The Gom Gom fruit has always been in Luffy’s hands since the beginning of the year ONE PIECE. Only for a few moments or the very first cartoons of the manga did we see it in its fruit format, purple with the typical grooves of the devil’s fruits on the surface.
With the Who’s Who Revelations In the last few chapters, however, the attention to the origins and prehistory of the devil fruit, i.e. before it was devoured by Luffy, has increased considerably. Readers began looking in the previous volumes of ONE PIECE for information or references that they could make understandable why the world government was so interested in the Gom Gom fruit, enough to send him from one part of the world to another on a naval ship guarded by one of CP9’s strongest members.
On the other hand, while there’s the possibility that the world government just wanted to get its hands on as much devil-fruit as possible, some theories have surfaced about Roger and his possible devil-fruit. With the latest events, it seems to be even more It is unlikely that the Gom Gom fruit is a fruit without a story or special connections, as the world government was trying to protect it well, while Shanks did not sell it immediately after it got their hands on it, as in his opinion the crew had no interest in eating it to get it the ability to swim. In short, the care with which it was treated on both sides suggests one important connection to the old pirate king.
Perhaps beaten by Who’s Who, it’s hard to say whether we’ll know more in the next chapter of ONE PIECE juicy detail on the history of the fruit.
