User blog comment:Fliu/Chapter 926: Hungry Hungry Hippo/@comment-7614831-20181201083707

Both this and the previous chapter have been excellent reminders of the mysterious, if not frightening, workarounds to devil fruit inheritance: having witnessed Shiliew's immediate inheritance of the Suke Suke no mi last week, this week's partiuclarly grotesque Hippo-SMILE-user really hits home how Vegapunk and Caeser Clown's works are completely blowing up that original established rule that two fruits cannot exist at the same time, as well as the variation in their works as to the limitations and deviations of copying a fruit.

Now that we've been properly introduced to some of these SMILE users and their (increasingly) weird zoan-aberration forms, it really reflects on how much more accurate Momonosuke's/Vegapunk's artifical fruit was to a bona fide devil fruit, to the point where I wonder whether Momonosuke's devil fruit does not exhibit its full powers simply because Kaido's fruit (the current 'genuine' version of that fruit) is still in-play; take Kaido out and Momonuske's will inherit those full powers, maybe.