#eibon soul eater

[nikikikiko]

So idk if its just me but has anyone else noticed how gods in Soul Eater are typically depicted with monstrous or non-human depictions? The gods we DO know of are as follows:

Lord Death, Eibon, Excalibur, the Great Old One of Power, Asura and, eventually Kid.

Now, ignoring Kid for the moment, notice how all of them have a monstrous appearance that can be humanoid, but sometimes aren't. Personally, I believe that adds to represent how inhuman the gods truly are (exception of Kid ofc).

Like let's take Lord Death, Asura and Kid because they're the easiest tbh and literally the range of the spectrum but

Lord Death doesn't look ANYTHING near a human and it's very obvious, there's nothing humanoid about this guy. This funky freak. Because he's very inhuman as compared to his sons, as Lord Death lacks fear and is in a constant uphill battle learning how to interact with humans and protect them. However, at the end of the day, no matter how many emotions Lord Death will learn, he is inhuman. He will do whatever it takes to seek out his original goal (order) and do anything for it. While any other parent might have huge conflict and regret over skinning their child alive and sealing them away, Lord Death does not. He does not have these conflicts. He makes a lot of mistakes with Asura because he is not human and,

Asura is more human than Lord Death originally thought. Asura's not human in the way Kid is human, but Asura is already a lot more human than Lord Death could ever be, with his first ever form being a human one. It's only ever ruined by Asura wearing scarves and shirts, giving Asura a more inhuman appearance. Asura is the first of the gods in Soul Eater, at the time of his creation, to be as human as he was. But because this wasn't precedented, nobody thought to treat Asura like a human from time to time but rather treat him like a god always. This would cause Asura to become a kishin, and become more monstrous in appearance for every form he takes. I like to believe Asura's kishin form directly relates to how he views gods, something terrifying and to be scared of and inherently divine, so his form reflects that in a twisted and distorted way.

But Kid, the final of this trio, is the most human and that is due to intentionally complete humanity. Kid looks like a human, he grows like a human, he acts like a human, he is basically a human plus plus. This is because he is the most human of the gods in Soul Eater, and intentionally so (i discussed this before but yk). The one time we see him begin to lose his humanity, he gains lines on his mouth mimicking skull teeth with an eerie calm and deadly atmosphere that begins to erase his humanity, but he's still human. He still looks human, he still thinks human. And unlike making the same mistake that costed Lord Death his first child, Lord Death actually learned to let Kid be human and be a god, which provided a much better relationship.

Basically, gods are depicted as very inhuman and monstrous in soul eater and it's really neat to see.

[ideological-rudiment]

Hi,

For Soul Eater - 🌸📞🕷️

greetings!!! and THANKKKKK YOUUU for your ask!!!!!! this is also my first ask on tumblr platform, haha!

1) 🌸: a ship others dislike, but you don't?

in fact, almost all of my possible variations would fit here. I posted texts on ao3 about the pairings Noah/Stein and Blair/Marie, and I also like Azusa/Medusa and Kaguya/Justin... but, okay, speaking about pairings that not only one person knows about: Blair/Spirit and Black Star/Maka. I have a very negative attitude towards the way the author demonstrates all the above characters. I, in principle, have a very negative attitude towards the way the author demonstrates all his characters... the pairing of Black Star and Maka is a little more "lucky" in this regard: these characters have a common story, and they have enough interactions in the original to assume about at least something of them. but I perceive the pairing of Blair and Spirit rather exclusively from my side and only in my "writing" - so separated from the original...

2) 📞: a character others dislike, but you don't?

well, here everything is still completely obvious. Noah and Blair. I'm frankly sorry for the second one - again, what the author does with many of the characters in the original, especially with women, is... I didn't come up with a suitable "uncensored" word here in a foreign language for me. many people think that she's creepy and disgusting, but I try to focus on her positive aspects and write her character and her conflicts based solely on the moments where Blair is shown well. I really love the idea that the name "Blair" is of Scottish Gaelic origin - "blár" - and carries two meanings at once: "battlefield" - and just "field", "meadow".

the Noah's situation is somewhat similar. in the original, the author completely neglected him, and, I would even assume, didn't know what to do with him next... and we got the result. but he has some interesting traits; for example, "ostentatious politeness" towards his opponents, or the fact that he deliberately asks to leave voluntarily and leave him rather than attack - in some sense "giving personal choice". I also don't consider any side of the confrontation to be "a priori correct in its view and approach, methods", so Noah's character could act as an anti-hero/anti-villain with his own vision. "oh, mistreated me!" (с) like the other questions, this one is quite "non-standard" for me, because, again, I'm so detached from the original, and mostly deal only with my own stories solely in my perception of events;

3) 🕷️: a character you feel is underrated?

(almost all the characters...) this is the most obvious of all possible questions for me specifically. my answer is simple: AZUSA YUMI!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is practically the only realistic character here. a wonderful person, an exemplary employee, an experienced operagent - she always, to her own detriment, did everything possible to help those around her, to protect them from their own mistakes; even despite the fact that she was disliked so much in the classes and in the teams - and even despite the fact that she was hit in the face. her personality has a huge basis for a large amount of complex moral and ethical conflicts, contradictions, for her cognitive dissonance - and it would be excellent to watch how she tries to make decisions, being "between a rock and a hard place": between sets of laws and rules, including legal ones - and moral convictions "what would be the most right and peaceful thing to do". the poor (only) human, striving to bring good to others - and running into mantraps with absolutely every step she takes, even the smallest one.

and also Eibon... he's just ultra-neat, honestly. although he was COMPLETELY not written by the author originally. I see him as a possible "former mentor" of Noah, at least...

but I won't mention Noah and Blair here. I believe that there is practically no point in discussing them in the original - I mainly do this in my texts on ao3 in my native russian language. (my precious, this is not a thorn plant: this is a thorny wire of prisoners.)

somehow it worked out for me!

thanks again!!!!!

[alcruid]

Soul Eater Fandom, who’s “No screentime, all the plot relevance”?

The previous poll “Straight up evil” was won by Medusa! My fav honestly.

Here’s the final poll! And then the list is completely filled :0. THE RESULTS ARE HERE

If there are some characters that lost polls you want to see drawn, you can send me an ask! I’ll draw them at my own pace :3

Also look forward to our reverb

[apotelesmaa]

Their dynamic is one of the most underrated things in soul eater im so obsessed with it… “two girls who used to run the streets in Brooklyn and were infamous muggers” + “guy who literally has a nervous breakdown at least once a day” and they’re siblings… “this is the most special guy ever and if you don’t clap and cheer for him we’ll fucking kill you” vs “these are my emotional support guns” do not separate them.

[leshik65]

THE SILLY SQUAD

and Eibon

[snorlaxlovesme]

y'know i was just thinking that in literally ep/chapter 1 it's established that Blair is a magical cat that has nine lives. and then after being "defeated" Blair continues to live with Maka and Soul and even accompanies them on several important mission, growing to truly love them. and she has all these extra lives to spare. hmm. why wasn't anything done with that

[uh-wahh]

Sketchesss

[catjak]

..his most powerful form is a tumblr sexyman...

[not-souleaterpost]

Lowest effort meme yet, both in labour and in being so generic - yet still true

[nikikikiko]

still thinking about that scene where noah finds kid after beating up mosquito and kid throwing liz and patty away so they could be safe. thinking about how liz initially tried to get kid back but then recognized the threat level and understood immediately that she couldn’t do anything without making kid’s sacrifice in vain. thinking about how patty insulted liz because liz wasn’t doing anything and how patty desperately wanted to ignore the dangerous situation just to get their pseudo brother back.

thinking also about the fact liz & patty had to break the news about everything, and how useless patty must have felt snd that’s why she’s training physically harder to be a kind of pseudo-meister. thinking about how liz might have so much guilt over needing to do the necessary thing for her and patty’s survival and how that might have been a reoccurring thing in her past.

i have so many thougjts abt that particular arc can you tell

[ideological-rudiment]

Eibon in my side story listens to Noah's speech that all the power of their demiurge is baseless due to his anthropomorphism, and therefore is an usurpation, and the mechanism of its transmission is corrupt, realizing that now he will have to defeat and send to the trash (in captivity) his protégé

[the-messenger-hawk]

Every time I think about Soul Eater, I get so sad that we never got a "Brotherhood-style" re-adaptation of the anime. All the best stuff never saw the screen.

[apotelesmaa]

If you ever have a child that turns out to be so evil you disown him and you later have another child that has to fight the first child and the second child learns of his evil disowned brother you can take a page out of lord death’s book to avoid the inevitable hard conversation & simply die before you have to explain anything.

[pplatonic]

i made a death the kid (book of eibon arc) shimeji, because who wouldn't want this little shit crawling around their screen

download link

his conf is set to mischevious by the way

[areuils]

They really should give Soul Eater the brotherhood treatment. More people would talk about what a banger soul eater was

[maguro13-2]

Justice for All ~ Origins of the Ink Demon Chapter 2 Pt. 10.5

[Blair the Cat Witch Residence - Burkittsville, Maryland]

[Blair is shown lying on the couch, naked and looking at her yearbook]

Blair the Cat Witch : Poor Soul World. I can't believe that I have to visit real old home that I thought I was british, it turns out that I'm an illegal immigrant. Actually I formally used to live in England as a British person, but now I fled England and deported myself home, right here in my true homeland called the American State of Maryland. I can look into my old Highschool yearbook that I had since I was in school. More importantly, I'm looking for someone that hasn't been in my life for years, waiting to meet in person. But still, that Maka person is always such a pain to everyone. Having everyone letting Maka to astray from everything that seeks the truth. I used to have a friend back in school, but there's nothing in my yearbook. Unless, I found out that I have an old Middle School year book that has something in common. I guess there's one friend that takes me back good times!

[Nine Ball Game - Naofumi Hataya]

Blair the Cat Witch : [finds something and grabs her Middle School Yearbook] Ah, yes! My old Middle School Yearbook! Just in case for this I can find someone that I haven't met in years since highschool, Someone that I hasn't met someone's face for a long time. [looks into the yearbook] I wonder who would it be? Hmm? [turns page] Aha! Just the girl that I'm looking for. [shows a photo of a 15-year old Tamaki Kotatsu] Tamaki Kotatsu. Just where are you after all these years of highschool?

[DOOR KNOCKING]

Blair the Cat Witch : I'll get it! I bet it's Soul that came all the way to... [walks to the door open] Huh? Hey, you're not Soul Evans that I'm looking for. Who are you?

Eibon : Umm, [clears throat] Excuse me, ma'am. Is this the place that I needed to stay in? I don't got a home so...[looks at Blair as a Casual Nudist]

Blair the Cat Witch : Then why you didn't say so? Of course your welcome at my place! Come right in, there's TV if you're willing to live with me.

Eibon : So, ummm, this is your place? It's kinda big for a witch to live in.

Blair the Cat Witch : Yeah, this is real my homeland here.

Eibon : Your "Real" homeland? I thought your homeland was London.

Blair : Yeah, that's where I used to live at, but eventually, the woman of Hellsing called and had me evicted from my house, so I had to move back to my old homeland of Maryland.

Eibon : Oh, and I heard you were once the youngest cheerleader in the Middletown Valley.

Blair : Oh yeah. I was once the cheerleader of Middletown, the badass cheerleader.

(Scene changes to a flashback that shows a teenage Blair as a cheerleader)

Blair : I was small times with the greatest cheerleaders in the state. I was professional, I was athletic, and I was skillful at times like this. And I was like all of this, and all of that! I was best of the best! Okay that's not what I meant.

(scene changes back to her house)

Blair : Here's something that I really meant.

Eibon : Well, what do you got something that you have really something in your past?

Blair : Yes, sir. I have one to tell you. It was back when I was a small kid in my childhood years as a pumpkin patcher.

(scene changes to the past that shows Blair as a kid)

Blair [v/o]: I was traveling to the town of Emmitsburg where I can deliver pumpkins to fortunate children. And I was looking to get into Emmitsburg Elementary, when I can do some education, until that day when I get into that school, I had to visit to the national shrine with mother, the blair witch.

(cuts to Blair and her mother (the Blair Witch) at the National Shrine)

Blair Witch : Now, Blair. This is the shrine that people are visiting every Sunday. And I don't mean that you could do funny stuff around the church. This is a shrine we are worshipping right here.

Blair (as a Kid) : Yes, ma'am. I won't do anything suspicious and not do any funny business!

Blair Witch : That'll be good.

Blair [v/o] : After giving to so many pumpkin to so many Marylanders through the course, I prepared a pumpkin fest to make Fredrick's county most flavored pie with the pumpkin spice I gathered from. And that's where I met someone in friendship, Tamaki Kotatsu. A girl Born in Tokyo and was abandoned by her parents at age 4, thus never got back to Japan and never got to school. But she did become a nun when she was adopted by the nuns called the Sisters. She did most of her things around the town, and she has other friends like Iris and Hibana, those two girls who presumed to be born in Tokyo or in America.

Kid Tamaki : Hi, I'm Tamaki, and I'm from the sisters. Would I like some pie if you please?

Kid Blair : Sure! It's on the house!

Kid Tamaki : Why thanks. This sure looks taste great! And it looks delicious! [takes a bite of the pie]

Blair [v/o] : And so, it was friendship at sight, along with those two.

Eibon [v/o] : So, what happened to her on that day, when she was in some kind of explosion?

Blair [v/o] : Of course, she was a little bit of a survivor, but yes. It was her 13th birthday, she unleashed her Nekomata powers by blowing up a silo near Middletown.

[BOOOM!]

Maryland Farmer : Noooo! My silo!

[scene changes back to the present]

Blair the Cat Witch : So after that, it is revealed that Tamaki and Hibana are flame users called pyrokinetics, they originally came from Shinra's world before the foreshadowing prequel manga of Shinra's life was debuted.

Eibon : So, that girl named Tamaki Kotatsu was a pyrokinetic, does she have any kind of connection with soul world?

Blair the Cat Witch : It's because of that legacy, that legacy which was protected by Shinra's son. Of course there is a universe connection between Shinra's world and Soul world, the one that really created. In fact Soul World isn't called normal world, it's Shinra's new world that he created with the manifesting powers of the Adolla burst! That's the real reason Soul Eater was popular around the world, thinking that Men of his influence had made humans and witches becoming an arrogant species to each other!

Eibon : If you really think that Soul World is Shinra's New World, then who am I...?

[GLITCHING]

Eibon : Guh! Who am I? What am I? Why am i in so much heat?

[GLITCHING]

Eibon : [Holds head in pain] GAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!! [grunting]

Blair : Eibon! Eibon! Stay with me!

Eibon : Who am I? Am I descendant to Shinra's kind, his people, or am I really Yohei Nana--[Radio signaling is heard] AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHH!!! THE HEAT IS GETTING WORSE!!!

Blair : Eibon! Eibon! Oh dear God, what if the other witches were right about this? Is Soul World really a fluke? Why would the Ohkuboverse be hiding from us? Hang on, sir! I know exactly what to do.

~ Twenty-Sixth Scene : Friends of the Forgotten Past ~