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SCP-TSOW

Item #: SCP-TSOW (Loosely inspired by The Shape of Water)

Object Class: Euclid Safe

Special Containment Procedures:

(Initial revision)

SCP-TSOW should be contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell, with one (1) kilogram of vegetables and one (1) liter of water given as provisions each day. Treats may include chocolate, but is to be given sparingly. Its cell is to contain one (1) Twin-sized bed with one (1) mattress, one (1) set of linen sheets, two (2) pillows and one (1) blanket. Subject is to wear basic Foundation clothing at all times, except when bathed.

It is to be bathed twice weekly using soap and warm water.

Various privileges have been earned by SCP-TSOW due to its friendly nature. It is allowed a desk with mechanical pencils and a drawing tablet, a television with a DVD-player and a digital radio. DVDs and music are provided by Assistant T███████.

Video surveillance of SCP-TSOW's chamber is to be analyzed for any inappropriate behavior from Assistant T███████.

(Second revision)

SCP-TSOW should be contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell. One (1) kilogram of raw potatoes and one (1) liter of water are to be provided daily for sustenance. One (1) bed with one (1) mattress, zero (0) pillows and one (1) linen sheet in its chamber. It is allowed one (1) tennis ball. It is no longer allowed any form of entertainment after throwing the tennis ball at Dr. Kolb's face.

It is to be bathed once weekly by a different D-class personnel each week.

All other privileges are revoked by order of Dr. Kolb due to the attempted escape of SCP-TSOW with Assistant T███████.

(Third revision)

SCP-TSOW-1 and SCP-TSOW-4 (formerly Assistant T███████) are to be kept together. SCP-TSOW-3 (formerly Dr. Kolb) is to be kept by itself. SCP-TSOW-2 (formerly D-28573) has been declared deceased.

SCP-TSOW-1 and SCP-TSOW-4 are kept in a Large Humanoid Containment Cell in the East wing with no other SCPs. Attached is a separate bathroom with one (1) shower, liquid body wash to be refilled as needed and a toilet with two-ply toilet paper. Two (2) kilograms of vegetables and two (2) liters of bottled spring water are provided daily for sustenance. Treats may include chocolate but only given sparingly. One (1) Full-sized bed with four (4) pillows with pillowcases, two (2) sets of linen sheets and one (1) blanket.

SCP-TSOW-1 and SCP-TSOW-4 are allowed a desk with mechanical pencils and a drawing tablet, a television with a DVD-player and a digital radio. DVDs and music are provided by Foundation staff at the request of SCP-TSOW-4. Limited access to Foundation facilities in the East wing are allowed, but SCP-TSOW-4 is not to be referred to as Assistant T███████ and does not have any security clearance. They cannot leave the East wing. Internet activity is allowed in the library under supervision for no more than one (1) hour at any time, but SCP-TSOW-4 is considered a very low security risk due to high loyalty to the Foundation. It mainly updates its digital music library. SCP-TSOW-1 does not know how to use a computer.

SCP-TSOW-3 is kept in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell in the North wing. It contains one (1) toilet with an automatic bidet, one (1) shower and one (1) twin-sized bed. Two (2) washrags, a hand towel, a body towel, two (2) bars of soap, and linen sheets are to be replaced monthly. It is capable of bathing and grooming itself and does not need anyone else to do so.

SCP-TSOW-3 is allowed three (3) books to be delivered by a different D-class each week. It is also allowed a digital radio, but due to persistant intranet issues it seems to only link up with the music library of SCP-TSOW-1 and SCP-TSOW-4 and so only obscure funeral doom and black metal music can be played.

Any pleading by SCP-TSOW-3 to restore its security clearance should be responded with a reminder that it is lucky it is an SCP and not a D-class.

Study of all known SCP-TSOW instances must be non-invasive and approved by Site-██ Administration and reviewed by the Ethics Committee of Site-██.

Description:

(First revision) SCP-TSOW is a humanoid cryptozoological specimen recovered from ██████████, ████████████ on January 4th, 20██. The entity stands 1.6 meters tall with a weight of 43 kilograms. It has a humanoid skull, narrow mandible and large round eyes. Its iris ranges in color from a dark midnight blue to a vivid sky blue. The irises don't always match. Staring into both eyes, crescent features within the iris can be perceived. If one crosses their eyes while staring into SCP-TSOW's eyes they will see a symbol that looks like an Ankh made of crescents. Its ears are large and bat-like and it has a small leaf-tipped nose. It has sharp elongated canines giving it the appearance of a vampire from folklore. It has hollow cheeks with high cheekbones, a sharply defined jawbone and an elongated neck with sinewy muscles and tendons that run from the jaw to the clavicle notch. It has a pointy laryngeal prominence (adam's apple).

SCP-TSOW has a humanoid body plan with an emaciated body weight. Sinewy muscles wrap all around the creature's body. It has a long and prehensile lemuriform tail that is strong enough to grasp small objects, but not hold its entire body from a tree. This tail can be used as a rudimentary whip, although the tip of its tail does not 'crack'. It has an unusually curvy and pointy clavicle that connects to a prominent sternum, but its sinewy pectorals are thick enough to hide the ribs of the upper chest. Arms are wiry and muscular. Its legs are the strongest, capable of doing a 90 kilogram leg press. Despite its emaciated appearance, Subject is in remarkably good health (see Fitness Test TSOW-1)

SCP-TSOW sometimes emits a pungent musky onion odor. The scent comes from scent glands throughout its body. This odor can be very strong at times depending on its mood. Keep it in a pleasant mood and it will just be a hint of onion and fresh musk. Even though it loves onions, they do not seem to be the source of its body odor.

SCP-TSOW's neck is slightly elongated and narrow, with a particularly sharply defined laryngeal prominence and highly visible and sinewy sternocleidomastoid muscles. Its clavicle is extremely prominent and curved similar to the F-hole of a violin. The manubrium is also easily visible, with a slight bulge and its sternum is somewhat bow-curved. Its rib-cage bulges out slightly, giving its chest some depth. Pectorals are similarly sinewy and sharply defined, but thick enough to obscure most of the ribs of its upper chest. The ribs at its sides below the pectorals are easily visible, as is the costal cartilage. The xiphisternum is rounded and immediately below it the stomach caves inward with faintly visible abdominal muscles.

Arms are of a slightly heavier than expected build, with defined biceps and triceps. Wrists are narrow and the tendons are easily visible, it has human-like fingers that are long and somewhat feminine, with pointed nails. Fingerprints form an unusual trifoil pattern. Legs are similarly built and quite strong, with plantigrade feet tipped with clawed humanoid toes. It has a long slender tail, similar to a rat that is fully articulate and prehensile, it ends in a point.

Between its ████ is a ██████ with a relatively shallow ██████. There is no ██████, nor are there ███████ or █████████.

Its skin is grey with a slight blue tint, the nature of this skin seems very similar to human skin. It is smooth and has a youthful feel. There are pores with sebacious, sweat and pheromone glands, but hair follicles are diminutive and the only hair present on its body is a silky lanugo. Pheromones emitted by its sweat glands carries a slightly oniony musk and has a similar effect on the human brain as THC, reinforcing the reward center of the brain and generating a slight high. No hallucinations have been reported and the substance does not seem to be addictive.

Its internal organs are in remarkable good health, with a regular digestive system and a resting heart-rate of 57bpm.

Additionally, [Redacted by request of Dr. Kolb]

SCP-TSOW's origin is unknown, it does not seem to remember its whereabouts before 1972.

SCP-TSOW has been mostly cooperative in its studies, with privileges being earned over time. It is sentient and intelligent, capable of communicating in English. Due to the interactions of Assistant ████████, it has developed a fondness for obscure heavy metal bands, especially those of the funeral doom and black metal subgenres. It has also developed a fondness for certain Japanese animated television shows, also due to Assistant ████████.

Nevertheless, as its recent containment breach and subsequent disappearance have shown, SCP-TSOW has an emotionally manipulative nature. It had convinced Assistant ████████ to file numerous ethics complaints against Dr. Kolb, none of which were found to have any merit, accusing Dr. Kolb of performing cruel and unnecessary vivisections. Various staff also in contact with SCP-TSOW were found to have aided and abetted Assistant ████████'s plan of escape with SCP-TSOW. All staff have been demoted to D-class and sent to different Sites to Keter-class research teams for tests that will invariably prove to be fatal.

Discovery: SCP-TSOW was discovered on January 4, 20██ around ██████████, ████████████. It was easily lured with the promise of warmth and plentiful food. Sightings of SCP-TSOW have occurred in the area since the 1970s, Dr. Kolb has been tracking them as part of a larger study of more obscure possible cryptozoological specimens.

SCP-5xxx

(note this will not have the designation of SCP-5000. It just won't. It is not happening)

Item #: SCP-5000 (note, the likelihood of this even being submitted as SCP-5000 in the contest is very low, but not impossible. It will most likely be finished in time for Series VI to launch, however)

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5000-1 is to be housed at Site-XX in confinement designed to imitate the ICU of [REDACTED] State Hospital. All calenders inside the confinement complex are to read May 1, 2006. Technology allowed inside must have been manufactured before May 1, 2006 and must not read any other date aside from May 1, 2006. No mention of the SCP Foundation is to take place, nor will any logos affiliated with the SCP Foundation be allowed inside SCP-5000's confinement. Even the slightest mnemonic trigger outside of the preapproved script can cause all of the memories inside SCP-5000-1 to return, including SCP-5000 resulting in mnemonic reality manifestations. Events occurring before April 3, 2006 can be referenced, as this seems to be the most recent memory SCP-5000-1 has, but due to the nature of the anomaly any deviation in the "script" of days outside of May 1, 2006 can cause all effects of the amnestics to wear off.

Every morning, she must wake up at 9:00 AM, be congratulated on it being her first day awake, talked to by "nurses" and "physicians" and kept feeling safe and secure. She is to be kept in the 'ICU' for 'observation', due to having spent an indeterminate amount of time in a coma. She needs to be reassured that her girlfriend Charlotte will be coming to pick her up on Wednesday, and all staff are to refer to her by name, "Halia Iranti". Her diet is specially formulated to reduce the instance of aging, keep her at the same exact weight and maintain her health level. She is to be given amnestics and sedatives via chamomile tea. During the night, her physical appearance must be checked for any changes.

As long as no mnemonic triggers are exposed to Ms. Iranti, the amnestics should

(note, I am still familiarizing myself with Foundation tech, perhaps there are more precise methods to maintain the illusion)

Description: SCP-5000 is an anomalous memory residing in the brain of SCP-5000-1 (the host). It manifests several strange properties to its host. For one, the host seems to have gained an eidetic memory, remembering every single moment of her life. Amnestics of even the strongest classes can easily be broken, as the slightest mnemonic trigger can cause all memories to flood back. SCP-5000 itself wants to come out of its host, so it can manifest into our reality. This started out small, manifesting groves of trees and ancient buildings around the town of [REDACTED], [REDACTEDSYLVANIA]. Manifestations have varied in size, but ones of greater consequence have begun occurring, the tropical weather surrounding Site-XX being one of them.

SCP-5000-1 is an African American woman from [REDACTED] in the state of [Redacted] who began having strange symptoms and headaches starting on May 2, 2006. She was in a coma due to [REDACTED] and was in [REDACTED] State Hospital for 1 month before she awoke at 9:00 AM on May 1, 2006. Vivid dreams started to occur before the first mnemonic reality manifestation event occurred. Subject awoken from a vivid dream to find that her bedroom was transmuted into a grove of trees. This grove of trees seemed strikingly familiar, as if she had studied it. She started to find that she could remember events as far back as the age of 3 months at this point.

The second mnemonic reality manifestation event brought SCP-5000 to Foundation attention. An overgrown stone temple with carvings written in an unfamiliar language had replaced the local Baptist church. It was surrounded by the same kind of trees as the first mnemonic manifestation. At first, SCP-5000 was the designation given to the woman, before we realized that the anomaly itself was the anomalous memory inside her brain.

Initial confinement was a standard human cell with standard needs met. SCP-5000-1 did not adjust well, and mnemonic reality manifestations started occurring more frequently. In an attempt to control these, we induced SCP-5000-1 in a coma. Request for Scranton Reality Anchors taken from Site-XX were denied by O5-X. Needless to say, a mnemonic reality manifestation in the form of a flock of migrating Monarch Butterflies occurred, and SCP-5000-1 awoke 9 hours later from the coma as if it were just another night of sleep. The sedative drip was still in her IV, and it seemed like she was immune to it, until 16 hours later when she started to feel sleepy and went back to bed. Her brain scan showed activity typical of a medically induced coma, and no activity seemed to indicate any dreams were occurring. However, a mnemonic reality manifestation event occurred, and a woman with silver hair, dark skin and forest-green eyes attempted to stab Dr. [REDACTED] in the heart with an ornate knife carved from obsidian. She was subdued and taken into standard humanoid custody, given the designation SCP-5000-2

Dr. [REDACTED] theorizes that SCP-5000 is the anomalous emergence of an ancient human's memory, occurring approximately 40,000 years ago, in a civilization that has yet to be discovered even by Foundation archaeologists. Our knowledge of the culture and language can only be gleaned by SCP-5000-2, and the culture's level of technology by the ornate obsidian knife, which seems to be very precisely cut and etched with symbols that are untranslated. Whoever made this lived far longer before the Egyptians and had a level of technology that may have been as advanced as the Ancient Greeks. It is also possible that this is an alternate Universe's Earth manifesting itself into our own.

By far the largest mnemonic reality manifestation was at Site-XX, where SCP-5000-1 was first held, now designated as SCP-5000-3. The entire facility was surrounded with a dense jungle and had a humid tropical climate in spite of being located in a humid continental climate area. It was the middle of winter, temperatures were -20 C, except at Site-XX, it was sunny and in the high 30s C. The position of the sun would change from being below the horizon to being right overhead during the night, effectively creating a microtimezone. Little damage occurred to the facility, aside from trees sprouting through some of the walls.

On January 14, 2007, SCP-5000-1 was dosed with amnestics and mild sedatives and allowed to go to sleep naturally. She did have standard REM dreams, but she did not remember them due to the effect of the amnestics, and no mnemonic reality manifestations occurred. A new plan was devised to keep her secure, contained and protected, her brain effectively the Containment Chamber for SCP-5000.

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