Name: Hydok Age: 24 Contact Info:hydok Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Dr. Franken Stein Canon: Soul Eater (anime) Age: 29 (estimated) Gender: Male Canon Point: Between episodes 33-34 (immediately before the Battle for the BREW arc) Background Link:Wiki. What applies to this app is everything from "Remedial Lessons Arc" to "Post Kishin's Revival" sections, the rest is manga-specific, and/or after his canonpoint.
Inventory: Clothing (lab coat, short-sleeved turtleneck shirt, pants, boots), glasses (one pair), cigarettes (pack and a half), lighter, hand-held mirror, permanent marker (one, black), wallet (with ID and some money), scalpels (3), gauze pad (1, small).
Personality:
Stein's introductory episode is a good summary of his personality. He's introduced as a shadowy, mysterious former member of the DWMA who went rogue and turned one of the school's recently-deceased teachers into a malicious zombie. His former coworkers describe him as dangerous and violent and unstable, a man who is driven by sadism and an almost uncontrollable desire to dissect anything he comes in contact with. And then his first actual appearance is him rolling out of the door of his lab on a rolling chair and falling over the doorjam. And then trying again. And falling over again. Basically, he acts like a useless goofball. For about thirty seconds, before he tells the children sent to fight him (as a school project) that he's going to dissect them, and then mercilessly attacks them. In the middle of the fight, when everything's seeming hopeless for the students, he pauses to give them a chance to regroup. Then he easily defeats them, congratulates them for passing the assignment, and reveals he'd been working for the school the entire time and hadn't really been planning on killing them (though then he invites them all to stay at his lab for the night, prompting one student to exclaim that his sadist streak is for real). The episode manages to highlight all three important sides of his personality: sadistic scientist, goofy but dedicated teacher, and determined and serious fighter.
"Everything in the world is my research material. Including myself, of course." Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of Stein's personality is his overwhelming, constant desire to dissect everything. He claims it's out of scientific curiosity, but the people who know him best know better. Like his former weapon says, Stein is just a sadistic pleasure-seeker, who hurts people because he enjoys it. As a child, Stein's sadism, poor impulse control, and overwhelming curiosity was noticeable enough that he was assessed by doctors in an attempt to determine a cause. The experience left him with a lifelong dislike of the mental health profession and a firm conviction that nothing that happened in his life caused his mental instability, that it's just an innate part of who he is. His childhood actions (whatever they were is left vague, but based on flashbacks that happen slightly later in the story, he probably tried to dissect a classmate) brought him to the attention of Lord Death, who decided that someone so blatantly drawn to violence and chaos needed to either be controlled or destroyed, and pulled Stein out of whatever mental hospital he was being kept in and trained him as a meister. As he grew up, his tendency to violently take apart anything that interested him was mostly focused into productive channels, like killing monsters and researching immoral things like how to create zombies.
"Lastly, please promise me this: that you won't lose your lives." For someone so blatantly and unapologetically sadistic, Stein is incredibly concerned about his friends, students, and even people he doesn't know. He protects his students in battles, making sure that he's the one to take on dangerous opponents and situations instead of them. When Soul, one of his students, is severely injured, Stein focuses on him instead of the opponent in the battle, and then later reassures Soul's partner that the boy is going to be fine despite Soul's condition being complicated and potentially dangerous (a case where he could have told the truth, and instead lied to protect a child's feelings). When he fights the witch Medusa and discovers that she was using Crona, her own child, as research material for scientific experiments, he's visibly outraged. The thought of a parent harming their own child is absolutely abhorrent to him, and throughout the rest of the series he pays attention to Crona and tries to help them.
"It's too soon for me to fall apart. There are still things I have to do." Throughout much of the series, Stein is under a huge amount of stress. Essentially, his character arc is about the struggle of a mentally ill person who knows his behavior is culturally unacceptable and morally wrong, but still knows that he can't change who he is. At the beginning of the series, he seems fairly content with the situation he's in, working for Lord Death as a researcher (and long-term substitute teacher). But as the series progresses, it becomes obvious that he still has some extreme issues to work through. The turning point in the series is the reawakening of the Kishin Asura, a god of insanity and fear who's soul is powerful enough to drive the entire world insane just by existing. Because of his preexisting tendencies towards insanity, Stein is especially susceptible, and spends the majority of the series struggling with his own beliefs as he slowly slips further into hallucinations and instability. Eventually, he does manage to find a middle ground, where he realizes that the people around him care about him regardless of his behavior, but that he does want to follow the rules set in place by Death. Outwardly, his character arc ends basically where it started, but with him much more at peace with himself and his place in the world.
Flavor Abilities: Stein is extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat (he's considered the DWMA's best fighter, which means he's the most skilled human fighter in the world) and medical/surgical situations (especially trauma surgery).
After removing things that would give a survival advantage (like his soul-related powers and the accelerated healing, easily surviving things that should kill him, and jumping over really tall things that comes from being in a shonen anime), he's just a highly trained and talented human, with no flavor abilities of note. He does somehow have a giant piece of metal stuck through his skull with no apparent ill-effects but that's not so much an ability as ~anime~
Dr. Franken Stein | Soul Eater
Name: Hydok
Age: 24
Contact Info:
Other Characters: N/A
Character Information
Name: Dr. Franken Stein
Canon: Soul Eater (anime)
Age: 29 (estimated)
Gender: Male
Canon Point: Between episodes 33-34 (immediately before the Battle for the BREW arc)
Background Link:Wiki. What applies to this app is everything from "Remedial Lessons Arc" to "Post Kishin's Revival" sections, the rest is manga-specific, and/or after his canonpoint.
Inventory: Clothing (lab coat, short-sleeved turtleneck shirt, pants, boots), glasses (one pair), cigarettes (pack and a half), lighter, hand-held mirror, permanent marker (one, black), wallet (with ID and some money), scalpels (3), gauze pad (1, small).
Personality:
Stein's introductory episode is a good summary of his personality. He's introduced as a shadowy, mysterious former member of the DWMA who went rogue and turned one of the school's recently-deceased teachers into a malicious zombie. His former coworkers describe him as dangerous and violent and unstable, a man who is driven by sadism and an almost uncontrollable desire to dissect anything he comes in contact with. And then his first actual appearance is him rolling out of the door of his lab on a rolling chair and falling over the doorjam. And then trying again. And falling over again. Basically, he acts like a useless goofball. For about thirty seconds, before he tells the children sent to fight him (as a school project) that he's going to dissect them, and then mercilessly attacks them. In the middle of the fight, when everything's seeming hopeless for the students, he pauses to give them a chance to regroup. Then he easily defeats them, congratulates them for passing the assignment, and reveals he'd been working for the school the entire time and hadn't really been planning on killing them (though then he invites them all to stay at his lab for the night, prompting one student to exclaim that his sadist streak is for real). The episode manages to highlight all three important sides of his personality: sadistic scientist, goofy but dedicated teacher, and determined and serious fighter.
"Everything in the world is my research material. Including myself, of course."
Perhaps the most distinctive aspect of Stein's personality is his overwhelming, constant desire to dissect everything. He claims it's out of scientific curiosity, but the people who know him best know better. Like his former weapon says, Stein is just a sadistic pleasure-seeker, who hurts people because he enjoys it. As a child, Stein's sadism, poor impulse control, and overwhelming curiosity was noticeable enough that he was assessed by doctors in an attempt to determine a cause. The experience left him with a lifelong dislike of the mental health profession and a firm conviction that nothing that happened in his life caused his mental instability, that it's just an innate part of who he is. His childhood actions (whatever they were is left vague, but based on flashbacks that happen slightly later in the story, he probably tried to dissect a classmate) brought him to the attention of Lord Death, who decided that someone so blatantly drawn to violence and chaos needed to either be controlled or destroyed, and pulled Stein out of whatever mental hospital he was being kept in and trained him as a meister. As he grew up, his tendency to violently take apart anything that interested him was mostly focused into productive channels, like killing monsters and researching immoral things like how to create zombies.
"Lastly, please promise me this: that you won't lose your lives."
For someone so blatantly and unapologetically sadistic, Stein is incredibly concerned about his friends, students, and even people he doesn't know. He protects his students in battles, making sure that he's the one to take on dangerous opponents and situations instead of them. When Soul, one of his students, is severely injured, Stein focuses on him instead of the opponent in the battle, and then later reassures Soul's partner that the boy is going to be fine despite Soul's condition being complicated and potentially dangerous (a case where he could have told the truth, and instead lied to protect a child's feelings). When he fights the witch Medusa and discovers that she was using Crona, her own child, as research material for scientific experiments, he's visibly outraged. The thought of a parent harming their own child is absolutely abhorrent to him, and throughout the rest of the series he pays attention to Crona and tries to help them.
"It's too soon for me to fall apart. There are still things I have to do."
Throughout much of the series, Stein is under a huge amount of stress. Essentially, his character arc is about the struggle of a mentally ill person who knows his behavior is culturally unacceptable and morally wrong, but still knows that he can't change who he is. At the beginning of the series, he seems fairly content with the situation he's in, working for Lord Death as a researcher (and long-term substitute teacher). But as the series progresses, it becomes obvious that he still has some extreme issues to work through. The turning point in the series is the reawakening of the Kishin Asura, a god of insanity and fear who's soul is powerful enough to drive the entire world insane just by existing. Because of his preexisting tendencies towards insanity, Stein is especially susceptible, and spends the majority of the series struggling with his own beliefs as he slowly slips further into hallucinations and instability. Eventually, he does manage to find a middle ground, where he realizes that the people around him care about him regardless of his behavior, but that he does want to follow the rules set in place by Death. Outwardly, his character arc ends basically where it started, but with him much more at peace with himself and his place in the world.
Flavor Abilities: Stein is extremely skilled in hand-to-hand combat (he's considered the DWMA's best fighter, which means he's the most skilled human fighter in the world) and medical/surgical situations (especially trauma surgery).
After removing things that would give a survival advantage (like his soul-related powers and the accelerated healing, easily surviving things that should kill him, and jumping over really tall things that comes from being in a shonen anime), he's just a highly trained and talented human, with no flavor abilities of note. He does somehow have a giant piece of metal stuck through his skull with no apparent ill-effects but that's not so much an ability as ~anime~
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