At first, I thought that Maria's fruit is a SMILE tbh xD. I was like "bruh she has a fooking roommate underneath".
Lmao right? It would make so much more sense and given she runs a brothel and the whole Black Widow/spider themes, it would be fitting for her to hide her "true nature/self" and pounce on unsuspecting victims she has seduced, kinda like how she tricked Sanji too ofc. Not being able to transform her body due to being a Smile rather than a Zoan, she has to resort to hiding the spider unerneath her clothes. BUT ironically we saw gifters shifting their animal parts of their bodies I think at Zou?
Basically Maria:
Oda is probably never going to explain how the fuck she has a living spider face on her body that can spit literal fire too.
Someone earlier on here I think it was somewhere that it might be Queen's doing somehow which would still work as a possibility atl east.
The Jorogumo she takes influence from would be so much more fitting if she was a Smile too. Although I'd much prefer that she would have had an acutal Jorogumo mythical Zoan, that would be best imo.
WAIT HOLD UP....
"In Toriyama Sekien's Gazu Hyakki Yagyō, it is depicted as a spider woman manipulating small fire-breathing spiders."
Welp lol.