Death Scythe

Death scythe are the most powerful weapons in Soul Eater. They are weapons that have earned the right to be wielded by Death. For a weapon to become a death scythe, they must quest and eat 99 Souls that are on shinigami-sama's list and one Witch Soul. The Witch Soul is the hardest soul to capture and so is normally done last. If a Witch Soul is captured before gaining the other required souls, it is held within Shibusen until the correct number is met. If a soul other than a Witch Soul is eaten last, such as a Cat's Soul (In Maka and Soul Eater's cases), all the previous souls will become worthless and the quest must be restarted. Once a weapon has achieved Death Scythe status, the weapon in question will undergo a few changes in weapon form.Justin Law was once known as the youngest Death Scythe and is so far the only weapon to become a death scythe without a Meister partner.By consuming the final witch's soul a Death Scythe is granted numerous powerful abilities. This is achieved by the advanced wavelength control gained from the witch's soul that has been obtained, which can give rise to magical abilities, manifesting further special abilities.Among these abilities, form manipulation is noted as not only a standard trait but also one of the most basic. However, it can give rise to powerful and useful techniques such as when Soul demonstrated the power to create wings of light, for flight, by focusing on achieving the same goal as Maka.Death Scythes also gain special abilities depending on the Witch's Soul they eat. For instances Soul is able to use "Adagio of the Soul" using a net to distribute the music, because he ate Arachne's Soul. The other Death Scythe's seem to portray special abilities as well that may have deveolped when they themselves consumed a witch's soul. The witch's soul seems to increase the basic performance of the weapons normal ability thus making it stronger, some examples of this are Marie's electrical based powers, Azusa's Clairvoyance ability, or Senrigan, to see at incredible distances.Soul, after obtaining his ninety-ninth evil human soul, consumes a witch's soul, and becomes Shibusen's newest Death Scythe, alongside forming the elite group Spartoi. After becoming a Death Scythe, Soul and Maka begin training, to master the abilities afforded by a Death Scythe.