Tori Tori no Mi: Model phoenix

The **Tori Tori no Mi, Model: Phoenix** is a Mythical Zoan-type Devil Fruit which bestows the power to transform into a phoenix (and phoenix hybrid) at will. It was eaten by noone.

## Strengths

This Devil Fruit grants the power to transform into a large phoenix shrouded in blue flames, as well as a human-phoenix hybrid at will.

As with all Zoans, the user's transformation grants them a significant boost to their overall physical abilities, bestowing (in Marco's case) strength great enough to hold back two powerful Ancient Zoan users at once. As a bird Zoan, the user is also given the ability to fly at great speed. The phoenix form (both in part and full) comes with a set of sharp talons on the feet, usable to deliver slashing damage via kicks.

Instead of burning, the phoenix flames have immense healing properties. By cloaking themselves in the flames, the user can rapidly regenerate from all injuries inflicted onto them, lethal included, much like how a phoenix is said to rise from its own ashes. Thus, the user boasts enormous resilience, able to undergo extreme punishment without so much as feeling pain or being slowed down. In Aki's case, severe injuries like his body being perforated all over (e.g., by gunfire), having his head and midsection run through by blades, having parts of his head and neck blown off, or even having one of his wings cut off, have elicited little reaction from him, the wounds simply disappearing in the flames almost as quickly as they were made.

The user may shift into their phoenix form to automatically heal all damage accumulated in their human form, or heal simply by summoning the flames around their body while staying human. In the user's full phoenix form, attacks may simply pass through them as if their body is one intangible flame, akin to a Logia's body, the defining difference being that the user just regenerates, retaining a solid body under the fire. As such (as an advantage over Logia users), even injuries taken while touching Seastone can be recovered by the flames once contact with said material stops (whereas Logia users permanently suffer damage done by anything that bypasses their elemental physiology, like Haki or Seastone).

In battle, the phoenix flames are highly useful for defense and may help the user ward off extremely powerful attacks when they use their own body (especially their large wings) as a shield. Their healing-bolstered durability lets them endure massive blows without falling.

On top of self-healing, the phoenix flames may be applied to other living targets in order to mend them (even many at once if the user manually spreads out their fire by, for example, swirling their wings), but in that capacity to heal others, the flames have a smaller effect. Once the flames have lit other people, they stay with and continuously heal them (the recipients' stamina permitting). This may even extend to diseases.

## Weaknesses

While powerful, there is a limit to the user's healing factor: that is, the amount of damage from which can be recovered in the long term is limited, as the user is not truly immortal, though precisely where this limit is remains to be specified.

It should be noted that, in battle, while Aki instantly heals fatal wounds upon receiving them, he tends to leave relatively minor ones alone, like scrapes or bruises. Also, his rate of regeneration may be dependent on Aki's own preparedness or the level of his transformation.

In general, the user's stamina is not unlimited, and it appears that prolonged usage of the flames is physically draining and may impede further use. After fighting two powerful opponents for an extended period and having previously used his flames on dozens of other people.

When used on others, the blue flames are not as strong in their healing as when applied to the user's own body, while depending in their efficacy on the recipient's stamina, ceasing to work once it has run out.

Other than that, the user suffers from the standard weaknesses of any Devil Fruit user, like Seastone fully sealing Aki's powers upon contact.

## Usage

With Aki demonstrating extensive use of his transformation to do aerial combat. Due to the physical and mythical qualities of this Devil Fruit power, it is shown to be very flexible, filling not only offensive and defensive roles in battle but supportive ones too. Aki's bird physiology allows him to fly at significant speeds and utilize his human legs to deliver strong kicks, knee strikes, or his phoenix legs for slashing talon strikes. Aki can further employ his wings as a means to restrain foes, even extremely strong and fully transformed Ancient Zoan users.

In combat, Aki's regeneration serves a passive, defensive purpose. He can outright ignore most physical attacks he is faced with, letting melee and ranged blows, even weapons, simply pass through his body before his wounds seamlessly close up and vanish without a trace; this may make it seem, even to formidable adversaries, that he is invincible.

In healing others, Aki's flames have shown immense usefulness on battlefields where there are a lot of potential allies to be mended, whether from injury or infection.

Like other Zoan users, Aki can freely choose between entering his full Beast Form or that of a human-phoenix hybrid, but unlike most Zoan users seen so far, Aki can undergo selective transformation of only parts of his body, without changing his full appearance; most often shifting just his arms into phoenix wings and his legs into phoenix legs, while his head and torso remain unchanged.

## Techniques

**Immortal Thistle,** A defensive move that has Aki, in his phoenix form, jump in front of someone he wishes to shield from an attack. While midair, he forms a protective swirl of fire in front of him, out of his wings, in order to block the attack in question.