Wroah, it’s been almost 3 and a half years since Satoshi has made a proper appearance on my dA! I have actually drawn Satoshi plenty of times since then, but I‌ never posted the drawings here due to the fear of confusing people. But now–hopefully–that confusion will be staved somewhat with a good ol’ giant info-dump about Satoshi and the differences between he and Ash.

Satoshi is the head of Team Rainbow Rocket (Team RR for short), after taking the position from his father–Sakaki. Team RR is a benevolent organization, but Satoshi isn’t shy about making deals in Kanto’s seedy underbelly for the greater good.

He has been trained to control Wave (Aura in English) with extremely destructive success. He has quite the laundry list of abilities so they require their own info-dump of their own someday. I will say that he can understand Pokémon and constantly performs vibe checks on everyone he meets. Satoshi has a number of small scars over his body, mostly from the harsh training Sakaki had put him through to unlock his Wave abilities. He has two notable facial scars; one on his right cheek and another on his left temple.

The scar on his cheek is from being struck across the face by Sakaki, with one of the man’s rings tearing Satoshi’s cheek open.

The scar on his temple is the remains of a much larger head wound that he got while protecting the TRio while out on a mission together. This head injury caused Satoshi to lost most of his memories and his personality to turn more dark.

Despite it all, Satoshi is still very much a sweetheart who’ll do anything to protect the ones he loves. He does have issues with compartmentalizing and suppressing his emotions so he can keep up his “big scary mob boss” image, as a good amount of said image is an act to keep his competition in line. He’s got a major inferiority complex and struggles with feeling undeserving of his friends and family.