Dr. Cardinal

Dr. Cardinal was one of the first characters in Area 17. He was the first a Head Researcher in the Scientific Department, and was usually in charge when the ARD or ARC wasn't on site.

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Backstory
Dr. Cardinal spent most of his time on the office and/or the woods. He always criticized the higher ups decisions, such as making the site have SCP-049, SCP-079 and SCP-682 all in the same Area, adn assured that would doom everyone in it.

Although brilliant, he rarely did any job, and never cared about breaches, ignoring them or any danger, and rarely got surprised.

Unbeknownst to everyone, he constantly went into the woods where he tried to kill himself, but never managed to have the guts to do so. This was explained later.

After various events, including "The breach of 008" and SCP-8515 breaching, Dr. Timotheus, the Area Research Chief of the time, ordered him to seek profesional help, which lead to Dr. Cardinal having some meetings with Dr. Sonia.

In those meetings he explained his choices had lead to her wife's fall towards death, where he felt guilty of it.

After a while, Dr. Cardinal became incredibly unstable, and in one of their sessions threatened Sonia at gun point, in which he was declared a foundation traitor. Finally free, being chased, Dr. Cardinal escaped into the containment room of SCP-682, where he shot himself, and his body was devoured by the SCP.

Trivia

 * Dr. Cardinal and Dr. Timotheus were never friends, but had a friendly relationship, and often criticized the higher ups together.
 * After the events of Dr. Cardinal's death, only 2 Head Researchers were left in all the site: Dr. Lightvale and Dr. Reed (who was currently taking a 3 month vacation)
 * To prevent these actions from happening, Dr. Timotheus banned any Scientific Department member from having weapons again in Area 17, protocol that has stood till this day.