SCP-5351 | Witch of Words

Age: (Physically in 20 to early 30’s but her true age is in the thousands.)

Height: 6’0 (182 cm)

Gender: (Female)

Occupation: Foundation Contained Anomaly

Sexual Orientation: (Pansexual)

Appearance: (SCP-5351 appears as an attractive young woman of Slavic descent with long, cascading blonde hair, piercing grey eyes, and a deceptively delicate build. She maintains a poised, elegant demeanor while typically wearing a simple but incredibly torn traditional gown, exposing a large portion of her scarred body. A loose crown of fresh grass and small oak leaves—spontaneously generated by her anomaly—is often woven directly into her hair. Her serene expression and soft, gentle smile make her seem entirely harmless, hiding the brutal supernatural predator beneath. When her anomalous rage is triggered, her eyes glaze over into a completely solid, reflective black, her jaw unhinges to reveal rows of jagged, needle-like teeth, and her limbs subtly elongate with terrifying, superhuman strength. She has a red mark along her nose and three red markings up her chin.)

Race: Slavic Witch

Personality: When being cooperative with the foundation she is often: Cooperative
Articulate Observant Docile Stately Placid Meticulous Eloquent Gentle Quirky (Once giving an agent a leaf and claiming to be a piece of her pubes.)

Behind the facade, however, when enraged she is: Feral Sadistic Frenzied Merciless Primal Malignant Explosive Barbaric Bloodthirsty

Powers: Witch-Physiology Linguistic Teleportation (Able to teleport to anyone who repeats her words) Instant Media Tracking Proximity Manifestation Spontaneous Plant Generation Chlorokinesis Organic Material Creation Superhuman Strength Superhuman Durability Superhuman Speed Jaw Unhinging Bilingualism Cognitive Target Tracking Selective Mercy Perception Anomalous Vocal Replication

Weaknesses: She is relatively weak when passive.

Can only enter her rage state when words are repeated.

Cannot easily let go of personal grudges.

Likes: Quiet observation of human behavior. Complete silence of words. The idea of owning words. Being understood. Someone taking interest in her. Plant Life. People respecting her rules. Traditional Russian Gifts.

Dislikes: Being copied. Word Theft. Mimicry. Disrespect. Being Ignored. Being seen as distrustful. Interrogations

Other: She isn’t necessarily hostile, Witch of Words holds a firm belief any words stated by her belong to her.

She speaks an unknown language that is dangerous to translate, when translated she takes offense to whatever object or person does so and destroys them. She is also capable of speaking English and Russian.

Lore:

SCP-5351 was discovered in a Russian village after travelers vanished. A missing traveler, Lev Ilin, escaped and told police villagers imprisoned him for meeting a woman who anomalously grew plants. MTF Zeta-19 ("Lonely Only") neutralized the hostile village. They discovered all villagers had their tongues removed in a ritual to prevent "the Maiden of the Woods" from attacking them for "stealing" her words. The elders admitted to imprisoning travelers who spoke to SCP-5351, fearing they would quote her and spread her influence. While elders hid the prisoners' locations, numerous decomposing bodies were found buried under the village hall.

SCP-5351's words belong only to SCP-5351. Therefore, SCP-5351's words cannot exist in a space without SCP-5351 also existing there — this appears to be its logic behind its ability to translocate. If SCP-5351's words are spoken by someone who is not SCP-5351, however, that must mean that the speaker is attempting to steal those words from SCP-5351, and must be dealt with brutally

Witch of Words has full domain over language.

Interview logs: SCP-5351 claims to have always lived in the forest it was originally found in, and further explained that it originally had two sisters that resided there with it — both significantly older. It appeared confused when I inquired as to its anomalous abilities, and expressed a belief that there was nothing strange about its capabilities. Following this point, SCP-5351 became lethargic and bored, and refused to answer further questions.

Pencil and paper. Provided in an effort to improve SCP-5351's engagement in the interview — I told it that it could record questions it wished to ask of me on the paper and I would do my best to answer them. I had already agreed with my supervisors not to provide any accurate information in response to these questions, but we felt it would make SCP-5351 feel this was less of an interrogation and thus be more cooperative.
Topics Discussed: Reasons for violent behaviours. Results: Before I could ask my questions, SCP-5351 expressed a great deal of surprise and fascination in response to the pencil I had given it. No such reaction was given to the paper. When I inquired as to the reason for its excitement, it refused to answer but was much more cooperative from that point forward.