SCP Foundation

I feel for that trap too lol. I was so excited to start writing a draft, I didn't even read about what this forum was actually used for. As for the concept I/we need to know more. In what way is the creature hideous? Remember people find ugly things cute sometimes. Why must it be kept alive? Because so far it sounds more like an undiscovered animal then an anomaly.

Also who created it, and why was it discarded would be important information. Especially if you plan to mention that fact in the article. It's hard to say what SCPs are harmless as many of them, while inherently safe, have different implications depending on its environment or who has it.

If its harmless, it may not be that scary. If its not scary then ask yourself what makes it really weird, or at least really unique and interesting. It definitely is hard, trust me, I recently posted my first article and its barley hanging on. I'm sure you have more to your idea and I think if you outlined it here for everyone, it will help you get the feedback you need on your concept. Otherwise going off what you have written, it's lacking.

Side note: After thinking about it for a minute this sort of sounds like Frankenstein's Monster a little bit. Be carful not to write a "generic monster" SCP.

but it's pretty similar to SCP-321.

Aw man! I read that story now and yeah. They are quite similar. Mine will be able to communicate, which might help set them apart as I hope to write some Interview logs that detail the creatures despair and confusion over it's own existence. Thank you for the link anyway. If it turns out I need to throw the concept out I can at least find some comfort in the thought that it is only because someone else had the same idea before me^^

There needs to be more to this idea

Maybe think about it's origin or how the Foundation found out about/ contained it

Okay so the idea started basically from the superstition that witches stole mens genitals and kept them as pets. Which was a real fear or legend once upon a time. So the SCP is an amalgam of genitals stolen by a multi-generational coven of witches. I hope the creature will seem sad and lonely, while the story shall take on a surreal feeling from the bizarre idea that such a creature is existing.

Still maybe I should throw out the whole concept of having it made out of genitalia and start over with a creature made out of scraps of flesh or blood maybe?

So I don't think it seems too Frankenstein-y, more like the Golem maybe? Questioning why is has been created? The question of "why are we here" is a scary and depressing story for me and that is basically what I want to come across by making such a strange creature.

Still maybe it is just not a good idea to make story about a creature made out of penises and expect to be able to pull it off straight faced.

Thanks for the feedback!

Perhaps in the scientific description describing what kind of skin it has, the texture, its organs functioning analogously as opposed to homologously like something else

I tried to do just this in the text. Using as many technical terms as possible to obfuscate that it is basically a creature made out of penises. I don't know how well I've succeeded, but it is a fun challenge.

And does a creature created from penises and foreskin have intelligence? What is its intelligence? What does it want? Or need?

Well yeah. I figured it sort of needed an intelligence to be interesting, and escpecially since I hoped that a lot of the sadness of the story is going to come from the creatures confusion and despair over it's existence.

However I'm not sure how I should explain the consciousness of the creature. I wonder if the article might not be stronger if the scientist have had no luck with coming up with an explanation for the consciousness of the creature.
I wrote up a quite long explanation actually that went into stem cells and distributed brain cells (exemplified by the real world cuttlefish). It was of course pseudo-science babble, but I could include it if it would make the text stronger.

would the Foundation be concerned about harming it given that many of its … donors are probably already dead?

I plan on writing a log detailing how the Foundation discovers that performing surgery on the creature results in all living "donors" to feel the pain and risk bleeding out. Killing the creature would essentially mean attaching dead flesh to some hundred of living men. Since the creature is still connected to the living donors circulation system they would all suffer when the body started to decompose.

Or does this creature affect their descendants through some kind of sympathetic genetic leverage? It could fit into why the witches coven made it.

That actually sounds much better then what I was thinking! I'm going to update the story to include this. It makes the creature potentially much more dangerous.

I do want to see the Draft of this article if you have it/or will make it.

And by you asking I do believe that I am allowed to link to it [http://scp-sandbox-3.wikidot.com/dreaming-johnny] ^^