Tara's Identity Sidequest

## Availability

The quest can be started as soon as the player enters the Tanzan Meteor Base. The latest point at which this quest can be started is before Postgame, as it is no longer completable once Postgame starts.

## Talk to Simon

After the Team Meteor raid on the Belrose Manse, the player will be tasked with infiltrating Team Meteor's base hidden within Tanzan Mountain. In the room right before the player confronts Team Meteor's Admins, they can encounter Simon.

Simon explains that during their raid of the Mansion, Saphira assaulted their forces from atop her Dragonite as they were crossing Tanzan Cove's Lake. With nowhere to hide, she made quick work of Team Meteor's forces, wiping nearly all of them out and killing Simon's partner, Tara. After exhausting Simon's dialogue, the player is free to continue on. If the player does not talk to Simon before the Tanzan Meteor base is destroyed, he will instead appear much later in a room in the Glass Workstation. He will be in that room until the end of main game.

## Simon's Grief

Simon is next encountered at the Beryl Ward Cemetery, where he can be talked to. He explains that while he never knew her full name, he still believes Tara deserved a proper burial. Unable to retrieve her body, however, he resolved to simply make a tombstone as a way to remember her, and placed it near the tombstone of his late wife, Lyssa. Both tombstones can be interacted with, where the player learns Simon's last name; Copperman.

Simon will then take off his uniform and depart for his home in the Peridot Ward, next to the Pokémart. Talking to Simon in his home will have him again remark that he never knew Tara's full name. The next stage of the quest isn't available until the player returns to Reborn City following the Agate Circus story segment.

## Finding Tara

After obtaining Badge 13 and getting access to Fly, the player can head to Tanzan Cove and look for Tara's body themselves. Inspecting the bodies of the fallen Meteor Grunts underwater will show the player their name. An unmarked body, presumably Tara, can be found in the western portion of the lake, below the Field Readout for the Flower Garden Field. The body is missing its ID, Tag however, and thus Tara's name remains a mystery. Resurfacing, the player can head to the east side of the lake, where a Fisherman will suggest the ID Tag was eaten by one of the local Whiscash. He gives the player the Super Rod, and offers to search any Whiscash the player brings him for the missing ID Tags.

From here the player will have to fish up multiple Whiscash and hand them in to the Fisherman to search for the ID Tags. After giving him 3 Whiscash, the Fisherman will say that he's found Tara's ID Tags, where it's revealed Tara's last name was Copperman.

## Conclusion

Returning to Simon, the player may give him the ID Tag, where he expresses shock at learning Tara shared his last name. Unsure of what to do with himself, he thanks the player for their efforts by giving them TM06 Toxic, and promptly leaves to reevaluate his life choices.

## Rewards

The main rewards of this sidequest is the Super Rod and the TM06 Toxic.

This quest is not completable once the player reaches Postgame. If the player misses out on this quest, they can obtain the two items in the Lost and Found counter in the Underground Railnet once they reach Tier 1 in the Postgame. The counter is accessible after the player donates to the Railnet Reconstruction Project in the Grand Hall, and can be reached from the rails going to Opal Ward from Lower Peridot Ward.