

From what I saw in the anime, Shanks didn't even let Uta see the treasure box
which has a Mythical Zoan: Sun God Nika Devil Fruit, but I also think he knows
that Zoan DF has their will of their own. So that means, Zoan DF choose their
own user, so that's why he let Luffy eat Gomu Gomu no Mi (Zoan Sun God Nika
Devil Fruit). Also, he lost his arm just to motivate Luffy to be worthy of
using this legendary fruit.

Also, when Luffy awakens his DF in Wano, Shanks appears outside of Wano
because he knows without the user dying, it will not be awakened. So in the
worst case, if Luffy actually dies and can't awaken this fruit, he will come
to retrieve the Sun God Nika DF again.

What are your thoughts?


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Did Shanks know about Luffy's Sun God Nika Mythical Zoan Devil Fruit?


**In manga up to chapter 1086** , the only people that have been stated to be
aware, prior to the discovery of Gear 5th, of the true nature of Gomu Gomu no
Mi are the Five Elders and, implicitly, Imu. After the awakening of the Devil
Fruit, Kaido seems to have figured out that Gear 5th is a zoan ability and
Vegapunk seems to have made 2+2 with Gear 5th looking like Nika and Gomu Gomu
no Mi not being on old records.

In chapter 1 Shanks and his crew refer to the fruit as Gum Gum, and more
generally the entire One Piece manga is completely consistent with Gum Gum
being the fruit of rubber up until Who's Who starts telling his backstory to
Jinbe in chapter 1017 (personally I would say until the actual awakening and
explanation in chapters 1043-1044, but let's say that the first hint was
there). So the reasonable guess should be that Shank's crew did not know, all
the more because they did not keep it for themselves.

The only argument towards Shanks having knowledge of the Gum Gum fruit being
important (which doesn't necessarily imply that he knew that it's a mythical
zoan, or that it was somewhat related to a world-shaping force) could come
from Shanks' flashback in chapter 1054, where he recalls the assault to the WG
ship that was carrying the fruit. In that flashback, young Who's Who is
surprised that a pirate would go to all that trouble to assault a ship that
was carrying a rather unremarkable devil fruit. However, in that memory Shanks
just says that he does not care if the ship is guarded by a CP9 agent. He does
not say anything remotely close to "It is paramount that we seize that special
fruit". It's still consistent with them just being in a regular raid for
plunder. Even Who's Who claim that the DF shouldn't be worth the trouble is
somewhat inconsistent with Devil's Fruit being per se rare and precious items:
for comparison, it is claimed in chapter 19 that Buggy's Bara Bara no Mi could
be sold for 100 million Belly.

As for your claim that Shanks has been protective of _Luffy's fruit_ rather
than Luffy as a person... Well anything can be retconned, and Shanks will be
be expanded upon in the last arc. However, so far Shanks has been depicted as
protective towards Luffy because of personal affinity and because he has
always seen potential in him. More generally Shanks has always been friendly
towards anybody who had "good alignment". The most notable example would be
Whitebeard and his crew, when:

  1. he foresees that Ace fighting Blackbeard may lead to the death of Ace and Whitebeard, and he meets with the latter to warn him;
  2. he steps in to end the battle of Marineford and save Whitebeard's crew and Luffy.

As for:

> Also he [Shanks] lost his Arm just to motivate the luffy to be worthy of use
> this legendary fruit.

It seems far-fetched: it's quite clear from chapter 1 that Shanks lost his arm
to save Luffy's life, after he was put in mortal danger by a sequence of
unexpected events.


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