Big Mom (Charlotte Linlin) is as powerful as strongest creature Kaido. She was born with exceptional powers since childhood. But what makes her so powerful? Is it her Devil Fruit, her crew or something else entirely. There are 3 reasons which are behind her immense strength –
Big Mom Devil Fruit
Big Mom’s Devil Fruit is Soru Soru no Mi ( Soul-Soul Fruit ). It is a Paramecia type Devil Fruit which allows the user to access and manipulate someone’s soul. This is a highly overpowered and Mysterious Devil Fruit. This is the second reason which makes her so powerful.
Powers and Abilities –
- Extract Soul : She can extract anyone’s soul at her will. This causes the other person to loose its life because she can extract as much as she want. For eg, she extracted the life of Pedro for about 50 years. She can even kill a person with this ability. Although the extraction process is not shown how it works.
- Clone Soul : It is shown in anime that some creatures are shown collecting the soul of other people in Totto Land. Those are none other than her own shadow souls. Who recite only two words
Leave or Life
Big Mom Souls
- Homies : She put the extracted souls into non living and other living bodies who cant speak. After this they can talk, walk and have human feelings. They lack one thing which is freedom. Like other living creatures that cant defy her orders and have to stay loyal as long as they live.
- Control : Just like she can extract souls from other the same way she can take out small parts of her own soul and put it into weapons or any other things. Those who receive her soul parts gets her powers too. Thus become strong and powerful as she is and can cause serious damage on their own even without her. These things basically protect her and act as her weapons.
Haki
Charlotte Linlin was known as natural disaster since she was a small kid. In childhood she shows signs of extraordinary strength and can easily overpower other childrens as well as some giants. She displayed signs of Conqueror’s Haki. One of the three types of Haki in the One Piece world. It is also known as Haoshoku Haki, is the rarest form of Haki and allows the user to exert their willpower over others. With this she can intimidate or knock out weaker willed individuals. Above these she suffers from hunger pains. Her appetite is great like Luffy. In case she didn’t get what she wants, it enables her deadly haki all of a instantly and she kills anyone in her way. Nobody in the world can stop her at that moment.
The extent of her mastery in other types of Haki, such as Observation Haki (Kenbunshoku Haki) or Armament Haki (Busoshoku Haki) is also quite impressive. Observation Haki grants the user the ability to sense the presence, emotions and intentions of others while Armament Haki enables the user to create a coating of invisible armor around themselves which increase their offensive and defensive capabilities.Being a Yonko, she could possess a high level of mastery in both Observation and Armament Haki, as these are essential skills for surviving in the New World and maintaining her position as one of the most powerful pirates.
Big Mom’s Homies
Homies are a separate part of herself and her deadly loyal weapons. The abilities of homies depend on the original object and the amount of Mom’s soul infused into them. Some are weak while others like Prometheus and Zeus can be incredibly powerful and serve as extensions of her own combat abilities. There are 3 of her homies which make her invincible –
- Prometheus : It is a symbol of her rage. Prometheus is a sun Homie created by her using a fragment of the soul of the sun itself. Prometheus is her left hand servant and is capable of generating intense heat and flames. It make fire related attacks and manipulate fire at will. Despite its immense power, Prometheus is of playful nature and enjoys teasing those around him.
- Zeus : It depicts her thunder and lighting nature. It is a thundercloud Homie created by her using a fragment of the soul of the thunder god, Zeus. It has a somewhat childlike personality and can be easily manipulated by others. Its appearance looks deadly though. She often use it as a ride to fly over seas. Additional to this, it gives immense thundershocks and capable of generating storms and strong winds.
- Napoleon : It contains her leadership abilities. It is the next incharge of both Prometheus and Zeus after Big Mom. Napoleon serves as both a fashion accessory for her and a deadly weapon in battle. It is her personal hat assistant and one of her most loyal and powerful Homies. It’s a large talking hat which converts itself into sword when needed. It has its own personality and is capable of independent thought and speech.
Conclusion
Big Mom’s Mastery over Haki, Devil Fruit and Homies are the 3 main reasons which makes her so powerful and worthy of the title of emperor. Haki is god gifted to her. She got her Devil Fruit during her adventures as a pirate. Homies are her own creation, indeed powerful strong enough to cause chaos on their own and when used by her, they together become unstoppable.
There are some few other questions as well which people would like to know the answers for –
Is Big Mom Dead ?
In episode 1067, Big Mom is defeated by Trafalgar Law and Eustass Kid. Her last words “She will take revenge on Law and Kid”. Which confirms she is not dead otherwise this will become meaningful. Moreover she is not shown dead and her death is not confirmed officially. So the answer is, NO.
Who is stronger Big Mom or Kaido ?
Kaido and Big Mom Pirates fought many times and nobody won but chances slightly increase in favour of Kaido, if both do a 1 on 1 battle. Since it is officially stated that Kaido is the “Strongest living Creature”, so in terms of raw strength nobody can defeat him. Both were crew members of Rocks Pirates once. After achieving the title of emperor they got their own crew. Results comes out to be draw when whole crew fight. If they both fought then Kaido wins and by luck if Big Mom managed to pull a lucky hit then she wins. Other possibility is nobody wins, just like Roger and Whitebeard fight, they end up with sharing cups. Even we saw this thing happened between these two emperors in Wano Country Arc.