Item #: SCP-8358
Object Class: Safe
A photograph of SCP-8358-1
Special Containment Procedures: All instances of SCP-8358 are to be affixed using identical magnets to a standard commercially available refrigeration unit in the breakroom of the nearest available Foundation site. No other documents are to be hung on this refrigerator. No instance of SCP-8358 is to be removed from its refrigerator for any reason except by specially trained personnel with Level 2 clearance or higher and explicit orders to do so. All occupants of any breakroom with contained instances of SCP-8358 must be silently advised to observe and appreciate all such instances on display for a minimum of 20 seconds each.
No two instances of SCP-8358 are to overlap one another, nor are they to be affixed to any surface on the refrigerator that is not front-facing under normal circumstances. If limited surface area becomes a constraining factor, an identical refrigeration unit is to be acquired and installed directly adjacent to the other existing display refrigerators, to be used in accordance with the containment procedures already set forth.
Description: SCP-8358 refers to a series of drawings created on the 6th of September, 2016, each by a different child between the ages of 7 and 10. It is assumed that all instances of SCP-8358 were created syncronously with one another, but the current state of the investigation surrounding SCP-8358 deems this hypothesis impossible to verify.
There are currently 57 known instances of SCP-8358. Each instance bears a unique drawing of a sentient anomolous entity, the existence of which is (in most cases) unconfirmed or undocumented by the Foundation. Every drawing is signed at the bottom with the name and age of the child who created it (as well as the date 9/6/16) and is inscribed at the top with the phrase "My First SCP." The appearance of the phrase is visually identical on every known instance of the anomaly, and on no instance currently discovered does the handwriting match that of the inscription on the bottom of the item.1 The meaning of this phrase "My First SCP" and the significance of its inclusion on every instance of the item is currently unknown.
The anomalous qualities that an SCP-8358 instance exhibits are only observed when the instance is provoked, agitated, or otherwise angered. This can occur for a variety of reasons including but not limited to the following:
- Being ignored, underappreciated, or otherwise insufficiently perceived, as deemed fitting by the item itself
- The illustration being partially or wholly blocked or obscured by another paper or document (including another instance of SCP-8358)2
- Being affixed to a display apparatus that the item deems inadequate
- Another paper or document being affixed to the item's display apparatus with a more interesting or unique adhesive object than is being used to affix the item itself3
- Being removed altogether, intentionally or otherwise, from the display apparatus
If any of these are to occur, or some other cause of agitation is provided, the illustration on an instance of SCP-8358 will awaken, becoming an animated entity which possesses all the abilities and attributes of the anomaly it depicts, as well as the ability to freely move between any pieces of paper making physical contact with the item. At this point, the drawn entity has been observed (with limited exceptions) to violently lash out against whatever source of agitation caused it to awaken, disfiguring, damaging, and re-arranging the contents of offending documents and attempting to destroy offending objects entirely. In previous tests, this has led to violent altercations between entities from multiple SCP-8358 instances, resulting in the death of one or more of these entities, and it is therefore not recommended that multiple instances of SCP-8358 be tested against one another without prior instruction and an approved reason for doing so.
An ilustrated entity from an instance of SCP-8358 is unable to affect any object or entity beyond what is drawn, printed, or otherwise inscribed on the surface of the paper it is inhabiting at any given point. However, an angered SCP-8358 illustration will continue attempting to attack its source of agitation until said agitation source is sufficiently destroyed, regardless of whether or not said destruction is possible for the entity to achieve.
The mechanics by which all instances of SCP-8358 were created is currenly unknown. Upon being questioned, every child known to have drawn an instance of SCP-8358 has shown zero knowledge or awareness of the SCP Foundation, equal amounts of confusion towards the phrase "My First SCP," and no honest recollection of creating their drawing to begin with. Some children, upon being shown their drawing, recognized and identified the entity depicted by a colloquial name, but this reaction was nowhere near unanimous and provides no conclusive data.
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