SCP-5163
Item #: SCP-5163
Object Class: Safe
Special Containment Procedures: SCP-5163 is to be kept in a Standard Containment Locker within Site-73. Any requests that involve the handling or removal of the object of its containment must be authorized by the Site Director. When handling SCP-5163, personnel should wear protective gloves and ensure that their skin does not come into contact with the object. In case personnel (accidentally or not) touch SCP-5163, they are to be administered amnestics and isolated for observation. Affected personnel are to be restored to their positions only when/if they no longer present significant symptoms of SCP-5163’s effects.
Description: SCP-5163 appears to be a teddy bear measuring approximately 26 cm in height with creamy white fur and light blue details. When a human makes physical contact with SCP-5163, the subject will instantly develop a certain level of emotional attachment to the object. The intensity of this effect and the way it manifests in each victim varies, however, it often causes the subjects to consider SCP-5163 as something of extreme importance to themselves. The use of amnestics has proven to be relatively effective in healing affected subjects, although in a few cases, individuals developed symptoms of depression after the amnesticization. No other anomalous properties were observed.
Discovery: SCP-5163 was acquired by the Foundation on 29/04/2009 when a group of 3 field agents who were working on an unrelated assignment accidentally found the object in an abandoned house in a rural zone of Texas, which they were occupying during the days needed to complete their duties. After installing surveillance cameras in and outside the house, Agent Nicholas Campbell noticed SCP-5163 on a table inside a room of the house. The object was above a piece of paper, which caught his attention. After grabbing the object to get the paper, Agent Nicholas immediately began to act unusually due to the effects of SCP-5163. The following is the transcript of the video record during the incident.
Addendum 1: Agent Nicholas Campbell was deemed free of any effects regarding SCP-5163 on 25/08/2013, after stating that he no longer feels anything unusual. Agent Coulson Jones, however, still claims to feel an "unexplainable emptiness", evidencing that SCP-5163's effects affect individuals differently. Nonetheless, both Agents are currently able to perform their duties without any significant problems.
Addendum 2: The piece of paper found together with the object had the following writing by an unknown individual:
This is what I can provide for the ones who have nothing anymore. For the people who lost their way. The ones who feel empty. Those who gave up. At least something to give meaning to your lives.
Enjoy!