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[ignes_fatui]

Man I probably should've had this up earlier but basically, Ienzo has a sort of sixth sense that allows him to detect the nature of a person's heart and also a superhuman sense of smell for some reason. What does this mean for you? About as much as you want it to because canon never explains anything about it. Basically if there's something that you do want Ienzo to be able to tell about your character here's a place to tell me about it.

POSSIBLE EXAMPLES INCLUDE:

• What they actually smell like (note that he's about on par with a bloodhound)
• Their species! Are they a nonhuman that looks really human shaped or a human that got changed into something else? (Nemo you were a horse for long enough that he didn't pick up on that sorry)
• Any other miscellaneous fuckery you think makes sense! In the last game he was in Ienzo noted that the Troll and Human Karkats were incredibly similar despite being completely different species, and canonically people who are possessed read as their possessor rather than themselves to his weird senses.

NOTE THAT ALL OF THIS IS NEBULOUS ENOUGH THAT YOU CAN ALSO OPT OUT EVEN IF YOUR CHARACTER FITS ANY OF THE ABOVE!

Also he has the magical ability to remove external mental influences temporarily but anything serious like, say, possession would require a lot of conscious effort on his part so generally just be aware that bumping into him while drunk is not the best way to stay drunk.

Comments

[spare_parts]

I am not sure if this counts, but! Dist is actually a computer program, or he was, and though he is sentient and independent now there may be something off about him. He is also deeply depressed about his circumstances and hides it behind a very flamboyant mask, hiding fear with anger whenever he can. He doesn't want to show any weakness due to his rather... abusive "friends" from his childhood.

I will add more as I think of it!

[kingroadie]

Ienzo has all my approval to sense the fact Eddie is a half demon. Being half demon in his world means Eddie probably has the weirdest smells possible, I.E: what a heavy metal concert smells like, latex/leather and blood.

Due to being in fac for so long, he probably has the linger scent of fear kind of sticking around along with disinfectant. If anything those would be kinda tied to his black collar. Being experimented on for 3 years kind of left him probably smelling like a lab too.

[amourtician]

it's completely redundant for me to comment, since we've discussed this to hell and back, but ienzo should pick up that jay is DFAB, not human, a magic user, a heavy smoker and wears way the fuck too much perfume. mostly he smells like perfume and sometimes like tobacco, if he's been smoking recently.

also: like make-up. honestly, after a long day, he smells kind of like a theatre dressing room.

[chalicejoker]

Hajime is an Undead. In his canon, that just means he's immortal. He's really a horrible world-destroying bugmonster who has taken human form and found he likes it. Joker, the bugmonster part of his personality, is kept strongly under wraps. He smells like giant malevolent ancient bug and Mayfield data clone. He's a photographer who insists on developing his own film, so there's probably a hint of the scent of photographic chemicals lingering around him as well.

[spitefulvitae]

Natalie is a vampire of the Nosferatu clan, and she smells awful even to a non-bloodhound nose. A bit of mildew, a bit of rot and decomposition, and usually a lot of old-lady rose-derived perfume layered on top of that. The smell of blood is often present, too, and probably that Mayfield data-clone scent if that's something that ought to have a scent.

Also, her heart is as dark as fuck. Her primary motivating emotions are fear and jealousy, and she is generally a bad person. She has a Beast, the vague personification of the various vampiric compulsions that she has, that tries to overtake her when she's frightened, angered, or famished. That's probably burbling detectably beneath the surface as well.

[preuxchevalier]

I think Ienzo probably has all of this just from knowing Bertie, BUT for completion's sake:

Bertie is your garden variety human... with wings. He smells like tea, pomade, aftershave and feathers. We're going with feathers because otherwise we're going to go the full poetry here and no one wants that. Maybe he smells a little like the sea because albatross wings. Bertie's house probably smells like honey because there's a ridiculous stock of it in the cabinets for his bees now.

I don't actually know what amount of darkness would be in him. Not a lot, but everybody's got some.

Not sure if Ienzo can actually sense Bertie's healing powers. They're generally active on a low level, though, keeping his health static, whether he realizes it or not.

[truepsychictale]

You have permissions for Sasha like we discussed in the Plurk!

And also- like Eddie, Sasha probably has that lab-disinfectant smell to him too.

[godsword]

Ok should have probably posted this earlier but -

On a mundane level, Murai usually doesn't smell like much beyond "human with good hygiene" - occasionally she may have a bit of incense scent clinging to her, but she doesn't use scented soaps or wear perfume or anything.

On a metaphysical level, well, remember that time in canon when the Shadowchild said she had a very dark shadow on her mind but that it obviously wasn't her shadow? I'd assume Ienzo would be able to perceive something similar, although I don't know if he'd necessarily be able to determine that the Darkness isn't hers. (What Darkness is rooted in her personally is primarily fear based, and there's not a lot of it.)

[earthshatter]

You know most of the deal with Aeleus' heart situation (good person who has done/seen bad things and trying to deal with it as best he can), but commenting here for the other part of things.

For the most part Aeleus smells... earthy, if that can really be called a scent. Part of this is because of his element, but also because he's just sort of general down-to-earth. He probably also smell of various teas on a regular basis after the Halloeaster event, mostly since he has them and may as well use them.

[dawnwardroad]

This isn't super necessary since both of them have smelled each other in canon but since they've changed significantly since then, I might as well elaborate.

Riku will probably always have that Xehanort's Heartless-esque stink but it's almost completely faded compared to how apparent it used to be. He also has a better balance between his light and darkness going on than during much of sburb; whatever darkness he does smell like is more his own distinct style and less the corruptive awful kind.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura is human! Pure of heart (mostly) with a lingering taint of someone who's been touched by Darkness. (also with the lingering weirdness of someone who's soul's been removed from his body, shattered, then restored. Twice.)

He mostly smells of expensive hair care products, baked goods, playing cards and pencil/wood shavings. And faintly of cat because he has one.

[deafscythe]

Justin is a guillotine in addition to being a human, so he probably smells human but with more metal/wood/blood smell. Rust from his prosthetic leg. Also he drinks too much, so a general alcohol scent is probably a thing too.

As far as the nature of his heart, he's really really broken. Pretty severe PTSD, desperately lonely, overall just a huge mess.

[scruffy_mcjackass]

Whoops, probably should have responded to this earlier! Anyway--

Dustin is human...mostly. He's a Specialist, which is a subspecies of human--close enough that it's basically indistinguishable, but I would figure that, combined with his keen sense of smell, Ienzo might be able to pick up that Dustin's brain is full of Water Element. All of his nerves are, really, but what's outside of his central nervous system are in trace amounts and probably undetectable (by smell, at least).

The specific scent would be vaguely metallic, like ozone after a lightning strike. This is different from Dustin's other biotechnological upgrades, which smell strongly of worked steel--bound together with organic musk, because holy shit this man and his testosterone would offend a stag.

Oh right--matters of heart are also relevant here. Interestingly, Dustin is not as absolutely warped as his outward demeanor shows. If anything, he's afraid of a lot of blatantly evil things--he has lingering nyctophobia, after all. Most of the darkness present in his heart is a result of trying to defend himself from those perceived threats. They are self-created, though, so. Paranoia. That's probably pretty evident and would neatly sum up the above.

[dandelioneater]

Gamzee falls under the same sort of rules as as Karkat V.S Hkat, only with any troll Gamzees. And of course, he's human.

He probably smells like baking/sweets, weed, facepaint, faygo, and the fading hint of ocean/salt-water (and according to Pyropes, blackberries but that's more likely related to their synaesthesia).

EDIT: AS FOR THE NATURE OF HIS HEART he's primarily good, very kind and warm hearted and sympathetic-- arms open to everyone-- but with a swirling whirlwind mess of easily manipulated darkness and Not Okay underneath that shows more depending on his state of mind (obviously).

[geometry]

Okay. So -- if you feel like putting it in KH terms -- Equius is a floaty soul with no heart or body, bound to a wireframe via glamour. As such, he's probably going to reek of arcane and twisted magic, and will definitely seem Extremely Un-Okay to Ienzo. In addition to that, he was originally a troll, a nonhuman alien kid which you're probably familiar with already. Other than that...

Equius' scent, other than the aforementioned magic, carries a lot of city smells -- rust, and exhaust, and shitty food, and the tears of the broken, and some things that are unidentifiable, and so on. He also tends to smell a bit of oil, though that may well just be the smears of the stuff on his pants.

If there's anything else, just ask!

[subtleserenity]

Zoe is a magical Fae rifle who smells like smoke and gunpowder. We've talked about this a little on Plurk, but I think he'd be able to tell that she's not wholly human and could probably trace the strongest sense of her 'heart' to the rifle she carries. He's also welcome to see her spiritual form beyond the Wyrd illusions that others will naturally see.

EDIT: Oh, and in terms of Darkness, she's got a heck of a lot in her. Her whole being has been warped and bent to the purpose of battle. There is a spark of light in her, though, just one that's masked, rather like her changeling form.

[ajealouswind]

Kain also has a wireframe body from the tower, so he's got the same kind of weird crap going on as Equius does. Lots of artificiality and Soul Problems. (Though I do suspect that the glamour effect that tries to make him seem human is thickly layered atop it? But not so thick that Ienzo can't sense through it. Because that is more awesome.)

The glamoured scent (and the one that he'll have once he's back in his own body) Is generally lacking in magic, and he smells of crisp air, sweat, leather and metal, and whatever scents are given off by profound jealousy and self-worth issues. There is lingering darkness within him, that is desperately trying to be held in and stamped down.

[photonicfighter]

Dakki smells artificial. Like, polymers and plastics and energy fields and stuff. But beneath the artificiality, she still has a full heart-soul-body thing going on. (Because of the way that her home universe's tech works, the "photon reactor" that acts as her power supply gives off particles/waves of that universe's magic power/spirit stuff, which over time integrates with her processor-based consciousness, to form an actual soul.) CASTs are weird, man. CASTs are weird.

If he's assessing her for overall darkness quotient, it's pretty low. Not entirely absent, but she's an extremely good-hearted person.

[sanctus_dei]

Theo is human! He'd smell a lot like alcohol, cigarettes, and ashes. Not just from the smokes, but from spell components - so plants, animals and even humans. His heart would be a very chaotic place, so his intentions might be hard to read. He's a ruthless person with a lot of power who goes after what he wants, is paranoid and trusts almost no one, but also seeks approval and attention from anyone who will give it. Tis a tough life.

Elmer is a human! Kinda. Sorta. He's an immortal one, given this gift by a demon. It's eluded to in canon that this has made them all into inhuman monsters of sorts, but the characters aren't totally certain. It is a mystery. Elmer probably smells like the outdoors, since he spends a lot of time running all over the landscape doing lord knows what. As far as intentions, hoo boy. Elmer is completely true when he says he only cares about your smile. But that's literal. That's all he cares about. Smiles are like objects to be collected, and he's a selfish S.O.B. who'll do anything to get one from you. He doesn't care how you actually feel, just if the smile is for real (and he will KNOW).

[erythristic]

Grell is a grim reaper, so she definitely doesn't smell human despite looking like one. On the surface it'd just be probably florals or something else nature-y and tea, while her real scent is something like metal, blood, clean laundry, and old books. Probably a tinge of something chemical as well since she's a Facility clone.

As for her heart, it's definitely got darkness swirling around it and in it--she has a lot of suppressed emotions as well as her violent tendencies, and with all the memories she has to keep straight it's got some chaos in there.

[fusionjack]

Isaka is an Undead like Hajime was, who goes around in a human guise. He is less a "world destroying bug monster" and more a "combat-ready bird monster". But he'd probably read as an awkward mix of actual human and this old, malignant thing. His heart is half of one thing and half of another.

Regular scent-wise, he generally smells of expensive cologne, hair care products, and a hint of liquor.

[pythianpixie]

Alice is a vampire! But she's been a vampire for like... almost a century, so I don't know if that matters. I forget how he read her in JJ when they were both there, if he met her at all?

He can smell that she's different if you'd like, but I'd like to hold off on him figuring out exactly what she is, if you can work it like that? She's going to deny everything if he asks her about it, until she's at a point where she might trust him a little.

[jumpthegun]

John is a human. At the point he's taken, Ienzo may be able to smell the nanomachines inside of him??? They were important for doing things like stopping massive radiation poisoning. I'm not sure what they'd smell like. Metallic? John probably has a metallic smell. Thanks, Norfinbury. He also drinks a massive amount of tea, so there's that.

Otherwise, he looks and smells like a fairly unremarkable person. No magic!

There is a significant amount of Darkness in his heart, but it's balanced out by light. Half and half? I'm not sure if Ienzo can sense relative amounts. But John has a strong heart and there's a lot of Light and a lot of Darkness.

[voiceinthephone]

Phil Gray is a werewolf due to Maeve Shenanigans (TM) in which he goes through either lunar transformations or spontaneous emotional transformations. He tends to keep a lid on it with the red cloak he wears everywhere

Smells: He smells of baked goods but underneath that there is the scent of earth and meat. He smells vaguely canine as is but he's unaware of this smell.

Darkness-wise? He might have some, mostly due to regret, self-loathing and a deep hatred/need for revenge against the Purple Guy, the Maeve, and most recently the queen of Eros.

[telecosmetic]

Eliza is human, but with the ability to transform into an alternate magical girl form. She probably has a bit of a faint sweaty smell overlaid with cheap soap/shampoo, because that's what you get when you're a traveling trainer who stays at hotels a lot. She might also have a faint smell of blood, since she died but got brought back with her body being healed, but no mention of what happened to her clothes. So I'm going to say they probably have a bloody smell that won't go away anymore.

She's a kind-hearted person, but she can be very cruel if she decides she doesn't like someone, and her morality is also kind of twisted thanks to the place she came from. She's way more forgiving of murder than she should be now, as long as the killer is someone she likes.

[exequies]

Oh gosh, I totally forgot to fill this out.

So at UT's introduction into WtL, he had been stripped of all of his powers. But now he's wished for most of them back. He's not exactly a human, but is instead a human spirit who's been granted some exceptional abilities, and is classified as a Grim Reaper. They're a neutral party that exists somewhere between demons and angels. In fact, demons are their natural enemies due to the fact that they steal and devour the souls they're supposed to collect.

That being said, Undertaker is a deserter who has previously decided to tamper with bringing the dead back to life. He probably has an air of darkness about him just because he isn't completely a good guy, and has done some pretty awful things in the past. Like, kill over a thousand people in one incident. But neither is he entirely bad since he's been shown to be capable of love and considerable devotion to the people he's close to.

So idk, do what you want with this??

[aigue]

-Renart smells musky like a fox thanks to her tail. She's got a violet gland, so think super musky violet I guess, I have never smelled a fox before. Apparently it is not the most pleasant thing.

-She looks 90% human, but has: a big fluffy fox tail, fox ears (no human ears), gold eyes and very pronounced canines. A bunch of figure references. She is however 100% nonhuman and created by humans. Essentially in her world humans have belief, which when enough of them believe in something it becomes real. Most of the population isn't aware this is a thing, and it generally meant magic/folktale/fairytale creatures became real when enough humans heard their stories. So to summarize she started out a normal fox, died, became renowned enough that her shenanigans turned into the Reynard Cycle, and now is basically a folktale that humans inadvertently believed hard enough in. Sort of like American Gods mixed with Fables if you know those.

-HER HEART ISN'T IN HER BODY WHOOPS. Her heart/mind/soul/being takes the form of a book (her Story) and her physical foxlady body is used to be able to interact with the world. There's a magical connection that connects the two and can be broken through magic nullification. In games she normally keeps said book hidden somewhere because it's as strong as an average book, and if it gets damaged she dies.

I think that's all. Let me know if you have any questions.

Edit: She also has a lot of darkness in her heart because she spent hundreds of years being an evil villain and doing terrible things like mind controlling mass amounts of people. She's lightened up these days though and is no longer nearly as bad, so there's still some light.

[devoutish]

Alfie is 100% human and always has been! In the Meadous, where he can actually bathe, he'll probably mostly smell faintly of sweat and unscented soap. Or of Royce, tbh, because they're attached at the hip.

If detecting the nature of a person's heart involves morality stuff, you're free to have him sense that Alfie is kind of a bad dude - not to psychopath levels (his emotional range is pretty standard), and he's still capable of doing good/caring about people/feeling remorse/etc., but he can do and has done some pretty nasty things, and usually doesn't feel remorse. There's no compulsion element there either, so when he is violent it's not because he lost control or was taken over by darker impulses or anything like that. He knows perfectly well how to not be violent and terrible when he doesn't want to be.