SCP-5680 is a giant creature, about 4 meters in height, 1 meter in width, and is colored a deep black. It has a yellow transparent film over its eyes that are extremely thick, and the creature is vaguely humanoid. It is able to shapeshift at will.
SCP-5680 is said to originate from aboriginal Australian times. Pictures depicting the creature were found in caves scattered all over Tasmania. From what people from this time wrote down, the SCP foundation has deducted that this creature feeds on human distress and sadness. Its methods of obtaining this have varied over the entire history of the creature, ranging from banging loudly on any door it could find to even trapping and inflicting pain on a human until they died. Currently, its supposed method is of shapeshifting into a clone of another human and doing bad things in their name, causing the human's reputation to dwindle, and therefore causing this human to excrete a lot of stress, sadness, and distress, to which the creature gobbles up. This is why it is known as the "Reputation Ruiner", but it is likely that its method of seeking negative human emotion will change at some point of containment. SCP-5680 is also mentally incapable of physically hurting a living thing that is not in the domain Plantae, and relies only on mentally damaging its victims.
SCP-5680 is indestructible when in its non-shapeshifted state- the black skin it has is almost indestructible, and the yellow film over its eyes produces the same anomalous qualities. It is also indestructible when it has shapeshifted, even if the thing it has shapeshifted into is not indestructible on its own. You may think this is a bad thing, but the SCP foundation sees this as a way to find the shapeshifter hidden among a town. By lining up all of the civilians and attempting to produce a small cut on each person, only one of them will not bleed, and the shapeshifter can be captured and trapped again. This method of recapturing SCP-5680 has been used many times in the past. So, if it's indestructible when it isn't shapeshifted, and also when it is, isn't it just impossible to capture? Well, no- first off, the creature is incapable of inflicting physical pain on a living thing not in the domain Plantae- meaning it can't fight back once it is being re-contained. Second, SCP-5680 does have a weak spot. During the process of shapeshifting, which can take up to an entire day, SCP-5680 is extremely vulnerable, and even the slightest push can subdue it. This is why the SCP tries to hide itself as best as possible during transformation- if it is seen, it is basically done. Despite its vulnerability during transforming, it is unable to be killed, just knocked out. The creature itself is immortal, to which the actual creature does not favor at all. This creature has been interviewed multiple times, and while it cannot talk in its unshapeshifted state, it can use the vocal chords of other humans when transformed. It seems to know English, Latin, and Chinese, favoring Latin over all, but no other language. Due to this, SCP researchers have interviewed this shapeshifter many times. Once it was asked why it favored its method of hunting currently, which was to ruin the reputations of its victims, and it said:
"I like drawing out the process. Sure I get less distress and sadness by doing this, but when it comes out this slow, I can savor it. Think of it like eating a bag of chips versus making yourself a grilled steak- the steak takes longer, but tastes way better in the long run."
SCP-5680 is fully self-aware of itself and its surroundings, which makes it extremely hard to contain. This SCP is classified as Keter, despite the fact that it cannot physically harm any living thing other than plants, simply because it relies on being stealthy instead of being physical. It is able to transform into inanimate objects extremely quick, as it does not have to build entire organ systems. The lowest recorded time of this SCP transforming into an inanimate object was 1.8 seconds- in which it transformed into a small roll of quarters on the ground. Despite its shapeshifting abilities, this SCP seems to obey the laws of physics- it contains the same mass as normal no matter what size it transforms to. This is why the SCP has a limit on what it can transform to- if it gets too dense, it will turn to a black hole, not only killing everything around it but maybe even itself in the process. While SCP-5680 does not know if it is capable of dying, it has said in previous interviews that it "sure doesn't want to find out."
SCP-5680-1 is a document written in an indecipherable language. This document has been in the SCP facility long before the containment of SCP-5680, but recently, scientists have been able to figure out that the document and the creature are both linked. The document is not from Earth; it is from a random asteroid floating around in the Solar System, which extensive research has proved. It is not written on any type of regular paper, and DNA analysis reveals that the DNA of SCP-5680 is on it. This is a big breakthrough in discovery- while it might not seem like much to you, the fact that SCP-5680 also uses DNA to store genetic information suggests that this creature had split off from a common ancestor- one that had come from Earth. Many theories branch off of this, the most common being that it was a dinosaur that had survived asteroid impact, and instead latched onto a resulting piece of debris that had blown off of the Earth and back into space. The dinosaur was forced to adapt- feeding on its own distress and sadness instead of physical food, and adapting an almost indestructible suit to avoid being killed by any asteroids that collided with it. This proved to be lifesaving when another asteroid struck the asteroid that the creature was on, causing it to plummet back to Earth, apparently carrying the written document with him. Any interviews regarding the paper as well as the fact that the creature used DNA, like humans, has resulted in nothing.
So, if the creature can feed off of its own sadness and distress, why doesn't it just do that? Well, first off, the arrival of the creature to Earth is just a theory- and even if it was true, the creature has a taste- it may find human distress and sadness to be tastier than the feelings it produces.






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