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Item #: SCP-3753

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3753 is to be kept in a 3 x 3 x 6-meter concrete cube in site-19, with windows on two walls parallel to each other directly under the ceiling. Window panes must be at least 12 centimeters thick for the safety of those monitoring SCP-3753. The containment room is to replicate a tropical beach of moderate humidity, containing a 45-centimeter deep bed of sand layered downward from least to most compact filling approximately two-thirds of the room, and a shallow 32-centimeter pool of water filling the rest of the space. Two living and preserved palm trees at the least will be placed in any position or order within the sand.

The pool of water will be filled with 15 to 28-centimeter long saltwater fish of any species every Tuesday and Friday morning at approximately 7:00 A.M, as SCP-3753 will feed itself with the fish provided at its natural feeding times as other avians of its kind would. Small sand dwellers such as crabs and clams may be placed in the sand if the current personnel on duty so desires to better replicate the biome. SCP-3753 must be taken out for a walk through the facility every other day between 1-3:00 P.M. or it will grow more aggressive towards anything entering its containment.

Description: SCP-3753 is a feral avian-like creature, not capable of flight, appearing to be of the pelican species with all of the same measurements as its natural counterparts. 1.2 meters tall, 1.7 meters long, a wingspan of 2.5 meters, and a weight of 5 kilograms. Its body is entirely skeletal, lacking any sort of muscle, blood, tissue, organ, skin, or feathers, and was found within the █████ museum of biology in 1917, where two staff members reported a moving exhibit. It was shipped safely back to the foundation with no incidents recorded. SCP-3753 is fully capable of any speech, thought, locomotion, and actions and actions that a human is within its anatomical boundaries. An example of this would be the fact it can have very complex conversations and read fairly well, but it cannot write perfectly intelligible letters as it would have to use either its beak or talons. Even without a stomach, it manages to consume food, and where said food goes is still undetermined after entering the mouth.

Despite not having skin, feathers or blood that would determine its preferences for habitat either, SCP-3753 remains, perhaps not aggressive, but generally annoyed when placed in any cell besides its beach-side biome. It seems to enjoy being taken on walks throughout the halls of the foundation however and viewing the different cell doors and staff members in the area. Several tail and wing bones were removed from its body during its paralyzed state (see below) and simply grew back within hours of removal, posing entity to have some sort of regeneration ability to keep its body intact. No further experiments have been taken to prove this theory.

With the fact that SCP-3573 can freely talk as it wishes, it has displayed a rather twisted sense of humor as well as finds any mistakes made by the staff to be amusing. It doesn't often prove to be uncontrollable or too dangerous for interaction, but still manages to provide a level of discomfort when spoken too. Fortunately it does not display any of the actions it jokes about such as 'pecking out the little one's eyes' or 'biting off every one of your fingers and toes'. It doesn't seem to believe it is one of the 'freaks' deserving containment like the other objects, and also often shows a good deal of pride in itself. The object becomes incredibly aggressive when getting dirty without its own permission.

The most anomalous trait SCP-3753 displays besides its skeletal body is the fact that it freezes, perfectly still and silent when there are more than four of any sentient creature in a 3-meter circular radius. This is what caused it to go unnoticed in a popular museum for so long, all except to the night guards. Due to the fact that it is extremely unpredictable when it comes to aggression, the amount of staff required to exceed that number in any experiment must be kept just outside that radius in case of emergency. It is unclear as to if it is capable of any sentiency during this state, but the likely answer is no as demonstrated in past interactions.

This phenomenon luckily does not have any negative or dangerous effect on any object and grants the faculty easy transportation and emergency containment for SCP-3753. If it takes anything from the faculty while out of its cell, four staff members of at least level three may enter the cell together to search for and reclaim the items taken.

Addendum 3753-03: Full recorded interview by Dr. █████, Within Containment

Interviewed: SCP-3753
Interviewer: Dr. █████
<Begin Log, 5:31, ██-██-████>
SCP-3753: Oh, Hello there! It seems the tiny ones are coming back for more fun!
Dr. █████: I do hope you know we are bigger than you.
SCP-3753: And Mr. Know it all is already trying to educate me isn't he? Pity, pity, I thought that big brain of yours would know by now that this isn't a place for logic!
Dr. █████: Right. I'd like to ask you a few questions if you'd kindly come down from your tree.
SCP-3753: Do you have food?
Dr. █████: I do not.
SCP-3753: Well then what are you doing trying to order me around? I should tear out your gizzard for such disrespect! Hmph! [Subject tosses its head up, refusing to make eye contact for the next few moments] I'm staying right here in my palm tree where I like it!
Dr. █████: Fine then. I won't be leaving until you answer this small set of questions though. To get us started, do you have any idea why your body functions, can consume food, and most of all talk and think just fine without any trace of organs or a nervous system?
SCP-3753: Does a small child know how they think when they're born? No, of course not! Small children learn from other people who know how to do the same thing, I, a fabulous skeleton, have no means of learning such thing. I'm just as confused by my existence as you are.
Dr. █████: Alright, but that leads us to another question. Were you created, or born in some way? Are there any means as to how you came to be?
SCP-3753: Why, that's easy. I once was a beautiful pelican, wonderful feathers and all, on the shores of the Galapagos. Hitched a ride on a cozy looking fishing boat, up in the crow's nest where they wouldn't even notice my magnificent display, and one of the little maggots shot me down! Left me out on the coast to rot for years, may I remind you being dead wasn't very fun, and next thing I know I'm being wracked up in a museum by some field-trip kids and their tiny pokey fingers, without my gorgeous feathers, or beak, or eyes - oh, it was dreadful.
Dr. █████: [Holding microphone closer] So you mean to tell me you were aware of your surroundings while dead on the bay? You saw who picked you up and placed you in your exhibit?
SCP-3753: Why yes, is that an unnatural occurrence?
Dr. █████: Absolutely. It means your body may have shown anomalous properties before you were killed as if you're the undead. That still doesn't explain the freezing, though.
SCP-3753: Well I don't know everything about myself, thank you very much. If I did, I'd tell you, because then I'd be let out of this sick prison.
Dr. █████: Once we explain your behavior, it won't necessarily mean that you'll immediately be released.
SCP-3753: [Laughing, a bit sadistically] What's that?
Dr. █████: We may still have to perform experiments to confirm your knowledge and to find more information about how your skeleton still functions.
SCP-3753: That's funny. The last feeder told me at the point you know about my properties then I'll be completely released.
Dr. █████: They must have been misinformed, I apologize.
SCP-3753: Don't worry, I forgive you. Besides, you won't have to be sorry much longer. [Attacks Dr. █████, creating screeching vocalization, stabbing and killing him in the chest using its beak. Microphone and tape salvaged by the staff group waiting outside. Four staff members entered as soon as they could at the start of the attack, freezing subject and removing the equipment used.]
<End Log, 5:34, ██-██-████>
Closing Statement: Though interviews continued to be carried out after this particular transcript, the subject of SCP-3753's release has been abandoned. It is persistent however, and is consistently expressing how much it hates the foundation and being within it. All attempts to reason with the entity has resulted to failure, at least deaths proceeding each attempt, and resulting in five deaths total. Only level-3 personnel are permitted to talk about life within the faculty to the subject. With every experiment, its hatred and aggression seems to grow more potent. Tests and Transcripts of any and all kinds have been restricted to one every three months unless directors state otherwise.

Addendum 3753-05: Portion of Interview between N█████ S██████ [Level-4 Staff Member] and Dr. T██████ [Anomalous Archaeology & Thanatology Researcher]

Interviewed: Ms. S██████
Interviewer: Dr. T██████
<Begin Log, 2:50, ██-██-████>
Dr. T██████: To begin, what exactly do you feel about your interactions with SCP-3753?
Ms. S██████: I can't say any of them were too enjoyable. There was a little discomfort in each and every discussion with it, as I haven't conducted any experiments on it yet, just talking.
Dr. T██████: What made those experiences discomforting exactly? Or rather, what did it say?
Ms. S██████: The discomfort and chills comes mostly from his openness about-
Dr. T██████: …His?
Ms. S██████: Oh, I'm sorry. Its. I've had too many conversations with this one, and it often talks about how it dislikes the staff calling it a, well, it.
Dr. T██████: I see. Continue.
Ms. S██████: The subject is incredibly open about its ideas of getting back at the foundation, or at least some of its members, for the tests carried out on it. These ideas are plentiful in number, so every time the foundation itself is brought up, I hear another murder tactic from it. And before you start asking about those too, none of SCP-3753's plans would actually be effective with the amount of security and monitoring going on.
Dr. T██████: Of course, it is a very secure place after all.
Ms. S██████: But besides that, it is also generally annoying. Its hatred for this foundation is as large as its ego, and it talks about both all the time. The entity has told me how wonderful it was in life countless times.
Dr. T██████: Seems all of this just comes from communication. I hear SCP-3753 is capable of incredibly complex interactions. What do you think was the most in-depth, or perhaps enjoyable time with it?
Ms. S██████: Those are two different things. The most enjoyable would have to be when the subject requested some sort of writing utensil, and I decided to oblige. I gave it a graphite pencil from my desk, and watched it draw intricate designs of the sky and other birds across the walls of its containment with nothing but time, patience, and the pencil provided. It was wonderful work, but unfortunately it had to be whitewashed the next day due to containment protocol. The most in-depth was when we talked about what death meant, whether it meant killing off the body, destroying it, killing the mind, or killing the soul.
Dr. T██████: And your answer?
Ms. S██████: The body. We agreed death doesn't mean non existence. Getting rid of the soul is non existence, concluding that souls don't die, instead they are destroyed. SCP-3753 told me if this is true, its not dead.. yet.
[Tape scratches, plays obscured and unintelligible noises, then refuses to continue playing its contents.]
Closing Statement: It seems N█████ has started to form a relationship with SCP-3753, one that we haven't seen in the archives with this subject in the past. No other personnel is to approach and talk to it as she is. N█████ has become incredibly valuable in terms of researching SCP-3753 and will be kept under supervision to make sure no accidents occur involving Ms. S██████.

Addendum 3753-07: First recorded breach of SCP-3753

SCP-3753 worked its way up the wall and the palm trees until perching on the window sill. This behavior was normal and was ignored. Overnight, it managed to break through the glass using its incisor-like beak, setting off the breach alarms. The entity made it to the decontamination exits in site-19 before a small group of five level-3 personnel found it, made it still, and brought it back to containment to re-secure its container. Windows replaced and thickened, a similar breach has not occured. No deaths or severe injuries reported.