THE YUKI YUKI NO MI THEORY
There is a popular belief amongst the One Piece followers that the next addition in the Strawhat ranks will be a devil fruit user and to be precise, they believe it will be the Yuki Yuki no Mi.
Now you may be a little confused as to where this theory is coming from if you’ve not paid much attention to the One Piece discussion forums online and despite there being tons of theories that will not bear fruit*, this one is actually plausible.
*(See what I did there?)
The Yuki Yuki no Mi as you may or may not know is the devil fruit that was once occupied by Monet, our lovely green-haired harpy lady who just so happens to be the sister of Sugar. This was confirmed by Oda in an SBS.
It is a logia type devil fruit that makes the consumer a snow-human. Now with Monet’s proposed death at Punk Hazard at the hands of Caesar Clown (this is still up for debate), there is a speculation that the devil fruit ability would have occupied the nearest fruit it could find, converting said fruit into a reincarnation of the Yuki Yuki no Mi.
Now the nearest fruit or fruits as far as we know were upon the Strawhat vessel; the Thousand Sunny. More specifically, they would be growing on the orange tree Nami is so fond of.
Baring this in mind, someone on board can easily access the fruit. Now this isn’t to say a current member of the team may end up doing so however I don’t see how Usopp, Zoro, Franky or Sanji would take on a Devil Fruit. It would not suit their fighting styles.
Maybe Nami, considering she does control the weather to some extent but again, I still don’t see it happening. That would totally ruin the fact that she has a new Clima-Tact.
Now I bring you on to the next part of this theory.
In volume 59, the SBS section had the following question:
Odacchi! I noticed an amazing thing!!! It is that if you show the Straw Hat Devil Fruit users in numbers, it will be the numbers from 1~10!!
Luffy→Gomu Gomu (5.6.5.6.), Chopper→Hito Hito (1.10.1.10), Robin→Hana Hana (8.7.8.7.), Brook→Yomi Yomi (4.3.4.3.)
(1.3.4.5.6.7.8.10), but there is no (2.9), so is the one who ate the Nikyu Nikyu (2.9.2.9.) no Mi, Bartholomew Kuma, gonna be a Straw Hat next? Please tell me!!! P.N. SHANKUS.LOVE
Oda’s response was:
WHAAAAAT?! (shock) Gosh that surprised me! Why was I surprised?! NO COMMENTTTTTTT!!!!!!!! NEXT!!
This basically shows that the devil fruits amongst the Straw-Hat Pirates follow a theme with numbers and the only ones missing are the 2 and the 9.
It is important to know that 2 can be written as: Yu, Ni and Fu and 9 can be written as Ku, Ki and Kyu.
So this makes the 2.9 theory plausible with the Yu-Ki fruit and it would be in line with the Straw-Hat devil fruit number theory. Now whether Monet is still alive (theory coming next week) or the fruit ends up with a new potential, only time will tell. Oda will be preparing his curve ball in the meantime.
So there you have it; the Yuki Yuki no Mi theory in a nutshell. Well it’s not in a nutshell but you get the idea I’m sure. Couldn’t really put it much simpler without explaining the important details you would require to understand the theory.
Sleeping Geeks 
if I remember correctly, Oda has confirmed that the next SH will be a former enemy, so technically the yuki yuki is a “former enemy” but some theory’s claim the enemy is alive and could possibly be Ceasar Clown do to the fact that he wants to surpass Vegapunk, so he has a similar goal as the rest of the SH which is to become the greatest in their “occupation” , but like I said it’s a theory so I’m not confirming anything
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Indeed. So much speculation regarding the next strawhat. With this, we at least have some basis with the numbers. Oda didn’t deny it when he was asked.
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“Oda has confirmed that the next SH will be a former enemy”
Do you remember where he said that exactly? Not doubting you, just curious cause that would be a pretty big hint towards who would be the next nakama.
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Upon trying to find the actual quote, I stumbled across a block in my research so I guess it could just be a mistranslation or a rumour as there is nothing concrete that I can find. More speculation and guesswork I guess.
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Oh my gosh. This is so interesting. I used to disregard this kind of theories, thinking of them ridiculous, but Oda-sensei is so fond of throwing curveballs that I learned to be more open-minded to this kind of theories. As for the next Straw Hat, I still vote for Jinbe. I’ve been waiting for him since the Marineford War. Hurry up and join the crew!
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I think Jinbei should officially join in be next arc as he breaks his ties with Big Mom but I feel he will always be Jinbei the former Shichibukai and Fishman leader figure. I’m waiting for that new fresh blood in the crew character.
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I hope so. I was hoping he’ll join them during the Dressrosa arc because he got featured at the cover pages mini-story arc around that time, but then we lost track of him. Looking forward to when he finally meets with the crew and join them.
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in my opinion carrot will eat that devil fruit as in the previous chapter it was shown that food was depleted so the crew members might endup eating tangering and there you go next nakama carrot with yuki yuki no mi lol
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It is very possible. I would like to see it happen.
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uh what
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Excuse me, I recently shared this theory and someone pointed out most sources don’t say anything about a connection between “yuki” and any numbers. I have also scoured sites about ways to say the Japanese numbers, as well as other examples of Goroawase, but I can’t find any examples of “Yu” or “Ki” as numbers.
Just asking, where did you come up with “Yuki” following Japanese numerical wordplay?
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