Toshi Toshi no Mi

The Toshi Toshi no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to manipulate the ages of people or objects, making them an Age Manipulation Human (年齢自在人間). It was eaten by Jewelry Bonney.

Etymology

 * Toshi (年, 歳) is Japanese for "age" or "year".

Strengths and Weaknesses
The main strength of the fruit is that it allows the user to freely manipulate the aging process of anything, including themself, other people, and objects. They can use this power to disguise themself, as well as cripple opponents by rapidly aging their intended targets into their senior years or regressing them into small, weak children. A unique effect of this ability is that the years the user steals from people are manifested in the form of sparkling jewelry and shapes.



Any target whose bodily age has been altered by this power still retains all of their memories and cognitive abilities, as shown by the Marines and Bonney herself acting the same as normal, regardless of the age their body is showing them to be (though targets that have been reduced to toddlers have a tendency to cry as such). In addition, any markings the target may have will not be affected by this power, as Jinbe still retained his scar around his left eye after being turned into a child by this ability. Notably, the user also has the choice of employing possible alternate futures while aging herself or others forward in time. In the anime, Bonney glows pink while using her powers.

The fruit's main weakness is that its aging effects, when applied to living things, are temporary, meaning victims will eventually revert to their rightful age at some point. That said, the user can seemingly remain in their adult form for long periods of time and even while knocked out, so it is possible that they might be the sole exception to the temporary aspect of the fruit. It is unknown if the user has any sort of control over the duration of their ability's effects.



Another setback of this fruit is that emotional outbursts by the user might result in unspecified altered ages for anybody in the proximity range of the user, including the user itself. This was seen when Bonney got confronted with a Pacifista resembling her father and it caused her to have an emotional breakdown, which then changed the age of everybody around her (except for non-biological beings) to unspecific ones, including her own.

Aside from this, the user suffers the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses. It is implied that submerging the user might cause the Devil Fruit's effects to be nullified, or at least take away enough of the user's energy to maintain them active. Bonney reverted to her true age while she was swept up by the sea prior to being rescued by the Straw Hat Pirates.

Usage
Bonney mainly uses her ability to maintain the appearance of a woman in her early 20s in public. By shifting her apparent age up or down, she is able to fool people unaware of her powers into believing that she is somebody other than herself. She has been shown doing this in order to pretend to be related to someone (like how she did at the Sabaody Archipelago, by lying to Charlos about being Roronoa Zoro's little sister), steal food or to infiltrate restricted locations, all under the guise of someone else.



At first, Bonney had trouble figuring out how her fruit worked, and needed some time to master her new abilities. By using Queen Conney as a model, Bonney quickly learned how to alter her own appearance into that of an elderly woman, which was enough to fool many onlookers, including her own father. During the period of time where she was supervised by Alpha, Bonney was instructed by Conney to keep her abilities a secret just in case. This would later prove an useful decision to allow Bonney to escape the World Government's watch.



For combat, Bonney tends to employ her abilities on enemies by changing their age to extreme highs or lows, making them too old or young to engage in battle. Bonney is also able to tap into alternate futures with her forward-aging techniques, in case said futures provide a physical boost to her normal abilities. Thanks to her own vivid imagination and the legends her father used to tell her, Bonney can somehow mimic even the powers of Nika, a holy figure, by shapeshifting herself into a future form that is capable of inflating her arms and using them for attacks, akin to the effects of Luffy's Gear 3.

Like many Devil Fruit users, Bonney can channel her abilities through foreign objects that she currently wields. She has been seen utilizing age-changing effects through both a pipe weapon and a pistol. This complements Bonney's skillset really well, as she has no dedicated weapon and tends to pick up whatever she can find around for combat.

Techniques

 * Distortion Future: Bonney ages herself up into a possible future version, gaining a large and muscular physique, not unlike her father's, and becoming physically stronger as a result (enough to destroy metallic walls with ease). Bonney can also apply this technique to others like, for example, how she did to Monkey D. Luffy at Egghead's scrapyard, turning him into a 70-year-old man who was stated to come from a "different future". This move was properly named during Bonney's confrontation with Vegapunk. In the VIZ manga, this is called Distorted Future.
 * Distortion Future: Nika Mitaina Mirai (ニカみたいな未来): Bonney ages herself up into a possible future version, gaining a physique she imagined like Nika, and being able to stretch and enlarge her arm similar to both Nika’s rubbery properties and the Gear 3 form of the Gomu Gomu no Mi. This was first used against Alpha. In the VIZ manga, this is called Distorted Future: Nika-Like Future.




 * Toshi Tsuki (突き): While wielding a staff weapon, Bonney thrusts it into a target, aging them into a younger version of themselves. The target's lost years are manifested in the form of glittering jewels of various shapes. The name of the technique is a pun on toshitsuki (年月) meaning "months and years". In the VIZ manga, this is called Age Skewer.
 * Oil Shock: Bonney applies her aging effects to a metallic object, corroding and then breaking it. She first used this to destroy a door lock leading to a room in Vegapunk's laboratory. The name of the technique is a pun on oiru (老いる) meaning "to age". In the VIZ manga, this is called Oiled Shock.




 * NDE: Bonney pulls out a pistol and fires a projectile against the enemy. Instead of getting injured, the target rapidly ages until they turn into a skeleton before immediately reverting to their initial state, which may cause psychological trauma to them. Bonney first used this move against a group of Marine soldiers. "NDE" is an acronym for "near-death experience".

History
At an unspecific time and location, Jewelry Bonney unknowingly ate the Toshi Toshi no Mi. Following Sorbet Kingdom's Solo Revolution at age 6, Bonney subconsciously accessed the fruit's power in the church she was confined in, leading to herself becoming confused at its power, as well as her adoptive father mistaking Bonney for her late mother Ginny.

Trivia

 * Among named fruits, this one currently has the longest gap between when its power was first shown and when it was named, at 15 years, 5 months and 2 weeks. 597 chapters were released between its usage debut and when it was named in SBS.
 * The Toshi Toshi no Mi is similar to Kuma's Nikyu Nikyu no Mi and Big Mom's Soru Soru no Mi, being able to extract and sublimate intangible aspects of a living target, making them tangible (Bonney with age, Kuma with pain/fatigue and memories, and Big Mom with souls).
 * The aging and decaying power of this fruit is similar to that of the Juku Juku no Mi, which can age objects and people at will. The main difference is that the Juku Juku no Mi’s effects are irreversible and can only age things forward, while the Toshi Toshi no Mi’s effects are temporary and can age things both forward and backwards.
 * The Toshi Toshi no Mi, alongside the Mira Mira no Mi, is one of the only known Devil Fruits to have shown the ability to mimic the powers of another Devil Fruit. Specifically, upon using Distortion Future: Nika Mitaina Mirai, Bonney was shown using an ability of the Gomu Gomu no Mi.
 * One can argue that Moria's fruit, Kage Kage no Mi has the same ability, as he was able to replicate Luffy's powers in Oars, by using his shadow.
 * Ironically, Bonney's first usage of a Gear 3-like Nika power in combat using Distortion Future parallels with Luffy's first usage of Gear 3 in combat, as both pirates unveiled the power in battle against a Cipher Pol agent.
 * Interestingly, Bonney's Distortion Future follows the same concept as Vegapunk's theory on how Devil Fruits are manifestations of the possibility for human evolution, with all the different powers representing the many branches for humanity's future, brought into existence by human hope and desire: thoughts along the lines of "if only I could do this" or "if only I could be like that".

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