Sweet Healing Dream

Summary:

An entity that heals people when its host is asleep

Sweet Healing Dream

(account deleted) 31 Dec 2019 16:40

So this SCP is an incorporeal entity made out of light and is currently in the shape of a fairy (it can change form freely if it wants). It has the ability to heal people, although it's knowledge of human anatomy is limited as it came from a different universe (thank you t7 for the idea) and so it sometimes heals the wrong parts, which often leads to much unwanted consequences. Thus after discovery, the Foundation helps it with learning human anatomy and also use it to heal injured personnels.

The entity was discovered after several reports of people seeing a strange fairy like entity in hospital rooms, followed by either the recovery of the patient or sudden death of the patient.

More details on the entity

The entity needs to attach itself to a 'pure' soul (the standard would be a child's) to form a strong link to prevent it's light (life force) from diminishing.

The attachment doesn't have any negative effects on the host and generally goes unnoticed unless the entity and the host bond with each other. Upon attaching, the following happens :
- both the entity and the host gain access to memories of each other although the entity can control how much of its memory goes out.
-  the entity has its healing powers amplified based on how strong the will of the host to heal other people is.
- the entity can only manifest itself by using astral projection and thus the host must be asleep. It can have global presence due to this.
- the entity and host can communicate with each other psychically although the entity can choose to hide itself from the host.
- The entity can detach and reattach freely during a projection.

The entity's healing capability is based on how much healing power it has. It can remove viruses/bacteria/other contaminents, rapidly regenerates tissues, etc (so it's like a surgery in a way). It can't reach SCP-500's capability, however and it can only do 1 thing at a time. The healing process is done by the entity projecting its light to the patient. It also seems to be able to see all the organs during this process.

story/backstory

The entity discovered our universe when it saw a crack in reality that connects to our universe. It initially just watched our universe through the crack, until it saw a girl crying next to her dying mother. The scene captured it's empathy, and it wanted to help the girl. It hesitated at first, as when it reached a small part of itself through the crack it's light started dimming. Eventually the girl's mother came to the very brink of death late at night, with the girl sleeping in tears next to her, and the entity couldn't hold itself anymore. It rushed through the crack and attempted to heal the mother, but it couldn't muster enough power as its light was also dimming quickly. It eventually got exhausted and 'fell' into the girl.

To it's surprise, it attached to the girl's soul and it's light got brighter again. It also gained the child's memories and found out that the mother's heart was the failing organ. It then attempted to heal the heart, and found out that the girl's will to heal her mother amplified it's power and it was able to heal other tissues that was damaged as well. The mother was succesfully healed.

The girl, in her dream, communicated with the entity, asking if it was a fairy. It then took the form of a fairy according to the child's memory, and said yes. "What's your name?", the girl asked. As it was going through the girl's memory, it found the name it liked, and answered "Lola" (please help I'm bad with names).

The next morning, the girl was very happy to see that her mother was healthy again. The sight also made the entity really happy. The reality crack it went through had closed, but it didn't matter. The entity had decided to help as many children as it can and bring happiness to them.

For the containment, my idea so far is that it voluntarily stays in site 19 along with a provided host. It can roam freely in the safe areas of the site and interact with Foundation personnel. It's also allowed to heal 1 parent it wants each month where the Foundation can cover its tracks easily. The purpose is to maintain the entity's mental health since it is sapient. Of course, this is after it proves its good intentions and gets sufficient anatomy lessons.

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Re: Sweet Healing Dream

DrStaton 31 Dec 2019 19:26

You have a lot going for you here. One thing I think you should go into is how does the foundation learn of it’s backstory, properties, etc. Does it tell them? Is it found through testing? Overall cool idea though!

Re: Sweet Healing Dream

(account deleted) 31 Dec 2019 23:07

Thank you, and yes it tells the Foundation in interviews.

Re: Sweet Healing Dream

BoomerTheStar47_2 01 Jan 2020 02:04

Just saw this. Interesting that we can have ideas similar to one another like this on sheer accident. Well, great minds think alike, so…

Just my personal take on it:

1. The Foundation is pretty skeptic about using anomalies, so while I understand teaching it human anatomy so it causes less issues, I don't know about using it around the medical ward.
2. Can I see some containment procedures? They're not the big part of the article, but they're like salt: get it wrong, and people won't like the whole article as much.
3. I imagine that the light spending/ recharging mechanic should be less focused on literal age, more on mental age: act like a child; the light recharges as if connected to a child. Act very professionally all the time; it'll deplete faster. That said, why does it refuse to connect to D-Classes? While they typically have done bad things to get into their position, that doesn't make them a bad person or unable to be child-like. Just mho (my honest opinion)
4. The backstory feels flimsy, forced, or like an afterthought. You might want to spend more time there. Others can help you more than I can in that regard, but I decided to just go ahead and highlight that issue for you.

Just what I think while being brutally honest. I actually like the idea, so I just wanted to cheer you on, but I might as well tell you how to make the idea better. You got this, and I'm sure more help (and possibly even greenlights) are coming soon.

I believe in you.

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Re: Sweet Healing Dream

(account deleted) 01 Jan 2020 03:30

Thank you for the feedback and damn, we do have similar ideas XD. Ok so the answers :

show answers

1. The Foundation doesn't really 'use' it like in terms of just a tool. The entity offers to give its healing service to the Foundation since it also finds happiness in healing people in general and for paying back the anatomy classes, you could say. After it's proven it's good intentions many times the Foundation accepted.

2. For the containment procedure, the entity isn't technically contained as it can travel wherever it wants. So the containment would be that it agrees to limit its activity to Foundation grounds only, after the Foundation explains the risk of everyone finding out about it. After several considerations by the Ethics Comitee, the entity is allowed to heal 1 sick parent every month where the Foundation can cover up its track. This is to maintain its mental health.

3. Ah yes using mental age would be better. I've decided to make it one of the factors. For the reason it doesn't want to attach to D-class personnel, it's because if they are on the death row for something, you could say it most probably has 'tainted' the soul very badly (basically the entity didn't want to risk instant death). However, there can be a few exceptions where it can attach to the better D-class personnels but the light deterioration will most probably still be at least as quick as with other Foundation personnel.

4. I wanted the story to be kind of fairy tale-like, and this is what I came up with during the discussion. I will try to get more feedback and improve it.

Thank you for the help. I like your idea too. I'm not really good at giving feedback so I can't really give a useful advice. I'll be looking forward to the idea development though, and the therapy session logs done by the demon XD.

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Re: Sweet Healing Dream

Doctor Fullham 02 Jan 2020 00:30

Sweet dreams are healing these...

So this SCP is an incorporeal entity made out of light and is currently in the shape of a fairy (it can change form freely if it wants).

Why does it choose this shape?

It has the ability to heal people, although it's knowledge of human anatomy is limited as it came from a different universe (thank you t7 for the idea) and so it sometimes heals the wrong parts, which often leads to much unwanted consequences. Thus after discovery, the Foundation helps it with learning human anatomy and also use it to heal injured personnels.

So, it seems as though its early attempts at healing don't go so well. Why does The Foundation osee good intentions here?

You also have a bit of a contradiction here:

the entity has its healing powers amplified based on how strong the will of the host to heal other people is.

But…

The entity's healing capability is based on how much healing power it has.

Which one is it?

the entity can only manifest itself by using astral projection and thus the host must be asleep. It can have global presence due to this.

Astral projection is not the same as dreaming. And what do you mean by "global presence"? If it can only manifest this way, how does The Foundation communicate with it?

Attaching to a soul other than a kid's has the following effect :
- To a normal adult : it's light diminishes slowly.
- To Foundation researchers/security/MTFs : it's light diminishes much faster.
- To D-Class personnel : refused by the entity as it can cause instant death.

So an adult cannot have a pure soul, Foundation staff are worse people than all other adults, and D-Class are the worst people in the world? Seems a bit presumptuous. The Foundation employs all kinds of people, including researchers, medical professionals, and psychiatrists. Why does working for The Foundation taint your soul?

It can roam freely in the safe areas of the site and interact with Foundation personnel.

SCPs that are so benevolent they're allowed to roam freely are, generally speaking, not well-received on the forums anymore. It was actually one of the prompts for the Cliche Contest held in early 2019. Not impossible to make it worth, but you've gotta justify a LOT.

It's also allowed to heal 1 parent it wants each month where the Foundation can cover its tracks easily.

Where is it finding out about these parents? Like, what is this thing's range of knowledge of the world? Why parents? What if a child's best friend is dying and that makes them sad, does it not care about that? What about pets?

And who is the entity inhabiting while it's at Site-19? Because I don't care what entity is attached to them, you can not convince me that The Foundation is allowing a child to roam a site. Nope. That is a bridge too far for me.

And, most importantly: How does the Foundation find out about it, why does it choose to allow itself to be contained, and why does it reveal itself to anyone at all? It seems like it'd be really easy for it to just remain hidden forever.

The Foundation is not...

I get it. You want to make something kinda cute, something that makes people feel good. I'm not saying this is impossible to do well. But look at the content of the vast majority of SCPs on this site. Most of them are gross, creepy, depressing, unsettling, or eldritch horrors. This is because the happy ending doesn't feel satisfying without the struggles that led to it - it doesn't feel like we earned it. This fairy needing to learn human anatomy in order for its magical light healing to work (which also doesn't really click well in my mind) isn't enough of a conflict to make "magical healing fairy that connects with children because their hearts are pure" feel earned. It's a short burst of "oh that's cute, how nice" and then I move on. You have a short story of this thing's entry into our universe, but there's nothing here that makes me feel attached to the fairy or the little girl. Maybe I'm just not the right audience but it just doesn't feel like an SCP to me.

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Re: Sweet Healing Dream

(account deleted) 02 Jan 2020 04:30

Thank you for the feedback. I'll try to revise the idea based on it and damn there's a lot I need to pay attention to and some addressing here. Here it goes :

the reply

1. it chooses the shape primarily because of the backstory and it makes it easier to form a strong link to kids when they believe its a fairy / other fairy tale creatures too (for the kids that believe in fairy tales and stuff)
2. ok so, the entity was initially deemed dangerous and the containment was much harsher (not allowed to leave a cell or change hosts with the countermeasure being waking the host up if it doesn't comply / preventing the host from sleeping or go unconcious). The good intentions were seen later after interviews and compliance to allow the host to get rest.
3. Sorry for the twisty words. It basically means that the stronger the host's will to heal others the better it can heal.
4. Ok so this is a a lack of research on my part. So, it can manifest itself when the host is asleep, in trance, or unconcious. For the global presence, based on my reading (and further reading), astral projection can take you anywhere in an instant. The entity has learned to control this process although its limited by its tether, it can't go farther than earth and need a short delay to manifest on the location. The Foundation can communicate through the host by having the entity telling the host what to say and if the host's asleep or unconcious it can shape its light into text if the host is asleep (as inefficient as that sounds).
5. Sorry for the presumptuos examples, I didn't mean it to be like that. I tried to find examples that can communicate the idea more easily but it ended up being assumptions.
6. I didn't know that anomalies being able to roam a site freely isn't really well accepted anymore. I'll try to find the justification or change the containment procedure.
7. For finding out the parents, I thought about the Foundation giving it the information (like a list), but after thinking about it, it doesn't work, nor does allowing it to find the parents itself. I'll need more time to think about it along with revising the idea. For other people like best friends or pets, it cares about them too and is willing to heal them too, since its primary objective is to make children happy.
8. For the host, I'm still thinking about what would be best for it. For if the host is a child, the child doesn't need to roam around and wouldn't be allowed to as the entity can travel when the child is asleep in the cell.
9. For how the Foundation found it out, I already said it above that there are several sightings of and footage of the entity in hospital rooms. It allows itself to be contained after the Foundation explains why it would be dangerous if the public finds out about it. For why it reveals itself it's because it needs to for it to heal people. Even if it tries to do it covertly it will eventually get found out, hence the hospital sightings.

Thank you for pointing out all the flaws in my concept. After reading the feedback, I see why it doesn't fit in nor is satisfying to read for the audience of SCP. I'll most probably recycle this idea into something less 'super nice fairy creature' kind of thing. I'll post the idea if I manage to find a more suitable form for it.