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Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5536 is to be kept in humanoid living quarters stocked with amenities and provided with services approved by Dr. Achilles Mardas. This room is to be equipped with wards used to contain instances of SCP-5500 and a concealed Scranton Reality Anchor beneath the room. Subject is allowed to roam the facility in areas approved by the Site Director at predetermined times. Subject is to be accompanied by at least one approved Foundation employee with Level 3/5536 clearance or above when outside of containment. This clearance is not included within general Level 3 clearance and requires written approval from the Site Director or an O5 Council member. SCP-5536 is allowed to be included in non-invasive research into the SCP-5500 series of anomalies or her own abilities with permission from Dr. Mardas, the Site Director or any of the O5 Council. Subject is known to be cooperative with the SCP Foundation and will obey commands given to her by Foundation personnel.
Any personnel interacting with SCP-5536 must use a calm and non-threatening voice, avoid physical contact and are advised to refer to her by her given name of Hailey Mardas. Under no circumstances must she be brought to a panicked state. When she feels threatened or panicked, SCP-5536 will sometimes cause an involuntary and uncontrollable reality-warping event, often teleporting herself to a random location within the facility and causing breaches in containment of other SCPs. Containment of escaped SCPs and SCP-5536 is to be reestablished using Recall Protocol ██-████.
Description: SCP-5536, also known as Hailey Mardas, is a 10-year-old girl 134 cm tall and weighing 29.1 kg. To avoid containment breach, any Foundation personnel introduced to SCP-5536 should be accompanied by personnel she feels calm around, preferably Dr. Mardas, which SCP-5536 views as a paternal figure.
SCP-5536 is believed to be an anomalous instance of SCP-5500, a group of humanoid Class 1 and 2 reality warpers and associated flora, fauna, sites and artefacts. Intelligence gathered from contacts within SCP-5500-GBR supports this theory. She is believed by the majority of SCP-5500-GBR to be responsible for the defeat of another instance of SCP-5500 by the name of [REDACTED], in the process surviving what should have been a lethal anomalous ability. SCP-5536 does not display any additional resistance to harm in tests conducted by the Foundation so the reason she survived this event is currently unknown. Requests of further research into this anomalous ability using more severe forms of harm have been denied by the Site Director. Any intelligence about this event is to be logged within incidence report SCP-5536-2011-██-██-1.
The random teleporting behaviour demonstrated by SCP-5536 is inconsistent with other known instances of SCP-5500. Foundation intelligence of SCP-5500 shows that SCP-5536 displays an increased affinity towards teleportation and other forms of spatial manipulation, along with a higher than average resistance to countermeasures to teleporting employed against other instances of SCP-5500. These powers tend to manifest when SCP-5536 is feeling threatened but she has shown the ability to teleport up to a maximum of 101.2 metres at will, though she has said this is “draining” for her (causing headaches and confusion). This ability appears to have grown in strength over the past 4 years (maximum distance teleported for previous years are 25.3, 36.1 and 68.7 metres). Recent tests also show that SCP-5536 is capable of remotely teleporting objects or entities in her immediate vicinity to her location, though the limits of this ability are untested. It is unclear if this is a rare ability expected from an instance of SCP-5500 or something unique to SCP-5536. The remote teleporting ability is believed to be the reason containment breach of SCP-5536 triggers the containment breaches of other SCPs. When questioned about these containment breaches, she will express remorse and shame over causing them but will deny doing it intentionally.
In addition to anomalous abilities expected from an instance of SCP-5500 and her potentially unique teleporting ability, SCP-5536 also displays an ability to socialise with certain other SCPs, including ones regarded as highly dangerous to other SCPs and Foundation personnel. SCPs affected by SCP-5536 are calmer and less lethal than usual, being reduced to a docile or even protective state while in her presence. During containment breaches SCPs affected by SCP-5536 are often drawn to her, especially during containment breaches triggered by SCP-5536 herself. The reason for this is currently unknown, but interviews and observations of SCPs known to associate with SCP-5536 suggest that they may genuinely care for her. When interviewed, SCP-5536 is unable to explain why this occurs, but has stated that she enjoys being with and cares for the other SCPs. SCP-5536 has been granted permission by the O5 Council to visit certain SCPs periodically. These visits have been shown to result in some SCPs being more compliant with the Foundation and less likely to make an escape attempt for up to a week after the visits.
Tests conducted into the mind of SCP-5536 indicate the presence of an as-yet unidentified entity designated SCP-5536-1 tied to the distinctive scar upon her chest. The nature, intentions or abilities of this entity are unknown, but attempts to remove SCP-5536-1 have been met with failure. SCP-5536 is unaware of the existence of SCP-5536-1, but has complained about a burning pain in her heart accompanied by nightmares involving flashes of green or red light. Whether this has any relation to SCP-5536-1 or event SCP-5536-2011-██-██ is unclear. SCP-5536 has received Cognitive Resistance Training in an attempt to combat the influence of SCP-5536-1. The effectiveness of this training is currently being evaluated.
Addendum 5536.1: Recall Protocol ██-████
SCP-5536 is to be located as soon as possible. The position of SCP-5536 is to be treated as a likely location of any unaccounted for Keter-class SCPs accidentally released by her. Once an escaped SCP reaches SCP-5536, they are likely to remain in her presence and in a docile state until a recall strategy can be created and implemented, lowering the number of fatalities and difficulties involved with reestablishing containment. Use of SCP-5536 in recontaining escaped SCPs is strictly limited to SCPs confirmed to be affected by her.
Addendum 5536.2: Discovery
The Foundation first became aware of the existence of SCP-5536 via information gathered from SCP-5500-GBR after event SCP-5536-2011-██-██. As per Foundation policy in situations involving SCP-5500, no effort was made to retrieve SCP-5536. She later became of interest to The Foundation after event SCP-5536-2016-██-██, where SCP-5536 displayed anomalous reality-warping abilities within the residential neighbourhood of [DATA EXPUNGED]. Witnesses saw SCP-5536, currently 6 years old and covered in blood and bruises, being chased out of a house by an overweight middle-aged male wielding a bloodied rolling-pin loudly screaming the word "freak" while a middle-aged woman demanded SCP-5536 return inside the house. The male grabbed SCP-5536 and attempted to pull her inside, which triggered a shockwave from SCP-5536, flinging the man away from her and shattering multiple windows in the neighbourhood. The police were called to the scene, arriving just before Mobile Task Force Robin-3 was deployed at the location to administer amnestics to erase the last 3 hours from everybody who witnessed the event. Dr. Mardas personally secured SCP-5536 and attempt to console her and treat her numerous injuries. The identities of the male and female were confirmed to be [DATA EXPUNGED]. Both were tried and found guilty of child abuse. They were later taken by the Foundation as D Class personnel for use in Site-██. Neither survived the first week.
One week later SCP-5536 was confirmed to be an instance of SCP-5500. She was offered to take amnestics and be turned over to authorities within SCP-5500-GBR in accordance with Foundation policy towards instances of SCP-5500. SCP-5536 denied the amnestics, insisting she would rather stay with The Foundation and Dr. Mardas, who she refused to be separated from. SCP-5536 was put under the authority of Dr. Mardas and transferred to Site 19.
Addendum 5536.3: Notes on Behaviour
SCP-5536 initially was quite fearful of all Foundation personnel, only ever speaking to Dr. Mardas. Despite this, she was eager to help any Foundation personnel in any way she could, from making them coffee to participating in harmful tests. Multiple Foundation personnel noted that she seemed to expect severe punishment as a consequence of not completing or failing any of these tasks. To help improve her psychological health, Dr. Mardas ordered SCP-5536 to spent a few hours each week with SCP-999. Reports on SCP-5536 made over the following weeks showed a noticeable improvement in her confidence and happiness. She is now described as talkative and outgoing, but still very helpful and friendly to Foundation personnel. Her relationship with Dr. Mardas has also improved. One year after being secured by the Foundation, she accidentally called Dr. Mardas "Dad". Since then, Dr. Mardas has agreed to be her adoptive father and began referring to SCP-5536 as his daughter. SCP-5536 has also requested to be called Hailey Mardas instead of █████████████.
SCP-5536 will spend most of her day helping the Foundation with research (she is known to particularly enjoy helping in botanical research), attending lessons with Foundation scientists or spending time with approved SCPs.
Addendum 5536.4: First Containment Breach
The following interview was conducted by Dr. Alfred Hall 1 month after SCP-5536 arrived at the facility.
Date: 10/12/16
Interviewer: Dr. Alfred Hall
Interviewee: SCP-5536
[BEGIN LOG]
SCP-5536: …Who are you?
Dr. Hall: Hello. My name is Dr. Alfred Hall. I'm here to ask you some questions.
SCP-5536: Where is Mr. Mardas?
Dr. Hall: He is currently preoccupied, but I've been assigned to interview you.
SCP-5536: What do you want to know?
Dr. Hall:Can you tell us anything about your abilities?
SCP-5536: I can do things I can't explain. Heal injuries. Escape from a chase. Make myself hidden when I don't want to be found. I once teleported myself onto the roof of my school-
Dr. Hall: Can you provide us more detail? Run me through the events that lead up to the use of your abilities.
SCP-5536: …
Dr. Hall: SCP-5536, can you please answer the question?
SCP-5536: (appears agitated) I was scared.
Dr. Hall: You'll need to elaborate. What triggered this fear response?
SCP-5536: …I don't want to.
Dr. Hall: SCP-5536-
SCP-5536: My name is Hailey!
Observation Notes: SCP-5536 appears to be distressed. The lights in the interrogation room flicker and burst. SCP-5536 disappears in a flash of blue light. Dr. Hall is escorted out of the room and the containment breach alarm is activated.
[END LOG]
The Foundation was later made aware that the pressure sensors within the cell of SCP-096 show an increased weight equivalent to the weight of SCP-5536. Audio recordings indicated SCP-5536 was still alive. Personnel Agent [REDACTED], D-94312, D-94361 and D-94478 were assigned to recover SCP-5536 under the orders of Dr. Mardas and Dr. [REDACTED]. The audio log was archived. Video footage of the event has been deleted to prevent a containment breach of SCP-096.
Dr. [REDACTED]: If she's still alive, it means she hasn't looked at it yet.
Dr. Mardas: I don't recall Hailey knowing about 096, but I want her out of that cell now!
Agent [REDACTED]: We'll open the cell and go in blind. The four of us should be enough to block 096 from escaping while we get 5536 out of there. We'll need to move quick before he gets curious.
Dr. [REDACTED]: We've got lasers to monitor the position of SCP-096. If it moves, we'll let you know. It's currently in the east side of the room, with 5536.
Agent [REDACTED]: Understood. Tell the guards to unseal the doors.
Observation Notes: The four security personnel enter the room as soon as the doors slide open. Dr. Mardas positions himself beside the door.
Dr. Mardas: (voice appears panicked) OK Hailey, follow the sound of my voice. Whatever you do, don't open your eyes! Hurry now, just follow my voice.
SCP-5536: Hi Mr. Mardas! Look, I made a new friend!
Agent [REDACTED]: What!?
D-94478: AH, I looked at it!
Agent [REDACTED]: [EXPLETIVE]! Everyone back away! Do not open your eyes!
Dr. Mardas: This isn't funny Hailey! Get our here now before that thing kills you!
SCP-5536: But David is so nice! He may look a bit scary but he's such a great listener!
Dr. Mardas: What? Who's David?
Observation Notes: D-94478 runs out of the cell, followed by D-94312.
Dr. [REDACTED]: Why isn't it following them? It hasn't even moved!
Agent [REDACTED]: Doctor, you may want to see this…
Observation Notes: Dr Mardas rushes into the cell, not even bothering to shield his eyes. He would later describe SCP-096 being curled up next to SCP-5536, sighing in contentment. SCP-5536 grinned up at him, gently patting SCP-096's pale skin. Despite Dr. Mardas looking straight at SCP-096, it only gave a mewl in protest, curling up tighter against its new friend. SCP-5536 gave SCP-096 a hug before standing up and running over to wrap her arms around Dr. Mardas.
SCP-5536: I missed you!
[END LOG]
Incident SCP-096-4-A is the first recorded instance where somebody has looked at SCP-096's face and survived. SCP-5536's recount of events say she appeared in the cell of SCP-096 after teleporting away from the interview room. She was initially scared, but SCP-096 remained docile and even tried to comfort her by sitting next to her and stroking her hair. She spent 10 minutes having a one-sided conversation with SCP-096, eventually deciding to call it "David" which she says SCP-096 likes. SCP-5536 has agreed to further testing with "David" to help Foundation workers explain the anomalous behaviour shown by SCP-096.
The results of these experiments have shown that SCP-096 can be viewed while in the presence of SCP-5536. Photos taken of SCP-096 are viewable if SCP-5536 is also nearby in the image or SCP-5536 is near the real SCP-096 at the time of viewing. An image of SCP-096 and SCP-5536 becomes dangerous if SCP-5536 is cropped out or otherwise obscured. SCP-5536 cannot be added into the image via editing software.
Addendum 5536.5: Interview with SCP-049 pertaining to SCP-5536
SCP-5536 was introduced to SCP-049 one month ago in a test to determine her effect on him. SCP-049 reacted positively to her presence, declaring her free of 'The Pestilence' almost immediately. The two SCPs engaged in pleasant conversation in topics ranging from medicine (in which SCP-049 was uncharacteristically patient with SCP-5536's lack of medical knowledge) to life in the Foundation and favourite foods (which SCP-049 stated was Crème brûlée despite never been observed eating). This conversation has been logged under file SCP-049-2018-██-██-1. SCP-5536 has visited SCP-049 weekly since this event, in which SCP-049 has begun teaching SCP-5536 medicine.
The following interview was conducted by Dr. Elijah Itkin 12 days after SCP-5536 last met SCP-049.
Date: 4/7/18
Interviewer: Dr. Elijah Itkin
Interviewee: SCP-049
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. Itkin: We've been logging your requests for the past month, and we can't help but notice that you have made numerous attempts to increase your allocated time with SCP-5536.
SCP-049: Ah! Hailey! Such a brilliant girl. She shows much promise! I am confident that once I finish teaching her she will bring us one step closer to developing the ultimate cure to the Pestilence. I am glad that you have provided me with such a promising apprentice, though I do wish you would allow me more time to teach her.
Dr. Itkin: You do not feel anything strange around SCP-5536?
SCP-049: Only excitement! With time, Hailey will learn to understand the Pestilence as I do. And with a few more test subjects provided by your organisation, we will be one step closer to ridding the world of it's grasp. Surely your willingness to provide me with a pupil is a sign that you are finally taking my warnings seriously?
Dr. Itkin: SCP-04-
SCP-049: Louis!
Dr. Itkin: What?
SCP-049: Doctor Louis! Hailey told me that she didn't like calling me Doctor. She said it wasn't fair for me to not have a name, and I agree. A medical professional such as myself should have a name. Hailey told me Louis was the name of another brilliant doctor from my homeland, who cured many diseases with his work.
Dr. Itkin: Well… Doctor Louis, you say that you don't notice anything abnormal about your behaviour when around SCP-5536? You don't feel she may be unconsciously compelling you in any way?
SCP-049: Nonsense! I simply recognised an uninfected and promising individual! Hailey may be ignorant of the Pestilence, but she has the dedication to learn. She is a kind and caring person, untouched by the ravages of the Great Blight. Hailey will be a brilliant doctor one day.
Dr. Itkin: Thank you for your time… Louis. We'll see about increasing the amount of time SCP-5536 spends with you.
SCP-049: Thank you, Dr. Itkin!
[END LOG]
Interviewer's Note: SCP-049's time with SCP-5536 has been increased from 2 hours to 4 hours per week.
The results of this interview has helped show that SCPs affected by SCP-5536 are unaware of their uncharacteristic behaviour and genuinely like SCP-5536. The exact nature of SCP-5536's abilities are still unknown, but no SCPs affected by them have shown any hostility towards her.
SCP-049 has since begun teaching SCP-5536 basic biology, anatomy and how to identify common ailments such as broken bones or the Flu. These lessons have been recorded by the Foundation. The content he is teaching her is so-far completely non-anomalous, with on-site medical professionals stating that SCP-049's teaching content and methods heavily resemble introductory medical courses. They have confirmed that SCP-049 is teaching SCP-5536 useful and accurate medical knowledge. When asked about this, SCP-049 states that she must first learn to treat the symptoms of the Pestilence before learning how to cure it.
SCP-049 has also requested to be referred to as Louis.
