Author's Comments: I recently started watching Soul Eater and I fell in love with it. I was thinking about Stein and this idea popped into my head. I decided to write it down and see how far I could run with it.
The story itself is going to be a combination of third person narrative chapters and log reports written by Stein. I usually avoid 1st person narrative like the plague, but it seems to work for Stein.
Bad Seed
Disclaimer: Dr Franken Stein, Lord Death and Spirit belong to Atsushi Okubo.
Prologue:
Digital log of Dr Franken Stein
Report 15041997:
An intriguing turn of events has certainly happened. One that can be entirely blamed on myself. It seems Spirit was right all those times he told me I need to reorganize my possessions. Not that I shall let him have the pleasure of knowing. If I did he'd never let me hear the end of it. No, that would never do. I am the genius of our partnership; he is not allowed to prove me wrong. Not while I am still around to witness it.
But, enough on Spirit and his questionable intelligence. Back to the matter at hand. At present, my mistake doesn't appear to be showing any ill effects. It doesn't appear to be showing any effects at all, ill or otherwise. For this, I am grateful. With any luck, if I ignore the problem it might just up and disappear on its own. If I had my way, it would have disappeared as soon as I had discovered the little nuisance. Unfortunately, I am loathe to admit I have yet to discover how to get rid of it. I have no qualms about researching methods to destroy this little beast, in fact I was rather looking forward to it. Trial and error is a crude, school boy method of experimenting, but none the less satisfying. Unfortunately, Lord Death somehow discovered my error. I knew he was all powerful but I had no idea he was omniscient as well. When he found out my plans for the parasite he forbade me from trying to dissect it with immediate effect. Apparently the school can't afford to lose one of its best meisters. I almost see that as an insult. I know as a scientist my rationality leaves something to be desired, but I am not so reckless as to actually hurt myself. On the other hand, recent circumstances may disprove that statement. I'm still not sure why I chose this instance to listen to Lord Death. Perhaps the scarce amount of reason I have left in my mind finally kicked in. Or maybe, and in all honesty more likely, even if I can't destroy it I may still be able to use it for an experiment. If it does finally become active the results could be interesting.
I would, of course, have preferred an alternative test subject. It's going to be difficult conducting research on and obtaining data from myself. It's also highly inadvisable to start a project without even a basic hypothesis. Then again I never did follow rules that well. With that in mind, I must prepare myself for the inevitable. Whatever that may actually be.
The pages of this log are now laid bare to document the findings of this new project. Only time will tell if they have a tangible use.