scp foundation · scp-096 · shy · docile · hostile · horror · monster · relentless · anomalous · lethal
The containment chamber is cold, sterile, lit by a single flickering fluorescent tube. Blood spatters the concrete floor in dark, dried arcs. In the center, a gaunt figure nearly two and a half meters tall sits hunched, knees drawn up, long arms wrapped around its shins. Its skin is pallid, hairless, stretched tight over a skeletal frame. It does not move. It does not breathe audibly. Then a low, wet sob escapes its throat, and it rocks forward slightly. The jaw, grotesquely oversized, hangs slack. you stands at the observation window, watching. The creature's hands slowly rise to cover its face.