#udolla

[revretch]

Want you all to know there's also a Japanese vegetable they do this with called udo

And also that someone made a cute mascot character out of them, Udolla

Sources: https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2015-08-31/ghost-like-veggie-mascot-udolla-represents-tachikawa/.92323

https://shun-gate.com/en/roots/roots_89/

[sunballin]

He’s so handsome...

[gotouchichara]

The official and unofficial mascots of Tachikawa city, Tokyo: Kururin (rabbit), and Udolla (udo or Japanese spikenard?).

At the World Character Summit in Hanyū, 2018.11.24~25

[ofsvnlightt]

you’ll never guess who this update is for.......yep it’s jester!  previously her memories were up to episode 121, now it’s 126!

woof, super long post, sorry. 

it happened differently this time. 

up until this point, jester had been getting her memories back in fragments and it always happened as dreams during the night. this time though, she’d been spending the day in her apartment (much needed after whatever happened on valentine’s) and for some unknown reason, she was feeling a pull toward her mini backpack. it wasn’t the haversack, but it did what she needed it to do. at least it was pink! it sat by her desk on the floor and as she walked to her room, she could have sworn she saw the faintest bit of green; a sign the traveler was trying to tell her something. artagan never did things like that anymore. he usually just showed up and talked to her or answered her questions. maybe it was the weird magic of the city that was blocking him or something.

it was quick, blink and it’s gone, but she saw it and knew it was him. grabbing the backpack, she opened it and took out her sketchbook and journal, the only two things she really carried in it, besides occasionally some art supplies.  

she set the two books on her desk. “okay, artie, what are you trying to tell me?“ she asked aloud, staring at them.

suddenly, a faint glow came from her sketchbook. curious. it’s never done that before. she put her hand on it and the glow died down, slowly fading. she quickly took her hand off, thinking maybe she shouldn’t have touched it and the glow went away because of her. she stood there for a moment, still, wondering what she should do, staring at the book. 

a breeze came from an unknown source and flipped the cover open. assuming it artie, she sat at the desk and slowly began flipping through the pages. it consisted of drawings of highlights from her times with the nein. she missed them so much. 

getting almost halfway through the book, her eyes widened when there were drawings that she didn’t remember being in there but one look at them and she remembered everything.  (credit @ravennowithtea) left: eps 122 & 123, middle: 124 & 125, right: 126

[top left] the mighty nein sitting around the fire with the tomb takers talking about their ambitions and dreams (jester still can’t believe she said ‘domesticate unicorns’) and caduceus talking about his rabies squirrel that she was pretty sure he was trying to turn into a metaphor but it was lost on her; finally getting to sleep in the tower but roaming around it with lucien as cats;

[bottom left] that night, they  slept in the tower, but were stirred awake because beau and caleb both jolted awake while fjord was on watch. they got eyes from reading that book of lucien’s. she knew it was a bad idea. beau’s was on her left hand, caleb’s on his right shoulder. during their trek, gelidon, the white dragon, somehow came across them. she said she still knew their scent.. from all that time ago when they went to her roost with reini.  during the fight, otis and veth were both using fjord to hide behind as cover. jester found ptetty funny. that night, after the tomb takers went to bed, the nein discussed their next move and fjord realized their bag of holding was gone. damn you otis! splitting up and checking the tower, it was quickly realized the tomb takers were gone. they didn’t get a full night’s rest but went out in the snow to follow somewhat fresh track of the tomb takers. they caught up to them and ended up fighting them. it was rough! one of lucien’s eyes can do an anti-magic cone which is....not good. the nein managed to get away alive, with one of the threshold crests, hopefully slowing down the tomb takers in bringing back the floating hungry city/the somnovum/whatever;

[top middle] after running for some time and felling like they got far enough away, they slept for the rest of the night on the side of a mountain. they woke up the next morning and teleported the crest they had to the colbalt soul in rexxentrum. then caduceus tried divine intervention (and was successful! :O ) and the wildmother showed him the entrance where the tomb takers were headed and exactly how to get there. then nein then went to the vurmas outpost to see essek! she was so excited to see him and gave him a big hug when they arrived. they caught him up on everything which maybe wasn’t the best idea because he was running from the dynasty so to not be found out that he was working with them, aka people from the empire. caduceus had made everyone hot chocolate but essek added whiskey to his. they laid a lot on him and that clearly stressed him out. but she could tell he was still glad to see him;

[bottom middle] after that, caleb teleported them to nicodranas to yussa’s tower so they could start going around to allies to get help with taking on the tomb takers and (hopefully not) the floating city. luckily they made it there safely. yussa said he couldn’t help but gave them a magic rod that would help them. remembering that teleportation magic to and from aeor can be tricky, she wanted to scry on the threshold crest to see if it made it to rexxentrum. he led them into his super secret amplification chamber and after drawing her circle (it has a lot of dicks!) she was thrusted to a forested area where there was a dusting of snow and there the crest sat. she had no idea where it was, but it was definitely nowhere near the cobalt soul archives.  yussa then sent them all the way to tal’dorei to allura’s tower! it was so fun to see her again, and they even got to meet her wife, kima. unfortunately, allura also no to going to aeor but gave them a bunch of amazing things - including her staff! caleb is going to have a good time with that. kima even gave her platinum sword to yasha. after teleporting one last time for the day back to rexxentrum, the nein went to the soul and beau talked to udolla. she then found diron and told them to just be on the lookout for the crest since they had no idea where it actually was. and after a long day of teleporting all over the place, they all finally went to bed for the night;

[right] when they woke up the next morning beau and caleb had another eye, beau’s on the back of her neck, right where the eye of her tattoo was, and caleb’s between his shoulder blades. they both only have two, but the more eyes they get, the more nervous jester gets. they don’t eve know what they do, if they do anything.  then caleb notices something glowing on fjord’s chest and apparently he was magically branded by lucien when they fought him!  (there’s obvi no drawing of this but i’m going to add it since it happened in the episode:) later, they all do some shopping then go to the dancehall where he’s going to meet astrid and ask her for anti-scry amulets for the rest of the nein, since they only have one, and they would be very useful so lucien can’t spy on them and know when they’re coming back.  intel received, they bed for the night in a shoddy inn. well, her, fjord, caleb, caduceus, and veth do. beau and yasha get the tower to themselves for a date that beau planned. despite all the stress their under with the tomb takers and the floating city, she’s glad they get to have at least one night of romance.

jester’s head is reeling from all the new - yet already known - information. the magic of this dc city is so strange that it only gives her chunks of her memories at a time instead of just letting her know everything. it’s frustrating. at least she knows (at this point) that everyone is safe in rexxentrum. she would like to be back with them though because she may be only one tiefling but they’re going to need all the help they can get in aeor and being one person down is a lot at this point. 

she stared down at the pages of her sketchbook and sighed. she was stuck here with no way to get back to her friends. every time she remembered that, she got sad. she’d actually been doing fine for herself in this place but she did miss them. a lot. and her mama. it’s been so long since she’s gone to the lavish chateau. and now she couldn’t even if she wanted to.

she spoke aloud in her room, “i don’t know if it’s you, artie, or the magic of this place, but if there’s any more i need to know, please give it to me quicker so i’m not so overwhelmed afterwards. thanks.” 

inspecting the pages one last time, tracing her fingers over the drawings, jester closes the sketchbook and puts it and her journal back in her not-haversack backpack. she flops onto her bed and sighs again. trying to figure out what this all meant. 

[glbranch]

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