Tricia: The Sister Who Runs the Pokémon Center Shop

Of Centra City's three receptionists, she's the one who sells. Tricia debuted in Pokémon Masters EX, where she runs the shop at the Pokémon Center alongside her sisters Trista and Trinnia. Her counter is no mere backdrop: three operations the player repeats over and over are grouped there, and the only Center employee who talks restocking and sales targets stands behind it at all times.

Contents

• The Shop at the Centra City Pokémon Center
• A Clerk Who Thinks in Sales Figures
• Two Scenes Where She Drops the Sales Pitch
• A Greek Name in French, a Botanical One Everywhere Else
• Tricia at a Glance
• Frequently Asked Questions

The Shop at the Centra City Pokémon Center

The front desk of the Centra City Pokémon Center is entrusted to three sisters — Trista, Tricia and Trinnia — and the job isn't the same for each of them. Tricia's is the Shop, the only desk in the building that's openly about commerce.

Talking to her opens up three separate operations: sync pair scouts, buying gems and exchanging various items. A live-service game like this one usually scatters these functions across separate menus; here, they all sit behind a single person, which makes her screen one of the most visited in the game.

The setup means more than it seems. Tricia battles no one and leads no battles: her presence serves only to equip the player before they go fight elsewhere. She's the supply stop in a game that otherwise talks only about sync pairs and battles.

A Clerk Who Thinks in Sales Figures

Her profile describes her as the least hesitant of the three sisters: always ready to close one more sale, she greets her customers with an enthusiasm that neither Trista nor Trinnia shows to the same degree. Here, confidence is as much a professional trait as a personality one.

Her idle lines confirm it better than any job description. When the shop is empty, she worries about the lack of customers, thinks about redecorating, reminds herself to place an order to restock the shelves, and hopes out loud to beat her sales targets. The vocabulary is that of a store, not a reception desk.

One detail completes the picture: she puts herself in a Trainer's shoes to say she'd buy a given item — which she isn't. She also knows how to spot the product that would suit a particular customer. Tricia thus holds the position of a shopkeeper who knows her clientele without being part of it.

Finally, the shop serves as her platform. She flags new arrivals, calls out to passersby about what just hit the shelves, and she's the one who announces the Battle Buffet Bash: a limited-time attraction set up in Pasio, modeled on Alola's Battle Buffet, where the dishes are prepared by the island's Trainers, who cook as well as they battle. The rule she lays out is worth noting — two diners who want the same plate battle it out, and the dish goes to the winner.

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Two Scenes Where She Drops the Sales Pitch

The first plays out as a patient leaves the infirmary. Paulo picks up his Rockruff, now fully recovered; Trista points out that it was his friend Tina who found the Pokémon in bad shape and carried it to the Center, and Trinnia stresses that any later treatment would have ended badly. Tricia, for her part, follows the thought all the way through and spells out what would have happened if it had been attacked in that condition.

The second finds her facing intimidation. A Team Rocket grunt orders the people in the Center to hand the place over to him, and worry spreads through the group. Trinnia offers reassurance first, then Tricia cuts it short: the sisters can hold their own too. Nothing shows them actually battling, but the idea of being protected doesn't sit well with them.

Both scenes are brief, and they say the same thing. The game never turns Tricia into a fighter, but it also refuses to make her an extra: she speaks up when the situation turns serious, once to name the worst-case scenario, once to refuse it.

A Greek Name in French, a Botanical One Everywhere Else

The trio has been named twice, following two unrelated logics. The French version draws on the Charites of Greek mythology, whose names Thalie, Aglaé and Euphrosyne bear — a choice that gives three employees of a healing center a rather unexpected divine lineage.

The game's other languages, including the original, turned to subspecies of Viola tricolor. There, the trio becomes a bouquet of flowers rather than a mythological triad, and the family tie between the three sisters remains readable by entirely different means.

You can see the trace of it in the translations: Aglaé is called Tricia in English and Trixi in German. Two completely separate naming systems therefore coexist for the same character, and French-speaking players never encounter the one the developers originally intended.

Tricia at a Glance

Frequently Asked Questions

• Who is Tricia in Pokémon Masters EX?
  One of the three receptionists at the Centra City Pokémon Center, along with her sisters Trista and Trinnia. Her post is the Center's Shop.
• What can you do at her counter?
  Use sync pair scouts, buy gems and exchange various items. All three operations go through her alone.
• Does Tricia have any Pokémon?
  Her profile gives her a Blissey. That doesn't make her a Trainer, and the game never has her battle: the other Pokémon she comes across, like Paulo's Rockruff, are patients at the Center.
• What is the Battle Buffet Bash she announces?
  A limited-time attraction set up in Pasio, inspired by Alola's Battle Buffet. The dishes are cooked by the island's Trainers, and two diners who want the same plate have to battle for it.
• Where do the names of Tricia and her sisters come from?
  In French, from Greek mythology: the three Charites. In the original version and the other languages, the names come from subspecies of Viola tricolor. That's why Aglaé becomes Tricia in English and Trixi in German.

In short

Tricia has no badges and no victories to her name, and her Blissey never battles: her entire role comes down to a sales counter. That's precisely what makes her useful to the game, which entrusts her with both keeping the player supplied and announcing its events. In a game that talks only about battles, she's the voice that gears you up before sending you off — and the only one of the three sisters who measures her day in sales targets.