User blog comment:Bluefox87/One piece devil fruit name origins/@comment-34981281-20150718023221

Crazy theory that I don't actually believe, but I did come up with it!

It's been said that Vegapunk is the only person to understand 'what' devil fruits are. Which would imply that they are something else beyond what we see; magic fruits that grant super powers. So what else could they be? Unless they are the reincarnate souls of ancients demons, each with a unique set of skills.

A million, billion years ago, or perhaps during the Void Century, there was a Devil who was entirely made out of rubber. When he died, he was reincarnated as a fruit, and the next human to eat that fruit becomes infused with his devil soul, creating a rubber man. When that man dies, the soul regrows into the next fruit.

Ehh? Ehhhhh?