Moonflower

Moonflower
	; Moonflower
Life	20
Location	Sunflower Plains
UMA Book Description	A dangerous sunflower active at night.

The Moonflower (ヨマワリ, Yomawari) is an UMA, most commonly found in Sunflower Plains. In the day, Moonflowers look like regular sunflowers, but sway slightly more quickly. However, at night, Moonflowers come to life as an UMA. In their sunflower form during the day, they may occasionally be prematurely awoken by having citizens run towards them.

Attacks[]

Attack	Effect	Description
Leaf karate chop	Melee	Hits in front
Shakes leaves	Melee	Hits around entire body, lasts several seconds, can hit a citizen on the ground multiple times for several hits of damage

Locations[]

Sunflower Plains
Torn Forest
Bony Tunnel Entrance (guarding Kingdom of the Jolly)
King Omelet fight (quiz answer)

Etymology[]

Names in other languages[]


	Name	Meaning
Japanese	ヨマワリ Yomawari	Nightflower
French	Tournelune	Moonflower (lit. "turns to moon")
Italian	Girasole di notte	Sunflower at night
German	Sonnenblume	Sunflower
Spanish	Giraluna	Moonflower (lit. "turns to moon")

The French word for sunflower is tournesol, literally meaning "turns to sun". The French name for the Moonflower swaps the sol for the word for moon, lune, so that the name of the UMA literally means "turns to the moon". The same pun is made with the Spanish name, where girasol, also meaning "turns to sun", has the word sol replaced with luna, "moon".

Trivia[]

There are some occasions where Moonflowers will appear at any time of day, such as at the Bony Tunnel Entrance. This is probably since the area is always covered in shade. However, the Moonflowers follow their usual routine in the Torn Forest, another somewhat dark area.