Devil fruits have a will of their own that can be inherited through the generations,
which is exactly why the Gomu Gomu no Mi is so important.
Now same as me, you probably have been very focused on Haki for the past couple of years,
which just makes sense.
This may sound harsh, but Devil fruits simply were not that interesting for a while.
Until Doflamingo revealed the next level: Awakening.
And, minor spoiler, since this topic has become relevant again in recent chapters with the
revealed awakenings of Kid and Law, I couldn't help but wonder: Has Luffy awakened his Devil
Fruit as well?
And what would it actually look like?
And most importantly, what is the secret behind them?
For the first time in a while that really got me thinking.
To the point where I was lying in bed at night, unable to sleep.
My analytical brain shifting into overtime gear, told me that there had to be some clues
in the story.
I just HAD to find out what the true nature of devil fruits truly was.
So what did I do?
Well, what any reasonable person would do at 4am in the morning, I got up, opened my
laptop and started working.
I was gonna analyze every type of fruit, every type of fruit and every instance of awakening
until a few hours later, I actually completed this crazy puzzle of clues, that connects
Luffy, Roger and Joy Boy.
But I'm getting ahead of myself here.
Hi my name is Manu, my favorite fruit is pineapple, and in this video I will pull back the curtain
for you on the true nature of devil fruits.
Because the devil truly lies in the details here.
The first thing I did, as I usually do with any theoretical analysis, was to establish
the facts.
What do we actually know.
And even though you're probably already familiar with this, it's gonna be critical for the
juicy bit later on and let's be real, there are definitely less fun things than learning
some facts about devil fruits.
Okay, so baseline is: these fruits seem to have been around for a long time and have
become a regular part of the one piece world.
While they are considered quite rare and special, on the grand line, that attracts only the
strongest and weirdest people, they are found on a much more common basis.
As Shanks explains, it is said that these powers are all incarnation of a sea devil.
And if you try to eat more than 1 fruit, the two devils will start fighting, resulting
in the death of the user.
There are 3 types of devil fruits, each with their own subcategories.
Pineapple, Banana and orange.
Just checking if you're still paying attention.
Zoan fruits allow their users to transform into an animal, giving them access to their
regular form, their animal form as well as a hybrid form.
Subcategories include ancient Zoans for animals that have gone extinct like dinosaurs, mythical
Zoans that include mythical creatures like the phoenix as well as a separation in herbivore
and carnivore types, boosting endurance and defense or speed and offense respectively.
[chopper about lucci]
Next are Logia fruits.
They are pretty easy to summarize.
As you know, a logia turns the body of its user into an element, for example fire.
Regular physical attacks are useless here.
And this.
Is little known, but Logia users actually can enhance their powers significantly by
subscribing to my channel for next generation anime content.
Paramecia fruits then are the dumping place for all powers that don't fit in the other
two categories.
There are a lot of subcategories here.
Some users can enhance their bodies.
Luffy's enhancement is permanent.
He's a rubber man.
Mr. 1 for instance can transform his body at will, while someone like brook only gets
the effect of his fruit through a certain event, in this case death.
Other users are able to produce a power.
Some can produce materials, like Doflamingo's string, others can produce a force of nature,
like Whitebeard, while again others can produce entire worlds of their own, such as Mon't
D'or or Brulee.
Lastly, there are people who I guess basically do magic.
There is people like Sugar who can manipulate living things, people who have control over
a certain space, like Law or Corazon and some even crazier powers like Big Mom's soul manipulation.
In general, there are 4 known weaknesses to devil fruit powers.
First and maybe most dangerous, is losing the ability to swim.
If a user is submerged into water, they are drained of all energy and incapable of moving
or using their powers.
Which in a world of pirates consisting to 99% of water is a pretty damn big handicap.
Simply throwing a glass of water at them won't work though - probably.
The next best thing though is sea prism stone, which is mined in Wano and comes with its
own set of mystery of how its made and why it works.
The end result however is that this material has the same essence of the ocean.
Which is why it can be used to take out an ability user even on land and without throwing
that glass of water at them.
Third is Haki.
More specifically armament haki or as it's called in French: Haki de l'Armement.
Mon dieu.
This can be used to forcibly turn a devil fruit users body back into regular flesh and
bones, no matter how it was transformed or shaped.
And I never really thought about it for some reason, but isn't it really strange that Haki
has this effect devil fruits?
Well small tease here: This is gonna be one of the details in which the devil will be
found later.
Better put on some pants devil!
Lastly, and this will also play a role, there is one devil fruit power out there that has
the ability to absorb and nullify any other power: Blackbeard's Yami-Yami no mi, that
he calls the strongest logia out there.
Finally, the most rescent thing we learned is that devil fruits can be awakened.
Basically, by mastering one's ability and being able to fully control it at will, the
user starts to unlock a new level of his fruit, that in some way or form enhances its power
and or reach.
Zoan users generally get access to a giant, monster-like hybrid form that boosts all their
physical attributes and also let's them recover very fast form even the most fatal attacks.
Examples for this are the guards in impel down, as well as most likely chopper's monster
point.
While we haven't seen a logia user officially awaken, it is pretty safe to assume that such
a power permanently changes the environment around them.
This is not only based on Doflamingo's explanation, but also on how the landscape of punk hazard
was permanently changed after the battle between Aokiji and Akainu, as well as Raijin island,
that suspiciously looks like someone went a bit cray cray with Enel's fruit there.
Lastly, we have the wide range of paramecia users.
While producers like Dofi, Kid and Katakuri are able to change their environment as well
as their body in their awakened state, someone like law seems to get additional abilities
for his fruit, like creating shockwaves inside the body.
And actually, I think there is a pretty good chance that Luffy's awakening is already here.
If you want me to talk about that as well, let me know.
So now that I had established all that we knew about devil fruits and consumed 2 cups
of coffee, it was time to go clue hunting.
Okay, so there are a couple of things that got me wondering about the true nature of
devil fruits and if there wasn't more to all of this.
Without making it unnecessarily dramatic, I was wondering whether devil fruits were
in some weird way alive.
While the talk of the sea devil residing in the fruit might have seemed like casual sailor
talk in early one piece, shanks turned out to be one of the most well-informed and powerful
people in the story, and I have already talked about in other videos how Shanks most likely
was not simply chilling around in the east blue, but actively following Rogers orders
to find the man he was waiting for.
So my thesis statement is gonna be that this explanation by shanks to buggy on board of
roger's ship is literal.
There resides a devil inside every fruit, that is then transferred into the body of
the person that consumes it and merges with their soul.
Let me try and proof it to you.
By the way shoutout to all the people online who have thought about this as well.
I think I read through at least 20 blog posts on this topic.
First of all we have the incarnation of devil fruit powers.
When a fruit user dies, his ability is shown to leave the body, like a soul, and travel
to the nearest fruit of the same type.
For example, smiley's zoan-type fruit would always be an apple, which is why there can
be a devil fruit encyclopedia in the first place, that Blackbeard used to identify the
Yami-Yami no mi.
The soul leaves the host and finds it's next container.
Once someone takes a bite of this new fruit, the devil enters the body and the rest of
the fruit is useless.
Except for vitamins, which are important.
Basically, your soul and the soul of the devil merge.
On Enies Lobby, Jabra explains to us that two devils would fight if you tried to consume
a second fruit, killing the user in the process.
The biggest evidence that devil fruits have a will of their own however are Funkfreed,
Smiley and the second best dog in one piece, Lassoo.
All three of them are objects, a sword, a gas weapon and a gun that have gained consciousness,
free will and the ability to turn into an animal.
The only explanation, is that the soul contained in the devil fruit is transferred into the
object.
Pretty much the successful version of what Caesar tried to do with the smiles.
These objects now understand human speech and even have a will of their own, as is shown
in this scene here.
[]
And if their own will, that also gives us an answer as to why devil fruits have their
respective weaknesses.
If the sea devil grants these powers, he would take them back, once you sink into him.
His will is stronger than yours and that of your smaller devil.
Similarly, Haki is able to overcome a fruit, not because it overcomes the haki of the owner,
but of the devil fruit itself.
Otherwise, every-time someone tried to use haki on another user, they would be stuck
in limbo fighting it out for a while before they could actually forcibly change their
bodies back.
As for Blackbeard: If his devil fruit truly is the strongest devil fruit, and I have to
admit the darkness fruit seems like the most devilish one there is, that would mean that
the devil in his fruit is stronger than any other devil, and that it nullifies their abilities
in the same way.
Awakening your devil fruit then could be a quite literal phrase.
When you are under water your devil is asleep.
In your everyday state, the devil is in something of a dream-state, sharing their abilities.
But when you awaken, the full potential of the fruit is unleashed.
Wish the awakening, the devil part of your soul would of course become stronger, which
is exactly what we see in the prison guards in impel down.
They are more animal than human, just as with chopper, who has to train hard to get control
over this state.
People like Doflamingo and Katakuri clearly have control over it, but nonetheless all
the awakened fruits we know cause are incredibly destructive to their surroundings and are
hard to keep in check.
And they also require an enormous amount of energy.
You literally are fighting with the devil over control.
Seeing how kid and law struggle with it, conqueror's haki might well be an advantage in dealing
with this state.
Doflamingo and Katakuri after all, both were able to use their awakening quite creatively
and bend the rules of their normal powers.
But what comes next is what you probably have been waiting for and it will hopefully really
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Okay, I'm gonna tell you, that the devils soul not only merges with your own, it also
takes on some of your properties.
In other words, devil fruits are used to inherit someones will.
Let me guide you through this.
The best example case is Ace and his mera mera no mi.
Sabo mentions that they have to get his fruit back so they can inherit that persons will.
Similarly, Blackbeard, who tried recruiting Ace into his crew before capturing him, tells
Luffy that burges will take the fruit and it will be as if ace joined himself.
However, it could just be that they are talking about his legacy.
But, when Sabo eats the fruit and blows away Burgess, he says this really strange line:
[]
And even more strangely, I found that Sabo started acting like Ace- Even the way he says
goodbye, was the same as ace did on Alabasta.
[] And just a bit later, Sabo goes off on his own at Marijoe and potentially gets captured,
just like ace.
But, you might rightfully say, that might just be because him and ace were really close.
Well here is exhibit number 2.
Big Mom and Mother Caramel.
We know for a fact that Linlin was an extremely kind and caring kid, that at times lost control
trying to do good things.
However, after consuming mother caramel-'s fruit, caugh, she started turning evil and
took on many of caramel's traits.
She starts calling herself big mom, has the same devilish smile and lipstick and while
mother caramel was using orphans for her benefit, Big Mom uses her own children for hers.
The same is true for the weapons that consumed fruits.
They take on certain personalities.
And a really interesting example is actually Kalifa.
She was introduced as this incredibly serious woman.
But once she ate her devil fruit she started doing things like this: []
Similarly Blackbeard suddenly wants to be called admiral after eating his fruit.
Two other interesting people in this category are Bartolomeo and Mr 2.
Both of them as we know are very kind and caring people at heart, but while Mr. 2 joined
Crocodiles dark organization to take down a country, Bartolomeo is known to be very
cruel to those outside the straw hats.
Did you ever find that strange?
Well, now that we know that both of these fruits belonged to the Kurozumi clan, and
they inherited their cruel and scheming ways, that would make sense.
But the real mind-blow to me was applying this to Luffy.
For some strange reason, the gomu gomu no mi has turned out to be way more important
than we actually thought.
It was stolen and protected by shanks, who got into a conflict with the world government
about it.
Now, I have always hated the idea that Roger had ate the Gomu Gomu no mi as well.
But looking at it though this lense, what if he had and Luffy took on some of Roger's
personality traits?
So many characters draw parallels between Luffy and Roger, down to Luffy saying the
exact same things as the first pirate king.
Luffy's reaction at his execution in Logue town: Roger.
Luffy's reason to look for the one piece: Roger.
And its only after Luffy eats the gomu gomu no mi that he declares his dream to become
pirate king for the first time to shanks, upon which he gives him roger's old hat.
Now, if this were true shouldn't we already know that Roger had the same fruit as luffy?
That should be common knowledge after all.
But what if this was actually joy boy's fruit?
Now this is admittedly speculation, but what if Roger found this fruit on Laugh tale, consumed
it, inherited Joy Boy's will and died a little later without most people ever knowing?
For his execution, as we know, knives still work on Luffy.
Wouldn't it make a lot of sense if this was the true reason this fruit was special?
Not because it has some secret rubber power, but because it has Joy Boy's and Roger's inherited
will in it?
And remember Roger's last words to Rayleigh.
[] He literally remembers them after meeting Luffy.
Now this theory is based on a lot of analysis, but if you want something even bigger, I suggest
you check out the best one piece theory ever, right here.