Post by Abyss on May 11, 2011 16:15:49 GMT -5
[/font]GENERAL INFORMATION
- The Soul Eater world will never be free of darkness, so its up to the DWMA to keep the peace.
- The DWMA was founded 800 years ago by Shinigami-sama - Death itself. He built the school as a training facility for humanoid Weapons and their human partners, their wielders - Meisters.
- The school was built to keep the peace after the Demon God, Kishin Asura, asleep, and keep Kishin Eggs from becoming full-blown Kishins. In light of the revival and defeat of the Kishin Asura, the school has resumed its peace-focused regime. A year later, they are getting ready to prepare for a commemoration of the defeat, despite the...agreeably "weird" going-ons recently.
PARTNERING, TRAINING, CLASSES & BONDING
[/font]- Pairing a Weapon and a Meister together is not always easy, as their Soul Wavelengths need to be compatible with each other. Therefore, the DWMA often holds large gatherings, where students gather together wearing badges indicating whether they are a Demon Weapon or a Meister and try to find the partner they are compatible with. It seems possible that even after accepting a partner, one can change partners if they wish to. Upon enrolling in Shibusen, new students are first grouped together, wearing badges indicating whether they are Weapon or Meister, and workshops are run, giving the new students a chance to make partners. Meisters or Weapons who are popular with more than one person can make 'sponsored partnerships' with others.
- The students are split into two main categories: the Demon Weapons and Meisters. Meisters are humans who show great potential in combat and physical fitness, giving them an advantage in a fight. Demon Weapons are humans with the unique ability to transform their bodies into weapons. The DWMA pairs up different Weapons and Meisters together to form partnerships between them, in order to make powerful teams to stand against the Evil humans, with the Meister wielding the Demon Weapon. Many students in Shibusen are gifted with an abnormal amount of power, and because of this, they are sometimes shunned from normal society. Shibusen takes them in and teaches them on how to control their power, and to be respected more by people around them.
- Unfortunately, people have abandoned their life as a human and take the path of a demon - a Evil human, a path that transforms them into vicious evil beings that kill innocent humans for their pure souls. When enough is consumed, the Evil human can transform into an incredibly dangerous being called a Kishin Egg, which can further become a Kishin.
- The DWMA trains Meisters and Weapons to combat against these Evil humans and Kishin Eggs, by training their students from a young age to fight and kill these beings. The DWMA also trains students to combat against Witches, even more dangerous than Kishin Eggs.
- Many students are motivated into fighting against the Evil humans and Witches with their main goal: making or becoming a Death Scythe. When a Demon Weapon has consumed a certain amount of souls in a particular order (99 Evil human souls and 1 Witch Soul) they gain extraordinary power and can be used by Shinigami himself. Creating a Death Scythe is thus known to be a hard and difficult process, and many Meisters are respected for creating a Death Scythe, and Death Scythes themselves are respected among the students as well.
- The classes of the DWMA are split into two categories: the NOT Class, and the EAT Class. NOT stands for Normally Overcome Target. Roughly 90% of the students are in the NOT Class, and they are the ones who are more 'normal' than the EAT Class, and do not have much power, making them more like the non-combatants of the Shibusen students. The EAT Class however, the remaining 10%, are exceptionally talented people with great power. They are given the duty to actually fight against any evil-doers. EAT stands for Especially Advantaged Talent.
- In Shibusen, there are two types of lessons. The usual lessons that take place in classrooms, and extracurricular lessons, which are missions that students undertake in order to fight Evil humans or Witches and solve various problems that are out of the range of the average police force. The class lessons are based mostly around on the subject of 'Soul Studies' as knowledge of souls are important for the students of the DWMA.
- Once a Meister and Weapon team is formed, the team can take assignments on the Mission Bulletin in the Reception area of the Academy to kill Evil humans. Well-trained Meisters and Weapons develop many new powers and abilities as their experience and bond as a Meister and Weapon team grow. Training sessions and physical fitness tests and sparring matches etc. are thus held often in the Academy.
RANKING
[/font]- The Meister students and some members of staff that are also Meisters in the Academy are separated into a ranking system. This system is based on the number of stars.
- Meisters of One-Star Rank make up the majority of the Academy, rookie Meisters.
- Two-Star Meisters are considered the most advanced Meisters of the student body, like the members of Spartoi.
- Three-Star Meisters are the most powerful, and is a rank associated mostly with the teachers, such as Sid and Stein. It does not necessarily mean that a Meister can become a Three-Star Meister just by turning their Weapon into a Death Scythe. A Meister needs to have exceptional skill and power to have the title of a Three-Star Meister.
- The higher the Star rank, the Meisters have more priveliges in the Academy than normal rookie Meisters.
- Demon Weapons are not technically included in the Star ranking system (although some are acknowledged as one rank or another upon occasion) , and are generally placed into two categories: a normal Demon Weapon or a Death Scythe. The strength of a Weapon though, can vary as much as Meister's.
- Higher-level Meisters and Weapons occasionally take part in large-scale wars against organizations that threaten the peace of the world.
- The staff is made up of basic school staff such as receptionists or librarians, but the teachers themselves serve a large variety of roles. Teachers like Stein teaches Meisters in classrooms but also take on special orders and missions recieved by Shinigami and act as leaders or personal trainers to a certian group of students. Some are also part of a military force of the DWMA that fight alongside Meisters and Weapons in conflicts against societies such as Arachnophobia.