 Item No. SCP-4597 Object Class Euclid Special Containment Procedures SCP-4597 is contained within a standard humanoid containment cell. SCP-4597's hands are to be encased in fitted gloves filled with polymer gel No. MCN-119, refreshed daily. A plexiglass partition divides the cell between SCP-4597 and SCP-4597-A. Description SCP-4597 is a young human male suffering from dermatillomania. SCP-4597's skin possesses accelerated, if flawed, regenerative properties. Observation has shown that regeneration takes only a few minutes even when entire sheets of skin are torn away. However, due to this, large portions of SCP-4597's dermis are heavily scarred and discolored. Additionally, the dead cornea stratum lair is abnormally thick, ranging from 5 to 120 mm depending on location, with SCP-4597's lips, fingers, toes, and knees exhibiting the thickest layers. SCP-4597's dead skin is abnormally difficult to cut or pierce without the use of either metal tools, lasers, or SCP-4597's teeth or nails. It also becomes gradually thicker and more durable each time it heals. SCP-4597 partially circumvents this durability by exploiting weak points, such as ingrown hairs, new calluses, existing notches, or water softened areas in order to continue its self-destructive behaviors. The living dermis exhibits no unusual durability. Once removed from SCP-4597, the dead skin becomes animate. Dead fragments will wriggle before ultimately joining an existing sapient, a morphous pile of skin fragments in the shape of a large, currently 3 meters tall, dustmite with elongated limbs, classified SCP-4597-A, held together with dried blood or pus. During initial observation of SCP-4597 while sleeping, SCP-4597-A was seen using its mandibles to bite thinner areas of SCP-4597's skin, creating small notches and using rough edges of its skin portions to sharpen SCP-4597's fingernails. In response, current containment procedures were enacted. During separation from SCP-4597-A, SCP-4597 has exhibited signs of anxiety while its condition has slowed significantly, with large sections of skin beginning to heal and decrease in thickness. Conversely, SCP-4597-A has begun to act erratically, hitting itself against the partition repeatedly and peeling and chewing on parts of itself with its mandibles.