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[mori mori no mi x aramaki related headcanons]

aramaki has obsessive thoughts about absorbing sakazuki and his fertile volcanic nutrients (because volcanoes have what plants crave!), savouring the taste of his beloved fleet admiral, and he knows not to play with fire (or magma if you will) but he just can't fight his own nature - or rather, the mori mori no mi's nature...

ever since aramaki became a devil-fruit user, he has acquired a taste for humans and the sustenance they provide, pirates (and unlucky marines) being his main source of food, and in turn, has lost his taste for regular food, so he won't (and can't, explained further) eat normally. if he is offered food (**see aramaki and issho's conversation at mary geoise**) he will mask the fact that he can't eat (to hide it from others) with one of his sayings "eating is a pain in the ass" or "well, if a pretty lady asks me to open wide..." to avoid eating (i also headcanon that when aramaki said "well, if a pretty lady asks me to open wide... i suppose i'd chow down!!" he meant he'd chow down on her literally - by ingesting her nutrients into his body).

he can enjoy sake, but only if it has been aged long enough for him to taste (aged sake being his favourite "food" whereas the mori mori no mi prefers pirates...)

sometimes aramaki will attempt to eat "normally" (either in a desperate attempt to take back control of his body from the mori mori no mi, or just wanting to appear normal in front of people) however, the mori mori no mi, the forest, will not allow it - rejecting anything that he tries to pass down his throat, forcing him to disgorge it (throwing up everything he tries to swallow) - he must absorb nutrients through roots, or by photosynthesis, the way a plant would.

aramaki's (the mori mori no mi's) hunger grows much stronger at night because he can't photosynthesize to sate it, to keep it under control, making him far more vulnerable to succumbing to it - to its instinct for nutrients.

aramaki sometimes finds himself (creepily) staring at people (and their food) as they eat, living vicariously through someone, through someone who can eat...

aramaki will avoid marine events (mainly the ones that involve food) the idea of being around food, or someone offering him food makes him anxious, (since he can't eat like a normal person, but only sakazuki knows this) and then (because he can't escape the idea of food), fighting the intrusive thoughts of wanting to taste, to ingest the sustenance out of every marine in the vicinity.

when aramaki is stationed at new marineford, or out at sea on his battleship, he's forced to "fast" by photosynthesis, which is enough to get by, but when he departs new marineford for missions that involve taking down pirates or criminals, that is his chance to eat... to binge.

aramaki will travel covertly to islands that are unaffiliated with the world government to feed (binge) on the townsfolk, satiating his (the mori mori no mi's) appetite - because he can, because the law does not apply there!

ingesting humans through absorption (his preferred source of sustenance) devouring pirates and even fellow marines if they dare get in his way! (sometimes he's not even conscious of this, overcome by the mori mori no mi and its strong instinctual urge for nutrients) he will drain his victims of all their nutrients, leaving behind the wilted corpses intertwined with his vines, expelling any excess nutrients by generating lush plantlife (otherwise he will become very nauseous!!! **see aramaki leaving the udon prisoner mine in wano, growing flowers with every step after absorbing the remaining beast pirates**) sometimes he will even punish himself after a binge by overexercising and or fasting (through photosynthesis) for as long as he can, knowing that it is only a matter of time before he is overcome by the symbiote-like devil fruit that is the mori mori no mi and its voracious need for nutrients...

ever since aramaki ate the mori mori no mi, he has become a monster, consumed by the desire to eat, or rather, to seek nutrients, and humans are jam packed - those who are skilled in haki being much more nutritious in value (and palatable) than ordinary humans.

lower ranking marines are terrified at the idea of working under aramaki because there's rumours among them that he's a freak who feeds on his own men (and they would be right) they fight for their lives, but not because of pirates, but because they don't want to become plant food. they hope to run into pirates so that the admiral can satiate his hunger on the enemy instead.