SCP-5351 / Discussion

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Tanhony 25 Feb 2021 01:02

Thanks to DarnellJermaine, paul322 and Placeholder McD for their always valuable feedback!

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maridsbip 25 Feb 2021 02:05

You used clinical tone very well prior to the dialogue! It's refreshing after reading everything that shows up in Newly Created Pages. At first I thought this was going to be a cute story (maybe something that wasn't finished in time for cupid con) but you really subverted my expectations in a very chilling way. Good job!

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DarnellJermaine 25 Feb 2021 02:13

This man really mixed yanderes with the Youtube Copyright System! Great SCP Tan

So many questions!

ISNorden 25 Feb 2021 07:29

1. Have the tongueless villagers developed a sign language which SCP-5351 can't translate? You'd think that was literally a matter of life and death.
2. Have they been forced to adopt a special diet or feeding technique? Swallowing without a tongue is more difficult than you think.
3. Does SCP-5351 allow everybody to use isolated words she's spoken, or is that a case-by-case privilege like Sam Cooper's? Imagine innocent travelers getting killed by this skip because they said "Yes", "No", "Hello", or (gods forbid) "Help!"
4. I assume that the oak leaf Sam received was some kind of love/courtship token, for which SCP-5351's people had a special cultural name. Am I on the right track?
5. On a related note, how did she interpret Sam's giving the pencil? Did SCP-5351 see the pencil as a love token, a potential weapon, a word-stealing device. or something else altogether?

P.S. I can't blame Sam for wanting a reassignment. This skip would drive most talking personnel crazy!

Upvoted for great clinical style and depth. I originally thought: "A Shy Guy variant: gender-flipped and focused on a different sense." Considering her other, unrelated abilities and her role in the local culture, though…my first impression of SCP-5351 was wrong. Keep up the outstanding work!

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"Anomalous" just means "unusual"; not all surreal strangeness HAS to be evil, deadly, or even scary.

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Re: So many questions!

Exoad 02 Sep 2021 21:10

I think using simple words won't harm an innocent. It's only when a "special" word is said. For example, the ones that got Cooper's friend killed. Those are like the "special" distinct words. Along with certain phrases from 5351.

+1

DrWhiteFox 25 Feb 2021 08:16

I feel very bad for Sam, he didn’t deserved such horrible things happening to him but i also understood the other researcher, it has a grey area to it.

I don’t get why SCP-5351 is so fixiated on Sam, is it because when he gave a pencil to it, it saw it as a act love?

Nevertheless liked it pretty much. +1

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Fox 🦊

Yormoongand 25 Feb 2021 09:56

As soon as I saw the interview where she rejected the new interviewer, I thought "this is a Cupidcon entry isn't it? It's cute." But then the incident Log came in.

+1

Well Done

hspadafora 28 Feb 2021 00:22

This was very well done. It took a surprisingly simple concept and fleshed it out really well.

(+) The interviews were by far the best part. Since it's dangerous to quote the anomaly's words, the interviews had to be quote-free "in-your-own-words" summaries which greatly added to the immersion/"realism".

(+) Add on to that the anomaly's distorted thought-process/morals on "love" and the relationship it developed with Junior Researcher Sam Cooper and you have an interesting story that made me look forward to what would happen next.

v (-) I wish they confronted the anomaly about the origin of its words and the philosophy of words and language.

• In order to understand the anomaly's speech it has to use words that we know/understand:
  1. Did it teach a language long ago (let's say the local Slavic language) and if so doesn't that mean that everyone who can communicate with the anomaly or speaks the local Slavic language is stealing its words?
  2. If it's the other way around (it learned its language and words from other humans) than could we accuse the anomaly of stealing our words? What would happen if we confronted the anomaly with that notion?

• If it's only quotations and statements that prompt the anomaly to appear and kill (let's say at least two words) then:
  1. Wouldn't the number of triggering statements constantly increase as the anomaly speaks?
  2. What about statements it said long ago? Does the anomaly still get triggered by statements it spoke years before?
  3. Do you have to say statements that you know are statements that the anomaly spoke at one point, i.e. purposefully quoting it?

I wish there was more, both in exploring the anomaly and the story between it and Junior Researcher Sam Cooper, but since I have no idea where this story could/should go I think this ending would be better than having the story stretched out and overstaying its welcome.
+1

LeCatma 28 Feb 2021 05:59

Sounds like a missed opportunity to BUY her words, for safety.

You could have a D-class ask. Offer another pencil, even.

ed_montague 23 Mar 2021 18:55

This was an amazing one to read. There's questions unanswered, and logical consequences that would probably follow from the premise — but I like that it's not entirely spelled out (especially since they're still in the process of interviewing her).

Buying her words, as suggested above, that's an idea. I was thinking more like asking her: if I accidentally "take" your words, how can I give them back? (Probably can't, which is why she makes with the slaughtering.)

Maxyfran73 30 Apr 2022 04:33

I love the alien logic of 5351 here; it does think following its own internal logic and it's delightful to see it crash against, you know, normal logic. This '''''love''''' story was delightfully twisted; really liked the story being told through logs/letters.

Overall, pretty cool skip. +1~