Gunyo Gunyo no Mi

The Gunyo Gunyo no Mi is an unknown-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to create and control clay, making the user a Clay Human (粘土人間). It was eaten by Prince Grus.

Etymology

 * Gunyogunyo (グニョグニョ) is a Japanese onomatopoeia for a soft, pliable substance (like clay) being squished.
 * The VIZ manga renders the fruit's name as Glorp-Glorp Fruit.

Strengths and Weaknesses
A user of this fruit's power can generate clay from their body and mold it into different shapes akin to clay modeling. This includes the creation of human-like, animated figures called "golems" that can fight on the user's behalf, being invulnerable to damage. It seems that the ability's user can freely alter the hardness of the clay, from creating large massses of soft, mushy clay to making smaller, hardened constructs, like weapons.

No weaknesses of this ability are known apart from the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.

Usage
Grus uses the clay he creates for offensive, defensive, and auxiliary purposes. He chiefly uses his power to create animated golems that fight for him while he can stay out of harm's way, observing at a safe distance. He can manipulate clay in its soft state (such as summoning large, shapeless masses to cushion a ship's fall onto land) or harden clay to fashion solid weapons out of it to wield by hand (e.g., a spiked morning star), or large defensive structures.

Applications

 * Golems: An ability that involves Grus forming realistically human-looking figures out of clay; it is unknown to what degree these golems possess sentience/autonomy, though they are capable of fighting on their own and speaking. Being made of clay, they are invulnerable to conventional attacks like gunfire and, upon taking damage, will reform from clay in a Logia-like fashion. Grus seems to keep three golems as his signature entourage, in the form of three hulking men.

Techniques

 * Nyudo Gunyo (入道): A technique where Grus calls forth a massive, cushiony wave of clay to cover the ground in front of him. He was first seen using the move to soften the fall of Monkey D. Garp's airborne ship onto the island of Hachinosu. The technique's name is a pun on nyūdōgumo (入道雲), a Japanese word for "cumulonimbus", referencing the cloud-like appearance of the claybed that is created (with nyūdō being a term that refers to someone entering Buddhist priesthood). The VIZ manga calls the technique Cumulo-Glorpus.


 * Gunyo no Su (の巣): A defensive technique that has Grus bring forth an enormous clay net shaped like a spiderweb with which to block out incoming threats. He was seen using the net to catch falling pieces of rubble created when Koby destroyed Avalo Pizarro's massive "island" arm in the air above Garp's ship, the clay wrapping around the debris as it fell into the sea. The technique's name phonetically resembles kumo no su (蜘蛛の巣). In the VIZ manga, the technique is called Glorp Web.

Trivia

 * In Jewish folklore, a golem is a humanoid figure artificially constructed from clay or mud and endowed with life by magical means (like a spell or Kabbalistic rite involving a piece of paper, inscribed with Hebrew words, being inserted into the golem's mouth).
 * It is currently unknown whether this fruit is a Paramecia or Logia. Clay is a naturally occurring substance and the golems created by Grus were compared to Logia users, but it is unknown whether Grus himself can transform into clay. Also, the unnatural, esoteric ability to spawn sentient clay golems seems more in line with what has been seen from Paramecias.
 * Grus' golem-creating ability is reminiscent of Charlotte Cracker's Bisu Bisu no Mi power, which likewise involves the creation of human-like beings made from inanimate matter (in this case biscuit material). In Cracker's case though, his Biscuit Soldiers were not sentient on their own.
 * During the Marineford Arc, the piratess Elmy used an unnamed ability to control a massive golem of sorts, made from a clay-like substance and thus resembling this fruit's power (though such resemblance is lost in the anime).
 * Grus' Gunyo no Su technique resembles Doflamingo's string-based Kumo no Sugaki technique.

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