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    • rayleigh92
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      As far as I don't really like this Awakening thing, I began reasoning about how it should work for the fruits whose we don't know yet, starting from analysing the ones we already know and searching for a pattern.

      We mostly acknowledged Paramecia's ones. Doflamingo and Katakuri are flatly clear: they turn objects they touch in the element they control, from building (Dressrosa battle) to environment (Mirro-World) to weapons (Katakuri's trident). More specific is Kid and Law situation: their abilities are not as simple and consist on controlling invisible or ethereal concepts. Law basically can turn objects in Room as his own sword, making them go through people without obstacles like BM's skin. Kid can make objects he touch magnetic, but not only: he actually made Big Mom magnetic by touching her forehead.
      Some older paramecia seems to achieve the very same results (or totally different from the basic one) and it is possible they are in fact awakened. Among them:

      • Diamante can grant objects (coat, weapons) and the environment (Flower Hill) in flag-like characteristics. Is it possible Diamante's basic ability is just him flag-ly floating here and there?
      • White Beard has the ability to make his weapon unleash earthquake by infusing it in a way highly remind of Law's Awakening.
      • Shiki can make inanimate objects float. Maybe his original power is just to fly by himself?
      • Blueno showed to transform body part in "doors" as he did with Luffy's face.
      • Shu is able to make object rust. Is it possible the original power is a way more useless ability to… produce rust, while Sharingl could turn objects into shuriken as much as his own feet.
      • Perhona has shown a shift from pre to post TS, with her flying form not being "intangible" but able to touch items, that could be Awakening-related.
      • Moriah's ability to turn into shadow.
      • No excuses, Absalom's ability to turn bazooka and even Nami invisible should be Awakening.
      • Capone's Awakening could've been the Big Father, as it is really different from his normal use.
      • Hancock's ability to turn into stone even Pacifistas with her kicks.
      • Magellan's Kinjite able to spread among environment, objects and people just by touch.
      • Issho's Awakening could be what he has shown as the basic ability to produce gravity wave from sword swings.
      • Violet's ability to give tears a metal-like form.
      • Jolla's ability to turn the Sunny into a piece of art and not only people?
      • Gladius' ability to make objects and ground explode.
      • Linlin has a lot of different abilities. One or two of them being Awakening seems almost too easy for me: she can suck age energy, put it into objects, eat it, even putting it into her bones. Pick one.
      • Montd'Or has shown two different abilities: control over books and a whole book world.
      • Rosinante ability to shut down Law and not only a vague circular area.
      • Shinobu's ability to affect both ground and people.

      And this actually extends over Logia too: Crocodile has the pretty much unique among Logia ability to turn the environment in sand by placing his own palm on the ground. Doesn't this remember you of anything? I love how someone who always stated to have maxed out his DF could turn to have even shown it's final form. It's possible all Logia have the same ability to turn environment into elements.

      Other charas expressively stated their ability is limited:

      • Mr 5 claimed he can only turn part of his own body in bombs. It is possible that an actual Awakening would give him the ability to turn objects and the very environment in bomb.

      But what about the other ones? What ability can grant Buggy's Awakening? Or Aluvida? On some of them I have theories I will share here, but feels free to fill the gaps or correct my ideas.

      • Buggy's ability is to split himself in pieces. It's pretty easy to guess his Awakening would make objects and environment split too. Just imagine Buggy touching the ground and making it crack in cubes he could throw on your face. Alikely, Very Good would make objects split into "berries".
      • Aluvida would be able to make what she touch slippery as much as her own skin.
      • Miss Valentine and Mach Vise could make a feather heavy as hell, and that could turn into an absolutely kill weapon.
      • Mr 3 is a bit peculiar. As his ability is not to turn into wax, but to produce it, I am pretty much sure the Awakening would grant him the ability to make wax stream from walls and environment. Alikely, Carifa could make soap flood from objects and Trebol fat.
      • Wapol is a lot more peculiar. I can't really get how the "ability to eat and digest everything" could transfer on environment.
      • Mr 2's ability to turn his face and body into other ones could resolve on different ways: on a hand it could grant him the ability to make objects imitate other objects, on the other hand it could grant him the ability to turn other people.
      • Mr 1, Miss Double Finger, Bellamy, Hawkins, Inazuma, Baby 5 would be able to make blades, spikes, springs, straw, scissors, weapons come out from environment. On the same line Hina could be able to make her trapping metal bars spring up.
      • Foxy - as Law and Newgate - could make item noronoroing people by touch.
      • Bonney could turn to be able to age objects (as Ain in Z).
      • Urouge could make ground absorb shock to reflect.
      • Apoo would be able to make objects produce sound while Buffalo would make them spin.
      • Ivankov could make hormon secrete from environment?
      • As much as Doffy and Katakuri, Jozu would be able to turn objects in diamond (the richest fruit in the world).
      • Blamenco to put pockets on a wall or people.
      • Decken could turn object in target. Like shooting to the very Ryuugu Palace instead of Shirahoshi.
      • Kelly Funk could make other people wearable.
      • Perospero could produce candy from environment, as much as Cracker and Opera could do with biscuits and cream. And even Galette with her butter.
      • Smoothie perhaps could be able to squeeze objects.
      • Daifuku making more geenies sprouting from the ground.
      • Purin could be able to transform memories or modify them (as Tsukishima from Bleach).
      • Oven could affect environment's temperature by touch.
      • Toki's Awakening could involve time trips in the past and not only future.

      Robin and Brook are really hard to understand and I have the hard feeling they could turn more imaginative, as with Luffy. As much as it's possible Robin and Brook have respectively awakened with the whole body and the soul form. Other unique cases are:

      No idea about Kuma, Tsuru, Kin'emon, Sugar, Bartolomeo, Leo, Senor (what? He begins swim into people? Gross), Pica (his ability is already environment-affecting), Kanjuro (maybe turning even other's art onto life?), Manshelly ("heal" objects too? Like, repairing?), Raizou, Brulée, Streusen, Newsan, Morley, Belo Betty, O-Tama.

      For Zoans, it seems obvious the point to resolve is about the Mythological ones, but Luffy provides a good example. As far as these Myth ones have secondary abilities, their awakening could revolve around transferring it onto environment (blue flames, shock waves, boro breath, etc) and when not, it could just be the basic zoan one (which seems to be an override from the fruit's personality on the user).

      What do you think?

      Originally Posted by rayleigh92

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      • King Cannon
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        The idea of Awakening is not to use their abilities to modify the environment, but rather allow the environment to manifest the abilities themselves.

        I think there's an important distinction. Law best shows this. He can already affect the environment with normal ROOMs, but making the environment behave like a ROOM is another thing entirely.

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        • SirCaesar
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          Fun thread! A few notes on your post:

          Shiki: I think that it was a plot point that Shiki could not fly himself, hence the cleverness of replacing his feet with swords so that he could fly.
          Blueno: it seems really hard for the Door Door fruit to require awakening to affect the environment. Maybe Air Door is the awakening though.

          I agree about many other fruits we have seen being awakened. About those we have not seen, but would be fun to see and easily predictable: Miss Valentine's.

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            I think the point of awakening is simply to expand an ability the way Oda sees fit. He won't really abide by any rules.

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              I think what the Gorosei were saying about Luffy's devil fruit applies to every devil fruit, and people just misinterpreted it (this is just an opinion at this point though). The line about imagination limiting the power of the devil fruit is the same as what Crocodile and Doflamingo have said about utilizing their devil fruits in creative ways. Luffy does NOT have an imagination devil fruit, they were just saying its up to the users imagination for how far they can take their fruits abilities. Luffy's imagination came up with gear 2, 3 and 4.

              Same thing about awakening and freedom. Luffy does NOT have a freedom fruit, they were specifically saying awakening grants the user FREEDOM to use their fruits in more ways than they were able to before. That's why Doflamingo and Katakuri can turn their surroundings into their element, because they have more FREEDOM to do so. Thats why Law can seem to do whatever he wants with his awakening (like the R Room and K Room). He has more freedom under his awakening to use his fruit however he wants. Kids "assign" is his awakened ability, the freedom to grant non magnetic things magnetism, but his electromagnetic cannon might be awakening too because I don't believe his base fruit gives him the freedom to do this with magnetism.

              Basically awakening grants the user freedom to use their abilities in any way they can imagine that still falls under what their fruit should be able to do.

              Freedom is a key theme in one piece after all. The end powerup of a fruit being freedom would fit the themes of One Piece.

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              • electricmastro
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                I've wondered if Chaka's fruit could awaken akin to a Mythical Zoan, based on what he said.

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                  In my opinion, we should think about each DF individually instead of extrapolating 'hard rules' from the examples we got in order to deduce how other Awakenings will work exactly.

                  Each fruit brings different challenges for Oda as a writer, and his priorities always aim at making the Awakening be cool and applicable in the plot and fights, so any fruit can have their own peculiarities.

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                  • Deicide
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                    I feel some characters from the past already had shown awakened abilities:

                    • Crocodile: Said he had mastered his fruit to the highest level, was knowledgeable about awakenings, and his ability to turn the environment into sand by touch seems like an awakening.
                    • Magellan: His ultimate technique (Venom Demon/Kinjite) feels like an awakening, as it was able to turn the environment venomous.
                    • Brook: I feel all his new abilities post timeskip are his awakening. It allowed him to separate body and soul, and to bring the coldness of death into the real world. Also, the way he gained them (by praying and meditating) kinda feels like a way to awaken an ability.

                    Wano predictions: There will be 5 acts; All Straw Hats will get fights, some in Act 4; Big Mom Pirates will arrive; Carrot will have her moment, but won't join; Yamato will be a Kouzuki samurai and Wano's Guardian; Shanks will visit Luffy in Act 5; Next arc is Mary Geoise.

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                      My hot take is that if Robin's fruit was introduced today, its power would just be making extra limbs and bits purely on her own body. Only after Awakening it would she get the ability to bloom them on other people and objects.

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                      • electricmastro
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                        I'd suppose it's possible Enel's fruit could be Zoan instead of Logia, because of Raijin.

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                          @electricmastro:

                          I'd suppose it's possible Enel's fruit could be Zoan instead of Logia, because of Raijin.

                          That's possible. Raijin's design even have that weird "ribbon" around the body like Luffy and Yamato.

                          I wouldn't be surprised if all major Logia were actually Zoans (in the sense that there's a "will" inside the fruits) because of their "primordial elements" theme. Or not.

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                            @theackwardstation:

                            That's possible. Raijin's design even have that weird "ribbon" around the body like Luffy and Yamato.

                            I wouldn't be surprised if all major Logia were actually Zoans (in the sense that there's a "will" inside the fruits) because of their "primordial elements" theme. Or not.

                            Actually, it was never made clear to me if the drums on Enel's back are something he wears or if it's something that he got because of his devil fruit, because they're something Raijin also have. Even now, I'm not sure.

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                              @electricmastro:

                              Actually, it was never made clear to me if the drums on Enel's back are something he wears or if it's something that he got because of his devil fruit, because they're something Raijin also have. Even now, I'm not sure.

                              https://i.imgur.com/RftOQEy.jpg

                              There's that "what if" colorspread where Hancock gets the Enel fruit and she also has the drums.

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                              • DollarScholar
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                                Im going to be honest, altough the concept of DF abilities being able to awaken an extra powerup so to speak is really cool, The way Oda has utilized it is frankly kinda uninteresting. Half of the ones we have seen dont even add any logical benefits.

                                Take Doflamingo: Doffy can already conjure strings out of thin air at will. How is being able to turn existing things into string really that big of a deal? It just doesnt seem like it adds anythings, its not like he was running out of strings before.

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                                  @DollarScholar:

                                  Im going to be honest, altough the concept of DF abilities being able to awaken an extra powerup so to speak is really cool, The way Oda has utilized it is frankly kinda uninteresting. Half of the ones we have seen dont even add any logical benefits.

                                  Take Doflamingo: Doffy can already conjure strings out of thin air at will. How is being able to turn existing things into string really that big of a deal? It just doesnt seem like it adds anythings, its not like he was running out of strings before.

                                  Doflamingo fights completely different with his Awakening though.

                                  His body is just too small to produce all those string tentacles he used in the latter half of the fight.

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                                    Do you think the other Straw Hats will awaken there devil fruits?

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                                      @Shiebs:

                                      Do you think the other Straw Hats will awaken there devil fruits?

                                      I think Chopper has enough going for him that he’s most likely at this point, perhaps even being revealed to have a specific model.

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                                        @Shiebs:

                                        Do you think the other Straw Hats will awaken there devil fruits?

                                        I honestly think both Chopper and Brook could reveal to have already awakened now that Luffy has. I mean, Monster Point has all the characteristics of it (transformation, eyes, personality change) while Brook have utterly changed his abilities: we went from "I cannot die" to "I can leave my body, summon Hell's cold winds and have power on Big Mom's Homies".

                                        Originally Posted by rayleigh92

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                                          @DollarScholar:

                                          Im going to be honest, altough the concept of DF abilities being able to awaken an extra powerup so to speak is really cool, The way Oda has utilized it is frankly kinda uninteresting.

                                          I feel it IS interesting, but very limited in what we have seen or confirmed as awakened df's.

                                          I mean right now we have Doffy and a brief insight into Luffy. It's no surprise that it feels a little lackluster.

                                          Plus I get the feeling we have more awakened Df users than we realise. After all how can some of the world's strongest and most capable fighters not have reached this point? I expect the final war will be filled with these abilities.

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                                            I feel it IS interesting, but very limited in what we have seen or confirmed as awakened df's.

                                            I mean right now we have Doffy and a brief insight into Luffy. It's no surprise that it feels a little lackluster.

                                            Plus I get the feeling we have more awakened Df users than we realise. After all how can some of the world's strongest and most capable fighters not have reached this point? I expect the final war will be filled with these abilities.

                                            Dont forget Law and Kid 😉

                                            Im thinking about how Luffys awakening could be utilized. If hes capable of making other charactes into Rubber as he did with Kaido, that could theoretically mean that other Strawhats could start to utilize rubber abilities. Gomu Gomu no Giant Diable Jambe anyone?

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