So I'm here to app for the Kibi kibi no mi, a fruit that I feel perfectly fits Aureliana, especially as she takes a much more ranger approach which will let her and her army of creatures work well.
How did she acquire the fruit?
Aureliana gained her devil fruit when she was out on one of her expeditions. She was out surveying the nearby storm, hoping to catch a glimpse of a massive beasts, the west blue’s unique Island Whales who were swimming as it was their migration season. In the hopes of seeing a new species she had never seen before she set out to sea despite the massive waves and torrential rains. Unfortunately a massive wave would then cause her ship to be flung across,crashing, drowning Aureliana.
Luckily, despite the situation she was placed in, Aureliana washed up on an island’s beach. Here she would be putting her survival and scouting skills to the test as she began to organize herself, establishing her homebase near a river bank, and despite her broken arm, Aureliana felt like she could find some prey.
On her journey into the island she found a small monkey being attacked by a giant black bear. Armed with only her knife and physical abilities, she stepped in, hoping to use the distraction caused by the monkey to bring down the bear. Despite her surprise attack, the bear intercepted the attack and slashed her away. Then from behind the bear the monkey leapt up and slammed a massive kick into the bear’s neck, knocking it out cold. Aureliana would then pass out from exhaustion and pain, being out cold for hours that turned into days. The entire time the monkey stayed around her, watching her as she slept.
Because of her trying to help, the monkey went to grab the fruit it was carrying around that caused the bear to attack it in the first place, handing it to Aureliana to help her feel better. Having not eaten for a few days, Aureliana began to scarf down the fruit, not paying attention and ended up eating a swirl covered beach, commenting on how bad the fruit was while chewing and swallowing the fruit in its entirety. After she ate it her cheek began to glow and she poked at it, causing a small dango to pop out from her cheek, with the monkey then eating it.
Soon after the monkey could hear and understand Aureliana perfectly with the same being in Aureliana's case, understanding the monkey completely, even having full conversations with him. It was then when she had consumed the Kibi Kibi no Mi!
Usage:
Aureliana uses her fruit in a few ways, a key one being that she has had special capsules that keep the dongo from going bad or stale. This way she can actually stockpile her dongos instead of relying only on the ones she has to make on the spot. Along with that she can release multiple of them from a capsule to allow a large amount of animals to eat the dongo.
Aureliana has also built a slingshot and crossbow which allow her to fire off the dango or capsules directly at a target. This is so that way when push comes to shove she can, I guess you can call "force feed" a dongo to her target and subjugate them with her fruits power.
Along with that she has created vials that, when sprayed directly onto the dongo, cause them to give off smells that mimic other foods in order to bait on targets. She has created one that gives an extremely potent freshly grilled steak smell which causes his targets to rush to it's locations either because they're hungry or because they're curious as to the source of the smell. These help make the dongo much more appealing to targets that wouldn't usually go for the smell of dongo, giving it more versatility on what creatures it can attract.
The most obvious use is obviously to feed it directly to an animal and use them for either utility, support or direct combative purposes. Aureliana can feed it to a large wolf to allow herself to charge through harsh rocky terrains with relative ease or even going even bigger she can feed it to an island whale to act as her method of crossing the seas. She can also feed them to large groups of animals to have them swarm an enemy with relentless attacks and hit and run tactics to cause distractions so her crew mates can attack and capitalize on the distraction or even flat out defeat an enemy. Hoemstly this fruit is only limited by the types of creatures you have in your corner and how creative you can be with it, which is something she noticed and uses to her advantage.
Awakening:
The awakened ability I actually have two options to offer you,
*Skill Share: this ability allows Aureliana to mimic the abilities of those animals that have been tamed by the user. For example they can mimic the qualities of Tigre, a giant tiger that she recruited from her time in the east blue. She can mimic the natural agility that Tigre has, able to leap from trees to stones with no difficulty while also retaining the beast's physical strength and speed. This ability comes in handy as it allows Aureliana to change the tempo of any situation very drastically as she can have the abilities of a big tiger or have the raw speed of an Erimaki Runner. She can also use specific traits of the beast to protect herself from natural environmental challenges such as using the agility of one to scale a mountain with rather great ease, use those found in winter islands to boost her resistance against the cold while others help her against hot environments.
*Sense Share: this ability allows for the devil fruit user to share the senses with her tamed animals. Going further into this it allows Aureliana to share the sense of sight with her beasts, able to see through their eyes, giving her a hive like vision, sending her beasts out to scout an area, able to keep a constant view of a target and in some cases from multiple angles at once, which only improves her already impressive hunt and tracking skills. Aureliana has also been seen using this ability when taking on enemies, as it allows her to read her enemies a lot easier, able to keep up on the smallest of tells over her enemies next move from multiple angles. Along with this it allows Aureliana to communicate with her beasts telepathically, this expands the use of effectiveness of her abilities as she can instruct them over long distances.
Why do I want this fruit?
Well mostly because I would like to explore and expand on the large and interesting animal life that we have seen in the one piece world. I feel like the wild life of the world is something we don't really explore outside of the first half of the story where we were introduced to some unique and diverse types of animals. From the island whales we see in laboon or the Kung-Fu Dugong from Alabasta. Along with that because the fruit is such an non combative, pretty much focused on support mostly i feel like giving it to a character who's a ranger, a person who's not really a front line fighter fighter but acts much more like a scout or spy along with offering many different types of methods on how to use their beast fits the motif of it being a support based fruit but still making it quite useful in combat depending on the circumstances. Kind of breaking the mold of a basic support type character. I also have a huge ass three page list fill of animal ideas and always got more coming and I'll happily submit them if need be.