Black☆Star

Black☆Star is one of the main characters of the Soul Eater anime and manga

Black Star  is an assassin, Shadow Weapon Meister, and the last survivor of the infamous Star Clan, though was taken in the DWMA and raised by Sid Barrett. In the DWMA, his weapon partner is Tsubaki Nakatsukasa, he is one of the top three students in the academy as well as a former member of Spartoi, and he later masters the Path of the Warrior to the point he is considered a "Warrior God".

In the AWA, Black Star is a student at the AWA Academy and is a part of Class 2.

Appearance
Black☆Star appears as a teenaged, young man with bright, blue spiky hair with the spikes sticking in out in the manner similar to that of a star. He's also somewhat short, being shorter than his weapon partner Tsubaki Nakatsukasa. He's also well built for his age. He has green eyes and when under the effect of Madness or angered, his eyes adopt yellow (blue in the manga) stars within them. His main outfit consists of a sleeveless black shirt with a funnel-like collar, with white trousers that are black from the knee down and just a little short of being full length jeans. On the front of his collar, two short strips of grey material adorned with rivets stretch down fro, the top of the collar to the breast of his shirt. Black☆Star has similar strips wrapped around his neck in the form of a scarf, and around his waist in the form of a belt. Rivets can also be seen on his pockets and on the ends of his trousers. On his hand, he wears gray fingerless gloves with heavy wrist weights and has a band going across the back of each hand, adorned with a star. Black☆Star's footwear are basic black boots with white tips, with a star shape visible on the toe of each boot. On his right shoulder is his star-shaped tattoo, showing his heritage as a member of the Star Clan which is just a shade lighter than his normal skin tone.

Black☆Star then wears blue pants with the hemline rolled a few inches above his ankles, with white shoes and a white belt that is similar to an obi. His feet are wrapped in bandages up to his ankles and his hands and arms are also wrapped in bandages up to the elbow. As per his previous attire, Black☆Star wears a sleeveless top. In this case, it is a custom, white, muscle shirt. Another new addition is a long white scarf, wrapped around his neck with the majority hanged loosely. He also has a fairly noticeable scar running across his tattoo on his right deltoids, numerous smaller scars scattered across his arms, and a faint scar-line running down his right eye—all of which were caused by Mifune during their last match. The spikes in his hair are a lot messier and not as star-shaped. Black☆Star has also grown in height, almost equaling his partner, Tsubaki.

Transformed by the Lust chapter of the Book of Eibon, Black☆Star appears as a teenage, young woman with slightly shorter and no longer spiky taking, taking on a more feminine look. His trousers become a lighter color contrasting to his darker one as a male. He is also well-endowed.

Personality
At the beginning of the series, Black☆Star starts off as rather arrogant, loud, immature and egotistic. Although he fights as an assassin, he prefers to forget the Way of Assassination by shouting and making his presence known, the reason being that he is a massive attention-seeker. He cannot stand having someone else get more attention than himself, and will proceed to beat down anyone more popular than him so he can be popular again. His loudness is often shown in his tendency to often shout when he speaks and his trademark cries of 'Ha Ha!' or 'Yahoo!'.

His arrogance stems from the fact that he seems to exhibit a superiority complex. His delusion of 'starness' as he calls it is so great that he constantly gives out autographs that nobody wants, including when he signs Maka's forehead when she is recovering from a recent battle. According to Franken Stein, Black☆Star's soul is 'a terribly self-absorbed soul.' His catchphrase is 'I will be the man who will surpass God,' which he is actually trying to do, according to Stein. Because of this, he shows tacit jealousy towards Death the Kid, who is revered as an actual god. When referring to himself, Black☆Star uses an honorific which shows he holds himself with high regard. He constantly refers to himself as 'BIG' and the other people around him as 'small.'

His arrogance later develops into a constant hunger for power, up until the point that people suspect that he may choose the 'Path of the Demon.' His arrogance can also hinder him as he is short-tempered and uncooperative when it comes to team battles, as he always tries to take the lead when the most important thing is to cooperate with each other. He accuses the people around him for being sloppy instead of admitting that he is the one getting frustrated. His confidence stems from him being used to winning all the time, so consequently, losing prominent battles causes a great negative change in him, up until the point he loses his ability to use Soul Menace. His hubris does not allow him to take any insults on his abilities, such as when he disregards Nygus when she tells him that he is only human.

He can be unobservant, and has a short attention span, as he is shown not to remember their battle plans on the Lost Island mission. He hates being told what to do and thus mostly disobeys the the DWMA rules, often skipping classes and arriving late because of picking fights with people. He likes fighting as he sees it as a chance of proving every one that he is the best.

Another thing is that he is incredibly tactless, and can sometimes be disrespectful, even insulting to his friends and even his superiors. He often has an informal way of speech and behavior, even towards people of a higher rank than him. He loves playing practical jokes and winding people up for the fun of it. He is also a big glutton, having a massive appetite. He seems to like manga, and is a fan of the fictional manga hero, Charisma Justice.

All of his methods of going about solving anything are generally headstrong and dependent on physical strength. From time to time, he will abandon Tsubaki if she tells him to hold back or run away, which ends him up in a worse situation. This might come from people mostly seeing him as a member of the Star Clan and judging him for their actions rather than his own. However, he does not hold grudges against the DWMA, the organization that had killed the Star Clan, saying that his father and mother had paid for their crimes, which shows a surprisingly mature side to Black☆Star's personality. He does not like to dwell on the past, and is therefore, quick to forgive people. He tries to forget his heritage, but deep down, he is shown to be insecure about it.

Despite his rather large ego, there are more positive sides to his personality. Although it is hard to tell through his arrogance, he does genuinely care for his friends. He always arrives to his friends' aid if they are in danger, seeing himself as a protector of the people whom he classes as weaker than himself. It is shown in team battles, that he views the safety of his friends as a priority. However, he will also take his friends' wishes into account, and will step back and allow them to fight alone if they want to. He also has a determination that knows no bounds. He constantly trains to become stronger, and is dedicated on his goals, putting all of his effort in everything he does (this has its downsides, especially when Black☆Star develops tunnel-vision on pursuing something that is wrong, being too stubborn to see the wrongness of his aims). He prefers to go his own way, which sometimes involves going against orders. Despite his determination, he always fails at tests of intellect regardless of the effort he spends in studying. He never forgives the people who hurts his friends (though Crona seems to be an exception), setting off immediately to get revenge in order to defend or restore respect to his friends. This combined with his recklessness and single-minded focus tends to results in him charging into dangerous situations.

Abilities
At the start of the series, Black☆Star was among some of the top three students within Death Weapon Meister Academy along with the likes of Kilik Rung and Death the Kid, with the assassin himself excelling in martial arts. However, having suffered defeat from the likes of Kid, he was second only to Death the Kid for much of his time in the DWMA with the latter most likely being the top student within the academy. It's assumed that he stayed this way throughout the anime.

However, his training and drive to surpass god as well as his following of the Path of the Warrior from the influences of both Mifune and Sanjiro Nakatsukasa has allowed him to attain more power throughout the series to the point that Death the Kid admitted that he had surpassed him. Asura himself noted him to be the only human worthy of being considered a "Warrior God" as well as stating that he either rivals Death the Kid, who connected the three Lines of Sanzu, in power or is a little more stronger than the latter.

Madness Takehold - Enabled after the encounter by the Great Old One of Power, Black☆Star has the ability to temporarily call upon his inner Madness though this is normally maintain this in a Resonance Chain from Maka Albarn and Soul Eater and is extremely risky to call upon on his own, a factor Black☆Star seems to be aware of. This ability, however, imbues him with a temporary boost of power for a short amount of time. Although he is able to call upon it himself, he only enables it for short bursts. While this enabled, he gains a darker outfit (if wearing his Spartoi outfit) and star eyes.

Full Power: Madness Takehold allows Black☆Star to use his abilities to it's fullest extent with the usage of his Madness. Under this technique, he can easily lift up the Cyclops with a single arm. When used against Asura, he displayed great skill in attacking him, with Asura cementing that his power "reminds" him of the Great Old One of Power (However, his attacks did not very much penetrate Asura due to being pulled into an illusion from his Madness of Fear).

Shadow Weapon Meister - Specializing in using Japanese weaponry, Black☆Star's overall prowess makes him an extremely powerful Meister. His skill combined with Tsubaki's assistance and/or forms has enabled him to taken on Mifune a number of times and won on two out of three of those instances, though Mifune held back on the first fight and utterly defeats him in the second. Under the power of the Madness Takehold, he would also easily take down the Cyclops. He would also manage to gain the upperhand with Crona after fighting with Tsubaki's various Weapon forms. He also manage to take on both Eruka Frog, Crona, and 2 of the Mizune Family members in their Merged forms at the same time.

Soul Wavelength - According to Death himself, Black☆Star possess a rather big Soul Wavelength and that he his brilliant when it comes to utilizing it offensively.

Ultimate Move: Black☆Star Big Wave - A technique in which allows Black☆Star to use his Wavelength similar to Soul Menace. After getting behind an opponent, he jumps towards his intended target, pushing his palm and elbow into their back and then attacking his target with his Soul Wavelength. This technique was powerful enough to deal a critical blow to the more experience Mifune. However, those who possess a flexible soul can counter this move by aligning their Wavelength to Black☆Star's own (similar to that of a weapon and Meister). If this technique is executed while Black☆Star is injured greatly, the attack is rendered nulled due to himself not being able to withstand his own Wavelength.

Soul Menace - An attack in which allows the user to strike their opponent by channeling their own Soul Wavelength without the usage of a weapon, resulting in an electrical-like attack emitted. Black☆Star is a skilled user of this attack. Although much of it's proficiency against a target hasn't been seen, it's been claimed by Franken Stein during their later spar that he couldn't fully counteract at had he hit him and was able to crack one of the walls in the DWMA.

World Destruction Cannon - An upgraded Soul Menace attack in which it's output power is greater. The full effect of it has not been seen, as the intended target (Mifune) had managed to dodge the attack.

Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant - Black☆Star is extremely skilled in unarmed hand-to-hand combat. He was capable of holding his own against Death the Kid while being unable to use Soul Menace in a duel,altough he was ultimately defeated. As he starts to become a Warrior God,his skill grew greatly. In a spar with Franken Stein, he managed to compete against him. His unarmed skills is on par with that of Feodor, who is a Death Weapon Meister, by the time he was in Spartoi while his armed martial skills has let him fight Mifune on an even playing field after using Tsubaki to act as a normal katana and managed to barely defeat the samurai. While under the influence of his own Madness by the Great Old One of Power, he was skilled enough to stalemate against Death the Kid using his own Madness Takehold. In addition, he also was able to easily outclass Crona with his unarmed abilities with ease, surprising even Medusa Gorgon

Trivia

 * In his autograph, Black☆Star writes his name in all caps and uses the A in Black to draw the top point of a star he draws, instead of writing the actual word, STAR. He also has a line coming out in between the bottom left points of the star to make the lower part of the R in STAR.
 * Black☆Star was taken into the DWMA as a baby the same day Maka Albarn was born.
 * Some aspects of Black☆Star's character can be based on the character of Shotaro in B. Ichi. Their personalities are similar in some aspects and both are fans of Charisma Justice.