@Zik:
I don't recall his bones being gouged out, hard task to do with a katana.
I just couldn't think of a better word for all those splinters and bits of bone that were flying everywhere. And that was an anime katana, everyone knows they can do anything.
@AcethePuma:
yeah the power is gone so my question is he still a fruit user? cause if not and the power is gone, shouldn´t he be able to swimm again etc?
The power isn't gone. Before he died, he was a DF user that couldn't swim despite not having died yet - the power was in there waiting to be activated. After he died, the DF power brought him back (and seems to have bent reality so that he could be a living human even though his body was in no shape to support life on its own). He's still a DF user, even after the power's been used.
If Luffy never actually used his rubber powers again, he'd still sink like a rock. :)
@Ivotas:
I wonder if the fruit doesn't constantly revive respectively keeps him alive? I mean seriously, he's a skeleton, so when does his second live end? It's not like he's aging or something. I see no other plausible explenation then the fruit still being active and keeping him alive right now.
I've always kinda understood it as I briefly mentioned above: the fruit's power was to bring him back to life, and it wasn't going to let a little thing like most of his body being gone stop that from happening. He can see, speak, move, etc with all these things that aren't actually there, and he still eats and sleeps…kind of an invisible life support system, I guess. The advantage is that it's also intangible, so he can't be stabbed in any vital organs because he technically has none.
I do agree that he doesn't seem to be aging physically, although the OP world is full of some pretty old people that still kick tons of ass. That's something I can't even begin to speculate about, since Oda hasn't referred to it aside from a line at some point like "I don't know when my second life will end." It may be that because the DF is already bending reality to let him live - and he does also heal from wounds like a living person, and his bones don't seem to have worn down or crumbled with time - the actual wearing down of the aging process simply doesn't happen, so the one thing he can't die from is old age. Or maybe the second lifespan will end on its own after a certain length of time anyway. Dunno, but I find it pretty interesting.
Another note for those fans that want Brook to be immune to ever dying from anything: would it really be right for him to never get to see his dead friends again in the afterlife, and to outlive everyone he knows now, and to just have to keep going and going forever? Oda's already been pretty rough with the guy, I don't think he'd take it that far. :sad:
@Ivotas:
Authors generally do give their protagonist opinions that reflect their own. At least those which get defended until the end. ;)
They most certainly do not. ;) Writers that can't let their protagonists be wrong or mistaken about things or even just hold different opinions (because the character is not the author is not the character) are some pretty crappy writers.
@Ivotas:
I know that. But just as I said, this could be flawed interpretation from Brook's side. How does he know he can only revive once? I wouldn't be surprised if at a later point Brook dies only to be revived again to his own surprise.
Wasn't there something about "people who eat a DF instinctively know what it is/can do even if they don't know which DF it is before they eat it" when some of the CP9 folks got powers during Water 7/Enies Lobby? Or at least I kinda remember it and the other day I saw someone joking that maybe Luffy was just too dumb to have that flash of insight.
The dying Rumbars' brief discussion of Brook's powers sounded more like none of them (Brook included) was 100% sure they could believe that coming back from death was possible even with a devil fruit. They'd never seen anything like it.