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Article: SCP-399-DE - In the Abyss of the Depressing Sea Dwells a Compassionate Mermaid
Original Author: Einer von Rabe Einer von Rabe
Translator: Einer von Rabe Einer von Rabe
Item #: SCP-399-DE
Object Class: Keter
Threat Level: Red ●くろまる
Secure Containment Procedures: SCP-399-DE cannot be contained according to current knowledge.
Misinformation about hallucinations in overtiredness and depression must be distributed to the public. Confirmed cases of 399-AQUARIUM events in the civilian population will be attended to by the local site and branches and treated by SCP Foundation therapists.
SCP Foundation staff suffering from depression and/or prone to overwork are advised to visit a member of the psychological staff regularly and to take the full number of days off and use them for recovery. This should mitigate the unintentional occurrence of SCP-399-DE within Foundation sites and prevent possible cross-contamination. Sensitive anomalies in custody must receive a session with a member of the psychological staff with training from the Foundation's Project for the More Humane Containment of Anomalous Persons at least every four weeks.
Description: SCP-399-DE is a phenomenon that is estimated to affect 75% of the world's population. The likelihood increases if the affected person suffers from depression or is regularly in a state of emotion that can be described as sadness. The factor of social environment and a person of support makes it likely that SCP-399-DE will manifest itself if the environment is small.
Although the phenomenon is not under control, no negative effects have been documented to date.
SCP-399-DE manifests as a school of fish, and in certain cases other aquatic animals, whose perceived origin is a rain cloud that emerges over the subject. Most commonly, carp and other fish species found in private homes appear. In the case of exotic species, it is coral fish and fish that are generally considered "beautiful to look at", but also cuttlefish and other octopuses. The animals swim around freely in the immediate vicinity as if they were in water.
The number of animals seems to grow at an exponential rate, in perceived proportion to the emotional state of the target. The subject can interact with the animals and they generally respond positively to such attempts. To outsiders, the animals appear transparent and are just perceptible.
It is not clear which factor is the carrier, but it is assumed that the fish have a memetic carrier which has a positive effect on the subject. All manifestations were perceived by the target as pleasant and entertaining.
After SCP-399-DE exposure, subjects are happier and increased efficiency can be observed. Depression will not be cured, but the extent of a phase and the severity will be reduced.
An SCP-399-DE exposure is referred to in the document as a 399-AQUARIUM-Event.
Addendum-399-DE-1: Agent Wilhelm Friedrich Kaiser has been suffering from depressive phases at regular intervals since his transport to our reality. As a result, he has been the target of SCP-399-DE several times. However, he recently became the first documented target of a 399-LORELEY-Event in the SCP Foundation and as a result of SCP-399-DE-MARIA.
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Addendum: Agent Wilhelm Friedrich Kaiser received a postcard twice a month for a year and on four separate occasions, which appeared to have been written by SCP-399-DE-MARIA. Most of the time, SCP-399-DE-MARIA could be seen on the front carrying out typical activities at and in the sea.
Conspicuous was the presence of a male instance of SCP-399-DE-MARIA, which was also documented, although much less frequently. The theory that this was the same as SCP-399-DE-MARIA was thus disproved and this was retroactively recorded as SCP-399-DE-MARTIN.
Agent Kaiser stated that he was now cured of his depression and medical monitoring was able to confirm this.
Staff requested that SCP-399-DE be classified as Ticonderoga. The O4 Council and the Delegation of the Ethics Committee of the German-speaking Branch of the SCP Foundation are currently discussing the proposal.
The Board of Directors of the German-speaking SCP Foundation, unofficially also called O4, is the management body of the German-speaking Foundation and consists of 13 Site Directors and Department Heads. O4 is the highest authority of the German-speaking Branch and reports directly to O5.
The Ethics Committee Department at the German-speaking SCP Foundation is a delegation of the Ethics Committee of the SCP Foundation which monitors and advises the German-speaking branch, reports to O4, reports directly to the Ethics Committee or O5, and has minor possibilities to intervene directly if other mechanisms fail.
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"SCP-399-DE" originally published on SCP Foundation auf Deutsch and translated by Einer von Rabe, from SCP International. Source: https://scpint.org/scp-399-de. Licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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