Kobu Kobu no Mi

The Kobu Kobu no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to awaken people's latent potential to fight by rallying them. It was eaten by Belo Betty.

Etymology

 * Kobu (鼓舞) means encouragement or inspiration in Japanese.

Strengths and Weaknesses
The biggest strength of this fruit is the ability to increase other people's physical strength by simply encouraging them. The user can strengthen multiple people at once with just one encouragement, and should they gain the support of the people, they can increase the strength of their teamups and possibly turn the tide of a battle. On the Lulusia Kingdom, Betty was able to turn a group of helpless citizens into strong fighters capable of overwhelming a Grand Line pirate crew.

However, its effectiveness in battle largely depends on the strengthened targets being willing to help the user, as encouragement is the most the user can do to influence their targets' actions and the targets must make the choice on their own. It is unknown if the user is capable of being strengthened by their own words. Otherwise, the user is affected by the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses to water and Seastone.

Usage
Betty used this fruit in combat while fighting the Pinkbeard Pirates in the Lulusia Kingdom. By encouraging the citizens to stand up for themselves, the citizens were granted an increase in strength and became able to overwhelm the pirates with only sticks.

Trivia

 * This fruit is similar to the Horu Horu no Mi as both enhance a person's ability to fight with their mental state playing a large role.
 * The fruit's ability to empower others is similar to Jango's hypnotism ability to empower his crew. It is also similar to the way Brook encourage the people of Namakura Island to fight using music.
 * This fruit along with its user's appearance is likely based on the painting Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix.

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