SCP-056 is a being of variable size, gender, and appearance, which changes in response to the environment around it. These changes will generally occur the moment all people in the area lose focus on the subject. It is impossible to view SCP-056's original form. Personnel in contact with the subject often report feeling jealous or unsatisfied. SCP-056 is quite capable of speech, and can apparently communicate in any language, verbal, nonverbal dead and alive.