Smiles and Fruit

[Dandead10]

As we know Caesar Clown our favorite gas logia psycho mentioned something briefly about SMILES in One Piece. A good question that I have is why they were only able to replicate and or create only Zoan devil fruits? Apparently the only difference between SMILE fruits and regular devil fruits is that SMILE fruits taste better then regular ones. Were Paramecia and Logia type fruits too difficult to replicate and as such gave up? Zoan types allow you to turn into a animalistic creature retaining human qualities. This doesn't seem that hard to replicate if you think about it, but couldn't it be possible to replicate the other types of fruits and if so, would they be weaker then the actual originals? Would love to hear all your responses on this. Also how would one create a devil fruit anyhow? Isn't that basically creating and or replicating the devil of a fruit?

[EriChar]

I assume Zoan's were the easiest to copy because they have the simplest mechanics?

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{Spoilzy Spoilz}Though, if the 'Gifters' of Jack/Kaidou's crew are indeed smile users, the mechanics seem different to Zoan? Almost like an animal version of a paramecia?

[viruswithshoes]

From a writing perspective I think Oda went with a Smiles being zoans to give zoan fruit users a little shine. Paramecia and logia have a higher potential than zoans, not counting the mythical ones so I can see wanting to do something special with the zoan fruits.

I wouldn't mind smiles made of past logia and paramecia. A lot of fruits seemed wasted on weak characters. Imagine someone more formidable with Foxy's power or Alvida's.

[Dandead10]

Now we heard something before about how devil fruit users can only eat one fruit. If they eat two then they die right? Imagine if somebody was just trolling and you could actually eat as many as you wanted but nobody wanted to take the risk XD. But since it says the Devils word on word "fight" could two devils be of equal power and therefore allow a user to have two fruits abillities? Perhaps maybe if someone were to eat one of each kind of fruit, or maybe fruits that balance each other out having no advantage and or disadvantage? It's very vague on what actually happens if someone eats two devil fruits. What do you people think?

[cremuex]

Well, somehow Black beard managed something of wielding two powers, though that might have been an ability within his devil fruit?

It's not entirely known how he went about it though.

I think you also need to take into consideration how rare the DF's are meant to be (even though there is a fair amount of them, there's more people that don't so the ones that do tend to stick out more? Even if the smiles are around, it's still expensive and difficult to get your hands on them.)

I do think something bad would happen though if you ate two- like it would be unable to be contained and rip the person apart from inside out sorta deal, but that's just my opinion. I definitely wouldn't try it at least, not that I'd eat a DF in the first place.

[Dandead10]

Well obviously there have to be loop holes to this. There surely was something that allowed Blackbeard to keep the Gura Gura No Mi's abillities. Possibly Blackbeard's devil has the abillity to intimidate any other devil fruit in a sort of sense making it submissive or corrupt the other devils so they don't fight his at all. It's quite curious to me.

[Dandead10]

cremuex I don't doubt that devil fruits are rare, but surely there must be thousands around the whole world of one piece. However to say that one is rare can be debated about. I think devil fruits aren't supposed to be necessarily rare. Really they are just supposed to be hard to get. People hunt for devil fruits not to eat them most of the time seeing that they think that is completely stupid, and many ways it is. Most just sell them for a high profit which is a much smarter thing to do. This usually leads to a battle over whoever gets it, so because of that people go running when people mention Devil Fruit. I had lots of theories about devil fruits and the possibilities were interesting. Such as maybe the devil fruit user died because he ate two devil fruit yes, but of different types. One of my old theories was that maybe people could eat two devil fruits but only if they were of the same type, fruit category, or other aspects. I'm still working on it, but I am thinking out loud here.