Kyou Kyou no Mi

The Kyou Kyou no Mi is a Special Paramecia-type devil fruit that turns the user into an **Liminal Space** **Human.** The fruit grants the user the ability to manifest, control, and become a **Liminal Space**. A Liminal Space is regarded as a space in-between what came before and what comes next. It is the epitome of the current, but it's an endless current, one that always leads but never to the finish lime, that is affected by the past until the space itself is created, where it forgets all later transgressions as they fade away. It is a true space, but it will always feel as if on the verge to something else.

## Etymology

'Kyou' is taken from the word Kyōkai, meaning boundary

## Strengths and Weaknesses

In practice there are many potential applications of this fruit, with the current user's most renowned ability being very similar in effect to fruits such as the Doa Doa no Mi and the Mira Mira no Mi, which sees her creating connecting passageways between doors through liminal spaces within her personal establishment.

This direct passageway is not necessarily a straight line between places, rather being easily-traversable parts of the whole liminal space that exists, which itself is endless and expands forever. In these passages there are set markers and warning telling passengers to stick to the path and not be drawn away, so that it will be a quick, and safe, mode of travel. Only a single expansive liminal space exists, and created spaces will almost immediately connect with the rest of the body.

The space itself as said before is literally endless, and it is constantly changing around those who would find themselves within it. Turning one corner and walking down a path towards a dead end might see walking back the same way you came lead to a different area entirely, but this will always happen subtly, outside the periphery of perception of anyone and everyone inside. This is one of the reasons why the designated pathways the current user has placed do not change, though this is also because she, by this power, is able to stop the space itself from moving as well. It is important to realize that the user of this fruit does not create this space, rather, it already exists. The user only gains the ability to manipulate the space to their fullest desire, and utilize it by creating entries and exits, paths and portals, and shape the space.

Noting that this is not some form of personal pocket dimension, it is also important to know that this space is not uninhabited. There are many who have found themselves lost here, whether they used the paths made by the user of this fruit, or somehow strayed beyond the normal world and found themselves trapped. Being lost forever, growing old and facing death. These are the scariest prospects of being stranded in this space, but it isn't the focus of what one's concern tends to stay as, for here reside others. In a place that appears empty and devoid of sanity, it must be hypothesized that something equally devoid would live here. Known simple as "entities," there are creatures here that lurk in the shadows just around the corner, watching, stalking, as lost travelers stray, and their mental fortitude and willpower withers. They latch on like leeches, though not physically. They whisper in attempts to drive the lost deeper into the space, to drive them further into insanity, self-doubt, and despair. They feed off of this, and they relish the experience of driving one to their doom from one's own mind. Some of these entities have the potential to become physically aggressive and attack, though their shapes vary immensely. These entities are typically only found much deeper into the space, far from where one would remotely find themselves near should they be unaffected by the whispers and dizziness driving them to wander. Those entities that whisper and stalk are referred to by Kenopsia Sonia as **Echoes**, while the predatory ones are referred to as **Raptors**. She says there is a third form of entity as well, though has not disclosed it's tendencies and only it's name, being **Devourers**.

Lastly, she calls this space the **Borderlands**.

## Trivia

--full credits to User:Katokonia for this idea and depth into the ability, I just made the page lol