Personality: (For the purposes of this app, and my sanity, I'm just going to use "he" for the pronoun to describe Crona.)
Crona's personality is very difficult to grasp, so I suppose it would be best to simply start with his childhood. Crona was born the child of the snake witch, Medusa. Needless to say, Crona's mother is insane. In an effort to create a Kishin (basically a god of insanity in the Soul Eater world), Medusa essentially used her child as an experiment. Likely in infancy, Medusa melted down the Demon Blade known as Ragnarok into what is called "Black Blood" and infused it into Crona, entirely replacing his own blood. Thus, the weapon and wielder became one. Crona spent his entire childhood being trained and abused by his own mother to, essentially, create a dark insanity within the child. This training involved learning every way possible to kill a person, and using what has been learned on poor defenseless little rabbits. If Crona refused, or did not perform well, he would be locked in a dark room and not fed for days at a time in order to break his mind and will.
Thus, the child became twisted inside. At his core, Crona is not a bad person, simply following the teachings of his mother. These teachings created a child who is constantly fearful and completely lacking confidence in his ability to live on his own. Crona tends to spend most of his time isolating himself from others, doing as he's told so as not to be punished by either his mother or Ragnarok himself. Crona has known nothing else but suffering, killing and madness, so his ability to interact with the world is negligible at best.
Despite the power and skill Crona has in wielding his weapon, Crona has no self-worth or confidence whatsoever. He believes himself to be weak and useless, and this causes him to be fearful of just about everything. Toss in his inability to interact with people normally, and even just being spoken to can bring about this fear, easily throwing him into a panic rather easily. The only companion Crona has had through his life's journey has been Ragnarok himself, who can manifest himself outside of Crona's body. Ragnarok usually acts as an "annoying older brother" type to Crona, constantly bullying him, stealing his food, and generally manipulating him when it needs to be done. Still, at the base of it Ragnarok seems to care for Crona somewhat, providing encouragement in fights and healing Crona when needed, though this usually means he will bully Crona into thanking him when he does so. Ragnarok is well aware that if Crona dies, so does he, so he will do what he must to protect Crona.
As such, Ragnarok has been the only real companion Crona has ever known. Friends were a foreign concept to him until Maka Albarn saw fit to understand Crona during the battle to resurrect the Kishin. Maka essentially dove into Crona's soul to gain an understanding of him, and due to their similar "soul wavelengths" managed to get through to him, offering to become his friend. Despite Crona's life so far, he accepted this friendship with no small amount of panic and tears. Below all of the madness Crona is not a bad person at his core. Crona wishes to find friendship, to be useful to others and even possibly grab on to a bit of happiness somehow. His inability to interact with others, his self-loathing and lack of confidence, as well as the fear and shyness toward everything around him make this rather difficult. As the friendship began to grow between Crona and the other children at the Academy, though, it almost seemed as if Crona could possibly come into his own as a person able to move beyond what his mother had done to him, but unfortunately he remains very easily manipulated by Medusa. Through that Crona is driven to betray his new friends, despite voicing just how much he doesn't want to do that. His madness and childhood abuse do not allow him to go against the wishes of the one who essentially brainwashed him.
Maka Albarn seems to be the only person able to ever get a proper response out of Crona, due to their common "soul wavelengths" and the fact that Maka was the first one to offer her friendship to him. Without Maka's urgings, Crona is typically content to sit in a corner and not move, moping about while the war against what he wants and what he was taught to do rages within him. Crona's demeanor and mannerisms are rather child-like, causing him to do things like name the favorite corner of his room "Mr. Corner" and find comfort in staying in that corner. Things that are familiar will always draw Crona to them, as the world is a very frightening place for him and the comfort of the familiar is the only way he can seem to deal with all of this new stimulus.
At the canon point I am taking Crona from (Being the end of Chapter 40 of the Manga, when Crona is called back to Medusa after betraying his friends), Crona is essentially a very mentally damaged individual. His grip on sanity and social norms is very, very shaky and his confidence in himself is almost zero. He is very shy and fearful of others, and for the most part is very easily bullied/taken advantage of. Despite all of this, Crona has grown touched and appreciative by everything his new found friends had done for him, though the guilt of his betrayal has began to eat away at the very core of his being. Due to what has been done to him the storm will likely never fully die within Crona, though it seems he has the potential to grow apart from his current broken state of mind.
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Crona's personality is very difficult to grasp, so I suppose it would be best to simply start with his childhood. Crona was born the child of the snake witch, Medusa. Needless to say, Crona's mother is insane. In an effort to create a Kishin (basically a god of insanity in the Soul Eater world), Medusa essentially used her child as an experiment. Likely in infancy, Medusa melted down the Demon Blade known as Ragnarok into what is called "Black Blood" and infused it into Crona, entirely replacing his own blood. Thus, the weapon and wielder became one. Crona spent his entire childhood being trained and abused by his own mother to, essentially, create a dark insanity within the child. This training involved learning every way possible to kill a person, and using what has been learned on poor defenseless little rabbits. If Crona refused, or did not perform well, he would be locked in a dark room and not fed for days at a time in order to break his mind and will.
Thus, the child became twisted inside. At his core, Crona is not a bad person, simply following the teachings of his mother. These teachings created a child who is constantly fearful and completely lacking confidence in his ability to live on his own. Crona tends to spend most of his time isolating himself from others, doing as he's told so as not to be punished by either his mother or Ragnarok himself. Crona has known nothing else but suffering, killing and madness, so his ability to interact with the world is negligible at best.
Despite the power and skill Crona has in wielding his weapon, Crona has no self-worth or confidence whatsoever. He believes himself to be weak and useless, and this causes him to be fearful of just about everything. Toss in his inability to interact with people normally, and even just being spoken to can bring about this fear, easily throwing him into a panic rather easily. The only companion Crona has had through his life's journey has been Ragnarok himself, who can manifest himself outside of Crona's body. Ragnarok usually acts as an "annoying older brother" type to Crona, constantly bullying him, stealing his food, and generally manipulating him when it needs to be done. Still, at the base of it Ragnarok seems to care for Crona somewhat, providing encouragement in fights and healing Crona when needed, though this usually means he will bully Crona into thanking him when he does so. Ragnarok is well aware that if Crona dies, so does he, so he will do what he must to protect Crona.
As such, Ragnarok has been the only real companion Crona has ever known. Friends were a foreign concept to him until Maka Albarn saw fit to understand Crona during the battle to resurrect the Kishin. Maka essentially dove into Crona's soul to gain an understanding of him, and due to their similar "soul wavelengths" managed to get through to him, offering to become his friend. Despite Crona's life so far, he accepted this friendship with no small amount of panic and tears. Below all of the madness Crona is not a bad person at his core. Crona wishes to find friendship, to be useful to others and even possibly grab on to a bit of happiness somehow. His inability to interact with others, his self-loathing and lack of confidence, as well as the fear and shyness toward everything around him make this rather difficult. As the friendship began to grow between Crona and the other children at the Academy, though, it almost seemed as if Crona could possibly come into his own as a person able to move beyond what his mother had done to him, but unfortunately he remains very easily manipulated by Medusa. Through that Crona is driven to betray his new friends, despite voicing just how much he doesn't want to do that. His madness and childhood abuse do not allow him to go against the wishes of the one who essentially brainwashed him.
Maka Albarn seems to be the only person able to ever get a proper response out of Crona, due to their common "soul wavelengths" and the fact that Maka was the first one to offer her friendship to him. Without Maka's urgings, Crona is typically content to sit in a corner and not move, moping about while the war against what he wants and what he was taught to do rages within him. Crona's demeanor and mannerisms are rather child-like, causing him to do things like name the favorite corner of his room "Mr. Corner" and find comfort in staying in that corner. Things that are familiar will always draw Crona to them, as the world is a very frightening place for him and the comfort of the familiar is the only way he can seem to deal with all of this new stimulus.
At the canon point I am taking Crona from (Being the end of Chapter 40 of the Manga, when Crona is called back to Medusa after betraying his friends), Crona is essentially a very mentally damaged individual. His grip on sanity and social norms is very, very shaky and his confidence in himself is almost zero. He is very shy and fearful of others, and for the most part is very easily bullied/taken advantage of. Despite all of this, Crona has grown touched and appreciative by everything his new found friends had done for him, though the guilt of his betrayal has began to eat away at the very core of his being. Due to what has been done to him the storm will likely never fully die within Crona, though it seems he has the potential to grow apart from his current broken state of mind.