User blog comment:Baptain/Second Fruit Theory/@comment-198.212.237.48-20160816223557

My theory is that Blackbeard is possibly a reincarnation of the devil of the sea, essentially a demon who once held every single devil fruit power, but was once defeated and the powers were scattered amongst the various fruits. Therefore, if Blackbeard is the reincarnated form of the original owner of all devil fruit abilities, maybe that's why he'd be immune to the rule of only one devil fruit, maybe regular people can't handle it. As Kanye West would say, "No one man should have more than one super power granted to them by a magical fruit", or something like that.

Or, alternatively, the power of the Yami Yami no mi has been stated as being able to drag in "all things", possibly Blackbeard uses it to constantly pull in the essence of the fruit and utilize it at will, maybe even when Whitebeard died, Blackbeard absorbed the devil fruit power before it could fully leave Whitebeard's body and go into another fruit (Like we saw with Smiley)

What confuses me though, is why Burgess was aiming for Luffy with just a dagger and saying he was gonna take the Gomu Gomu no mi, either he has a magic knife, or meant to mortally wound Luffy and bring him to Blackbeard alive

If we're discrediting the devil of the sea theory, what if absorbing the essence of the fruit as previously stated bypasses the "eating" part, considering he didn't eat more than one, he's simply stealing them.

What I can't figure out is that comment about Blackbeard not having a normal body, I have no idea what Marco knows that we don't :/