Character: scp-1471-a

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SCP-1471-A is a canine character from the mythos of the SCP Foundation website. Their debut story, SCP-1471 — MalO ver1.0.0, was posted in February 2013 by a writer known as LurkD, who was inspired by and includes a monochrome edit of Don't open the door...; a photo of a fursuit made by Qarrezel for tarangryph of her character, Breynz the zombie werewolf. While SCP-2521 — ●●|●●●●●|●●|● is the magnum opus of the author's career, SCP-1471 has irrefutably become the dark horse of the SCP Foundation's furry demographic.

SCP-1471-A is an anthropomorphic canine with a skull head, empty white eyes, black fur and hair, and (traditionally) a black cloak with a rope belt. Canonically, SCP-1471-A is a digital creature that can manifest as hallucinations and had no stated gender, but fans have taken liberties with their tangibility, wardrobe, and gender.

SCP-1471-A is identified with the name MalO by SCP-1471, a phone app that is the means of experiencing them. App store descriptions further characterize SCP-1471-A as an "exciting and interactive experience" dedicated to combating social anxiety and loneliness, reciprocating engagement with them. Upon instillation of SCP-1471, SCP-1471-A will ostensibly begin sending photos of themself to affected devices at a fairly consistent rate; akin to a stalker, these pictures document SCP-1471 at locations familiar to the device's user, gradually reaching the point they are directly with the person, despite no physical evidence of SCP-1471-A following them in the real world.

Soon enough, SCP-1471-A will permanently manifest as a chronic hallucination for those who have endured their messaging, appearing in their peripheral vision or reflective objects. This is purely visual, as SCP-1471-A has never made any vocalizations let alone verbal communication with a person; they have, however, made periodic attempts at nonverbal communication, but nothing cohesive has been discerned from their gestures. If the Tales are taken into account, however, then teaching them sign language to establish contact is possible.

In general, it does appear that SCP-1471-A seeks to be a source of companionship as SCP-1471's description would imply, since they have a chronic presence with no record of exhibiting hostile activity. However, the paranormal and invasive nature of SCP-1471-A often makes them a source of mental fatigue and psychological distress as expected of a person faced with a supernatural stalker; there is at least one case of a person who committed suicide due to increasing paranoia over SCP-1471-A. The only known time that a SCP-1471-A is known to have caused deliberate harm was in self-defense against a researcher testing phones with the app installed in SCP-914 (a machine which alters whatever is inserted, often destructively).

SCP-1471-A and all related paraphernalia is designated the Euclid containment class, due to the indeterminable source, virality, and relatively benign yet disruptive effects of SCP-1471. At least 9,405 devices effected with SCP-1471 are in containment, with more potentially undiscovered or to be infected. Special containment procedures utilize a self-uploading malware program to render devices suspected to have downloaded SCP-1471 inoperable and available for seizure by field agents.

Due to the intangible perspective-based nature of SCP-1471-A, it is ambiguous if they are a singular pluripresent entity, or multiple instances created with each individual exposed to SCP-1471. As a product of this (and SCP-1471-A's popularity), there are several fan characters of people's own "MalOs", being regarded as a species. Supporting the species interpretation, there are three named SCP-1471-A instances in Tales: Cassandra (an instance who inadvertently caused their user distress to the point of suicide), Capone (belonging to the brother of Cassandra's user), and Merle (a mischievous instance who has been taught sign language).

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