Item #: SCP-3748
Object Class: Insectoid/Telepathic
Containment Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-3748 is to be contained in a standard containment cell, containing basic humanoid amenities downsized to SCP-3748's scale. The walls of SCP-3748's containment chamber are to be made at least five meters thick, and no open spaces are allowed within five meters of SCP-3748's cell.
Staff who receive Level 2 authorization may speak with SCP-3748. However, potential interviewers are to be warned that SCP-3748 has an exceptionally vitriolic personalty.
Description: SCP-3748 is a ceramic bowl containing approximately 600 Musca domestica1 cadavers. These cadavers can be removed from SCP-3748, though it expresses discomfort when this happens. SCP-3748 will regenerate at a rate of one fly every three minutes if a portion is removed.
SCP-3748 has developed a sapient consciousness fluent in English and knows very basic Japanese. SCP-3748's primary method of communication is telepathy, where it speaks in a male Midwest American accent. This telepathy is not two-way; however, SCP-3748 has a sense of hearing despite not possessing hearing apparatuses.
SCP-3748's primary mode of translocation is teleportation. SCP-3748 is capable of instantaneously transporting itself up to approximately 4.78 meters at a time. SCP-3748 can do this four times in a minute before showing signs of exhaustion; however, SCP-3748 has implied on multiple occasions that it could teleport itself more if it exercised.
Discovery: SCP-3748 was created by PoI-2343 (Jacob Sherman) for his school's science fair. PoI-2343 supposedly put a piece of flypaper into a ceramic bowl, and left it outside until a great number of flies accrued in the bowl. PoI-2343 did not create SCP-3748 intentionally, and it is believed that neither PoI-2343 nor any members of his immediate family have reality-altering capabilities. The flypaper used to create SCP-3748 has not been recovered.
Interview Log 1:

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INTERVIEW LOG

Interviewed: PoI-2343
Interviewer: Researcher Sarah Clemson

<Begin Log>
Researcher Clemson: Hello, Jacob. How are you feeling today?
PoI-2343: I'm doing great!
Researcher Clemson: That's good to hear. Last month you had a science fair at your school, correct?
PoI-2343: Yup.
Researcher Clemson: What was your project for the science fair?
PoI-2343: Well, I put two bowls with flypaper in them in two different places, one out in the sun, and one inside near an open window for a couple hours. I was gonna see the difference in flies collected in the bowl if the bowl was inside versus outside.
Researcher Clemson: When did you discover the bowl's properties?
PoI-2343: A day before the fair. I was checking up on both of the bowls to see what I caught. The bowl outside collected way more flies than the other. Way more. Anyway, I was gonna bring the outside bowl back inside, when I heard someone say, "It smells in here." It came from the bowl of dead flies.
Researcher Clemson: What did it say to you?
PoI-2343: Well, it really scared me. I went over to pick it up, and it said "Hey, kid, over here, give me a hand?" and "If you could get rid of this flypaper that would be great." It was weird too, it spoke without a mouth, and I heard it talking in my head. It didn't have any ears either, but it could hear me.
PoI-2343: Anyway, I accidentally threw it off the table. Uh, then we talked for a bit after I calmed down. It said that it was a "nice and friendly" person, talked about how it got all the ladies, and how everyone thought he was the best.
Researcher Clemson: What did you do after that?
PoI-2343: Actually, we had a conversation about picking up girls. He told me he could be my wingman, show me the ropes on how to score one, how to be smooth and all that. I really didn't know what he was doing, but I was, and still am, an awkward high school student, so I listened. Once I got past him being, uh, odd, we actually became good friends as well, and we would have conversations with each other when nobody was looking. I didn't tell anyone about it, because I was literally asking for dating advice from a bowl of dead flies.
Researcher Clemson: I see. Anything else of note before we acquired it?
PoI-2343: It told me it was good at video games, so I gave it my computer so that "he could teach me." It teleported all over the keyboard and pressed a bunch of random buttons, and he used all of my items at once, and jumped off a cliff. He told me my keyboard sucked.
Researcher Clemson: Hmm, I see. This interview is over. Thank you for cooperating, Jacob.
PoI-2343: No problem. Where is Bernard, anyways?
Researcher Clemson: We're checking him at the moment. You'll be reunited shortly.
PoI-2343: Thanks, ma'am.
<End Log>

Closing Statement: PoI-2343 was administered Class-C amnestics and released back into public.

Interview Log 2:

View Attachment: Interview Log 3748-Beta

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INTERVIEW LOG

Interviewed: SCP-3748
Interviewer: Researcher Sarah Clemson

<Begin Log>Researcher Clemson: Good afternoon, SCP-3748. If you don't mind, I'm going to be asking you several questions.Researcher Clemson: Do you know who created, or made you?Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, please answer my question.Researcher Clemson: Maybe after you answer my questions, okay? Now, who created you, SCP-3748?Researcher Clemson: I'd appreciate it if you stopped asking me questions.Researcher Clemson: The purpose of this interview is to gain information about you. Now-Researcher Clemson: Please be civil, SCP-3748.Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, please remain civil. Now, tell-<Silence>
Researcher Clemson: This interview is over.
Researcher Clemson stands up<SCP-3748 appears to weep. Water appears to leak from the top of the bowl>Researcher Clemson: Huh?<Researcher Clemson sits down>
Researcher Clemson: Can you answer my questions now?Researcher Clemson: Do you know who created you?Researcher Clemson: Stay on topic, SCP-3748.Researcher Clemson: Anyway. Do you have any memory of before you were created?Researcher Clemson: Okay. The child said your name was Bernard, is that correct?Researcher Clemson: Okay. One last question. Do you know how you are able to talk and see?<SCP-3748 appears to sob again, but less severely>Researcher Clemson: It's fine. You've given us enough information. Any thing to say before I conclude this interview?Researcher Clemson: SCP-3748, I'm marri-Researcher Clemson: This interview is over.
<End Log>

Closing Statement: For approximately 2 hours after the interview, SCP-3748 continued to yell several profanities directed towards Researcher Clemson before eventually calming down.

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1. Better known as the housefly.

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