Norton Klez – Lore
The breach at Site-65 was sudden and violent. As Investigator Norton Klez exited a meeting alongside Alpha-1 operatives, a nearby dispenser hissed and released a live grenade. Without hesitation, Norton threw himself between the squad and the blast. The device detonated against his chest.
He did not know it at the time, but the man standing behind Alpha-1 that day was not an ordinary official, but a member of the Overseer Council.
Norton was dragged from the wreckage, barely alive. Conventional medicine was useless; the surgeons lacked the expertise to anchor his consciousness to the machine grafts that kept his body from failing. He was slipping away. At the Council’s direct order, archived analytical data from SCP-079 was retrieved from Site-65. Its documented understanding of SCP-4951’s neural-machine architecture was adapted to Norton’s reconstruction process. The procedures that followed were unlike anything ever performed within Foundation medical protocol. Against all odds, Norton survived.
When he awoke weeks later, he believed he had been given a second chance. Norton accepted the Foundation’s explanation—that his survival was due to extraordinary medical intervention. Grateful, he dedicated himself to the Council with renewed loyalty. To Norton, the missing gaps in his memory were merely the result of surgical side effects. He never questioned them.
But the Overseers knew the truth.
The integration had not restored one mind, but two. A second personality, a cold, methodical, unburdened by hesitation, had been born from the mix of corrupted code and invasive surgery. This entity, designated Klez, does not emerge on its own. It is hidden, dormant, buried beneath Norton’s awareness.
Through a restricted codeword protocol, Klez can take control, overriding Norton entirely. When active, Klez carries out orders without hesitation or morality. To him, the Council’s word is law, and any obstacle—human or otherwise—is expendable. When Klez is deactivated, Norton returns, unaware of what has transpired. The memories remain, but to him they are only blanks in the timeline, fragments he assumes were lost in his surgery. It has been seen a couple of times that Klez takes control over Norton by himself, especially when Norton is under heavy stress.
Some site staff have noticed that Norton sometimes stares at the dispensers around the site for too long. Medical personnel are also aware that he is avoiding going to medbay as much as possible. Medical personnel who have performed the surgery believe that dispensers around the site and the medbay itself trigger some flashbacks.
To most of the Foundation, Norton is simply a man who gave everything for the cause and was rebuilt to continue serving.
To the Overseers, he is far more valuable: two tools in one shell—loyal assistant by day, unflinching enforcer by command.
And Norton will never know the difference.
The breach at Site-65 was sudden and violent. As Investigator Norton Klez exited a meeting alongside Alpha-1 operatives, a nearby dispenser hissed and released a live grenade. Without hesitation, Norton threw himself between the squad and the blast. The device detonated against his chest.
He did not know it at the time, but the man standing behind Alpha-1 that day was not an ordinary official, but a member of the Overseer Council.
Norton was dragged from the wreckage, barely alive. Conventional medicine was useless; the surgeons lacked the expertise to anchor his consciousness to the machine grafts that kept his body from failing. He was slipping away. At the Council’s direct order, archived analytical data from SCP-079 was retrieved from Site-65. Its documented understanding of SCP-4951’s neural-machine architecture was adapted to Norton’s reconstruction process. The procedures that followed were unlike anything ever performed within Foundation medical protocol. Against all odds, Norton survived.
When he awoke weeks later, he believed he had been given a second chance. Norton accepted the Foundation’s explanation—that his survival was due to extraordinary medical intervention. Grateful, he dedicated himself to the Council with renewed loyalty. To Norton, the missing gaps in his memory were merely the result of surgical side effects. He never questioned them.
But the Overseers knew the truth.
The integration had not restored one mind, but two. A second personality, a cold, methodical, unburdened by hesitation, had been born from the mix of corrupted code and invasive surgery. This entity, designated Klez, does not emerge on its own. It is hidden, dormant, buried beneath Norton’s awareness.
Through a restricted codeword protocol, Klez can take control, overriding Norton entirely. When active, Klez carries out orders without hesitation or morality. To him, the Council’s word is law, and any obstacle—human or otherwise—is expendable. When Klez is deactivated, Norton returns, unaware of what has transpired. The memories remain, but to him they are only blanks in the timeline, fragments he assumes were lost in his surgery. It has been seen a couple of times that Klez takes control over Norton by himself, especially when Norton is under heavy stress.
Some site staff have noticed that Norton sometimes stares at the dispensers around the site for too long. Medical personnel are also aware that he is avoiding going to medbay as much as possible. Medical personnel who have performed the surgery believe that dispensers around the site and the medbay itself trigger some flashbacks.
To most of the Foundation, Norton is simply a man who gave everything for the cause and was rebuilt to continue serving.
To the Overseers, he is far more valuable: two tools in one shell—loyal assistant by day, unflinching enforcer by command.
And Norton will never know the difference.
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