SCP-4999

SCP-4999, nicknamed "Someone To Watch Over Us", is an entity that only appears to people on their deathbed that meet certain criteria, typically indicating loneliness. He then comforts them until they pass away. The SCP Foundation has not managed to contain or pursue a way to contain SCP-4999 due to both being self-containing and only appearing to certain people.
==Biography==
===Visiting Gustav Bürger===
In 1973, as professional photographer Gustav Bürger was dying, 4999 manifested to accompany Bürger. He took a picture of SCP-4999 before he died three minutes later, with this photo eventually entering the SCiPnet file for 4999.Entry Page: 4999
===Official discovery===
The SCP Foundation discovered the existence of 4999 in the late 1990s after hospital footage of 4999 began circulating on the Internet and television, with an urban legend revolving around him. After a minor disinformation program was engaged, 4999 was registered as an SCP on 27 November 1998.
===Experiments===
====SCP-458====
SCP-4999 appeared to D-430276, who was dying of end-stage renal disease. This prompted the testing of SCP-458, which produced for 4999 a pizza that was extra large with half supreme and half pepperoni. Coincidentally, this was the same pizza variety that she frequently shared with her late partner. 4999 then shared the pizza with D-430276 before her death.Entry Page: 458
====SCP-978====
After SCP-4999 appeared to a bedridden Stage IV cancer patient at ████████ Hospital, someone holding SCP-978 took a picture of 4999 smoking a cigarette next to the patient. The Polaroid produced from 978 showed the patient standing next to a man, while 4999 was missing from the image.SCP-978 Extended Test Logs
====SCP-2305-A====
In one instance of SCP-2305-A within SCP-2305, an attempted method to eliminate SCP-4999 was described. This would occur by using SCP-038-cloned SCP-500 pills would be run through SCP-914 to create a gaseous 500; this gas would then be distributed across Earth in order to prevent death for all humans for a month and prevent manifestation of SCP-4999 and possibly terminate him.
However, the result of this attempted method was that 4999 would instead appear to newborns as a small, sentient brown teddy bear for a month, before returning to his usual form after the month lapsed. The moral described within the method was to "[not] hurt what was helping."SCP-2305-A Extended Documentation Log
==Alternate realities==
===I'll Remember You===
After O5-1 was fatally shot in a desert, far from possible recovery with SCP-006, SCP-4999 appeared before O5-1 and smoked cigarettes with him. The O5 Council member pondered about 4999 as he died, thinking he was an angel of death before realizing he was Nobody; Nobody watched O5-1 die peacefully, waiting for a moment before disappearing.I'll Remember You
===No Return===
Entry Page: 6500
==Anomalous properties==
4999 has the property of shapeshifting, as his appearances vary between manifestations, with the only consistent thing being 4999's wearing of dark formal wear. He also has the property of appearing to one individual at a time on their deathbed; after the person eventually expires, 4999 will disappear.
==Containment procedures==
SCP-4999, due to its properties, is essentially self-contained. Any proof of 4999's existence will be confiscated by the SCP Foundation, and all witnesses of 4999 or those who possess evidence of his existence will be amnesticized.
==Meta==
===Appearances=== 
*Entry Page: 458
*SCP-978 Extended Test Logs
*SCP-2305-A Extended Documentation Log
*Entry Page: 4999
*I'll Remember You
*Find Your Way Back Home
*Entry Page: 6500
*Entry Page: 044-J
*Project Isorropía
*Reimagined Hub
==References==
Category:Characters
Category:Anomalous beings
Category:SCPs
Category:Keter
Category:Ekhi
Category:Notice
Category:Living people
Category:"Nobody"