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[[>]] [[module Rate]] [[/>]] [[tabview]] [[tab Profile]] **Full Name:** Krona "Proasek" Midaeus **Date of Birth:** 13/07/20██ **Personnel Classification:** C **Security Clearance:** 2 **Position:** General researcher at Site-34 **Location:** Site-34 **Notable Features:** Krona Midaeus is a pale British woman, with a young face and sky blue hair. She --wears-- no longer wears a green tinted visor at all times. The visor is of her own design, and --its purpose is unknown-- its purpose is to look cool. **History:** Krona Midaeus was recruited as part of a personnel exchange with the British Occult Service, where she formerly held the position of Internal Security Agent. In 20██, Krona Midaeus was reassigned to the Scientific Department by request, and was assigned as a Junior Researcher working at Site-34. After two years diligent work, initially as part of the SCP-████ project and later assisting MTF Lambda-14 ("One Star Reviewers"), Krona Midaeus was promoted to a full Researcher. Krona Midaeus has since worked at this level on various minor projects. Krona Midaeus has a notable interest in SCP-914, and has proposed and executed a number of unusual tests regarding it. These can be found in [http://www.scpwiki.com/experiment-log-914/offset/1 Experiment Log 914] **Profile:** Researcher Midaeus is well known for an unusual approach, her unique style of testing often revealing important information that could not be revealed through standard testing procedure. Due to the variety of tests, as well as a background with the B.O.S, she has a large variety of memetic inoculations. She is equally well known for her sarcastic attitude, convoluted insults, and for being the most overtly British Foundation researcher in the nearest thousand miles. [[=]] [[div class="content-panel standalone series"]] **Note:** //No, I did **NOT** work for the sodding Gocks, those wankers can't know their arse from their face for the amount of shite they spew from both. MI-666 is far more competent on its own, and all we've got to deal with are the Welsh!// [[/div]] [[/=]] ------ [[=]] +++ SCPs [[/=]] [[module ListPages created_by="Proasek" separate="no" tags="scp, -joke" order="created" prependLine="||~ SCP ||~ Rating ||~ Comments ||~ Created ||~ Last Comment ||"]] || %%title_linked%% || %%rating%% || %%comments%% || %%created_at%% || %%commented_at%% || [[/module]] [[=]] +++ Tales [[/=]] [[module ListPages created_by="Proasek" separate="no" tags="tale" order="created" prependLine="||~ Tale ||~ Rating ||~ Comments ||~ Created ||~ Last Comment ||"]] || %%title_linked%% || %%rating%% || %%comments%% || %%created_at%% || %%commented_at%% || [[/module]] [[=]] +++ GoI Formats [[/=]] [[module ListPages created_by="Proasek" separate="no" tags="goi-format" order="created" prependLine="||~ Format ||~ Rating ||~ Comments ||~ Created ||~ Last Comment ||"]] || %%title_linked%% || %%rating%% || %%comments%% || %%created_at%% || %%commented_at%% || [[/module]] [[=]] +++ Hubs [[/=]] [[module ListPages created_by="Proasek" separate="no" tags="hub" order="created" prependLine="||~ Hub ||~ Rating ||~ Comments ||~ Created ||~ Last Comment ||"]] || %%title_linked%% || %%rating%% || %%comments%% || %%created_at%% || %%commented_at%% || [[/module]] [[=]] +++ Current Page [[/=]] [[module ListPages created_by="Proasek" separate="no" tags="author" order="title" prependLine="||~ Entry ||~ Rating ||~ Comments ||~ Created ||~ Last Comment ||"]] || %%title_linked%% || %%rating%% || %%comments%% || %%created_at%% || %%commented_at%% || [[/module]] [[/tab]] [[tab Author Notes]] I consider myself to have been pretty lucky with what I've written on the site. I'm a much better writer than when I started, and looking back makes me wince a little, but it seems I was broadly able to capture something that people want to read. That's ultimately enough for me, so let's have a look at what I've written, eh? You'll find each section in two paragraphs, one soon after posting, and one much more recent. ----- **[[[Dining Out]]]:** My first post on the website was this tale, created for Halloween 2018. Doesn't really fit the theme, but I was really just looking for an excuse to plumb in this new GoI idea I had... Despite the rough and ready nature of it, this tale worked its way all the way up to seventy, no mean feat. Being the founding document for a medium popularity group will do that for you, I suppose, but truth be told it's not my favourite. ----- **[[[SCP-4554]]]:** [[*user DrChandra]] wrote an [[[Oh, I Wouldn't Worry About Flaky-Os |excellent tale]]] regarding my new Group, and I just had to use an idea I saw there. How had there not been a liquid sunshine skip before now? Truly, the mainlist boggles the mind. Looking back now, I still smile at 4554. Not just because of the palindromic name (always a plus) but because it exemplifies what I want out of most SCP's. It's short, flavourful, and doesn't make me think the foundationverse is the single worst fiction to live in. As things have gone on, these three aspects have become rarer and rarer. I miss Wery. ----- **[[[Ambrose Fair|The Ambrose Fair]]]:** Following me starting to talk about Ambrose a lot, I received the very good point that Ambrose probably isn't the first in the anomalous food market. So I decided to do a good bit of world building. This is the proper starting point for my treatment of Ambrose. While I wholesale stole Chaz himself from an aforementioned skilled writer (Seriously go read Chandra's stuff) I felt this laid foundations for me to start exploring him as my own character, as well as a larger cast of group regulars. I'm particularly tickled to see people's interpretations of Marius and Chaz's relationship. I'm ace, I don't write that stuff intentionally, but it's a very fun interpretation and I'm here for it. ----- **[[[Ambrose Temecula]]]:** "I'll be taking a break from Ambrose..." Yeah, that was a lie. Ah well, my first GoI format, as well as the Ambrose Restaurant's first format. This thing took three or four attempts to get presentable, and a bit over a month. I nicked code from one lad, and ideas from another, but damn if it didn't pay off? Once again this piece has a few quirks I wouldn't allow these days. The username thing is a cute gimmick but I don't think it adds more than it removes. That said, while I *definitely* prefer the more elaborate review format that came after, this does something that I wanted from the start with Ambrose. It's an opportunity for writers to let their creativity fly to whatever depths they want. Sure it doesn't carry a story as strongly, sure it doesn't have as much impact, but not all writing is a work of austere artistry. Sometimes you just want to have fun making up weird food, and that's who I like to see use this format. ----- **[[[Ambrose Restaurant Hub]]]:** I can hardly believe that happened. A new GoI, with my name plastered all over it. Feels good, man. This was probably my fourth attempt at making a hub, and I had help from Nico. They really have a knack for making me describe Ambrose. I also spent more time than I care to admit on the lacklustre guide. I'm not good at self-analysis. Ambrose has grown so much since we were rushing down the "five works, three authors" requirement for a tab. As I'm writing this I have some international versions of the hub open, and it's so warming to see dozens if not hundreds of pages all spun off of this project. I know it's not to everyone's taste (pun massively intended), and there are many rough edges, but I really think I found something people can latch on to and I can only hope that my future work finds its audience the same way. ----- **[[[Three Thousand to One]]]:** Sound the sodding alarm, it's a posted work that has absolutely, positively, 100% //nothing// to do with the Ambrose Restaurant. Who am I, and what have I done with the real Proasek? When I wrote this, DayBreaks didn't really have a canon. There were what, three other articles beyond the 001 itself? If it hadn't been soon before I hit a burnout I probably could've gotten in on the ground floor. I still have a couple of ideas I'd be interested in exploring, but I leave that as a story for another time. As for TTtO, it's probably the best thing I wrote before my hiatus, even if the differing tones between perspectives didn't quite match up how I wanted it to. ----- **[[[SCP-4684]]]:** And then it happened again! Although to be fair, this was part of IntCon, and thus couldn't easily be about Ambrose. But still! Wizard Cops! Also by far the quickest I've banged out an article thus far, with less than two days between initial concept and posting. Call it training for JamCon, shall we? Ah yes, Wizard Cops. Contests were bad for me, as it would turn out. Writing under the time crunch leads to severe burnout, but I still think my first attempt was pretty solid. It's been criticised as "a GoI instead of an SCP" and I do understand that, but I take the view that "an SCP" is just any strict concept that requires special procedures. It *could* be a group, but it's a sub-group for the Mages Academy and was always intended to be so. I also liked exploring the politics of transforming a group from "in need of containment" to "collaborator", and think of it as an interesting look into a less omnipotent Foundation. I'd say I'm happy if it only tickled me, but I did just read an article on -DE that builds off of it wonderfully, so it seems I'm not alone. ----- **[[[Canine Communication]]]:** "Shaggy Dog" is a type of joke telling where the buildup is long and often convoluted, all for the payoff of not actually having a satisfying punchline. This is something I only learned half way through writing this article about an old english sheepdog. I did manage to put a shaggy dog joke in there, but it's not really the focus of the article. I decided that I'm using Jamcon to establish my author insert, as well as the "Fully Functional Foundation Facility" series / canon. No idea if I'll actually make it a canon. As it turns out, I did not. The jamcon stories were pretty low in retrospect, and again I'm probably not going to repeat that mistake. I still had fun with the stories and it was great to collaborate with North on a couple of them, but I think working to my own pace simply works out better. Now, have I told you the one about the farmer? ----- **[[[Open War at Site-34]]]:** Since North based a tale around //my// author insert, I had to base a tale around //their// author insert. Fair's fair, and all. The phase two theme made the phase one theme look like a piece of cake. "Pulp Fiction," seriously do they want the printing medium or the film? Ah well, I managed to come up with something, even if it didn't have too much to do with the actual theme. Looks like nobody's noticed yet. Purpler prose is not better prose. These reviewing words have stuck with me a lot in the years since, and honestly as much as I rail against them I do recognise how much better I am at writing as a result. I don't really have too much to say about this one, other than "I wish I could have worked with North more." ----- **[[[What You See is (Not) What You Get]]]:** Oysh, pumping this tale out killed me for a bit. Three in a row was a mistake, perhaps it would've been better to pace myself and only do the first day? Fah. After finishing Jamcon, I hit the largest hiatus of my writing career. Probably. Not sure. Certainly the first one I was actively aware of. Haha, you nerd. You didn't know WHAT a hiatus looked like yet. Yes, years after the fact and looking back I can see all the strain in this tale. Honestly the nine points is generous, it's a self-aggrandising derivative pile of stuff that happens, with no actual story inside. Not recommended reading folks, but at least it helped me get towards that character tag. Which, come to think of it, I never actually finished applying for... ----- **[[[SCP-3684]]]:** We don't talk of this one. No seriously, we don't talk about this one. ----- **[[[SCP-4871]]]:** All cards on the table, I just wrote this because I wanted to make a cosplay based on my character in a freeform RP I'm doing, and it made more sense for it to be a skip than an original character. Slightly, at least. Plus, multiverse shenanigans and another work for my author avatar to appear in! That's always worth writing something. If nothing else, I had a lot of fun writing the project proposals for this, I feel I nailed the tone and realism on these. I'll stop tooting my own horn now. Not my most impressive skip, but I don't regret it for a moment. Honestly for the most objectively author-insert article I've ever read I think it's done pretty well. This is definitely the start of the downward slope though, it took me so long to get out the door and I didn't recognise how important writing in my own style was at the time. It's something I learned from and am much better at now. And I still haven't made that cosplay damn it! ----- **[[[Wizard Cops (in color)]]]:*** This tale took me a solid year to produce after JamCon2019 murdered me to death. You can probably see the difference at some point. Even my commentaries seemed to come slowly at this time, eh? The slope continues as I try writing in other styles, in this case leaning on campy cop shows and parodies thereof, without really understanding how to structure a mystery tale. As much as I do love the original SCP, this tale should've been binned from the start. I do think there are interesting things to do with it, but this wasn't it. ----- **[[[He Picked Up The Gun]]]:*** My contribution for the Canon Renaissance Contest, wherein I decided to take a vague understanding of "what if SCP but yeehaw?", and plumbed some narrative abstraction in there a-la Cuil Theory. As seems to be common for me, was more popular during the drafting phase. I'm sounding like a broken record as I write these retrospectives, but there's no helping it. I didn't realise at the time how much better I could be by just relying on my own style rather than trying to emulate someone else. This article didn't work, barely matched the group theme (endless apologies to the A&8 team for the contest, you had a good thing going but I was stuck in a rut I refused to climb out of), and ultimately only hangs on to the site by the generosity of indifferent readers. ----- ----- **[[[The Bill, Please]]]:** I've been thinking about making this tale for quite some time. I've known for years that the Foundation/Ambrose conflict would end peacefully, much to the detriment of all those scarred by it. What I didn't know is that that ending would come in the form of the most honest writing I've ever posted. The characters parallel a relationship with a long-term creative work, stuck emotions, wheel-spinning, the pressure of history, and so on. Rather appropriate, don't you think? ----- **What's Next?:** When I wrote The Bill, Please I assumed that would be the last thing I would write for Ambrose. Then inspiration struck. Funny how that works. So I've got a few more tales in the works, and I've reached out to a few of my collaborators from throughout the years about future projects. If any of them are still around. It's lonely coming back after a break I also have a pretty meaty skip in the drafting phase that could be fun to put out at some point, though I might save it for 10k whenever that rolls around. For now I've got CSS to figure out... That said, most of my writing is elsewhere at the moment. I've become a professional VA since I was last active on the site, and I've just about reached the last act of my book (33k words and rising of the first draft alone!). Will I continue to write? Probably. SCP holds a fixed position in my psyche that's probably not going away, and I would like to build up something over time. For those looking at this months after I've seemingly disappeared, well you can't say I didn't call it. I'm still reachable and happy to gush about whatever other writing project I'm currently doing, and happy to help clarify or manage things related to my posted articles. This is why I don't have a section on this page "releasing" my work to specific others, I never truly leave. Send me a wikidot PM or @ me on Discord. I *will* respond. [[/tab]] [[tab Sandbox]] Stalk away, I do things on my [http://firedawnfolder.wikidot.com/proasek-does-stuff Firedawn Folder Sandbox], in which mad drafts of various stages of completion and complexity lie forever dormant until I actually decide to finish them off. It's also capped by an entirely unrelated rhapsody, if you're into that. If there's anything on there I've not touched in like a year feel free to shoot a message if you'd want to take it over. I'd welcome the excuse to collaborate! [[/tab]] [[tab Fanart]] An extraordinary amount of praise to the people that send me fanart of my characters, you are all talented people who deserve all of the figgy pudding! @@ @@ @@ @@ [[include component:image-block name=http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/krona-midaeus-personnel-file/RockefellerArt|align=center|caption=Researcher Midaeus Conducting a Test on SCP-914, by [[*user Hercules Rockefeller]]|width=800px]] [[include component:image-block name=http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/krona-midaeus-personnel-file/QuestArt|align=center|caption=Krona Midaeus looking tired, by [[*user forbiddenquest]]|width=400px]] [[include component:image-block name=http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/krona-midaeus-personnel-file/ProasekArt|align=center|caption=SCP-4871 before getting a new bed, by [[*user Proasek]], the massive nerd.|width=800px]] = [[size 20%]] Yes this is the official appearance of -4871. Fight me. [[/size]] [[include component:image-block name=http://scp-wiki.wdfiles.com/local--files/krona-midaeus-personnel-file/SkorptArt|align=center|caption=SCP-4871 looking annoyed, by [[*user Skorpt]]|width=400px]] [[/tab]] [[/tabview]]