Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

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Soul came home to what could only be described as Ground Zero.

The kitchen– his kitchen– was an explosion of greasy pots and pans, a snowstorm of flour, egg residue dripping off counters, and an unknown substance clinging to the wall that looked suspiciously like Nickelodeon green gak from his childhood. It was complete and utter chaos and he stood there frozen, mouth hanging open, grocery bags falling to the floor with a soft thump as he surveyed the damage.

His roommate stood by the stove, unperturbed by the mess, face buried in a book as she muttered to herself about grams versus tablespoons. Her shirt– his favorite Nirvana shirt– was covered in flour and her messy pigtails were sporting some very cheery rainbow sprinkles. Soul summoned patience from deep, deep inside to deal with this in a mature manner.

Out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the tiniest of scorch marks on his stainless steel pot, the one that Wes had gotten him for the last birthday, the one that came from a set that cost no less than $700.

Fuck patience.

“Back away from the stove, Albarn. Slowly.”

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A set of facts from this post, on request from @littlestartopaz​.  “Kid Death, Soul Eater. Also Harry, from The Blue Sword”

Death the Kid

• Canon: Kid’s hair stripes apparently go all the way around his head once he’s a full-blown shinigami, and that’s adorable to me for some reason.
  
• Headcanon: I tend to imagine that Kid had a rough time adjusting to ‘normal’ people.  Like, the other meisters were reticent with him because of…who he is and who he’s related to, and he comes at everything with a very arrogant perspective, especially early on, so I tend to think that he has a horribly rough time learning to make friends.  Like, Patty and Liz were probably his first close friends.  I’m pretty committed to that.
• Heartcanon: Oooohhh, I dunno, I was pretty pleased with stuff.  I feel like Kid actually has a devious side under that wide-eyed anxious exterior, would’a liked to have that pan out more fully.
• Soulcanon: Kid becomes a shinigami and replaces Death and has a few conversations with various people who protest that it’s just not traditional for the Grim Reaper to dual wield pistols.  They make lengthy and detailed arguments against his actions, there are sources, there is, on one memorable occasion, a PowerPoint.  And Kid nods and ‘hmm’s and he continues to dual wield pistols.  I don’t fucking care how it happens, he makes Patty and Liz immortal somehow.
• Crotchcanon: I actually have no idea.  Because every time I sit down and try to think about Kid and sex, I inevitably end up wondering about the logistics of sex with a shinigami.  Like.  How does that shit even pan out?  Do you need to worry about condoms, or are death gods naturally infertile?  Or in control of that sort of thing?  Does Death have a body under that robe?  Do the weird black shadow-tentacle things come into play?  HOW DOES THIS WORK.  So, as you can see, I have never made enough headway on this train of thought to have an opinion.

Harry (Angharad, Harimad-sol)

• Canon: Harry Crewe is canonically good with any and all (non-demon) animals.  Giant ill-tempered warhorse?  Sure.  Loner hunting cat?  No problem.  Harry Crewe is also a stone-cold badass, and all of you should read The Blue Sword and appreciate her.
  
• Headcanon: Harry definitely causes small-to-middling disasters as she learns to use her massively powerful kelar for things other than bringing down mountain ranges.  And as handy as that ability to fucking wreck an opponent is, it’s a little hard on Corlath’s City, and they all look on with a sort of benignly exasperated affection.  Kelar tends to cause problems, but even Corlath never 'fixed’ a stone door and accidentally melded it with the frame.
• Heartcanon: Damarian weddings have some kind of family-of-the-bride aspect and Mathin gives Harry away, or whatever the equivalent is, as the Daughter of the Riders.  He cries a little and she cries a little and no one ever says anything about it.  Also, Corlath very very quietly slaps Mathin with some kind of title, whatever he can get away with, as the father of their new Queen.  Mathin isn’t informed of this for almost an entire year.
• Soulcanon: Aerin and Harry meet.  In the flesh.  At some point.  I don’t give a fuck who argues with me on this.  And Aerin visits Harry in her dreams and at first Harry’s very deferential and nervous, but she lightens up over time, and Aerin gives her advice on being a queen and being a legend and being a mother.  (At some point, when Harry is just exhausted of everything and frustrated with everyone and ready to ride off into the desert just to get away, Aerin turns up and tells a story about a very vain girl named Galanna who got her eyelashes shaved off and could have been rolled out a window, she was sleeping so heavily.  Harry laughs herself sick in the dream and wakes up smiling for the first time in weeks.)
• Crotchcanon: Okay but we can all agree that there was definitely some desperate, maneuvered-around-wounds, I-can’t-believe-you’re-alive-and-here sex in Corlath’s tent after that reunion scene, right?  And once everyone was recovered and back in the City, there was definitely a day where Harry was just like “Update: I moved all your meetings and acquired snacks” and they just literally spent an entire day having sex in the blue stone garden.  I can’t be alone in that assessment.

nicroburst asked: So I saw your story about Soul eater and got a laugh out of it, I was curious what you've watched since that fateful day?

Actually I’ve been pretty busy with college, so I mostly have a few that I rewatch a bunch (although this summer I’m planning to go hard and put myself through all of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood in one fell swoop, pray for me). Let’s see…

I love FMA 03 a lot, I’m currently subjecting my roommate to the pain, it’s fun. I’d probably say it’s my favorite anime (to repeat, I have not seen Brotherhood yet, and am working on it).

I love Soul Eater, of course, I know it pretty well by now.

I’ve seen most of Death Note although it didn’t really do it for me (might’ve been the company, tbh, should probably give it another try).

I’ve seen some of Attack on Titan, which I LOVED because I am a sick twist, but then it was taken off the platform I was streaming it from and also I find subs very hard to watch (yay ADHD), so I haven’t seen most of it.

I like Kaze no Stigma, which is ridiculous and magicky and on Hulu. Fire magic, demons, dubious deals with nebulous all-powerful spirits, fucked up family dynamics, the works. It’s absurd, I think it’s great.

My roommate loves Hetalia and I’m enough of a history nerd to get a huge kick out of it.

I meant to watch Fairy Tale but I got crazy busy around episode four and keep forgetting to go back, so I don’t think that counts.

I watched Black Butler on the recommendation of the same guy who showed us Soul Eater, and really loved the first season and never got around to the second.

My roommate and I watch Ouran when we’re tired/stressed, so we watch Ouran a LOT at school, and we also watch a few other…um…I’m going to admit that we call them ‘garbage animes’ which basically means that we really love them but would also never actually recommend them to another human being, ever. These are things like Seven Deadly Sins on Netflix, and having now been told that piece of information, I naturally expect you to take it to your grave. (Okay, IMO it’s great fun, but it has a lot of what you might call…common anime problems re: women, etc, so YMMV and all that.)

Obviously Avatar: The Last Airbender, but that’s Western animation, so.

As long as we’re on the subject, though, obligatory plug for my favorite non-anime animated thing, though: X-Men Evolution. It’s great, I love it, I am such an X-Men nerd it’s sad.

Um…yeah, I’m sure I’ve forgotten some stuff. But that’s what I can think of right now.

Moran watches anime. Who’d'a thunk.

Aaaanyway, I’d say “tell no one”, but I’m on mobile and I didn’t think it through and am too lazy to retype this whole thing when I get wifi back on my laptop, so. Whatever. I have no shame anyway, come the fuck at me.

chaoticlivi:

listen, trying to describe Soul Eater to anyone who isn’t very familiar with certain types of tropes and storylines - especially ones commonly found in anime and manga - is a fucking trip.

“he turns into a scythe, but he can also play the piano during battle. like, FROM the scythe. sometimes the scythe turns into a piano. but it’s all him. also, his partner has wings on her soul and they can make the wings come out of the scythe.”

“so there’s a dangerous magic book that the characters go inside and experience the seven deadly sins. no, it’s not dante’s inferno, but it is a reference”

“the sexy lady is their cat/their cat is a sexy lady”

“the grim reaper is a school headmaster in nevada”

All right, story time.

All you need to know is that, A, it’s the first week of freshman year of college–you know, orientation week where no one has anything to do because they’re too worried about the freshman class wandering off and getting eaten by bears or whatever–and B, there are about a dozen people (all in various stages of heat-induced exhaustion on our un-air-conditioned campus) draped over couches and chairs in the informal lounge in the student union.  

The dude with the computer wired up to the TV says, “Here, I’ll show you guys the first episode of an anime.”

My ass, having never seen an anime before in literally my entire life, sits there and goes “sure” along with every other semi-functional person in the room.

The first episode of Soul Eater happens on the screen.  Over the course of the twenty-two minutes, about half the people in the room have wandered off because they lost the plot, and those of us who are left are all sitting there slightly slack-jawed and baffled.  It ends, the dude pauses it and goes “Okay, do you all want to watch another.”

There are a couple beats of dead.  Freaking.  Silence.

Finally I sit up from where I’d been watching it and go “What the fuck did I just witness.”

The dude smirks and goes “Soul Eater.  Do you want to watch another episode?”

Fast forward to the end of the week (about five days) and everyone who made it through the first episode has seen two complete seasons of Soul Eater.

It’s now been three years and I’m pretty well versed in the anime thing at this point.  I honestly don’t think I’ve been really STUNNED by an anime since Soul Eater.

Do I necessarily recommend starting with SE?  No, no I do not, it’s like saying “Yeah man, gateway drugs are for the weak, hit me up with some of that hallucinogenic mushroom and come back for me next month.”

On the other hand, it’ll make everything else seem downright freaking NORMAL in comparison.

(via cthulhu-with-a-fez)