Specimen 9 or Taker is the ninth enemy and the secondary antagonist in the game Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion. It is a disembodied skull made of red clay that appears whenever the player stands idle for too long. At the end of the game, it's revealed to be a victim of Imperial Japan's experiments during the Second World War and will be the last monster the Protagonist has to deal with after Specimen 13.
Appearance
Taker is a red and black humanoid clay skull who seems to have collar bones extending down its neck with studs where its body and limbs used to be. It's possible that its default form is the skull of its true form.
Abilities
Specimen 9 is capable of floating towards the player and can kill them upon impact with it being one of the three enemies that can instantly kill the player in one hit along with Specimens 7 and 12, it also seems to get even more powerful once it absorbs people's bodies after killing them. At the end of the game, it has a body again and has multiple new powers such as blasting an energy sphere at the player and summoning its own minions to aid it.
Trivia
Specimen 9 also appears in the game's Dollhouse DLC where its appearance looks different and where it kill the player if they use GL Labs' tram to escape the mansion without deactivating the Spirit Seal. It doesn't seem to show up in the Endless Mode however.
Specimen 9 was possibly inspired by RED from the NES Godzilla Creepypasta.