#baseballshipping

𝓢𝓱𝓲𝓹𝓹𝓲𝓷𝓰

It is probably one the biggest aspects in EVERY (I repeat EVERY) fandom out there. Whether you ship the main guy with the main girl, main guy with his rival, his rival with the background character, the heroes mom with that evil villain or even (I do NOT support this, but it exists) incest shipping. THE LIST GOES ON!

Now I’ve been pretty low-key on my shipping views, but I’ve been saying it for years that I’m not really that much of a shipper HOWEVER! That doesn’t mean that I never really cared for it...in fact I do look forward to some characters interact with one another in hopes to deepen their relationship and get some adorable moments out of it. In terms of shipping “main girls” with Ash, I pretty much do with all of them ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ so I guess you could say I’m a multi-shipper with no true OTP. Pokémon is in fact the FIRST show that I ever shipped fictional characters, and I’d like to share my opinions and favorite moments with every ship I’ve found really cute in these special Valentine’s posts. Welcome to the beginning of P J’s first ever SHIP-A-THON! Let’s kick it off with.....

My case in KANTO/ORANGE ISLANDS/JOHTO:

PokéShipping / SatoKasu (Ash/Satoshi & Misty/Kasumi): This is where all shippers’ (at least most of the people I know) born in the 90s journey began. Mostly EVERYONE knows what this ship is, even for Pokémon fans that don’t even watch the anime anymore. Heck, even people who aren’t even into fandoms or shipping characters in general adore this childhood ship. But enough about the general public, what I personally loved about this ship was the development of their friendship. Misty originally just wanted Ash to repay her the broken bicycle Pikachu fried, but eventually she enjoyed traveling alongside him (along with Brock) and became one of his biggest cheerleaders in battle. She has also probably argued with Ash the most out of all the other female protagonists, but that’s because they care for each other, right? ;) Their interactions are always the funniest! Favorite moment - From the episode where they parted ways after the Johto League :’( I actually cried in watching this episode for the first time. It just shows you that Misty didn’t want to stop traveling with Ash because she was happy with the time she spent traveling with him. And she got hurt because of Ash’s denseness to her feelings, but I know he didn’t really mean that to hurt her.

Honorable mentions: OrangeShipping isn’t exactly something I ship but did it get some cute moments out of it especially during Pokémon Chronicles. And I gotta admit Misty and Tracey have kind of a cute pairing, but still it’s just inferior to PokéShipping in my opinion (I know there’s a following out there, so please don’t take it as an offense). PalletShipping on the other hand is the first same sex ship I heard of in the fandom. Although I’m not really into it same sex shipping, I absolutely have nothing against it either! In fact I treat this as a brOTP in my book. Ash and Gary’s relationship in the original series has been a very competitive one (up until the Silver Conference), and I can see why some people believe there is “hot” tension between them when they get close ° ͜ʖ ͡ FireShipping was a thing I liked a bit since Macy was the first girl *on-screen* (I see you AmourShippers) that actually liked Ash (even though Ash was still dense to sense it), plus we got good reactions from a jealous Misty xD While I just really like the BaseballShipping pairing of Ash and Casey. Her spunky attitude fits right well with Ash’s...one of his most underrated rivals in my opinion. Also BodyslamShipping that features Ash and Chikorita/Bayleef, is one of my favorite trainer X Pokémon pairings because of Bayleef’s crush on Ash ever since catching her. Of course with these type of shippings, I don’t necessarily push the “romantic” thing to far...like what I said my definition of shipping is more on the cute and kawaii side of things (ﾉ≧ڡ≦)