Franken Stein
Franken Stein is a male anime and manga character who features in Soul Eater.
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Biography
Franken Stein (Japanese: フランケン・シュタイン, Hepburn: Furanken Shutain)
During his early childhood as a young boy in Kindergarten, Stein would watch kids his age play together like the teacher told them, an act which sickened him. He also made an issue out of the children focusing on taking notes and listening to instructions given to them from the teacher; this made him feel as if he would lose control over himself. Having a deposition to violent tendencies and selfishness, he was eventually analyzed by various doctors and experts to determine the cause; while unable to conclude the reasoning behind it, they speculated Stein suffered some kind of traumatic event while the young boy only saw their attempts as inane.
After joining the DWMA, he was set as Spirit Albarn's weapon partner. He would abuse his position and even beat up people not on Lord Death's list This caused Spirit to get involved at one point and do his best to stop him. As he would adhere Spirit's word, he them claimed he wish to be born in a world without god. However, when Spirit asked him If he was serious, he dismissed that notion, stating that such a world would be 'sick'. Throughout his time within the academy, he would secretly experiment on Spirit's body while he was his weapon partner for five years without his knowledge. For a time, he also Marie Mjolnir but later broke up with her. Eventually, his experimentation on Spirit came into fruition by one of their classmates, whom would eventually become Spirit's next meister, wife, and eventual ex-wife. He also participated in the purging of the Star Clan. Seeing Sid Barrett thinking about taking a young baby, he questioned his decision on what to do with it. However, this earned him a chastising from his weapon partner and would understand the reason his partner feels a certain way was due to his own daughter being due to being born soon.
After Shaula Gorgon ordered Eternal Feather to kill herself, it was Stein who performs surgery on the latter thus managing to save her life. He also plays various jokes on Tsugumi, Meme, and Anya by making her seem like she was transformed into a Zombie along with having a screw on her head like himself.
Stein's first appeared when Maka, Soul, Black☆Star and Tsubaki appear in front of his home, on orders to capture his soul by Death. Stein provoked this order by transforming Sid into a Zombie. He comes outside, after tripping and falling off of his chair, and takes note of the Shibusen kids. Stein, using his advanced Soul Perception abilities, looks at Maka's and Soul's wavelength, and proceeds to tell them that, Maka's soul, who is serious and a hard worker, does not stabilize well with Soul's sarcastic and twisted soul. Black☆Star then interrupts their conversation, stating how boring it is, and recommends them to start one strictly about himself. Stein then views Black☆Star's soul and states it is "a terribly self-absorbed soul." With that said Black☆Star proceeds to kick Stein, only to be blocked and quickly given a powerful punch. He then notices Black☆Star's partner, Tsubaki, and notes that her soul is very co-operative and has plenty of room to accept people. After that, Stein states he will start the session. Despite the efforts of both Black☆Star and Maka, Stein easily dodges and counters all of their attacks, all the while still remaining seated on his chair. Stein then displays his powers by striking Maka's weapon and disrupting their wavelength. Stein then grabs Maka and threatens to dissect her, only to be interrupted by Black☆Star, who manages to connect his Big Wave. Unfortunately, it is ineffective, as Stein managed to match his wavelength with Black☆Star, nullifying the attack. He then attacks Black☆Star, releasing a Soul Menace upon Black☆Star, apparently killing him.
Soul, angered by this, proceeds to attack Stein, only to be stopped by Maka, who is daunted after seeing the size of Stein's soul, and concedes that the difference between their strength is insurmountable. Soul, however, refuses to give up and, through a small pep talk, manages to rekindle Maka's fighting spirit. Together, they conduct a resonance between their wavelengths and perform Witch-Hunt. Stein is not daunted by this and takes the attack, barehanded. With some sign of actual effort, he manages to break it, knocking Maka away. Before he can put his hands on the fallen Maka, Soul appears and guards her. Stein, impressed, pats Soul on the head and gives him a passing grade for being willing to protect his Meister with his own body. He reveals that this was all a plan orchestrated by Death and, as it turns out, Black☆Star was not killed, but merely knocked unconscious. The next day, much to the dismay of the children, Stein is shown to be their new teacher. As the new teacher, Stein decides to take a different route in his teaching by dissecting a natural world souvenir animal. He is, however, interrupted when he is forced to supervise the battle of Death the Kid against Soul and Black☆Star. He then preps Maka on the stability of Kid and his two weapons, Pattyand Liz; noting that they respect and admire each other.
After Maka and Soul initially encountered Crona and Ragnarok, a battle ensued between the two pairs. The battle begins to go in Crona's favor and Maka looks to be in serious trouble. However, before the final blow is dealt on Maka, Spirit and Stein appear just in time to save Maka from Crona. With Maka saved, Spirit transforms into his weapon form, wielded by Stein, and prepares to do battle with Crona. During this battle, Stein deftly wields Spirit, blocking all of Crona's attempts to damage him and retaliating with his own devastating Soul Purge. After prolonged abuse by Stein, Crona is eventually defeated. It is then that Medusa appears. After scolding the unconscious Crona for failing, she proceeds to attack Stein with her Vector Arrow. Performing a Soul Resonance, Stein uses Witch-Hunt to deflect the arrows. After this failed attempt, Medusa takes Crona and makes her escape. Back in the infirmary, Stein informs an anxious Maka that the procedure on Soul was a success and he will make a full recovery. This cheers Maka up, though when confronted by Spirit afterwards Stein reveals that the surgery was fine, but the Black Blood of Ragnarok has invaded Soul's body, and he is unsure if he will be okay.
After he tries to kill Medusa and the Kishin revives, Stein mentions that the kishin's wavelength brings out the Madness in everyone. He himself notices that since his own madness is extremely large already, this effect could come to his madness possessing him. Death also sees this, and has Death Scythe (Spirit) watch Stein closely. Marie Mjolnir is assigned to be Stein's new partner as her soul wavelength is supposed to have a calming effect on the madness. After Medusa takes the form of a little girl, she instructs Crona to slip a snake into Marie's coffee which increases the rate of Stein's increasing madness, and eventually renders him unable to fight. Even without this magic though, Stein is slowly losing the fight against his madness and he knows it. Stein is implicated as the murderer of a fellow Shibusen colleague, Joe Buttataki, but Death Scythe, Mira Naigus and Sid believe Stein is innocent and allow him to escape Shibusen with Marie to find the real culprit.
Stein only reappears after discovering the truth behind Joe's death, revealing that it was in fact Justin Law, a fellow death scythe, who had committed the murder. It is then explained that his and Marie's long absence was due largely to the difficulty in discovering Justin's current location. Marie first questions Justin about his reason for killing B.J., only receiving the reply that his "Soul Perception ability was too dangerous with the Kishin-sama being unable to rest easily". After hearing this and deducing that his next target was Maka, she charges towards him and hits him in the chest. It appears her attack has little effect but after extending part of her weapon from her fist, Justin is sent flying yet he still manages to recover in mid-air to land safely. Observing this ineffective result, Stein questions her on whether or not she was now even, before asking her to assume her weapon form so both her and Stein could go on the offensive. The resulting speed, enhanced by Marie's abilities, easily overwhelms Justin, who couldn't even react to their attacks, forcing him to retreat using an artifact. This leaves Marie and Stein in the desert outskirts of Death City, with nothing but the coffin Justin left behind. When Stein and Marie eventually return to the Shibusen, both they and Spirit are brought before Death. They all proceed to apologize for their individual transgressions, with Stein focusing upon how his running away was in flagrant defiance of the regulations. Death appears unfazed and simply asks for all of them to say sorry. Stein then reveals that he has uncovered proof of his innocence and of the true culprit. Marie takes out a tape recorder and plays back what was supposed to be their previous conversation with Justin, unfortunately all that was recorded was 5 full minutes of his background music. Stein smiles and light halfheartedly comments upon the situation, before Spirit reveals that he had been conducting his own investigation, proving Justin as B.J.'s murderer. Stein replies by stating the information they had discovered, specifically concerning Justin's acquaintance with someone with magical connections. Stein is seen again discussing with the members of "Spartoi" as to what the group’s name means and why it was changed.
Overview
Personality and attributes
In appearance, Franken Stein was a lean but muscular male with silver-gray hair, large round glasses, and a handsome face according to some of his female students. He is likely in his late twenties or early thirties, seeing as he appears to be close in age to Spirit but is still a little bit younger than him. Stein's most notable trait is the large screw going through his head. He often turns this screw, as a means to focus his thoughts or as he prepares to attack an opponent.
Although he is a competent teacher with a strong logical streak, he heavily favors dissection classes much to the chagrin of many of his students. He also has a twisted and sadistic sense of humor, often riling up others for his own amusement. Being self-aware of his behavior coming off as suspicious and creepy, he enjoys playing it up to them. When asked by Death to participate in remedial lessons for DWMA students, he later admitted to finding it fun surprising them by playing the part of a creepy villain for the lesson.
Powers and abilities
Franken Stein was recognized by Death as the strongest meister to had graduated from Death Weapon Meister Academy and considered him to be very powerful. Maka also remarked him to be one of the very best meisters due to his acute soul sensing abilities.
Among his techniques included:
- Soul Perception (魂感知, Tamashī Kanchi) :
- Adjust (相殺, Sōsai) :
- Soul Resonance (魂の共鳴, Tamashī no Kyōmei) :
Notes
- Franken Stein was created by Atsushi Ōkubo where he featured in the setting of the Soul Eater universe.
In other media
Television
- In Soul Eater, Franken Stein appeared in the setting of the anime television series where he was voiced by Japanese actor Mamoru Miyano and by Todd Haberkorn in the English dub.
Appearances
- Soul Eater:
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