This Story Will Hurt Your Soul... (SCP 1762, "Where the Dragons Went")
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Published 2021-10-02
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CAUTION: THIS VIDEO IS CRUEL TO SENSITIVE SOULS. Seriously. It will crush you if you have a tenderness for creativity and imagination. It’s all the cruelest realities we dreamers have to face rolled into one 20-minute video. But it’s a good one. The story we share here, about dragons, their death, and the eventual loss of all fantasy… it’s so good, it’s even instructional, provided you can keep watching through the tiers.
For reference, this story comes from the SCP foundation. It’s generally known as Here Were Dragons, Where the Dragons Went, or more properly, SCP 1762: scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1762
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All Comments (21)
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Father: And that how the story end... Son: But will I one day can not travel to the Fantasy anymore Father: Yes my son. But before you Forget, you pass your Fantasy to your child. And you get to your Fantasy with your child, just like me now. Son: So the Story never dies. Father: So the Story never dies.
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“We are scared. Will you forget us?” Damn it, if that line doesn’t get me every time. So child like. So innocent. So afraid.
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Reminds me of the post that went around social media for a while, suggesting that someone should write a book where the main character slowly falls in love with the reader. They suggest that the last words should be, "Please don't close the book. I don't want to die."
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“The tragedy of nostalgia is that the feeling itself is an admission of things lost.” As someone who loves nostalgia and savours it whenever the feeling occurs, that hit me
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I think the reason why the story hit so hard because it's symbolic of something we all go through: growing up, growing away of what we loved as kids and eventually forgetting it.
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I think what's really upsetting is, when there was a bit of flesh coming out of the box, that either one of the kids who visited the dragons had a moment of memory or, someone in SCP was starting to feel a personal connection to them. So that's why instead of paper, it was actual flesh...
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This is a bit like the underlying sadness of Winnie-the-Pooh. Eventually, Christopher Robin outgrew Pooh. That's how it ended. He grew up and didn't need him anymore. It's one of the saddest things.
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9:04 The moment I noticed that one of the researchers had dropped their notes and started crying is what broke me.
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I only cried at the last part where the amethyst was revealed to say; “One last time”
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I remember crying the first time I read the story. SCP is such a weird world full of clinical sterility, horror and, at times, jokes. Something this hard-hitting and sad comes out of nowhere, at least it did for me.
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Talking about how fantasy has to pass with youth, only makes me think of a line from The Little Prince: "Growing up is not the problem, forgetting is"
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"Prepare yourself. Are you ready?" Me: thinks nothing of the intro and just passively listens during a quick workout "What once said "Here be Dragons" now says "Here - were - dragons." Me: fake coughs to keep myself from breaking out into tears
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Dang. As a creative, I thought that I was prepared. But when the fantasy dies, that’s a mournful time for us all. And simply being prepared is not an option. This hit me hard.
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This is why SCP 1762 is my favorite. It’s not a traditional monster or horror story. It’s a tragedy about the loss of childhood fantasy.
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I realized what they meant by: “Master says he’s recreating a world what can you can not be apart of” that is way dragons have turned into myths
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This is all a metaphor for growing up and maturing, and every imagination we had when we were kids would only remain as a nostalgic feeling nothing more
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As a pure fantasy writer, this story hurt more than most things. Fantasy brings me happiness. As a child, I had always dreamed of seeing dragons, and helping them not to be forgotten. This story brought me grief, fierce sadness, the feeling of helplessness. The thought of fantasy keeps my imagination alive.
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Who would’ve thought that an scp, where you’d think monsters are only there, would have such nice creatures?
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I'm tearing up just looking at the title. This is perhaps one of the better SCPs to start with, as it lets you see that SCP is more than just monsters and reality benders.
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My best friend knows how much I love this scp, fantasy, and dragons in general. So they made me an origami dragon- and gosh do I cherish it dearly. Every time I look at it, I smile.
