O-04-475 is a stationary signpost with signs of sentience, it yearns for those who come near it to stay with them forever.

A sign can help those who are lost on their way, and can point them in the right direction. And for this signpost, it was a very special one. It had the magical ability to point anyone lost in any way to the right direction. For example, one day a man was stumbling around, just recently he had lost his job and had nowhere to go. Collapsing at the base of the sign post, the man started to cry.

With the sound of scraping metal, the man soon looked up to find the sign had changed its wording to "Hope". And had pointed itself towards a single paper ad on a nearby power line. Skeptical, but with nowhere else to go, the man checked out the ad.

He would soon find himself with a wonderful job not 5 days later.



One day, someone with stars for eyes had found themselves with no one to love. Around this time, the magical element of the signpost had been passed around in whispers, so they looked up to the signs on the signpost and asked for a favor.

"Oh signpost, please, I feel lost, is there any direction you can point me to?"

The signpost, wanting to help them, once again bent metal and pointed towards a young man. That young man was a long lost friend of the lost. And upon seeing them, soon ran over to them. They would soon find themselves in love, and would live the rest of their lives never lost.

As the years went on, more and more looked for help from the signpost, and each time, the metal bent, and the post pointed them to where they should go. But soon, the metal hurt to bend, and the signpost soon found itself wanting.

It had always pointed away, sending those it cared for away. They would never come back, no longer needing a signpost to show them the way.

So, it started to bend in strange ways, those who sought its guidance would find a sign bending in all sorts of shapes. Its guidance would take longer to understand, if only to have them for a few seconds more. But soon it wasn't enough, the signpost started to not point at all, instead giving riddles, once again just to keep them for a little longer.

But it still wasn't enough, then one day a friend of mine had been waiting for me under the very signpost. He wasn't lost, but the signpost cared for it all the same. I'd arrive a little later than I expected, a costly mistake. The signpost had never been with someone for so long, it had now begun to fear.

Afraid of once again sending those it cared about out to the world, it could never follow them, it could never point them in the right direction once they left. Fearing this outcome, it acted irrationally, and swung down on my friend, burying it deep into his shoulder.

It was a step even it knew was taken too far, quickly pulling itself out of my friend. He was bleeding badly, but wasn't dead. Not that it mattered, the signpost had done something terrible, and knew it would not be forgiven. It soon disappeared after, but some say they see it around, with the simple phrase "Home" written on it, still bloodied.

It no longer showed the way to others, it only yearned for the company of others, no matter what.

Made another fan abnormality again, this was based of a real signpost that always creaked when I walked by.