SCP-5610

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**Item #:** 5610

**Containment Class:**  Keter

**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-5610 events are to be minimally monitored.

Meanwhile, a study of all cultures with a particular focus on shame and facades [[footnote]]Such as Japanese //honne// and //tatemae//, which revolve around public and private appearances.[[/footnote]] is to be initiated for any relations with SCP-5610. All historical documents related to felines are to be also investigated.

**Description:**  SCP-5610 is an anomalous entity that is only observable by individuals with a cognitive resistance value of 5.6 and above. Approximately 56 percent of Japan's population has been found to have an instance of SCP-5610 resting atop of their head. However, no discomfort is felt by the subject these instances are resting on.

As a subject's behavior in public becomes more congruent to their behavior in private, the instance of SCP-5610 becomes increasingly detailed. This continues until it produces one of two results: either the instance would vanish, or in approximately six percent of all cases, it transforms into a non-anomalous cat(//Felis catus//) and jumps off the subject's head.

SCP-5610 is prominently featured in haikus; living authors, when questioned, remember it. Notable ones are translated below.

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It is humankind
To put a cat on the head[[footnote]]猫をかぶる. A popular Japanese idiom. It means to feign a favorable personality.[[/footnote]]
To love and hate swords
-//Oda Nobunaga, 1580//
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When a child suckles,
The cat inside him also does,
Partnered on rough paths
-//Basho, 1672//
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Are we not all cats
On heads of weak, chatting mice
Or hardened tigers?
-//Emiri Takagata, 1923//
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To the barrack bed,
An old cat jumps from my head
Meowing with pity
-//Jou Takamiki, 1944//
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Bored, Oneko[[footnote]]Polite form for cat[[/footnote]] sighs,
Telling me to cry for him
Yet I save face, tears 
-//Deo Takamiki, 1944//
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Banging the weak wall,
From my rotten, though shined crown
A cat skitters through
-//Aiko Torikatsu, 1976//
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The cat leaves haughty,
My thoughts, like leaves on a pond
Float in unison
-//Moeka Horinami, 1980//
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Reflections of mine
A cat claws back from the top
I smile sadly now
-//Haruki Murakami, 1998//
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**Update:** Several historical records in Egypt, dating as far back as 3500 B.C. have been noted for indicating manifestations of SCP-5610.

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> **Name:** Cat Seen from Behind
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> **Author:** Kawabata Gyokusho
> **License:** CC0
> **Source Link:** [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%E7%8C%AB%E5%9B%B3-Cat_Seen_from_Behind_MET_DP211876.jpg Wikimedia Commons]
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