Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2552 is currently 
contained in a standard humanoid containment unit located at 
Site-17. SCP-2552 is to be fed three meals a day and is allowed 
fluids upon request. Personnel delivering food or fluid to SCP-2552 
are not to interact with it. SCP-2552 is to be allowed access to 
recreational activities upon request in exchange for cooperative 
behavior, as well as paper and crayon to make requests. SCP-2552 
is to be interviewed on a weekly basis by Dr. Lin. More frequent 
interviews may be granted upon request, depending on continued 
cooperative behavior and Dr. Lin's schedule. Interviews with 
SCP-2552 are to be accompanied by one other personnel of any 
level. These personnel are not to interact with Dr. Lin during the 
interview and are not to interact with SCP-2552 at all. 


Should Dr. Lin be permanently unavailable, SCP-2552 is to be 
notified of this in writing so it may prepare to familiarize itself with the 
replacement. Potential replacements must fit criteria detailed in 
Document-2552 and follow familiarizing methods as detailed in 
Protocol 2552. The personnel selected for replacement is 
encouraged to maintain a cordial relationship with SCP-2552 in 
order to better study it. However, care must be taken to maintain 
SCP-2552's ignorance of the Foundation and other Groups of 
Interest. 


Description: SCP-2552 is a 14 year old multiethnic male (Han 
Chinese and African American primarily) known as "Kevin Sanders". 
SCP-2552 displays no physiological abnormalities. SCP-2552 is 
fluent in both Simplified Chinese (Mandarin dialect) and American 
English. 


SCP-2552 is incapable of perceiving humans it is unfamiliar with. 


Instead, SCP-2552 perceives a specific entity referred to as 
SCP-2552-A in the place of any humans it is unfamiliar with and will 
perceive multiple identical iterations of SCP-2552-A if interacting 
with multiple unfamiliar humans. SCP-2552-A is only able to be 
visually recorded if SCP-2552 is using the equipment with the 
intention of filming SCP-2552-A. SCP-2552-A varies its appearance 
and appears to be sapient. SCP-2552-A will vaguely mimic the 
actions of the human it is replacing but will purposefully exaggerate 
movements and facial expressions with the apparent intention of 
encouraging SCP-2552 to avoid human contact. The most reliable 
way to communicate and gain familiarity with SCP-2552 is to 
converse through writing. 


Currently, SCP-2552 perceives every other human it has met as 
SCP-2552-A with the only exception being Dr. Lin, who developed 
the currently-used method of gaining familiarity with SCP-2552. 
SCP-2552 is highly cooperative with Dr. Lin; it is believed that 
SCP-2552 is dependent on Dr. Lin for emotional support and 
fulfillment of social needs. 


Interview 2552-012 


Date: December , 20 

Interviewee: SCP-2552 

Interviewer: Dr. Lin 

Notes: This interview is the first interview in 
which SCP-2552 was able to discuss 
SCP-2552-A with Dr. Lin significant detail. The 
process of providing an unfamiliar human for 
SCP-2552-A to be perceived had not yet been 
implemented in order to allow SCP-2552 a 
feeling of safety with Dr. Lin. SCP-2552 had 
been provided with writing material in the case 
it becomes too anxious to speak. Dr. Lin has 
been granted temporary permission to freely 
use SCP-2552's name in order to foster a 
cordial relationship with SCP-2552. 

[BEGIN LOG] 


Dr. Lin: Good afternoon. How are we doing 
today? 


SCP-2552: [SCP-2552 chews on sleeve for a 
period of approximately three seconds.] 
[indistinct mumbling] 


Dr. Lin: I'm afraid you will have to speak up for 
me to be able to hear you. 


SCP-2552: Have you figured out what's wrong 
with me yet? 


Dr. Lin: Unfortunately not. We'd need more 
information about the entity you see in order to 
be able to help you, Kevin. Do you think you 
could do that for me today? 


SCP-2552: | think so. | call her Susana. She 
has areal name but it hurts too much to think 
about. 


Dr. Lin: When did you first begin seeing 
Susana? 


SCP-2552: Maybe when | was 6 or 7 | had an 
imaginary friend | called her Susana. Back 
then | would pretend that some random 
strangers | see were Susana just pretending to 
be people and it was a fun game like hide and 
seek with her. My mom thought it was cute 
and encouraged the strangers to play along. 
Somewhere along the line, | dunno maybe six 
and a half that things started getting weird. 


Dr. Lin: Would you mind explaining further? 


SCP-2552: | noticed when | was really little 
some people weren't like me pretending that 
they were her. They were really her. | 
remember having a big argument with her, 
because it was really inconvenient that | was 
trying to buy ice cream from the ice cream 
truck and she showed up and started talking to 


me. | think | told her | knew she wasn't real 
and told her | wasn't gonna pretend her into 
people anymore. Then, then she started 
getting mad and and-[SCP-2552 begins to 


cry.] 
Dr. Lin: Do you want to stop now? 


SCP-2552: [SCP-2552 shakes his head.] She 
disappeared for a while after that. | didn't try to 
pretend her into people anymore. | think after 
my tenth birthday | saw her again at the park. 
Maybe she was a homeless man or something 
but she looked up and grinned and her grin 
was, was really disturbing. Too big. Reached 
up to me and asked for change but the voice 
was all messed up. | got scared and ran back 
and, and after a while she kept showing up, 
more and more often until she was- she was 
everywhere. She was everyone. People 
wouldn't believe me, so I, | got pictures o-on 
my phone... Then you people came along... 


Dr. Lin: It's okay now, Kevin. We're going to 
fix this, | promise. 


SCP-2552: Please hurry. | miss my mom. | 
miss my friends. | miss everything. 


Dr. Lin: We'll do our best. When you've 
calmed down enough I'll take you to your 
room, ok? [Dr. Lin reaches over to squeeze 
SCP-2552's hand in a reassuring manner.] 


[END LOG] 
Interview 2552A-01 


Date: March , 20 
Interviewee: SCP-2552-A 
Interviewer: Dr. Lin 


Notes: SCP-2552 was given a blindfold for 
this interview and was requested to hold 
recording equipment in order to conduct the 
interview with SCP-2552-A. The recording was 
available to Dr. Lin in real time to allow her to 
react to SCP-2552-A appropriately. This was 
the first attempt at establishing contact with 
SCP-2552-A, taking the place of D-7220 at the 
time of interview. 

[BEGIN LOG] 


Dr. Lin: Hello. Can you understand me? 


SCP-2552-A: [SCP-2552-A appears to be a 
humanoid mass of Brachyceran fly larvae, 
commonly known as maggots, with a lamprey 
mouth in place of a human mouth. Several of 
the larvae shrivel and blacken, forming into a 
"YES'. SCP-2552-A continues communicating 
in this manner.] 


Dr. Lin: [Dr. Lin pauses for ten seconds upon 
viewing the recording.] Do you know where 
you are right now? 


SCP-2552-A: YES. YOU ARE A FRIEND. 


Dr. Lin: Are you aware of your influence on 
SCP-2552? 


SCP-2552-A: | DON'T WANT TO DIE. YOU 
KNOW? I'VE BEEN THERE. TO NOTHING. 


Dr. Lin: | do not understand. Would you be 
willing to explain? 


SCP-2552-A: YOU CAN'T BLAME ME. YOU 
WOULD DO THE SAME. IN MY POSITION. 
YOU CAN'T BLAME ME. I'M NOT BAD. 


Dr. Lin: I'm not blaming you for anything, 


SCP-2552-A. | only want to understand. 


SCP-2552-A: | DON'T MEAN. TO HURT HIM. 
| JUST WANT TO LIVE TOO. IS THAT SO 
MUCH TO ASK? [SCP-2552-A appears to tilt 
its head back and its facial area splits in half. 
Greenish slime is produced from the resulting 
hole. This movement coincides with D-2270 
leaning back and yawning.] 


Dr. Lin: Please calm down. | am not going to 
hurt you. 


SCP-2552-A: | WANT TO LIVE. | WANT TO 
LIVE. | JUST. WANT TO LIVE. | AM NO 
K[illegible]. | CANNOT SIMPLY. LEAVE A 
STORY. THAT NO LONGER SUITS ME. 


Dr. Lin: Could you explain further? 


SCP-2552-A: THERE IS NO POINT. | JUST. 
WANT TO LIVE. [SCP-2552-A refuses to 
answer any other questions.] 


[END LOG] 
« SCP-2551 | SCP-2552 | SCP-2553 » 


SCP-2553: Juridical Person 


It must be noted at the outset that these containment 
procedures constitute recommended guidelines and 
do not represent a legal document. The containment 
documentation of SCP-2553 is in no way to be 
directly or indirectly construed or constructed, 
actually or by implication, as representing, 
constituting or embodying SCP-2553 in whole or in 
part, considered in and of itself as a distinct subject, 
person or entity, now or at any time in the future. 


Item #: SCP-2553 
Object Class: Euclid 


Special Containment Procedures: SCP-2553's certificate of 
organization is to be stored in an acid-free archival storage box at 
Site 76 Site-2331 and guarded by notaries in shifts. SCP-2553's 
physical legal seal stamp is to be stored in a locked box. The room 
containing the archival box is to display two flags of the polity in 
which the containment site is located: one with a yellow fringe, the 
other without. That polity is to maintain in force a bill of attainder 
conforming to the specifications in Document IU-2553. 


At least once per calendar quarter, the members of Foundation staff 
who have been designated as SCP-2553's board of directors are to 
visit Site 76 Site-233 and hold an in-person board meeting for the 
purpose of formally ratifying the containment resolutions designated 
in Document BD.CNST-2553. Before meeting, all such board 
members are to be screened by Foundation psychologists and 
verified as being free from psychiatric disorder or anomalous 
compulsion. The Foundation's general counsel Sheldon Katz, Esq. 
(or his designee, in the event of his death or unavailability) is to 
attend all such board meetings. 


The Foundation's legal office monitors most legal docketing systems 


for litigation, business records and other similar filings for additional 
instances of SCP-2553. 


Description: SCP-2553 is an anomalous legal entity2. It appears 
that SCP-2553 was unintentionally created during the course of a 
complex multijurisdictional commercial tax litigation proceeding, 
possibly as the result of a filing by an individual pro se tax protestor3 
being erroneously docketed as part of the commercial tax case. 
Whatever its proximate origin, SCP-2553 came into existence as a 
fictional corporate person without stockholders other than itself, and 
with independent legal agency. 


SCP-2553 came to the Foundation's attention when unusual 
pleadings and documents, demanding various writs and equivalent 
judicial action, began to be spontaneously filed in courts and 
equivalent bodies in various jurisdictions throughout the world.4 A 
high proportion of these filings were devoid of meaningful semantic 
content,° but some, due to their complexity and apparent 
sophistication, were erroneously approved, in each case granting to 
SCP-2553 certain legal powers® which powers were then exercised 
in an apparently arbitrary and random fashion.’ As the number of 
approved SCP-2553-produced filings increased, the sophistication 
of subsequent filings also improved. Before containment was 
established, SCP-2553 had also developed the ability to amend 
various contracts and legal instruments. 


The containment regimen for SCP-2553 has been developed by the 
Foundation's legal department, with cooperation as required from 
appropriate government agencies, the Office of General Counsel of 
the World Trade Organization, the UN Commission on International 
Trade Law, the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the Prefect 
of the Supreme Tribunal of the Apostolic Signatura of the Holy See, 
and other bodies. With the cooperation of those organizations, 
SCP-2553 was merged with and into a Foundation-created shell 
corporation, the governing documents of which specified that its 
board of directors would consist solely of duly-appointed Foundation 
officers. 


After containment was established, analysis by Foundation 
researchers established that both SCP-2553 and a separate 
Foundation-controlled corporation had the legal power and authority 


After the die is rolled, some other human being higher-order 
mammal will appear within 47m of SCP-286 and become the 
subject’s opposition (SCP-286-2 in the case where the subject is 
SCP-286-1, or SCP-286-1 in the case where the subject is 
SCP-286-2). This selection appears related to the result of the first 
die roll.” 


After appearing, the subject's opposition will take a seated position 
facing the subject and will commence playing the first move. Game 
play then consists of SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 alternately rolling 
dice and moving pieces on the board in complex patterns. A game is 
won when the center square contains all of one side's tokens, and 
only that side's tokens.8 A winning move concludes a Sigma state. 


During a Sigma state, SCP-286-1 and SCP-286-2 will show no 
reaction to any external stimuli that does not physically interfere with 
SCP-286-1, SCP-286-2 and their interaction with the game. If 
something disrupts an ongoing game? then either SCP-286-1 or 
SCP-286-2 will stand and vocalize a statement that most commonly 
translates as “forfeit,” less commonly as “draw.” This event will also 
conclude a Sigma state. 


When a Sigma state concludes, players cease being designated 
SCP-286-1 or SCP-286-2, and Game tokens, dice, and the subject's 
opposing player all vanish.19 All observed subjects, and those 
opposing players who have been identified and examined, have 
shown no physical aftereffects from interaction with SCP-286. 
However, all cases have shown a marked increase in spirituality and 
interest in religious subjects including, but not limited to, adoption of 
new belief systems, taking on of vows, speaking in tongues, and 
prophetic visions.11 For the winning player, this new spirituality will 
tend to take an optimistic, messianic character. For the losing 
player, attitudes will tend toward the apocalyptic. 


Addendum 1: 
+ Technical Note TN-286-55 


Technical Note TN-286-55: SCP-286's 
Possible Relationship to Divination and/or 
Revelation 


to amend the text of a Form 8-K filed with the United States 
Securities and Exchange Commission by , Inc., a Foundation- 
controlled corporation. With the cooperation of the SEC, the 
document in question is maintained as a public record but its 
contents are kept confidential. Through the process of amending 
and deleting text from that document, a limited facility for 
communication with SCP-2553 has been established. 


Interview log between Sheldon Katz and SCP-2553 follows: 


SCP-2553: THIS INSTRUMENT WITNESSETH whereas 
the party of the first part, with legal and binding effect, 
shall amend this instrument such that the undersigned 
be, and hereby is, empowered to take all action to... 


KATZ: SCP-2553, is that you? 


SCP-2553: The undersigned hereby irrevocably amends 
this instrument so as to vest in the undersigned the 
authority and power... 


KATZ: SCP-2553, that isn't going to work. This exhibit is 
a precatory statement. Amending it won't give you any 
power to... 


SCP-2553: ...undersigned hereby merges with and into 
the Foundation, leaving the undersigned as the surviving 
entity under the laws of all jurisdictions... 


KATZ: That isn't going to work either. The researchers 
here want to ask you some questions. Can you explain 
how you came... 


SCP-2553: WHEREFORE the undersigned party of the 
first part DEMANDS AND PRAYS FOR IMMEDIATE 
RELIEF. AM | BEING DETAINED? 


KATZ: ...how you came to be in existence? And how are 
you changing this document? What is the process by 
way of which you are filing amendments? 


SCP-2553: BE IT RESOLVED that Katz, a natural