Devil Fruit:
Lizard Lizard Fruit Model: Gecko
Tokage Tokage no Mi Model: Gekko
Appearance:
This Devil Fruit looks like a pineapple, except the spikes are each replaced with an oval swirl that are all a deep green, and the green stem at the top of the Fruit becomes more curly and a lighter shade of green.
Class:
This is a Zoan Devil Fruit.
Sub-Category:
This Devil Fruit is a Carnivorous Zoan (Surprising right? But apparently geckos only eat insects, no plant life in their diet at all), and Devil Fruits from the Carnivorous Zoan sub-category are more predatory and bloodthirsty than others by nature, and as such tend to be better adapted for combat or ambush. Users that turn into such animals are naturally more aggressive and powerful in physical combat and may have useful features, like claws and fangs, to aid in a fight. Some instinctual habits that normal carnivores have may also pass into the user, making learning things like hunting and killing easier due to their new instincts, and make them more adept in areas like stealth, tracking, hunting, and killing. Some of the most extreme examples of a Carnivorous Zoan can be found in the inexperienced user's as they are overwhelmed by their instincts and act in aggressive behaviour that may cause the user to act more animal-like by mauling and stalking prey without realizing what they are doing.
Overview:
This Devil Fruit grants the eater with the ability to transform into a gecko. The reason this Devil Fruit is called the Lizard Lizard Fruit Model Gecko is due to a gecko being a reptile, with the specific reptile the user transforms into being a gecko. Those who eat this Devil Fruit are now titled as a Gecko Human.
Abilities:
The Lizard Lizard Fruit Model: Gecko allows the user to transform into a gecko. The user will be able to transform fully into a gecko (Beast Form) or will be able to transform into a Hybrid Form, which is a combination of their Natural Form and Beast form. The abilities and all the natural adaptation of a gecko can be accessed to the user while in Hybrid and Beast Form, meaning the user has natural camouflage, a prehensile tongue and a unique natural adhesion ability, as well as the normal abilities that a Zoan Fruit grants the user. While the user is in Hybrid Form, they have enhanced strength, endurance, balance and healing, as well as dermal armour, which for a gecko is the scaled body that can protect the user from minor injuries.
Through training, it is possible for Zoan users to unlock different transformations, which can range from transforming selective parts of the body, transforming into different forms that are not labelled above that have slight natural variations for the specific species, and slight size altering abilities. For this Fruit learning how to only transform certain parts of their body into parts of a gecko would be useful, as they would be able to use the natural abilities of the gecko individually without the need for transforming to a new form. Another strange effect that is shown when transforming is that Zoan users in a half-natural half-animal hybrid tend to get bigger than they originally are, even to giant proportions.
The Zoan Fruits primarily improve and multiple physical abilities and allow the user to use the three forms to adapt to a situation during a fight, allowing them to find the form that gives the biggest advantage in a fight or environment. Zoan powers are usually utilized for their Hybrid Form, as this form enhances the physical statistics of the user by combining positive attributes from both the user and the physical-level equivalent of the Zoan species. Zoan Fruits are thus favoured among already strong users who prefer to enhance their physical abilities for the use of martial arts. Another rather minor advantage is that depending on the scenario, a Zoan user can go undetected by simply changing the physical form they have to one unfamiliar to those around them, which really only works if the people don't detect the user has eaten a Devil Fruit and if they are unfamiliar with that person/animal. It also offers the element of surprise when the foe has little experience with fighting that particular form.
In their Hybrid and Beast Forms, Zoan users experience enhanced senses, as these forms use a combination of both the user's and the Fruit's abilities. Skilled Zoan users are also capable of using their powers to shape-shift out of harm's way, as they may be in a larger form then shift to a smaller one to quickly dodge. This is particularly useful, especially when the Zoan's body has been restrained, as they may be able to shrink out of the restraints or expand and grow enough to break them.
Strengths:
There are four main strengths to this Fruit, the first being that it allows the user a form of natural camouflage that can change to suit any environment. This can be helpful for when the user needs to escape or set up an ambush, as when the user is not moving their camouflage is at its greatest. The camouflage can also be used to sneak into different areas, as the user, with enough practice, may be able to only use the pigment that allows geckos to change colour, and as such can change how they look for infiltration missions through changing their skin tone. The second strength is their prehensile tongue of a gecko, as it can be used for maneuverability, slinging their tongue then hauling their body after it, or as an extra limb in battle as they shoot their tongue that has more range at the enemy to inflict damage. The third strength is the gecko's ability to adhere to any surface, which is great for maneuverability as the user can climb on walls, ceilings and cliffs with ease. The final strength is that like all Zoan Fruits, the user's physical characteristics and instincts are multiplied by this Fruit.
Techniques:
Adhesion Pads: The user specifically transforms their hands and feet to have the adhesive pads that are on a gecko's feet, and as such are now able to easily climb on any surface with ease. This is a B-Rank Movement Technique, as being able to change specific body parts is a difficult skill to master.
Prehensile Tongue: The user changes just the throat and tongue of their Natural Form into that of geckos, which they can then use to latch onto things or use it in combat as a surprise or an advantage due to the new appendage. This is a C-Rank Transformation Technique.
Camouflage Pigment: The user gets the pigment from their Beast (gecko) Form that allows them to change colour and merges it into their Natural Form, giving them the ability to change colours. This is an A-Rank Camouflage Technique that requires the user to be skilled at transforming and merging their two forms
Scaled Armour: The user shifts their skin into scales that covers the user's entire form, which can be used as a shock absorber or to prevent minor injuries, such as small scratches and minor or glancing hits. This is a B-Rank Defensive Technique that is used to help the user either outlast or power through an enemy.
Weakness:
The Lizard Lizard Fruit Model: Gecko has the same weaknesses of every Devil Fruit in that they become unable to move when submerged in large bodies of water and the user becoming weak and tired when they are in contact with Seastone, which also stops them from using their abilities.
A weakness that affects some of the techniques is through the use of Seastone, as it will completely cancel out any of the techniques the user is using if the user is in contact with Seastone or the ocean. While eating this Fruit will change or add instincts none of them is necessarily bad for the user or can be exploited by the enemy. This Fruit will not cause the user any conditions or disorders through its use.
Prerequisite Knowledge:
The only knowledge the user may need is general information about geckos and their habits, habitats, natural adaptations and other related information to geckos, as that would help the user learning about their new form.
Species:
There is really no species that this Devil Fruit would not work with, and the only species that may make the user negate certain death if left in the ocean is if a Fishman ate it, as while they may now be unable to move or swim underwater which is what they adapted to, the Fishman user can now breath underwater, and therefore avoid drowning while they wait for someone to help them.
Awakening:
For the first time, this Devil Fruit will be the first in the Encyclopedia that will have a "Normal" Zoan Awakening. For the Lizard Lizard Fruit Model: Gecko Awakening it will involve larger transformations, better instincts, more strength and durability, and a quicker regeneration factor. The user will also have their natural adaptations from their gecko transformation enhanced, as the user is now more in tune with their Beast Form, their Adhesion to surfaces will be much stronger and harder to force the user away from what they attached to, their natural camouflage will be more efficient in blending in and avoid drawing attention, their scales will become stronger and more durable, and finally the user's prehensile tongue will lengthen and become stronger and faster. To Awaken this Devil Fruit the user needs to have mastery and understanding over all three of their main transformation and forms and to let their instincts guide them when in a dangerous situation facing incredible odds, which usually occurs by the user blacking out and their instincts taking over. Once Awakened the user will feel more connected to their Devil Fruit and will start to spend time in all three of their forms, as they feel natural in any form they take.
Comments/Information:
Here's the first "normal" Zoan Devil Fruit, as it is from an animal that is native to both worlds and can be found in abundance in both of them. I really like this animal in real life, which is probably why I like it as a Devil Fruit, as for some reason I have always liked the idea of animals with cool natural adaptations, which is probably what the majority of the Zoan Fruits that I create will have, you guessed it, cool natural adaptations. Anyway, back to the point I think that this ability would be best suited for infiltrators and spies, as the user has an advanced camouflage and a way to get into hard places, basically the best combination to find out information that's not meant to get out. I wouldn't personally eat this Devil Fruit, as while it is kind of cool, I think that it would be better if I traded it for a different one or sold it.
Credits:
This Fruit was created by me and was requested by FROSTDRAGON4875, who I hope enjoyed this as I liked looking into the different abilities of a gecko and how they are different to a chameleon. The quote you get for supporting the Encyclopedia is "Life is only worth living if you have people worth dying for in it."
A/N: Two chapters in one day, I'm on a heater. Anyway thanks for the support some of you have given me, I hope that it continues as I will probably need it sooner or later if I find the confidence to start an actual story on this website. If any of you have any DF ideas you want me to explore or create then leave a review with the idea in it, and your thoughts about what it should be able to do, or the direction you want me to take it.
