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SoulMaka is the het ship between Soul Evans and Maka Albarn from the Soul Eater fandom.

Canon
Soul and Maka work together as partners, and deeply care for each other. Soul being a character who feels he has to protect Maka because she is not only his meister, but one of the only few people he genuinely trusts. Maka is similar, seeing as Soul is the only man she actually trusts not to abandon or screw her over. Maka also shows this care through worrying about his safety and saying she needs to protect him as well.

One of the best examples of this is when Soul scarifies himself during a battle with Crona. During this battle, Crona is about get a critical hit on Maka, however Soul steps in, intercepting the hit for Maka. Because of this sacrifice, Soul ends up getting Black Blood. In the next episode, Maka is scene crying over Soul's hospital bed.

Another thing to note is when Soul contracted Black Blood, it affected how he preformed in battle. As an example, he could lose control over his mind and body, due to the Black Blood. And because of this Black Blood, Maka usually is the one to pull him out of his trance, and encourage him to stay clam. A similar thing happens to when Maka ends up getting Black Blood in her system during a battle with Crona. Maka ends up going into a psychotic breakdown. Soul does snap her out of it later in the episode.

Fanon
SoulMaka ship is by far the most popular ship within the fanbase. Soul Eater fans loved their dynamic right from the start. SoulMaka is a very well known ship in the anime community. The ship has over 1500 fanfiction on AO3, only rivaled by the StarTsubaki ship. Lots of fan-works have been produced and many SoulMaka fans are still active today, despite the dying fandom. On Pixiv, the ship also has a great amount of works.

While the ship is more popular as het ship, a good part of the fandom also ships the two platonic and see the two as something like 'Platonic Soulmates', this is likely because Soul and Maka's relationship in canon never went further than best friends. As well due to Soul's canon attraction to Blair, some people prefer to pair him with her instead, and because often SoulBlair shippers wish for Maka to also end up with someone, she often tends to get paired with either, Death the Kid or Crona.

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Trivia

 * In a Drama CD, Maka ends up drinking a love potion to see if she actually ends up falling in love with her weapon. Unsurprisingly, after drinking the love potion Maka falls in love with Soul.