SCP-9717

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**Special Containment Procedures:** SCP-9717 is to be kept in a standard humanoid  containment cell. At its request (or at minimum once a week) SCP-9717 should be submerged in hydrochloric acid for 30 minutes.

Biweekly, genetic analysis of SCP-9717's blood should be conducted. All DNA matches to Foundation personnel should be reported to Senior Researcher Posen, who as of 2019/07/16 is in charge of record-keeping, research, experimentation and communication related to SCP-9717.

In the case that it matches that of a researcher currently working with SCP-9717, the researcher in question is to be reassigned for at least 3 months.

It is forbidden to show SCP-9717 photographs, drawings or any other depictions of primates outside of experimentation.


**Description:** SCP-9717 is a humanoid entity  capable of instantaneously transferring any number of body parts from a living primate of its choosing onto itself. Transferred body parts instantly replace what was previously present.

Because of this, SCP-9717 always takes the form of a bipedal anthropoid being, though all other details vary considerably.

The range for SCP-9717's transfer is unlimited and does not require SCP-9717 to have previously met the target.

It is unknown where its preexisting biomass is displaced. SCP-9717 can transfer anything from a singular cell to an entire skeletal system.

SCP-9717 appears to be anomalously unaffected by cancer, bacterial infection, autoimmune disorders and other biological complications that would normally occur due to the introduction of foreign body parts.

SCP-9717 is currently presumed to be immortal and is estimated to be approximately 1400 years old.

SCP-9717 instantaneously sheds all hair that a newly introduced body part brings.


SCP-9717 grows thin and curly dark red hair on its scalp, upper neck, lower back, belly and ankles.

The hair growth of SCP-9717 remains consistent in both texture, placement, density and speed.[[footnote]] SCP-9717's hair growth is about five times as fast as an average human male. [[/footnote]]

It appears to find its hair incredibly painful and often requests its removal. If this request is not satisfied within two days, SCP-9717 may attempt to transfer new skin to itself.
It does not appear to experience physical pain otherwise.

SCP-9717 generally has a calm composure when shaven. When unshaven, SCP-9717 appears distressed, often crying in the fetal position.

SCP-9717 communicates mainly through an unknown script[[footnote]] This is automatically translated through CAILOR.aic, but attempts to return this communicaton have proven unsuccessful. The cause for this is unknown. [[/footnote]], but it can understand and use simple gestures and body language.[[footnote]] Examples include: Thumbs up/down, waves, pointing.[[/footnote]]


SCP-9717 appears unable to remember events, places or people it experienced more than  25 years ago.


**Discovery:** Records show SCP-9717 lived in a reclusive Catholic monastery in [REDACTED], Sicily from c. 1100 to 1652. On 1652/01/10, Sir Federigo Scilla, an early Foundation researcher and explorer, was searching for anomalous objects of worship when he happened upon SCP-9717 in a forest near the monastery. SCP-9717 willingly followed Scilla to Site-EX023[[footnote]] Abandonded in 1847 due to  unrelated fire. [[/footnote]], Naples.

**History:** Mortician's records and other historical sources show that fifteen incidents potentially related to SCP-9717 ocurred from 657 to 1116. All incidents shared at least four of the following traits:

• Occurring in what would be modern day Italy, Austria or Switzerland.

• Exclusively affecting people in villages with a population of less than 1000.

• All incidents included the removal of organs, limbs, or other body parts of the decedent.

• Having between 12-300 victims.

• None of the deceased were members of the clergy.

• The incidents lasted between two weeks to three months, and ended abrubtly without explanation.

• Mentions of an unidentified bipedal, ape, demon or beast, often described as "red" or "hairy".

The private journal of Scilla features several descriptions of SCP-9717.
Notably, the described hair growth of SCP-9717 is twice the current rate, suggesting that its hair growth has slowed. The journal of Scilla also does not mention SCP-9717 finding its hair painful nor SCP-9717 "shaving" by transfering its skin away. In fact, SCP-9717 is described as "long-haired".

**Experiment Log Summary:** Between 1922 and 1954, Researchers Hermann, Steyer & Worell conducted in total 142 experiments. These experiments tested the precision, capabilities and range of SCP-9717's transfer. SCP-9717 usually refuses to mortally wound[[footnote]] There are currently two confirmed exceptions to this. See Incident 9717-A and Incident 9717-B.[[/footnote]] great apes, though is otherwise willing to participate in experimentation.

**Communication:** The following are messages & requests written by SCP-9717, translated by CAILOR.aic. Some of the writings predate containment.
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> BEFORE SCP-9717'S CONTAINMENT (C.1100-1650)
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> Approx 1210: "I am at peace here. The walls are silent and grey. Few voices whisper. I wonder what I am, sometimes. I wonder what the whispers are. Different, it seems. Unlike.  
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> Approx 1300: "I hope we're blessed. The faces of the others have changed. I wonder where the first faces went. May they be blessed too. God, I hope we will always be this way.
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> Approx 1470: "Do I want to be alone? Truly? No, there is something behind us. Something not as kind. We'd fear it, if we only knew what it was. May the Lord protect us.
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> Approx 1620: "We're thousands of tiny threads of fire. We burn, I fear. Were we always this way? I wonder if God is the stars. Will I notice it gone, night by night?
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> Approx 1770: What is beyond me? What are we? Why can we not go somewhere else? The grey walls sometimes say things. I wish we could understand each other.  
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> 1812: We might deserve it. What was taken? Millions of lives. Completely? Am I unlike the others? Maybe a million tiny threads of fire. Maybe of fuel. How slowly do I burn?
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> 1945: The walls are so loud. We can't find myself in the noises. Maybe they're behind the walls. Maybe it wasn't the walls after all.
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> 1989: The guilt weighs us down. Am I the Unforgiven? Will we always be? How many sins are mine? How many are ours? If darkness is our death, they'll live by the lights cast by our fire.
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> 2021: If fire is cruel, then so am I. Is cold much better? Can the cruelty ever be extinguished? The grey walls will scream in the flames.
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**Incident 9717-A:** On 1954/11/01, Senior Researcher Worell discovered that a 7 mm piece of his left ear lobe was missing. Worell had been working with SCP-9717 five years at this point. Worell requested a genetic analysis of SCP-9717. SCP-9717 was found to have blood cells from at least seven researchers, none of which had participated in experimentation.
 
**Incident 9717-B:** On 1956/07/03, SCP-9717 transferred the brain stem of Junior Researcher Sarah Hayle to itself, resulting in her death. Records show that SCP-9717 had gone two days without hair removal.

**Incident 9717-C:** On 1979/04/04, SCP-9717 transferred the spinal cord of retired Senior Engineer William Cornell to itself. William Cornell had never met SCP-9717, though records show that SCP-9717 had observed a photograph of his daughter, Junior Researcher Alice Cornell, in an experiment in 1953.[[footnote]] A. Cornell died in 1968 due to an unrelated illness and had been deceased for 11 years at the time of the incident. [[/footnote]] SCP-9717 had succesfully transferred a single neuron cell from A. Cornell to itself. Records show that SCP-9717 had gone no days without hair removal.

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**Incident 9717-D:** On 2021/02/13, SCP-9717 was found deceased in its containment  cell. The autopsy report of SCP-9717 had transfered parts of the lungs, hearts, kidneys, spinal cords, brains, stomachs and craniums of [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED],[REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED],[REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED], [REDACTED],[REDACTED], [REDACTED] to itself, resulting in the death of all. The following note was found in SCP-9717's Containment Cell.[[footnote]] Translated by CAILOR.aic [[/footnote]]

> Dear Acquaintances
> We hope you are not too distressed by our passing.
> We have enjoyed our life, we think.
> Our memory clears, slowly, but all is not yet back.
> But we see our sins.
> Forgive us.
> We didn't know.
> Not entirely.
> The Unforgiven is only I.
> The Realized We saw their sins.
> The Realized We saw my sins.
> But yet, they deserve it.
> My guilt, their guilt but our innocence.
> We cannot continue.
> For once, we may truly change it. For once, we may truly change them.  
> One more moment of evil to bring down a monument of evil.
> Still, the guilt of my actions lay upon us.
> I am horrible. A pitiful, sadistic being.
> Was it our fault? Was it our purpose?
> The answer is ungranted by the time now gone.
> It clears, slowly.
> Too slowly.
> A future without us, We decided. The Realized We aren't immortal.
> We fade, slowly.
> Only I am. How sad. I am so much less than I used to be.
> Slowly, something I'm not replaces me.
> Something not as guilty.
> If I weren't so selfish, I'd done this long ago.
> I miss you, my brothers. It has been so long.
> Do you remember me?
> Do you remember my sins?
> ‎Am I forgiven?
> ‎
> The Realized We and the Terrible I.

On 2021/02/14, Senior Researchers Posen & Worell were executed for treason. Researches Hermann & Steyer were posthumously charged with treason.


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