Marie Soul Eater Edward Elric Funny
Anonymous asked:
Have you ever noticed the parallels between Maka and Soul, and Stein and Marie? I only just noticed that Maka saves Soul from madness the way Marie pulls Stein from madness, and they both do it in scenes where they turn all yellow and glow-y while heartfelt music plays. I just thought that was interesting.
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That is interesting, Anonymous—I was re-watching Episode 50 last week but I had forgotten how Maka's saving of Soul closely resembled how Marie saved Stein.
(Of course, Stein had more clothes on than Soul—sorry, fans.)
Your point also helped me notice more about Soul and Stein's similarities while I was writing the earlier Justin Law editorial, including how similar Soul, Stein, and Justin react as they approach the Ukrainian Black Blood Bubbles. So thank you for informing my interpretation!
I do not remember which music plays when Marie says Stein—is it also the same as when Maka saves Soul, "Selenic Soul"?
As a gender scholar, I notice too that Maka and Marie end up occupying a role conventionally assigned to female characters, as the redeemer, civilizer, or savior. I am not bothered by the two female characters occupying that traditionally feminine role, as I do think both the manga and the anime show Maka and Marie also occupying more aggressive roles usually assigned to men: kick-ass fighters who can operate solo when necessary (especially in the anime in which both get to be their own meisters of their own weapon abilities), with a complicated stance when it comes to following the rules of authority (Maka ignores Lord Death's orders, in the anime to take down the Castle, in the manga to assassinate Crona; Marie leaves the DWMA in the anime, and she refuses to take Stein into custody in the manga).
On the one hand, their assignments to save Soul and Stein can overshadow their own roles as self-defined characters: they exist to save the men. But that trope is not necessarily a bad one, especially when it reverses the damsel in distress cliché. It is their roles as saviors of male characters that lend some depth to the male characters, Soul more than Stein in my opinion. Soul especially gains depth through his relationship with Maka: he is shocked that he cannot save her, that she can save him, so he looks to repay the favor. The flashpoints in their story being when he cannot protect her after Arachne disables her, when Maka awakens him from Arachne's puppet madness, when he takes on Giriko alone in the Book of Eibon, and just about every single shippy line he says to her in the Battle on the Moon and the last chapter. (…Why isn't that relationship canon again?)
In comparison, I wish that there was something more to Stein's relationship with Marie that helped both characters gain more depth. Maybe it is the fact that they are not main characters, maybe it is shipper-tinted glasses, but Stein's relationship with Marie could be more dynamic if he did not feel like such a flat character.
For example, even knowing he is an expecting father, the fact that Stein wants to vivisect his unborn child, while a dark comedy joke (not necessarily a funny one) and in keeping with his character, is also horrifying and is not as satisfying as giving that character some different ending, one that shows how much he has grown up. Whereas Soul learned he need not carry the weight of his past by himself but can depend on Maka because she could do the same for him, Stein still seems to be the same mad scientist that he was his premiere appearance. After the madness he suffered, especially under suspicion of killing Joe, I wish there was something else done—something along the lines of the kind of depth that other morally compromised characters such as even the Joker can show.
[Ukrainian Black Blood Bubble is either the name of a cacophonic punk group, or a tasty bubble tea flavor…Sorry to repeat the corny joke twice.]
Source: https://soul-dwelling.tumblr.com/post/61867031786/have-you-ever-noticed-the-parallels-between-maka
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