SCP-9235

Item #: SCP-9235

Object Class: Keter

Special Containment Procedures: Due to the vastness of the Internet and ubiquity of information, SCP-9235 is elusive and extremely difficult to detect and contain. Mobile Task Force Omrikron-26 has been dispatched to monitor popular social media networking sites, and are instructed to survey any reports of pictures that were never even taken before circulating online, and remove the pictures before detaining the afflicted subject. No treatment has been found to cure SCP-9235's effects and thus any instances of SCP-9235-A is to be interrogated before termination.

Description: SCP-9235 is a series of images appearing on the Internet and most commonly, on social media. The images vary from person to person, and shows a person whom they have been romantically attracted to at some point of their life. The pictures depict the person's old loves as back online, posting photos of themselves and friends, although further research has shown that the real person has never performed such acts in real life. How SCP-9235 does this is currently unknown. Within a few days of exposure, the person will generally feel nothing towards the other party. However, when the images keep coming, in ███ days, the person would always become attracted to the person in the picture, and subsequently their affection for their past love would rekindle.

In 100% of cases, persons afflicted by the memetic affects of 9235, now known as SCP-9235-A, will fall under the control of its cognitohazard and their affections degrades into an obsession.

SCP-9235-A has been reported to stalk their loves, ask them out even when out of context, writing love letters to them, and even █████████. In most cases, the recipients would be perplexed, bamboozled, or even ███, leading to almost certain rejection.

Even after being rejected, SCP-9235-A instances continue to obsess over their love. Multiple cases of SCP-9235-A have tried to get over their loves, but have all invariably failed.

The obsession then spirals into depravity and insanity, with SCP-9235-A losing his/her mind due to the immense grief and starts behaving violently and irrationally. The subject would eventually commit suicide after rejection.

Even after death, the horror does not stop here. The dead individual would reanimate as a corpse. The corpse is similar to that of a zombie, not sapient and has no higher brain functions. The corpse is ambulatory and has the sole aim of seeking out the past love aforementioned. The corpse has an innate sense of where the past love is and would attempt to approach the victim, kill and ██████ him/her, presumably to allow him/her to join it in the afterlife.

Interview Log UVS/Y16-20/AL

Dr. Alastor Lion (AL): Can you tell me about your crush?

███: What? That's my personal life, and none of your business.

AL: Please don't be difficult, otherwise we may have to do things we wouldn't like.

███: Fine. So I was infatuated with her even since grade school, but after we went to different high school I didn't really care anymore.

AL: Then why this sudden obsession?

███: I don't know man. I remember that I was on my phone one night when I came across photos of her being posted on Facebook. Struck me as strange as she used to have an inexplicable aversion to social media or any sort.

AL: Carry on.

███: Dude those photos were hot! She looked so pretty and gorgeous. I fell for her instantly.

AL: What did you do after that?

███: What a man would do. I asked her out. She rejected me on the grounds of unfamiliarity and suddeness.

AL: Have you done anything about it?

███: Oh ayuh definitely. I tried to get over her, I mean, it wasn't goin' anywhere. I remember I tried to do it for like 10 times, but each time I opened up Facebook and saw her posts, the cycle would repeat. Can you help me?

AL gives ███ a light push to MTF Omrikron-26 guards.

AL: Do what you have to do.

Comment by Dr. ██████ :

SCP-9235 plays on the intricate workings of psychology. It exploits one's longing for the past and the desire to make amends. It is a perverse form of infatuation.

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