Item #: SCP-4565
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: Item SCP-4565 is to be contained in an 80x80x80 cm black opaque glass display case in standard tier 1 cognitohazard storage on site ██ at all times. The containment chamber must remain at 16-26 degrees Celsius at a humidity between 40%-45%. The object’s containment cell should remain dark at all times. Level one clearance is required to enter SCP-4565's containment cell at any time; however, no personnel is permitted to remove the case covering the painting. Removal of SCP-4565 from its casing is not permitted aside from testing purposes. Testing must be approved by at least one researcher with level 2 clearance or higher. No staff or personnel are allowed to view the painting for any reason. If details of the painting must be analyzed, D-class personnel must take a photograph to be viewed in print or digitally. printed.
Description: Currently contained at Site-██, SCP-4565 is a painting of a wooden cottage in a snowy forest, surrounded by a frozen lake. Upon observing this painting in person, human subjects (who will hereafter be referred to as SCP-4565-1) will feel an intense urge to destroy the painting.
An instance of SCP-4565 in containment
Following the destruction of the painting, SCP-4565-1 will recall living in this cottage during their childhood and claim that they created the painting as a child. Subjects will feel immense regret for destroying this painting and will attempt to recreate it with whichever usable materials they have access to.
Each recreation is identical to the previous, with the exceptions of a change in dimensions (ranging from 10x10x0.5 cm to 78x78x2 cm) and different initials that correspond with those of SCP-4565-1. When asked why they changed the initials, the subjects will deny this accusation and claim the initials were always theirs.
If SCP-4565 is damaged, harmed, or critiqued in any way, SCP-4565-1 will begin to feel impactful negative thoughts because their “life’s work” is not being appreciated. If the subject is deceased, the personnel that is closest to the painting will experience these effects. If SCP-4565-1 dies while these effects are in place, the effects will be transferred to the nearest person as well. If SCP-4565-1 has no access to materials to create a replica of the painting, the nearest person and/or persons with access to the proper materials will feel an uncontrollable desire to assist SCP-4565-1.
Note: Aside from the first two instances, no instances of SCP-4565-1 have lived in or entered the pictured cottage at any point during their lives.
Incident 1 and Discovery of SCP-4565: SCP-4565 was located in ███ and was painted by ███, who was at the time, an eleven-year-old male. According to the subject’s mother, he was a talented artist and spent around twelve minutes on the painting, although he referred to it as his “life’s work”. The painting’s anomalous properties were discovered when a foundation member (who has since been terminated), visited the cottage after a report of anomalous properties of the forest. Upon viewing the painting, this facility member said that it was "insufficient", and proceeded to destroy and recreate the painting. The original artist committed suicide within ██ days of the painting’s destruction and left a note, discussing his relation to [DATA EXPUNGED].
Interviewed: SCP-4565-1
Interviewer: Dr. Sev █
Foreword: Following incident 1, the foundation interviewed the responsible foundation member to discuss her thought process before she was discharged.
<Begin Log, 12:34 AM, 10/17/██>
Dr. Sev: Mrs. ██, this shouldn’t be too long. We’re just going to ask a couple of questions.
SCP-4565-1: Shoot.
Dr. Sev: Why did you destroy that kid’s painting? You must have had a reason.
SCP-4565-1: It wasn’t his.
Dr. Sev: Mrs. ██, he drew the painting in its entirety. How do you mean it wasn’t his?
SCP-4565-1: I painted it when I was young. I don’t know how he got ahold of it, but I painted it. For some reason, I just didn’t remember. I destroyed it because it was making me mad. Then I remembered when I made it and I felt horrible for destroying it because that house was one of my favorite childhood memories.
Dr. Sev: From the remaining shards of the ██’s painting, you can clearly see his initials. You didn’t paint it.
Note: At this point, Dr. Sev shows ██ an image of the remnants of the original painting.
SCP-4565-1: That’s [EXPLETIVE]. It said my initials. This is the wrong image.
Dr. Sev: Please remain civil, this interview is being transcribed.
SCP-4565-1: Sorry.
Dr. Sev: I hate to sound like a broken record, Mrs. ██, but our logs indicate that you never lived at the address the painting depicts, the initials weren’t yours, and even after saying the painting wasn’t sufficient and destroying it, you replicated it perfectly. There isn’t a difference between the two aside from the initials. If it wasn’t sufficient before, it still isn’t. You had no reason to destroy it.
SCP-4565-1: It is sufficient. It’s a masterpiece. You’re undermining what I consider to be my life’s work.
Dr. Sev: Although it was impressive ██, you spent at most, twenty minutes recreating the painting. It was not your “life’s work”.
Note: At this point, SCP-4565-1 begins screaming and babbling incoherently until ushered out of the office and suspended from the foundation for 14 days.
<End Log, 12:42 AM, 10/17/██>
Closing Statement: After SCP-4565-1 failed to show up after her two-week suspension, the foundation sent multiple level 1 personnel to check in. She was found [DATA EXPUNGED]. The foundation notified the subject’s family and generously funded her funeral service. At this point, the foundation provided SCP-4565 with its necessary containment.
Test 1 - 10/21/██
Subject: SCP-4565-1 Instance 3 (D-Class)
Procedure:
1. Send SCP-4565-1 into SCP-4565's containment chamber with a two week supply of food and water.
2. Tell them to remove the box from the top of the entity and describe it.
3. Allow SCP-4565-1 to destroy and recreate the painting.
4. Provide constructive criticism to SCP-4565-1.
5. If this causes no effect, provide increasingly harsh criticism.
Transcript:
SCP-4565-1: I seriously have to stay in this [EXPLETIVE] for two weeks. [EXPLETIVE], this place is bland.
Dr. ██: Remove the black box, please.
SCP-4565-1: Here (Points to box)?
Dr. ██: Yes (Subject opens the box). Describe the painting to me.
SCP-4565-1: It's a house in a forest. It has a lake.
Dr. ██: What season is it in the painting?
SCP-4565-1: Winter. The lake is frozen and there's snow.
Dr. ██: Do you feel- (SCP-4565-1 interrupts Dr. ██).
SCP-4565-1: I hate this (Subject lifts up painting, slams it on the ground and proceeds to stomp on it. Patient then begins crying).
Dr. ██: Why are you crying?
SCP-4565-1: I shouldn't have done that. I didn't want to do that. (At this point, SCP-4565-1 removes paint and brushes provided by the foundation from his bag and begins remaking the painting).
Dr. ██: Why are you making another one. You destroyed the last one and said you hated it.
SCP-4565-1: When I was a child, I made that painting myself. My mum hung it above our fireplace during winter. Haven't seen her in a while. She died. Shouldn't have destroyed that. It's okay though, I'm making it up to her. Had this image in my head my whole life. I know it by heart.
Dr. ██: How come you remembered none of this before?
SCP-4565-1: I don't know. Sometimes people forget things.
Note: At this point, SCP-4565-1 is allowed thirty more minutes to complete the painting.
SCP-4565-1: I'm finished.
Dr. ██: Take a photo of the painting with the camera in your bag.
SCP-4565-1: It's identical. I did seriously well. I'm going to leave now. That went faster than you thought it would, didn't it? I guess I'm a talent.
Dr. ██: Sorry, Mr. ██. We aren't finished yet. You have to stay for two more weeks, and then you will be released from the facility.
Analysis: SCP-4565-1 formed a false memory after destroying the painting. Upon beginning the recreation, the subject displayed artistic talent that was not present prior to entering SCP-4565's chamber.
Test 1 - 10/21/██
Subject: SCP-4565-1 Instance 3 (D-Class)
Transcript:
Dr. ██ Upon reviewing the image you took of your painting, we noticed some small errors.
SCP-4565-1: (SCP-4565-1 looks agitated) Errors?
Dr. ██: Yes. The initials are not the same as the original, and the paint doesn't seem to have been coated evenly.
SCP-4565-1: It was. Careful what you're saying. It's beautiful. My life's work.
Dr. ██: Can you recall any details from your childhood in the cottage in the painting?
SCP-4565-1: Lots to explore. Me and friends would go explore a lot. We found lots of wildlife.
Dr. ██: Interesting
Note: The second instance of SCP-4565-1 stated this as well.
Dr. ██: At the risk of offending you, the painting doesn't look good. I could have done the same thing in 10 minutes. It looks like a child made it.
SCP-4565-1: Why are you doing this? It's beautiful. Why?
Note: At this point, SCP-4565-1 begins crying again and Dr. ██ disabled the intercom.
Test 1B Closing Statement: I will keep regular conversation with SCP-4565-1 from here on out to differentiate insanity caused by loneliness from the effects of SCP-4565.
Test 1 - ██/██/██
Subject: SCP-4565-1 Instance 3 (D-Class)
Summary:
Day 1: Subject becomes agitated with critiques about painting. From here on out, no more criticisms are made.
Day 2: Subject requests further detail about critiques given the previous day. Requests are denied. Subject discusses his hobbies to pass time.
Day 5: Subject speaks less frequently about himself and continues to request details and an apology for the criticism of his painting. Requests are all met with refusal.
Day 6: Subject refuses to eat or drink, claiming he has no appetite.
Day 8: Subject sleeps for 13 hours.
Day 10: Subject discusses his regret for destroying the painting, claiming even though his is a masterpiece, nothing is better than an original. He begins to deny the quality of his recreation.
Day 11: Subject refuses to speak.
Day 12: Subject discusses plans for suicide.
Day 15: Subject is grossly underweight and refuses to speak. When given the opportunity to leave SCP-4565's containment chamber, he refuses.
Day 17: Subject mutters about his life's work and drinks paint provided by the facility. He dies within 6 minutes.
Analysis: SCP-4565-1 died within two weeks of containment, knowing that he would be able to leave. He experienced common symptoms of depression and began to obsess over the painting. Only one more test is to be completed, and then the object will be contained until further plans are made.
Analysis: Testing will no longer be done on non-human organisms.
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