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Shiki, captain of the Golden Lion Pirates, is the holder of this Paramecia, which English releases call the Float-Float Fruit. The power lifts the eater along with any inanimate thing into the air, and it entered the story through a flashback in Chapter 0 and Episode 426, the first Devil Fruit ability ever presented that way. Its name springs from the onomatopoeia fuwafuwa, evoking something light and airy adrift on the breeze. Oda once meant to reserve such an ability for a film alone, feeling unrestricted flight sat oddly with a pirate tale, but Shiki's place in the canon made the fruit canon too.

Once he has touched a lifeless object even once, Shiki can dictate its movement, hoisting it no matter its weight, a knack essentially equal to telekinesis. Anything he raises stays suspended until he says otherwise, and it need not be near him, since he held the islands of Merveille aloft in the sky while sailing far away. Flight lends him a commanding edge in a fight, letting him slip past many attacks while striking from range with his swords or his power, and he can hoist large objects to fend off blows. He applies it with striking range: dropping enormous weights on foes, heaving up and crushing the earth beneath them, shaping stone, rubble, and snow into charging lion forms, and even raising water to drown them, standing as the only known fruit that actively governs water. The chief limit is that he cannot lift any living being save himself, and only objects he has previously touched respond. Being knocked out drops everything he was holding at once, a peril the collapse of Merveille laid bare. His named moves include Shishi Odoshi, which builds debris into striking lion heads, along with the variants Shishi Odoshi: Chimaki and Shishi Odoshi: Gosho Chimaki; Zanpa, which slices and floats water to drown a target; and Shishi: Senjindani, a midair barrage of compressed-air slashes. The standard Devil Fruit weaknesses remain.

The power belongs to Shiki, who ate the fruit over four decades ago and heads the Golden Lion Pirates. He frames it as nullifying or bending gravity on objects, hovering at will for freer movement while floating both his ship and his island stronghold. Thanks to the gift he was dubbed the Flying Pirate, and it let him break out of Impel Down entirely on his own. Within the series it marks the final Paramecia unveiled before the timeskip.