☆ Player - - -

( Player Name ): Morraeon
( Personal DW ): matrixrefugee
( Age ): 35
( Timezone ): EST/EDT
( Other Characters ): Not Applicable

☆ Character - - -

( Character's Name ): Dr. Franken Stein
( Character's Age ): Unknown (mid-forties??)
( Series ) : Soul Eater
( Canon Point ): Roughly around episode 25 of the anime
( Playability ): Not Applicable

( History ): Wiki page here

( Personality ): Stein is, first and foremost, a man of science, who seems to be married to his work as both a scientist and a weapons meister, with little room for a wife and a family or many friends. On the surface, he comes across as a cool-blooded sort, who's only too happy to dissect anything and anyone around him, not just his enemies, but also the people he considers his friends -- even himself, as evidenced by the suture scars zig-zagging across his body. This urge to explore the anatomy of others is driven, not by cruelty (though he does seem to take a coolly sadistic delight in his dissections), but more by an unquenchable thirst for knowledge and an insatiable curiosity toward the body, human and otherwise, in all its shapes and sizes: When he presents a rare species of bird as a subject, he responds to his students' protestations that a rare creature is better left unharmed, by pointing out that it's better to examine it before it goes extinct and that knowledge is lost. But his madness and his drive to satisfy his curiosity at all cost are held in check as a result of his highly disciplined training in both armed and unarmed combat, as well as his devotion to the DWMA and to his students.

He may come off as a bit of a sadist, but he's more cheerful than cruel about it (which doesn't make him any less unsettling). Also, while he has a sense of humor, it's a jauntily weird one: he calmly informs Spirit, at one point, that he's swapped his partner's middle toes while he was sleeping; it turns out that Stein was messing with him, but Spirit's horrified reaction is proof that
Stein just might do something like that. Somewhat of a solitary man, he's still capable of forming fairly close friendships and partnerships, there's still a hint of cool detachment at his end. Love isn't something that he completely comprehends, except as an aspect of human behavior. But it seems his friendship and Meister-Weapon partnership with Spirit Albarn, starting when they were both fairly young has helped him to open up to people more. Even still, his living space has a clinical feel to it and virtually everything has suture-like markings on it, as if to symbolize how tenuously stitched-together his own sanity is.

There's no real Freudian Excuse for his urge to dissect people, and it would seem he's a born sociopath. But he is a quietly heroic one with a strong moral code: he takes a certain pride in treating his patients and in passing on his knowledge to his students. Later in the anime, when he's possessed by one of Medusa's snakes and is no longer able to hold back his madness, he willingly leaves the DWMA to keep from harming his students and the people he trusts. What looks like an act of betrayal is in fact an act of loyalty, with his own characteristic weird slant to it.

( Strengths/Weaknesses ):

STRENGTHS: Besides being an excellent physician and surgeon, he's excellent at unarmed combat (he's even seen fighting people while still seated on his pet roller-swivel chair), as well as armed combat (particularly blades of some sort; he's partnered with a fair number of Weapons). Also, he able to read the souls of people around them and gauge their strengths. He can even weaponize his own soul's wavelength and turn it into a small blast resembling an electrical discharge. While using a Weapon, he's also able to use his soul's wavelength immobilize his opponent by suturing them to the nearest flat surface.

WEAKNESSES: He's prone to bouts of madness that urge him to harm others, even the people he cares about, and while he's a good man at heart, he has a profoundly weird sense of medical ethics. He's also admitted to not getting the whole concept of love except in the most abstract sense as a part of human behavior and a component of human relationships, which causes him to seem somewhat cool and detached toward others.

( Other Important Facts ): He's often seen turning the large machine-type bolt through his brain-box while he's thinking, the way most people would scratch their heads. It appears to be some sort of enhancement of his own devising (close examination of the screen of his computer in several shots shows a computer-aided design of what looks like a different version of the bolt), but how it's put in there isn't certain. Mun's guess is that it's some odd implant that allows him to use more of his brain power at a time than most people can.

( Sample ): "What is this? Is that rain? How nice-- wait a minute, is it raining rubber duckies? Seriously?"

Stein crossed the Plaza, the blue radiance of the coral cool on his pale face. He eyed the plant-like creature, intrigued; he contemplated cutting some of the fronds, to take back to the lab and examine, but he decided against it. The gentle light has a strength to it, something that suggests the coral can protect itself, even from inquisitive scientists taking a sample, and that it will defend its fronds only too gladly.

He glanced up at the sky, the rippling blue beyond the wall of the bubble that contained the city. A city in a bubble... how was that possible? Magic, or the power of the coral was the easy answer, but he couldn't help thinking this was too simple an answer.

Taking a cigarette from the pack in his breast pocket and lighting it, he turned his attention back to the coral, wondering if he can placate it to allow him a sample.

Plop!

Something damp fell to the cobbles behind him. Rain? he wondered, looking up. Rain in a city underwater? Well, it would be easy for the water to get through, but that sounded awfully loud to be mere rain.

Plop! Plop

*Smack!*

Something wet whacked him in the back of the neck and he looked around. A small, yellowish object rolled past his feet as another wet thing like it bounced off his arm. He snatched one up from the ground, discovering a yellow plastic duck in his hand.

"Well, how are these falling from the sky?" he asked. No time for an answer, though: more tumbled from the sky, bouncing off the pavers, and off himself, and it didn't seem likely to let up. Pulling his labcoat up over his head, he hurried for cover, in a place where he can observe this most unusual storm...

( Questions? Comments? Concerns? ): None that I can think of (though one thing I'd like to add is that when it comes to shippy/smexy things, I play this bloke as asexual/heteromantic. Not that I'd adverse to shippy/smexy things, I just like players to give me a heads-up first??).