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Object Class: Safe

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX specimen must be held in a secure, permanently lit safe. Wall materials: lead; minimum thickness: 0.5m. Aluminium or copper helmets and Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) must be worn at all times when handling SCP-XXXX.

Description:

SCP-XXXX, a gelatinous parasite commonly mistaken for the psychrolutes microporos species (blobfish) native to abyssal zones in waters around Australian and New Zealand, mysteriously began appearing in pet shops around the world in 2013. Deceptively lethargic, SCP-XXXX abruptly strikes and spits mucus into an unsuspecting human’s eyes during fish tank cleaning or feeding. Microscopic hooks transported in the mucus connect wirelessly to the host’s electrical brainwave activity, allowing SCP-XXXX to irreversibly affix itself and commence feeding on the human’s innermost thoughts and emotions. The hooks deeply embedded in the eye’s jelly-like vitreous humour may be falsely diagnosed as eye floaters.

SCP-XXXX’s body mass expands exponentially as it gains control of and socially isolates its host. SCP-XXXX creates stimuli by simulating the host’s worst nightmares to incite increased brain activity and frenzied emotional responses to feed on. Once fully engorged, the SCP_XXXX reproduces by vomiting slick masses of iridescent black larvae out of the tank that slink immediately into the nearest waterway. The SCP-XXXX then self-terminates by imploding. Almost all discarded human hosts to date have been diagnosed with irreversible brain damage. In 2017 controversial ichthyologist and ufologist Dr. Albert Fisher attempted to investigate the lifecycle of the SCP-XXXX larvae and secured the only existing photograph of a fully engorged SCP-XXXX seconds before reproduction (caption) prior to falling prey to the SCP-XXXX specimen himself. Dr. Fisher, clinically blind and diagnosed with severe paranoid schizophrenia, is now being detained at an undisclosed location.