Moto Moto no Mi

The **Moto Moto no Mi** (元元の実, *Origin Origin Fruit*) is a Paramecia-type Devil Fruit that bestows its user with the abilities to create their own religion, with them acting as its Creator God, thus turning the user into a **Kami** (神, *Kami*). It was eaten by the Shipwright of the Tesla Pirates, Iškur during his time within Alabasta.

## Strengths & Weaknesses

Though the user is considered to be a "Creator God", thus a type of deity, the user, themselves, do not actually become god-like, and it's more seen as a type of title than anything else. Through the Moto Moto no Mi, the user is able to create, and name, their own religion, which gives them certain abilities like establishing their own places of worship for either themselves, or other deities, that are also non-godly beings, within their religion.

Though any location could be considered a place of worship, a deity requires a series of followers to be considered relevant. Of course, the more followers a certain deity has, the stronger said deity becomes. There is also the stipulation that a deity could become more powerful through knowledge, so they can never truly die if they are at least known by one person. However, in the hands of a Moto user, the user is able to create places of worship by using organic life, such as Humans, as ways to create the temple, or shrine. However, to perform this feat, the user must, at the time, be stronger than the person they are trying to transform into a material, thus exerting their own type of will onto the person, and manipulating their shape to turn them into an applicable material.

This type of material can then be placed with other materials to create a temple or shrine. Or, in Iškur's case, a Ziggurat. The more material used, the more stable the place of worship becomes. However, the more material used from the Moto's creation method, the stronger the Ziggurat becomes for Iškur to use and abuse. When beings are made into this material, they have basically given up their lives for their "deity", being put into a perpetual limbo until their material form is broken, thus releasing their spirit to the afterlife. In this form, it empowers the place of worship's power, and thus increases the given effect.

Through the place of worship, the Moto's user is able to designate a "deity", thus bringing a concept into form, and its abilities, thus tying it to the place of worship. However, it should be known that the "deity" for that specific place is unable to go any further than the area of control it possesses in the form of the Moto material used, even if their attacks could.

With a place of worship, no matter the distance, the Moto's user is able to call upon that deity's powers for themselves, and use them. However, it should be noted that the Moto's user does not automatically gain perfect capabilities with the abilities bestowed upon them, as it's more gaining a type of knowledge, rather than gaining the skill entirely. Though through this method they are able to perform certain feats, if they do not have the skill to do so, then they are unable to use said abilities.

Furthermore, if a place of worship is destroyed, as in down to its last Moto material, then the deity residing there will disappear, regardless of that deity's reputation, thus severing the chance for the Moto's user to use those abilities any further. And in this case, if that deity's place of worship is destroyed in its entirety, that deity is considered dead and cannot be revived, even if a new place of worship is created for them, thus having to make a new replacement deity, starting all over.

## Trivia

* The image used for the Moto Moto no Mi is taken directly from the Toriko Wikia's Vanilove Fruit page.
* The ability to turn people into material, thus using them as a way build the Ziggurat, is inspired by the idea that, in ancient times, whenever pyramids, temples, shrines, or otherwise, were built, people often died doing so, thus basically giving their very lives to the project.