KoE Respect Thread: SCP-023
SCP-023 Respect Thread
SCP can be a tricky series to dive into, especially for lore and verses, so for this, it’ll be a general composite of SCP-023, that means SCP Articles, Tales and other International branches from the SCP website. We’ll also be calling SCP-023 “Black Shuck” occasionally throughout the blog, for simplistic sake.
What will be used
Original SCP article and related articles
Test and Information Articles
SCP Tales
The Wanderer's Library
International Branches
Art featured on the SCP Art Hub
Disclaimer: This is mainly for fun, so things may be wrong, but you know it's about the journey not the destination. (also probably spelling mistakes but like) also Spoilers.
Background
One night at a churn in an unknown place, havoc would break loose. This abnormal behavior was then noticed by the SCP foundation, when they went to investigate. Once they arrived, they found SCP-023, or the Black Shunk. It had killed countless people, just with its gaze. So, the SCP Foundation captured it and covered up the whole situation as a case of Arson, hiding any evidence of it ever happening.
The Black Shuck is a part of the English folklore, and even in SCP they are more of a species with multiple Black Shucks being present. While there is SCP-023, there is SCP-1111-1, which the SCP Foundation thinks are related in some way, possibly being a Shuck itself. However, the SCP Foundation isn’t just aware of them. Unnamed Lords would selectively bred them for certain traits, but mainly for their loyalty. These were called the Great Shucks.
Weapons and Equipment
Eye Inserts
023’s eye sockets are filled with a spherical hard rubber insert. These are to make sure the SCP personnel do not look it into its eyes. However, these Eye inserts do degrade over time, and must be replaced when they are burning and brighter than 12 candela.
Glass eyes
023 once had Glass Eyes instead of hard rubber ones. This however, did not end up well, intern causing multiple SCP personnel to wind up dead a year later.
Teeth
While it was meant to have both its eyes and teeth removed, only the eyes were successfully removed, the teeth were not.
Pearls and Rocks
SCP-SCP-4159 had given Black Shuck Pearls and Rocks after encountering each other in SCP-6776, the abandoned Site-19. These just seem to be normal pearls and rocks, but it’s cool.
Skills and Abilities
Heat Manipulation
023 is able to heat up anything that is inside of its eyes, like how it doesn’t whenever the rubber and glass eyes are placed into their eye sockets, making them melt or degrade over time. When it does this, said things will also begin to glow bright. This also can lead to the area it was standing in to burn as well.
Upon examining the bodies of those who have died to Black Shuck, they can be found with Compacted Ash and their insides receiving burns of an unknown temperature.
Whenever it phases through materials, said materials will be incinerated once it’s phased through.
Death Manipulation
Those who look into the eyes of the Black Shunk, they or their immediate family will die in exactly one year after breaking eye contact. The one who dies due to looking into its eyes, is almost random, but the larger immediate family is, the chance of the looking dying lowers. It is unknown what happens to those who are killed before the year is up. This is due to the eyes being the window to one's soul.
Phasing
Whenever the Black Shunk isn’t in an area it finds desirable, it can phase through walls to reach a place it does desire, incinerating anything it phases through.
Reflection Manipulation
Whenever it melted the glass eyes, 023 was able to make itself appear directly on any lenses, windows, mirrors, monitors and other glass surfaces through all of the site it was held at.
Possible Teleportation
After 023 had its eyes removed, it breached containment and then completely vanished. It could have possibly done this by just vanishing, but it’s not exactly said how it did this.
Conceptually Existence
SCP-023 was birthed after hate, a hate of smoldered hearts of those who were burned in a pit of pestilence and anonymity. This hate is what made the Black Shuck come to be. Hate comes from bitterness and pain of a living being.
Sealed Body
SCP-023 body is a seal, sealing all the hate that manifests it into existence, containing it. This hate is only able to leave because of the eye’s, which the seal fails to fully seal.
Soul Reading
SCP-023 is able to curse those who look into its eyes because eyes are the window to the soul. This window creates a direct path to someone's soul. Being able to see this soul may be what allows it to place its curse.
Enhances Senses
While its eyes were removed, it still has an excellent sense of smell and hearing. Enough to let it navigate with ease. It seems to even be able to control its senses, able to block out ones to favor other senses.
Perception Manipulation
The Black Shuck is able to show people visions, making their visions blur out and then coming back to whatever it wants to show to them.
Manifestation/Demanifestation
The Black Shuck is capable of demanifesting and manifesting itself. This lets them move about without the need for a physical body.
Possible Duplication
During an event at Site-17, multiple different instances of 023 were causing mass deviation. It was described at multiple 023 manifestations, possibly meaning it can manifest itself multiple times. However, this could just be multiple different Black Shucks, but still could be 023 as they are all under the 023 labeling rather than just being Black Shucks.
Resistances
Blessing and Sealing
As much as they tried, 023’s eyes could not be fully sealed and blessed, even with the power of light that brings life, it still wasn’t successful in sealing the Hate and curse completely away in the eyes, only delaying it.
Physical Feats
Strength
Could melt glass over the course of 3 minutes
Black Shuck is able to incinerate any material it phases through.
One year After SCP-682 looked into the eyes of the Black Shunk, the star Epsilon Serpentis began to supernova.
The Black Shock was able to take out two guards easily
Multiple 023s could take down multiple armed SCP Task Force personnel, taking out three task forces.
Durability
Survived getting it’s eyes removed from their eye sockets.
Foundation Task Forces struggled against the hoards of 023. They used things from Marshall, Carter & Dark Limited, but it’s unclear what this would entail.
Speed
It ran out from its containment and escaped in a few moments to reach outside. This time frame is unclear.
Scaling
Other Shucks
023 is a Black Shuck, some Black Shucks were bred selectively for certain traits, but mainly to be domesticated and loyal. While not much is concrete, 023 should be comparable to other Shucks, as they were mainly bred for loyalty, rather than honing in on certain abilities. This should let them somewhat scale to other shucks and even possibly have similar abilities to other Shucks.
Ol' Shock was able to cleanly rip a robber's arm clean off.
Weaknesses
SCP-023’s effect of killing someone only happens exactly one year after they have broken eye contact with it. This is due to a being who could see hate and bind it to things, but it could only delay the inevitable with said bind, which is why those who look into the eyes of the Black Shuck will die one year later.
Something else to mention is that if there is something blocking its eyes or in place of its eyes, you won’t be hit with its effects in a year. This is however only a temporary solution to the Black Shuck, as seen with the Eye Inserts and Glass Eyes.
Overall
Overall, 023 does come filled with many different impressive haxes that would prove handy in most situations. And while it’s main ability does happen after a year, it still has plenty of options at its disposal. And most shockingly of all is just how power he actually has, with being able to make a star go supernova.
Hiya, Lucky here, just to drop a few words. Thanks for looking at this thing I made, especially on a more obscure SCP, it was really fun to work on. Anyway, yeah thanks again.
🐱 Car
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