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SCP-9178
Class: safe
Containment: SCP-9178 is to be kept in a room, guarded by two armed guards at all time, personnel are allowed to visit SCP-9178 when at break or when given the permission to, all personnel who have met with SCP-9178 must be monitored for the next hour after they leave
Description: a humanoid possessing the ability to change their physical form, usually to different humans or other animals, although it can partially change into different materials as well, most of them rarely found in the human body, SCP-9178 is friendly and enjoys speaking and playing with people and animals too, it is highly intelligent and was noted to be very helpful, most personnel who visit it tend to leave slightly happier, sometimes with advice for the future and sometimes with thoughts about things they usually didn't pay attention to

SCP-9178 was noted to be highly cooperative and despite the ease in which it could escape it decides not to because, according to it "it's your job to keep me locked, and neither I nor you want any trouble, and if it helps you sleep soundly at night, then why should I resist?"

SCP-9178 has requested multiple times to be allowed to roam freely for a limited amount of time and engage in physical activities, it has been granted one hour a day to roam around while under observation, since then it spends this hour usually playing games like football and rugby and sometimes even tag, sometimes just having long walks or lying and the ground and watching the clouds

Notes: SCP-9178 is able to use the abilities of the person/animal it turns into, it has access to their memories, personality and skills, it also keeps those memories after it changes into someone else

SCP-9178 is able to create characters for itself to turn to and also turn into figures that it knows, although it usually only does that when being granted permission

SCP-9178 seems to be immortal, being alive for longer than most civilizations and being able to change from one body to another and never die, also, it is able to shapeshift postmortem if killed and so, come back to life

SCP-9178 expresses an interest in arts and music and is also fluent or at least familiar with almost every human language that existed during its lifetime, it seems to be interested in cultures and religions and has very philosophical opinions about humanity and life itself

SCP-9178 masters many tools and weapons, it is able to fight very well regardless of the body it's using or the manner of fighting