She was confirmed as an Ancient Zoan which is the issue. Unless the animal in her Smile aspect can eat a DF seperately and get it own DF power? This sounds so confusing and crazy lol.
I still believe she might be a Smile instead, she might be lying about being a Zoan. She always seemed more of a giant Smile user rather than a Zoan user from her DF reveal. She uses illusions
SOMEHOW so deception is part of her character and since she runs the brothel, she will be used to deceiving and manipulating her "customers". If she is a Smile instead, then that means she might not be able to hide her spider side and she hides it with her dress, much like how Jorogumos and certain types of spiders trick their prey, like Black Widows also mating with males and killing them too!
Haha, "Black Widow", oh Oda, what convenient timing to feature Maria right now!
You do have a great point though, we saw Smile users at Zou who could freely manipulate their animal abilities/parts like how you mentioned, that seems to have been forgotten/changed by Oda since then? Would be cool if this is the case with Maria but why did Oda make her this spider ancient zoan if she is actually a Smile? Am I right about Maria and thus Oda trying to deceive everyone?
The spider Maria is based on is actually extremely tiny too, it's biggest size is supposedly smaller than my fingernails! And my hands are tiny too! LOL
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