SCP Foundation

How can it be known it is physical code? This is something I hadn't put much more than a passing thought into, but is explained by the recent recovery section. It was created by an individual employing an anomalous 'sentience' algorithm into a generic 'evolving' artificial intelligence. They recovered the notes of the creator, who may have been somewhat of a reality bender trying to construct his own personal helper that would adapt to his needs. This also answers the question of why it is always blonde and female, that's simply the base preferences he coded into its 'avatar'. Before it takes a form for each viewer, it has to analyze what they want to see from them which takes a little while. While it is a cloud of 'television fuzz', the patterns in it can be decoded based on the bits and pieces of the code they have recorded in the creator's nodes. It's like translating a new language, think of the creators notes as a 'Rosetta's Stone' of sorts.

Is the code specifically anomalous? Yes. They know that because it can internalize info not found in a digital state, like physical things, as data it can understand. Like downloading a brick and analysing the entirety of its parts and function as a deconstructible line of data. It is also documented in the creators notes.

It can read minds? No, it can read and understand the functions of the brain. It takes it a while to understand it because brains differ from individual to individual. It is coded in that it will find an individuals preference for a female of its current age and alter its appearance to match.

It can disguise itself? It doesnt disguise itself. It can't change the integral code implemented by ita creator, it can only change what is designated as being allowed to change, namely, specifics of its appearance, digestion of knowledge, and implementation of knowledge. The creator didn't anticipate the extent it can implement that knowledge, but it will always appear human, female, and blonde, and unless it already knows your preference, it will appear as a cloud of channel static until it does analyse your preferences.

The appearance altering is tacked on… This part is integral to its origin. It's the perverse creation of a person whos dream is to be served in all functions by a cute girl. When being viewed by others, he wants them to be impressed by the appearance of his creation, and by proxy, it wants to be viewed in a similar manner. Hence the current title of 'Aphrodite', it's obsessed with its appearance because that's what it learned.

What happens if more than one person looks at it? it generates another appearance and displays that to each other person. If too many view it, it can get confused and its appearance will be inconsistent to each person. I plan to bring this up in an experiment log.

What happens if it is seen by someone without a preference of human female? Most, if not all people would have at least a preference for what they consider attractive or cute for that gender, regardless of sexuality. But it tends to be more general with its appearances in that case because the individual wouldn't have such defined tastes. If you're asexual, you can still tell the difference between an ugly child and a cute child, right? That's the gist of how it works.