What is the Pestilence

[76561198834439489]

I’ve been wondering that since 2017 when I first read about SCP-049 and I still haven’t found an answer.

So what do you think the Pestilence is? Is it a virus, a Bacteria, a Prion, a Parasite, a Nanovirus, a STD?

And how does it spread? Can you get it easily like the flu or is sexual contact needed to get it?

They should hire me to interview SCP-049, I can make sense out of the Pestilence by asking the real questions.

[Skull kid]

well in my opinion the pestilence is life. 049 has no love for other living creatures and see's them as impure so he "cures" them and makes them mindless and undead. he won't stop until the whole world is dead and are his zombies

[Hund]

funnily enough i've seen a theory of the complete opposite, that 049 is curing death. pretty sure we don't have confirmation over whether his zombies die of old age or not, and doesn't he say his work isn't perfect yet? that's why the foundation can still shoot them

[Otávio,o avestruz radical]

One theory that I've seem is that 049 is schizophrenic. There is no pestilence or anything, 049 is just mentally insane.

[OnionMan]

049's excuse to kill and experiment on people.

[Rekutor]

Originally posted by Violet The Femboy:

well in my opinion the pestilence is life. 049 has no love for other living creatures and see's them as impure so he "cures" them and makes them mindless and undead. he won't stop until the whole world is dead and are his zombies

yea no not possible

[Rekutor]

Originally posted by Otávio,o avestruz radical:

One theory that I've seem is that 049 is schizophrenic. There is no pestilence or anything, 049 is just mentally insane.

He claims some people have it and some people dont

[Otávio,o avestruz radical]

Originally posted by Rekutor:

Originally posted by Otávio,o avestruz radical:

One theory that I've seem is that 049 is schizophrenic. There is no pestilence or anything, 049 is just mentally insane.

He claims some people have it and some people dont

Ok, and? It seems completely arbitrary who has it and who doesn't.

[76561198834439489]

Maybe the Pestilence is aids and 049 refuses to talk directly about it because he’s from a different time, when talking about sex was a taboo. That’s why he avoids directly answering the researchers.

The reason why the facility has a lot of infected people is because 106 occasionally breaches containment to spread the Pestilence.

[CD's_nuts]

clearly that world-ending anomaly doesn't have the pestilence, right 049? clearly you don't have risk dying fr trying to cure it. clearly you don't use this 'pestilence' to get away with murder.

[SpiderGlitch]

No canon reason. I've heard it could be free will, but that's no more true than the other responses

[HECU Soldier]

Originally posted by Hund:

funnily enough i've seen a theory of the complete opposite, that 049 is curing death. pretty sure we don't have confirmation over whether his zombies die of old age or not, and doesn't he say his work isn't perfect yet? that's why the foundation can still shoot them

In the end-of-death canon 049 becomes despondent, so I don't believe it's death

[RocketPillow]

Originally posted by SpiderGlitch:

No canon reason. I've heard it could be free will, but that's no more true than the other responses

Considering 049 isn't usually hostile towards most researchers, that means all of the Class-D personnel have more free will than most Foundation personnel. Ironic.

My canon: 049 sees the need to escape as the pestilence. Anyone who is discontent with their existence and needs to change something or leave behind something is automatically in desperate need of curing.

For example: experienced Foundation scientists in their ordinary work environment are not in need of the cure, as they don't feel the need to leave. Meanwhile, Class-D are prisoners, so they naturally want to get out, one way or another.

Anyone trapped in a facility undergoing a containment breach is automatically affected by the pestilence, as at that point, everyone wants to get out.

Three guards in a blacked out room. Pestilence.
A researcher roaming the quiet halls. Pestilence.
A Class-D with everything in place to escape. Pestilence.
A response team scrambled. Pestilence.
Or a Mobile Task Force entering the facility.

They're all infected with the pestilence.

[AC Seaweed]

people who dont shower

[Youkneed Swag]

Originally posted by -AC Seaweed:

people who dont shower

Looks like I'm the pestilence now.

[#1 Croque Fan]

if it were an STD, then i imagine only virgins would be spared by 049