

The fruit's major strength, as demonstrated by Luffy, is that the user's body permanently adopts the properties of rubber: their body can stretch, bend, bounce, inflate, and twist like said substance, even when the user himself is nullified. However, after achieving an Awakening, the fruit's true power as a Mythical Zoan is unleashed, giving the user a new transformation where their hair and clothes turn white, their eyes glow red with white ring-like pupils, and white clouds float around their neck, giving them the appearance of the mythical Sun God, Nika, granting their already rubbery body more strength and freedom, turning the user into a " Warrior of Liberation" ( 解放の戦士, Kaihō no Senshi ?). ĭue to it's unique nature, this Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit grants the user a baseline body with the properties of rubber, however due to the fruit's true power being dormant, the user's human body is limited to restrictions and transformations similar in nature to most Paramecias. While its final design has the characteristic Devil Fruit swirls all over it, the fruit was initially drawn without them in the first version of Romance Dawn. Its overall appearance greatly resembles a Yubari King. The Gomu Gomu no Mi is a violet, spherical shaped fruit with a stem sprouting out of the top, with swirls that go in a curly "S" like-pattern.

The Gomu Gomu no Mi in Shanks' treasure chest. In the Viz Manga, 4Kids and Funimation dubs, it is called the Gum-Gum Fruit, "gum" being a soft, cohesive substance designed for chewing, with elastic properties, and its original name is called the Human-Human Fruit, Model: Nika.Hito ( 人, Hito ?) is Japanese for "person/human (being)".Gomu ( ゴム, Gomu ?) means "rubber" in Japanese, being borrowed from the Dutch word gom ("gum").
