#scp-085

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Horror re-imagining of SCP-085 "Hand-Drawn Cassy" for RemixCon 2023

In 2009 (a lifetime ago), I drew the wiki image for SCP-085.

I'm not super knowledgeable about the SCP lore (though I'm familiar with the Foundation), but hey, I can give it a look! I'm not a classpect-specific blog, but I do want to post my opinions on the matter here. (Still working on those masterposts :3 )

Okay before I read the 085 article I just wanna say: Classpecting is determined mostly by the character's role in the narrative. SCP classpecting can be challenging because, at least initially, there's little to no narrative, just an anomaly with containment procedures (which may in themselves contain the narrative but you know what I mean).

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Christ, they're ALREADY at SCP-7000? (okay it's just the contest but !!!)

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Oh. OH OH THIS IS THE GIRL THE DRAWING OH I LOVE CASSY

Cassy is very lonely, so I'd say Space is a relevant aspect for her. (There's a seeming trend that Space players have to contend with loneliness, re. Jade's seclusion, Calliope's whole deal, etc.) I'd also say Space because of the nature of her existence: she is a two-dimensional drawing.

You know, a couple years ago, I wrote a sketch of a fic (haha) in which Cassy and Fred (SCP-423) met and became friends. That doesn't matter really, I just wanted to mention it

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All right, just finished rereading the article. It's here, if you want to read it yourself.

I'm mostly inclined to stick with my initial assumption that Cassy is a Space player, but at the same time I would like to take into consideration the metanarrativial circumstances of her existence. See, Cassy was one of the first SCPs. Back in 2008-2010? Whenever the Foundation started? Back then, there were fewer restrictions on SCPs, and the Foundation wasn't as firmly dedicated to the Secure | Contain | Protect protocol as it is now. So interactions with the SCPs would extend beyond simply that and the scientists trying to understand them; they were treated in the Foundation... I hesitate to say more humanely? But yes, they were treated more humanely. I believe some of the more "stable" humanoid SCPs (like Abel before the rewrite, Cain, and Iris) were used as sort of a task force and were sent on missions. But as the Foundation stabilized to what it is today, backstories were rewritten, articles were revamped, policies were put in place, more narrative consistency was implemented, so on and so forth. One of the examples that troubles me the most is the rewrite of SCP-166 from the rather fascinating concept of a devoutly Catholic succubus to a still Catholic but otherwise weird eldritch demigoddess who partially exists to fuel Dr. Clef's manpain. There are still little standout inconsistencies of sorts that hearken back to the old days of the Foundation, like how Cain (SCP-073) is allowed to "freely wander the facility and eat in the main canteen". But the biggest hallmark is Cassy herself.

TV Tropes's character entry on SCP-085 says "The Foundation in its entirety is startlingly protective of her". I agree, although when she accidentally learned of her true nature, she was nominated for destruction, and although the O5 (overseer) Council voted that she not be destroyed, it was not by an overwhelming majority. (Okay I'm kind of defeating my whole point here) The Foundation has let her build and fuel her own car and interact with Escherian impossible constructs. Most notable, in my opinion, is how she is referred to within the article. Most SCPs are referred to with it/its. Cassy is mostly referred to with she/her.

Ultimately, the point I'm trying to make is, the SCP Foundation is unusually kind to Cassy, while it is usually clinical to other SCPs. I feel like her aspect should reflect that. Maybe she should be Hope or Rage? Those both relate to the metanarrative. Hope would be more suitable, I think, as Cassy is fictional to the fictional universe of the Foundation, and since her presence seems to trigger a protective instinct in others, even in the meta-Foundation.

So I'm torn between Space and Hope. Likewise I'm torn between Witch and Mage as her class. Cassy is a Witch in that she creates her own living space just by being on a page, and it seems she creates Hope (compassion?) in others. On the other hand, Cassy is a Mage in that she always conforms to her spatial habitat even when in different artistic media, and she is born in loneliness and depression and love.

To give my perpetual classpect caveat: nobody perfectly inhabits any one classpect, not even fictional characters. It's like trying to put a tiger in a shoebox.

So I'll leave it up to you: