Now, it’s no commonly held secret that the mysterious and all-powerful fictional organisation
known only as the SCP Foundation - harbors some pretty terrifying monstrous entities
that would make any modern horror monster quake in their boots - but you know what’s
worse than any one of these nightmare-inducing creations?
An entire species worth.
Let me introduce you to SCP-939, a lesser known anomalous creature that has maintained
a campaign of terror for decades, waging a secret of blood-based homogeneity - whilst
slowing unpicking the very foundation of those that contain it.
Yeah, hold on to your hats for this one.
Hello internet - what’s going on, and once again - welcome back to the most inquisitive
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As per usual, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice - as today, we curiously ask the question
- What If SCP-939 Was Real?
Roll the clip.
For the curious amongst you, that clip was from 2018’s Annihilation, directed by Alex
Garland and based on the book of the same name by Jeff VanderMeer.
And strangely enough - despite the creature being more bear like than canine like - it’s
actually a frighteningly vivid visual depiction of just exactly how and what these creatures
would appear as - and even more accurate, is the fact that the Bear in Annihilation
functions in the exact same manner that SCP-939 does.
It can mimic the human voice.
And use it to lure its prey towards it.
Uhh.
Yeah.
It’s probably best that I mentioned that, isn’t it?
Oh - And also - these guys are nicknamed, With Many Voices.
I told you it was going to be a spooky one, didn’t I?
As the record states, SCP-939 are a species of endothermic, pack-based predators which
display an atrophy of various systems similar to that of troglobitic organisms.
Essentially, they’re ugly as all hell and are really good at living in the dark and
not dying.
The skins of these creatures are highly permeable to moisture - and appear as a translucent
red, owing to a chemical compound similar to that of hemoglobin.
Again - essentially, they’re ugly as all hell and are, physically speaking, highly
mobile sacks of blood.
Gross.
But also, ten points for creativity.
Strangely enough though, despite being vastly comprised of blood, the species of SCP-939
possess nearly zero vital organ systems.
It’s central and peripheral nervous systems, it’s circulatory system - and it’s entire
digestive tract are all - terrifyingly absent.
In fact - for a pack based predator, who’s prime directive is to hunt, and are evolutionarily
adapted solely for that purpose - these creatures have no way to even digest their prey.
It doesn’t end there though, because it’s even hypothesised that SCP-939 have no apparent
physiological *need* to feed - and it poses the question - what the hell has evolution
been up to, to create these literal hellhounds - that vomit up the carcasses of their enemies
because they don’t have room in their bodies for such a thing?
That’s disgusting.
And also, just - incredibly wasteful.
And if that isn’t already weird enough - guess what?
Despite the absence of pretty much all of its vital organ systems - the species of SCP-939
are entirely capable of bearing live young.
Of course they are.
As if they couldn’t get any more biologically messed up.
So forget everything you thought about defeating these things easily - because they can breed
at a staggering efficiency like a horrifying warren of blood-based rabbits that want nothing
more than to tear your face off and then mimic your horrifying screams to lure other humans
to their demise.
What the hell guys.
What the hell.
In fact - if the species of 939 were real - then it’s a very real possibility that
the historical course of our civilization may have been horrifyingly altered by the
efficiency of these nightmarish predators.
Remember when I said that these creatures were capable of bearing live young?
Well, yeah - their offspring aren’t exactly as you might imagine them.
The young that they give life to - or unlife, maybe - are identical to that of a human child.
Sorry, what?
Yeah.
You heard that correctly.
SCP-939 give birth to a pretty much unmistakable copy of a regular human baby - although, as
you may imagine, things don’t exactly end up in any kind of fairytale ending.
As several pretty horrific records state - during its infancy, the young of SCP-939 will exhibit
the identical characteristics and actions of a human baby.
However, as you may expect - after a certain amount of time, things soon resume their horrifying
course of evolutionary action - and it’s young begins tearing off it’s own flesh
- rips off its own head - and then emerges as a near-identical 939 species - albeit considerably
smaller than a full sized creature.
Now, imagine the implications of that.
You see - it's heavily referenced in the Foundation’s records that a large multitude of dens of
these creatures have been discovered on pretty much every continent on Earth.
If they were real, imagine a primitive human society discovering one of 939’s offspring
out in the wilderness, thinking it to be a harmless, defenseless child in need of shelter
- and taking it back to their small village to be raised as one of their own.
Well, obviously - as you can imagine, things would have swiftly became a blood-soaked nightmare.
But the thing is, SCP-939 actually has another anomalous trick lurking up its species sleeve
- because if it wasn’t already enough of an efficient, nightmare-stalking predator
- 939 also secretes an aerosol amnestic substance from its jaws.
So not only is it perfect at stalking, hunting and destroying it’s prey - anyone who survives
an assault from 939 - i.e say, in a small, remote village - also can’t even remember
how or why their entire village has been destroyed in a bloodbath of carnage.
How do you even begin to combat such a creature?
And when we hypothetically apply it to ancient society - as it’s widely accepted that SCP-939
have been lurking on our planet for thousands upon thousands of years - and without the
technological advantages of a capable institution such as the SCP Foundation - then it’s safe
to assume that humanity would have struggled to emerge out of the dark ages.
Forget the big bad wolf - forget Grendel - hell, even forget dragons - SCP-939 is the nightmare
ridden apex predator of humanity that uses fear itself as it’s weapon to lay it’s
blood-soaked tendrils deep into society - and sow its seeds of terror.
Yeah, guys - if you couldn’t tell already - SCP-939 is almost *too* good at being a
horrifying anomalous entity.
Well, let’s thank our lucky stars that we’ve got some pretty hefty plot armour, and these
guys are just fictional.
Right?
... Right?
Well - there we have it folks - the way that we see things going if SCP-939 was real.
It wouldn’t be great, to say the least.
What did you guys think?
Have you got some kind of hypothetical weapon against these horrifying creations?
Let us know your thoughts down in the comment section below.
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