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Item#: 5874
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5874 must be kept in an aerogel layered rubber room roughly 10x meters by 10x meters in size. Any personnel without high levels of wit/an IQ level of at least 120 are not permitted to interview with SCP-5874.
During interrogations with SCP-5874, at least one Foundation researcher and five trained agents must be present, armed with sharpened sickles, as SCP-5874 tends to be highly wary of such weapons.
SCP-5874 is allowed to wear tailored clothing, provided by outside tailoring companies and brought into the cell.
Following a containment breach, retrieval MTF units are required to bring devices which, upon being used, activate a high-voltage chip at the base of SCP-5874's skull, stunning it for enough time for the retrieval unit to apprehend it.
Description: SCP-5874 is a humanoid skeleton, with some bleaching appearing on the skull and around the ankles. SCP-5874 does not have any remaining flesh, and has no brain, but claims to have a consciousness. SCP-5874 enjoys to wear fine-tailored suits and black gloves, and typically wears a black fedora with them.
The bones of SCP-5848 are connected in no discernable
fashion, and show no signs of fatigue when forced to perform usually tiring tasks. These bones also have the same brittleness of average human bones, yet they rot at an immensely slowed rate. SCP-5874 has admitted that most of the bones in its body are not its own, but were instead 'lended' to it by assorted friends, whether it be their own upon death, or from their enemies.
If one of SCP-5874's bones were to fracture or break - as rotting is hardly an issue - then it would remove said bone, and replace it with another of the same bone when provided with one. SCP-5874 has claimed that it still feels pain, and thus this process is very painful.
Note: SCP-5874 will never attempt to take bones from a living human.
SCP-5874 has also demonstrated some of its anomalous properties during times where it had to fight, including its retrieval. As of now, SCP-5874 has demonstrated very proficient skills in its gun, which it carried around with it until being confiscated.1 SCP-5874 has also shown the anomalous abilities to control various elements in various situations, which will be explained in detail below:
- Fire: SCP-5874 is capable of snapping its fingers (despite the gloves) to produce a flame, which it can then throw at enemies. SCP-5874 has also been reported to have once produced two continuous twin jets of flame at an MTF unit.
- Air: SCP-5874 has used its control of air to escape from containment, and to hide itself from various retrieval units on multiple occasions before being accounted for. SCP-5874 has used this in many applications, such as shooting high concentrations of air to break tough walls, displacing the air to trick security systems into tracking somewhere else, and flying.
- Water: SCP-5874 has only been recorded to use this ability once, and happened during a containment breach where it manifested water inside of the circuit boards of nearby cameras.
- Earth: Again, SCP-5874 has only been recorded using this ability once. This happened when it was being chased by a MTF retrieval unit through a narrow alleyway in ▇▇▇▇▇▇, France. SCP-5874 collapsed the ground beneath the feet of the retrieval unit, and was able to get away while the team struggled to get out of the sinkhole.
The following is an interview between Doctor ▇▇▇ and SCP-5874, the anomaly has been allowed so sit in a low security interrogation room due to promises to not engage in violence.
[BEGIN LOG]
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Entering the room) Hello Mr. Pleasant… . I believe you’re sitting in my chair.
(SCP-5874 feigned a look of surprise at this)
SCP-5874: Oh, I’m terribly sorry, I thought this seat was for me.
Dr. ▇▇▇: It’s alright, I just need you to sit in the other one.
SCP-5874: Well, by this point I had already grown quite attached to this chair. One could say I now have an emotional connection with it, would you mind if I were to swap seats with you?
(Doctor ▇▇▇ hesitated when hearing this)
Dr. ▇▇▇: … . It’s the same chair.
SCP-5874: Then it wouldn’t make a difference to you if you were to use my chair instead.
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Sighing) Alright
(Doctor ▇▇▇ moved his chair to the other side of the interrogation table)
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Sitting down) Ok, Mr. Plea-
SCP-5872: Please, call me Skulduggery. I feel like we’ve known each other long enough to be on a first name basis, I have a good feeling about you.
(Doctor ▇▇▇ was admittedly flustered by this)
**Dr. ▇▇▇: Yes, Skulduggery. I assume you know why I’m here?
SCP-5872: Of course, you’re going to conduct an interview with me; likely asking about where I came from, how I’m a skeleton, where my “anomalous properties” came from, et cetera et cetera.
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Blinking) Uh, yes. I’ll be asking you all of those questions. First off, where did you come from?
SCP-5872: Well technically, I came from Ireland.
Dr. ▇▇▇: Yes, our Mobile Task Force found you wandering around the town of [DATA REDACTED]; but before that we received reports of a well dressed skeleton suddenly materializing out of thin air.
SCP-5872: Ah yes, I suppose I will have to tell you how I arrived here. I was in the middle of a mission, trying to track down a particularly nasty dimensional shunter named Silas Nadir; I found him, but he managed to get his hands on me long enough to use his powers on me. (SCP-5872 chuckled), he probably thinks he sent me to some unstable dimension that would have ripped me apart, but I got lucky.
Dr. ▇▇▇: A dimensional shunter?
SCP-5872: Yes, one of the few left actually, and I assume with an establishment such as your own, you would most likely have a shunter in your containment?
Dr. ▇▇▇: Well, we have one. SCP-507, but I don’t believe he would be of any use to you.
SCP-5872: Why not?
Dr. ▇▇▇: He can’t particularly control when or where he goes when he shifts.
(SCP-5872 considered this)
SCP-5872: Then do you have any teleporters with you? I may be able to use something of mine as a reality anchor and leave that way.
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Puzzled) wait, aren’t I supposed to be the one interrogating you, not the other way around?
SCP-5872: (Tilting its head) Perhaps, I was just curious. You may continue.
Dr. ▇▇▇: No, I think I’ll finish the interview now. (Doctor ▇▇▇ gathered his papers)
SCP-5872: You haven't finished asking me your questions yet, have you forgotten?
Dr. ▇▇▇: Of course not, but you are trying to get information out of me, and I cannot have that.
SCP-5872: Then it was a pleasure talking with you [DATA REDACTED].
Dr. ▇▇▇: (Startled) Wait, how did you know my name?
SCP-5872: Nevermind that… . by the way, did you know that the sparrow flies south for winter?
Dr. ▇▇▇: What?
SCP-5872 proceeded to incapacitate Doctor ▇▇▇ and breach containment, it was found and caught in the temporary storage room while trying to locate its confiscated gun.
[END LOG]
