Forum:Manga Chapter 868 Spoilers

Hey guys, I just noticed something that didn't add up about Devil Fruits and wanted to ask for opinions on it.

So, in the last two Manga Chapters (867/868), it is shown that Big Mom partakes in a feast with Carmel and all the children, with it being heavily implied that she ate every last one of them, as she couldn't see anything because of her tears of joy and just kept eating till nothing and nobody was left, and she was surrounded by half-eaten trees and stones, indicating an eating frenzy. Streusen and the Elbaf Warrior witnessed the feast and were terrified by Big Mom after the event, also supporting that theory.

Now to the crux of this topic: In 868 it is said that Linlin now has Carmels ability to make flowers sing, which we know stems from the Soru Soru No Mi. The conclusion is that Carmel ate the Soru Soru No Mi, and Linlin ate Carmel, thus gaining her Devil Fruit's ability. Yet the OnePiece Wikia Devil Fruit page refers in it's Trivia section to SBS Vol. 16 p.80, where a fan asked if he could gain the Gomu Gomu No Mi by eating Luffy, which Oda supposedly denied.

Source: http://onepiece.wikia.com/wiki/Devil_Fruit#cite_note-45

My question is, do you think that's just one of the cases where Oda changes the way things work (after all, it's quite an old SBS), or is there something more to it?

Gwynbleidd X (talk) 08:00, June 9, 2017 (UTC)