SCP Foundation

Meat obsession: fungus comes from contact with raw/spoiled meat. host begins to disregard any and all previous relationships, interests and hobbies and after a long depressive episode (in which the fungus develops) the host become completely obsessed with raw meat. No desire particularly to consume raw meat (in fact subjects infected usually turn vegetarian, deeming cooked or prepared meat “impure” and thus inedible) just to.. Sense it. Touch it, look at it and smell it. It doesn't matter how the meat is (ground, cut, whole or even decaying/rotten) as long as it is raw. This obsession will grow until the fungus has completely taken over the brain and has covered the entire body with its mycelia network and the host enters a full psychological transformation. Hosts infected with scp- usually do not make it to the final state, as they usually become infected with salmonella and other foodborne diseases that come from constantly touching raw meat. the obsession steadily gets stronger over time. Soon the host cannot talk or think about anything other than raw meat. The host demands “purer” meat, slowly rejecting any with foreign substances and bacteria on it. The host will eventually desire the freshest “cleanest” meat possible and usually begins to solve this by frantically killing and skinning various animals. The high is short lived, as the host loses interest in the fresh meat as it is exposed to the “dirty” outside air. When killing animals becomes not enough, the host will turn to Human meat (depends actually if the person infected still retains some morals.) After humans becomes not enough, the host turns on their own body. Subjects infected with scp- tend to develop a god complex and view their own body as the pinnacle of cleanliness. The host enters a deadly state of compulsive self-mutilation, frantically trying to tear off their own skin. The host refuses to use any foreign tools to flay the skin. After the flesh is exposed the host tends to tear it off in layers as it becomes “impure”, usually ending in the host bleeding out and dying.

I feel like putting in a short history bit, detailing an epidemic in the 1820s in a cluster of secluded villiages in Ireland. Would you read it/does that sound interesting? I was thinking about maybe drawing some fake posters/medical drawings like these or these to put in the article

Should this be a different kind of infection? Like a bacterial infection or a viral infection? I wanted to include the fungi's Mycorrhizal network and how it covers the body and makes the host feel all filmy and gross. BUT I realize there are a lot much better fungus-based SCPs.