moved.

❝ Why have enemies when you can have friends? ❞

❝ I thought you’d be taller and would have a beard. ❞

❝ I see you’re trying to get me to do something razzle-dazzle with that sword. ❞

❝ There’s an army of you, there’s only one of me. ❞

❝ I’ve talked, I’m happy to talk, but there is no way… that I am fighting. ❞

❝ Hang that up, don’t want it getting creased. ❞

❝ It should be clear by now that whatever you and your friends think I am, I am not it. ❞

❝ It’s all yours, son. Though I warn you, it’s got quite a bite. ❞

❝ You wanted to know what gave me such drive? It was you. ❞

❝ I am here now because of you. You created me. And for that, I bless you. ❞

❝ You’re no longer dealing with the man you previously met. ❞

❝ You’re no longer a myth. You’re starting to mean something. ❞

❝ You are resisting the sword. The sword isn’t resisting you. ❞

❝ You want him to think big? Give him something big to think about. ❞

❝ They’re fighting in your name. ❞

❝ How do you get money from a Viking? ❞

❝ You have won, [ NAME ]. You have won. Now, play with me. ❞

❝ When people fear you, it is the most intoxicated position a man can possess. ❞

❝ You know what happens now. You’re quickly becoming a legend. ❞

❝ This lot’s been trying that for years. Good luck doing that for them. ❞

❝ And once you finish it, how are you supposed to get to the middle? ❞

❝ Let me show you what your uncle will do if you do not accept. ❞

❝ The sword is yours now, son. Take it. ❞

❝ Long live the King! Long live the King! ❞

❝ I’m a little old for finger-wagging and speeches. ❞

❝ Can you just get around to telling me exactly what it is you want? ❞

❝ It’s quite dangerous being one of you lot, isn’t it? ❞

❝ You’re good with animals, aren’t you? ❞

❝ Never met one of you in the flesh. I thought you’d be taller…  ❞

❝ You have to break his old self completely, wear him down. ❞

❝ You’re playing with fire, [ NAME ]. ❞

❝ I’m not killing the king before he’s even become one! ❞

❝ Pick it up. Pick it up with both hands. ❞

❝ If you want that sword so much, your lordship, you can keep it… ❞

❝ Now, that would have hurt a lot more if I’d left the ring on. ❞

❝ It was [ NAME ] who murdered your father ❞

❝ Did you see everything you needed to see? ❞

❝ I need you to do as I tell you. I need to get you and the boy away from here. ❞

❝ You sharpened the blade. You created me. ❞

❝ Why has the water dropped? Why does the sword reveal itself now? ❞

❝ As your power increases, so do to the forces that will oppose you. ❞

❝ The born king will come. It is inevitable. ❞

❝ You felt it, didn’t you, my power? ❞

❝ I’ve never had any power or any desire to achieve it. ❞

❝ Don’t worry. You will soon understand what all the fuss is about. ❞

❝ What you didn’t account for is what you can do with this sword. ❞

❝ You wanted the prophecy, this is your prophecy. ❞

❝ The man who pulled sword from stone, behold, your born king! ❞

❝ Because for the first time, there is something you don’t know. ❞

❝ What gave you such drive? you felt if, the power, didn’t you? ❞

❝ I’m not getting drawn into this mess! ❞

❝ There are rumors, the legend of the sword, of a king other than yourself. ❞

❝ Listen to me, I need you to do as I tell you. ❞

❝ If I go down, you follow him. If he goes down, you follow me. ❞

❝ Did you see everything you needed to see? ❞

❝ Are you scared? You should be. ❞

❝ You make sense of the devil. ❞

❝ You put me in that brothel. You cut me on the streets. ❞

❝ But doesn’t it make the palace burn well? ❞

❝ No, I mean I’m sorry. You’ve made a mistake. ❞

❝ I’ll step off this throne and you can deal with me as the man you previously met. ❞

❝ Well, now that’s out the way, let’s eat. ❞

❝ I understand there’s been a change in the leadership. ❞

❝ I am confident that you will still honor the agreement made. ❞

❝ I’m prepared to extend the deadline by a week. ❞

❝ We’ve been wondering what you were doing in here. ❞

❝ I like it. What is it? ❞

aight link to the full interview translation bc theres parts where tomiyasu talks abt leon & raihan minus satoshi & go involvement stuff that i thought was real neat, esp abt raihan as a character / person

ok so First Of All, love the acknowledgement of hey what the fuck does “i wanna be a pkmn master” actually mean, & love even more the response of “it’s something for him to idolize” because.      god if that’s not how i treat that goal.     it’s something abstract that doesn’t have any actual finish line but what it encompasses sure involves a Lot.

second, “maybe he feels more at ease now?? [..] up until very recently satoshi had always been the “challenger” but then in the previous series, he went & got himself his first win in the alola pokemon league. so he was just a bit gloomy about never getting himself a title but now that he has one he feels more at ease & can relax, maybe…??”     hoooh boy that’s the part i ohohohoooh nooo’d about, because.     not only does that make me think of the last sumo op w/ satoshi being upset while the op sings “look, the tears of frustration you’ve hidden beneath your cap..”, which, Ow, but also like.     ok ignoring the fact that the reply implies that his alola win is his only champ title, i’ll give him a pass assuming he’s talking bout champ titles that are one per person ksdfjhg, it just feels kinda like this is validating my assertions that satoshi doesn’t really feel satisfied w/ himself as a trainer unless he accomplishes something on a champion level, like, not even clearing the kanto battle frontier, something that Incredibly few trainers have done, feels like enough of an accomplishment to feel like he can ease up.     also really like the “senior / junion trainer” stuff in this interview esp since i gushed abt satoshi taking up a mentory / advisory role to inexperienced trainers yday sdkfgjskj.

third, “for satoshi, at least, leon is a clear goal, someone he wants to battle. leon’s someone who’s stronger than him & is pretty close to being this ideal version of a pokemon trainer for him. satoshi has already locked onto leon but he’s doing so as a goal for him to accomplish, not just as someone he looks up to.”     ok let’s get out of the way the “pretty close to being this ideal version” right off the bat, not even the literal strongest trainer in the world matches up to satoshi’s ideals of a trainer, young man how high are your standards —     second, i like the implication that for satoshi, leon is someone to defeat first & foremost & everything else, among which an amazing trainer that satoshi gets starstruck watching battle, second.     like, yeah it’s a very standard trainer vs gym leader / frontier brain / elite 4 / champion kind of professionalism, but with satoshi himself being a champion it kind of hits different, ykno ??