Mero Mero no Mi

A Paramecia-type Devil Fruit, this power channels love, lust, and adoration as the fuel that petrifies foes into stone. Boa Hancock, once a Warlord, is the eater, force-fed the fruit by a World Noble while she was enslaved. Its abilities were afterward replicated in the Seraph S-Snake by way of a Green Blood transfusion. The name plays on a Japanese phrase for losing one's grip to drink or desire, and the fruit itself looks like a pair of heart-shaped cherries colored red and purple.

Any onlooker who finds the wielder alluring or adorable, whatever their gender, can be petrified to differing extents, and the reach even covers lifeless things, weapons, and Pacifistas. A straight physical hit stones only the spot that was struck rather than the entire body. A fully petrified victim slips into suspended animation until the wielder decides to free them with a spray of kisses. Crucially, slaying the present holder frees none of their stone victims, and a later eater cannot reverse a predecessor's handiwork, because the effect feeds on that individual's own beauty, which leaves captured targets as lasting hostages. The power collapses against anyone who feels no lust, cannot lay eyes on the user, or plainly finds them unappealing, and pain, fear, or a truly pure heart can shrug it off, as Momonga proved by driving a blade through his own hand.

Hancock forges her nearly peerless beauty into a weapon, snaring men with little effort while amping up cuteness toward women, and she can petrify by touch even enemies with no capacity to lust after her, such as Pacifistas. Her signature Mero Mero Mellow looses a heart-shaped beam that stones anyone harboring impure thoughts, while Mezameyo blows a kiss to bring them back. Slave Arrow showers hundreds of heart-tipped shafts that petrify and lock targets in place, and Perfume Femur whirls out kicks that turn and shatter whatever they meet. S-Snake, a reworked clone of Hancock built by Vegapunk, holds the identical powers but relies on her cuteness over beauty, turning both Mero Mero Mellow and Perfume Femur on the likes of Franky and Usopp.