Night wrote:That's alright (srsly), I don't like the reasons you gave to back up that opinion though.
I should start of by saying that I don't understand your grudge at all unless you're the person who wrote the article about 682.
First off, you should have read what I wrote, there will be two models, one is this, the undamaged one, and the second one is the damaged with all the eyes, limbs, and shit like that which you take fancy to, so hopefully that makes you happier.
Secondly, you can't argue the whole "ability to adapt" thing, you could assume so many things about what it entails and what it is dependent on that it's useless, you could literally make up whatever you want with it.
So you go from telling me that it shouldn't look like something in real life, that would not work in real life; to that it doesn't make sense to make its head like it is now because of its flesh disintegrating and the ability to adapt? Do you see what's wrong with that? And who's to say 682 even has flesh on its face, or for that matter, its whole body?
And as I mentioned the ability to adapt argument can't be applied; I can just say that the ability to adapt, with the information given (and tell me if there's something I missed of course),

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(from the article:"SCP-682's physical body grows and changes very quickly, growing or decreasing in size at it consumes or sheds material." and "SCP-682 rapidly regenerates damage, and moves to a different wall, developing several sets of eyes on various parts of its body, many covered by thick, clear “caps” of armored carapace.")

modifies the existing bodily structure quickly and accordingly to the situation at present which has affected its body in a certain way, this would not mean any abnormal tumor like additions to its body like random limbs and retarded proportions, but rather something that would work in real life and would make sense anatomically, or to put it a bit differently and a little inaccurately (in terms of evolution) - 682 controlled self evolution with accelerated speed ; in which case you could say that its face wouldn't have changed after the incident had happened because there wouldn't be any reason for it (you're also loosely making some time references which I don't have a clue about "I think that by now it probably looks. . .").
Heck, you want an even more overboard example which is not in my favour in any way at all? It could mean that 682 would look like anything imaginable, it could look like a car, it could look like a flower, it could look like everything that you see when you type in "scp 682" into google images; my point being, it could look like everything. Where and how do you make the distinction of where the limit to its adaptability ends?
Funnily enough, without that second paragraph in the additional text given about 682 (the experiment log), you could interpret it like: "682 will get fatter if it eats more, and will get skinnier if it eats less very quickly" if you wanted.
Regardless of that though, the whole point in this build is that it makes sense to a certain degree, it's something that more than likely would work in real life; unlike you're oversimplified view of it which is "it looks out of this world durr hurr".
Wtf do you mean by looking too much like a "natural animal"? Do you think that aliens (even tho 682 could be from earth, which I should have addressed earlier but forgot) wouldn't look "natural"? That they would have a structure that would make sense for them to actually be considered somehow unnatural? Whatever that means.
I don't understand why make it look all fucked up and ugly anyway.. is it just for the sake of making it look cool? I mean, I'm fine with that and all, but I'd rather it be backed up by some rules that apply in the real world.

Serimah wrote:Wait, you did not try to grasp Night's thought process on this model and simply went from pictures only? And then you outright snap at him.
I was surprised at Night being more harsh than usual but now I understand it more clearly.

While I simply have to say the current model is just not the direction I have liked, I do understand where he was going with this. And his abilities are as amazing as ever.
But cursing him out for it is not the way to go dude. While I do agree with your statement of 682 looking too... dinosaur/raptor like though. I really do.

And to throw in a little something at the end "It's a perfectly nice-looking dinosaur, but it's a rather uninspired 682"

It appears that SCP-682 is not “alive” in a way that is currently understood,

After review, it appears SCP-173 was unable to do lethal damage to SCP-682 due to a major difference in physical size.

Hypothesis: 682 is not bound to base Earth biological chemistry and can adapt itself to be 'organic' or 'inorganic' as necessary.

SCP-524 pursues SCP-682 for two minutes, at which point SCP-682 climbs four (4) meters up the wall of the testing chamber and is beyond SCP-524's reach.

SCP-682's containment chamber was purged of acid and SCP-1361 was poured onto SCP-682 from above.

Night wrote:Thanks for the information!

Well and that's thing, it's body adapts to the situation if necessary, it can at one point look like that, and in one point look like that because the situation it was in enabled it to, so if you take the example of the first quote you mentioned from the experiment with 689, I don't think you could go as far as to saying that it's undead (as in at all times), but rather that it was seemingly undead in that specific occurrence. Also, since the model I'm making isn't the affected 682 (after its been wounded heavily), I'm not going to start adding to it all the features that would inherently make it look monstrous.
Wouldn't the speed at which 682 regenerates mean you wouldn't see him as "half-done"?
Did you look at the concept art? I think it gives pretty much the impression I wanted about how it would look like once I finish with the model