Lacey

Lacey
Base article
Base article
Information
Gender	Female
Hometown	Nimbasa City, Unova
Family	Lian (ancestor) Clay (father)
Occupation	Pokémon Trainer
Appears in	Generation IX
Debut	Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Indigo Disk)
Other information
Specialist type	Fairy
In other languages
Japanese	Name タロ Taro
Japanese	Name タロ Taro

Lacey is a character appearing in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Indigo Disk). She is a second-year student attending Blueberry Academy and the second-strongest member of the BB League's Elite Four. She specializes in Fairy type Pokémon.

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What type of Pokémon does Lacey specialize in?

Lacey, a skilled Pokémon trainer, specializes in Fairy-type Pokémon, which she adores for their cuteness. Her preference for these Pokémon is evident in her battle strategies and the team she leads as an Elite Four member.

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What is Lacey's role in the BB League's Elite Four?

In the Pokémon universe, Lacey is a prominent member of the BB League's Elite Four. She conducts trials, providing players with two opportunities to correctly answer her queries. A third incorrect response triggers a battle with a Trainer. Despite her Elite Four status, Lacey occasionally loses battles. She gifts players with the Alluring Voice TM and is observed during the player's battle against Kieran, the BB League Champion. Known for her sharpness, Lacey often reprimands others for failing to read the atmosphere and voices concerns about the club's operations.

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What is the significance of Lacey's attire in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet?

Lacey's attire in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet mirrors her character traits and affinity for Fairy-type Pokémon. She dons a white shirt, blue pants with stripes, a red neckerchief, white footwear, and a lavender coat. A red thumbless glove completes her outfit. The significance of her attire is heightened as these games are the first in the series to feature varying protagonist clothing colors based on the game version.

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What is the setting of Lacey's storyline in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet?

Lacey, a character in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet, hails from Nimbasa City, Unova, and is a second-year student at Blueberry Academy. As a Pokémon Trainer, she oversees a trial and participates as an Elite Four member in the Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Indigo Disk) setting. The games offer an unstructured plot, allowing players to freely explore the characters' stories.

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Appearance

Lacey is a slender girl with fair skin, with slightly thick brows, and down turned bronze yellow eyes. Her hair is styled to be shoulder length with fringe that is evenly trimmed above her eyes. Her hair color is ash pink with lighter pink under lights, with her signature tear drop shaped gold hair clips with blue gems. Her clothes consists of the academy's white sailor collar shirt with the red neckerchief held with a blue clip, blue pants with one blue stripe and one white, with white sneakers, and red thumb less gloves. Over her uniform she wears a long lavender knit cardigan that nearly reaches the ground with three buttons, a ruffled knit design around the shoulders and bows that are meant to reference her fairy type speciality. Like her father, she is of at least partial Sinnohan descent, effectively making her the equivalent of a Japanese-American.

Personality

Reliable and skilled in Pokémon battling, Lacey adores cute Pokémon, particularly Fairy-types. She is known for her strict adherence to rules and traditions, her love for cute Pokémon, and her role as a reliable guide for new students. Her sense of responsibility and being by the book is possibly due to her father, Clay, being a lawyer and a Gym leader, and wanting to follow his example. Though her habit of crossing her arms in an "X" fashion to show her disapproval of something shows she does have a playful side.

Etymology

Lacey's name ties with some words like "youthful" and the Araceae genus plant family that includes taro.

Her French name Taro, is based on "taro", which are root vegetables included in the family Araceae.

Biography

Lacey is the daughter of the Driftveil City Gym Leader Clay, and as such comes from a wealthy family. She is a second-year student in the academy, and often helps out Cyrano due to his forgetfulness.

After Kieran returned from the Kitakami field trip and took over as the BB League's Champion, his heavy-handed actions caused some controversy among the Elite Four. When the player is introduced into the academy, Lacey takes them on a short tour around before requesting a small Pokémon battle in which she lost.

When Drayton has the rest of the Elite Four and Kieran come to the cafeteria, he suggests the idea that the player be allowed to participate in the league. Lacey disapproves of the idea, since they should abide by school rules. This decision is supported by Amarys, but Crispin and Kieran agree, overruling their decision. When the player comes to her section in the Terarium, she apologizes for initially denying them, as she did not want them to get embroiled in the club's situation. She then oversees a trial where she has the player take note of various features on Pokémon; she will give the player two chances to answer the question correctly; a third incorrect answer will result in her calling in a Trainer for a battle, though defeating them will still progress the trial. As an Elite Four member, Lacey runs a different team more fitting of her status, though she still loses. After taking a picture with her cute Pokémon, she gives them the Alluring Voice TM before leaving.

She and the other Elite Four members watch the player's battle against Kieran, who topples him as the BB League Champion. When Crispin remarks about the enjoyable battle, Lacey scolds him for not reading the atmosphere, before Drayton walks up to Kieran and teases him, much to her disdain, as she sympathizes with his plight. She then expresses concern about how the club would be run, as the player was now the club's president despite being an exchange student and that if Kieran joined the Elite Four, it would push Crispin out of their ranks. After some deliberation, she ultimately decides to amend the rules, allowing exchange students to become Champions and freezing the current rankings in the league to allow Crispin to retain his position.

After completing the storyline, Lacey can be found in the club room, where the player can rematch her. Successfully defeating her in three matches will allow the player to trade one of their Pokémon for her Snubbull.

Pokémon

First battle

III

Trainer
Lacey
				Poké Balls	—
				Items	—
Plusle				Minun
Base article	Type	Electric		Base article	Type	Electric
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Male			Gender	Female
	Level	70			Level	70
	Ability	Lightning Rod			Ability	Volt Absorb
	Moves	Discharge	Alluring Voice		Moves	Helping Hand	Discharge
		Grass Knot	—			Swift	—
Excadrill
Base article	Type	Ground /  Steel
	Tera Type	None
	Gender	Male
	Level	70
	Ability	Mold Breaker
	Moves	High Horsepower	X-Scissor
		Rock Slide	Iron Head

Subsequent battles

IIIIII

Trainer
Lacey
				Poké Balls	—
				Items	—
Whimsicott				Granbull
Base article	Type	Grass /  Fairy		Base article	Type	Fairy
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Female			Gender	Female
	Level	78 / 83			Level	78 / 83
	Ability	Prankster			Ability	Intimidate
	Moves	Light Screen	Tailwind		Moves	Play Rough	Fire Punch
		Energy Ball	Moonblast			Ice Punch	Stomping Tantrum
Primarina				Galarian Slowbro
Base article	Type	Water /  Fairy		Base article	Type	Poison /  Psychic
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	None
	Gender	Female			Gender	Female
	Level	79 / 84			Level	79 / 84
	Ability	Liquid Voice			Ability	Quick Draw
	Moves	Hyper Voice	Moonblast		Moves	Shell Side Arm	Psychic
		Ice Beam	Shadow Ball			Flamethrower	Ice Beam
Alcremie				Excadrill
Base article	Type	Fairy		Base article	Type	Ground /  Steel
	Tera Type	None			Tera Type	Fairy
	Gender	Female			Gender	Male
	Level	79 / 84			Level	80 / 85
	Ability	Sweet Veil			Ability	Mold Breaker
	Moves	Decorate	Recover		Moves	Tera Blast	Iron Head
		Giga Drain	Alluring Voice			Rock Tomb	High Horsepower

Trivia

• The French official website for Pokémon Scarlet and Violet misspells Lacey's French name as "Tara" in the subheading for her, even though the aforementioned website and in-game material has "Taro" as her French name.
• Lacey is currently the only Fairy-type Elite Four member.
  • She is also the only Elite Four member in the Blueberry League whose ace Pokémon doesn't have the same typing as her specialty.
• Lacey keeps her Pokémon in Nest Balls.
• Her English name is an anagram of her father's English name, with the addition of 'e.'
  • It is also derived from Araceae (plant family that includes taro) or Colocasia violacea (synonym for Colocasia esculenta, scientific name of taro).
  • It is also derived from the word 'lace,' thematically relating to her being a Fairy-type expert.
• In Scarlet and Violet, Lacey's dialogue is written in relatively neutral English. In Masters EX, however, she speaks in a Texan accent like her father.
• Lacey's pink hair and facial structure may have been inspired been inspired by Jill from the 2005 GBA game Drill Dozer, which was also made by GameFreak. This is supported by the fact that her strongest Pokémon is her Excadrill.