SCP-173/Story

There are multiple different interpretations and possibilities of the origin of SCP-173, due to the amount of tales written about it. Most of these do not specify a date, the only one that does dates its creation to 1987.

In "Her Masterpiece", SCP-173 is described as being an art piece made by a woman out of her husband whom she killed with a baseball bat for forcing her into an abortion. This gives credence to the "baby" like appearance of the sculpture. She made SCP-173 over the course of a week by positioning her husband's corpse in a metal frame, and smothering him into the liquid concrete. Eventually they mix together, and she starts painting. She describes it as her new baby, and walks away, only to be killed.

Another possible origin comes from the tale "SCP-173-D", which describes the decommissioning of SCP-173. In its rubble, Agent Smith finds a canister and inside is a note reading "Are We Cool Yet?", implying that SCP-173 was made by the anart group of interest Are We Cool Yet?.

In "A Tale of Five Offerings", in "the howling temple of the black moon's light", five "brave fools" made SCP-173. The first gave flesh, the second gave stone, the third gave "the power to move when alone", the fourth gave life and the power to think, and the fifth blinked.

It is animate and extremely hostile, but is incapable of moving when in direct line of sight. The exact speed of SCP-173 is not known, however it is stated that it can cross entire continents in minutes. It attacks by snapping the neck at the base of the skull or by strangulation. SCP-173 is capable of high level thinking, being very nihilistic. It does not care about life, but thoroughly enjoys the "crunch" sound and feeling of snapping necks, and finds meaning in this. It is capable of generating feces and blood at its feet as a defense mechanism, the scent causing peoples eyes to water faster and make them need to blink more.

## In Foundation Custody

### Universe 5643-Gamma-Orange-Delta

The Foundation does not currently know the origin of SCP-173. At an unknown date in 2008, SCP-173 was moved to Site-91 by Foundation Agents. All information regarding SCP-173's prior containment is missing. Personnel are required to enter at least three at a time with one keeping an eye on SCP-173 at all times. Site-91 Director Dr. James Long received an email from Alexandra Nala (Administrative Assistant, Office of the Overseer Council) on September 6th, 2045, at 07:30 stating that SCP-173 would be moved from Site-91 to a classified site. Dr. Long sent an email response on September 7th, 2045, at 09:43, receiving a response only 10 minutes later stating that he was not privy to information on where SCP-173 was going. He continued attempting to gather information by emailing Senior Agent Sven Kisch (Head, Acquisitions Division, Department of Extra-Universal Affairs), but again receive no info from his reply four days later. On October 4th, 2045, SCP-173, along with nearly every other SCP on site, was moved from Site-91 to a redacted site. Dr. Long messages Researcher Nurul Shafiqah binte Ahmad Ibrahim via iPhone and discovers that this same thing is happening to other sites, namely Site-17 and Site-754. On December 15th, 2045, SCP-2317 breached containment at Area-179, and resulted in an XK-Class end-of-the-world scenario, however the foundation was prepared and transferred all SCP's that had been acquired by The Department of Extra-Universal Affairs to a new universe. With O5-10s approval, they abandoned Universe 5643-Gamma-Orange-Delta for Universe 7392-Epsilon-Blue-Lima.

### Universe 7392-Epsilon-Blue-Lima

SCP-173 was moved to Site-19 in 1993. Dr. Bright, Site-19 Director, instructed Site-19 Euclid Specialist Dr. William Moto via email to write the document for SCP-173, giving him Level 4/173 access, including description and all containment procedures. When needing to interact or be in the presence of SCP-173, line of sight must not be broken at any time. Personnel instructed to enter the containment cell are instructed to alert others to when they are blinking, and to enter with no fewer than three people, two keeping an eye on it at all times. The door is closed and locked behind them. In the event of an attack, personnel are to refer to the document "Class 4 Hazardous Object Containment Procedures". Inside of its cell it normally makes a scraping stone sound, however if this stops they are to alert the current HMCL Supervisor. Bi-weekly, SCP-173's container is to be cleaned of the reddish brown mixture of feces and blood that forms at the bottom. SCP-173 views himself as being a prisoner, trapped in rock trapped in its cell.

Dr. Clef and Dr. Kondraki were punished by being made to clean SCP-173's cell. Once a Class D went to SCP-173 and begged for death due to loneliness and wanting to escape from the foundation, and SCP-173 chose not to kill him, as it felt that he didn't deserve death. It felt that snapping his neck was too good for him and wanted him to rot and suffer. SCP-173 began to be used as a minor mascot in the foundation, being a standard SCP example given in packets handed out to new employees.

Due to unrelated and non-elaborated events, Dr. Isaiah Henderson of Site-59 was subject to an infohazard and requested to be terminated through SCP-173, as he had a particular fascination with it. This request was sent by Dr. Lisle Naismith to O5-11, who approved of it for his 37 years of loyal service. Upon entering SCP-173's cell along with D-42749, he places a large amount of old banana peels at 173's feet. When they both closed their eyes, SCP-173 fell face-down before "bitch-slapping" Dr. Henderson 27 times, then presumably killing him and the Class D.

Somehow, the Foundation found another sculpture that functioned identically to SCP-173, although looked different. The new sculpture had red hair, brown lips, and a more generally feminine appearance. This sculpture is never given a name but the title of the photo used is "Crunchette". SCP-173 and Crunchette immediately fall in love, breaching containment so that they could kill three people in their cell, break all the lights, and receive privacy together. What eventually happened to Crunchette is unknown as it is never brought up again in any tales.

### Containment Breaches

SCP-173 has broken containment repeatedly. Site-19's power was cut for 20 hours, allowing SCP-173 escape and kill at least one person. It was stopped after encountering SCP-131, which starred at it for for a few seconds, just long enough for personnel to collect and contain the both of them. Briefly, SCP-173 breached containment when introduced to a new almost identical sculpture, but this was only to kill the people in their cell and break the lights, so that they could be alone together.

## The End

If you believe in the canon established in "SCP-173-D" suggesting that SCP-173 was made by Are We Cool Yet?, SCP-173 was eventually destroyed and decommissioned. Using a Scranton Reality Anchor, he chopped SCP-173 into bits. It bled, and was in rubble and feces, with a metal canister inside. In the canister was a note reading "Are We Cool Yet?".

An alternate interpretation is that SCP-173 would actually become the last living being on earth after an unspecified doomsday event that caused all life on earth to be eradicated, minus SCP-173. It would move at ever increasing speeds checking every room of every building, crossing continents in minutes, searching for someone, but finding no one. This gradually angered SCP-173.

## Containment Area

At an unknown date in 2008, SCP-173 was moved to Site-91. SCP-173 is kept in a locked container. The floor regularly has a reddish brown mixture of feces and blood, likely originating from SCP-173. Its chamber has a built in sprinkler system and activated fortnightly to dispose of waste materials. When moved to Site-19, the sprinkler system was not implemented in favor of human mopping.

## Canons

SCP-173 has appeared in multiple Canons, giving different interpretations of the entity and how people treat it.

### Unfounded

In Unfounded, SCP-173 was collected by Marshall, Carter and Dark Ltd. sometime prior to 2012. They sell it at an auction for $20,000,000 as Lot #50621-173. They describe it as a "lovely objet d'art", naming it "ANIMATED CONCRETE STATUE", selling it in a sealed steel-reinforced portable safe. MC&D provide warnings of SCP-173s abilities in their description of the unusual qualities and care instruction.

## Reference

1. ↑ Interlude - Excerpt From An Auction Catalog - Marshall Carter And Dark, 2012 - *"This lovely objet d'art was constructed in 1987 by an anonymous artist out of concrete and rebar."*
2. ↑ Her Masterpiece
3. ↑ SCP-173-D
4. ↑ A Tale of Five Offerings
5. ↑ The Original - *"Entire continents were passed by in minutes."*
6. ↑ Crunch
8. ↑ How 173 Got to Site-19
9. ↑ How 173 Got to Site-19 - *"FROM: Dr. Jack Bright, Director, Site-19" "TO: Dr. William Moto, Euclid Specialist, Site-19" "RE: New SCP in Site-19"*
10. ↑ The Aftermath: But Here's What Really Happened
11. ↑ Crunch
12. ↑ SCP-173-D - *"Sure, it's one of the example SCPs they have in that packet they hand out to new employees, but that better serves as a testament to its genericness."*
13. ↑ Now watch and learn, here's the deal...
14. ↑ The Doc Block
15. ↑ A Chance at Freedom
16. ↑ The Doc Block
17. ↑ SCP-173-D
18. ↑ The Original
19. ↑ Interlude - Excerpt From An Auction Catalog - Marshall Carter And Dark, 2012