Carmine

Carmine is a character appearing in Pokémon Scarlet and Pokémon Violet: The Hidden Treasure of Area Zero (The Teal Mask). She is a student attending in Blueberry Academy.

Appearance Carmine is a slender young girl with yellow eyes and black hair with red highlights. Her accessory on her head is a yellow headband and her outfit is a buttoned blue shirt, a white belt, a yellow fanny pack, a red thumbless glove, blue pants with two stripes on the legs, one white and one blue and red and white shoes. She is seen with a beauty mole, very light lipstick, and her eyes being half-closed.

In The Teal Mask, Carmine is seen wearing her blue Traditional Jinbei outfit.

Personality Carmine is described to have a strong will, but is sometimes a bit selfish. She deeply cares for her younger brother Kieran despite initially being a bit rough on him, though she is sometimes oblivious to his feelings, which further complicates matters. Whenever she gets angry, her eyes generally widen and she shakes her hands violently.

Biography Carmine is the older sister of Kieran, both being born and raised in Kitakami. Both attend school in Unova's Blueberry Academy; she is also a League Club member, though she seldom visits the room and barely participates in their affairs. She and her brother were selected on a joint field trip alongside students of the Naranja and Uva Academies to their village, during which she was initially skeptical of letting outsiders come to their home.

One of the selected students from the Naranja/Uva Academy was the player, who she had a battle with upon their arrival but lost before leaving. Briar organizes the students into groups, placing the player with Kieran to find several signboards across the area. The player and Kieran quickly become friends. When the village hosts their annual "Festival of Masks", Carmine challenges the player to a battle for a mask but loses.

When they arrive at Loyalty Hall, they find a young child among the crowd who drops their mask, though the "child" is not human and Carmine suspects that they might be the ogre talked about in legends. However, rather than revealing the story to her brother, who liked the ogre, Carmine tells the player to keep the incident a secret. They later talk to her grandfather the following day, after she rudely shoos Kieran off, who tells them about the entire story. Unbeknownst to anyone, Kieran had listened in on the conversation, leaving him bitter and betrayed. This culminates in him stealing the mask that the ogre dropped during the festival, but the player manages to reclaim it after beating him in another battle. Kieran storms off, but not before punching the memorial to the Loyal Three, which results in them somehow reviving and heading to Loyalty Plaza to take Ogerpon's other masks.

Carmine and the player battle the Loyal Three at various locations across Kitakami to reclaim the masks, while Kieran successfully convinces the villagers about the truth of the story behind Ogerpon and the Loyal Three. Once the masks are returned, they return to Ogerpon's home, but Ogerpon has decided to stay with them. She watches her brother battle the player, only to lose again, resulting in Ogerpon traveling with the player. The next day, she gives a farewell speech to the students, though Kieran is not around, claiming sickness. She then returns to the academy alongside her brother and Briar.

During this time, Kieran has a sudden change of heart and becomes more obsessed with winning and strength, overthrowing Drayton as the BB League Champion and club president. Carmine and the Elite Four take note of the sudden change in his personality, though she herself does not attribute her own actions in Kitakami as the main cause, instead believing that he's going through a rebellious phase. She would recommend the player to Cyrano, who accepted and took them into the academy as an exchange student. The player would run into her in the Terarium's central zone, where she had just finished a conversation with Amarys. She later has a battle with them to show the results of her training, but ultimately loses again. When she remarks if they had seen Kieran, they overhear him berating another club member and she remarks on his change to them, before Drayton arrives and pulls the two into the club room.

After the player defeats Kieran and overthrows him as the BB League Champion and club president, Carmine is called into a classroom regarding the Great Crater of Paldea and Area Zero. They are allowed by the Paldean authorities to enter, during which they head into the deepest depths of Area Zero. When Kieran catches Terapagos and empowers it with Terastal energy, it goes berserk in its Stellar Forme, resulting in Carmine assisting the player in taking it down. Her Pokémon faints during the battle, and she convinces Kieran to assist the player. Once the player subdues and catches Terapagos, Carmine scolds Briar for nearly putting everyone in danger before they return to the academy.

The trip results in Kieran taking a temporary break from the academy, with Carmine following suit to help her brother. Kieran eventually decides to invite the player and their friends over to Kitakami, who had been paying a visit with a Mystical Pecha Berry in their bag; this caused the Pokémon Pecharunt to awaken. Pecharunt immediately enthralls Carmine, who begins talking about mochi and awkwardly chicken-dancing. Kieran and his family, unable to discern the cause, keep Carmine under wraps in their home, though Pecharunt continues to spread its influence across the village. She and the other enthralled villagers are called by Pecharunt to protect it from the player and Kieran, who the latter holds off. Once the player catches Pecharunt, Carmine returns to normal, though unaware of the events that occurred while she was enthralled. She quickly befriends Nemona, Arven and Penny and returns to the academy alongside Kieran when he decides to give it a second chance, where they may occasionally find her in the League Club Room for rematches.