So the Straw Hats may have just permanently offed a giant cat, with Sanji even commenting he was about to dish out a death penality. They cat likely had a lion zoan fruit:
Luffy would like Sanji to cook the animal and eat it, but we know from Big Mom that Devil Fruits can somehow change owner through cannibalization:
In the book The Wizard of Oz the Cowardly Lion is a character that joins the protagonist to reach Emerald City in order to ask the wizard for courage, which he feels he is lacking. He doesn't understand that courage is not a lack of fear but it means acting in spite of it. He is in fact brave but he doubts himself:
So could it be that there's a parallel between the two and Usopp it going to get a new power up related to it? In almost thirty years, it would be the first time a crew member acquires a Devil Fruit ability and so it would be a nice and unexpected twist, also solving the problem of Usopp lagging behind everybody else when it comes to combat proficiency and the upgrade would happen in what is seen as his character arc.
Luffy would like Sanji to cook the animal and eat it, but we know from Big Mom that Devil Fruits can somehow change owner through cannibalization:
In the book The Wizard of Oz the Cowardly Lion is a character that joins the protagonist to reach Emerald City in order to ask the wizard for courage, which he feels he is lacking. He doesn't understand that courage is not a lack of fear but it means acting in spite of it. He is in fact brave but he doubts himself:
So could it be that there's a parallel between the two and Usopp it going to get a new power up related to it? In almost thirty years, it would be the first time a crew member acquires a Devil Fruit ability and so it would be a nice and unexpected twist, also solving the problem of Usopp lagging behind everybody else when it comes to combat proficiency and the upgrade would happen in what is seen as his character arc.
