Insane Pimping: SOUL EATER
Guess what I was up until 4 in the morning watching last night!? I am blaming fandomsecrets for this one, since they kept having secrets by the same person featuring this guy with surgical scars and glasses and floppy gray hair and patchwork clothing and what looked like a metal thing sticking out of his head. SOMEHOW THIS CAUGHT MY INTEREST, I DO NOT KNOW.
We'll get to him in a moment. Anyway. SOUL EATER! It's about these teenagers known as meisters who go out and harvest tainted/evil souls using their unique weapons which are sorta kinda bonded to them. "Keri, that's Bleach." NO IT IS NOT, for the weapons are also teenagers. Yes, shape-shifting weapons, how awesome is this? Wikipedia explains the plot: "The ultimate goal of the students with their weapons is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by the death god."
OUR HEROES:
This is Maka Albarn and her weapon, Soul Eater (everyone calls him Soul). She is a "serious person who tries hard" and is generally badass, I love her. I also love Soul, for he is lazy and snarky and made of win. His weapon form is a scythe, and... yeah, together they will pwn you. Yes, it is okay to ship them six ways to Sunday.
Black Star and his weapon Tsubaki Nakatsukasa. He's and egocentric loudmouth who FAILS CONSTANTLY and she's a patient, hardworking sweetie. She's also a morph weapon that will kill you a zillion different ways, or she would if her meister didn't, you know, FAIL SO HARD CONSANTLY. I am not as fond of them, but they're still entertaining.
Death the Kid, aka Kid, aka the son of Death (no we have no idea who his mom is) and his weapons Liz and Patti Thompson. Kid is the adorable OCD one you've all heard so much about. Liz and Patti change into GUNS. And he FIRES THEM UPSIDE DOWN using his PINKIES. I mean... how are we supposed to deal with this, other than to rant about its AWESOME.
So those are our main protagonists, the kids we follow around a lot. Now for the ever-entertaining side characters:
DeathScythe, aka Spirit, and... Death, aka Shingami-sama, aka your friendly neighborhood GOD OF DEATH. Ahem. I love him. I love them both. OH YEAH they are Maka and Kid's father's respectively. Death is just the most adorkable personification this side of all the other cutesyfied versions of death ever, and DeathScythe... oh DEATHSCYTHE. He's a womanizer and Maka kinda hates him. He's divorced from Maka's mom, who was HIS MEISTER. Yes, we have CANON meister/weapon offspring. More interestingly, his ex-wife was his SECOND meister, his first was... was... oh dear God. Know that one character in every fandom I go hopelessly batshit about?
Professor Franken Stein. YES, REALLY. And yes he has a giant screw in his head. And yes he WILL turn the screw to make himself think better. He is the most powerful meister in the history of anything ever and will be godmoding you this evening, please drop your pants, bend over, and kiss your ass goodbye. Stein will cheerfully fuck your shit up, he will perform gruesome experiments on you while you sleep for FIVE YEARS (yeah, that's Maka's dad on the table and yes I ship it like a thing which is easily shipped), and he will remain incredibly sexy while doing so. Nnnnnnnngh!
Medusa. WITCH, uber evil creepy "I shall bathe in ur blood now, fear my snakeness!" witch! She is the big bad who exists to facilitate the rise of the bigger bad, and along the way she infiltrates the meister school as your friendly neighborhood evil school nurse. Stein totally calls her on it, and she decides to try and play on his crazy and get him to join her in evil, and he's all "Thanks but no thanks" but their love is so BATSHIT that it just might work. Maybe.
*curls up in a corner and weeps*
We'll get to him in a moment. Anyway. SOUL EATER! It's about these teenagers known as meisters who go out and harvest tainted/evil souls using their unique weapons which are sorta kinda bonded to them. "Keri, that's Bleach." NO IT IS NOT, for the weapons are also teenagers. Yes, shape-shifting weapons, how awesome is this? Wikipedia explains the plot: "The ultimate goal of the students with their weapons is to have their weapons defeat and absorb the souls of ninety-nine evil humans and one witch, which will dramatically increase the power of the given weapon and thus be capable of being used by the death god."
OUR HEROES:
This is Maka Albarn and her weapon, Soul Eater (everyone calls him Soul). She is a "serious person who tries hard" and is generally badass, I love her. I also love Soul, for he is lazy and snarky and made of win. His weapon form is a scythe, and... yeah, together they will pwn you. Yes, it is okay to ship them six ways to Sunday.
Black Star and his weapon Tsubaki Nakatsukasa. He's and egocentric loudmouth who FAILS CONSTANTLY and she's a patient, hardworking sweetie. She's also a morph weapon that will kill you a zillion different ways, or she would if her meister didn't, you know, FAIL SO HARD CONSANTLY. I am not as fond of them, but they're still entertaining.
Death the Kid, aka Kid, aka the son of Death (no we have no idea who his mom is) and his weapons Liz and Patti Thompson. Kid is the adorable OCD one you've all heard so much about. Liz and Patti change into GUNS. And he FIRES THEM UPSIDE DOWN using his PINKIES. I mean... how are we supposed to deal with this, other than to rant about its AWESOME.
So those are our main protagonists, the kids we follow around a lot. Now for the ever-entertaining side characters:
DeathScythe, aka Spirit, and... Death, aka Shingami-sama, aka your friendly neighborhood GOD OF DEATH. Ahem. I love him. I love them both. OH YEAH they are Maka and Kid's father's respectively. Death is just the most adorkable personification this side of all the other cutesyfied versions of death ever, and DeathScythe... oh DEATHSCYTHE. He's a womanizer and Maka kinda hates him. He's divorced from Maka's mom, who was HIS MEISTER. Yes, we have CANON meister/weapon offspring. More interestingly, his ex-wife was his SECOND meister, his first was... was... oh dear God. Know that one character in every fandom I go hopelessly batshit about?
Professor Franken Stein. YES, REALLY. And yes he has a giant screw in his head. And yes he WILL turn the screw to make himself think better. He is the most powerful meister in the history of anything ever and will be godmoding you this evening, please drop your pants, bend over, and kiss your ass goodbye. Stein will cheerfully fuck your shit up, he will perform gruesome experiments on you while you sleep for FIVE YEARS (yeah, that's Maka's dad on the table and yes I ship it like a thing which is easily shipped), and he will remain incredibly sexy while doing so. Nnnnnnnngh!
Medusa. WITCH, uber evil creepy "I shall bathe in ur blood now, fear my snakeness!" witch! She is the big bad who exists to facilitate the rise of the bigger bad, and along the way she infiltrates the meister school as your friendly neighborhood evil school nurse. Stein totally calls her on it, and she decides to try and play on his crazy and get him to join her in evil, and he's all "Thanks but no thanks" but their love is so BATSHIT that it just might work. Maybe.
*curls up in a corner and weeps*