#i'm like diego Iuna with jabba's texture re: vecna

[bylertruther]

Hey! Regarding your post about Vecna Smell, I have what I believe to be the answer! I'm a mortician and I've dealt with bodies who have extensive burns but have now gone cold and don't have that inherent Alive Person Smell and have the Dead Person Smell instead on top of the burning. Gun to my head I can't describe the smell but boy it sure sticks with you. This is largely unhelpful and it's a burden I must bear to know what Vecna probably smells like. But meat freezer is close.

hello! thank you for sharing. :)

i like the combo of the gunpowder + sulfuric + damp wetland + meat freezer smell, because of the whole burnt to a crisp, "space traveler" + living in a musty environment and being the mustiest + living with carnivores and having dead bodies around thing. meat freezer has that stagnant thing to it, too, which fits metaphorically because the upside down and its master(s) are stuck.

i like to imagine it's one of those smells where you can taste every breath you take, or at least it feels like you can. like, overall, it's just... not something you get used to, and it gets exacerbated by the build up of spores that you're inhaling or whatever, because now it's on the inside, too. every breath, you're aware of it, but it's not like you can just stop breathing.

but it'd also be cool if it had its own... otherness? like, we could try our best to describe it, but we won't come close because this is something entirely new. like, the monsters for example. the particles. the mucus they secrete and that covers everything. whatever it is that their blood, saliva, and other bodily products would smell like, fertilizing the earth—which, speaking of, what is it made of? because that'd obviously contribute, too.

idk. i like to think about these things lol. 💙