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Here's something that occurred to me:
Does the yukkuri death smell still happen when a yukkuri is prepared as food? Or let's say a yukkuri is eaten "raw", with their death smell "stick" to the one who consumed them (human or animal)? And would other yukkuri be able to detect this scent?
Would make for interesting story hooks...
Skribulous
No since it's cooked. other yus would smell roasted manjuu and/or caramel or whatever the filling is or the seasonings used.
Since their poo is just expired or stale filling, the death stench must be their paste core exposed or rotting. When dead, yukkuri rot, are carried off by an animal or are cleaned up pretty fast so I guess its always going to be a fresh paste smell they notice.
It also has to do with the yukkuri's intellect or knowledge of the situation. I read a story a while back where a baby Reimu was hiding when a garbage collector came and killed its family. It smelled the sweet death stench in the air.
1. It knew its family died, so it must've knew what the following smell was.
2. It knew to hide so it was smarter than the average or shitheaded baby yus.
All yukkuri except buris can recognize poo-poo (unless cooked, processed, or chilled), but not all recognize another dead yu or it's paste. So, it must have to do with intelligence.
Have a Patchouli and a Reimu hop upon a squished Marisa without a hat, and as long as it's not rotten, 9 times out of 10 the Reimu will eat her and the Patchouli won't.
So if eaten "raw", the yukkuri would probably have to see the other one eaten, have some knowledge of it being eaten, or have enough intellect to notice the smell. Besides that, I think they would just beg the human/animal to share the sweets.
Are food yus any more or less durable than regular ones? Most of them seem to wiggle their bottoms through the eating process. At what point do they just go limp?