This is the blog for the Soul Eater fandom Reverse Resonance Bang -- or Reverb for short. We track the Tumblr tags #souleaterreverb so if you want something reblogged to this blog, those are your best tag options.
New year, new Resbang ~ we're excited to bring you all another year of Resbang. The schedule may have shifted a bit, but that just means we get to start the year off with this amazing fandom community <3
Sign ups open up this Saturday, January 10, which is super soon, but don't worry, you'll have until Saturday, January 31 to sign up.
During this time, we'll have a poll open here on Tumblr to vote on this year's theme, which will be announced once sign ups close.
(As always, the theme is there for funsies, and you can use it for inspiration or not, however you choose!).
Resbang 2026 Schedule
January 10: Sign-ups Open
January 31: Sign-ups Close
February 14: 1st Author Check-in & Story Summaries
February 15: Artist Summaries go live
February 21: Claims Night!!
March 7: Check-ins (1st Artist/2nd Author)
March 21: Check-ins (2nd Artist/3rd Author)
April 11: Final Check-in & Schedule requests
April 12: Posting Schedule announced
April 18: Posting Begins!
Perhaps you're thinking, man why am I seeing this and what the heck is Resbang, anyway? We've got you covered! Check out our Resbang FAQ and the Rules & Requirements on the Grigori Wings Forum!
Signed up and looking to hang out with some awesome Soul Eater friends? Join the Grigori Wings Discord if you're feeling inclined! The GW Discord is a great place to connect with other authors, artists, and betas.
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We'll continue to make announcements here and on Discord, and mods are on (periodic) standby if you've got questions!
The 2025 Jackpot is Live! Please head over to the GW Form to check out all of the beautiful works created just for you! As always, we want to say a huge thank you to all the participants, readers, viewers, and supporters for making this year a great one!
Before we officially close the book on Reverb 2025, we want to take a moment to shout out some honorable mentions!
@justpocketchange & @guacamoletrash's And They Were (Extraterrestrial) Roommates and @regalun-street's To Death and infinity... Resonance of the Heart!
Please join the mod team in giving some love and support to these participants who worked hard this year but were unfortunately unable to make final posting. Though not a part of the Jackpot, you can still find their works on their personal pages, so check them out!
Reverb may be over, but you can relive the magic from this year, as well as previous years, on the GW forum again and again.
The Mod team is going to celebrate with a sweet treat and some much needed rest.
The 2025 Jackpot is Live! Please head over to the GW Form to check out all of the beautiful works created just for you! As always, we want to say a huge thank you to all the participants, readers, viewers, and supporters for making this year a great one!
Before we officially close the book on Reverb 2025, we want to take a moment to shout out some honorable mentions!
@justpocketchange & @guacamoletrash's And They Were (Extraterrestrial) Roommates and @regalun-street's To Death and infinity... Resonance of the Heart!
Please join the mod team in giving some love and support to these participants who worked hard this year but were unfortunately unable to make final posting. Though not a part of the Jackpot, you can still find their works on their personal pages, so check them out!
Reverb may be over, but you can relive the magic from this year, as well as previous years, on the GW forum again and again.
The Mod team is going to celebrate with a sweet treat and some much needed rest.
Come along to meet the big red Wolf, our one and only Spirit Albarn. A handsome fella with golden fingers. He knows how to snatch your wallet like he snatches hearts–and all that without a tie, cause he ain't leashed.
Next up is his best bud Mister Snake-err his name is Franky Stein, but everyone calls him a snake, because well… he is a snake. A Burmese python to be exact, mister morph made of several molts. There's no safecracker better than Franky, and he does all that without any modern equipment.
Yeah, this is the part where I, Shark, show up and steal the show. The name’s Tezca Tlipoca, master of disguises. I'm so good, even I don't know if I use magic. Oh, and I'm presumably a bear. I've once been asked if I wasn't a human in a bear suit. The answer to that is ✨✨✨
Now meet Azusa, codename Webs. Hacker extraordinaire, and knows her way around the web like no other.
Finally there's Soul, our little rookie. Codename piranha. A bit of a minime and a mini every one of us, because he's simultaneously the most insane and most normal young man a piranha could be.
That's right, we're the Deathscythes.
And we're bonafide Bad Guys.
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That's right, we've got ourselves a bad guys au! Brought to us by the Nefarious @blackbloodteeth who came up with this idea, and yours truly, who was like 'okay, but what if Tezca just constantly breaks the 4th wall? ', and here is the result.
Feast your eyes on teeth's art HEEEEEEEREEEE
Feel your mind melt with the story HEEEEEEREEEEE
Thank you @reverbmod for organising reverb this year <3
Actually had the idea for a The Bad Guys AU last year after finally seeing the movie, so I had a ton of fun coming up with the designs for the Death Scythes gang once Reverb rolled around haha (shame I didn't have the energy for much else, but I'm still pretty dang happy with how this whole thing came together)!
Thanks again to my partner @alcruid for working hard on writing a wacky story to this whole shebang! Somehow I managed to not make Soul the main character!
Thank you so much @reverbmod for hosting this wonderful event! I had such a wonderful time working with @chichirichick and watching Shattered Souls come together!
Read it here! AO3 (for real, please read, it is amazing)
(small summary for the fic for ya as well)
"There are too many reflections. From one world to the next, the weapons and their meisters and falling and failing. With each crack, there’s a chance one of them could die. Will they come together and find a way to seal these worlds, or will some of them fail to come back from the other side?"
Warnings: character death, gore and violence
I had such a fun time working on this and may have gone a bit overboard, but I think it was worth it!
Thanks to @reverbmod, I had the honor of working with @not-so-scandalous on the beautiful reverb:
Shattered Souls
Featuring: Our three main meisters with a healthy serving of SoMa
Fic summary: There are too many reflections. From one world to the next, the weapons and their meisters and falling and failing. With each crack, there’s a chance one of them could die. Will they come together and find a way to seal these worlds, or will some of them fail to come back from the other side?
Warnings (if any): character death, gore and violence
Enjoy it on AO3!
Special thanks, as always, to my dearest @silluuuu who is kind enough to scream about my work.
Very happy to give y'all my first DeathStar piece with this Reverb!
I'm immensely grateful to @drowsystarlight for being an awesome partner for this project; their prompt immediately took me in and their art for it is STUNNING and ACHINGLY BEAUTIFUL (pls go check it out HERE)!
You can find the fic summary below and the fic itself HERE (on ao3).
SUMMARY: Fate and love. Prophecy and war. Awful and undeniable things. Kid knows them all. Though a ghost, he once held every shining piece of the brightest star in his hands. Herein, he reminisces:
“No longer can the blazing bronze sun sear my upward gazing eyes. No longer can my palm brush against old scars as fingers weave through my hair. No longer can my breath catch in anguish for he who kissed my cold lips, for he who cradled my stiff, ashen body, beckoning me to return to the dead thing—selfishly, desperately.
No longer.
Still, even without a mind, I remember.
And I will tell it again. I will tell what I can of this ill-fated life.”
(The Song of Achilles, Iliad inspired AU)
EXTRA THANKS: I'd also like to give a big shout out to @silluuuu for beta-ing like a boss and supporting me throughout. And many thanks to @reverbmod for organizing this event!!
Art by Neeks (me), story by @toweroftunes ! (Click here for the fic’s Ao3 link!)
Happy reverb posting day!! Here’s a The Song of Achilles au but with deathstar as Patroclus and Achilles. The main piece is based on the painting “Achilles and the Body of Patroclus” by Nikolai Ge (1855). Please enjoy doomed yaoi suffering 🙂↕️❣️ AND READ TOWER’S FIC OHHHHH ITS SO BEAUTIFUL
Tagging @reverbmod , thank you for making this wonderful event happen!!❣️❣️❣️
Soul gets drafted into the imperial space force where along side his crew he has to bring an end to the civil war that plagues their solar system.
Read it HEEEEEEEREE
Ecstasy of Dust
written by @indigolightning
“Push those engines, Patti!”
“I’m trying, Soul! This is all she has!”
A sharp dive threw Maka into the open paneling she was actively repairing, nearly jamming her forehead into completing a circuit. The arcing electricity crackled around her and she pulled back quickly.
Damn Soul for getting them into this mess.
The crew of the Oni set out on a job: to rob the casino run by Arachnophobia, Silken Shores.
Read it HEEEEEEEEREEEEEEEEE
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So this year my idea for reverb was a firefly au! Or space pirates/cowboys! I have two lovely authors who wrote their own fics, and both of them are very different! It’s supercool to see how they took this concept and made it their own. I had a great time working with the both of them.
Also, thanks to @reverbmod for organising the event this year ❤️
Im here to post my reverb story Haven! Its a fun space AU with Maka and Soul! I got to work with @alcruid and she made some amazing artwork for the story she came up with! I hope youll all check it out along side my story you can read here at my fanfiction net account https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14506349/1/Reverb-2025-Haven
Thanks to the @reverbmod for hosting the event and be sure to check out all the other work!
Here’s my Reverb for 2025!! Had an amazing artist again this year who came up with a really interesting of Maka being a solo weapon/Soul being abducted by Medusa when he was a child.
If you like Soul going through it, Maka’s mommy issues, and putting canon in a giant blender for the fun of it, check it out!!
I’ll add a small excerpt/link to the artwork below, and thank you to the Reverb mods for setting the event up again this year :)
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If there was one noise Soul didn’t expect to hear in the drab room furbished as the nurses’s office, it was of the incessant ribbit of a frog perched on the windowsill.
“Fuckin’ what!” Soul practically growled as he rolled up the window and narrowed his eyes at Eruka’s “disguised” form.
“I was just stopping by to tell Lady Medusa everything is going according to plan,” Eruka croaked out, probing Soul to let out a sigh and run his fingers across his ivory mop of hair.
“Alright, I’ll let her know. Let yourself in next time and tell her. It might look like it, but I’m not her damn lap dog,” Soul replied as he watched Eruka’s lumpy figure turn around.
“You wouldn’t catch me dead inside that school, frog disguise or not. And you’d better hope Medusa wraps this thing up faster so Shinigami doesn’t start to sense your soul,” the frog witch replied, probing Soul to narrow his eyes at the sight of her hopping away and left him to mull over her statement.
As if I’d ever let them kill me Soul mentally noted while shutting the small window and craning his head back in with a huff.
Medusa had been serving as Shibusen’s nurse for months now. The dilemma had left him to adorn the disguise of Saul, a high school student who seemed to be interested in working as an aide for Shibusen in order to “help the cause” or whatever bullshit the witch had made up.
The young man wasn’t even sure why he’d have to go through the trouble of infiltrating Shibusen along with Medusa, as his day was mostly filled with patching up a few cuts and bruises the students received during missions or snooping around the hallways in order to hear any information the teachers might be sharing amongst themselves.
However, he couldn’t be too nit-picky about the task, as it kept Medusa busy enough to where he could slink away and test out each of the new abilities he acquired with every step he took towards fulfilling his goal of becoming a full kishin.
This school isn’t gonna know what hit em’ once I’ve unlocked my full potential Soul mentally noted, only to feel a small twinge blossom within his chest at the colorful array of people he’d been tasked with administrating medical attention to.
There’s Shinigami’s son. Dude is a lil’ odd but still funny. I gotta admit, it was nice gettin’ to talk about old jazz records with one of his demon pistols when she’d come in with a busted nose. Hmm, there’s was that blue-haired guy who comes in here all the time with a new injury. Thought he was just plain dumb, but he’s actually fun to talk to. Pretty sure he’s friends with that one guy with the lil’ twin weapons-
“Saul, I need your help here,” Medusa called over his musing, probing the boy to grumble and how sickly sweet her voice appeared to be when she’d be playing the part of the school nurse.
He quickly finished the small cup of tea Medusa forced him to drink everyday in order to start the process of creating a pseudo soul protect for his body before marching over towards the witch and their new patient.
Not too pleased to be taken away from your delusions eh, Evans? Although I am positively excited with getting back to that topic, especially since it only leads to one possible outcome~~ the demon giggled in the midst of Soul leveling a scowl at Medusa and the blonde haired girl sitting next to her on a small chair.
Soul had been able to recognize her as the current daughter of the Deathscythe stationed as Shinigami’s partner, as she seemed to be yet another regular within the infirmary.
His initial impression was that she was rather hard-headed and loud, but he’d slowly begun to grow a faint interest in her once she attempted (and failed) to carry a conversation within him regarding his life and had even got a genuine chuckle out of him after jabbing Medusa in the face with her elbow when the witch had been attempting to pick a few stray shards of glass out of a cut on her upper arm.
It was also hard to ignore how Medusa seemed to be eyeing the young girl’s soul with a morbid sense of glee he’d only seen come out after she’d successfully played someone to do her bidding or ripped off the heads of her enemies in whatever method she deemed fit.
“Oh, hi Saul!” Maka hummed, probing Soul’s lips to concede into a tight smile while he rummaged for a tube of ointment and attempted to hide from Medusa’s inquisitive looks.
“Hi…” the boy simply responded before finding the medicine tube and dabbing a pea sized amount onto each of the bruises marring her skin, wondering if the girl in front of him could sense just how jittery his hands had become.
“Hopefully you won’t see me back here tomorrow,” Maka added, earning her a faux grin from Medusa.
“Oh did Saul not tell you sweetheart? He asked for time off around next week for a little trip he has planned…” the witch elaborated, although Soul was much too busy wondering if Maka’s eyes would hold the same warmth in the eventual instance of him cornering her and brandishing his scythe.
He supposed it didn’t matter, as the thought of Medusa tugging on his leash and ordering him to kill for her own twisted needs was enough to set him off the edge before Saul even left for his family trip.
Hihi, first time participating in Reverb! Its been really cool to work on this and seeing everyone else’s things as well. I love Soul Eater so it makes me really happy to be a part of something like this :D
The concept for this was essentially “What if Maka discovered she was a weapon much earlier, and what if Soul was Medusa’s experiment instead?” I’ve had several variations of this idea for a while now so I wanted to try making something out of it.
Check out @memethebum ‘s post for the fic, despite both of us being busy they were wonderful to work with!
”Maka! We need to get out of here!”- he screams, knowing well it’s futile. Running towards the available furniture, he picks it up and rushes towards the glass, twisting his body to land a strike, but halting when he sees his other self fully leaning onto her, his face buried in the curve of her neck while she still holds him by the hair. She wasn’t resisting.
Stunned by this, he shouts in disbelief, ”What the hell?!”
My art for Reverb 2025! All Your Fears. The scene in the anime where Maka met oni as Soul had always been my favorite so I wanted to make more use of the concept (lowkey I wish the canon manga utilize the idea)
The snippet above was written by my partner @kuhakkuart whose take on the premise truly exceeded my expectations, so please give it a read!
“Do you think we’re stupid?” Liz’s voice was harsh now, almost angry. “The Evans family would never risk losing their prodigy son. We’ve been tracking you since you landed in JFK. We knew you were gonna be at that concert. We’ve got your number, Wesley.”
Soul blinked. Then blinked again. One more blink, then realization slapped him across the face so hard that it almost felt like an actual blow.
Okay, that explained it.
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After a disastrous show, Soul runs off only to get held up at gunpoint by weapons in the smallest gang he's ever seen. Mistaking him for Wes, the two take him hostage for ransom. But what started out as a hostage situation slowly turns into an unexpected friendship that changes all of them for good. Written for Reverb 2025.
thank you to @reverbmod for letting me participate in the event this year! and the biggest shout out and thank you to @worldismyne for giving me the honor of writing a fic based off their piece for reverb, which everyone NEEDS to check out here!
Ta-da!
I come back to this cursed account to start posting again- and this is a quick little piece I made for #reverb2025! I can't thank the mods enough for their superb job at handling all submissions, let alone organizing such a wonderful event- so, thank you @reverbmod!!
Here's to another year!
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This is a tiny summary I revamped after I submitted my entry:
"From the pages of an ancient, cursed book, beings of paper and ink spill into Death City. These creatures, known as Witches, twist imagination into chaos. Their most dangerous tale given flesh is Crona, a story so powerful it threatens to unravel Death City itself. Only Kid, heir to the first Shinigami, can seal the Witches back into their realm. To stand against them, he grants his elite team, SPARTOI, a new power: the ability to summon weapons born from books—living stories forged for battle."
