Nepu Nepu no Mi

The Nepu Nepu no Mi is a Special Paramecia-type devil fruit that turns the user into a **Neptune** **Human,** granting them the values of the planet, as well as as single aspect through which to emphasize the planet's power.

If available, the trigger for Expansion is jumping 91 times in a row

## Etymology

Nepu is a play on the word Neptune, as if it were transcribed literally into Japanese. (*ネプテューヌ)*
The actual word for Neptune in Japanese is Kaiousei, Kai translating to 'Sea' or 'Ocean' (It can be read as Umi)

## Strengths and Weaknesses

The Nepu Nepu no Mi is one of the 9 'Solar' Planet Fruits, giving the user of the fruit aspects of the 8th Planet, Neptune.
Neptune is the only 'official' (excluding Pluto) planet that cannot be seen by the unaided eye, and was ironically discovered because of the planet Uranus not following predicted calculations made by astronomers at the time, then concluding that another celestial object must be at fault. It was the first planet to be discovered by mathematical calculations prior to first sight.
The planet Neptune spins relatively fast, something that has influenced the effects of some of the Nepu Nepu no Mi's gifts. Neptune also boasts the fastest wind speeds of any planet, further emphasizing this trait regarding speed and agility.

This fruit changes the appearance of the user, and grants them physical capabilities relative to their own. While this does nothing for endurance, the user becomes imbued with the winds of Neptune, raising the user's speed and power potential exponentially.

The Winds of Neptune allows for quick, but situationally blunt changes in direction, doing this by forcing the wind to propel the user a certain direction. The accuracy and velocity of which is dependent on cardinal direction faced and strode upon, with East-bound strides being approximately twice as fast as West-bound strides.
These winds can be imbued into the user, granting the gust and knockback that such a wind would bestow into their attacks and movements. Trails of temporarily violent winds can be left in the user's wake as they travel, the faster they travel increasing the strength of the winds, however conversely decreasing the amount of time they remain structurally intact.

If the user were to desire a rapid, pinpoint shift in direction mid-stride, they would utilize the power of Neptune's Dark Spots.

The user can only use a Dark spot 4 times within a day, however they provide various boosts to their normal movements affected by Neptune's winds. A Dark spot imbued into a fist will provide an exponentially stronger wind, that alongside the normal effects of a Neptune-imbued fist will also shoot the wind into the target, blowing it back extremely violently. A Dark spot used as wake of stride will remain until the user dispels it, making it an anchor of sorts, or perhaps rather a vortex of wind that violently and willfully sucks everything around it inside. The user can choose to move this lasting Dark Spot, however to do so must deactivate the winds residing within their own body as they move it. It moves rather slowly as well, as it is constantly attempting to suck in everything around it around it as it travels, this causing massive resistance as it moves.

Lastly, physical strikes upon the user while they are imbued with Neptune's Winds will feel as if their strikes sink deeper than they normally would, as if their contact is warped. Strikes will still do damage as normal, however it will be considerably difficult to retract a weapon after a strike is made in comparison to that of a normal strike en target.

Unlike the Meo Meo no Mi, and alike the Dose Dose no Mi, the Expansion of the Nepu Nepu no Mi qualifies as a fruit awakening. If available to the user, it allows them to turn the world around them into an environment akin to that of Neptune, summoning violent, freezing winds that exceed the severity of most things found on this world. The field of the Expansion will slowly...Expand..., and will continue to do so until the user finds themselves unable to maintain conscious thought (incapacitated).