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Quest

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This might have already been asked in this thread before, but is everyone here comfortable with shipping Ash and Misty with other characters, despite Pokéshipping being your favorite pairing?

I support many shippings for Ash, and two other main ones for Misty (Ego + SomeoneElse). However, Poke will always come out on top.

Other Ramblings for today:

3 New fanfiction ideas.

- First is too sad for words.
- Second is...unfisnished. It had a good start and then floundered.
- Last is as story that I built upon from a Pokeshippy dream I had...it's revived from my Junior High short live fandom...

No luck there. But maybe a fanart? This weekend? I'll see if I have time.
 

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Well, I'd ship Ash with May if it weren't for me also being a contestshipper, and I hate conflicts. As for Misty, her choices are kinda limited. Tracy and Brock jsut don't feel right to me.
 

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Well, I'd ship Ash with May if it weren't for me also being a contestshipper, and I hate conflicts. As for Misty, her choices are kinda limited. Tracy and Brock just don't feel right to me.

I like Contestshipping, too, but that's not why I woudn't ship May with Ash. (And, for the record, Pokeshipping isn't the only reason I wouldn't ship May with Ash.) But that's for a another day.

Misty with Brock or Tracy? Blegh. I agree. They really don't feel right.

It's funny, but I really can't think of a single other character with whom I could ship Misty. (Ash, I can think of several.)

Some people think that, in lieu of Ash's reciprocation, Tracy would have been a good match for Misty. True, he's mature like she is and (a lot) less of a moron than Ash, but look at those qualities that must have won over Misty. Ash is excitable, headstrong, stubborn, heroic.... Tracy is, well--not. Misty shouldn't have to settle.

Some people say it's a shame to degrade her character by having her pine away, un-recipricated, for Ash. ([Note, technically, Misty has never been rejected because Ash is just a moron.]) I think it would be a much sadder thing for her to settle with someone who wasn't right for her. Misty would totally run over Tracy. There'd be no passion, there.

As for Brock, we already know that Misty aims younger rather than older! (Just kidding.) Of the thousands of girls that Brock has completely lost his mind over, Brock has never even raised a degree of body temperature toward Misty. And she counseled him about Temacu in "The Heartbreak of Brock," clearly venting her own frustrations over Ash and wanting to see Brock make Temacu's wishes come true.

And while I'm on "Heartbreak of Brock," think about how sad Misty's comments about unrequited love were, in a way. We want to respect her character, so in real life, we would say "Get over it. Go to Cerulean. Make a name for yourself and stop pining for this moron." And Misty did just that, ***BUT*** this is not real life!

To have those 5 seasons of Pokeshipping hints, many of them not even debatable; and to have those seasons and seasons of scripting and animation and time spent developing that love-interest as a subplot; to have all of that be just for waste, well... isn't that just kind of sad?

We watch TV because it's not real life.

Misty belongs with Ash.

C'mon writers/producers, you started it!
 

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And while I'm on "Heartbreak of Brock," think about how sad Misty's comments about unrequited love were, in a way. We want to respect her character, so in real life, we would say "Get over it. Go to Cerulean. Make a name for yourself and stop pining for this moron." And Misty did just that, ***BUT*** this is not real life!

I really had a thought about this when I mulled over the hints. Notice that Ash seems to be more interested in Misty than Misty in Ash in the Togepi episodes. Perhaps Misty had gotten over it, but Ash had not? Nah, that's just wishful thinking...

To have those 5 seasons of Pokeshipping hints, many of them not even debatable; and to have those seasons and seasons of scripting and animation and time spent developing that love-interest as a subplot; to have all of that be just for waste, well... isn't that just kind of sad?

We watch TV because it's not real life.

Misty belongs with Ash.

C'mon writers/producers, you started it!

Thus the reason I wrote a specific fanfiction a while ago, most of you read it if I recall.

Ash probably will end the show asexual at this rate. Or, in my hope, with a slight inclination towards someone.

But if he ends up with someone else, that makes Misty's existance in so many seasons, and her feelings for him as well, completely worthless. Which would make her character quite tragic, and very sad.

Misty seems to have endured the most pain of any female main character whatsoever. She has no parents, she's abandoned her dream, she's had to leave her friends, and they left her... In short, it would be another thing to add to the list. To close her story in such a way would be a dissapointment.

On the other hand, I'm not asking for anything much to happen. I think a kiss on the cheek would actually be stretching it, even a hug possibly.
 
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OMG #PokeShipping is now officially open to the public!!!! :D

BTW I also ship Ash with Angie or Anabel.
 

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IMisty seems to have endured the most pain of any female main character whatsoever. She has no parents, she's abandoned her dream,

To be honest there hasnt been any indication that Misty has given up from her dream of becoming water master.As its been showed after departure,she still likes water types,training them wanting to become best with them still having that competitive fire in her(like it was case before).

Now if it was the case like with Gary at end of Johto,when he stated his retirement from being pokemon trainer switching to pokemon researcher thing we would have something.But she didnt.

True she went back to gym,but do i need to remind how this was out of obligation(not because she wanted),and even later in some chronicle/cameo episodes along with happiness she also showed signs of displeasure being unsatisfied with current position implying desire to travell again(if its needed ill list scenes which showed this),staying more due to not thrusting her incompetent sisters enough to leave gym in their hands(in other words not having anyone to rely on).Situation with Cerulean gym isnt completely black and white,with grey areas being present around.In other words its a little bit complicatedIif people get what i mean).

Nevertheless some say how gym could serve as somekind o "stepping stone" helping partially toward what Misty wants to achieve,but in reality its not nearly enough,with way for going step forward(becoming stronger) being in leaving said position for some period of time.

What im trying to say is that we have no idea what are writers plans with her character in future.They could easily have her appear for some water tournament(perhaps second Whirl Cup?) which would in case of winning bring her one step closer toward her goal,or less likely option bring her back to cast taking more active approach toward this dream(considering how current position is just holding potential back).

Afterall in end they are the ones who have main word,deciding what will happen.

p.s.wanted to say my 2 cents about this whole subject.
 

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I call Harry Potter on this. Ginny loved Harry, he didn't care. She gave up on him, Harry now loves Ginnny. He's lucky she never fully gave up.

I say the same for Misty.
 

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As I have said before, I don't really ship Ash with that many other characters, mainly because most PokéShipping hints are concrete and reasonable. To PearlShippers, Ash and Dawn giving each other a high five means they're a couple.

[sarcasm]Yeah, a high five between two people SOOOOOOO means they're in love.[/sarcasm]
 

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I agree that Misty has had to endure a lot with how her character has been developed. The only saving grace for her is that Daisy occasionally steps up and takes some responsibility from her sister, but these moments are usually few and far between. :-(

As for shipping Ash or Misty with other characters, I'm pretty set in them being together. I'm not completely against other ships, but poke makes the most sense for me. I could see Ash with Angie, Anabel, May and a few others, but even with those ships, I'd still see Ash realizing that Misty was more of a match for him. I have nothing against Angie or Anabel, but just being a tomboy isn't enough. Misty is a tomboy but can look really good when she decides to and she has that temper which keeps Ash on his toes. I really don't see anyone who matches well with Misty from the show. Rudy does catch her interest but I don't see Misty wanting to be pampered all the time, and Rudy would attempt to do so often. Misty just fits with Ash and Ash with Misty.

But it would be entertaining if Misty were to come back, Ash starts showing some serious interest in her but she's accepted that he's still extremely dense towards romance and doesn't really react to it.

Perhaps then we could see some of the old rash Ash coming back where he acts before he thinks and perhaps do something that could royally anger Misty but instead shows her that even after all that time, he still really cares for her and that her hopes aren't completely lost.
 

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I don't ship Ash with anybody else, because, truth be told, I actually don't like him very much any more.
And I try not to ship Misty with anybody else, but I can't help but ship her with Georgio and Gary
Me too. Georgio is just too cute and I kinda find SomeoneElseShipping really adorable. But if I would have to choose, I would love to see Gary and Misty together.
 

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Thinking about it, I don't think I've ever been into any alternate Satoshi/Ash ships, but, granted, it's a bit of a bias since I haven't seen him interact much with other female characters outside of Kanto/Orange Island stuff. Only Hikari so far and I didn't watch enough of AG to get much of an impression with how he interacted with Haruka.

As for Kasumi, I've liked her paired up with Kenji, Shigeru, and Toru (notice a pattern with this? lol All Kanto characters). My favorite, of those three, though, is still Kenji x Kasumi aside from Satoshi x Kasumi.
 

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This might have already been asked in this thread before, but is everyone here comfortable with shipping Ash and Misty with other characters, despite Pokéshipping being your favorite pairing?

For Ash yeah like Morpheus (2nd favorite shipping), Advance & Ability but Misty on the other hand, I can only see her with Ash. Maybe Ritchie but that's because he is similar to Ash.
 

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The Misty ships I'm comfortable with are the following:

EgoShipping (GaryxMisty)
NovelShipping (PaulxMisty)
OrangeShipping (TraceyxMisty)
DanceShipping (RudyxMisty)
SomeoneElseShipping (GeorgioxMisty)

Yeah, those are my faves. Can't change that. But PokeShipping remains number 1.
 

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I'm pretty okay with orangeshipping for Misty and morpheus for Ash, but pokeshipping is by far my favorite.
 

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Strangely enough, it seems that these side shippings we like make Pokeshipping somewhat more obvious.

Danceshipping and SomeoneElseshipping most notably (I don't know the name of Danny/Misty, if it exists). Possibly Orangeshipping too, so I've heard, but I don't know for sure.
 

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:spin:I wouldn't mind shipping Misty with Paul and Ash with Angie, but Pokeshipping still remains #1.
 

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Talk about off topic much...._.'

Alot of people have been saying Misty won't kiss Ash, it been depressing me so here's a topic.

If Misty does kisses Ash will you go on and on saying PS is Canon now and how any other or possible Ash ship can't happen now?

If it happen it just confrims Misty likes Ash nothing more, but because pokeshippers want to say "I told you so" so much other shippers are hoping nothing will happen. Honestly for everytime you brag about your shipping and another shipper crys, and I be happy to stop pokeshippers from getting big heads thinking PS is becoming canon.

Seriously I just want the shipping wars to end. Therefore no one will want something bad to happen to a shipping just because of the shippers.
 

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If Misty does kisses Ash will you go on and on saying PS is Canon now and how any other or possible Ash ship can't happen now?

In my eyes, it all depends on context and how Ash reacts. A kiss would be a major hint that Misty still likes/loves Ash. Ash's reaction would be telling of his feelings, but I'd think there would be some kind of reaction from him even with his density towards romance. I think Ash would respond positively, though he'd probably ask Misty why she did it and still be confused by what took place.

So with that in mind, I wouldn't say that PS was canon at that point though. I'd say it's strongly hinted at but unless they are actually referred to as a couple, in couple terms or Delia makes a comment about how nice it is seeing Ash and Misty together (Like "Oh, my little Ash is growing up so fast"), it wouldn't be canon in my mind. But even if it were to become canon, I, personally, wouldn't lord it over other ships. I respect other people's views too much to act that way.
 
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