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✧ Hey there, audience!! Your champion is here, back stronger than ever and willing to interact and answer questions!!

✧ I-I’ve been gone for a pretty long time, but I should be back in business now. Now that I’ve got that out of the way, meet my admin as well-!!

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Oh, what– SHIT– Hi-

The name’s Dari, I run this blog, um– I’m pretty similar to Leon in personality and a total memelord who can’t take shit seriously sometimes… I’m also really into shiny hunting and prefer the full-odds (1/8192 and 1/4096) style. I’ve played every generation of Pokemon except I had to skip the 6th, unfortunately. 

Welp, feel free to ask questions or talk to either of us-!! I’ve moved from @champion-evening​ to make Leon’s blog the main-

Also, the tagline on this blog is a joke we don’t talk about-

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ATTENTION FOLLOWERS

I’m moving this account!! ... Because, yeah, I want Leon to be my main-- I’m keeping this one up and posting here from now on:

https://champion-dusk.tumblr.com/

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EVERYONE HAS A CRUSH ON LEON AND IT’S HILARIOUS-- ‘CAUSE I SOMEHOW DON’T-

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Pokemon: Twilight Wings || Champion Leon Episode 7

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A drunk, vibrating Leon that I drew while drunk-

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Twilight Wings - Leon

Hey so I’ve been thinking over Sky all day long and I am not okay

Leon is not theatrical or full of himself as (at least I had) imagined him. He doesn’t even seem that unintelligent, as funny as I found all the ‘lol he’s a dumbass he gets lost all the time’ jokes, rather he seems quietly intelligent in an almost reserved way.

Opal: I can’t tell whether [Leon] wants to win… or lose. (The suggestion here seems to be that Opal means Leon is fierce on the battlefield, refusing to back down, but that off of it… He’s aloof, constantly “lost,” and that makes her wonder whether he really wants to lose. It’s a paradox. He wants to lose, but he doesn’t want to outright throw a match.)

John: He’s not really smiling, is he? (Although John is saying this in regard to the TV program, I feel like it’s an interesting choice of words considering the scene on the mountain… The fake, forced smile and upbeat tone, the gritted teeth, the slight wince he gives John and the cab driver when they find him…)

Which they find him standing on the plateau… of a mountain… despite saying he didn’t want to tire out his Charizard and he got lost “on the road.” 

The resigned happiness he uses when he’s addressing John to try to inspire him to become a trainer. Again, he’s putting it on well enough to inspire John, and it clearly meant the world to him and inspired him, but it’s still just… doesn’t seem enthusiastic. 

How he fails entirely to react to Raihan’s taunt and instead just poses. It’s not theatrical or bombastic. He just walks over and poses because… that’s what the crowd wants.

Yet, it doesn’t seem Leon wants to be displaced by just anybody and as Opal suggested, he doesn’t want to just throw a match. Leon legitimately wants to lose. He wants someone to show up and beat him and show him this isn’t all he’s meant to be, that there’s more to life than this. Remember, this man was shoved into this position at 10 years old… Also, the “I got lost” excuse. I feel like he maybe started off legitimately getting lost as a kid, but as he grew older, he leaned into this excuse to get more time to himself and avoid the constant public pressure.

Now, ladies and gents, I present to you… some scenes from the Sword and Shield games that hit a little harder with all that in mind.

1: Slumbering Weald, near the opening. Leon, who apparently can’t find his way down the straight line from Wedgehurst to Postwick, was capable of finding Hop and Victor/Gloria when they were unconscious in the Slumbering Weald which is full of thick fog. Hop even comments on it: “But you’re pants with directions!” To which Leon retorts something along the lines of, “Oh, that’s rich coming from my brother who had me worried sick!” (That’s probably not exactly it, I can’t remember and am too lazy to pull up the Bulbapedia Quotes page, but I know it’s something like that.)

2: Motostoke after Bede beats Hop. Leon remarks that Hop saw him, apologized profusely, and then ran. Ran from him like he was scared to face him. Upon learning Hop was beaten by Bede, Leon awkwardly gives some spiel about “Oh, yeah… losing makes you feel bad and… uh… well, I gotta go. Seeya!” I always thought that was really funny, but now it hits a little different. Learning that Hop didn’t want to see him because he had lost probably disillusioned Leon some and threw him off his game, and more than that, he might have had a hard time relating to the sensation of losing because he hasn’t. He wishes someone could beat him. This conversation topic verges on something rather uncomfortable with him, so he gives his practiced spiel, then dips so he doesn’t have to talk more about it.

I mean I’m not saying he’s cripplingly depressed or anything like that, don’t stretch my words, but I do think he’s over this position as champion, wishes someone strong would come along and show him this isn’t all he’s ever meant to be, and is too uncomfortable/fearful of Hop’s chasing his tail to actually talk to Hop about it.

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A short analysis of Leon’s personality (sorta)

I’m basically just going to be writing the takeaways I got from the final episode of Twilight Wings-

A side of Leon we’ve never seen in Journeys or in Sword and Shield is more fleshed out -- which would involve the pressures of being a champion. He claims he is “lost” at the top of a cliff during the episode, but it is possible he’s using that as a believable excuse as hinted through his mannerisms and tone. He knows that getting lost is a common occurrence for him, so it makes for the perfect white lie. Plus, at the beginning of the episode, the little boy from the hospital points out that it appears Leon’s faking a smile on TV.

Sooo... With that evidence, it can be argued that Leon is hiding the pressure and stress he faces as the champion and a celebrity. It’s very possible he was purposefully distancing himself from people to take a breather. This is also supported by the game itself and the animations displayed when he loses against the player -- in which he seems ashamed and/or frustrated. He may or may not have a fear of the small chance he’ll lose in front of his audience.

Another side we haven’t seen from him.... IS THE SOFT. SO MUCH SOFT. He pets the taxi Corviknight -- but also blushes when he gets the affection back. And not to mention all the very obvious hints that he’s generally a sweet person throughout the episode. He took a hospitalized kid with him to see the match against Raihan up close -- a privilege that no one else (that we know of) has received. He’s obviously got those loving big brother vibes.... Perhaps the boy reminded him of Hop when he was younger? ::THINKING EMOJI::

SOOO, YE... That’s all I’ve got for now. I’ve seen a lot of misconceptions with that “cliff” situation going around pretty quickly, people taking it literally, actually BELIEVING Leon’s bs, etc... I’m not saying I have a 100% chance of being correct, as it has not been officially stated, but I do think my interpretation of the writing is likely. 

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Leon canonically oversleeps a lot-!! So it seems my headcanon has gone canon-

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Yeeeahh-- So as a massive blaze iches near my home....

This ask blog still exists!! AHAHAH-- I swear to god, Leon’s still alive, he’s just been dead af on Tumblr-- I’ll spam with tags n’ whatnot, just-- sefdgrhjkhgfe

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He is SO pure I can’t even

Was he blushing while he petted the Kramory?

Imagine this smirk while he is behind you and whispering his undying love in your ears.

I bet every fangirl envies this kid right now

Leon is just so pure and cute. and Sakurai-sama did such an awesome job in voicing him. The gentleness in his voice made me melt.

Leon  = best dad / big brother

It’s time to beat up Raihans butt again.

Such an awesome animation style. I need more of this. So much more. Seriously, the normal anime is a joke compared to Twilight Wings.

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My HEART ;w; 👑💜💜💜

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They did so much better animating actual facial expressions onto him than the Journeys anime.... HHH...

Pokemon Twilight Wings - Episode 7 - Sky

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Mostly got this for our look at Marnie and Bede (and Tommy and Allister! I like they hang out as friends after Allister’s focus episode!), but the battle with Leon and Raihan is absolutely gorgeous!

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sunshine

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“We’re gonna have an absolutely champion time!”

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the back of a king