[A man who can’t be outpaced by anything moving the same direction as him, except ‘things’ from beyond reality.]
Item #: SCP-XXXX
Object Class: Euclid(Probably)
Special Containment Procedures: Sliding Doors with Level 2/XXXX ID verification needed, possibly requires total arrest of all significant movement, room has harnesses on the walls or on the bed? Standard Humanoid Containment Cell. (Determine after the rest of the article)
Description: SCP-XXXX is a 34 year old caucasian male human, legally named Kylian Travers. The distinguishing characteristic of SCP-XXXX is a sudden skin tone shift between the dorsal and ventral sections of its body divided by the coronal plane, the ventral side having a greater degree of tanning and skin damage associated with sun exposure than the dorsal side. Surface and deep tissue samples of SCP-XXXX have tested as being the same biological age across all sections of its body.
SCP-XXXX's anomalous properties manifest when in motion, and effects any subject directly approaching SCP-XXXX. Such attempts invariably fail, as no matter the exact or relative velocity to SCP-XXXX , the pursuant subject will be subject to a spatial distortion which in efffect acts as an infinite expansion of space between the pursuant and SCP-XXXX, which will prevent the pursuant from outpacing and/or making physical contact with SCP-XXXX.
To observers viewing this phenomena from the anterior side of SCP-XXXX, if the pursuant’s velocity is such that it would otherwise impact or make contact with SCP-XXXX, the pursuant instead appears to match velocity with SCP-XXXX, despite being conventionally measured as exceeding SCP-XXXX's speed.
This anomalous phenomena persists until such a time as SCP-XXXX becomes stationary (relative to the the earth) or otherwise alters its velocity such that it is no longer moving away from the pursuant. The plane which determines when an object is 'behind' or pursuing SCP-XXXX has been approximated to that of the coronal plane in conventional walking or running posture. This means that any pursuant approaching SCP-XXXX from within the 180° degree arc in 'front' (relative to velocity) of it, will be able to contact SCP-XXXX as expected.
SCP-XXXX was recovered on ██/██/1996 (or 1986?) in the commune of █████-████████, Pays de la Loire, France, following the fourth in a series of robberies perpetrated by the anomaly.
Foundation operatives embedded within local law enforcement were made aware of SCP-XXXX earlier that year, through reports of an incident involving a masked individual, retroactively identified to be Kylian Travers by height and build on CCTV, entering a corner shop in the village of ██████ at 0846 local time, vaulting the counter and threatening the cashier physically. The cashier retrieved the contents of the cash register, after which SCP-XXXX left the shop. The anomaly was later identified by local police and pursued on foot, resulting in the officers being beholden to the anomalous properties of SCP-XXXX. Officers were reportedly exhausted following attempts to arrest SCP-XXXX, whilst the anomaly ran across town, stopping and starting whilst looking back at the officers. Once the officers were unable to effectively pursue the anomaly any further, SCP-XXXX acquired a nearby bicycle, and cycled westward out of town unmolested.
The second incident involved SCP-XXXX once again entering a small commercial business, this time in the town of █████-████ at 1713, the motive being determined to be that the cash register would contain the business’s revenue from the whole day, SCP-XXXX refining its criminal process. SCP-XXXX was observed wearing a novelty gingerbread man ('Le Bonhomme de Pain d'Épice') costume, and wielding a baseball bat. SCP-XXXX then proceed to extort the employees of the establishment in a similar fashion to the first robbery. However, a nearby civilian attempted to intervene by disarming SCP-XXXX, to which SCP-XXXX responded by backpedalling away from the individual. The individual was anomalously affected, their lunge to grab the bat which would otherwise have been successful becoming protracted for many seconds, until SCP-XXXX backed into the establishments wall, and side-stepped, the civilian stumbling as their velocity was once again expressed in conventional space.
SCP-XXXX then left the store before law enforcement could arrive, and on the same bicycle as the earlier robbery, left the town.
The third attempt involved SCP-XXXX robbing a small branch of the Bank of BLANK in the city of BLANK with a handgun, dressed now in the same Gingerbread Man costume, now dishevelled. He is pursued by a pileup of police vehicles in high speed pursuit, who, due to the narrow nature of the roads in the metropolitan area can not overtake SCP-XXXX, still escaping at a slow pace by foot, until the police cars expend their fuel. SCP-XXXX shows no desperation or worry, however, as officers pursue on foot, one officer overtakes SCP-XXXX, implying that attempting to move past without making contact with SCP-XXXX is possible, at which point officers attempt to encircle SCP-XXXX. SCP-XXXX then proceeded to jump straight up in the air, before duking the officers as fast as possible in the ensuing confusion as the plane of effect changed to be SCP-XXXX waistline for the time it was airborne.
One officer, confused and dishevelled, eventually tried to take control of the situation by firing in SCP-XXXX. Shots impacted pavement and nearby buildings, but those actually aimed at SCP-XXXX were under it's effect, as the anomaly slowly walked backwards, bullets nearly touching its chest, before the SCP-XXXX carefully turned its body, still moving backward, until the bullets flew past. Showing signs of disorientation whilst walking backwards, SCP-XXXX then turned and ran.
bank in a small commune on the outskirts of █████-████████, evading attempts by security and some civilians to tackle him to the ground by leisurely stepping back and out of the way of such attempts. The gunman proceeded to take hostages, and demand the vault be opened.
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Subject was recovered following a string of armed robberies, where it first used the Alias ‘Zeno’ and then ‘The Gingerbread Man’ as a calling card. Local law enforcement dispatched officers by car, who reportedly could not overtake or catch up to the assailant, despite the profiled individual moving at no greater than a brisk walk.
Field Agents priorly embedded in the precinct alerted the nearest Foundation facility to a suspected Anomalous criminal at large.
During capture attempts, object displayed the ability to be unable to be hit with any kind of melee or projectile weapon so long as it moved ‘away’ from such attacks in some fashion, moving around corners in architecture
Other issues arose when a lone officer in a vehicle cornered the object down an alley, using their vehicle as a barricade, however when they went to open the driver side door, SCP-XXXX stood by and ‘technically’ began taking a step backwards, away from the door. This meant the door never opened wide enough to touch SCP-XXXX, and so did not permit the officer’s exit. When the officer moved to the passenger side door, SCP-XXXX vaulted the vehicle and made its escape.
Interviewed: SCP-XXXX
Interviewer: Agent ███████ █████, referred to as 'Interviewer' throughout.
Foreword: Interviewer was a Foundation agent embedded within local law enforcement. Preliminary interview of the subject was conducted under the guise of a police interrogation.
<Begin Log, 18:22 Local>
Interviewer: Fuck you. What are your motives?
SCP-XXXX: No, Fuck you. And what do you think? Money.
Interviewer: Fuck you then. What about how you've evaded arrest, your abilities? Fucky shit dude.
SCP-XXXX: Fuck you too. And well… Shit, I guess I'm no escape artist. Weird fucky space and speed stuff. I'm untouchable so long as I move away from the thing trying to touch me.
Interviewer: Well, fuck that. Next quest-
SCP-XXXX: [Interrupting] No. Fuck. You. Who are you?
Interviewer: I'm sorry, fuck you? I'm Officer Jean-Pierre, of course.
SCP-XXXX: No, Fuck you. You're bored, yet you believe me.
Interviewer: Fuck you. I didn't say I believed shit about what you've said.
SCP-XXXX: Nuh-uh, Fuck you. I’ve had enough people try to figure me out to know you believe me, but you look as if you’re bored out of your mind. So who are you? What do you know about… about the things that happen to me?
<End Log, 1823 Hours>
Closing Statement: SCP-XXXX was then sedated, placed into a body harness, and transported to the nearest Foundation site, for processing and initial containment.
Speeding Gun, Bouncy Balls, Paint balls, D-class tackle-hugs.
Blindness, difficulty dancing, the ability ruined his life, made him basically a non-person, but has allowed him to run from his problems with extreme efficacy.
Interview_Log/XXXX_8:
Interviewed: PoI-XXXX-1, a.k.a. Eleanor Travers
Interviewer: Agent █████ ██████, referred to as 'Interviewer' throughout.
Foreword: Interviewer was a Foundation agent posing as local law enforcement, cover story being a visitation to SCP-XXXX biological mother to ask questions about her son's life before his crime spree.
<Begin Log, 13:31 Local>
Interviewer: Good afternoon, your son has been arrested.
Eleanor Travers: Fuck…. That's my boy. What happened, where is he? What happened?
Interviewer: Your son was implicated as the sole perpetrator of a string of robberies in the region. He was arrested earlier this week. Can you please tell me about when last you were contact with him?
Eleanor Travers: Well, shit, I don't know, must have been a few years at least since we spoke. He ran away from home.
Interviewer: I see. Do you know if there is anything unusual about your son?
Eleanor Travers: …No.
Interviewer: …
Eleanor Travers: No, Fuck you.
Interviewer: Madam. Please.
Eleanor Travers: … I didn't want my little boy to die. So I prayed, prayed that he would be able to outrun death itself. I don't know why it happened, but I believed it a blessing. When will the court case be?
Interviewer: That is undetermined at this time, Madam. We will be in touch.
Eleanor Travers: You have him held somewhere, yes, somewhere he can't move very much? Please, can I speak to him. Just see him.
Interviewer: …I'm sorry Madam. Good day.
<End Log, 1823 Hours>
Closing Statement: Eleanor Travers was discouraged from pursuing her son's case in court, and treated with Class B Amnestics, with false memories implanted that he had died in a fire due to being trapped in the rubble and smoke inhalation.
Addendum-5/EZON-CLASS_EVENT: Following Interview-[Ominous_Foreshadowing], a fully contained circular chamber was constructed, and SCP-XXXX instructed to walk continuously until instructed to stop, and focus on any gradual or incremental changes in their condition.
After 36 minutes of constant walking SCP-4371, mentions the tinnitus is there, and testifies it probably started a few minutes ago but they were just now noticing it.
At 47 minutes SCP-XXXX shows a marked increase in speed despite being instructed to conserve energy, when questioned, SCP-XXXX refused to comment, looking straight ahead and simply mentioning that the tinnitus was getting worse, more shrill.
At 66 minutes SCP-XXXX is jogging around the circuit, and only intermittently speaking to Liaising Personnel, mentioning how the wailing was now making his head throb.
At 82 minutes SCP-XXXX has kept up the pace, and medical equipment on their person reports increased levels of adrenaline and other stressors, as it covers its ears. Says it is right behind me now, SCP-XXXX is instructed to stop moving, and that the effects will cease. Reports that he can not, as in the instant he is slowing down, ‘it will catch him, they’re horrible’.
At 88 minutes, SCP-XXXX looks over his shoulder and begins sprinting, heart-rate raised. When asked what is going on, SCP-XXXX responds, “It’s nothing! It’s nothing and its horrible!” Before refusing to respond, fully committed to gaining velocity.
At 92 minutes, SCP-XXXX falters in it’s run, and falls to a stop on the floor of the chamber, vocalising distress and curling into a foetal position, as Foundation personnel enter the chamber to ascertain the entity’s condition and recover it. Personnel report a series of fresh cuts along the entity’s back, ranging from the shoulder-blade to the lower back, each being a series of four parallel incisions, varying in length.
Following debrief of SCP-XXXX, scheduled testing to have SCP-XXXX observe the apparition by walking backwards has been postponed indefinitely.
Early Life, Sports, and outrunning the laws of physics:
(Does he sweat? Radiate heat? Give off Hume/Kant readings? Creates a vacuum of reality along its reverse face.)
Initial Interviews:
The object claim it discovered its properties after having run directly away from a speeding vehicle, and so survived what would have been a fatal collision. Prior to this supposed incident, Object claimed to struggle with sports that involved catching objects in motion towards them if they were backpedalling. Otherwise, their properties allowed them to perform preternaturally well in sports such as baseball (when batting, not fielding.) And track and field sports, outcompeting athletes of superior ability, so long as it started at least some distance ahead of them relative to the plane produced by its properties.
May be important to change it, if the anomaly is extremely obvious in day to do life, make it more like he lived in a small rural french village, and was like a ghost around his neighbourhood much of the time.
(What happens when the object 'overtakes' another object/subject, does the anomaly then manifest
During later interviewer, after Interviewer brings up the, ‘moving backwards’ (And so the coronal plane's dorsal side simply being the most commonly ‘aligned’) to prevent physically mundane actions, object revealed that it in fact discovered its properties after realising that other people did not experience visual distortions similar to it when moving backwards relative to the direction they were facing, when asked to describe these visual distortions, refused to answer, before then saying it was just black. (Later mentions death?)
Actions like dancing and even sitting back in a chair can lead to disorientation as object claims that the world “goes infinitely slower to the point you can’t see it at all.” As light directly bouncing off of objects and towards the object’s eyes are infinitely slowed down(footnote: conventional descriptors of velocity and variations to it are only somewhat applicable.)
The fact the object can stretch space time such that light can be postponed from reaching it over the course of its movement is not the same as the object moving faster than the speed of light.
Expanding on the discomfort and horror in interviews:
Viewed directly from behind, object appears to have a halo of regularly solid and coloured outline (caused by slightly light refraction in air around subject, showing the edges of the object along the plane defining ‘front’ and ‘rear’ face to those observers directly behind.) The object itself either appears as a sort of mirage, or an after image, as the light bounces off their clothes only, the rest of the object being unobservant.
Alternatively, Expand on 'motion is an illusion' idea, the stretches space behind it, and leaves an after image in reality, and so, it appears to the pursuant and other observers from behind that the object is not moving at all, and they simultaneously can't outpace or make contact, until it stops moving. Also, when SCP-XXXX stops moving, there could be a destructive 'snapback' effect, when the spatial anomaly demanifests, with potentially destructive effects depending on how long it has been in continuous motion?
“What happens when you pull someone along behind?” SCP refused to comment, and to perform such tests. A) It does nothing and works perfectly because he’s holding on to them. B) It goes horribly, and the person gets spaghetti and shattered, at least partially. C) The person is lost in the place beyond reality.
Some point in its past, tried to dance with a girl or run off with her. His mother always tried to have him avoid contact like that, he may have exposed her to the vacuum his anomaly produces and so flayed her on a molecular level, or perhaps pulled off a limb. Resents mother.
Laboratory Testing
Hypothesis tested with lasers
Nothing can effect the object from the 180 angular degrees behind it. This includes the laws of physics and thermodynamics, since the subject should still theoretically be able to radiate energy and matter (heat and perspiration respectively) from its ‘rear’ face when in motion, however, that would also mean that it is dispersing into a vacuum, which would mean it’s back half would have explosively dispersed by now. Not even the forces of gravity, nor the strong nor weak forces exist, in what is now being called an “extra dimensional alteration to spacetime, where distance along one vertices is functionally infinite.”
Jumping off the planet won’t happen, because of the air pressure above the object, even in the lack of gravity, the object returning to earth. (So what about wind resistance? Maybe, in practice, the object can't move for very long?)
Why created/Story:
-Bittersweet Narrative: Mother loved her son, couldn’t accept he would one day die, wanted him to be able to outrun death. (His mother’s name is Elea). Son uses this ability to run from his problems, including his family home.
- Cosmological Narrative: Something attempts to stretch space time infinitely thin, and so create a thin membrane that needs only to be pierced in order to escape/invade reality, SCP-XXXX is a means to this end. (Motion is an illusion -> Reality is an illusion -> Pattern screamers.)
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