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[[span style="font-weight: bold; color: black"]]//Yesterday upon the stair//
//I met a man who wasn't there//
//He wasn't there again today//
//I wish, I wish he'd go away//

**- //Antigonish//, Hughes Mearns, 1899**[[/span]]
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The Foundation knows that "Nobody" is a force of nature. Antimemetic and unknown, they are a wild card at play. Sometimes friend, sometimes foe, and most times neither. They can swoop in and change events with no apparent rhyme or reason to their actions or motives.

Or is there? Could there be something that the Foundation is missing, when all they're doing is trying to catch a ghost no one remembers? Is there something more to be found within those old, lost journals?

The Foundation states [[[groups-of-interest#nobody|that they don't know whether Nobody is an individual or an organization]]] and in a way, both are correct. Nobody is a //role//. An individual donning a mask with a purpose, and once that purpose is fulfilled, another individual succeeds the role and assumes the name.

Another identity lost, another person forgotten.

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The first they found.
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//[[[prelude-nobody|Prelude: A Terminus]]]//
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//He looked at himself in the mirror and inspected his uniform for the day.//
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**[[[Foreign Aid]]]**
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//Almost involuntarily, Maria half-thought "He looks like a troubled sky, about to turn into a storm."//
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--**[[[No Name Given]]]**--
By [[*user MayD]]
//(The Tale you have selected is temporarily out of order. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please accept this coupon for 5% off your next purchase from Prometheus Labs.)//
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//[[[board-meeting-transcript|Interlude: An Excerpt]]]//
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//Excerpt from the transcript of Prometheus Labs board meeting on [DATE REMOVED]//
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**[[[The Stranger and the Secretary]]]**
By [[*user Cryogenchaos]]
//"And this is Mister Nobody."//
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//[[[wondertainment-special-letter|Interlude: A Special Letter]]]//
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//Document found among the personal effects of D████ W█████, recovered during Operation PURPLE ENVELOPE//
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**[[[concerto-in-d-major|Concerto in D-Major, Orchestrated for Paintbrush and Fedora]]]**
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//And that was how you met The Critic for the first time.//
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//[[[library-gallery-exhibition|Interlude: An Exhibition]]]//
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//Found in 2012, as part of the Library-curated exhibition: "Standing on the Shoulders of the Phoenix: Discovery and Rediscovery in Post-Millennial ReCreationist Anart"//
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//[[[postlude-nobody|Postlude: A Terminus]]]//
By [[*user Drewbear]]
//She looked at herself in the mirror and inspected her uniform for the day.//
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= Unique to the [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/from-120-s-archives-hub Archives of Site-120], the Inventor did not let herself be killed in full so easily. A final shard of magic has weaved its way through twenty-four souls, hollowed them out and made them //nothing.// The cycle of reincarnation spins, and while each holds their own goal, they are united in a single purpose:

= Kill Queen Mab.

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[[tab I - α]]
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//The first, rising from the ashes of an empire.//
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**[[[whispers-of-a-reckoning|Whispers of a Reckoning]]]**
By [[*user Lemonsense]] and [[*user Dino--Draws]]
//Do you know what it means when the woods are silent?//
//It means something terrible is soon to come.//
//It means the world is holding its breath.//
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//[[[nobody-dies-at-dawn-hub |Series Hub]]]//
//Nobody dies at dawn... or so the story goes, if you give faith to the rumors from under ashen Adytum. To whispers of ghosts, lost on wind of the storm-torn Aegean.//
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**[[[laid-in-blood|Laid in Blood]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]]
//It is ten years before the fall, and Odysseus breaches the beaches of Adytum. Behind him, the sun sets on a crimson Aegean, its waves lit aflame.//
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By [[*user Diogene_s]]
//Sing, oh muse, of the man once known as Odysseus, who traveled long and far. Sing of his fleeing of Dread Adytum, populated by untold horrors. Sing of his schemes and of his sorrowful return to sweet Ithaca.//
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**[[[favoured-son|Favoured Son]]]**
By [[*user Diogene_s]], [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]] and [[*user Ralliston]]
//We all walk lonesome, bloody trails — and none are as well preserved in the annals of history as that of the cunning Odysseus, even if the forces of the Veil have tried as they might to scrub it out of our history.//
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**[[[empty-trail|Empty Trail]]]**
By [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]]
//There are massive boulders, towering in the distant darkness. The spurs of rock spearing the sky like the bones of something great and terrible. The birds that circle are vultures.//
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**[[[scp-8472|SCP-8472 — Once and Future King]]]**
By [[*user Diogene_s]], [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]] and [[*user Ralliston]]
//Somewhere on the horizon, the sun is setting. Its light barely shines through the mist surrounding the island.//
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//Now bear with me...//
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**[[[carroll-022-the-last-stand|Carroll #022: The Last Stand]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]]
//The Foundation can't be enjoying this show, either. I'm sure that at any point you could've reached out to them, talked it through, and managed an outcome where you walk free, and they get what they want. So why keep on keeping on?//
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**[[[fret-not-dear-heart|Fret Not, Dear Heart, Let Not Them Hear]]]**
By [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]]
//He was dying.//
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//[[[gaslight-gatekeep-girlboss-hub|Series Hub]]]//
//How will this affect Surratt's insanity-driven reign as the supreme leader of Esterberg's criminal world? Where will Nobody's holy hunt against the cult lead? Will the entire group prevail, finally check-mating the never-dead beast Mab is, or will the Starlight triumph once again, finalizing her comeback into reality? It looks like only time will tell…//

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**[[[The Lands Nobody Returns From]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Uncle Nicolini]]
//**TO DO: DESTROY TRIUMVIRATÉ.**//
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**[[[Four Knights' Tango]]]**
By [[*user JakdragonX]], [[*user Ralliston]], and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//Oh, him? He's nobody.//
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**[[[I Was the Queen (Before It Was Cool)]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//So waste no time, children of crime; for you are almost out of time.//
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**[[[Nobody's Home]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//And then, all hell went loose.//
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**[[[People Without Meaning]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//And yet, you have the delusion to face me. You. Are. Nothing.//
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**[[[Human]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//For Nobody, the Hunt was everything.//
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**[[[Jäger, Part 1]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//Above all else, the Impasse was quiet.//
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**[[[Jäger, Part 2]]]**
By [[*user Ralliston]] and [[*user Trotskyeet]]
//You were an inevitability.//
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Within the Threshold Timeline of [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/no-return-hub No Return]; Following from the pivot of [https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-6500 SCP-6500], the Foundation has decided to preserve the status quo in light of the Impasse and their role in causing it.

And Nobody is going to do something about it.
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**[[[nobody-likes-a-sneak|Nobody Likes a Sneak]]]**
By [[*user Grigori Karpin]]
A streetwise Nobody searching for an explanation for the Impasse, starts up an investigation that runs her afoul of cognitohazards, T-rex skeletons, the Wanderer’s Library, and a Paris café.
And that’s just the beginning.
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**[[[nobody-s-looking-for-trouble|Nobody's Looking for Trouble]]]**
By [[*user Grigori Karpin]]
Nobody isn’t alone, she’s working with the Serpent’s Hand, and she isn’t even the only nobody around, but none of that is gonna matter if they can’t find out where the Foundation is holding O5-Zero after their trial.
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**[[[nobody-came-to-the-funeral|Nobody Came to the Funeral]]]**
By [[*user Grigori Karpin]]
Nobody, along with Zero and the Black queen, meets with a wanderer from a different Foundational mindset, attends a funeral for those lost, and makes plans to see where she can sink a knife to best disrupt the Foundation in the months following SCP-6500.
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//[[[the-man-in-the-white-suit-hub|Series Hub]]]//
**Current Objective:** Avoid the Man in the White Suit, comb through the Nobody Archives to figure out his deal (and Nobody's while I'm at it). Assemble the Name Machine.
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**[[[hello-my-name-isnt|Hello My Name Isn't]]]**
By [[*user Captain Kirby]]
//No two transitions are the same, but they always start with panic. And after the panic subsides, Nobody always finds their footing.//
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**[[[chiaroscuro|Chiaroscuro]]]**
By [[*user Tufto]]
//It felt like the fog would never end.//
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**[[[nobodyx4|Nobody, Nobody, Nobody, and Nobody's Encounters with The Man in the White Suit]]]**
By [[*user ROUNDERHOUSE]]
//Excerpt from a journal recovered off a battlefield by an American G.I during the Korean War in 1953.//
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**[[[SCP-5353|SCP-5353 — Does Anyone Remember Fritz Obermeyer?]]]**
By [[*user Tufto]]
//SCP-5353 has an unidentified link with PoI-000 "Nobody", and most sightings of SCP-5353 in recent decades have involved PoI-000 to some degree.//
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**[[[everyday-is-somebodys-birthday|Everyday Is Somebody's Birthday]]]**
By [[*user Captain Kirby]]
//"Happy birthday to me."//
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**[[[SCP-5877|SCP-5877 — Nobodies]]]**
By [[*user Captain Kirby]]
//Worldwide birth record databases are to be routinely copied onto Foundation servers to maintain a centralized hub of all persons with a recorded identity.//
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**[[[ghosts-in-the-machine|Ghosts in the Machine]]]**
By [[*user ROUNDERHOUSE]]
//A hand reaches up and grips the edge, crunching the glass under it. No, not a hand- a prosthetic, plated with white armor. He blanches.//
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**[[[intercepts|Files intercepted from Anderson Systems personnel]]]**
By [[*user ROUNDERHOUSE]]
//I've no advantage by giving you this, so think about that before you accuse me of lying.//
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**[[[SCP-5375|SCP-5375 — Nobody and the Name Machine]]]**
By [[*user ROUNDERHOUSE]] and [[*user Woedenaz]]
//The PANOPTICON system is operating at peak efficiency and should be capable of triangulating the location of PoI-0000 (Nobody) should they come in range of a node or Aerial Surveillance Drone.//
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**[[[nobody-in-their-right-mind|Epilogue: Nobody in their Right Mind]]]**
By [[*user Tufto]]
//Nobody can remember them all.//
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The Compass Spins Eternal.
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**[[[SCP-8316|SCP-8316 — Memorium]]]**
By [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]]
//Do not mettle in what is not yours.//
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**Dead Man's Diary**
By [[*user Dino‐‐Draws]]
//Coming Soon.//
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For stories that stand alone.
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**[[[on-the-path-nobody-knows|On the Path Nobody Knows]]]**
By [[*user TheHouseofBalloons]]
//For the most part, my memory eluded me. Still, I can remember who I was in the Old World.//
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**[[[SCP-8725|SCP-8275 — Loss, Erasure, Finding Oneself]]]**
By [[*user Uncle Nicolini]]
//In which Jay Everwood finds themselves, but loses a bit of themselves.//
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**[[[role-model|Role Model]]]**
By [[*user 7eventy7evenfold]]
//{{You have: [1] voicemail!}}//
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+ How to Contribute

The Man Who Wasn't There is a looser canon than most. Less an interconnected setting with consistent lore, and more a sandbox utilized to experiment with the "Nobody" Group of Interest and the common themes that emerge from it. To be specific, the most consistently explored themes within this canon are ones of mystery, and primarily, identity. Nobody is less a character, and more a role to be utilized by you to tell a story. To push a character towards an overarching goal or purpose.

Regardless of if an Iteration of Nobody succeeds in their goal, or fails in it, the Succession continues. Another individual takes up the mantle of Nobody, and the fight goes on.

Forever the eternal struggle of a question that plagues many:

//Who am I?//

The primary (and really only) piece of consistent lore within the canon to keep in mind is how Nobody typically works; They are antimemetic, they are forgotten by all who once knew them and will know them, and they do not remember themselves. A loss of identity and a loss of memory, left nothing but a figure clad in a grey suit and hat.[[footnote]] Some other minor consistencies that have popped up also include Nobody picking up the habit of smoking, or more comedically, an enjoyment of waffle houses.[[/footnote]] The journal-keeping GOI format is often explained in-universe as Nobody writing down information as to remember it, or as a way to retroactively help future iterations that will come after them. Characterization can be variable, as the role of Nobody falls on people from many walks of life.

How the Succession of the role occurs is also variable. It can just be something that occurs naturally in the world, when someone is forgotten. It can be a Faustian bargain made with the Iteration before that offers purpose. It can be a simple accident or happenstance.

If you've created a stand alone piece of writing for the canon, feel free to add it to the "Scattered Pages" section with an accompanying blurb! If making a series, give it its own section and title by copy pasting a pre-existing one and editing it. You can make your own banner, or contact me (the canon's curator, [[*user Dino--Draws]]) and I'll be more than happy to make one for you. For any questions, you can similarly feel free to reach out to me.[[footnote]] Either via Wikidot DMs, or you can find me in both the Official SCP Discord, and Canonexus Discord, under the same username as my wikidot.[[/footnote]]
 
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[[span style="font-weight: bold; color: black"]]//I'm nobody! Who are you?//
//Are you nobody, too?//
//Then there's a pair of us//
//Don't tell—they'd banish us, you know.//

**- //I'm Nobody! Who are you?//, Emily Dickinson, 1891**[[/span]]
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