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Character Information
Name: Maka Albarn
Canon Origin/Series: Soul Eater
School Year: 3rd
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Out of school living location: Bloomsbury, Camden borough, London. Both of her parents work in the Ministry or at least both until Mama left and Spirit is too squeamish to go very far daily in the Floo network.
Blood status: Halfblood
Personality: Maka was described as a serious person that tries hard, this is true to some extent but there's a lot more to Maka than that. She does try hard with a lot of aspects in her life due to her want to be the best and most self-sufficient she can be and create a deathscythe more powerful than the one her mother created. She studies to get the best grades she can (and even finds the learning and testing parts fun) and she fights hard (oftentimes without thinking because she knows if she has time to think she'll start worrying and not do it, having courage is important after all. Though with some situations she eventually realizes that she needs to step back and think for a moment.) Maka is not completely serious all the time, she's actually quite friendly to most people that don't appear to be out to cause trouble (much to the annoyance of her more cynical partner, Soul). As a friend, Maka is as supportive as she can be given her fairly limited view of some things and even if some of her friends annoy her.
However, there are less than desirable aspects to Maka as well. Actually, some things about her personality can get downright ugly when her emotions run high (and, subsequently, greatly upsets and throws her off) or when something aggravates the various issues/complexes she has. Though Maka is quite confident in her abilities and works hard to keep herself strong so she can protect her friends, she tends to become obsessive with perfecting things and REALLY stubborn, making sure her friends safe and getting the job done even through risking her own life. Sometimes she even loses her temper and becomes violent (though this is mostly towards Soul.) OH AND BY THE WAY, she has an inferiority complex, trust issues, holds some serious grudges and is a misandrist.
Canon Background: Maka Albarn is one of the three main meisters in Soul Eater and the first character introduced in the story. Her partner and friend is Soul Eater (mostly called Soul) Evans, a boy that can turn into a scythe for her to wield. She's a student at Shibusen, a school run by the Grim Reaper that trains meisters, the wielders of weapons, and weapons, the people that can turn into weapons. They hunt down kishin souls (souls that have become corrupted) and witches to protect the peace. Maka's father, Spirit (who is referred to as Death Scythe), is also a scythe that's one of the Grim Reaper's weapons called a "deathscythe" and her mother was his previous meister (though before the series started, they divorced and Maka holds a grudge against him for his womanizing).
Maka and Soul gathered 99 kishin souls as it's the goal of all Shibusen meisters to gather 99 kishin souls and one witch's soul so their weapon partner can be made into a powerful deathscythe with them but a certain accident happened to have their souls confiscated. They struck down what they THOUGHT was a witch and Soul ate her soul, but it turns out she was a cat with "strong magic" as she calls it and she lived through the assault because cats have nine souls. Go figure. They were stuck with Blair from then on and now have to gather kishin souls all over again. Eventually, as is traditional with shonen anime, they have to forget about gathering kishin souls all over again to fight against the bad guys that crop up to set their PLOT into motion. These bad guys come in the form of the witch Medusa and the original big bad Kishin Asura, both of whom threaten to infect the world with MADNESS.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Maka's life was that of a fairly normal child in the beginning. Kami (Maka's not very certain that's her real name) and Spirit (though he's not commonly known by this name, most people call him Death Scythe), her parents and two very well-known Aurors, did all they could to make the best life possible for their daughter despite the fact that they weren't home as often as they should have been. And despite the fact that they actually moved a couple of times before settling in Bloomsbury closer to the Ministry. Maka, precocious as she was, had already decided exactly what she was going to do with her life; she was going to be an Auror just like her parents. Once she got to Hogwarts, she became bound and determined to be in the top of her classes like her mother so she could show up her parents but mostly her Papa since she started to notice that he was becoming a little too friendly with women that aren't mom when she became an Auror. Despite the insistence on studying and not socializing much, she made friends that would pull her out of her studying hovel often and force her into going outside.
When her second year was almost done, Maka got a letter from her mother saying that she was leaving Papa and being assigned to a different post in a different country. Henceforth, she would be traveling to different countries and not physically reporting back to the English Ministry. This made Maka all the more determined to achieve her goals and she went back to her regularly scheduled life as that's all the girl could do. A few months later there was another blow to antagonize Maka's sense of confidence as news of dark wizards attacking her school broke. She became obsessed with being useful to Dumbledore and shut herself off completely to study and practice. It started to take a bit of a toll on her health, but she refused to stop. Now Maka's in her third year and despite her insistence on isolating herself, she actually gets along with most of the other students and does well in all of her subjects, as she prefers it.
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: The whole of Maka's character is facing things down with courage and fighting fear, even if she is afraid and unsure of herself. She's brave, greatly prefers to do what's right (though she seems to take a "the end justifies the means" attitude with some things. She hates to lose) and can be rather hotheaded. I suppose that's what happens when you're facing down enemies that use fear and insanity to manipulate and overpower others. The whole "courage" thing gets repeated so often, she may as well be the Cowardly Lion's coach. She could fit quite well into Gryffindor.
Hufflepuff: Maka does have a strong sense of loyalty and even if she is hotheaded she has a kind heart given that she won over Crona despite the little sexless blob not knowing how to deal with affection. That and her determination to win and hardworking personality can fit as well. Although she's a bit too...well, forceful, if that makes sense for Hufflepuff. It's not completely impossible for her to fit into Puff, it's just not as fitting.
Ravenclaw: Maka's a nerd. No, really. A total perfectionist bookworm that reads for fun and likes doing word games. As said before she studies obsessively and finds things like exams, which are ordinarily daunting, a fun test of her knowledge and knows all of the rules and regulations of her school by heart. In the creative department she likes writing poetry, but only to work out her ~*feelings*~. But she thinks fast on her feet in battle which leads to...interesting results.
Slytherin: She's ambitious so far as...she doesn't like to lose and having a the end justifying the means attitude. Which leads to at least two deals with the devil, as it were. And she manipulates her dad with cuteness when it suits her, but that's really about as far as it goes for Slytherin characteristics.
Sample Journal Entry:
So, these are the journals everyone's been scribbling in during class. That's no better than passing notes. I don't usually have a reason to write in journals, but I guess there's no harm in trying to keep up with this one. How is everyone today? Are you [if she didn't say she didn't usually write in journals, it would have been made evident by the ink drippings here] keeping up with classes all right? I hope not everyone's dumb enough to pull a stunt like Soul did, anyway.
Oh, my name is Maka Albarn, by the way. It's nice to meet you.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person:
Platform 9 3/4 was active as usual as students gave their partings to their parents and boarded the train. Maka wasn't paying attention to this, however, as she was flipping through a blank journal she found in a pile of bills on her father's nightstand. "Papa, what is this and how long was it there?" she asked, brushing off some dust with a look of distaste.
"W-well..." Spirit eventually said after a moment of fidgeting and fiddling with his jacket nervously. Maka took that as a sign that he was about to say something that would make her want to hit him when he coughed and said: "It actually came with your letter of acceptance t-to Hogwarts...three years ago." He immediately recoiled when Maka glowered at him. She should have been afraid of him causing a scene in the next moment, but she was too annoyed at the fact he had been hiding yet another thing from her. Predictably, Spirit put his face in his hands and started to sob. "Papa's sorry, Maka, Papa's so sorry!" he cried as people walking past stared at the two. "But--but--that journal connects you to a network in the entire school, dirty boys in there might prey on you!"
Maka scowled and brought the spine of the journal down heavily onto the man's head. "I'll be fine!" she snapped while Spirit started rubbing his head. "Now I have to go. Don't get arrested while I'm gone," Maka added, turning and marching to the train.
"Papa loves you, Maka!" she heard Spirit call after her.
"I know," Maka muttered, rolling her eyes. "I know." She sat down and put her journal in her bag, trading it for a book she had been reading as other students milled past. "Does he always have to be so paranoid, though?"
To give those who may find themselves struggling with the application an idea of what we're be looking for in an app, we have a sample application for you to go over. It fulfills all of our bullet points without being excessive. We hope it assists you in applying!
Character Information
Name: Maka Albarn
Canon Origin/Series: Soul Eater
School Year: 3rd
Gender: Female
Age: 13
Out of school living location: Bloomsbury, Camden borough, London. Both of her parents work in the Ministry or at least both until Mama left and Spirit is too squeamish to go very far daily in the Floo network.
Blood status: Halfblood
Personality: Maka was described as a serious person that tries hard, this is true to some extent but there's a lot more to Maka than that. She does try hard with a lot of aspects in her life due to her want to be the best and most self-sufficient she can be and create a deathscythe more powerful than the one her mother created. She studies to get the best grades she can (and even finds the learning and testing parts fun) and she fights hard (oftentimes without thinking because she knows if she has time to think she'll start worrying and not do it, having courage is important after all. Though with some situations she eventually realizes that she needs to step back and think for a moment.) Maka is not completely serious all the time, she's actually quite friendly to most people that don't appear to be out to cause trouble (much to the annoyance of her more cynical partner, Soul). As a friend, Maka is as supportive as she can be given her fairly limited view of some things and even if some of her friends annoy her.
However, there are less than desirable aspects to Maka as well. Actually, some things about her personality can get downright ugly when her emotions run high (and, subsequently, greatly upsets and throws her off) or when something aggravates the various issues/complexes she has. Though Maka is quite confident in her abilities and works hard to keep herself strong so she can protect her friends, she tends to become obsessive with perfecting things and REALLY stubborn, making sure her friends safe and getting the job done even through risking her own life. Sometimes she even loses her temper and becomes violent (though this is mostly towards Soul.) OH AND BY THE WAY, she has an inferiority complex, trust issues, holds some serious grudges and is a misandrist.
Canon Background: Maka Albarn is one of the three main meisters in Soul Eater and the first character introduced in the story. Her partner and friend is Soul Eater (mostly called Soul) Evans, a boy that can turn into a scythe for her to wield. She's a student at Shibusen, a school run by the Grim Reaper that trains meisters, the wielders of weapons, and weapons, the people that can turn into weapons. They hunt down kishin souls (souls that have become corrupted) and witches to protect the peace. Maka's father, Spirit (who is referred to as Death Scythe), is also a scythe that's one of the Grim Reaper's weapons called a "deathscythe" and her mother was his previous meister (though before the series started, they divorced and Maka holds a grudge against him for his womanizing).
Maka and Soul gathered 99 kishin souls as it's the goal of all Shibusen meisters to gather 99 kishin souls and one witch's soul so their weapon partner can be made into a powerful deathscythe with them but a certain accident happened to have their souls confiscated. They struck down what they THOUGHT was a witch and Soul ate her soul, but it turns out she was a cat with "strong magic" as she calls it and she lived through the assault because cats have nine souls. Go figure. They were stuck with Blair from then on and now have to gather kishin souls all over again. Eventually, as is traditional with shonen anime, they have to forget about gathering kishin souls all over again to fight against the bad guys that crop up to set their PLOT into motion. These bad guys come in the form of the witch Medusa and the original big bad Kishin Asura, both of whom threaten to infect the world with MADNESS.
Background (AU!Canon; HP): Maka's life was that of a fairly normal child in the beginning. Kami (Maka's not very certain that's her real name) and Spirit (though he's not commonly known by this name, most people call him Death Scythe), her parents and two very well-known Aurors, did all they could to make the best life possible for their daughter despite the fact that they weren't home as often as they should have been. And despite the fact that they actually moved a couple of times before settling in Bloomsbury closer to the Ministry. Maka, precocious as she was, had already decided exactly what she was going to do with her life; she was going to be an Auror just like her parents. Once she got to Hogwarts, she became bound and determined to be in the top of her classes like her mother so she could show up her parents but mostly her Papa since she started to notice that he was becoming a little too friendly with women that aren't mom when she became an Auror. Despite the insistence on studying and not socializing much, she made friends that would pull her out of her studying hovel often and force her into going outside.
When her second year was almost done, Maka got a letter from her mother saying that she was leaving Papa and being assigned to a different post in a different country. Henceforth, she would be traveling to different countries and not physically reporting back to the English Ministry. This made Maka all the more determined to achieve her goals and she went back to her regularly scheduled life as that's all the girl could do. A few months later there was another blow to antagonize Maka's sense of confidence as news of dark wizards attacking her school broke. She became obsessed with being useful to Dumbledore and shut herself off completely to study and practice. It started to take a bit of a toll on her health, but she refused to stop. Now Maka's in her third year and despite her insistence on isolating herself, she actually gets along with most of the other students and does well in all of her subjects, as she prefers it.
How would your character fit in to each House?
Gryffindor: The whole of Maka's character is facing things down with courage and fighting fear, even if she is afraid and unsure of herself. She's brave, greatly prefers to do what's right (though she seems to take a "the end justifies the means" attitude with some things. She hates to lose) and can be rather hotheaded. I suppose that's what happens when you're facing down enemies that use fear and insanity to manipulate and overpower others. The whole "courage" thing gets repeated so often, she may as well be the Cowardly Lion's coach. She could fit quite well into Gryffindor.
Hufflepuff: Maka does have a strong sense of loyalty and even if she is hotheaded she has a kind heart given that she won over Crona despite the little sexless blob not knowing how to deal with affection. That and her determination to win and hardworking personality can fit as well. Although she's a bit too...well, forceful, if that makes sense for Hufflepuff. It's not completely impossible for her to fit into Puff, it's just not as fitting.
Ravenclaw: Maka's a nerd. No, really. A total perfectionist bookworm that reads for fun and likes doing word games. As said before she studies obsessively and finds things like exams, which are ordinarily daunting, a fun test of her knowledge and knows all of the rules and regulations of her school by heart. In the creative department she likes writing poetry, but only to work out her ~*feelings*~. But she thinks fast on her feet in battle which leads to...interesting results.
Slytherin: She's ambitious so far as...she doesn't like to lose and having a the end justifying the means attitude. Which leads to at least two deals with the devil, as it were. And she manipulates her dad with cuteness when it suits her, but that's really about as far as it goes for Slytherin characteristics.
Sample Journal Entry:
So, these are the journals everyone's been scribbling in during class. That's no better than passing notes. I don't usually have a reason to write in journals, but I guess there's no harm in trying to keep up with this one. How is everyone today? Are you [if she didn't say she didn't usually write in journals, it would have been made evident by the ink drippings here] keeping up with classes all right? I hope not everyone's dumb enough to pull a stunt like Soul did, anyway.
Oh, my name is Maka Albarn, by the way. It's nice to meet you.
Sample Interaction Post in Third Person:
Platform 9 3/4 was active as usual as students gave their partings to their parents and boarded the train. Maka wasn't paying attention to this, however, as she was flipping through a blank journal she found in a pile of bills on her father's nightstand. "Papa, what is this and how long was it there?" she asked, brushing off some dust with a look of distaste.
"W-well..." Spirit eventually said after a moment of fidgeting and fiddling with his jacket nervously. Maka took that as a sign that he was about to say something that would make her want to hit him when he coughed and said: "It actually came with your letter of acceptance t-to Hogwarts...three years ago." He immediately recoiled when Maka glowered at him. She should have been afraid of him causing a scene in the next moment, but she was too annoyed at the fact he had been hiding yet another thing from her. Predictably, Spirit put his face in his hands and started to sob. "Papa's sorry, Maka, Papa's so sorry!" he cried as people walking past stared at the two. "But--but--that journal connects you to a network in the entire school, dirty boys in there might prey on you!"
Maka scowled and brought the spine of the journal down heavily onto the man's head. "I'll be fine!" she snapped while Spirit started rubbing his head. "Now I have to go. Don't get arrested while I'm gone," Maka added, turning and marching to the train.
"Papa loves you, Maka!" she heard Spirit call after her.
"I know," Maka muttered, rolling her eyes. "I know." She sat down and put her journal in her bag, trading it for a book she had been reading as other students milled past. "Does he always have to be so paranoid, though?"