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The first and most important thing I need to bring up is 239's Existence Erasure. Obviously, she has this ability, but the problem is with the statement afterwards.
"(This works up to beings that are nonexistent)"
This statement is not only false, but the exact opposite of what the story Sisters tells us.
She'd been going about this wrong. You couldn't kill a Way. It was a Way. And you couldn't kill a Neverwere. You couldn't put something out of existence that didn't exist in the first place."
She couldn't kill this creature. But she could heal it."
And she said, "No."
She reached into the forming hole in the world, into the heart of the suffering, broken Way, and she pulled it inside out. She pulled the Neverwere right out of it, and into…
Into essence. Into existence."
The baby had matted black hair and bright brown eyes. It had red baby gums and pliable baby fingers and soft baby skin. It had cartilage and tendons and bones and blood and a mind.
It was real. It existed. It was happy."
Next to her, Sigurrós Stef├ínsdóttir kicked her feet. "I couldn't kill it. I had to make it real."
"You realize that's never been done before, right?" Alison asked. "The Neverwere can't be truly real. That's their defining factor. It just… breaks the laws of the universe to say otherwise."
"Maybe the problem is with the laws of the universe, then," Sigurrós said."
As both explicitly stated and shown, 239 does not "erase the Neverwere from nonexistence", which is something the setting itself describes as silly. She reaches through the hole it begins forming in reality, pulls it into existence, and alters the laws of the universe so that it is able to be real. In finally being real, the Neverwere is given peace, and is no longer a world-ending threat. This is not existence erasure. This is reality warping so that something which otherwise cannot exist is able to exist.
Another issue that needs to be addressed is that 239's page says that she "Matched the Neverwere in a battle of reality warping" and as "being able to best a Neverwere in both a battle of reality-bending and mental power". These are both incorrect.
Whatismynamewhatisyournamewhatismyname
My name is Sigurrós Stef├ínsdóttir, she thought. It's a good name. But I might not have it for much longer.
She felt like she was floating at the top of a well, with deep, deep water before. It would be so easy to just … let go, and sink, sink forever, into the blissful abyss…
She didn't let go, but she sank anyway.
She felt herself becoming half-real. Half-real, and falling asleep.
One minute left until the end of the world.
never… never… never… never…"
Finally, there's the matter of her speed for the first key, which is listed as Immeasurable for keeping up with the Neverwere. However, as you may have noticed from some of these quotes, the entirety of the Neverwere's attack on site-17 takes place in real time. Hell, the entire first three quarters or so of the story is a countdown to when the Neverwere will implode and erase the planet. The creature's countdown is not taking place in higher-dimensional time, nor is its physical assault on 239. This is not an example of immeasurable speed.
Summary of changes:
"(This works up to beings that are nonexistent)"
This statement is not only false, but the exact opposite of what the story Sisters tells us.
- Here's the first statement. Aside from being told that 239 cannot erase/kill a Way, the more important part here is that we're explicitly told you can't kill a Neverwere because it doesn't exist. This is a pretty direct statement of "239 cannot erase nonexistent beings because they are nonexistent".
She'd been going about this wrong. You couldn't kill a Way. It was a Way. And you couldn't kill a Neverwere. You couldn't put something out of existence that didn't exist in the first place."
- Now for the second statement. More confirmation that 239 cannot kill the Neverwere, and that she doesn't "defeat" it or anything like that. She stops it by healing it.
She couldn't kill this creature. But she could heal it."
- 239 does pretty much exactly what her inner thoughts tell us she's going to do.
And she said, "No."
She reached into the forming hole in the world, into the heart of the suffering, broken Way, and she pulled it inside out. She pulled the Neverwere right out of it, and into…
Into essence. Into existence."
- The result of the Neverwere existing is now quite different than it trying to end the world.
The baby had matted black hair and bright brown eyes. It had red baby gums and pliable baby fingers and soft baby skin. It had cartilage and tendons and bones and blood and a mind.
It was real. It existed. It was happy."
- If what just happened needs to be made any more obvious, then here's part of a conversation in the epilogue.
Next to her, Sigurrós Stef├ínsdóttir kicked her feet. "I couldn't kill it. I had to make it real."
"You realize that's never been done before, right?" Alison asked. "The Neverwere can't be truly real. That's their defining factor. It just… breaks the laws of the universe to say otherwise."
"Maybe the problem is with the laws of the universe, then," Sigurrós said."
As both explicitly stated and shown, 239 does not "erase the Neverwere from nonexistence", which is something the setting itself describes as silly. She reaches through the hole it begins forming in reality, pulls it into existence, and alters the laws of the universe so that it is able to be real. In finally being real, the Neverwere is given peace, and is no longer a world-ending threat. This is not existence erasure. This is reality warping so that something which otherwise cannot exist is able to exist.
Another issue that needs to be addressed is that 239's page says that she "Matched the Neverwere in a battle of reality warping" and as "being able to best a Neverwere in both a battle of reality-bending and mental power". These are both incorrect.
- The Neverwere's mental powers are explicitly greater than her own, and described as being too great for her to directly counter. 239 is able to parry them when the creature puts more effort into it, but just barely.
- There's also the fact that without her foci, 239 quickly begins to fall prey to the Neverwere, especially after it begins diverting attention away from Alison.
Whatismynamewhatisyournamewhatismyname
My name is Sigurrós Stef├ínsdóttir, she thought. It's a good name. But I might not have it for much longer.
She felt like she was floating at the top of a well, with deep, deep water before. It would be so easy to just … let go, and sink, sink forever, into the blissful abyss…
She didn't let go, but she sank anyway.
She felt herself becoming half-real. Half-real, and falling asleep.
One minute left until the end of the world.
never… never… never… never…"
Finally, there's the matter of her speed for the first key, which is listed as Immeasurable for keeping up with the Neverwere. However, as you may have noticed from some of these quotes, the entirety of the Neverwere's attack on site-17 takes place in real time. Hell, the entire first three quarters or so of the story is a countdown to when the Neverwere will implode and erase the planet. The creature's countdown is not taking place in higher-dimensional time, nor is its physical assault on 239. This is not an example of immeasurable speed.
Summary of changes:
- Removal of the statement following "Existence Erasure" under SCP-239's powers and abilities.
- Fixing some of the descriptions to better reflect what actually happened during the fight.
- Removal of the reasoning for Immeasurable speed, and possibly removal of the speed itself for the first key if her physical body does not have any other speed feats to support this ranking.
