Tera: "Okay, Dory and Clawdia will be going out for Halloween as a Pikachu and a Meowth... Again... Ray, any thoughts? Oh, and I am going to insist you at least wear a shirt this time. You went out as Tarzan last year, Kratos before that -- I don't want the neighbors getting any wrong ideas."

Ray: "What neighbors? We live on our own personal island." (pause) "But I already thought about that. Everybody thinks I should go as a Pokemon, and I won't disappoint on that. But I didn't want it to look like I was picking favorites among the family, so..." (steps out in his new Milotic costume) "What do you think? Do I look-"

Milotic: "O-M-G he's so cute!"

Ray: "Oh crap! I forgot about Mi-"

Milotic: "I love it!" (wraps around him) "You're like my own little human son."

Ray: "Oh, Arceus, no! That's precisely the thing I was trying to avoid!"

Milotic: (nuzzles him) "Milotic, and her Milo-tyke." (coos)

Ray: "Milo-what?" (pause) "Oh." (blushes) "That's going to haunt me all the way into adulthood, isn't it."

Tera: (nods) "Very likely."

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