kelly lb soul eater – bullshit central

dude i know the BIGGEST anime trope is Winning the Fight with the Power of Friendship ™ but hot damn if the scene where Maka reaches out to Crona doesn’t make me sob like a baby every time.

where a girl who had already been thoroughly stomped by this kid once before and should have every reason to hate them gets on their level and REACHES OUT A HAND TO THEM!! literally tells Crona “it’s not that you can’t deal with people, it’s that no one ever took the time to deal with you”!! maka sees through all the abuse Crona has faced and wants to become their friend so they don’t have to feel that loneliness and fear anymore!!! shit!!!

try and tell me that isn’t the best ending to any anime fight. just TRY

“Lacking independence or not, they’re* your kid. What do you plan on doing with them? What will you do with your child?”

this moment still cinches it for me that despite the madness inside of him, Stein would still make an excellent father. because even when we’re shown time and time again the parallels between Stein and Medusa’s ideologies, you can clearly see in this scene the disgust that Stein feels for Medusa, knowing that she planned on killing Crona now that her experiment on them was finished and deemed unsuccessful.

for all the talk Stein has about not being capable of love, he’s absolutely revolted because of what Medusa is saying, and he feels this way about a child that he’s already defeated in battle and clearly knows is an enemy. he has no obligation to feel sympathy for Crona, who’s killed multiple people and almost murdered one of Stein’s own students, but even Stein can tell that what was done to make Crona what they are is morally wrong. and the thought of a mother murdering her child because she has found no more use for them is just as vile to Stein as it is to Spirit

*pronouns changed, bc the anime is shit