#wrongpalletshipping

If you couldn't tell by the effort I put into the background, I really actually do enjoy this ship. (However, the non-shaded bits are almost exclusively done with default MSPaint colors, so I hope there are mixed signals going on here in the effort department lol.)

(Basically I'm gonna do some ship "follow ups" to some of the ship posts because I realized I have things to say about this particular one. Let me know if there are any other ships that I've drawn so far that you want an elaboration on! :D)

So. WrongPalletShipping. Blue Oak (manga) x Ash Ketchum (anime).

Basically I see WrongPalletShipping to be the leadup to Palletshipping. (Ash x Gary, both anime characters, if you weren't aware) Like while Ash is in Pallet Town as a kid and Blue is there as a kid, he gets a bit of a crush on Blue. However, if you're following Pokespe canon pretty close while still making this a crossover, you would know that Blue gets sent away to go train in Johto when he is very very young, and he doesn't come back for a good long while.

Because of this crush on Blue, which would have to have been when he was VERY young, I'm thinking like three or five or something (not entirely sure on the timeline I'm working with in this crossover here), Ash gets kinda close with the Oak family in general, and is thus able to befriend Gary. Of course this then turns into a rivalry and a relationship in my head, but that's neither here nor there for the Blue x Ash ship. You can kinda see this in the name, "WrongPalletShipping." Like, it's ALMOST PalletShipping (which I see as endgame personally) but it just isn't. It lets it happen, but it's incorrect and just a bit off.

Also I do like to think of Ash as not REALLY having a crush on Blue anymore, but he like jokingly refers to Blue as Gary instead and compares them and Blue hates it so much and it's this whole thing. <3 Good ship I recommend it. 👍

(This isn't at all how I view PalletShipping in a strictly anime only environment, but I don't normally think about a strictly anime only environment for my ships, so I thought it would be interesting to hear about my thought process behind my drawing. :3)