The Prototype, the Symbiote, The Scarab, and the E.V.O

Scp-6001: "The Symbiotes" (UPDATE)

Item#:5001

Object Class: Euclid-Keter/Thaumiel

Special Containment Procedures: Instances of SCP-6001 that have yet to be bonded are to be put in glass containment cells to prevent them from bonding with a human and to be looked at for observation. Should any instance of SCP-6001 be bonded with a human and act in a aggressive manner, Mobile Task Forces near the instance must prepare to bring in flamethrowers, sound guns alongside ear mufflers to protect their hearing from their own weapons, and inhibitor drugs for the instances. Should an instance act in a passive behavior, they are to be brought to a soldier for training. Should any of these instances show signs of craziness, foods filled with phenethylamine are to be given to them immediately. 

SCP-6001-3-1 and SCP-6001-3-2 are to be kept at site-17, in a 5 X 5 X 5 room, with a bunk bed and table. A training room is also to be advised.

SCP-6000-F is kept in a pool-shaped container and is inaccessible, unless the situation requires the instance's use.

Description: SCP-6001 are a species of inorganic, amorphous, symbiotic extraterrestrial creatures. Originally from the planet that they call 'Klyntar', which was said to be their home.

Instances of SCP-6001 feed on their host's adrenaline and negative emotions, usually released into the bloodstream during the fight-or-flight response. They have also been shown to depend on their hosts for a steady supply of phenethylamine, a chemical found as a neurotransmitter in the human brain. While this has been known to lead some symbiotes to consume the brains of others, the chemical can also be ready found in processed chocolate or other food that is filled with the chemical, Phenethylamine. Other symbiotes - like the clone of the Venom symbiote - deliberately drain their hosts' vital fluids and/or physically consume them from the inside-out. While the symbiotes are connected to a host, they raise their host's dopamine levels, as well as form 'eyes' and a 'mouth with 'fangs and 'tongue'. They can apparently be killed, or at least be forced into some sort of death-like state, by an overdose of dopamine-inhibitor. Symbiotes aren't able to bond with hosts who have high levels of vitamin C in their blood streams. There are several levels of biological symbiosis, or "bonding" that can be achieved between a symbiote and its host, each with different biological consequences.

When touch by an organism, an SCP-6001 instance can interface with their genomes and physiology to imprint their unique powers and abilities into itself, granting subsequent hosts access to those powers. SCP-6001 instances can also bond to inorganic material, letting them interface with and augment machinery.

Instances of SCP-6001 have some ability to sense the thoughts and emotions of sentient creatures, though to what extent remains unclear. Symbiotes have a genetic memory, allowing them to exploit their parents' knowledge through ancestral recall. On Earth, this allows the first instance, SCP-6001-1-1, to copy spider DNA and pass it on to it's descendants, with abilities such as wall-crawling, webbing generation, and a ESP sense, allowing it to know when to react to the danger coming to them.

SCP-6001 instanced are genderless, usually reproduce asexually (though some symbiotes are hatched from eggs), and generally produce only one offspring in a lifetime. In the case of SCP-6001-1-1, seeds were forcibly extracted to produce more offspring. There is no family structure, and in fact it seems to be common among corrupted symbiotes for parent and offspring to hate each other. However this observation is taken mostly from the relationship between SCP-6001-1-1 and its children. SCP-6001-1-1 hates SCP-6001-2-1 because of its murderous nature (not to mention that when they were cell mates they had an antagonistic relationship). When its other "children" were born, it thought that they would end up like SCP-6001-2-1, so it placed his hatred of SCP-6001-2-1 on its own 'children'. When SCP-6001-2-7 was born, it was passive to it, due to its harmless nature. While they have a latent ability to sense the proximity of their progeny, they usually have no interest in them. The one exception comes once every 1,000 generations, when a symbiote is born with a high risk of psychotic breakdown, and must be guided by older symbiotes, or else destroyed. Such examples are SCP-6001-3-1 and SCP-6001-3-2, who were tamed by their hosts, Patrick and Patricia.