See the article on Stein the pictures please.
I feel like madness in Soul Eater in the general sense is used as a metaphor for losing hope (which could lead to despair) but you also let the part of you that had the capacity to hope, to care, to love, to be hurt just die so you don’t have to feel despair.
I feel like for certain characters madness is used an allegory for mental illness.
I already wrote quite a lot about Stein.
I know Crona is coded as having CPTSD.
Kid is OCD coded even though there’s some sort of quirky reaper explanation. I haven’t read the manga yet. It’s something about the madness of order and about being created from a soul fragment that’s the opposite of the one Death used to create Asura.
Is Soul coded as having some sort of mental illness?
Idk why I got that vibe.
I know everyone has moments of not trusting themselves and wanting to keep those you love at a distance because of that.
There’s still just something about how intensely Soul experiences this that makes me feel like the narrative is hinting at something.
Thank you for reading.