What is a Vecna or rather who is Vecna, why is he in Hawkins and why is he targeting teens? These are some of the queries that revolve around the new Stranger Things season 4.
From season 1 to season 4, in each new season, things have gotten worse and out of hand. Season 1 only had a monster who was trying to break into our world from upside-down later in season 2. However, Mind Flayer, a truly bad monster got introduced and it was only the beginning of far worse.
In season 3 Mind Flayer was in the world. It was a fatal threat not just to Will Byers but to other people in Hawkins as theory was dying and the town was getting broken and was actually like it was cursed. Moreover, it can be said that all these events over some years in Hawkins were just a build-up that led to the return of Vecna in season 4 as a villain.
Who is Vecna?
Vecna is the new antagonist of Stranger Things. He is a monster that comes from upside-down and starts a killing streak by murdering Hawkins residents. However, it starts with death in episode 1 of Chrissy who is a cheerleader.
An incarnation of true evil, he gets his name from a Dungeons and Dragons character of the same name. Eddie & Dustin are fans of Dungeons and Dragons and find some resemblance between the two characters.
Just like in Dungeons and Dragons the character, Vecna also lives in another world. However, Vecna comes into our world to create mayhem by punishing his victims and murdering them in the most brutal manner possible. Later in the 7th episode, it was exposed that Vecna was Henrey Creel who is just like Eleven and possesses abilities.
How did Henrey become Vecna?
Henry’s back story is shown in bits and pieces through season 4 as the Hawkins group finds out about Victor Creel. Victor is Henry’s father, he was the sole survivor of cruel attacks in 1950. The attack killed his daughter and wife, and Henrey was found unconscious without even a scratch. Allegedly Henrey was the one to carry out those attacks on his family murdering them and falling into a coma right after. After this event, Dr Brenner took him as subject 001 in the same program in which Eleven was.
Eleven can recall him through the visions and flashbacks. She remembers her interactions with Henrey at the Hawkins lab. She remembers him with the name “Peter”. In the final episode 7, it was shown that the havoc was caused by Henrey Creel. However, it was not Eleven at the Hawkins lab who tried to eliminate Eleven when she denied helping his plan.
The two end up fighting in which Eleven overpowers Henrey and sends him down where he was confounded and incapacitated by the monster we know as Vecna.
Vecna’s Powers
It is difficult to identify Vecna’s curse because it depends on the story created by Dungeon Masters. In the show, Vecna preys on the individuals who have suffered past trauma and uses it to bind them upside-down and gain their consciousness. He wants the teenagers to turn in his team just to increase his powers.
Vecna uses his telepathic powers and identifies his next victims and attacks them remotely. He physically links them to his word and harms their bodies without even touching them.
