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The Soru Soru no Mi is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that allows the user to interact with and manipulate souls. It was formerly eaten by Carmel, but the ability was somehow transferred to Charlotte Linlin after Carmel's death.
•"Soru" comes from Souru (ソウル?), the Japanese pronunciation of "soul".
The fruit's power of soul manipulation, as demonstrated by Big Mom, consists of manifesting and drawing out the souls of people who feel fear towards the user. The manifested souls take the form of a light-pink, spectral-looking but (for the user) tangible substance, which leaks out of the victim's body like smoke. The user can extract the victim's soul by grabbing it once it is surrounding the target's body and pulling it out. This effectively steals from the victim's very lifespan, the amount of which is determined by the user: it is possible to steal decades of a person's life at once should they desire, or mere seconds. The user can steal part of the victim's lifespan, leaving their remaining lifespan that much shorter, or even take enough years to steal a victim's entire remaining lifespan, killing them instantly.
By infusing objects with soul fragments, the user can "humanize" them. Recipients (which are referred to as "homies") gain human-like intelligence, as well as the ability to speak. Almost anything can be made into a homie, including plants, minerals, food, clothing, furniture, air, light, and even living animals. Inanimate objects are brought to life and gain the ability to stand upright and move independently, their most notable feature being that they have a human face. Some of them can gain special abilities, such as a carpet homie becoming a flying carpet. Animal homies become more human-like, not only gaining the ability to talk and walk upright, but also fighting and using weapons. According to Big Mom, the more powerful the individual the soul was taken from, the more powerful the resulting homie will be. Additionally, homies will be more powerful if they possess a larger quantity of soul fragments within them, and can eat other homies to absorb their soul and become stronger.
The user can even infuse souls into substances produced by other Devil Fruits. For example, Big Mom can give life and autonomy to Cracker's Biscuit Soldier puppets and Perospero's candy constructs. In certain cases, this also allows Big Mom to exert control over another person's Devil Fruit substance. For example, by creating a homie from a mound of Perospero's candy, she is able to control the movement of the candy much like Perospero himself.
Homies are subservient to the user, as they fear and respect their powerful soul, allowing them to easily create more and more subordinates with every soul taken. Since a Vivre Card is naturally infused with the owner’s soul, a Vivre Card created from the user of the Soru Soru no Mi will allow the person wielding it to command the homies just as if they were the fruit's user themselves. However, the user's presence and commands supersede those of the person with the user's Vivre Card. The card itself exudes a bright-pink aura that only homies can see, and seems to frighten them. Even if a homie does muster the nerve to turn against and attack the user, they are typically powerless to do much as the user can rip out the soul inside them with ease.
The user can also use fragments of their own personal soul to create "special homies", who tend to be more powerful than regular ones. It is currently unknown how using one's own soul to create special homies might affect the user's own life expectancy. The user may also manifest their own soul in the form of roughly human-sized, dark, somewhat humanoid blobs (known as "Incarnations"), which possess limited sentience and can take people's souls as well.
While souls cannot be infused into living beings, the user themselves appears to be an exception to a certain extent. It is possible for one to sacrifice a portion of their own lifespan in exchange for extra power and size, with the amount of strength gained being dependent on the strength of the soul. In addition, the user can turn their individual body parts into homies themselves, allowing said parts to act independently of the user's own normal bodily functions. Big Mom, for example, can give life to her own skeleton and order it to restructure itself in case of broken bones, thus providing a unique form of self-healing.
While incredibly powerful, the Soru Soru no Mi comes with several limitations. One limitation is that the user also has to be in close proximity to the target in order to be able to take away their lifespan, as they need to physically grab and pull the soul out to extract it from their body.
The most prominent limitation is that in order for the soul to be extracted, the target needs to be afraid of the user, even if just a little. Individuals who do not feel any fear of the user are completely immune to soul extraction. Big Mom is able to avoid this weakness most of the time thanks to her infamous reputation, imposing appearance and incredible power. However, strong-willed individuals such as Jinbe, Trafalgar Law, and Eustass Kid were all immune to her ability due to their lack of fears and absolute refusal to be afraid of her. In addition, the user must invoke an incantation of sorts and the target must hear it in order for their souls to be extracted, meaning that if the user is forcibly silenced, then the targets will not be affected, even if they are afraid of the user.
While soul fragments can be infused into animals, plants and lifeless objects, they cannot be infused into other people or corpses. However, it appears that a person's own soul can be returned to them after being extracted, circumventing this limitation, which restores an amount of lifespan equal to how much of their soul was returned; even lifeless bodies can be revived this way. This was shown with Charlotte Moscato, who was seemingly killed by his mother after having all his remaining lifespan taken away during her rampage on Sweet City, but was later seen alive on the Queen Mama Chanter. But it seems that only entities capable of physically interacting with souls (such as the fruit's user, or their Incarnations) can perform this process, as Mont-d'Or was seen ordering two Incarnations to gather "every last second" of Moscato's lifespan they could find, indicating that he was unable to do it himself.
Homies are fully alive beings, and are thus susceptible to physical pain and fear. They can be injured and even killed with a lethal enough attack, with their faces being suggested to be their most vulnerable spots. Prime examples include Kingbaum, who was severely injured after being vertically bisected by Amande, a door homie whose face was carved out, and both Prometheus and Zeus, who have been harmed by Brook, Jinbe and Zoro despite their intangible, elemental compositions. If homies experience extreme fear, they will instantly die and wither away. Another consequence of the living nature of homies is that the user of the Soru Soru no Mi can only control them if their commands to them are audible.
While the homies are typically subservient to the user and will not ordinarily defy them, they do possess their own minds and can turn against their creator if motivated enough; even special homies created by the user's own soul can be coerced into switching loyalty. Homies cannot attack anything infused with the user's soul, such as the user's Vivre Card, even if such an object is in the hands of an enemy, and in fact must obey the owner of the Vivre Card; although this can be overridden when the user themselves is present to give orders directly to the homies.
Homies created from others' souls are also weak to the soul mastery allowed by the Yomi Yomi no Mi and will faint against its user if they exude the energies from their own soul, although powerful homies created from the Soru Soru no Mi's user's own soul are immune to this.
Carmel
Carmel used the fruit's power to manifest fragments of her own soul and create homies. By applying this to the flames created by the destruction brought by a rampaging Linlin at Elbaf, she compressed them into a sun homie called Pandora, convincing the denizens of Elbaf that she had summoned the sun god. She also seemed to have made use of homies for weather manipulation, making it seem like she had made the rain stop and the sunshine on her during the show she had orchestrated with the Marines, in order to trick the giants into trusting her and allow her to enter Elbaf. She had also at some point used the power to entertain and show a "magic trick" to the children of the Sheep's House, by imbuing life to a flower.
Charlotte Linlin
As the queen of Totto Land, Big Mom has imposed a toll on her citizens, forcing them to give up a month's worth of their soul every six months or leave. Those soul fragments are collected by her Incarnations and sprinkled all over Totto Land, where they settle into random objects or animals to turn them into homies. She can also drain the bestowed souls out of her Homies, weakening them. She also often uses her powers to kill people by taking a lethal amount of lifespan from them, as her tremendous strength and status as one of the Four Emperors means that very few individuals are capable of not showing any fear when confronted by her. Big Mom has also created three special homies out of pieces of her own incredibly strong soul; these homies are far more powerful than regular ones, and as such are more resistant to the powers of the Yomi Yomi no Mi. These special homies are Napoleon the bicorne, Prometheus the sun and Zeus the thundercloud. The latter two can be used to produce massive amounts of fire or electricity, and can also combine their powers to create great storms, granting Big Mom control over the weather. In addition, Big Mom can use either of these two homies to fly around or enhance the power of her melee attacks by merging their respective elements with either her bare hands (such as her Raitei technique) or Napoleon in his sword form (such as her Cognac technique). Prometheus in particular has also shown the ability to fuse with Big Mom's hair, becoming a flaming mane. Napoleon is a bicorne that Big Mom wears on her head at all times, except when sleeping, who can receive telepathic signals from other nearby homies and relay the information to Big Mom. Napoleon can also reveal a blade and hilt to transform into a sword with devastating offensive power, being able to both attack on its own and be wielded by Big Mom as her personal weapon. Despite each of Big Mom's special homies being extremely strong on their own, Zeus' carefree nature often led him to act in ways that hindered Big Mom, such as when he was temporarily swayed by Nami due to her feeding him thunderclouds, and later chose to willingly join her. This often led his fellow special homies to treat him with disdain and consider him a burden. Although Big Mom managed to reclaim Zeus during the war at Onigashima, after once again being hindered by him, Big Mom became fed up with Zeus' incompetence and, at Prometheus' suggestion, used a piece of her soul to create a new thundercloud special homie named Hera to replace him. Hera turned out to be more in-sync with her fellow special homies than Zeus ever was, allowing the three of them to unleash more complex moves that, according to Prometheus, were previously impossible due to Zeus' general foolishness. Big Mom later ordered Hera to consume Zeus in order to merge the two pieces of her soul together and increase Hera's power. When Zeus attempted to rebel against Big Mom, he was picked up by the Emperor and had his soul extracted from his body, weakening him and allowing Hera to devour him unimpeded. Zeus' soul fragment, however, successfully escaped into Nami's Sorcery Clima-Tact, granting him a new body.
At some point, Carmel consumed the fruit and used it to deceive the giants of Elbaf. When she died, her powers were somehow transferred to Charlotte Linlin, who used its powers for sixty-three years to create her dream country.
•This fruit's power greatly resembles that of the Kage Kage no Mi, as it can take a normally intangible part of a person (in this case, souls instead of shadows) and insert it into something else, which becomes animated, and that when the said part is taken, it becomes detrimental for the owner.
•Similar to the Kage Kage no Mi technique Doppelman, the user of this fruit is able to project part of himself that share some of their abilities called Incarnations.
•While zombies retain the original shadow owners' personalities, homies retain their memories.
•The fruits' current users created an individual(s) which is classified as "Special": Oars was a special zombie while Zeus, Prometheus, Napoleon, and Hera are considered special homies.
•The special homies (with the exception of Hera) share the same voice actor.
•The strength of a homie and zombie created are both determined by the strength of the victim in which the essence is extracted from. Both Moria and Linlin believed that Monkey D. Luffy's shadow and soul would make powerful soldiers for them.
1.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 66 Chapter 651 and Episode 571, Napoleon silhouette is seen on Big Mom's head.
2.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 86 Chapter 867 (p. 5-7) and Episode 837, Carmel reveals her powers.
3.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 83 Chapter 835 (p. 15-16) and Episode 796, Pound names and explains the powers of the Soru Soru no Mi.
4.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 83 Chapter 829 (p. 13-14) and Episode 789, Big Mom drains 40 years of Moscato's lifespan.
5.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 83 Chapter 830 (p. 8) and Episode 790, Mont-d'Or orders an Incarnation not to leave behind a single second of Moscato's stolen lifespan.
6.One Piece Manga and Anime — Vol. 85 Chapter 850 (p. 8-9) and Episode 816, Big Mom drains 100 years of Zepo's lifespan, killing him.
•Soul – Wikipedia article on the concept of a soul.
•Life Expectancy – Wikipedia article about life spans.
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