Quote Originally Posted by DarthEnderX View Post
I didn't even know Maesters HAD powers without their weapons except for Black Star(from a clan of magic ninjas) and Kid(not human), so what are they learning to control exactly?
Yeah, the original Soul Eater never really got into the whole meister thing. We know only a bunch of meisters who had anything special going for them: Black Star (basically a fighting machine who could beat unarmed all the other student meister+weapon teams, aside from Kid), Maka (unprecedented soul sensitivity), Stein (could alter his own soul wavelength to match anything), the internal affairs dude (same as Maka). Well, naturally Asura wasn't quite normal, either. And Sid was a fricking zombie.

All in all I think the meisters aren't normal either. There are some very basic requirements for a meister. Back when, in ep 5, the students went to "attack" Stein, we learned the meister pumps his soul wavelength into the weapon. It was compared to an electric guitar and an amplifier. Later we also learned the meister and weapon must match, otherwise it's hopeless (like Black Star and Soul). Furthermore, they must match really well for the resonance and the higher techniques. The group resonance is also up to the meisters.

So, no, I don't think just anybody could become a meister.