#This just feeds into my theory even more but it'd a trivial detail lmao

[hermitw]

It didn't rly fit into my Suguru Geto did nothing wrong theory post, but hear me outtt

or tell me if this super obvious and I just didn't notice until now??

Geto's CT tastes rly, rly bad. The years he's spent swallowing curses has made him associate that taste with non-sorcerers (bc they create the curses). Since taste and smell go hand in hand, it would linger in his senses.

No one else can smell it, of course, it's only in Geto's sinuses. So they're like...?? Ok dude, whatever.

It's also interesting that Gojo and Geto's techniques involved a sort of sensory hell, and were mentally draining.

Gojo was able to overcome this by covering his eyes and using RCT. But Geto had no relief. As long as he was absorbing curses and breathing, he could taste them.

Edit to add:

Monkey makes sense as a descriptor - I can't think of any other fitting metaphor (though the idea was born from Toji's words in the first place).

Even the non-violent sorcerers like Mrs. Sa(ito) and her daughter, who seek out help and benefit from Geto's services, are in the animal realm - at the mercy of whatever happens to them, of how sorcerers and curses treat them. They can't see or understand or control these things themselves.

And the non-sorcerers calling for ignorant violence are like monkeys wielding knives (which is why I have this fear of monkeys. Stop stealing knives!! No other animal does this. Respect your hand privileges).

Additionally - I've been searching my own memories with monkeys. And I cannot remember actually seeing them - but the first, the main flashback I always get about the zoo, is the monkey smell.

And Geto having to endure that stench left from the non-sorcerers' leaking cursed energy... Monkey just fits.