SCP-049

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Background

SCP-049 is a humanoid entity which bears the appearance of a medieval plague doctor. X-Ray imaging showcases that its facial structure is shaped exactly like the mask, though he does have a humanoid skeletal structure beneath the outer layer.

SCP-049 was discovered during the investigation of a series of unknown disappearances in the town of Montauban in southern France, where investigators founds several instances of SCP-049-2, as well as SCP-049. SCP-049 willingly entered the Foundation custody.

In custody he reveals that he is trying to find a cure to the Pestilence, being willing to comply with the Foundation in order to work with them and cure it.

Personality

• Cooperative: SCP-049 is one of the few entities cooperative with the Foundation, wishing to experiment and find ways to cure diseases. However it is prone to outbursts and becoming aggressive. It is noted to be generally cordial and cooperative with Foundation staff.

• Desire to cure The Pestilence: SCP-049 fully believes The Pestilience is a disease that must be cured, and he will find anyway possible to do so. Viewing it at his duty to rid the world of it and make The Cure To End All Cures.

• Hatred of the Pestilence: It's outbursts of anger, aggressiveness, and irritability, is due to when it feels the presence of The Pestilence. This will cause it to become hostile and attempt to kill any individual it views as being affected with the Pestilence.

• Anger Upon Being Questioned on its Cure: SCP-049 will become progressively more agitated the more one questions its cure and states it is not helping or creating a cure, claiming that they are mocking it because of setbacks.

General Information

Name: SCP-049

Other Names: The Plague Doctor

Origin: SCP Foundation

First Appearance: SCP-049 File Log

Company: SCP Foundation

Sex: Male

Sexuality: Unknown

Pronouns: He/Him

Age: Over Hundreds of Years Old (SCP-049 claims to have originated in 15th century France)

Homeworld: Potentially Earth

Residence: Standard Secure Humanoid Containment Cell in Research Sector-02 at Site-19

Story Role: Mad Doctor, Mad Scientist

Classification: Doctor, Euclid Class

Species: Unknown (It possesses humanoid features, like a humanoid skeletal strucutre)

State of Being: Regular

Physiology: Humanoid Physiology

In-Universe Creator: Unknown

Occupation: Doctor

Containment Status: Contained (The procedures require sedating it before any attempts to transport it, and during transport it must be secured within a Class III Humanoid Restriction Harness (including a locking collar and extension restraints) while being monitored by no fewer than two armed guards)

Affiliations: The Foundation (SCP-049 is generally cooperative with most foundation personnel)

Enemies: The Foundation, The Pestilence

Height: 1.9 meters

Weight: Unknown

Status: Alive

Alignment: Chaotic Neutral (While it is noted to be generally cordial and cooperative with Foundation staff, it will go into outbursts and become hostile due to feeling the presence of The Pestilence, attempting to kill anyone it views as having The Pestilence. It is noted that SCP-049 genuienly wants to help other humans, though it cannot provide a concrete exmaple of what its trying to save humans from. Willing to help Leslie with her plight of getting out of the foundation, when asked why would he help Leslie he states merely because he wanted to)

Threat Level: Street Threat (It will go into outbursts and become hostile due to feeling the presence of The Pestilence, attempting to kill anyone it views as having The Pestilence)

Codex Statistics

Grade: B (Talented Doctor that can kill people through just a touch)

Tier: 10-B

Cardinality: Finite

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Average Human level (SCP-049 is a humanoid entity, roughly 1.8 meters in height, bearing the appearance of a medieval plague doctor), bypasses conventional durability with his touch (Causes all biological functions of an organism to cease through direct skin contact)

Durability: Average Human level

Striking Strength: Average Human Class

Lifting Strength: Regular Human Class

Travel Speed: At least Superhuman (Quickly closed the distance and killed the test subject before it could even react)

Attack Speed: At least Superhuman

Reaction Speed: At least Superhuman

Stamina: Superhuman+ (Has seemingly lived for over 200 years after being contained and no one on Earth is left alive, without needing sleep or rest)

Range: Standard Melee Range, Higher with tools

Intelligence: Extraorindary Genius Intelligence (SCP-049 developed means to reanimate corpses, noting to Dr. Hamm that merely saying they were reanimated is seeing things "too simply", viewing life and death, sickness and health, as amateur terms for amateur physicians. SCP-049's journals were not written in any known language, and any attempts by linguists and codebreakers to decipher them have been unsuccessful. SCP-049 is shown to routinely spend several days performing surgery and recording its findings with the Foundation staff. Through operating on a bovine corpse for eight days, it produced a lightning rod. Was able to breech his containment through studying his door and finding out how to get it open a crack with his tools. SCP-049 is capable of speech in a variety of languages though generally uses English or medieval French)

Knowledge: Expert level (Spent his entire lifetime developing his methods in order to cure The Pestilence. SCP-049 is capable of speech in a variety of languages though generally uses English or medieval French)

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Powers and Techniques

Superhuman Speed, Human Achievements (SCP-049 is a a talented doctor, spending his entire lifetime developing his methods), Multilingualism (SCP-049 is capable of speech in a variety of languages though generally uses English or medieval French. SCP-049's journals were not written in any known language, and any attempts by linguists and codebreakers to decipher them have been unsuccessful), Preparation (Through operating on a bovine corpse for eight days, it produced a lightning rod. Was able to breech his containment through studying his door and finding out how to get it open a crack with his tools), Intimidation (One feels a strange sense of unease when in its presence), Bloodlust (Becomes irritated or outright aggressive if it feels that it is in the presence of the Pestilence, attempting to kill any target it sees affected by The Pestilience), Longevity (Has seemingly lived for over 200 years after being contained and no one on Earth is left alive, SCP-049 claims to have originated in 15th century France), Self-Sustenance (Nutritional Sustenance; SCP-049 has expressed that it does not require sustenance, but enjoys it and feels that the food helps to put it in the right mind to operate. Restful Susteannce; Has seemingly lived for over 200 years after being contained and no one on Earth is left alive, without needing any rest), Dimensional Storage (SCP-049 has a bag that has anomalously large spaces, being able to pull objects larger than the tab itself from within it in order to operate on deceased subjects), Resurrection (Resurrection on Singular Targets, Resurrection of the Deceased) & Necromancy (Resurrected a mosquito from the dead, turning it into SCP-3774. SCP-049 developed means to reanimate corpses, noting to Dr. Hamm that merely saying they were reanimated is seeing things "too simply". Killed a test subject and then reanimated him. Reanimated a deceased goat into SCP-049-2), Death Manipulation (Causes all biological functions of an organism to cease through direct skin contact. It can seemingly do this to subjects its already reanimated as it reanimated a deceased orangutan several times), Biological Manipulation (Alters SCP-049-2's biological structures to be vastly different from currently understood human physiology), Mind Manipulation (Any creature that becomes a SCP-049-2 can be directed by SCP-049 and will listen to their orders)

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Equipment

• SCP-049-2: SCP-049-2 are beings that were killed by SCP-049 and then alterated and reanimated (Though they do not need to be killed by SCP-049 in order for him to reanimate them into SCP-049-2). They are very aggressiving, immedieatly attacking anyone that gets close to SCP-049 or if SCP-049 commands them to.

• Medical Bag: A bag used by SCP-049 to carry around his medical equipment. Despite it looking like a regular bag it has the ability to store things far larger then it in size, allowing him to store various equipment within it.

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Notable Techniques

• Death Touch: SCP-049 are able to kill people through merely touching them, which cancels all biological functions in an instant.

• Reanimation: SCP-049 is able to perform surger on the bodies it kills or already existing corpses and reanimate them into a SCP-049-2.

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Other

Standard Tactics: If SCP-049 views one has The Pestilience, it will touch it to cease all bodily functions and then proceed to make alterations to its body to reanimate it and make it an SCP-049-2.

Weaknesses: Seemingly cannot reanimate targets after a fifth time. Will become hostile and aggressive and immedieatly try to kill a target he feels is inflicted with the pestilience. In the event of SCP-049 becoming aggressive, application of lavender will produce a calming effect on the entity.

Trivia

• Interestingly, despite being around since 15th France, it is unaware of what the Bubonic Plague is.

Gallery

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  X-Ray imaging of SCP-049's facial structure.

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  SCP-049 upon discovery

Containment Attempts

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None.

None.

• SCP-682 - Containment Attempt
  • Conditions: None.
  • Location: Containment Area

References

• The original article.
• Going home.
• Excerpts From The Medical Tragedy of Dr. Bartholomew Artz, Author Unknown.
• Death and the Doctors Hub.
• The Hanged King's Comedy.