Fude Fude no Mi

Kurozumi Kanjuro, the samurai who betrayed the Kouzuki cause, held this Paramecia, rendered in English as the Brush-Brush Fruit. Its power surfaced in Chapter 754 and Episode 691, while the fruit form itself was not shown until Chapter 974. Whoever eats it can produce ink from within their own body and turn any drawing made with that ink into a lifelike physical thing. The name traces to fude, the Japanese term for an ink brush. Upon Kanjuro's death, the power was released back into circulation.

Because the ink wells up internally, no outside supply is ever needed and the artist can paint whenever he likes, routing the ink through a brush or, lacking one, through his own hair, and recoloring it as he pleases. Any finished drawing can be willed into three dimensions, either matching the real subject's properties or taking on different ones by choice: painted people and beasts wake with a mind of their own, sketched weapons work like the genuine items, and drawn meals become edible though they taste awful. Living creations answer fully to the artist, who speaks through them and appears to share their senses. Given enough familiarity with a face, he can forge flawless doubles, even of himself, voices included, or wrap his own body inside a painting of someone else to move about disguised. Since drawings carry no blood or organs, a cut exposes a counterfeit, yet they feel nothing and stay active even when badly torn apart, only dissolving after severe damage or the moment the user wills it. The great catch is talent-dependence: crudely drawn beings labor and tire, dropping back to flat images once spent, and the paintings show some frailty toward water. Steering a creation from a distance also drains the artist. Named techniques include Ideyo, which peels a flat drawing into a living form; the escape beasts Nuke Suzume and Nobori Ryu; and Sumigumo, an ink cloud that in its Ukiyo Yudachi Ezu variant rains piercing droplets. Ordinary Devil Fruit weaknesses apply.

The fruit passed to Kurozumi Kanjuro, handed to him by Kurozumi Orochi so he could burrow into the Kouzuki Family as a spy. For years he faked clumsy artistry, churning out barely usable scrawls, while in truth being a master who could produce instant, lifelike work such as an elegant crane or a perfect self-clone slipped in among the Nine Red Scabbards. He wed his acting to his brushwork for psychological cruelty, animating a persuasive illusion of Kouzuki Oden to wound the Scabbards. His named creations are the dragon Ryunosuke, the cat Nekozaemon, the tiger Torasaburo, and the flame-wreathed ghost Kazenbo, his final act as he succumbed to his wounds.