User blog comment:Plainblack/Musings on possible developments in 708/@comment-8823907-20130507220732/@comment-5640399-20130508002400

@Ranger, Yeah, I do think his monster form is his awakened form, but what I'm curious about is how he gets there. The rumble balls basically mess with his already changeable genetics to make them more volitile, originally one would allow him to access 4 new forms, two would cause him to loses control of those forms and three would transform him into his awakened state. So here's the thing, if it requires excesively volitile molecules to transform both into Choppers extra forms and the awakened form, and others have already become awakened, that could mean that experienced zoans could learn to make their own forms naturally, like Choppers Jump, Arm and more recently Kung fu forms. I love zoan fruits because ethically they sort of confuse me. Take Funkfreed. The elephant that resided in the sword was sentient enough to understand commands and feel fear. I was for all intents alive. So, if a person had eaten the elephant zoan that went into making Funkfreed, what would have happened to that 'soul?' Is there a living leopard prowling the mind of Rob Lucci? Or does the animal simply die if a person eats it? Then there's the question of the Hito Hito no Mi. Chopper only became a 'person' as a result of eating that fruit. Was Chopper as we know him living in the fruit or in the reindeer before they came together? Where was the sentient being? And what would have happened to that intelligence if another person had eaten the fruit? Would there be two full minds in one body or one mind with the functionality and capacity of two? Just a thought.