

If a Devil Fruit user has a child with a person or another Devil Fruit user,
would said child have a similar power, the same power, or no power and just be
a regular child? Because from what I've seen in a lot of superhero movies,
when they have kids, their kids might have the same or similar power. Would
Devil Fruit powers be any different from that?


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Can a Devil Fruit user pass on powers to their children?


Short answer: No, this has not been shown, and there is overwhelming evidence
to suggest the opposite.

In the world of One Piece, it is well established that any power gained
through eating a devil fruit will be unique in the world. If there were a
bunch of kids running around who had inherited the same powers as their
parents, we would likely have seen someone like that by now or heard mention
of it. If anyone is shown with some sort of a power, the first reaction of the
other characters is always "He must have eaten some sort of devil fruit" and
never any suggestion that the power could have been gained in another way.

It would also complicate the issue that once the devil fruit user dies, the
devil fruit spawns again elsewhere in the world with another fruit, so if this
were possible, you could potentially have a family where all the members are
inheriting a power from some ancestor, and once he died someone else ate the
fruit and passed the power to his children, and by the present hundreds of
people could have the one power.

As of chapter 824, we have never to my knowledge seen a confirmed devil fruit
user who has a child, and there are a couple of possibilities for this. One is
just chance, the majority of parents we see in One Piece end up dying in
flashbacks, and devil fruits are reasonably rare, and even if we were to
believe, for example, that Edward Weevil is Whitebeard's son, there is no sign
that he has the powers of the tremor fruit. It is of course possible that he
was born after his father ate the fruit, so this is not necessarily a counter
argument.

The other interesting possibility is that eating a devil fruit might leave the
user sterile, as I said, we have no confirmed cases of an ability user having
a child after they gained their powers, and in many characters case such as
Luffy, Magellan, and all Logias and Zoans, there must have been huge changes
to their bodies as a result of them having eaten the devil fruit.

Two more possiblities are that eating a devil fruit has no effect on your
children, or that it significantly lowers your fertility without reducing it
to zero. If Superman had a son, you would expect that man to have super
powers, as he is genetically an alien, however if someone like Spiderman, who
was born a normal human but later gained his powers through an event that
potentially didn't alter his DNA had a child, you would expect that child to
be biologically a normal human. If it is that eating a devil fruit lowers your
fertility massively, then it is also possible that eventually a devil fruit
user will successfully have a child who will inherit their power, and
potentially lead to a dynasty of ability users.


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Unfortunately no. When a devil fruit user dies, the fruit will respawn two
years later at a random place (not really, the devil fruit power will transfer
to the nearest fruit available and the ordinary fruit will become a devil
fruit. We really don't know how long it takes to respawn.) The only exception
that I can think of but not confirmed is that Blackbeard can transfer devil
fruit from people to people. I don't know how he does it but I have two
speculations. One is that his darkness darkness fruit can pull out a devil
fruit from a person (most likely who is close or is dead like how Whitebeard
was) and passes it to others. Otherwise he might be having a fully matured
ordinary fruit with him after killing the devil fruit user. That way the
powers move to the fruit since it is closer.


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Definitely not, and the easiest counter example would be Big Mom. If devil
fruit powers were hereditary, then at least one of her 85 children would have
inherited it. Yet clearly, that was not the case.


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