User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 867: Suns and Daughters/@comment-30127592-20170601163429

Something that crossed my mind after reading the chapter: Could it be that Linlin gained her devil fruit  power directly from eating the previous user, Mother Caramel? Because if that's the case, it could be connected to how Blackbeard and his crew have been harvesting devil fruit powers since the whitebeard war.