Hana Hana no Mi

The Hana Hana no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to replicate and sprout pieces of their body from the surface of any object or living thing. "Hana" (花) is the Japanese word for "Bloom" and "Flower", and reflects the nature of the user's power to sprout their body parts like a blooming flower. Whenever the parts sprout from a chosen surface, pinkish-white petal-like particles also seem to originate and then swirl away from where they sprouted, as well as around the user itself, further giving emphasis to the Devil Fruit's name; the parts seem to remain on the location from which they bloomed until the user wills otherwise and also does so in a dissipating manner, also with the petals being manifested as they vanish. The fruit almost keeps its original Japanese name in the 4Kids dub by calling it the Hana-Hana Fruit, but is called the Flower-Flower Fruit in the Viz Manga and FUNimation dub. It was eaten by Nico Robin.

The power of the fruit was first demonstrated but not clearly seen before Luffy and crew when they first met Robin on the Going Merry. The fruit's actual power was fully revealed during Robin and Pell's confrontation.

Strengths and Weaknesses
I don't think you understand yet. Power, speed... they mean nothing to me.

Strengths
The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Nico Robin, is the ability to sprout multiple body parts on any surface including the user's own body, except seastone. With this ability the user can take on many attackers by using many sprouted limbs. Since the user is practically the only one who knows where their limbs will sprout out, they have the element of surprise on their side. So unless an opponent is incapable of being held, like being a Logia Devil Fruit user or otherwise, any opponent that faces the user is practically defenseless against them, making this fruit one of the most powerful of the Paramecia class. As she claims to Pell, speed and strength mean nothing to her, as she can render almost any foe into submission with ease. She also used her powers to create the illusion that she impaled Vivi with her arm, although she has only done this once. In another instance she was able to render the Alabasta forces reluctant to enter the Royal Tombs simply by covering the entrance in arms that tried to grab them as they neared. She can also focus her power on one or many foes around her. Another strength is that the user can also create other body parts like an eye or an ear in order to gather information.

Using the aforementioned spawning of one hundred arms, Robin can use each hand created to support each other and meld together thereby allowing her to create larger hands out of many to take on more powerful and larger foes. This aspect also makes her much more versatile as it allows her to form more intricate patterns with her sprouting limbs like "Cien Fleur: Wing" and "Big Tree". The only pattern to show any time limit was seen with the "Cien Fleur: Wing", as it requires great effort to maintain altitude and keep her in mid-air, resisting gravity and gaining forward momentum. Her abilities also allow her to create limbs of gigantic proportions, as Robin demonstrated after the 2-year timeskip.

After the timeskip, Robin's duplication ability has grown to the point of creating a full-body clone of herself. Unlike the rest of her abilities, her clone is also able to generate clothing, though this is an intentional discrepacy common to all Devil Fruits for obvious reasons.

According to Oda, the user has a radius of 200 Hana Hanas in which they can extend parts of their body (although he did say this jokingly). And it is shown that she can sprout up to a thousand limbs now.

Weaknesses
The user of the Hana Hana no Mi has some weaknesses unique to themselves. The user will gain damage to their body if the extra limbs are attacked and can feel the pain. This disadvantage also extends to other Devil Fruits, as if her limbs are affected, then the host body is affected as well, as demonstrated when Ain touched her limbs with her Modo Modo technique, reducing her real body from a 30-year old to an 18-year old. They cannot create limbs where there is not enough room and while each part is capable of that part's normal movements, the body part itself is bound to where it was sprouted from. The strength of the user is also still limited to their individual strength. This means that the individual strength in the replicating appendages are no different to that of Robin's actual corresponding limbs. So with a hundred arms or more each individual limb gains no extra strength, although she can meld them together to end up having exponentially more strength at her disposal, along with excellent crowd control that comes with that many limbs accomplishing holds and chokes on the enemy. Also, like all Devil Fruit Users, she cannot swim.

Usage
Pre-Timeskip = The powers of the fruit have been used by Robin for a variety of ways. She has been using them as far back as when she was a child. She most notably uses the powers for combat, however, she has been known to use them for other purposes (such as tickling Luffy and Chopper). When Robin uses her power in battle, she uses a submission and grappling style (and later wrestling) where she replicates her arms at specific locations on her opponent's body and puts them in painful holds to prevent them from moving, or to disarm them by knocking away any weapon or tools that they may have in their possession.

Post-Timeskip = After the two year timeskip Robin has acquired a new level of skill with using her ability, as she has shown to be able to grow one thousand arms at once, along with learning to create a replica of her entire body with clothing, having one appear in between Luffy and Jinbe when they were fighting.

She has also changed the name of her technique Manos to Mano. It was shown the first time when she used Gigantesco Mano, and later shown in other techniques.

Trivia

 * According to Oda, in response to a fan, if the Hana Hana no Mi was eaten by a person with hairy arms, the arms that would be sprouted would also be hairy as seen above.
 * Another SBS question asked if she could sprout breasts. Oda simply stated he was sure she could.
 * One more SBS question asked if a male user of the Hana Hana no Mi could bloom a penis to pee from a distance. Oda confirmed and jestingly called it "Dick Fleur".
 * Similar to the Noro Noro no Mi, Robin seems to use some sort of movement to activate her powers. As a child, she pointed to the location of where the arms would sprout and commonly, she crosses her arms with the palms facing up and sometimes does not leave this position even under attack; though sometimes her powers activate without any sort of movement.
 * Robin most likely crosses her arms to help her concentrate, as she feels the strain of each individual arm.
 * Although it is unknown what type of flower petals are present during Robin's usage of Hana-Hana no Mi's power, the flower petals can be assumed as petals of peach blossom.
 * Due to a misinterpretation of her words "If I can see it..." many mistake the fact she must be able to see where she is forming the limbs to form them in the first place. However, in this instance all she was noting is that if she knows what she is attacking she can react to it, this is the same as any other fighter (e.g. a marksman) who cannot attack something if they do not know where the thing they are attacking is.
 * In One Piece Color Walk 4 Eagle, there was concept art of Chopper with Robin's face on the back of his head, labelled "Face Fleur". In SBS Volume 58, Oda noted that he planned for Robin to use the move in Skypiea, but due to how creepy it looked, the idea was rejected instantly.

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