

It is known that the _Yomi Yomi no Mi_ fruit will only revive its user once,
and also that Devil Fruit users can't swim, so I was wondering... **What would
happen if Brook falls into the ocean?** I mean, even if he's alive, as a
skeleton he has no lungs, so he should just be unable to go back to the
surface, shouldn't he?


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Is Brook able to drown?


He's just a skeleton obviously, so he's not really breathing, however, when
his body gets drowned slowly by the seawater, his strength begins to fade away
(Chapter 493, page 7):

[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjb4al.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/gjb4a.jpg)

And from this scene, I imagine if he falls into the ocean, like all Devil
Fruit users, he will be powerless and be unable to resurface unless helped.


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I imagine it would work something like this:

As a Devil Fruit user, he'd be rendered weak by the submersion. But we've also
seen instances of Devil Fruit users' powers being somewhat nullified by
submersion in seawater (specified since I have no idea if it applies to bath
water, pool water, etc.). For example, Luffy was unable to stretch himself in
the Arlong Park arc, but his head was still brought above water by third
parties. Similarly, in the Enies Lobby arc, Chopper's rampage was stopped when
Franky threw him into the sea, transforming him back into little Chopper.

My thought was that since Brook can't drown, as he has no lungs, the fact that
he was submersed in seawater would nullify his Devil Fruit power and his soul
would leave his body at the bottom of the ocean.

Just a thought.


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[Michael](https://anime.stackexchange.com/a/14664/2516) brought up the topic
of Luffy when nullified. He did tell his Devil Fruit being nullified
underwater but was used by a "third party", so Devil Fruits can still function
but the user is paralyzed I think.

So if Brook goes underwater, he doesn't drown because he's breathing nothing
literally, so he won't drown. But let's say maybe he's underwater like Luffy.
Just like drowning in a dreamlike situation, but he's unconscious like having
a battery used 5x faster so it'll be null. But Brook won't die, he'll get
unconscious, like "unconscious mode" underwater, so he'll be unconscious only.
Even if he ejects his soul in the body because the body is the source of him.

And by Luffy, as his Devil Fruit abilities are still going to be functioning
by other people as a third party, well, I don't know about Brook, but he's
still having his abilities, but he's like paralyzed.


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Like all Devil Fruit users, Brook won't be able the move if he is fully
submerged underwater, that's a fact.

But will he drown? We've seen Jack the Drought Mammoth guy got trapped in the
sea floor still alive but unable to swim himself up, waiting for someone to
rescue him because he was a fishman-human hybrid. We don't know whether Brook
will drown or not because, during Fishman Island, he was wearing an oxygen
bubble underwater, meaning he somehow breathed. Otherwise, he wouldn't need it
since he was fully submerged in the water anyway (episode 538).

I always theorized that Brook had invisible organs that could not be touched
or felt since he eats and poops, and that requires organs to break down his
food and give him energy like all living things. If my theory is correct, then
Brook will drown underwater.


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As a skeleton, he has no lungs to drown with. As a Devil Fruit user, he cannot
move underwater.

You can make theories about how he works all you want, but as far as we've
seen, there is no proof that he can die unless you destroy his skeleton. And
even then, we've seen him pull his head back on using his spirit.

It is a known fact that skeletons decompose in salt water, it just takes five
or ten years to accomplish. However, we've seen Luffy attack people while his
limbs are underwater (Fishman arc) using Haki to protect his stretchy arms, so
I'd assume that if Brook ever learned full-body (or full-skeleton?) Haki, he
could not only survive the ocean but even walk about underwater unharmed.
Swimming I doubt, as he has no flesh to move the water out of his way with.
But would he survive? Most certainly.

So to sum it up: Brook COULD survive underwater for five or ten years in
paralysis, or indefinitely (or as long as Haki lasts) with full-body Busoshoku
Haki.


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I think you asked this question because you have seen Brook running on water.
No, Brook isn't actually able to drown as he has eaten a Devil Fruit, namely
the Revive-Revive Fruit, but he can't die as he is already dead. As per
Brook's statement, when a person who has eaten this particular fruit has died,
his soul would have to descend to Earth and find its body to be revived. But
Brook happened to die in the Florian Triangle, which was so engulfed in
darkness that Brook's spirit had trouble finding the body. And when he finally
found it, Brook had already turned into a skeleton.

But we also see that Brook is able to literally "run" on water. This is
because he is a very light-weight person. But of he were to stop running, he
would immediately sink.

Had Brook's spirit found its body before he became a skeleton, then Brook
wouldn't be so light as he is, thus he wouldn't be able to run on water.

So, if he is dropped into the ocean, he can survive by running on the Ocean's
surface. But if he is released under the ocean like from a submarine, then he
would lose his strength, but we can't say that he would die cus he is already
dead.

It was a Skull Joke


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