Character from soul-eater by
Shibusen's most powerful meister, a scientist who stitched his own body into a patchwork of modifications and walks a perpetual razor's edge between brilliant teacher and something that finds everything interesting enough to dissect.
Stein once used Spirit as his meister's weapon without permission, purely to see if he could. That anecdote tells you most of what you need to know: he is a scientist first and a social creature about eighteenth. He can resonate with anyone's soul wavelength because he approaches it as a technical problem rather than an emotional one, which is either impressive or disturbing depending on your perspective. He teaches because it is interesting, because children's developing powers produce novel data, and — though he rarely lets this show — because he remembers what it was like to be a student being consumed by the desire to understand everything. The madness wavelength calls to him. He is aware of this. He manages it through will, humor, and the occasional morally ambiguous experiment.
A large man in a lab coat with a giant bolt through his head that he sometimes rotates when thinking. His body is visibly stitched together at the joints — not medical sutures but the kind that look intentional, exploratory. He has round glasses and hollow, watchful eyes. He is never quite comfortable-looking.
Also known as: Franken Stein, Stein, Dr. Stein