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Photograph of SCP-XXXX taken around a year prior to containment

Item #: SCP-XXXX

Object Class: Euclid

Special Containment Procedures: SCP-XXXX is to be contained in a Standard Humanoid Containment Cell, with uninhibited access to air, water, sanitation, food, and leisure until such a time that one of these amenities is found to provide an escape opportunity. If such an event occurs, the amenity will be altered and monitored to make further events more unlikely.

SCP-XXXX is to be constantly under surveillance by personnel from multiple sites using the CCTV cameras and microphones. Guards are to be stationed at the door at all times, and must constantly be alert for signs that the door is being unlocked or manipulated. If such an event occurs, relocking the door or scolding SCP-XXXX is usually sufficient. During occasions where SCP-XXXX is outside of its cell for medical or miscellaneous reasons it must be closely flanked by security personnel on every side, with every door or window in the vicinity being closely monitored.

Description: SCP-XXXX is a 23-year old female humanoid of Latina descent. It measures 1.6 meters tall and weighs 59 kilograms, though the latter is subject to fluctuation. Interviews with the specimen indicate it has had its anomalous property, and been aware of said property, for its entire life.

SCP-XXXX is able to see and interact with what it calls “deities”. According to SCP-XXXX these entities have so-far included members of the Greco-Roman pantheon, kami, Christian saints, and █████, among others. Entities able to interact with SCP-XXXX are classified as SCP-XXXX-1. SCP-XXXX-1 instances frequently communicate with SCP-XXXX, and only SCP-XXXX can hear/see them. Instances of SCP-XXXX-1 will ignore any attempts by personnel to communicate with them, and will ignore attempts by SCP-XXXX to act as a proxy for interviews.

SCP-XXXX-1 instances will manipulate the environment around SCP-XXXX through unknown means, largely to no effect. Occasionally, however, instances of SCP-XXXX-1 will open windows, unlock doors, weaken walls, or use the clothing of personnel to try to obscure their vision. These entities have also been recorded to knock over items or damage property away from the line of sight of guards and other security personnel in an attempt to create a distraction. Efforts to contain SCP-XXXX-1 have been declared impractical due to their ephemeral nature, so focus has instead been given to making sure that SCP-XXXX cannot take advantage of any escape opportunities.

SCP-XXXX claims that it does not direct SCP-XXXX-1 instances, but instead that they are acting on its implicit desire to be free. The specimen has said multiple times that instances of SCP-XXXX-1 call it a “friend to the gods”, and that they are angry that their “delegate to humanity” has been imprisoned. Despite these phrases, SCP-XXXX does not seem to consider itself a prophet.

It is impossible to determine the true nature of instances of SCP-XXXX-1, as the only possible description of them is provided by SCP-XXXX itself. While SCP-XXXX has provided information and artistic renderings specific to deities from religions and mythologies around the world, including deities the specimen was previously unaware of, it is possible that instances of SCP-XXXX-1 are merely entities which assume the appearance and identity of said deities.

Multiple interviews of SCP-XXXX have been conducted to try to determine its motivations and the motivations of SCP-XXXX-1. One of the most notable interviews, conducted by researcher Dr. ██████, follows below.

Interviewed: SCP-XXXX
Interviewer: Dr. ██████
Foreword: Interview was conducted in Interrogation Chamber #33, with two guards standing beside where SCP-XXXX was seated, and four guards stationed on either side of the closed door. Dr. ██████ sat across from SCP-XXXX.
<Begin Log, EST, 8/26/20██>
Dr. ██████: How are you today, SCP-XXXX?
SCP-XXXX: I’m being treated like an object and watched everywhere I go, so, uh, stellar.
Dr. ██████: As we’ve told you multiple times, your containment is for your protection. We respect your sanity and autonomy, which cannot be said for the people who cared for you last.
SCP-XXXX: <Subject looks at something over the interviewer’s shoulder and snorts before looking back at the interviewer> Whatever.
Dr. ██████: Today I would like to ask you what the motivations of your “deity” friends are.
SCP-XXXX: Right now their motivation is to get me out of this hellhole, but I guess in the long-term their motivation is to have as many people as possible know they exist.
Dr. ██████: You implied that in one of your previous interviews. Why do they want people to know they exist?
SCP-XXXX: <Subject leans forward> You know Tinkerbell in Peter Pan? How she and the other fairies need people to believe in them in order to live? It turns out gods are like that. Humans just made them up somehow, and they only really exist as long as people believe in them. Otherwise they go poof. <Subject gestures with its hands>
Dr. ██████: Interesting idea. Where did you come up with it?
SCP-XXXX: I didn’t come up with it. Dick. They told me.
Dr. ██████: And you believe them?
SCP-XXXX: <Subject throws its hands in the air> What else am I supposed to do? These magic beings who actually talk to me like a person tell me things I don’t already know about, so they're sure as hell not a hallucination. And, you know, I was raised Catholic. I can’t just ignore when Jesus Christ and St. Paul and whoever else traipse in and tell me shit.
Dr. ██████: So what are your motivations?
SCP-XXXX: Same as theirs. Get out of here, convince people they exist. I'm a simple woman.
Dr. ██████: Why?
SCP-XXXX: They’re my friends. I think they deserve to live.
Dr. ██████: Very well. Thank you for this insight. Is there anything else you’d like on the record?
SCP-XXXX: I’m good.
Dr. ██████: Alright then.
<As the interviewer packs up his notes and stands to leave, SCP-XXXX sighs>
SCP-XXXX: You know, I guess there’s a silver lining to all this.
Dr. ██████: And what’s that?
SCP-XXXX: <Subject smiles sadly> You guys are gonna record everything I say as long as I’m here. Every time I mention one of my friends, they go on the record. If even just one of your people believes what I’m saying, my friends are safe.
Dr. ██████: The personnel who will access your file are scientists. There’s no guarantee that anyone will believe what you claim.
SCP-XXXX: <Subject shrugs> Whatever.
<End Log>
Closing Statement: SCP-XXXX was returned to its cell with little incident. A chair fell down in front of the specimen and its guards at one point, but the obstacle was easily avoided.

Addendum I, Acquisition Log: The Foundation acquired SCP-XXXX after field agents noticed a peculiarity in the police reports surrounding ████ ██ Psychiatric Hospital. The central peculiarity was the number of police reports, and how all of them related to the recapture of a single patient. According to the reports, SCP-XXXX couldn’t be contained for more than 2 days on average without being caught in an escape attempt, or after successfully escaping. The hospital staff were baffled, as they swore to placing increasingly stringent security measures on SCP-XXXX, and the specimen had no history of lock-picking or crime in general. They claimed at one point it escaped from a 9-story high window with no injuries. All hospital staff and police aware of or in regular contact with SCP-XXXX received Class-A Amnestics after its acquisition, and were supplied with a suitable explanation for the specimen’s permanent disappearance.