SCP-4360

Item #: SCP-4360

Object Class: Euclid1

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4360 is kept in a 8x8 meter concrete room on site ██ with a steel reinforced door. Any requests made by SCP-4360 are to be reviewed by a staff member with level 2 clearance before approval. Current furnishings include a steel single person bed with standard cotton bed sheets, a waste disposal unit (human waste material only), weighing scales and a small wooden wardrobe. This room is to be checked and cleaned once a month. Cleaning is to be performed by D-Class personnel wearing a standard bio-hazard containment suit. SCP-4360 is allowed to remain in the room during this time but a security team must oversee the process and the entities behavior. They are instructed to fire upon SCP-4360 if it attempts to get close to or touch any of the personnel. Meals of a nutrition value high enough to sustain an adult two adults are to be brought twice a day and inserted though the slot in the door. At no point should SCP-4360 ever be given meat, bones or any other food made of animal biomatter. Only plants and animal bi-products are permissible and this is to be checked by the assigned level 2 clearance researcher before feeding to SCP-4360. SCP-4360 is to be taken to testing area 14 on a bi-weekly basis to test the development and evolution of it's abilities. During transport, a security team with flame based weaponry should escort it. Since restraints have proven ineffective, it may walk freely but any deviations from the path or pauses are to be met with immediate reprisal. Further lack of cooperation will result in termination. If SCP-4360 ever requests to show off a new development, it should be taken to the testing area immediately after approval by a level 2 clearance staff member. SCP-4360 should be weighed once a week via ordering it to stand on the scales in it's containment. Any changes to it's weight should be documented, changes of over 10 pounds should be reported to a clearance level 3 staff member.

Description: SCP-4360 is a 5'3 Caucasian male. SCP-4360's height and gender are now subject to change. It weighs 84.8 kg 145.6 kg. SCP-4360 is generally cheerful but is described as sarcastic and snide by Security and D-class alike. It appears to be genuinely thankful for the facility and it's researchers for allowing it to evolve it's abilities.

Due to an unknown process, SCP-4360 has gained unnatural control over it's own body. It is capable of rapid relocation and reforming of it's own organs, muscles, bones and flesh. It seems to need to maintain basic human survival systems such as breathing lungs, a beating heart and a functional brain. However, it has proven extremely resilient to most forms of damage. Even heavy gunfire proved to only slow it down as it moved it's organs to avoid damage and reformed lost biomatter. It has the ability to consume and assimilate foreign biomatter. This includes cuts of meat intended for consumption (It seems that cooked meat makes no difference, it simply expels any none biomass), people and animals. It is uncertain how it would react to extranormal biomatter, such as SCP-999 but testing of this and similar experiments has been denied due to huge risk. It is not immune to viruses and illnesses but they seem to barely effect it's state due to it's incredibly efficient body. SCP-4360 has expressed very limited control over it's hair for unknown reasons. It has requested to have it shaved off but it was denied on the basis that it is the most identifying part of it's body. It is noted that if SCP-4360 wanted to, it could remove the hair almost immediately by simply letting the hair follicles fall out but chooses not to. The reasons are unknown but Dr ██████ theorizes that it is merely lulling the staff into a false sense of security.

SCP-4360 used to be a regular postman without a criminal record or any notable incidents in his past. However, he was kidnapped by an unknown group and later was found naked by the ██████ river (see Addendum-01 for further details). He was brought to SCP employees attention when several massive orders for various meat was made to the same house in for 12 different companies. When the recipient of the orders was identified as the same man who went missing, investigation revealed that it had tied his own wife and parents up and was planning to consume them to fuel it's new abilities. A security team was deployed to capture it. Combat and forceful containment proved ineffective with several injured staff members. However, negotiation proved effective with promises of a place where it could develop and cultivate it's abilities. Class B amnesics were given to the family and a cover story of SCP-4360 dying due to a heart condition.

Currently, SCP-4360 is willingly imprisoned and is co-operative with most orders. It's only focus appears to be on it's ability, loosing all interest in other hobbies and pastimes. It still presents a threat as this obsession can lead to irrational behavior, see incident 01.

Currently known abilities:
Regeneration: as long as it has sufficient biomass in contact with it's body, SCP 4360 can regenerate seemingly any injury in a matter of seconds. Only fire based weaponry appear to be able to negate this effect by covering the animal cells in carbon.
Reconfiguration: The speeds at which it can move organs, muscles and other biomatter throughout it's own body has not been fully recorded but it seems to exceed 100mph and is increasing with each test.
Assimilation: Upon physical contact to biomass, SCP-4360 can take control of it like it does with it's own body. It uses this to fuse them together quickly and add to it's own mass. Currently, it has the biomass of two adult males, after incident 01, and an unknown amount of various meats. Testing has concluded that it is unable to assimilate plant cells but it might be theoretically possible in the future.2
Appearance Transformation: Just a few days after being brought to the site, SCP-4360 realized it's ability to change it's gender and appearance including height, facial structure, displacement of fat and muscle and density. Despite being able to create the appearance of female reproductive organs, it is unable to recreate the actual organs require to reproduce. It can only create functioning reproductive organs of a male. SCP-4360 has expressed an desire to assimilate a female to give it more options, request denied.
Bone weapons: SCP-4360 will use it's own bones as weapons. Initially, this was straightforward. It formed claws and spines but it gets more creative with their use each test. It has started attaching bones together to form long spears, using it's ribs as "teeth" to grab opponents or using it's spinal column as a bladed whip. After incident 01, it has begun experimenting with two sets of bones but results are inconclusive.
Bone projectiles: On ██/██/20██ it requested to show off a new development. It had discovered that it could use a combination of expelling air from it's lungs and a type of spitting to fire small bones such as teeth and vertebra. Since then it has developed a technique of bunching up muscles and releasing them quickly to fire with improved velocity and with lower times between firing now that it does not rely on the intake of breath.

Addendum-01: Upon questioning SCP-4360, the location of it's kidnapping was identified. Security camera footage from the street confirmed that SCP-4360 was walking down a side street in ██████, England on the ██/██/20██, when an unmarked silver van lacking an registration plate stopped beside him. Four, seemingly mundane, individuals wearing blue janitorial outfits and had obscured their faces via disposable face masks typically used in construction sites, exited the vehicle and grabbed SCP-4360 and forced him into the back of the van. It then drove away and has not been caught on any known surveillance before or after this incident. It should be noted that no manufacturer for the van has been identified, suggesting it was custom built. SCP-4360 has no persistent memories of events after this but can occasionally recall short and jumbled memories. This suggests some form of memory tampering, whether due to weak amnesics or an extranormal effect is unknown. So far, no group or agency has been affiliated with the action and investigation is ongoing.

Incident 01: On ██/██/20██, during a routine cleaning of SCP-4360's containment chamber, the security team were momentarily distracted by a radio alert of a possible containment breach (it was a false alarm). Upon turning back towards the chamber, they realized that SCP-4360 had disappeared. They were ready to sound the alarm when they realized that SCP-4360 was inside the suit of D-0973 and was assimilating his body. They opened fire but it was too late, they only irritated SCP-4360. They closed the door and sealed it back inside. SCP-4360 seemed back to it's usual complacency just minutes later and allowed them to retrieve the biohazard suit just 20 minutes later without incident. Investigation of the suit reveals a large rip at it's side and review of the camera footage shows SCP-4360 launching one of it's ribs to tear open the suit and making it's body longer and thinner to get inside. This all took place over just 19 seconds. It should be noted that it was not believed that SCP-4360 could launch one of it's ribs before this incident and has not admitted to being able to do so since. SCP-4360 was interviewed about the incident later, see Addendum 02 for interview log 12.

Addendum: Interview Log 12:

Interviewed: SCP-4360
Interviewer: Dr ██████
Foreword: This interview takes place two days after Incident 01. The purpose is to identify why SCP-4360 decided to attack then and to gauge the possible need for enhanced security.
<Begin Log, 01:43>
Dr ██████: Are you feeling ok, SCP-4360?
SCP-4360: Ok? I feel fantastic. Thanks so much for letting me continue with my evolution, Doc.
Dr ██████: And how do you feel your evolution is going?
SCP-4360: It could be a little quicker I suppose but we've got all the time in the world.
Dr ██████: Is this desire to speed up the process what motivated you to kill the D-Class?
SCP-4360: Well, it wasn't because I was in love with him. (SCP-4360 laughs)
Dr ██████: What will happen when you feel it's getting to slow again?
SCP-4360: I dunno, Doc. I can barely remember it happening in the first place.
Dr ██████: Yes, you mentioned a gap in your memory earlier. It this perhaps due to a sort of instinct or reflex? It would explain the rib launching.
SCP-4360: Probably. (SCP-4360 is noticeably evasive and fidgeting.)
Dr ██████: Do you feel bad about killing the D-Class?
SCP-4360: (A pause as SCP-4360 thinks) I don't think so. Think of it like this, he didn't die uselessly, it wasn't a waste. Like when you eat food, the animals death means something because it's fueling you. So, it didn't die pointlessly. It's better then him getting killed by some other thoughtless SCP creature.
Dr ██████: (Makes a note and leans forward a little.) How much do you know about other SCP entities?
SCP-4360: (Seems to realize it let something slip.) Not much, just that i'm not the only weird thing in this facility.
Dr ██████: You consider yourself weird?
SCP-4360: Most people can't turn their bones into claws and survive gunfire. I'd say I'm weird, in a good way.
Dr ██████: Do you consider yourself human?
SCP-4360: (Silence for almost 20 seconds) I want to go back to my room.
<End Log, 02:13>
Closing Statement: We need to dramatically re-evaluate how we view SCP-4360. It related killing and consuming a human with eating meat. It clearly lacks any form of empathy. We should reclassify it and increase it's security. I hope I do not need to remind anyone about the unknown limit to it's potential of rapid and violent expansion.-Dr ██████3