Alcremie might not be a Ghost type, but raising two of them (especially Frillish, Lampent is mostly deadpan and disinterested, Frillish is purely chaotic energy when he’s not kept busy with a battle), Trip felt pretty confident he could handle it!!

Besides... Alcremie does sound really sweet and cute, like Vanillite...

Festivals always make him nostalgic, too, for the first time he met Alder...

So, camera in hand and his own Frillish at his side, he started walking around, trying to find evidence of something being amiss!

Frillish searched for a few seconds beside his trainer, before vanishing. Trip walked some distance before hearing a yelp and whipping around to find Frillish terrorizing one of the vendors to steal snacks (it doesn’t even need to eat those)...

“HEY!!”

And while Frillish is disrupting things, its own stolen tropical fruits and berries get (double???)-stolen by a cream-coloured Alcremie.