Ope Ope no Mi

The Ope Ope no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows its user to create a spherical space or "room", which manifests as a sphere of light green translucent energy, where the user has complete control over the placement and orientation of the objects inside. "Ope" comes from the word "operation", as the space the user creates is compared to an "operating room" and the user to a surgeon. This fruit was eaten by Trafalgar Law. Its power was first seen during the Sabaody Archipelago Arc, but was neither given a name, nor was it explained in any way until the Punk Hazard Arc. This Devil Fruit was used by Law to steal the hearts of 100 pirates.

Strengths and Weaknesses
As long as you're within Law's circle, consider yourself a patient on the operating table.

The Ope Ope no Mi allows the user to manipulate everything within a specific area; this applies to both the living and nonliving, such as people, cannonballs, and ships in what was described as a "surgical" manner. Through this ability, Law can dismember people from a distance without harming them, lift or displace objects of any size, and switch peoples' hearts, which is shown to also switch personalities. From its appearance, Law developed this ability to a great extent over the timeskip as now his Room covers a much larger area than it did before, enough to cover the radius of an entire Marine battleship.

He can also attach separated parts in any manner he sees fit, such as sticking someone's head to a barrel. People separated by this ability aren't killed and can still feel their separated parts, regardless of the distance (much like Buggy when he separates himself using the Bara Bara no Mi). In other words, he can cut through flesh and bone without actually hurting the victim. The effect persists even after Law disengages the sphere. Separated parts can be reassembled back to normal, however while separated they can be temporarily assembled in mixed up ways or "attached" onto other surfaces, including someone else's body. The fruit's abilities are not required to reassemble person's body, as Sanji, Nami, Usopp, and Chopper were able to reassemble a samurai's head and have it hold its shape. Law can also switch peoples' places in his "Room", as he did with Jean Bart and Bepo to protect the latter from a Pacifista in the anime.

A drawback to the fruit is that the user of the Ope Ope no Mi can only use its powers within a specific area, so if the target moves outside the area, they are immune to its powers. It also appears that Law has to make hand gestures to use certain attacks. Smoker also strongly implied that sufficient proficiency with Haki may offer some resistance. Other than this, the Ope Ope no Mi has no other revealed weaknesses aside from the standard Devil Fruit weaknesses.

Usage
Law typically uses his Devil Fruit powers together with his swordsmanship, making his nodachi a "scalpel" of sorts while his powers are active. It was stated by Smoker that the territory generated by Law marks the range of how long Law can strike targets from afar, making Law well suited at fighting long range battles, since he is practically at full control of an area where anything can happen for as long as his powers are active.

He also seems to be able to make a smaller area, circling just below his hand, seen when he was prepared to fight one of the Pacifista alongside Eustass Kid. What this technique is has yet to be determined, though seeing as how his Room is formed, it can be used to make a quicker Room.

The techniques using this Devil Fruit's powers are as follows.


 * Room (ROOM（ルーム）): Law creates a spherical space around a certain area, in which he can manipulate everything inside in various ways. This was first seen used against some Marines during the escape from the Human Auctioning House.
 * Shambles (シャンブルズ): Within the space created from Room, Law can separate the limbs of his targets and rearrange them to his likings, causing massive confusion for his opponents. Law can also use this to redirect incoming projectiles. An example is when he switched a decapitated Marine's head for a cannonball coming toward him, attaching the ball of iron back to where the Marine's head used to be. This was first seen being used against some Marines during the escape from the Human Auction House. After the timeskip, it is revealed that Law can use this technique to swap hearts, effectively putting one person in another's body.
 * Tact (タクト): Law uses his ability to levitate an object within his Room. To use this technique, Law performs a lifting motion with his index finger (by pointing upwards). This technique is first seen being used against the G-5 Marines, and is powerful enough to lift a battleship and part of the river it was in into the air.
 * Scan (スキャン): Law scans people inside his Room with a sweeping motion and is capable of locating and switching the place of anything on the scanned people. It was first used to steal all the Den Den Mushi from a group of G-5 Marines.
 * Mes: Law punches his opponent, causing their heart to fly off their body, encased in a glass-like cube. This attack leaves a square-shaped hole on the opponent's body. It was first seen being used against Smoker, to defeat him. He most likely used this attack to remove the hearts of the 100 pirates, which earned him his rank as Shichibukai.

Video Game-only Attacks

 * Catastrophe (カタストロフィ): A technique only in the video game One Piece: Gigant Battle! 2 New World, Law uses a secret technique with this name. In the space created from Room, Law cuts those within many times, then finalizes it by displacing the victim's head with a round black sphere that explodes.

Trivia

 * The powers of Ope Ope no Mi are essentially an inversion of the powers belonging to the Bara Bara no Mi; with Law splitting everything else instead of himself.
 * This is the first Supernova's fruit power's name to be revealed (other than Luffy's), 158 chapters after its first appearance.

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