Pokémon character Perrin holding a camera to her eye with her name shown on a torn-paper label.

Perrin

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Published November 14, 2026

Perrin is a photographer character from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet's "The Teal Mask" DLC, revealed in a Pokémon Presents trailer on August 8, 2023. Within hours, Twitter users floated theories that she descended from Adaman of Pokémon Legends Arceus and flooded the site with fan art of the blonde NPC. By the end of that same day, her brief trailer appearance had sparked hundreds of retweets and running jokes about instant Perrin fan clubs.

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Overview

Perrin appears in "The Teal Mask" as an NPC photographer who sends the player on photography-based missions across Kitakami1. Fan attention fixated on her design, especially her resemblance to Adaman, an older character from the Hisui region in Pokémon Legends Arceus, and lineage theories took off before the DLC even released2.

Typical posts fall into two buckets. There is stylized fan art, usually rendered in anime-adjacent styles that lean into her hat, blonde hair and camera setup3. There is also the joke "fan account" declaration, where users half-ironically crown Perrin the greatest Pokémon character within seconds of seeing her onscreen4. The theory posts stacking her next to Adaman sit alongside both.

Origin & Background

Platform
YouTube (trailer debut) / Twitter (viral spread)
Date
2023

Game Freak and Nintendo developed Pokémon Scarlet and Violet; Perrin herself debuted during a Pokémon Presents presentation on August 8, 2023, which previewed the two upcoming DLC packs, "The Teal Mask" and "The Indigo Disk"1. The trailer showed her introducing photography missions in Kitakami, and viewers clipped her brief appearance within minutes.

That same day, Twitter user @foureverboyryan suggested she was a descendant of Adaman, the Pearl Clan leader from Pokémon Legends Arceus. The tweet collected more than 170 retweets and 930 likes in under two hours2. KYM later documented this as the earliest widely circulated lineage theory6.

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How It Spread

Jokes and fan accounts followed the Adaman theory within hours. On August 8, @Truegreen7 posted that they had instantly become a fan account for "the best character in the franchise," collecting over 60 retweets and 300 likes in an hour3. The tweet set the tone for the half-serious fandom bits that followed.

Fan art arrived almost at the same time. Illustrator @K0T0H1KA shared artwork that drew more than 400 retweets and 970 likes in 30 minutes4, and @Victifreak posted additional Perrin art the same day, though it circulated in a smaller circle5. Know Your Meme later cataloged the character's reception across Twitter6. Most of the volume around Perrin stayed concentrated in that first 24 hour window after the Pokémon Presents stream.

Timeline

2023-08-08

Pokémon Presents airs on YouTube, revealing Perrin as a photographer NPC in "The Teal Mask" DLC trailer.

2023-08-08

@foureverboyryan posts the earliest widely shared theory that Perrin is a descendant of Adaman from Pokémon Legends Arceus.

2023-08-08

@Truegreen7 jokes about becoming an instant Perrin fan account, gaining 60+ retweets within an hour.

2023-08-08

Fan art by @K0T0H1KA pulls 400+ retweets and 970+ likes within 30 minutes of posting.

2023-09-13

"The Teal Mask" DLC releases, letting players actually meet Perrin in-game.

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How to Use This Meme

People typically post Perrin art, side-by-side comparisons with Adaman, or joke "instant fan account" tweets riffing on being won over by a 10-second trailer clip. Common conventions include tagging the DLC and leaning into her photographer role when drawing or writing bits about her.

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