SoMa

SoMa 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 sacrifices 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 seen crying over Soul's hospital bed.

Another thing to note is when Soul contracted Black Blood, it affected how he performed 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 encourages 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.

Although being close, their relationship can have conflicts at times, with Maka sometimes hitting Soul, when he has done or said something wrong.

The two are also physically close, as Maka and Soul have hold hands, danced and brought their heads towards each other. Maka has even blushed when Soul admitted that she influenced him positively. However, Soul has called Maka 'unattractive' on at least two occasions, and in a Drama CD, Maka has openly asked Kim to help her in making herself appear more attractive towards Soul, showing that him calling her 'unattractive' has caused her to become self-conscious at times, and prompted her to show that she at least had some appeal to him.

Quotes
"Do you even need to ask? I'll follow you to the ends of the earth."

- Soul to Maka.

Fanon
SoMa ship is by far the most popular ship within the fanbase. Soul Eater fans loved their dynamic right from the start. After the manga has ended, a good part of the fandom was left saddened when the two did not end up together. However, SoMa remained a very well-known ship in the anime community. The ship has over 1500 fanfiction on AO3, only rivaled by the TsuStar ship. On Pixiv, the ship also has a good amount of works. Lots of fan-works have been produced and many SoulMaka fans are still active today, despite the dying fandom.

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 SoulBlair shippers often wish for Maka to also end up with someone, she often tends to get paired with either, Death the Kid or Crona.

Fandom
FAN FICTION
 * SoulMaka tag on FanFiction.Net
 * SoulMaka tag on FanFiction.Net
 * SoulMaka tag on FanFiction.Net

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Trivia

 * The two have appeared together on numerous pieces of official art.
 * In a Drama CD, Spirit drugs Soul's water with a love potion to test it out which ends up making Maka fall in love Soul causing Spirit to restrain her and telling Soul to run until the effect on Maka wears off.

Variations

 * SoMaKid refers to the ship between Death the Kid, Maka and Soul
 * SoMaBla refers to the ship between Blair, Maka and Soul
 * SoMaCro refers to the ship between Crona, Maka and Soul