[Colress is quiet for a moment as he chooses his words carefully for his answer. It's a very good question, and it's one he's never directly faced until today. He's had time to walk a more just path, but...has he actually changed? It is with this question that he puts all of that reflecting to the test.
He closes his eyes and exhales slowly before looking back toward Tarrlok.]
A good start is recognizing what was wrong with your previous actions- more specifically, that those actions were wrong in the first place. Sometimes that does not happen organically. Sometimes a push from an outside source is needed. I might not have if it wasn't for my encounter with Rosa.
But I think that the potential willingness to change has to be there as well. Ghetsis, for example...refused to take anything away from his first defeat except for an even stronger desire to seize Unova for himself. Your father may have hid his inner desires, but it seems to me that he was very much like Ghetsis in this regard.
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In my own case, after I received my long-desired answer from Rosa, she was kind enough to visit me many times and allowed me to battle her- to observe her methodology and learn from the way she loved and trusted her Pokemon. It was thanks to this that I began to treat my own Pokemon as more than business partners. They became my dear friends. And I began to see others as more than possible objects of study and more as people. I gained a desire to work not just for myself, but to aid others.
I believe...you have to be open to feedback. You need to be able to listen to others' observations, and reflect. When I look back on more recent events in my life, I consider what the Colress of two years ago would have done in the same situation. Would he have dealt with the events in Alola differently? I believe so. I believe he would've allowed Team Rainbow Rocket's dimensional rift to continue to exist simply so he could see what it was capable of. If they took over the region...so be it.
[That's a story in and of itself though, so he wraps up his long-winded answer there.]
If it is any consolation, Tarrlok, I already see you reflecting. I know it was likely traumatic to learn of your future in the way you did- to be confronted with the consequences of your decisions before you even made them. You've had to sit with this information to months, and I could see how much it was hurting you. But...you are moving in the right direction.
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He closes his eyes and exhales slowly before looking back toward Tarrlok.]
A good start is recognizing what was wrong with your previous actions- more specifically, that those actions were wrong in the first place. Sometimes that does not happen organically. Sometimes a push from an outside source is needed. I might not have if it wasn't for my encounter with Rosa.
But I think that the potential willingness to change has to be there as well. Ghetsis, for example...refused to take anything away from his first defeat except for an even stronger desire to seize Unova for himself. Your father may have hid his inner desires, but it seems to me that he was very much like Ghetsis in this regard.
[...]
In my own case, after I received my long-desired answer from Rosa, she was kind enough to visit me many times and allowed me to battle her- to observe her methodology and learn from the way she loved and trusted her Pokemon. It was thanks to this that I began to treat my own Pokemon as more than business partners. They became my dear friends. And I began to see others as more than possible objects of study and more as people. I gained a desire to work not just for myself, but to aid others.
I believe...you have to be open to feedback. You need to be able to listen to others' observations, and reflect. When I look back on more recent events in my life, I consider what the Colress of two years ago would have done in the same situation. Would he have dealt with the events in Alola differently? I believe so. I believe he would've allowed Team Rainbow Rocket's dimensional rift to continue to exist simply so he could see what it was capable of. If they took over the region...so be it.
[That's a story in and of itself though, so he wraps up his long-winded answer there.]
If it is any consolation, Tarrlok, I already see you reflecting. I know it was likely traumatic to learn of your future in the way you did- to be confronted with the consequences of your decisions before you even made them. You've had to sit with this information to months, and I could see how much it was hurting you. But...you are moving in the right direction.