If zie does make a decision that zir mother doesn't like-hesitates to kill someone, let's say-she infects zir with madness using her magic.
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"I don't know how to deal with this," zie says when encountering everything from "a man with a screw in his head" to a girl. So Crona's grown up without any bodily autonomy whatever and is unable to take control in most situations. Even when Crona wields it as a sword, it pulls zir along.
It gives zir noogies, plays with zir face and lifts up zir robe. This is by design: zir mother is a witch who's trying to turn zir into another Kishin.Ĭrona's weapon is a Demon Sword called Ragnarok that rips out of zir back. Like the Kishin, Crona (who's given no gender label) is terrified of people-all new things, actually-and has a mostly-broken partnership with zir weapon. He becomes emotionally attached to her.which terrifies him further, so he kills her. In the anime, the witch Arachne tries to ally with Asura by promising to protect him-to give him the partnership he and his weapon should've had. When he wakes up, he screams upon seeing the witch who woke him. He makes snarky comments, banters with the Grim Reaper ("Why such a ridiculous mask?") and has emotions. While Asura is an Other God played pretty straight (he's the personification of the Madness of Fear), he has more depth than Lovecraft would've given him. (There's also a weapon who trained without a meister-he's a villain, too.) Not only can he eat (innocent) souls with the weapon inside him-unnatural for a meister-but his partnership is destroyed, which is a type of imbalance, a terrifying thing in itself. It's also the point where he actually turns evil. Of all the things the Kishin is capable of-mass murder, spreading madness wavelengths throughout the world-rejecting his own weapon like this holds a special horror for the characters. His weapon was specially chosen for him to help him not be so afraid of people in terror, Asura swallowed this weapon whole. But he was deeply paranoid and would cover his face and body in scarves and layers of clothing. The Kishin himself, named Asura, used to work as the Grim Reaper's guard-and he was the best. It's no accident that both disabled antagonists have a really unbalanced relationship with their weapons. In fact, during an "extra lesson," a team of students passed when a weapon offered to die for his meister. Weapons and meisters have a deep partnership aside from depending on each other so as not to die, they must match soul wavelengths in order to work together. The Reaper runs a school for people who turn into weapons and their wielders ("meisters"). In Death City, a madness god called a Kishin sleeps-and the Grim Reaper wants to keep it that way.
Let's begin with the (disabled) antagonists.Īctually, let's start by talking a bit about what Soul Eater is. It would be easier to break the meta up into parts and give everyone their own in-depth analysis.
The problem-and it is a lovely problem-is that I count five disabled characters and could make an argument for a sixth. Contains: Discussion of body horror, child abuse, mind and body control, mental illness, and a REALLY HUGE spoiler.įor month_of_meta I wanted to write something about disability in Atsushi Ohkubo's manga Soul Eater-how it's used to play with Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos, how it fits into overarching themes of interdependence and friendship, and just how many disabled characters there are.
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