Post by stein on Mar 27, 2011 22:59:29 GMT -5
TEACHER
[/font][/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Franken Stein
Alias: Stein
Gender: Male
Age: Unknown
Meister Level: Three
Appearance:
Dr. Stein is a tall man with silver-gray hair and big, round glasses. He has a large screw/bolt going through his head, which he turns, often as a means to focus his thoughts. A signature hallmark of Stein's is his trademark zig-zag stitches. He has said stitches all over his body and clothing. His most notable piece of clothing is his doctor's lab coat. He is also surprisingly well built for a man his age, due to a large portion of his time being devoted to combat training.
His soul is light blue featuring his trademark stitches and single giant screw.
As a child his bolt and glasses are noticeably absent. He is also much shorter and visibly smaller than Spirit. Though seen when they are older, Stein has clearly gotten much taller than Spirit. Oddly enough, at that age he had a similar physique to Crona or Death the Kid but his facial expressions resembled Soul Eater Evans.
Personality: Being a man of science, Dr. Stein sees everything in the world, including himself, as an experiment or specimen. This is the personality that he had as a child, as he often wanted to dissect the people around him. He was often stopped by Spirit. This personality trait made all those around him afraid of him. This strange hobby of wanting to dissect anything he thinks is interesting was still present, even when Stein became an adult, and once as part of a lesson, tried to have his class dissect an endangered animal, claiming that it would be bad if he did not find out anything from it before it became extinct. Stitching across his face suggests that he had worked on himself at one point.
He also exhibits a sadistic and intimidating personality. During his battle against Maka and Black Star, he would grab Maka by one of her ponytails, lift her shirt up and marks on her body, to signify where he would put the knife through, and thinks where he whether he should turn her skin into sandpaper. When Black Star tried to attack him, he countered by knocking Black Star out in a seemingly painful and bloody manner that made it seem as though he was killed. His smiles are normally filled with sadistic and dark intentions.
Stein seems to have dormant insanity. He has even admitted that he is especially sensitive to it. Medusa even stated that he is prone to insanity and a simple push was enough to drive it to surface. Stein ultimately did go insane and struggled to maintain it. He even quit smoking as a way convince himself. When struggling to maintain his madness, his personality was shown to make a drastic change, especially from his naturally curious personality to someone who did not care at all for the ongoing investigation at that time. He would soon lock himself up in his house when he was suspected and was even unsure of himself on whether he actually did kill BJ, even after he had locked himself up.
He has a habit of smoking to the point that he is seen with one in nearly all his appearances outside of battle. He even smokes a specific brand of cigarette. The lady he buys them from imports them just for him. His propensity to smoke was used against him when Spirit and the rest suspected that he killed BJ, purely due to the fact that a cigarette brand he smokes was at the crime scene and he smelled of cigarette. When he went insane, he stopped smoking because he believed he would not be able to stand his madness if he could not stand against his habit.
Emotionally, Nygus has described him as always alone and that he has no love in him. He has admitted that he can't understand Spirit's reaction to Maka asking him to go out shopping. This shows he can't feel deep emotions other than the need to dissect whatever interests or irritates him. This tendency likely seems to be more destructive or psychotic, which explains his dormant madness. He has shown to be a bit morally bankrupt, at least back in his youth. In Sid's flashback, he questioned Sid's decision to adopt Black Star, who was a baby. This suggests that if it were Stein's decision, he would have left Black Star. His immorality is supported further by his repeated experiments on Spirit back when they were kids.
Despite this cruel and twisted personality, Stein does have a kind and compassionate side that worries for the people around him and he feels the need to protect them. He also exhibits a rather paternal demeanor towards his students. He also expressed deep disgust and moral outrage towards Medusa for regarding Crona as nothing but refuse and research material. It is never stated when this other personality arose, it could be assumed it happened after Spirit left him and went with Kami.
History: The following fallows the storyline in chronological order according to the Soul Eater Wiki.
Stein's first appearance in the manga occurs when Maka, Soul, Black Star and Tsubaki appear in front of his home, on orders to capture his soul by Shinigami. Stein provoked this order by transforming Sid into a zombie. He comes outside, after tripping and falling off of his chair, and takes note of the Shibusen kids. Stein, using his advanced Soul Perception abilities, looks at Maka's and Soul's wavelength, and proceeds to tell them that, Maka's soul, who is serious and a hard worker, does not stabilize well with Soul's sarcastic and twisted soul.
Black Star then interrupts their conversation, stating how boring it is, and recommends them to start one strictly about himself. Stein then views Black Star's soul and states it is "a terribly self-absorbed soul." With that said, Black Star proceeds to kick Stein, only to be blocked and quickly given a powerful punch. He then notices Black Star's partner, Tsubaki, and notes that her soul is very co-operative and has plenty of room to accept people. After that, Stein states he will start the session.
Despite the efforts of both Black Star and Maka, Stein easily dodges and counters all of their attacks, all the while still remaining seated on his chair. Stein then displays his powers by striking Maka's weapon and disrupting their wavelength. Stein then grabs Maka and threatens to dissect her, only to be interrupted by Black Star, who manages to connect his Big Wave. Unfortunately, it is ineffective, as Stein managed to match his wavelength with Black Star, nullifying the attack. He then attacks Black Star, releasing a Soul discharge upon Black Star, apparently killing him.
Soul, angered by this, proceeds to attack Stein, only to be stopped by Maka, who is daunted after seeing the size of Stein's soul, and concedes that the difference between their strength is insurmountable. Soul, however, refuses to give up and, through a small pep talk, manages to rekindle Maka's fighting spirit. Together, they conduct a resonance between their wavelengths and performs Witch-Hunt Slash. Stein is not daunted by this and takes the attack, barehanded. With some sign of actual effort, he manages to break it, knocking Maka away. Before he can put his hands on the fallen Maka, Soul appears and guards her. Stein, impressed, pats Soul on the head and gives him a passing grade for being willing to protect his Meister with his own body. He reveals that this was all a plan orchestrated by Shinigami and, as it turns out, Black Star was not killed, but merely knocked unconscious.
The next day, much to the dismay of the children, Stein is shown to be their new teacher.
As the new teacher, Stein decides to take a different route in his teaching by dissecting a natural world souvenir animal. He is, however, interrupted when he is forced to supervise the battle between Death the Kid, and Soul and Black Star. He then preps Maka on the stability of Kid and his two weapons; noting that they respect and admire each other.
After Maka and Soul intially encountered both Crona and Ragnarok, a battle ensued between the two pairs. The battle begins to go in Crona's favour and Maka looks to be in serious trouble. However, before the final blow is dealt on Maka, Spirit and Stein appear just in time to save Maka from Crona. With Maka saved, Spirit transforms into his weapon form, wielded by Stein, and prepares to do battle with Crona. During this battle, Stein deftly wields Spirit, blocking all of Crona's attempts to damage him and retaliating with his own devastating Soul Purge. After prolonged abuse by Stein, Crona is eventually defeated. It is then that Medusa, Crona's mother, appears. After scolding the unconscious Crona for failing, she proceeds to attack Stein with her Vector Arrow. Performing a Soul Resonance, Stein uses Witch-Hunt Slash to deflect the arrows. After this failed attempt, Medusa takes Crona and makes her escape.
Back in the infirmary, Stein confronts Maka and tells her that the procedure on Soul was a success. This cheers Maka up. Though, when confronted by Spirit, Stein reveals that the surgery was fine, but the Black Blood of Ragnarok has invaded Soul's body, and is unsure if he will be okay.
After he tries to kill Medusa, and the Kishin revives, Stein mentions that the kishin's wavelength brings out the Madness in everyone. He himself notices that since his own madness is extremely large already, this effect could come to his madness possessing him. Shinigami also sees this, and has Death Scythe watch Stein closely. Marie Mjolnir is assigned to be Stein's new partner as her soul wavelength is supposed to have a calming effect on the madness. After Medusa takes the form of a little girl, she instructs Crona to slip a snake into Marie's coffee which increases Stein's madness wavelength, and at one time renders him unable to fight. Even without this magic, Stein is slowly losing the fight against his madness, and he knows it. Stein is implicated as the murderer of a fellow Shibusen colleague, Joe Buttataki, but Death Scythe, Mira Nygus and Sid believe Stein is innocent and allow him to escape Shibusen with Marie to find the real culprit.
Stein only reappears after discovering the truth behind Joe's death, revealing that it was in fact Justin Law, a fellow death scythe, who had comitted the murder. It is then explained that his and Marie's long absence was due largely to the difficulty in discovering Justin's current location. Marie firstly questions Justin about his reason for killing B.J., only recieving simply the reply that his "Soul Perception ability was too dangerous...the kishin-sama was unable to rest easily". After hearing this and deducing that his next target was Maka, she charges towards him and hits him in the chest. It appears her attack has little effect but after extending part of her weapon from her fist, Justin is sent flying yet he still manages to recover in mid-air to land safely. Observing this ineffective result, Stein questions her on whether or not she was now even, before asking her to assume her weapon form so both her and Stein could go on the offensive. The resulting speed, enhanced by Marie's abilities, easily overwhelms Justin, who couldn't even re-act to their attacks, forcing him to retreat using an artifact. This leaves Marie and Stein in the desert outskirts of Death City, with nothing but the coffin Justin left behind.
When Stein and Marie eventually return to Shibusen, both they and Spirit are brought before Shinigami. They all proceed to apologize for their individual transgressions, with Stein focusing upon how his running away was in flagrant defiance of the regulations. Shinigami appears unfazed and simply asks for all of them to say sorry. Stein then reveals that he has uncovered proof of his innonence and of the true culprit. Marie takes out a tape recorder and plays back what was supposed to be their previous conversation with Justin, unfortunately all that was recorded was 5 full minutes of his background music. Stein smiles and light heartedly comments upon the situation, before Spirit reveals that he had been conducting his own investigation, proving Justin as B.J.'s murderer. Stein replies by stating the information they had discovered, specifically concerning Justin's acquaintance with someone with magical connections.
Stein is seen again discussing with the members of "Spartoi" as to what it the groups name means and why it was changed.
Tezca, Sid, Nygus, Marie, and Stein arive at Noah's place. Tezca is killed as soon as he walked in, then Sid and Stein are attacked by one of many of Noah's 'worm' things. Later on, he is restrained by Noah, however seems to be freed as the Spartoi members jump out the book. He refers to himself as "fatally injured" and he may die.
Currently 1 year later, Stein is perfectly fine, and continues to teach at Shibusen.
Soul Resonance:
- Soul Menace - The technique is a form of self resonance which is only known to be usable by Stein and Black Star. By resonating with one's own soul the user can drive their own soul wavelength directly into an opponent's body through a physical strike on them. This can cause strong direct and internal damage, it is even capable of damaging someone who is being protected by black blood. It is later discovered by Black Star and Kid that the Soul Menace technique is enhanced by water as water seemingly conducts soul wavelength energy better than air does.
- Soul Perception - By focusing on an individual soul, a skilled Soul Perception practitioner can actually "read" a soul and make accurate judgments about the person's characteristics, personality and wavelength. Knowing the wavelength of a soul can allow a skilled meister to match or disrupt the opponent's wavelength in or outside of combat.
One of the more important functions of Soul Perception is allowing a human to differentiate between the soul of a normal human and the soul of a witch, since there is little physical difference between the two. Over centuries of war the ability of Soul Perception originally evolved in normal humans to expose witches who were hiding among their population. Eventually witches developed the magic ability called Soul Protect to hide their souls from those who possess Soul Perception, rendering this function of Soul Perception useless.- Successive Palm Soul Menace - A variation of the Soul Menace technique, that instead rapidly hits an opponent three times in succession, using the same fist. The attack inflicts enough internal damage to cause the target to bleed from the mouth, as displayed during its only demonstration against Medusa, in the fight occuring in the midst of her operation to revive the Kishin.
- Two Palm Soul Menace - This is a variation of the attack Soul Menace that instead makes use of both hands, rather than just one. The attack works using the same principle as its one handed version; that by resonating with one's own soul, the user can drive their own soul wavelength directly into an opponent's body through a physical strike on them, causing strong direct and internal damage. However, due to the inclusion of an extra hand, the attack's power is greatly amplified and able to incapacitate even strong opponents.
- Soul Thread Sutures - an attack that Dr. Stein displays during his fight with Medusa, when battling deep underground the school. It works by attacking an individual with your own soul wavelength and having both the weapon and meister concentrate on the soul wavelength residue that is still inside of an enemy, causing the residue soul wavelength to attach it's self through the skin to a surface, locking their movements and leaving them open for attacks.
It is also possible to use these stitches to thread the users own soul wavelength onto a surface, to hold themselves in place so as not to be pushed back or pulled forward by enemy attacks, as shown when Dr. Stein attached himself to the ground.
It is necessary to have a weapon to be able to concentrate in order to maintain the stitching and to strengthen and control the soul wavelengths. This is so the meister is still able to attack and defend as needed while using it on an enemy. It is also necessary for a meister to learn to be able to channel their soul wavelength through their body into an enemy for an attack.
Performance: Stein is not only a physically strong fighter but he is also well versed in numerous martial techniques; that when combined with his high level of intelligence and adaptability, make for an extremely potent combination, so much so that he was able to take down Maka and Black Star while still seated in his chair.
Stein's understanding of soul wavelengths gives him a huge advantage against other users, since he can manipulate his own to match the other's wavelength and thereby nullify or disrupt the soul wavelength of the meister and weapon. This comes from his high spiritual flexibility and accurate observation of his opponent beforehand. He is also capable of greatly modifying his own wavelength so as to make use of any weapon he is paired with. However, his soul wavelength is so high that he does not need a weapon, and can instead channel it through his body and release it as an electric charge.
But, even though, Stein is no superman, and really can't beat everyone. Stein is known for his combat abilities, but some people do match him, or even out match him.
OOC
[/font][/blockquote][/blockquote]Name: Soulix
Age: In the embryo phase. {not srsly}
RP Experience: 2-3 Years
Password: Rainbow
RP Sample:
Stein waltzed down the sidewalk of Death City, the daytime shining with brightness. He was in a calm trance, churning his bolt that resides in his head. He studied the houses, the scenery that he strolled through. The streets were lightly populated, a few pedestrians conversing, or simply going about their business -- all of them teenagers. Stein stayed silent as he hurried his walk, becoming more hasty to make it to his destination. He wasn't in a talkative mood today, he denied to make eye contact to anybody as he looked ahead, his coat flailing behind him. Despite it being a large city, it was very windy -- it would've been brutal outside of the city; the wind would've been a lot stronger. It was strange, but accepted as it hadn't really caused any damage.
He felt a light tug on his coat, Stein stopped in place and turned to the youngling. It was a student, and his weapon behind her."Hi, Stein! What are we going to do in class tomorrow?"
Stein blinked, and kept a straight face.
"... I'll think about it." He said, although he already knew what he was to do tomorrow for the lesson. He shoo'd off the students, and continued his walk down the street's path.
