Item #: SCP-4559
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: Keep it in a box, keep it engaged???
Description: SCP-4559 is a collection of approximately 70 dolls, puppets and marionettes resembling clowns who collectively form a quadrupedal entity of human-like intelligence. SCP-4559 is blind, deaf and anosmic - while capable of written English provided the tools, SCP-4559 prefers to communicate via the various voiceboxes, bells and horns incorporated in the dolls that form its body, overlapping sounds to imitate crude speech. Responses can be made via a speech-to-Braille device, following lessons with foundation staff1
SCP-4559 self-identifies as a human male, 14 at time of containment2, with a number of names it switches between depending on context.
Ms. Bridge: Hey, Richie. Are you Richie today?
SCP-4559: I'M RICHIE
Ms. Bridge: Ok, cool. We're gonna talk a bit about where you were when we found you, Richie, if that's alright.
SCP-4559: THUMBS UP EMOJI
**Ms. Bridge*: Ok, great. Uh,, lemme see..
As Ms. Bridge consults her notes, SCP-4559 walks away from the Braille machine and behind her, then places a foreleg on the back of her knee.
SCP-4559: (Tag, you're it!)
Ms. Bridge laughs, then turns and taps SCP-4559's torso. SCP-4559 returns to the machine, honking in an approximation of laughter.
Ms. Bridge: So, when we found you, you weren't like this.
SCP-4559: YEH I DIDN'T HAVE A BEARD YET
Ms. Bridge: You were a pile of puppets, Richie.
SCP-4559: WITHOUT A BEARD
Ms. Bridge: OK, Richie, I'll play along today, but we'll talk about this next week.
SCP-4559: YOU'LL PLAY!
Ms. Bridge: Later.
SCP-4559: YEAH OK SPOILSPORT