CODE NAME: Blank - The Gyres

They pass us by in spiral course

We taste them in the air

We trail within their wasting wake

They cannot see us there

Item#: SCP-001
Level5
Containment Class:
esoteric
Secondary Class:
hiemal
Disruption Class:
ekhi
Risk Class:
critical

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-001-A and SCP-001-B are held in adjacent containment chambers at Site-43. Neither entity may leave its chamber at any time.

In the event that SCP-001-A or SCP-001-B breaches containment but remains within Site-43, DISCIDIUM Protocol must be enacted.

In the event that SCP-001-B perishes while SCP-001-A remains within Site-43, DISCIDIUM Protocol must be enacted.

In the event that unauthorized personnel access Sublevel 4 of Site-43 while SCP-001-A is present, DISCIDIUM Protocol must be enacted.



Description: SCP-001-A and SCP-001-B are entities resembling a pair of physically identical elderly male human beings:

  • SCP-001-A produces semantic effects consistent with the concept of disorder in a radius around its person. It has been known by the following epithets throughout human history: the Uncontained, the Quarry, the Falcon, the Libertine, the Perpetrator, the Vandal, the Key.
  • SCP-001-B produces semantic effects consistent with the concept of order in a radius around its person. It has been known by the following epithets throughout human history: the Unyielding, the Huntsman, the Falconer, the Servant, the Jailor, the Corrector, the Lock.

So long as both entities remain in close proximity to each other, their local effects are mutually exclusive.

SCP-001-B was was initially classified SCP-043; the original documentation, now classified SCP-043-ARC, is reproduced below in full.

Item No.: SCP-043-ARC

Object Class: Thaumiel

Special Containment Procedures: Provisional Site-43 has been constructed underground around and above SCP-043's discovery point. Its nature as a containment facility for SCP-043 will be occluded by its official designation — to be carried out legitimately and in full — as the headquarters of both the archival research operations of Project CLIO and the anomalous waste study and disposal operations of the Acroamatic Abatement Group. SCP-043 is to be held in a standard humanoid containment chamber which, in addition to any necessary access and support elements, must comprise its own dedicated sublevel located one hundred meters below the Site's primary superstructure. The existence of this sublevel is to be classified at Clearance Level 4, and both ingress and egress controlled via the following measure: access by main elevator only, restricted by remote interlock to the person of the Site Director or their designated proxy, with no means of uncontrolled ascent or descent provided in the elevator shaft.

Description: SCP-001-B is an elderly Caucasian male possessed of a reality-bending containment aura: all systems and actions related to successful containment, as defined by the SCP Foundation, are made more efficient and more effective within a radius of approximately one cubic kilometre from its person. It was discovered on 8 September 1941, seriously wounded and taking shelter in a supernaturally-generated cave system beneath Lambton County, Ontario, Canada.

The following intake interview was conducted at Outpost-43, a temporary station constructed within the caves which would eventually serve as the primary staging point for Site-43's construction.

Dr. Scout: Good evening, SCP-043.

SCP-043: Already classified, am I? Your efficiency is something to be proud of.

Dr. Scout: Well, we've suspected your existence for quite some time. Actually finding you was just the moment of confirmation.

SCP-043: I can't say I'm sorry you've been following our trail. I didn't much fancy bleeding to death alone.

Dr. Scout: If you want to base our relationship on falsehoods, that's your choice; it might go badly for you, however.

[Silence on recording.]

SCP-043: You choose your words very carefully. Parsimony is a virtue. Very well; no, I would not have bled to death. But I would nevertheless have bled, and bleeding is generally held to be an unpleasant pastime, particularly on a bed of cold stone.

Dr. Scout: You were babbling when we found you, something about "him" and a "cycle." You mentioned "our trail" just now. Tell me about your attacker?

SCP-043: Have you already got a number picked out for him, too?

Dr. Scout: No, the numbers come last. Best not to get one's heart set on something that might not be available when you need it.

SCP-043: Very true. What do you know about my attacker?

Dr. Scout: Are you under the impression that you hold the power in this conversation?

SCP-043: Yes, actually.

[Silence on recording.]

SCP-043: The power I hold is the power you want. The fact you were able to restrain me so easily is my own doing — I granted you that ability, though not intentionally. I could grant you so much more, if you'd let me.

Dr. Scout: I recognize a Faustian bargain when I hear one.

[SCP-043 laughs.]

SCP-043: You don't strike me as a Fausto type, but your Overwatch Council… though they are equal parts Mephistopheles, to be sure. No, I think a bargain will be struck, sooner or later. Perhaps when you have seen what I can do. Perhaps when you have seen what he can do.

Dr. Scout: What can he do?

SCP-043: He can burn you to the ground. And as soon as he realizes that you have me, he's going to do just that.

Addendum 1: After rigorous testing of SCP-043's anomalous capabilities, Dr. Scout and his researcher partner, Dr. Wynn Rydderech, successfully petitioned Overwatch Command for the construction of Provisional Site-43 as a research and containment facility to take advantage of the de facto containment bubble centred on Outpost-43. The search for SCP-043's attacker, provisionally classified PoI-043, is ongoing.