Mendelian Peas

Mendelian Peas
Name Information
Kanji	メンデルのエンドウ
Rōmaji	Menderu no Endō
Item Information
Type	Fruit (Pea)
Activation Method	Eating
Wielder	Killed
Other Adapters	Gregor Mendel
Nature information
Knowledge	Genetic Inheritance
Power	Genetic Mutation
Debut
Manga	Case 3

The Mendelian Peas (メンデルのエンドウ, Menderu no Endō) are a Eureka possessed by Killed which is related to the phenomenon of the Genetic Mutation (細胞変異, Saibō Hen'i; Literally meaning "Cell Mutation").

Description

A seed pushed out of a pod.

The Mendelian Peas resemble an ordinary-looking vine of pea pods, complete with leaves and tendrils. It doesn't possess any other distinguishing characteristics, other than regenerating every time a pea is removed, allowing the user to harness the power of the Eureka as many times as they wish.

In order to activate the Peas' powers, the user must either swallow them or have another person do so. One of the users, Killed, normally keeps the vine inside his long sleeves.

Powers

Much like other Eurekas, the Mendelian Peas grant its wielder greater knowledge of the specific phenomenon it's based on, in its case, genetics. The power obtained when one of these Pea is swallowed, therefore, relates to this science and enables the user to freely alter the genetic code of the eater's cells instantaneously. Normally, the user presses the pod to make a Pea come out, subsequently eating it, feeding it to a previously modified creature or throwing it into a target's mouth to forcefully mutate them.

• Genetic Mutation: The user can make changes in one's DNA, causing the target to develop characteristics according to the user's wish, even producing characteristics of nonexistent creatures to create hybrid aberrations. A few common traits which are shared between all those who're mutated by the Peas include the darkening of the skin and steam being expelled from their mouths. The same effects can be applied to the users themselves and even Glowing Corpses, though the use on the latter is related to Killed's ability to control these corpses. While a Pea can only generate one set of characteristics upon being swallowed, the user can develop other in sequence to grow new features. Modified creatures also lose their senses and become subservient to the user's commands.

Horned Humanoid: One of the creatures the user is able to create is a tall, horned beast with elongated limbs and crack-like marking all over its body from which dark pins can protruded that can somehow generate powerful explosions on impact. James was modified into this.

Harpy: The user can make one grow characteristics that resemble that of a harpy with feathered wings and a tail for flight, bird legs and a long neck with a humanoid head. A nurse was modified into it. A second pea can be used to make the creature grow long blades from her feet.

Masked Humanoid: A strengthened creature that Ragins stole from Killed and then charged with electricity, forcing its strength to exceed the limits, making it a puppet that doesn't feel any pain. Through unknown means, it's also capable of healing from its injuries. Its appearance is that of an enormous, brawny, humanoid creature with a mask attached to its face with two side horns and one vertical horn.

Self-Mutation: Besides mutating other people, the users is also capable of producing new characteristics within their own body, theoretically granting themselves unique abilities for any situation, such as claws for close-quarters combat or wings for added mobility.

The creatures modified by this Eureka are often referred to as "Puppets" (人形, Ningyō), due to their freewill being stripped away from them. Also, because of Killed's repeated use of it, the modifications he makes on a target are permanent, allowing them to keep some for personal use. However, the effects can be cancelled by the user at will, including not only the mutation, but also the revival of a corpse as well.

To counter the Peas' effect, the user's opponent can force a creature to vomit the previously eaten Peas, making it revert back to an unconscious human. In addition, whenever someone uses the power of the Peas, a curved line with dots on it will be drawn under their eyes' iris.

Killed's eyes when using the Peas.

Killed transformed.

Several genetically modified monsters.

James, the Horned Humanoid.

Killed riding the nurse, the Harpy.

Ragins' Masked Humanoid.

Combination & Supreme Form

• Darwinian Seed: It has been shown the Mendelian Peas can be utilized in conjunction with the Darwinian Seed to make the user's body capable of adapting its own genetics to whatever situation they desire.

Ultimate Adaptive Body: The user is able to modify his own genes in combination with the Eureka being used to reach immeasurable levels, even higher than the one reached by the consumption of Hungry Joker Pills, granting them a Supreme Form. Whilst in this heightened state, the user gains a body capable of mutating itself according to the situation they face, which once led Killed to refer to himself as a "Super Evolved God".

• Hawking Radiation Absorption: Through the growing of special dark nails from their fingers, the user can absorb the Hawking radiation emitted by a black hole, which is the energy that makes it able to suck in matter and, when it's lost by the same, causes mass' reduction.
• Spike Onslaught: The user is able to elongate their dark nails and the spikes protruding from their back in an extremely short amount of time, leaving almost no time for the victim to escape. They can also quickly ramify them to deal a higher amount of damage.

In this particular case, the intensification of the Eureka's marks on the user's eyes makes them to expose different drawings for each eye: for the Mendelian Peas, a circle with dots in its line appears around his pupil and eye; for the Darwinian Seed, ramifications come out of the user's pupil and eye.

Killed's right eye after combining the Eurekas, corresponding to the Peas.

Killed's left eye after combining the Eurekas, corresponding to the Seed.

Killed's Super Evolved God form.

Killed's dark nails absorbing Heidi's Black Hole's Hawking radiation.

Killed's Nail Onslaught.

History

Given the Eureka's name, it's implied that in the 19th century, Mendel came into contact with these Peas, that, given the Eureka's nature, possibly led him to achieve his studies about genetics. At some point, they were obtained by Killed, a Mavro.

Influence

Gregor Mendel as shown in the manga.

The Peas' powers are related to Gregor Mendel's research that contributed to the theory of the Mendelian inheritance. Mendel, in his research, found out that by crossbreeding a few peas with different characteristics, it would produce new peas with combined characteristics of its parents. Through this fact, Mendel was able to come up with his theory where an offspring would inherit the characteristics of its parents. Thus, internally mutated to look exactly like the parents.

Gregor Johann Mendel (July 20, 1822 – January 6, 1884) was a German-speaking Silesian scientist and Augustinian friar who gained posthumous fame as the founder of the new science of genetics. Mendel demonstrated that the inheritance of certain traits in pea plants follows particular patterns, now referred to as the laws of Mendelian inheritance. The profound significance of Mendel's work was not recognized until the turn of the 20th century, when the independent rediscovery of these laws initiated the modern science of genetics.

Trivia

• This is so far the only Eureka that allows normal people to show the same effects observed on the user when he uses his powers on himself, although depending on the will of the user.
• Though in modern days it's known that the inheritance is linked to genes, Mendel himself wasn't aware about them and never made detailed studies about their nature, calling "factors" what today is known as genes.