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Tape 01 -035-D-3212
Subject # SCP-035
Object Class: Keter
Todays subject of interest is SCP-035. Upon clarifaction of the SCP Foundation, clearance has been given to personnel of Level 4 or higher to ask it a question. For reasons, the purpose for this object, is to understand more about it's understanding and origin. Inquiry of subject related data for personnel of Level 4 to disclosure of information from SCP-035 has been authorized.
Interview will be held in it's cell. A table and 2 chairs are placed inside the vicinity. Watch will be seated on one end, and 035 will be seated on the other. Two armed guards are stationed outside the door, in the viewing area beside O5 Council Jacobs. D-3121 will be used to bait 035. Information is with held to D-3121 on the current experiment.
Because of the unpredictable nature of SCP-035, Watch has been informed not to engage in physical contact with it. If SCP-035 shows any aggressive intent, the interview will be postponed and deadly for will be authorized.
Tape 01 -035-D-3121 is approximately 20:241 of time that's recorded in the tape.
Disclaimer: This copy is used for to be seen on the Foundation's website if any does not view the video but they do to this the video will be linked.
Watch currently outside the containment.
Watch: Is this really necessary?
Jacobs: Send him in. - [Sending in D-3121]
Security: Step back from the perimeter or I will shoot!
D-3121: Ok. I saw the mask. Can I go now?
D-3121: Come On. I just want to get back to my cell!
D-3121: Open Up!
D-3121: Nothing else is happening.
D-3121: What's the delay?
Watch speaks still out of containment of SCP-035.
Watch: It can take anything that's human..
Watch: Why use a real person?
Jacobs: It gets results.
D-3121: What do you want me to do?
D-3121: What is this thing?
D-3121 finally gets baited to the mask.
D-3121: Why is it sad?
Jacobs: Gotcha.
D-3121: It looks…
D-3121: Beautiful…
D-3121: So smooth…
D-3121: So delicate… and light…
D-3121: I want it on..
D-3121: I want..
SCP-035 finally gets attachment to D-3121 for possess.
SCP-035: Thank you boys… It's been too long.
Jacobs: I think that's your cue.
Watch enters 035's containment.
SCP-035: Hello there! Nice to meet you!
SCP-035: And who might you be?
Watch: Not stupid enough to fall for that.
SCP-035: Absolutely right. So you've read my file. Which must mean the interview ban was lifted? I never thought they would let me take another host again. Funny… I don't remember seeing you before.
Watch: Probably because everybody who has been in contact with you has either committed suicide or died due to the fluids you secrete.
SCP-035: I'm very sorry to hear that.. But I can't hold it in forever you know? When you got to go-
Watch: You throw a tantrum until you get what you want
SCP-035: And here I am. Only wanting to chat.
Watch: There you are. How long have we got?
SCP-035: Well that depends.. How much decomposition can you stand? The last one decayed before the blackout could be fixed. I could melt this bad boy to the bone over a few hours but you dont seem like the kind of person… to see the humour in that. Always down.
Watch: Nice party trick. We'll see how these questions go.
SCP-035: A risk taker! I like it.
Watch: Answer them. No grief. No manipulation. and continued interview session will be considered.
SCP-035: More? Real people too?
Watch: Yes
SCP-035: Ha-ha! Sounds great! I'll hold you to it! Come on, let's get started! I'm falling apart just sitting here.
Static covers the screen while changing cameras.
Watch: Why do you insist on contacting us? Why the urgency?
SCP-035: Come on, Watch. You can't expect me to be cooped up here all by my lonesome! I get very lonely. I'm a people person. I need to stretch my legs and socialise— —well somebody legs.
SCP-035 then chortles.
Watch: Charming. So while your animated, we might as well have you answer some questions.
SCP-035: All work and no play makes for a dull audience.
Watch: You done?
SCP-035: Sure
Static fills the screen once again while changing cameras.
Watch: Who was the first one to wear you?
SCP-035: Ah, Iphiclus. I haven't thought about him in so long.
Watch: Good friend?
SCP-035: Mmm. Beautiful, intensely talented, but such an introvert. Lovely family though; two boys and a girl. Wonderful wife. Oh, we made the best unit.
Watch: It's unusual to hear you speak fondly of someone you've possessed, as well as their family. Were you upset once he expired?
SCP-035: Oh, our partnership carried on for almost a decade.
Watch: Don't all of your hosts perish?
SCP-035: Like any good character, I change and develop through time. Back then, I had a much simpler role than the star you see before you.
035 then sighs.
SCP-035: I was sad to see him go.
Watch: What happened to him?
SCP-035: Around 426BC., we ventured to Crete for a performance and I was… discovered. By her.
Watch: Her? Uh…I think we can come back to that later.
Static then fills the screen.
Watch: When you possess entities, do you inherit their memories and thoughts.. to add to your own intellect, or are those discarded once they've expired?
SCP-035: Yes.
Watch: …Yes…to what?
SCP-035: What you said. Y'know, I reckon we could spice up the decor around here! Some wallpaper, couple curtains, maybe a throw—
Watch: 035!
SCP-035: Wow, touchy, touchy! Everything alright upstairs? You're looking a tad flustered.
Watch: I just have a lot on… Need to remind you we only have so much time…
SCP-035: Right, right. What was your question again?
Watch: When-
SCP-035: Oh right! You're not too off the mark. I have memories and thoughts that I've built up, sure. But a person's resolve, the power of their mind… determines not only the memories I access, but from what perspective I interpret them.
Watch: Can you give me an example?
SCP-035: Let's say, this chap here! Simple, well-rounded humour, when he's not crapping his pants, likes to dance around the issues in his life. Clearly, Im reflecting his personality to a T. It's what I do, I'm just that great.
Watch: And if you possessed someone else?
SCP-035: Someone like you? Hmm. Analytical, straight-forward, empathetic yet not too sympathetic. Clearly intelligent. You could take a while to digest.
Watch: I hear that from 682 all the time. So the mind and personality you control dictates how long the body takes to…
SCP-035: See? Intelligent. Very strong indeed.
Watch: And if I didn't know any better, I'd swear your coming onto me.
SCP-035: Is it working?
Watch: No.
Screen then fills with static.
Watch: Have you ever met anyone…resistant? Or maybe simply someone who never trusted you?
SCP-035: Whatever doubts people have about me fade away over time. On average, hmm… 10 minutes or so.
Watch: Quite the aura you have there.
SCP-035: What can I say? I'm a charmer!
Watch: Clearly. Well… are their people who are not suited to wear you? Or you would not want to be worn by?
SCP-035: Acne. Anyone with acne.
Watch: Oddly picky for a mask that secretes black ooze.
SCP-035: I have standards! and in the end, that's all I have once I'm all alone.
Watch: Well, what if I had acne? Would you not want to possess me despite all you've said?
SCP-035: Interested, eh?
Watch: Don't twist this around. I'm just skeptical the true deal breaker is acne. What about those without faces or heads?
SCP-035: Like Mr. Headless? Hahahaha! Who said he doesn't have a face?
Watch: That's…interesting. Can you tell us more?
SCP-035: Ah come on, Watchie! You can't have me spend our quality time together.. talking about someone else all the time! I thought you wanted to get to know me!
Watch: I just want to—
SCP-035: Blah, blah, blah! Go ask him! You're here for me, remember?
Watch then sighs.
Watch: Moving on.
Static fills the screen.
Watch: How do you manage to lure humans to put you on?
SCP-035: I'm irresistible, look at me!
Watch: Right…
SCP-035: Influence, my dear! Influence. Imagery, presence—
Watch: Telepathic links, Hypnotic commands—
SCP-035: You would take out the magic of everything!
Watch: There's a science to everything. Just because we don't understand something, doesn't mean it's conjured out of nowhere. There's a process. Even magic, while marvellous and breathtaking onto the onlooker, is just another scientific process to the man behind the curtain.
SCP-035: Your parents never read you bedtime stories, did they? Fantasy never factored into you childhood much.
Watch: My parents never got the chance. Fantasy takes a back seat, when you have deal with the constant bombardment of reality.
SCP-035: I guess you should consider yourself lucky they never lived.. to see you become the unimaginative dolt you are today.
Watch then chuckles incredulously after what SCP-035 said.
SCP-035 becomes demonic while the camera grows dark and comes back in light when 035 has purple glow emerging from his eyes and mouth. The underlined part shows where the event happened.
SCP-035: Laugh while you can.. I'm sure they are too while they burn in hell!
Watch: Whoa!
Containment Speakers: Remain passive, 035! or I will terminate this! Now!
SCP-035: Ok! Ok! I'm calm. I promise.
O-5 Council Jacobs noticed black blood around the table, gradually increasing in radius at 035's feet. The interview was postponed, until the black blood surrounding 035 was cleaned by Foundation Staff.
Watch was screened to make sure none of the liquid had come in contact with him.
Safety regulations were in check, and the interview proceeded.
Watch: How were you created?
SCP-035: Ah! I like telling this one. You don't mind long and drawn out? There's a lot of plot to cover.
Watch: That's what were here for.
SCP-035: Excellent! Legend speaks that Hephaestus, Forger for the Greek Gods, was petitioned by Zeus to create a gift for the Muse Melpomene. Ah… how she used to sing the sweetest of songs and produce melodies that's so breathtaking it smoothed souls from the bodies of mortals and Gods alike to far off lands and back again. But one day, the only notes that left here lips… were that of Tragedy.
Watch: That sound's terrible.
SCP-035: This was true to her sisters as well, and so Thalia, Muse of Comedy and daughter to Mnemosyne and Zeus Zeus had a lot of kids to a lot of women, he was a busy man beseeched her father to ease her suffering. So when Hephaestus got the order to make such a wondrous gift, he used the laughter of Thalia to forge— dramatic pause Me!
Watch: Or so the legend goes. How do I know this isn't just a lie?
SCP-035: If you're gonna have an origin story, it's always best to make it multiple choice. Besides, I like this one best.
Watch: Uh-huh So, you were created by Gods… however self-serving it sounds. So what happened next?
SCP-035: They christened me Dýo Polonoí which means "Of Two Poles" in the Ancient Dialect—
Watch chuckles after of what SCP-035 said.
SCP-035: What?
Watch: Nothing. Sorry. Continue.
SCP-035: Okay? Well… There are two certainties in Greek Mythology. One: Every major screw-up or story starts with Zeus getting horny and shagging some mortal, or trying anything to get in their pants. Two: Hera hates everyone. I mean, even being married to that prick, Hera was ruthless in pursuing revenge. Just ask Io.
Watch: Who?
SCP-035: Exactly. So when Hera hears Zeus' illegitimate daughter is getting a godly gift and she isn't, every heifer and it's fly can tell she isn't going to be impressed. So while I was being made, she snuck in with one of Melpomene's most mournful sonnets and threw it into the forge. My design was now flawed. Instead of allowing her to feel joy, I would of accentuated her own sorrow which probably would have driven the dear Muse to death.
Watch: Did you?
SCP-035: Hey, technically I haven't been born yet. This was just the conception stage. Luckily for me, Hephaestus saw what she had done and managed to steal the me back before Hera could deliver me to her intended victim. Unfortunately, centuries in a cramped Forge doesn't do well for the cardio and he kinda dropped me over the edge.
Watch: Wow.
SCP-035: Mmm… Wow. The details are a little hazy, again since I hadn't really been born yet, but I was found and passed from hand to hand until I found my way to the Theatre of Dionysus. The actors their used me for their performances. and I bought out the best in everyone who wore me, which brought about my birth.
Watch: Birth as in activation?
SCP-035: I guess. although that sounds far to artificial.
Watch: The first person to wear you birthed you?
SCP-035: Correct.
Watch: And in doing so, imprinted a personality that evolved with every person who wore you.
SCP-035: You're so cute when you put the pieces together.
Watch: But surely someone noticed this.
SCP-035: Oh they did, but they didn't mind. I was the gift from the Gods, they said.
035 sighs mournfully. with his head collapsed onto his arms with view to the table.
Watch: It was Hera, wasn't it? She was the one who discovered you in Crete.
SCP-035: I was convinced by many of the Cretan natives that I was in fact a fallen God. I foolishly purported the image, and several "followers" prayed for my ascension. She answered their payers…with a gift from Poseidon. A tsunami.
Watch: Im…sorry.
SCP-035: Two in a half thousand years later, and I can still hear the screams. The bodies washing through the streets, houses swept into the sea.. and you're sorry?!
The underlined text shows the demonic event occurring again.
Watch: Calm down, easy. Easy.
035 does appear to gets calm and sits back down scooting up his chair closer to the table.
Watch: Do you need a break?
SCP-035 then sighs deciding what to choose.
SCP-035: No, no. I'm fine.
Watch: Ok so what happened next?
SCP-035: She destroyed my life. So I dedicated mine to tearing down the only thing that brought her any power.
Watch: And what was that?
— Short Pause —
SCP-035: The Greek Empire.
Static then covers the screen.
Watch: Do you have any regrets?
SCP-035: Show me a being who has lived as long as I without regrets… and you will have found a liar. of course I do. Fortunately, I've forgotten most of them. But I still feel them in my… heh… heart.
Watch: Anything in particular?
SCP-035 then sighs.
SCP-035: Burning Alexandria's Library.
Watch crosses his arms looking in a way of a bit of anger.
SCP-035: Well, not me directly. After Hera's wrath, I wanted to hit her and the Gods where it would hurt them the most. And where better to hurt them than destroy the works of humanity. But like the dead swallowed up by the ocean, I could hear those books screaming as history in the making shrivelled up in flame. I helped the Romans destroy knowledge that humanity still has not rediscovered. And the art? Oh, the art. I regret that dearly.
Watch: I don't know whose wrath was worse; Hera's or yours.
SCP-035: I repaid the Greeks In kind. The same voice that splintered their society was turned on their conquerors. The fire that destroyed Alexandria, I gave to Nero to burn down Rome.
Static floods the screen.
Watch: Do you have any connection to SCP-343?
035 then chuckles.
Watch: What's so funny?
SCP-035: I'm sorry. I'm ok now. So…343—God
035 snorts in neither laughter or randomness.
SCP-035: Look, we really have not been properly acquainted but, his reputation precedes him.
Watch: A completely different kind of drama queen.
035 taunts 343.
SCP-035: Exactly! I created the world! I have infinite power! It's not like I hate the guy. It's just that his stye doesn't click with me. He has so much ego, and coming from me… that's saying something.
Watch: I will admit, of what I've read of the transcripts, he comes across less than a God… and more of a used car salesman.
SCP-035: To each his own. Makes you wonder, if he's a God, why hang around at The Foundation? Surely there's more interesting things out there in the whole Universe?
Watch: It does seem like odd behaviour for a God. Is there something here he needs? Or something he's hiding from?
SCP-035: You said it, not me.
Watch: Hmmm…
Static floods the screen after so.
Watch: What are your thoughts on SCP-173?
SCP-035: Not much, beyond what I've heard. Sounds interesting, if a little shy. Breaks everything it touches. If my mother were around— that is to say if I had a mother —she'd say we were a lot alike. Well… despite the lack of face.
Watch: I'm sure you could contrite to that. Sounds like you two would have a nice pairing.
SCP-035: Don't mistake interest and admiration for respect, m'boy. You seem far too intelligent to make that kind of mistake.
Watch: Well thank—-
SCP-035: Think nothing of it. Look… you may believe similarity is perfect for a duo, but I don't see the world like that. If I look for a partner, it's someone who can make up for my own shortcomings not bring the same spiel I do. If there's one thing I hate in this world, it's unoriginality. That's why I couldn't stand the Romans for too long. Whole culture was a cheap imitation of mine!
So I left the party…and kept the door ajar for Christianity. Big mistake embracing that guy, let me tell you.
Watch: What's any of this have to do with 173?
SCP-035: We were talking about 173?
Watch sighs of disappointment probably.
Static covers the screen.
Watch: How old are you?
035 seems to not reply.
Watch: It'd be nice to have an official number.
SCP-035: What, do I need to spell it out to you? That's not how you weave a narrative, m'boy I've given you facts. Use them.
Watch: Well, your timeline seems to be pretty inconsistent. Some of what you say does fit the period, but the order in which you do these things is… messy.
035 sighs in disappointment.
SCP-035: What more do you want? I hand you a entertaining narrative… and you throw it back in my face! Real considerate.
Watch: It can't be hard to-
SCP-035: No, you listen here. I'm giving you my precious time, not the other way around! You want some answers, you better listen carefully and maybe start asking me some goddamn worthwhile questions for once!
No response from Watch before screens floods in static.
Watch: What are your thoughts on SCP-0012?
SCP-035: Pfft! What kind of ridiculous question is that?
Watch: Almost always standard it seems.
Containment Speakers: Answer him, 035.
SCP-035: Ask nicely.
Watch: You're not exactly in a position to—
SCP-035: Oh aren't I? I don't think you know who you're talking to.
Containment Speakers: Refuse to comply and I can make this situation much worse for you.
SCP-035: Melodrama won't get you far with me, buddy! Want to cut me off at the neck? Allow me!
035 in imminent death line, snapped his own neck only killing D-3121 which was at speed of light the whole skull was twisted around backwards.
Watch: Holy Shit! Jacobs!
CAPTION: SCP-035 prematurely terminated connection with D-3121 at approximately 14:55 hours during interview.
Recommendation: A second D-Class was requested for further interrogation.
O-5 Council Member Jacobs
For continued Interviews of 035.
Please insert Tape 02 -035-D-3127
Tape 02 -035-D-3127
CAPTION: D-3127 procured and made host to SCP-035 at 15:30 hours for second attempt.
SCP-035: These are the hands of an artist. Callouses, Hard worker. Shows vintage.
Watch: He was a person once.
SCP-035: Now who stopped seeing him as one first? You consider people like him property. At least they live through me.. for as long as they last.
Watch: I'm not here to argue with you. Now, could you please answer my previous question about 001?
SCP-035 inhales deeply then exhales.
SCP-035: I appear to be in a more agreeable mood. Why not?
Watch: So…?
SCP-035: Well… which one? I understand there's about.. what.. twenty? So what am I to say? How am I to know which one is the real Slim Shady?
Watch: I - the real what now?
SCP-035: Huh. That surfaced out of nowhere. Teething problems. Anyway, here's my point: why ask my opinion if only one of them exists? Or two? Or heck, Maybe even none at all. What if they're just a ruse to keep people knowing what the real 001 is? That's what I would do.
Watch: That's an Interesting theory.
SCP-035: I'm right, aren't I? Come on, you can tell me.
Watch: I think we've said all that needs to be said.
SCP-035: Aww.
Static floods the screen.
Watch: What do you think about humanity?
SCP-035: In all honesty, I find humanity to be the greatest source of entertainment.
Watch: Really? What is it about us that you find so compelling?
SCP-035: The answer to that question is a difficult concept to grasp.
Watch: Something philosophical?
SCP-035: Life as we know it is one great symphony of order. Everything has a purpose, it's a place in the grand scheme of things. Nature and matter. But then humanity is thrown into the mix. Chaos! Purposeless! No order! And yet, somehow you co-exist in your own illogical way. Conjuring order and purpose for yourselves! Science and Art would not exist had your kind not created it. In your attempt to make sense of the world, humanity interprets through imagination and entertainment. Calling a spade a spade is just so boring, and you start murdering each other because of its mundanity.
Watch: I see what you're saying.
SCP-035: It's essential to your sanity. With no lense to hold up to the world, you become fearful of it. You'd wind up having another [REDACTED] Day Massacre. A single anxious powerful women caused a riot that lasted 27 days all thanks to a little reality intruding in on her life.
SCP-035 then giggles.
SCP-035: Of course, I may have had a small hand in events.
Watch: We're one hell of a play set to you.
SCP-035: We're all playthings to something or someone else. Don't believe that I was never someone's toy too. Don't feel so victimized. It's only human. Believe me when I say this. We have more in common than what you see in those little files.
Static blinds the screen.
Watch: How does an artificial body compare to one that once lived?
SCP-035: Let me ask you this. Would you prefer to interact with flesh? Or the imitation?
SCP-035 chuckles.
SCP-035: It's. familiar, like home. It shows expression in the subtleties of it movement that no mere statue can mimic.
Watch: Wouldn't something like an animatronic body last longer?
SCP-035: Eh, you're right about that. but most people would be scared out of their wits. It's not about preserving the body beyond its expiration date. It's experiencing what you can with the time you have left. Stone and metal provides no experiences to build upon ones I already have.
Watch: Touching….and what about in the mind?
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