User blog comment:Toadgamer80/The parody fic!/@comment-1956487-20110816012758/@comment-1874924-20110816020435

I found the reference to MrD having no sense of smell amusing, because that's actually one of my real-life afflictions. I don't remember what the condition is called, but the cause is an abnormality in fetal development where the bones around the sinuses form before the olfactory nerves. This results in a greatly diminished sense of smell (or none at all) because the olfactory nerves are still there, but have no access to the environment.