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spirit self-inserting himself into families
for context ever since ohkubo has announced mariestein’s child is a girl, i cant stop thinking about ways to drag spirit and his unfinished delusion into it
in my postcanon stein is on his maternity leave because why would he be useful for the plot (he wasn’t for all the second half of manga and nobody noticed) and his dynamics with his child would be much more interesting (i also have a meister in mind to replace him hee hee 😋)
Close ups an meme under the cut
borrowing a jacket 🥼
part 1 // part 2 // part 3
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Marie mjolnir (requested)
I DONT THINK I EVER POSTED THESE??? genuinely these are old as hell but Pantless Shirtless Legally Blind Late To Work is cracking me up too much not to share
A really cool early birthday gift from a friend
marie&stein
Spirit’s body, Stein’s soul
I think my thoughts when I don't even need to.
i have something to share with the class
He should've been at the clerbbbb
Redraw of my old fanart of Stein from 2021 💖
You’re the SteinMarie person right? Can you talk about what you like about them and their dynamic? 😊
Hi! Hello! Sorry for the delay in getting to this ask but thank you for asking me!!
Idk if I’m the SteinMarie person, but I guess we could say I’m one of them??
Hmm, I think I could say that there are two parts to why I like them.
One is that they’re both just. Silly.
Stein gets a lot of attention because of his neurodivergence — for not being able to properly connect with or understand people, and his way of going about it being concerning to say the least. But I’d like to point out that Stein is. Silly. He’s a smartass and an asshole. When he first meets Spirit again in the series, he jokes to him about his wife knowing full well that they’re divorced. He also says that he’d switched his toes during surgery. In the NOT series, he makes a replica of a girl’s head to scare said girl’s friends with. And Marie is introduced to us by way of her deciding to marry a toilet, then pummeling said toilet when she suspects even the toilet of infidelity. Furthermore when confronting the man who killed Marie’s ex, Stein spins and dips Marie. Absolutely ridiculous.
The other is that while they might be externally presented as ridiculous, they don’t view each other as such; rather they don’t view each other as solely scary, or solely silly, but they actually perceive one another as serious people. And, yes, this is my own reading of it — I think that Marie and Stein are willing to understand each other in ways that others don’t.
On the surface Stein is a perceived as a genius with low emotional intelligence, and disregard for others. And Marie, on the surface, is an overly emotional person who people perceive as obsessed with finding love, starting a family, etc. However, these two are able to express patience, support, and trust for one another outside of these roles/assignments/perceptions.
When Naigus tells Marie that Stein isn’t capable of love, Marie follows him anyway. Not because she thinks he’s capable or incapable of love, but because she trusts that he did not kill BJ. Because she wants to catch BJ’s killer, and because she doesn’t want Stein to go through it all alone.
Stein, in turn, doesn’t question Marie moving into his lab when Lord Death places her as his partner. Instead he exercises patience and support for her moving across the world, for her putting her life and other goals on hold because she holds herself responsible in her duty as a Death Scythe. He also doesn’t question her investment in others as being frivolous; her investment in finding BJ’s killer isn’t about a romantic option being taken away from her, but about giving BJ justice, which Stein is likewise willing to help her do because, yes their interests align, but also because I think he respects the principal of it (this could also go into a whole tangent on Stein’s mental/ideological support system through partnership but I’ll not get into that now).
Patience. Support. Trust.
I think it’s a common reading that Marie makes him better because of her healing wavelength, or because she knows how to take care of him. I hate this interpretation, tbh. I won’t say that that’s not real or how it’s written, because it is in the sense that Medusa and Marie are foils of one another in a fairly reductive way: Medusa as the villain without motherly/caretaker instinct, one who abuses Crona, corrupts Stein, and Marie as the hero with motherly/caretaker instinct, one who comforts Crona, heals Stein. Her goodness in this sense is tied to her ability to be a caretaker and a mother. Blegh.
Marie's goodness is linked to her own principles of justice and kindness, imo. And Stein isn’t someone who needs to be guided so much as someone who needs his own insecurities around his sense of morality challenged.
Agh, sorry this is so long. And also sorry if it isn’t super coherent? I hope it makes a modicum on sense lol. And again, thank you for the ask!
Oh, I love this so so much.
Huge huge HUGE agree. The idea that Marie is out here making Stein 'better' because of her healing wavielength is such a. . .flat reading of their relationship. Something I love so much about SteinMarie is that they encourage each other to be their best selves entirely independent of what they can offer externally. Stein is a meister who doesn't need a weapon, and Marie is a weapon who doesn't need a meister. It's not about NEED with them, but about want. They have shared history and admiration for one another, and that makes them so incredibly strong as a relationship.
Marie doesn't so much as make him better, I think, as she encourages him to step up by being a radiant force. But at the same time, not in the way other people might assume. Marie drinks out of the beakers, Marie makes the dark humor jokes, Marie has a sharp temper and a deep love for those around her. Yes, she's empathetic and warm, but that's not necessarily what makes Stein step up. It's not her taking care of him, but her as a person with qualities he sees they share, and also qualities he does not have that he appreciates.
Because Stein encourages Marie by accepting her wholeheartedly. The arrows on the floor of the lab, the jokes he cracks with her, the clear respect he has for their partnership. He appreciates her loyalty and her power, he admires her strength and her kindness. Marie makes Stein want to show the softer side of him, a side he has had even before her. We see it with the students when they come to his lab for the first time, patting them on the head and offering them to come inside. With Marie, Stein comforts, like in the scene in the snow during BREW. Like when she cries after coming with him in pursuit of BJs killer. With Marie, Stein opens to comfort, as well. Accepting the couches she brings into the lab, the steady companionship between the two of them, the domesticity of a 'I'm home'.
I love how you talk about how they take each other seriously even though they're deeply unserious individuals. Stein and Marie in a lot of ways are very similar, and that twines them even closer. Because for as much as Stein holed himself in his lab and Marie lamented wanting a partner, they both desire individuality AND partnership. They're looking for understanding that does not settle for stagnation, and they find that with each other.
Just, ugh, I love this ship so much.
This man is wanted by a hot manipulative gorgon witch, a wacky nervous single playboy dad, and the sweetest romantic blonde woman of all time, WHILE also being hot himself. He's truly winning in life
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Savior by flyttadig on AO3 (aka me!!)
Some time after the Kishin's defeat, Stein invites Spirit over for a bonding exercise. As it turns out, they each need to confront something about themselves first.
i wrote a spirit/stein fic and made art for it! this is what i spent my september doing lol. theres two versions cuz i drew this before writing the fic, so i had to add stein's coat in post but i like how i drew his butt (just keeping it real) so u also get the original coatless version.