Dr. Franken Stein

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**Dr. Franken Stein** is a character from the *Soul Eater* anime and manga.

Stein is a teacher at the DWMA and the most powerful meister to ever graduate from the school. Memorable for being a textbook Mad Scientist, albeit a heroic one. He was Spirit Albarn's first meister, until Spirit was driven off by Stein's obsession with dissecting anything and everything, including Spirit himself.

In the AWA fics, Stein is part of the AWA Academy as one of it's many instructors.

## **Appearance**

Stein is a tall man; around the time of Shaula Gorgon's attack on Death City, he was 210 centimeters tall (about 6 feet 10 inches). He has silver-gray hair, large and round glasses, and a handsome face.

Stein's most notable trait is likely the large screw-in bolt going through his head. He often turns this screw, a means to focus his thoughts or as he prepares to attack an opponent.

Another notable detail about Stein's body, as well as his clothes, are their zig-zag stitches. He has sewn stitches all over his body and clothing; even his house is covered in stitches. His most notable piece of clothing is his doctor's lab coat. He is also surprisingly well built for a man his age, due to a large portion of his time being devoted to combat training. He has a turtleneck shirt underneath his coat. It is 2 different gray shade pattern. With the dark one on top and lighter in the middle,with the same dark under the lighter one. The shirt also has stitches in a zig-zags on the lines on the shirt.

His soul is light blue featuring his trademark stitches and single giant screw. As a child, his bolt and glasses are noticeably absent. He is also much shorter and visibly smaller than Spirit.

## **Personality**

Being a man of science, Dr. Stein sees everything in the world, including himself, as an experiment. From childhood, he often wanted to dissect the people around him only to be stopped by Spirit.[8] This personality trait made all those around him afraid of him. This strange hobby of wanting to dissect anything he thinks is interesting was still present, even when Stein became an adult; once, as part of a lesson, he tried to have his class dissect an endangered animal, claiming that it would be bad if he did not find out anything from it before it became extinct. The stitching across his face suggests that he had worked on himself at one point.

He also exhibits a sadistic and intimidating personality. During his battle against Maka and Black☆Star, he grabbed Maka by one of her pigtails, lifted her shirt up and drew marks on her body, to signify where he would put the knife through, and ponders if he should turn her skin into sand paper. When Black☆Star tried to attack him, he countered by knocking him out in a seemingly painful and bloody manner. His smiles are normally filled with sadistic intentions.

Stein seems to have dormant madness. He has even admitted that he is especially sensitive to it. Stein ultimately did go insane and struggled to maintain it. He even quit smoking as a way to convince himself.

Emotionally, Naigus has described him as always alone and that he has no love in him. He has admitted that he can't understand Spirit's reaction to Maka asking him to go out shopping. This shows he can't feel deep emotions other than the need to dissect whatever interests or irritates him. This tendency likely seems to be more destructive or psychotic, which explains his dormant madness. He is depicted as morally bankrupt, at least back in his youth. In Sid's flashback, he questioned Sid's decision to adopt Black☆Star, who was a baby. This suggests that if it were Stein's decision, he would have left Black☆Star. His immorality is supported further by his repeated experiments on Spirit back when they were younger. Furthermore, it was these destructive habits that would lead Spirit to leave Stein for Maka's mother (who actually informed of him that he was being experimented on in the first place.)

Despite this cruel and twisted personality, Stein does have a kind and compassionate side that worries for his friends and students and he feels the need to protect them. He also exhibits a rather paternal demeanor towards his students. He also expresses deep disgust and moral outrage towards Medusa for stating that she would abandon her own child, Crona, when they would become useless to her. It is never stated when this other personality arose. However, one can assume this may have arose after Spirit left Stein and that perhaps the fallout between them had Stein go on to become a nicer person after losing one of the few people that could put with him.

## **Abilities**

Franken Stein is recognized by Death as the most powerful graduate to have ever come out of Death Weapon Meister Academy, his skills and capabilities being far above that of Maka Albarn and Black☆Star prior to the time skip and even terrified the former with the level of his soul,easily outmatching them both wielding their weapons, as well as being far more skilled than Crona wielding Ragnarok with Death Scythe,easily beating them. After enrolling himself as a staff member in the DWMA, he was recognized by Spirit Albarn as the strongest Meister at the Academy overall, only surpassed by Death. The size of his soul is roughly the same as Medusa Gorgon (a renown Witch whom Eruka Frogclaim there was no other powerful Witch like her), putting him on par with the powerful Witch (with Death Scythe at hand), and he ultimately managed to defeat her. Stein has more moves than just electricity; he can also use his soul as a shield, as shown when Stein battled Corona. When he battled Medusa, he also uses an attack straight to Medusa's stomach., causing her to nearly die. These are but some of the moves he has up his sleeve.

After the timeskip, Stein's skill is shown to be on par with, if not slightly greater than, that of Black☆Star (after beginning on the path to becoming a Warrior God) in unarmed hand-to-hand. With Mjolnir at hand, his power and skill increases to the point of being able to utterly outclass and easily defeat Justin Law.

### **Special Abilities**

**Wavelength Control** (Hachō Kontorōru): Stein is described as having a flexible soul according to Death as well as a powerful Wavelength with highly advanced levels of control over it, enabling him to a variety of capabilities with only his wavelength.

**Genius Meister** (*Tensai Shokunin*): According to Spirit Albarn himself, Stein talents as a meister is so great he can learn how to master a weapon to a certain extent If he even gets slightly curious about a person's weapon form.

**Utility Meister** (*Yūtiriti Shokunin*): As a powerful Meister and capable fighter, Stein is capable of wielding many different kind of weapons with considerable skill and finesse. Among those weapons Stein is capable of using Mjolnir with incredible profiency and finesse, capable of using in both the hammer form and the tonfo form, being able to easly take on Justin Law where he would even resort to retreating when Stein used Mjolnir's Lightning Rope, even when the rogue Death Scythe merged with the Clown and used his abilities as a stationary weapon to his advantage, Stein manage to defeat and kill Justin.

* **Scythe-Meister** (*Kama Shokunin*): Mainly, Franken Stein is known to be an extremely skilled Scythe-Meister and normally employs Death Scytheas his main weapon of choice when using a scythe. As a Scythe-Meister, he's very adept at handling a Scythe enough to spin and twirl a scythe weapon with ease. When using Spirit, his fighting style revolves around the using his scythe weapon as a shield to block attacks and immediately counter-attack with his left hand with powerful attacks such as Soul Menace. His skill has enabled him to fairly easily and quickly outmatch Crona using the Demon Sword against him. He also was able to fight on par with the witch, Medusa, and eventually won.
* **Lamp Meister** (*Ranpu Shokunin*): Stein has shown the ability to use a Lantern as a weapon such as the Demon Lamp with remarkable abillity. While able to use it similar Kim Diehl's method, he can also improvise and use it like that of a propeller for his fists for extra damage, having done so against Soul Evans when he found he couldn't allow the formidable Death Scythe to touch the normal Demon Weapon without Jacqueline feeling pain due to the difference in power between the two weapons.

**Hand-to-Hand Combat** (*Taijutsu*): Stein is exceptionally skilled in hand-to-hand combat. With his unarmed combat skills combined with his various skills, he's been able to easily take down Maka Albarn and Black☆Star with they both used their weapons in their first altercation and seemingly gain the upper-hand in his spar with Black☆Star even after he improved his skills greatly. He's also not above with abandoning the use of his weapon and relying on some of his unarmed ability, evident as he did so during his battle against Crona.

**Enhanced Strength**: Stein has enough strength to kick Crona away a fair distance away when he saved Maka as well as break down the Santa Mario Novella Basilica with a kick whearas Maka wasn't able to push open due to the doors only opening inwards. His punch also managed to send Black☆Star a distance away.

**Enhanced Speed**: Stein possesses incredible speed, moving fast enough to appear as a blur as he rushed to Medusa during his fight with her. He also managed to allude Ragnarok's eye sight moments after performing **Experimental Ectoplasm** and when the weapon quickly emerged from Crona's body.

**Enhanced Durability**:Stein has taken multiple bloody-needles from Crona on his side of both his body and head and continued to be able to fight despite the injuries. He's also survived being drilled though and hit by Medusa Gorgon's Vector Arrows at close range.

**Genius Intellect**: Stein is an extremely intelligent individual, being resourceful in the medical field and is considered brilliant though eccentric and unlicensed as well as various rumors surrounding him tinkering his own body and performing zombie experiments, eventually resurrecting Sid Barrett as a zombie. He's also knowledgeable in Soul Studies and even has knowledge on Magic and spells.

* **Medical and Surgical Skills**: According to Anya, Stein is a brilliant (but eccentric) unlicensed doctor. He's capable of performing advance, life-saving surgeries as well as treating and aid ailments caused by even Magic.
	+ **Zombie** (*Zonbi*): Stein knows how to revive the dead as zombies like that of Sid Barrett most likely from his extensive medical capabilities. The prerequisites and procedure of reviving an individual into a Zombie has yet to be seen.

**Spatial Sense**: Stein's senses are even acute enough to be able to sense when space itself is being twisted.

### **List of Techniques**

#### **Standalone Techniques**

* **Soul Perception** (Tamashī Kanchi): Franken Stein is able to sense and perceive the souls of other beings. Unlike most Meisters, not only can he simply see the souls himself, but his Soul Perception is also at such a high level that he can read an individual's personality, characteristics and Soul Wavelength.

#### **Wavelength Control Techniques**

* **Adjust** (Sōsai): With his control over his own wavelength, he stated that he can easily counter the attacks of certain soul wavelength attacks (such as Ultimate Move: Black☆Star Big Wave) by adjusting the characteristics of his Wavelength to match others, in which causes it to lose it's power. The relationship is similar to the Soul Resonance between that of a meister and weapon.
* **Soul Resonance** (Tamashī no Kyōmei): Stein is capable of synchronizing his wavelength with other Demon Weapon and performing more powerful techniques as a result of his given weapon amplifying his wavelength sent by him, sending the amplified wavelength back to Stein, and repeating the process.
* **Teamwise Soul Resonance** (Chīmu de no Tamashī no Kyōmei): Stein is capable of synchronizing his wavelength with multiple teams of Weapons and Meisters through an indirect connection between their souls.

* **Soul Menace** (Kon'i): Franken Stein is a very skilled and powerful practitioner of the special art known as Soul Menace, in which allows him to apply his own Soul Wavelength offensively without the usage of a weapon. This ability allows him to attack with a variety of techniques in which mimic the properties of electricity. This move also allows him to deal deadly internal damage powerful enough to negate the usage of the Black Blood from Crona/Ragnarok after three usages during their battle as well as send his opponents at a distance due to it's powerful force as well has a variety of technique variation thanks to this art as well as easily "kill" White Rabbit in one hit. Black☆Star once remarked that unlike himself, Stein is able to fire Soul Menaces consecutively without build-up and admits Stein's profiency over Soul Menace surpasses his.

#### **Soul Menace Variations**

* **Two Palm Soul Menace** - **Twin Spears** (Nishō Kon'i - Sōsō ): A variation of the attack Soul Menace that instead makes use of both hands, rather than just one. However, due to the inclusion of an extra hand, the attack's power is greatly amplified and able to incapacitate even strong opponents.
* **Consecutive Soul Menace Three-Fold! "Gi" "Go" "Shoku"** (Renshō Kon'i - Sangoku "Gi" "Go" "Shoku): A variation of the Soul Menace technique, that instead rapidly hits an opponent three times in succession, using the same fist. The attack inflicts enough internal damage to cause the target to bleed from the mouth.

### **Equipment**

**Partnered with Spirit Albarn**

**Death Scythe** (Desu Saizu): When partnered up with Spirit Albarn, Franken Stein has the capability of the usage of his Death Scythe transformation. Being extremely powerful and durable, the most critically acclaim of this transformation is Spirit's control of his Meister's Wavelength to make him much more powerful.[48]

* **Great Traditional Techniques of the Scythe-Meister** (Kamashokunin dentō no ōwaza; FUNimation ":Legendary Super Skill of the Scythe-Meister"): Stein is capable of utilize one of the Great Technqiues typically used by Scythe-Meisters with extreme skill.

**Partnered with Marie Mjolnir**

* **Demon Hammer Mjolnir** (Mattsui Myoruniru): When partnered up with Marie Mjolnir, Stein is extremely apt in making use of her demon weapon form. These capabilities include an unnamed Soul Resonance ability in which he can create pillars of intertwining energies from a triquetra symbol capable of killing Justin Law in one, single hit. A variation allows him to use only the triquetra symbol to kill multiple opponents. With this weapon on hand, he takes advantage of her Healing Wavelength to calm and have better control over his Madness.

* **Lightning Rope-Madness State**: When faced with overwhelming odds and partnered with the likes of Marie Mjolnir, Stein can release the cap of his Madness and enter an insane-like state. Within this state, his Madness and prowess is at such a state that Spirit Albarn exaggerated with a claim that his manner acts much like the Kishin himself. Appearance wise, much remains the same though he gains a notable long ovals of lights around where his glasses appears. This state lasts for as long as Lightning Rope is engaged. While in this state, he takes advantage of the speed granted to him by Mjolnir's Lightning Rope technique, combining such speeds with the ruthlessness in which rises from the released cap in Madness, ascending Stein to his full capability in fighting. Despite this release in Madness, however, Marie has asserted that he himself still has full capability in reasoning (with readers). Furthermore, he himself states that even in this state, he wouldn't allow himself to succumb to the effects of Madness for the sake of those he cares about.

**Partnered with Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre**

* **Demon Lamp** (Ma Kakutō): Stein was once partnered up with Jacqueline O'Lantern Dupre in order to fend off the attacks of a Madness-induced Soul Eater. While using her, he was capable of using the chain to knock Soul off balance (although merely touching Soul's blade injured Jackqueline). Because of this, he resorted to handling the weapon backwards, allowing him to enhance his punches with the Demon Lamp's propulsion and increase the power of his punches.

### **List of Techniques**

**Death Scythe**

* **Experimental Ectoplasm** (Jikken Reitai): This Soul Resonance special art allows Franken Stein with the usage of Death Scythe to create a large, globular spiritual body to protect him from incoming attacks where the body's composition is gelatinous. He used this Special Art to stop Crona/Ragnarok's Bloody Needle attack.
* **Soul Thread Sutures** (Konshi Hōgō): After applying his Wavelength to his target via Soul Menace or it's variation, Stein is able to control the Wavelength within the body in which he's shot his Soul Menace into for a certain amount of time similar to that of a static charge. Due to the high level of precision and control required, it can only be performed by the most powerful of Meisters and Demon Weapons (such as Death Scythe). The suturing isn't limited onto to his target but even himself.
* **Soul Thread Diffusion Sutures** (Konshi Kakusan Hōgō): This technique allows Stein to create sutures on a given target's nervous system and prevents movements. This technique comes with a drawback: If the opponent has too large of a Soul Wavelength, Stein would be unable to move independently and finish off the immobilized target.
* **Witch-Hunt** (Majogari; FUNimation "Witch Hunter"): Stein is able to perform and control one of the three Great Traditional Techniques of the Scythe-Meister. When applied during his skirmish with Medusa after defeating Crona, his Witch-Hunt was powerful enough to negate Medusa's Vector Arrow spell in one hit as well as Stein able to execute the technique almost instantaneously. It's assumed that it has the ability to profoundly act as a bane to Witches, Magic, Demons, and even Immortals.

**Mjolnir**

* **Lightning Rope** (Izuna): A hyper-nerve induction technique in which gives a Stein a massive boost to his physical capabilities by sending electrical pulses through the his motor nervous system, capable of acheiving speed and power that seemingly exceeds Justin Law's power.

## **Trivia**

* A running gag in the series is that whenever Stein goes and sits on a rolling chair, he leaves rolling backwards and falls in the exit.
* The first popularity poll & second popularity poll that took place some time prior to Chapter 100 showed that Franken Stein ranks 8th place in being the most popular character in *Soul Eater*.