "mother". Forr Drizzle is an OC Murphy used to hide the truth. Unfortunately, due to Murphy's terrible state, Forr could turn mangled at any time, revealing rotten Rudy.

I couldn't decide whether or not I should make close familial interaction happen, though. I could imagine Rudy grabs him by the collar of his shirt, drags him close, and wraps her arms on his neck, having a strangle-like hug. But I'm wondering if Murphy will have any sort of interaction in reverse after reviving her. Like, would Murphy try to clean her rotten face with shaky hands? Would Murphy try his best to have long and normal conversation with her even though he couldn't?

Summary: After the events of SCP-3143 Murphy Law’s story was permanently altered on a fundamental level. Originally, he Murphy Law; a metafictional detective who temporarily altered reality wherever he went.

Now Murphy Lawden exists as a fragment of Murphy Law. Lawden didn’t exist until the Foundation made him but now, he’s a part of the story.

This story is set at some point in the future when Murphy has managed to reconcile his two halves and how he/they spend their days.

Word count: 1,013

Author’s Note: In SCP-8643 a Scranton Reality Anchor temperedly turned Murphy Law into Murphy Lawden. However, we know Murphy was Law before he was Lawden. This is just a short fic exploring how Murphy is now both Law and Lawden.

Murphy is always Murphy. He/they think of themselves as two people sharing a body and they chat to each other. However, it could be argued that Law and Lawden are simply points of view. Law is the ‘original’ and they both prefer it that way.

SCP-3143 in… Jekyll, Hide-and-Seek

In a small messy office, a man leans forward in his chair, as his fingers fly across the keyboard of his laptop. He has a dozen tabs open and from time to time, he opens a new one, googles something and then get back to writing his story. His name his Murphy Lawden and he both is and isn’t the man you’d expect to find in this office.

i was gonna draw like some thing else but then i thought of this and had to drop everything to draw this. (because of a conversation i had) (amd stuff)

man i love being able to draw

barbara doodle

because i love her

so you could argue that "oh, but wouldnt murphy helping barbara break from that misogyny instead be very very ironic?" i believe no. you could interpret the foundation as society and them trying to contain murphy is them trying to forcefully follow society's norms. (do you see what im trying to say) them trying to make him Lawden could follow the same interpretation as well, hell you could even argue.....conversion therapy.

so focusing the second act on Lawden in scp-8643 is not only unnecessary, i believe it is DISRESPECTFUL to both murphy and barbara and who they are as a person and takes away attention from both of them (and reduces barbara instead into the "caring/supportive love interest"), and so we're now focusing on the MAN, the EVERYMAN TROPE (may i remind you of the everyman loser x woman overused trope...), INSTEAD OF THE TWO CHARACTERS WHO BOTH DEFY SOCIETY IN DIFFERENT WAYS AND HOW WE COULD'VE SEEN THEM WORKING TOGETHER AS EQUALS AND HELPING EACH OTHER BREAK OUT OF THE CYCLES/NORMS

the story ironically pushes BOTH of them into their respective tropes, whereas their stories are focused on slightly BREAKING said tropes, with 7632 trying to find a way to break out of the cycle (kind of? in the ending of her story she accepts her role while also knowing there will be stories where she will be the hero) and murphy being an accidental parody of noir

(AND HEY?? ?THE INCLUSION OF THE FUCKING CHURCH?? THE LESSON THEY TEACH OF "BE A SERVANT TO OTHERS" WHICH WOULD BE A GOOD LESSON IF IT WEREN'T FOR THE FACT WOMEN ARE ALREADY TAUGHT TO DO THAT IN TRADITIONAL SPACES FOR ALL THEIR LIFE??? AND BARBARA, THE EVIL WOMAN, WHO IS EVIL BECAUSE SHE IS A WOMAN WITH POWER AND DOESN'T BOW DOWN TO THE PATRIARCHY NORMS??)