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Destructive Capability in One Piece is, more often than not, reliant on Devil Fruit powers. Pica uses his stone body so he can control the Royal Plateau and gain not only the ability to perform destructive attacks with far more AoE than anything he could perform by himself, but to hide and prevent getting damaged from any enemy who might be a threat to his stone bodies.
It's not that he lacks AP, as demonstrated when he faced against Zoro and none of them did significant harm to each other, but he lacks range and AoE. It's obviously more convenient to squash a bug to use a big tool (IDK what's its name in english so I can't quote it well) instead of going personally. His fruit is to assimilate stone. The stone becomes his body, and he can manipulate the stone in whatever form he pleases as long as it's connected to more stone he's assimilated with.
It's more eficient to build a several thousand meters tall stone golem to destroy the Plateau than just going personally, exposing himself to any enemy's attack and spend more time trying to get the job done when just by slapping the ground you can achieve such a thing if you have a stone golem.
That's not counting the fact that in no instance his power is referred as Stone Manipulation but Assimilation: assimilation noun [ U ] /ə╦îs╔¬m.╔¬╦êle╔¬.╩âən/ us /ə╦îs╔¬m.ə╦êle╔¬.╩âən/
assimilation noun (INTO GROUP)
the process of becoming a part, or making someone become a part, of a group, country, society, etc.:
Seeing all of this, it's natural to see Pica manipulating stone in a way that shouldn't be normally possible. His body has to be merged with stone to gain control over it. He can't control stone that he isn't in contact with, therefore Telekinesis and regular Stone Manipulation aren't accurate for this case.
Pica has to merge with the stone and has proved he exerts physical effort to perform some actions. Otherwise, he'd not be panting after throwing a punch when he has done that in several occassions already without doing so. That's because all of his feats are absurdly casual as he makes no effort at all.
Again, no indication of Pica's fruit being Stone Manipulation should discount that. The form he presents his power as matters not when using Charlestone (I could even argue he's doing razor claws based on his fingers with the stone) because that's the effect of him merging his body with the stone, gaining total control over it.
And even if for some reason we count this as a weird telekinesis, the fact that this gives no strain at all should make it scalable anyway, for this kind of powers tolls the user.
Any other description is outright headcanon based on a few instances where the stone takes a weird form that doesn't debunk the simple fact that Pica's fruit assimilates stone and doesn't control it by itself.
Any rebuttal that doesn't adress this should be entirely ignored as it doesn't refer to the main point of the proposal.
It's not that he lacks AP, as demonstrated when he faced against Zoro and none of them did significant harm to each other, but he lacks range and AoE. It's obviously more convenient to squash a bug to use a big tool (IDK what's its name in english so I can't quote it well) instead of going personally. His fruit is to assimilate stone. The stone becomes his body, and he can manipulate the stone in whatever form he pleases as long as it's connected to more stone he's assimilated with.
It's more eficient to build a several thousand meters tall stone golem to destroy the Plateau than just going personally, exposing himself to any enemy's attack and spend more time trying to get the job done when just by slapping the ground you can achieve such a thing if you have a stone golem.
That's not counting the fact that in no instance his power is referred as Stone Manipulation but Assimilation: assimilation noun [ U ] /ə╦îs╔¬m.╔¬╦êle╔¬.╩âən/ us /ə╦îs╔¬m.ə╦êle╔¬.╩âən/
assimilation noun (INTO GROUP)
the process of becoming a part, or making someone become a part, of a group, country, society, etc.:
Seeing all of this, it's natural to see Pica manipulating stone in a way that shouldn't be normally possible. His body has to be merged with stone to gain control over it. He can't control stone that he isn't in contact with, therefore Telekinesis and regular Stone Manipulation aren't accurate for this case.
Pica has to merge with the stone and has proved he exerts physical effort to perform some actions. Otherwise, he'd not be panting after throwing a punch when he has done that in several occassions already without doing so. That's because all of his feats are absurdly casual as he makes no effort at all.
Again, no indication of Pica's fruit being Stone Manipulation should discount that. The form he presents his power as matters not when using Charlestone (I could even argue he's doing razor claws based on his fingers with the stone) because that's the effect of him merging his body with the stone, gaining total control over it.
And even if for some reason we count this as a weird telekinesis, the fact that this gives no strain at all should make it scalable anyway, for this kind of powers tolls the user.
Any other description is outright headcanon based on a few instances where the stone takes a weird form that doesn't debunk the simple fact that Pica's fruit assimilates stone and doesn't control it by itself.
Any rebuttal that doesn't adress this should be entirely ignored as it doesn't refer to the main point of the proposal.