brain vomit galore

This blog is a side blog I'll primarily use to be a shameless fandom trash to channel my godawful unmanaged adhd and is cluttered af.

Will always roll my eyes at anyone getting up in arms at Kirona and think 'they wouldn't work because <insert stupid and shallow reason like Kid hates Crona's asymmetrical bangs>' or Mastar wouldn't work 'cuz they fought a lot' (hell, lets add SoMa to that mix too) and then unironically ship Croma because 'Maka is the perfect bubbly sunshine that people Crona and Kid need' and ignoring her own issues again.

The saddest part of Soul Eater isn't that it's underrated.

I won't exactly say Kid is the least complex of the MCs as much as he's the most straightforward of the bunch. What you see on the surface from him is what you get, Kid is the one character who just expresses everything clearly, when he doesn't feel adequate he voices it, when he dislikes or likes something, he voices it, when he has ideals, he expresses it out loud, when he has doubts he expresses it both comically and seriously, you can just sit back and watch him to really get him with not much backtracking to pick up little details like the others.

What's cool is how the Black Room dance scene is memorable and non-controversial no matter where you go since it summarizes the overall theme of weapon-meister trust and Soul Harmony just fine, it can act as the signature scene that represents the whole series' theme just fine. Meanwhile the Crona rehab plot (and the iconic scene where kid Maka and kid Crona meet) is controversial in some corners of the fandom both in the west and JP because so many concerning things went unaddressed afterwards and lowkey made the characters look bad in hindsight.

So technically Soul and Maka have 'Red is Heroic' color motif while Black Star and Tsubaki have 'Blue Is Heroic' color motif

I think what's technically more tragic about Soul's sacrifice during the church is...while there's a possibility Maka could just die outright, literally split into two if she she had been the one taking blade (Soul jumping mid-transformation might have made him a little more sturdy than the 100% human Maka, hence he only got cut open) had Maka survived and the one got infected instead it was kinda implied her body would just purge the infection automatically thanks to her anti-demon wavelength, so she would never suffer its more adverse effects like Soul did.

So people like to create demon-angel imagery around Crona and Maka but I feel it didn't hit as deep (basically it's just Crona is the kid who is forced to do evil, and Maka is the good girl who saved them. How generic) as to whenever people create angel-demon imagery with Maka and Soul since when it's applied to SoMa their imageries ended up being ironic and by that alone you already brought out their multifacetedness (the angel actually suffers from being dutiful and perfect to the world because of her human flaws, the demon is desperately trying to anchor himself to the best of his humanity so he doesn't succumb to his worst flaws. She gave him a reason to be better, he gave her the permission to be imperfect)