#team rocket executives

[thtupidity]

They consume my mind. Special place in hell for all of them.

[rainc4ndy-u]

Nobody understands how absolutely INSANE I am over these

THE HGSS EXECS ARE FINALLY GETTING OFFICAL RECOGNITION AUGHHHH MY HYPERFIXATION YAYYYYYY

[trustymikh]

yooo I love Team Rocket's executives fan squad! Do you have any more sketches with them?

I do, actually! It's of Giovanni giving Petrel directions on what to do and say while impersonating him (to throw the police off). Petrel's just running his mouth as usual

[rodem]

Ok I did it I finally set out what I promised myself I'd do. I'm free! (Now I just need to stop stalling on the Cyrus scenario draft....................)

Here is my translation of the leaked rough sketches for the remake Rocket executives. These images are attributed to Takao Unno, the art director for HGSS. It was already known that he was the artist behind Proton and Petrel, because of the TCG, but it is nice to have confirmation that he designed all of them!

As you can see, because these are formally unreleased, wip concept sketches, I wouldn't take any of the "new" information here as gospel regarding their final game selves. Though getting to see the initial ideas behind their designs and personalities is a big treat in and of itself!

Also this probably doesn't need to be said here, but please respect the Gamefreak employees and don't bother them with anything related to leaks in any capacity.

If you want to share my translation of this leak on another site, please only do so by linking to this Tumblr post and don't repost the images directly. (This also probably isn't something to worry about, but I'm saying it just in case.....)

Under the read more is my translation notes and personal thoughts:

Archer: Archer's notes were the big bottleneck for this, ngl. I was unsure what the nuance was with "he wants to become Giovanni," so I spent a decent amount of time looking into it. Based on that, I can infer that the nuance here is that Archer's feelings of admiration for Giovanni are so strong that he either wants to straight up be Giovanni, or exactly like him. Either way, it implies a desire to be just like the other person so strong that you lose your own sense of self. So take of that what you will I guess…..

Ariana: I translated the last bullet point under the assumption that it was referring to the plot point where Ariana and her subordinate go after the player character in the TR HQ. Japanese doesn't have plurals so when I first read it I thought it said they routinely attack children together, but I am going to assume that that wasn't what Mr. Unno was going for here.

Petrel: Petrel and Proton's names being switched around here is not a mistake on my part, btw. Petrel's arrogant way of talking is present in the final game! I have no idea how obvious it is in the English version tbh, so I'm pointing it out here!

(Example: he uses "ore-sama" in HGSS like twice ok. He's so cute and I love him so so much.)

Based on the wording, I'm still kinda unsure if the mole was intended to also be fake. (I'm leaning towards yes rn.) So I will just leave this convo I had with a friend here:

Also in relation to lack of plurals, you could interpret the hat line as him hating hats in general, but based on the context it's most likely just referring to the TR hat.

Proton: I don't really have much to say here except that I've stared at his cleavage for longer than necessary.

There is another leaked image that shows Proton from the front (definitely made as an internal reference image). It is interesting that this reference gives him a grey undershirt while his official depictions from the front (Hitoshi Ariga's 3ds theme and Masters) have him wearing a white one!

[kingtoruu]

yea

[dioderent]

[moldymutt]

cringetober day 7 - pinterest art base [original by mellonsoup under the cut]

[petrelkisser]

Made this stamp so I can use it on my artfight profile ehehehe

[sazkus]

basically the whole point they took over the radio tower

redraw of this meme that is going around!

[pearl-the-artist]

I can't even begin to explain what prompted this idea

[thtupidity]

i almost didn't post this because i thought it was too gay... but it's funny to me so here it is

[jadeazora]

Text post/meme dump. The only person Proton has any degree of respect for and will not harass is Giovanni. Archer may outrank him but Proton 100% bullies the shit outta him, and Archer can't really do much about it.

(also, speaking as an autistic person myself, if you play PMEX/read the Pokespe manga, Ingo and Emmet def have some autistic traits with how they speak/some other behaviors of theirs. This person here goes more into detail than I care to on a joke post, but I saw the caption and they're the first characters I thought of. 😅)

[chimeraartist]

Pokemon HGSS in a nutshell

Bonus:

[banhbeotim]

so happy she got her own card and comic <3

[trustymikh]

I just wanna stop by real quick to say that I really adore your Gio art, especially the little scenes with Persian... They're so good and you draw them so distinctively, they're all visually so full of character <3 Thank you!

awawawa thank you!!! :D

to me Giovanni is a perfect combination of that villain trope, 'horrible person who treats their pet better than anyone else' and someone who I can project my cat ownership experiences onto

I imagine she looooves to snuggle with him and every morning Giovanni cannot get up without giving her 'good morning' kisses first

[suirizmi]

my favorite pokemon characters! (based on this)