SCP-1436

Background

SCP-1436 is a male bird of unidentified species with features similar to those of the Meropidae family, including its wingspan of 46 cm. SCP-1436’s behavior is typical of an insectivore bird and it produces calls that have been identified as attempts to communicate with other members of its own species. No other members of SCP-1436’s species have been found or identified at this time.

SCP-1436 constantly undergoes a cycle in which it rapidly matures from an embryo into an adult, dies and decays. After SCP-1436’s form has completely decomposed, an egg reappears and SCP-1436 reenters the growth stage of its cycle. Each cycle lasts two months on average, with the growth stage usually lasting one and a half months. During this first stage, SCP-1436 does not require more food than the average bird of its current age, despite its accelerated growth. Internal imaging of SCP-1436’s body has shown no anomalous features or bodily processes, aside from the subject’s rapid growth rate. Once SCP-1436 reaches full maturity it ceases to age and remains in this state for three days on average before entering the second stage of its cycle.

During the second stage of its cycle SCP-1436 manipulates probability to cause its own death. The area around SCP-1436 during this stage of the cycle will experience events dangerous to SCP-1436. These events are always physically possible, but analysis has shown that most SCP-1436 events would have been extremely improbable. The events at the beginning of the second stage are far more localized than those later in the cycle. Events later in the cycle have shown the effect is capable of causing complex causal chains to kill SCP-1436. The last cycle before SCP-1436’s recovery by the Foundation resulted in the structural collapse of a bird house in the ███████████ zoo, █████ fatally wounding 18 and injuring 32. Records from the zoo indicate that SCP-1436 had been in its second stage for about two weeks and that several accidents related to SCP-1436 had occurred, each larger than the last. SCP-1436 does not seem to consciously cause these events, and continues to take acts of self-preservation during the second stage.

General Information

Name: Probability Phoenix, SCP-1436

Origin: SCP Foundation

Sex: Male

Age: unknown

Classification: SCP, Euclid class

Species: Bird

Occupation: None

Codex Statistics

Tier: 10-C, Higher with Probability Manipulation

Dimensionality: 3-D

Attack Potency: Below Average Human level (Small birds such as him are usually at this level), Higher with Probability Manipulation (Once caused an entire bird house in a zoo to collapse, killing and injuring many people. The Foundation has ensured that 1436 will not be contained in any facility containing nuclear warheads for fear of its effects setting them off)

Durability: Below Average Human level

Striking Strength: Below Average Human level

Lifting Strength: Below Average Human

Travel Speed: Average Human to Athletic Human (Regularly can catch and feast on a variety of insects, including European Honeybees which can fly at an Average of 15 mph, and a top speed of 20 mph)

Combat Speed: Average Human to Athletic Human

Reaction Speed: Average Human to Athletic Human

Stamina: Unknown

Range: Standard Melee, Higher with Probability Manipulation

Intelligence: Animalistic

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Powers and Abilities

Small Size (Type 1), Flight, Probability Manipulation (Passive, upon reaching its adult stage in its growth cycle for over 3 days, it will begin to passively affect the likelihood of events around it, with the effect growing in power the longer it keeps living. Any outsider attempting to kill 1436 will result in failure, and possible injury to the attacker), Resurrection (Upon dying, an egg will appear where it had perished, which will restart the growth cycle once more)

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Equipment

None notable

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Other

Standard Tactics: SCP-1436 will avoid any attempt of its Probability Manipulation to kill him while it also screws his opponent if it tries to harm it.

Weaknesses: The events that 1436 produces are passive and not caused directly by its will. The unlikely events caused by 1436 are centered around it and are supposed to kill it, thereby starting the growth cycle again. Despite it being capable of resurrection, it takes 20 hours for it to reform as an egg, and another two months on average for it to begin its second stage again

Battle Records

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