@dasia:
That Caesar Smiley is just poisonous gas originally so how did he manage to feed it the axolotl fruit?
Did he surpass VK & found a way to subtract DF energy to fuse it with gas? & what comes (came) first devil fruits or energy? The source is in the Grand Line but I always imagined it as fruits from a mystery AK tree(ok more exciting than that but basically this).
@Cook: I know but what would make him try it out on things other than objects & not VG if it's the same method.He must have advanced the technique (since he can surpass the WG in their giants projects I guess he is not as dumb as he acts)
vegapunk already know how to make inanimate objects to eat a devil fruit,the process is the same,some that doesn't have a life get the power of a devil fruit and get both the fruit's powers and a life.
@RadicalPanda:
So the candy Smiley ate didn't only contain something that killed it and passed on its devil fruit, but also other ingredients that would make the gas deadlier than 4 years ago? Makes sense. Really curious about Nami and Usopp by the way, wonder if they'll get picked up by the guys after they take the dragon
the candy didn't pass his devil fruit to the apple,is just what devil fruits do when their host is killed,they transfer to the near (compatible?) fruit..,the big candy just straight up killed smiley making him gas again through chemical reaction.
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@Bloodman:
maybe caesar needs the kids to eat the devil fruit to create the next smiley. the kids are addicted to the candy.
the giant candy kills the smiley creating a poison gas cloud.
and you need the exact fruit to recover the power, so he maybe not knows the exact fruit for luffy or robins power
he doesn't need the kids for that.
he's a gas-gas logia fruit user,he can just recollect all the gas from the island (like he did 4 year before),and let again the gas "eat" the devil fruit…he has basically created a self-regenerating poison bomb,he place an apple near smiley,let smiley become gas and kill everybody,comes back,ri-collect the gas with his logia's power,re-give to the gas the devil fruit and here-we-go,we have smiley back alive and kicking