To My Successor,
I would like to once again congratulate you on your selection for my position. I am growing old (finally), and it now falls to you to take up the mantle of O5-2. You have been exceptionally diligent and compliant in your preparations for this position, and I thank you for that, but in regards to your questions around familial and romantic ties: I understand. Humans are very social creatures, we desire something to hold on to, to touch, to love (Trust me, I've been there too.)
This article has since been archived; the current SCP-4057 slot now holds something more timely and unexplained, but we keep it on hand as an exemplar, a reminder of a piece of history that we can't repeat. This was a time before RAISA, before the Ethics Committee, when there were no checks on our power and as such this mistake was easier to make. Nonetheless, I consider this a fine example of why it is our responsibility to distance ourselves.

04/08/64
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Item #: SCP-4057
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-19. Interaction is permitted for Level 3 researchers and higher.
Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent. When viewed, subjects perceive that SCP-4057 will encounter imminent danger. The effect is believed to be memetic in nature, and will occur regardless of whether or not SCP-4057 is in a secure location, or in the presence of persons adequately equipped to defend her from threats. The type of danger perceived varies, but is in a majority of cases a malicious entity that seeks to cause her harm, such as a wild animal, a criminal, or in severe cases an anomalous entity.
Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned.

Item #: SCP-4057
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be kept in a standard humanoid containment cell in Site-19. Interaction is permitted for Level 3 researchers and higher after a full body contaminant and dangerous goods search. SCP-4057-1 is at the time of writing uncontained.
Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent. When viewed, subjects perceive that SCP-4057 will encounter imminent danger. The effect is believed to be memetic in nature, and will occur regardless of whether or not SCP-4057 is in a secure location, or in the presence of persons adequately equipped to defend her from threats. SCP-4057 is believed to be the sole target of SCP-4057-1, a malicious entity that seeks to cause SCP-4057 harm. It is unknown how this relationship is created, though researchers hypothesize that SCP-4057's memetic effect acts as both a "beacon" for SCP-4057-1 and a defense mechanism for SCP-4057. The meme has been identified as man-made.
Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The requests have been denied.

Item #: SCP-4057
Object Class: Keter
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057-1 is at the time of writing uncontained. SCP-4057 is to be contained in a hermetically sealed special containment cell in site 19. Cell is to be 7x7x3m, walls are to consist of 3cm of lead. An observation window is to be connected to an observation room built to the same specifications, 5x5x3m in size. MTF-Phi ("Daughter Mine") is to remain stationed at Site-19 for the protection of SCP-4057.
Description: SCP-4057 is a human female of French descent, who is the sole target of an anomalous entity designated SCP-4057-1. SCP-4057-1 appears to express disinterest in all other humans, and as such has been observed multiple times. All attempts at ascertaining the form of SCP-4057-1 have failed. The reasons are as follows:

Entity does not manifest on photographic or video evidence
Sounds made by the entity do not manifest on audio evidence
Descriptions of entity are inconclusive, and vary from person to person. Research into the possible nature of SCP-4057-1 as a polymorphic entity is ongoing.

Discovery: SCP-4057 presented herself to Site-19 on 02/08/64, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing severe worry for her condition. The civilians were administered an amnestic drug, and SCP-4057 willingly entered containment. It is unknown how SCP-4057 was aware of the location of Site-19, and has not revealed such information when questioned. Multiple persons have also recently attempted entry into Site-19, expressing interest in SCP-4057. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The requests have been denied. Multiple members of the O5 council are currently under investigation for potential ties to SCP-4057.
It is unknown if current containment procedures for SCP-4057 will be sufficient to ensure her safety from SCP-4057-1.

Item #: SCP-4057
Object Class: Safe Euclid Keter Apollyon
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a specially built containment cell at Site 19. Cell walls are to consist of steel titanium lead a lead-titanium alloy, 3cm 5cm 10cm 1 meter 10 meters thick. MTF-Phi ("Daughter Mine") MTF-Epsilon ("Nine-Tailed Fox") MTF-Alpha-1 ("Red Right Hand") All MTFs are to station themselves at Site 19 and prepare for an possible likely guaranteed imminent ongoing external breach of containment. In addition, the combined nations of the EU NATO world have agreed to provide 100 1000 4000 10000 soldiers each, to be positioned at and around Site 19. Interaction with SCP-4057 is strictly forbidden because we need to keep her safe
Description: SCP-4057 is a girl1 who is the sole target of an entity designated SCP-4057-1.
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SCP-4057-1 is a baroque humanoid, devoid of penguins. Excavated into the footnotes of his head are a murder of alphabets, a patriarchy of knives, and an oval void of malice and postmodernity.6 The vagrant wings posess full olives, and have been chauffeured to the corruption, as symmetric its colourful fangs. The fire and brimmmmmmmmmming boils are for the sole purpose of saving it's myriad. It has murdered sleep, sleep no more. Find enclosed one loaf of compatriots. You have been found guilted by your malleable snake, whom kisses the bitter geometry of the sun. There is a place. It has been abberated and rebuilt and happy birthday Tommy did you get what you implored for? The a e s t h e t i c of the maw is incomprehensible annnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd there is a ███████████████████ located in it's front garden. How many pancakes will fit on the roof purple because aliens don't wear hats well done Jessica, I'm so proud of yew trees lying in the cypress void. The tail has been ruminated into a frame of reference, and swishes around the mouth for clean breath daily!
The men are swinging their guns around now. One of them says it's inside and another says it's outside. They're all so silly, it's viridian breath limps over my skull behind me, that's where it most certainly is (not). But no, we will save her.7
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Footnotes
1. "That poor, poor girl."
2. "Well, do we know what it is?"
3. "Everybody says it's something different, doc. We just don't know."
4. "Wait, one of the researchers says he knows how to describe it. Should we let him?"
5. "Well, might as well try. 'Guy might manage to get something right."
6. "My god, this guy's practically in a trance…"
7. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN IT'S OUTSIDE THE FUCKING THING'S IN HERE WITH US! LOOK OUT IT'S GONNA GET YO-"

Item #: SCP-4057
Object Class: Euclid
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-4057 is to be contained in a standard humanoid containment cell at Site-19. Interaction is prohibited for all personnel without 5/4057 clearance or higher until a countermeme is developed.
Description: SCP-4057 is a female human of French descent named Marie Williamette, the daughter of O5-7. When SCP-4057 is viewed by any living being, the subject will perceive her as being in imminent danger. The form of danger perceived varies, but is in the majority of cases an anomalous entity which seeks to harm SCP-4057. The effect is memetic, virulent and self replicating (See Incident 4057-A). As a result, any subject that has viewed SCP-4057 will spread the memetic infection when they are viewed. SCP-4057 has requested visits from members of the O5 council. The request has been granted.
Incident 4057-A: On 02/08/64, SCP-4057 presented itself to Site-19, surrounded by 5 civilians expressing concern for her condition. The civilians were believed to be the first instances of SCP-4057 infection. The civilians were administered Class-A amnestics and allowed to return to society. This marked the containment breach of SCP-4057. The memetic infection spread at an exponential rate, affecting approximately 100% of the world population by 1967. The meme then self replicated within infected subjects, increasing the severity of the memetic effect and leading to the (as of the time of writing) ongoing PK-Class Perceptive Breakdown Event. There currently exist 14 persons inoculated against the memetic effect, namely all 13 members of the O5 council, and SCP-4057 itself.

Information restricted to Level 5 clearance. Please enter credentials.

Credentials accepted. Welcome, Overseer.

To the O5 council,
Secure, Contain, Protect. Our three axioms I helped create decades ago, and in my selfish quest to enforce one, I have failed in carrying out all three. I believe an explanation is in order.
Five years ago, my husband was killed. I don't know by whom, but all I know is that he was killed as a means of getting to me. I wept for days, and poor Marie… I knew I couldn't let it happen again. I considered an MTF, too conspicuous, too invasive. I considered undercover operations, a group of people, maybe have her teacher at school replaced by an operative who could keep her safe. But then it dawned on me: memetics would be the perfect safeguard. A meme, affecting just her, that would tap into the maternal and paternal parts of the mind. The part of you that sees a child walking down the street alone and feels the need, the obligation, to ask if they're ok, to show them kindness and the way home. Who needs bodyguards when the entire world can be your shield?
I went to Marshall, Carter & Dark and gave them a task. Save my daughter. Save my little Marie. The right price was offered, enough to sway their minds to my view, and it was finished in a matter of weeks. The coffee in one of the O5 meetings was conceptually tied with the countermeme, and you were all innoculated, plain and simple. No-one had to know. Marie was so happy, seeing every researcher and D-Class in the site being so kind to her, a small sliver of hope in a world full of incomprehensible nightmares. It went against every fiber of my being, I knew I was breaking something sacred, betraying the Foundation. I deliberated over my decision for months. I knew it had to be done however, or Marie would have been killed, or tortured, or… something, years ago.
But they made a mistake. The meme was virulent.
It was intended to be a single instance, that would deconstruct outside the host; that way only those near her would worry. But it started to grow inside her, and it didn't die out in the minds of those affected. They became infected, and spread the meme. We didn't realize until years later, when my darling girl was already in containment, when crowds of people who had never even heard of her started trying to break down the walls of Site 19, worried sick for a girl they never knew. But it didn't stop. It kept festering and growing inside all the infected, and the worries kept getting worse and worse, becoming more than just an abstract concept, becoming a creature, your worst nightmare that you never knew existed out to get this little girl. Now, people are dying because the hallucinations are so visceral, so real that their brain shuts down completely from the shock.
This was my selfish idea, my hubris that lead to all this. Marie is so scared, locked in a tiny windowless chamber with walls 10 meters thick, all because of me. I have no doubt I will be amnesticized after this, possibly even here and now, but I implore you: let me finish and administer the countermeme. Let me clean up my own mess. If I can't even do that, I wouldn't be able to live with myself.
Secure, Contain, Protect. Let me prove to you that I still can.
~ O5-7

O5 council minutes restricted to Level 5 clearance. Please enter credentials.

Credentials accepted. Welcome, Overseer.

RECORD OF DECISION - OVERSEER COUNCIL ACTION #4057-1

MOTION AS FOLLOWS: ALLOW 05-7 TO CREATE AND ADMINISTER AN SCP-4057 COUNTERMEME TO THE GLOBAL POPULATION BEFORE AMNESTICIZATION.
YEA: O5-3, O5-5, O5-8, O5-9, O5-11, O5-13
NAY: O5-1, O5-4, O5-6, O5-10, O5-12
ABSTAIN: O5-7 (EXEMPT DUE TO MISCONDUCT), O5-2
RESULT: MOTION PASSES

RECORD OF DECISION - OVERSEER COUNCIL ACTION #4057-2

MOTION AS FOLLOWS: ENSURE ALL CHOSEN MEMBERS OF OVERSEER COUNCIL HAVE NO LIVING IMMEDIATE FAMILY PRIOR TO APPOINTMENT AS OVERSEER.
YEA: O5-1, O5-3, O5-4, O5-5, O5-6, O5-8, O5-9, O5-10, O5-11, O5-12, O5-13
NAY: O5-2
ABSTAIN: O5-7 (EXEMPT DUE TO MISCONDUCT)
RESULT: MOTION PASSES

Love makes us do the most irrational things, and -7 was so full of love, for her darling Marie, for her husband, and it clouded her judgement. We were the only two women on the council at the time, so we shared a certain… Sisterhood, I guess you might say. That was why I stood against every other council member in that final vote. I wanted her to know that she wasn't alone in loving, that we all still felt something despite the weight of our position, that I was still there for her. She was amnesticized and demoted to a junior researcher, and she still works here to this day. We're prohibited from talking to her, for obvious reasons, but… I still feel so, so sorry for her. I can't say I've ever known the maternal bond as a mother, but I knew it as a child, and it is the strongest bond known to man, or woman for that matter. I understand why she did the things she did; had I a daughter, I would have done the same.
I still see her sometimes, however. Observing from a distance, seeing the work she does, seeing Marie, now a beautiful woman working in memetics, ironically. She was amnesticized too, as was everyone else at the Foundation and the world at large, it came as part and parcel of the countermeme. But the countermeme didn't affect every species. I frequently join Marie for walks in the woods, wearing the clothes and bearing the credentials of a fellow researcher. The way the animals adore her, fuss over her, it's…
Regardless, I understand how painful it will be to say goodbye to your friends and family, only to have them amnesticized. It used to be that a cover story was created saying you died. Believe me, amnestics are far less painful for all involved. This is a part of our history that we can't afford to repeat. It nearly destroyed us the first time, and with the delicate balance we maintain now, it would most certainly destroy us were it to happen today. I hope your preparations go smoothly, and O5-1 through -13 will all welcome you with open arms as the new -2.
Secure, Contain, Protect.
O5-2

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