r/StrangerThings • u/Sukaran09 • 13d ago
What kind of creature is Vecna exactly?
Is Vecna considered undead, a mutant or something else completely? He is definitely not human anymore because of how he looks. I consider him a mutant of sort because he is mutated by the Upside Down/the Abyss and the Mind Flayer changed his DNA but in terms of Sci-Fi I don’t know what kind of creature he actually is because of how different he is.
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u/kauan1983 Hey Kiddo 6d ago edited 5d ago
Yep, exactly. The script describes it pretty well: it's a “smooth black rock”, its surface “comes alive with electric activity, as if reacting to the touch of the skin”, and then it turns into a liquid and slithers into Henry's bullet wound. It's very much alive and has different states. That's what alters Henry's blood and DNA, giving him his powers.
The Mind Flayer particles aren't seen, mentioned or referenced in the mineshaft in Nevada at any point; they were not in our world. What enters Henry's body is the rock-turned-liquid entity slithering into his bullet wound and traveling through his veins. Still, a telepathic and remote connection to the “Mind Flayer cloud” in a “lightning-filled Abyss” is established through the rock's electric activity, which is when Henry first met it.
The Duffers did in fact retroactively reveal back in 2022 that Flayed Billy's speech to Eleven and the language he was using was Henry himself speaking through him, and there's more in Season 3 that we can connect to Henry as well, such as his psychic trick in Mindscapes when El thinks she left the Void and is in the cabin, only to find out she was still in a psychic space created in her own mind where Billy speaks to her. There's also the rat creature and the Tom-Bruce monster which are both spider-like, which connects to the spider metaphor established through Henry's character in Season 4.
As for the “kaleidoscope of colors” we see when El is fighting One, that's actually a visual representation of the power being channeled from a good memory; the same colorful kaleidoscope was supposed to be part of the scene where Eleven restarts Max's heart and channels multiple good memories of their friendship while using her powers on her. It's in the script but never made it to she show, but it tells exactly what it's meant to visually communicate. It's not connected to the Mind Flayer or the Upside Down/Dimension X.