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Perona was a Paramecia Hollow-Hollow Fruit user. She had once been one of Shichibukai Gecko Moria's officers, one of the Three Weirdos of Terror's Roar, and the commander of the Animal Zombies and Scary Zombies.
Her Hollow-Hollow Fruit powers were absurdly potent. The ability to strip people of their will to fight and plunge them into despair was enough to put anyone on guard. In the original story, God Usopp had countered her completely and scared her unconscious instead, but that did nothing to change Loa's assessment of her Devil Fruit Powers.
Even he had no interest in experiencing a Negative Hollow firsthand.
And that was not all. Like Brook's Revive-Revive Fruit, the Hollow-Hollow Fruit could let its user leave her body as a spirit. The two powers differed in essence, but their practical effects were much the same.
By placing her consciousness inside a ghost she had created, Perona could appear as a spirit. Like a real ghost, she could ignore physical attacks, pass through walls, change size, and even fly.
Once her consciousness left her body, though, her body became an unconscious shell. It was a fatal weakness.
Not long ago, Moria had detonated the Dyna Stone aboard his ship in an attempt to kill Zephyr. Before the explosion, Perona had sent her spirit to the battlefield. The ship where she had left her body was reduced to ashes, and her body had naturally been destroyed with it.
"So you're a real ghost now?" Loa stood before the weeping Perona, studying her faintly