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"Today, on Iono's Inscrutabilities-" She started, peering as seriously as she could manage into the video camera that one of her Magneton carefully held in front of her. She was still work shopping the name of the segment. There weren't a lot of synonyms for 'mysteries' that started with the letter I. She'd considered Iono's Enigmas or Iono's Oddities, but they didn't have the same zing as genuine alliteration.

"-turns out my old school library is like TOTALLY HAUNTED. Like, some straight up Paranormal Activity type'a stuff! Books movin' on their own, VOICES..." She shivered in a very over dramatic fashion. "SO SPOOKY, GUYS. YIKES." She was definitely speaking way too loudly.

Without any real warning, she dashed towards the desk the librarian was seated at. Oh! This guy must be somewhat new, because she didn't recognize him from her time at the school only two years prior. Thank god! He looked way more fun than the cranky old lady she remembered. Though she'd been planning on accusing the old librarian herself of being the ghost, so she had to come up with something new, QUICK. In a split second decision, she pulled out the microphone she typically used to interview people with and shoved it into the man's face.

There have definitely been a few relationships, platonic and otherwise, that he wishes he could go back and change or improve at the very least.

Familial

He wishes he knew Hop better.

Hop really only knows him as "my brother Lee, the Champion" but he wishes Hop knew him just as a brother, and without the idolization. He was never able to be present in his little brother's life in any serious capacity, and as such he finds himself a little afraid of Hop realizing that Leon is just a person.

Part of him knows that Hop has a good head on his shoulders and knows that Leon isn't just his title, but he still worries that when the day comes that he's no longer Champion, Hop will be crushed by the realization that Leon is just human.

Friendship

His friendship with Sonia was never the same after he was pulled into competitive battling, and he regrets essentially ghosting her at the time. It wasn't his fault, none of it was, but he still feels responsible. Even though it was Rose that tore them apart and kept them away from each other, Leon still regrets not fighting harder for his friendship.

Leon's glad that Sonia made something of herself, but he wishes he could have been there cheering her on actively rather than just quietly catching up on her achievements through social media and the occasional text.

Romantic

Leon had his first boyfriend when he was fourteen, and it was with another trainer over in Kalos. It had been a long distance friendship at first, then a long distance relationship, and they met frequently whenever he was in the area.

It was a great relationship, but then, after a year, the conversations got more serious; talks about how Rose and the company are using Leon, that he should consider quitting and trying to be his own person. Travel, take on the Kalos league with him. But Leon shut it all down, got defensive because at that time, Rose was a father figure to him and it felt a bit like blasphemy to talk badly about him.

Their last meeting, they quite literally got into a fistfight after a friendly battle that had dissolved into a yelling match. He isn't really sure what started it, but he had certainly finished it, and the two parted ways on bad terms. Leon cried for a week straight afterwards, and refused to leave his flat until he had no choice but to get back to work.

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