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SCP-X

Object Class: Indeterminable (see Description)

Special Containment Procedures:
Three Standard Humanoid Containment Chambers, hereafter referred to as "Containment Area", have been modified in order to contain SCP-X-A and Dr. Cassander. The chambers have been modified to serve as bath, office and bedroom. Surveillance cameras have been installed in the Containment Area; security footage may be reviewed at the end of the month if necessary.

While SCP-X-A should always remain inside of the Containment Area, Dr. Cassander is allowed to leave with permission of Site-118 Administrative Staff. At least one armed security personnel should accompany the subject at all times. Should Dr. Cassander fail to ensure that SCP-X-A stays inside the Containment Area, she must remain in the entity's vicinity until recontainment becomes possible. Dr. Cassander is to be held responsible for any actions allegedly commited by SCP-X-A that are harmful to the Foundation or its goals.

Unusual behaviour of SCP-X-A, Dr. Cassander and/or personnel affected by SCP-X-B is to be reported to Director Coleman and Site-118 psychological staff immediately. Dr. Cassander should report to psychological evaluation bi-weekly. All cases of SCP-X-B infection must be reported to Site-118 Administration and the Human Ressources department. While there are no known detrimental effects of SCP-X-B on the ethics or work performance of affected personnel, Class-B amnestics may be prescribed by Dr. Alt1 Dr. Feid in individual cases, if necessary.

Update: As of 07/22/2020, SCP-X-A is considered uncontained. On-Site Personnel is required to handle all sensitive information with increased caution, to minimise the risk of an Information Breach.

Description
SCP-X is an unidentified, potentially cognitohazadous or antimemetic anomalous phenomenon connected to Foundation Researcher Dr. S████████ Cassander2. While the exact nature of SCP-X is currently unknown, the anomaly is believed to match one of the following three descriptions:


1.
SCP-X-A is an adolescent human male of Latin American ethnicity. The subject has an antimemetic and possibly probability-altering anomalous effect, which prevents SCP-X-A from being preceived directly or indirectly by any sentient being. Furthermore, the same effect will make it impossible for sentient observers to notice any direct or indirect consequences of the subject's actions, thus preventing discovery of the subject. In practice, this also means that any attempt to prove the existence of SCP-X-A will fail. The exact mechanism of this anomaly is inconsistent and poorly understood, as it appears to be following teleological principles.
To date, the only person immune to the anomalous effect of SCP-X-A is Dr. S████████ Cassander, who claims that the subject is her younger brother, "Joseph Cassander". There is no (perceivable) record of any family member of Dr. Cassander with this name.

SCP-X-A is to be considered a Keter Class Anomaly.


2.
SCP-X-B is a memetic hazard propagated by Foundation Researcher Dr. S████████ Cassander. Subjects affected by this hazard will develop an irrational belief in the existence of a person or being called "Joseph Cassander", Dr. Cassander's alleged younger brother. All evidence to the contrary will be disregarded as the result of an ill-defined "antimemetic effect". While the exact vectors for memetic infection have not yet been identified, personnel that have repeatedly had contact with Dr. Cassander over a longer period of time seem to be at a particularly high risk of being affected.
Unlike similar memetic hazards, SCP-X-B does not appear to affect the subject's personality or their behaviour in any significant way; nor is there a compulsion to spread the memetic hazard. The rate of infection with SCP-X-B is very low and has decreased significantly since research into the phenomenon began. Some of the subjects affected by SCP-X-B may develop strong feelings of trust, respect or sympathy for Dr. Cassander. As a result, there have been multiple complaints about the allegedly unethical treatment of Dr. Cassander and her brother since Containment Procedures were established. It has been hypothesised that propagation of SCP-X-B might be an anomalous defense mechanism subconsciously employed by Dr. Cassander to consolidate her status in a social environment.

SCP-X-B is to be considered a Euclid Class Anomaly.


3.
SCP-X-EX is the designation given to an entity allegedly perceived by Dr. Cassander. While Dr. Cassander claims to have been seeing and speaking to the entity for 18 years, she first revealed its existence to Director Coleman on 09/12/2019. Prior to this, the subject had made a series of highly stressful and potentially traumatic experiences connected to the attempted Containment Breach of SCP-████ on 06/09/2019.
Psychological evaluation of Dr. Cassander has given rise to the hypothesis that SCP-X-EX might not actually exist. Instead, SCP-X-EX is a hallucination and a result of various factors, including a long history of mental illness3, misuse of Class-E Amnestics in the past, and a psychotic period caused by posttraumatic stress.
Note: Dr. Cassander has repeatedly and aggressively refused to consider this interpretation of SCP-X.

SCP-X-EX is to be considered an Explained Anomaly.

Note to all Site-118 Personnel:

Whether Proposal SCP-X-A, Proposal SCP-X-B or Proposal SCP-X-EX is correct has been subject to discussion by multiple researchers, including Dr. Cassander herself. By order of the O5-Council, Special Containment Procedures are to assume that SCP-X-A, the Keter Class Anomaly, is the correct interpretation of SCP-X in order to minimise the risk of a Containment Breach.
- Director Simon Coleman