#GymShipping

[pokemon-legends-and-legacies]

Fankidtober Day 28: Adrian Hanamizu

Misty & Brock's youngest son, but born after the divorce and raised primarily by Misty in Pallet Town (while Brock has primary custody of his two older brothers). Growing up in a seaside town and with Misty as his (mainly) single parent, he grew to love the sea as much as her. A desire to protect it and water type pokémon led to him enrolling in Ranger School, before being placed as an Area Ranger in Fall City, Fiore. He can usually be found patrolling the Safra Sea alongside his partner, Lanturn!

(Background is from the anime)

[kooliette-vt]

❣️CALLING ALL OG POKEMON ANIME FANS❣️

Do you know what AAML stands for? What is your stance on rocketshippers? Have you ever maintained your own shrine on angelfire.com? Who was the first bishonen you ever adopted?

If these questions struck a chord, please keep reading

To commemorate the Pokémon anime ending, I have begin writing a video essay about the history of Pokémon fandom, specifically anime shipping! It will be a multipart series starting with the original series featuring Ash, Brock, Tracey, and Misty! I'm talking AAML/twerpshippy/pokeshipping, rocketshipping, gymshipping, orangeshipping, palletshipping, etc!

Unfortunately, my research can only take me so far, because a lot of the internet from back then isn't well preserved and it can be hard to read as I am unfamiliar with some of the terminology used at the time.

I am making this post in the hopes that people who were active online fandom members from back in 1996-2003 era will see this and respond! I hope to ask a few questions about commonly used terminology, as well as the atmosphere between different sections of the fandom at that time.

If anyone is willing to help me, please respond to this post, DM me, or email me at "kooliette (dot) vt (at) gmail (dot) com"

If you can't directly help me for any reason, please reblog and spread awareness so that I can get solid information and best represent the community!

TL;DR If you were shipping Pokémon characters in the 90s, hmu

[hupla222]

This User Ships...

Decided to make this and put this out there for anyone who is curious about my taste in ships. Enjoy Tumblr and feel free to comment your own opinions if you feel like it. Lists are organized alphabetically.

AnimeVerse

AvalancheShipping (Sidian x Coral)

BraveOlivineShipping (Friede x Orla)

BusterBarShipping (Cress x Georgia)

CandyCornShipping (Chili x Burgundy)

CherryAssistantShipping (Ren x Chrysa)

ContestShipping (May x Drew)

GeekchicShipping (Clemont x Serena)

GuruminShipping (Liko x Dot)

HandymanShipping (Tracy x Daisy)

HeatTagShipping (Dawn x Conway)

JellowShipping (Lillie x Mallow)

LuckShipping (Brock x Lucy)

OrangeShipping (Tracy x Misty)

RocketShipping (Jessie x James)

SpokeShipping (Bianca x Stephan)

WarmBreadShipping (Alex x Lucca)

WishfulShipping (Iris x Cilan)

GameVerse

AcarameladoShipping (Tierno x Trevor)

AloeVeraShipping (Lenora x Hawes)

ApplePieShipping (Victor x Mallow), MastersVerse

BrightTomorrowShipping (Calem x Shauna)

ChefsKissShipping (Crispin x Lacey)

CompletionShipping (Dexio x Sina)

DeadlyRoseShipping (Rose x Oleana)

DualRivalShipping (Cheren x Bianca)

EphemeralArtShipping (Hassel x Brassius)

FallerShipping (Looker x Anabel)

GaiaShipping (Cheryl x Gardenia)

GlitterShipping (Candice x Maylene)

GymShipping (Misty x Brock)

HeartSoulShipping (Ethan x Lyra)

HoennShipping (Brendan x May)

IgnitionShipping (Flint x Volkner)

JovianShipping (Saturn x Jupiter)

LionHeartShipping (Leon x Sonia)

MagmaAdminShipping (Tabitha x Courtney)

NavistarShipping (Atticus x Penny)

OriginShipping (Steven x Wallace)

PostwickShipping (Gloria x Hop)

SecretSeaShipping (Iscan x Palina)

SequelShipping (Hugh x Rosa)

ShedinjaShipping (Morty x Bugsy)

SnowLilyShipping (Hau x Lillie)

SparkSurferShipping (Sophocles x Lana)

SweetSteelShipping (Molayne x Whitney)

ToxicBloomShipping (Koga x Erika)

TwinleafShipping (Barry x Dawn)

UltraSunReconShipping (Dulse x Zossie)

ValetShipping (Caitlin x Darach)

WaterLilyShipping (Milo x Nessa)

WingChunShipping (Tulip x Dendra)

MangaVerse

AgencyShipping (Black x White)

ChosenShipping (Silver x Green) 

FranticShipping (Ruby x Sapphire)

HaughtyShipping (Pearl x Platinum)

SpecialShipping (Red x Yellow)

[poliwhirl42]

5, 14, 17 for Misty/Kasumi?

5. What's the first song that comes to mind when you think about them?

Aside from the song “Misty” by NateWantstoBattle, I love the song “Mermaid” by Train. I’d say it leans more towards Pokeshipping than Misty herself, but still.

14. Assign a fashion aesthetic to this character.

Ooh, this is fun! I actually have an entire Pinterest board with sections dedicated to each character and what their fashion choices/overall aesthetic would be, and Misty is definitely beach vibes all around. Blues, white linens, jean shorts, bikini tops, clothing with Water-type Pokémon printed on it, Converse, tees, tanks, and casual sundresses all scream “Misty” to me. I also imagine she has a lot of sporty one-pieces and athleisure clothing she wears when working out, training, or fulfilling her gym duties.

17. What's a ship for this character you don't hate but it's not your favorite that you're fine with?

I actually might be “cancelled” for this because of the so-called “age gap”, but I’m actually fine with Gymshipping (Brock/Misty). In most cases I don’t ship it romantically and prefer Misty and Brock as very close friends, but I actually prefer it to Orangeshipping, which I’m really not too fond of. But yeah, this is what currently comes to mind, as I love Egoshipping a lot alongside Pokeshipping and other Misty ships I’m kinda just “eh” on.

[pkmn-future]

Fankidtober Day 10: Griffin (Brock/Misty)

Name: Griffin Waterflower-Harrison

Verse: Gameverse

Family: Brock Harrison (Father), Misty Waterflower (Mother), Althea Waterflower-Harrison (Sister)

Gender & Pronouns: Cisgender Male, He/Him

DOB & Age: October 26th, 15

Final Pokémon Team: Charizard, Pigeot, Ninetails, Pikachu, Persian, Machamp (Current Team: Charmander, Machop)

Info

The oldest of the Waterflower-Harrison twins, Griffin is a bit of a jock type, along with his sister. Brock and Misty as a family were very into working out and being athletes and as such, pushed that onto their children. Griffin would much rather be out battling than being an athlete, but most of his time is forced sports nowadays. Thankfully, his parents are open to him going on a journey, since he already has a Machop and a Charmander currently.

[pkmn-thenextgeneration]

Summer Harrison's Profile is now completed!

Featuring art by @Sarikarip!

You might also notice a new layout for the profiles also! :)

This layout will now be the standard for all of the profiles!

[whats-ahead]

Let’s take a break

[rctributions]

"Do you?" She counters, stance unwavering. "I don't know your fucking - sob story, you could be lying to me for all I fucking know!" As if she's going to go to some creep's place from Craigslist just to grab a couple of weights. "That's really insensitive, Kyle - what if my feet are prone to turning to lead? What if it's hard for me to run a mile, 'cos my legs fall asleep at whim?" Now she's just talking nonsense - all worked up and preparing to ruin whatever time for himself that he wanted; he could get release elsewhere, but June's not going to make his gym experience easy. "What rules? I want a fully printed fucking - document, with every rule I broke. Every single one - not just verbal shit. You could be making shit up and I wouldn't know - I don't know the rules of fucking gymship because you won't let me in!" Her eyes narrow in, arms waving about in angry gestures, "I'm not being a fucking baby - you're being a petulant toddler!"

Kyle rolls his eyes, because she was being annoying in his place of business. Somewhere he'd gone to get his mind off how awful his life kind of was. "I'm running a business here, Juniper. I know it's like being poor, okay? Do what the rest of us do and work out from home. You can get some weights off Craigslist and run a fucking mile if you want some cardio," he retorts, although Kyle had actually never done that when he was living in a state of financial burden. His best friends were all rich, and Mal and him had always gone to the gym together anyway. But it's semantics, really. "Look, pipsqueak. I would've helped you out, but then you broke the rules, and now you're being a baby about it, so what kind of mature adult would I be if I rewarded your behavior now?"

[pokemonfanthings]

Brock ships?

Unlike most main characters, there doesn’t seem to be many ships that exists for Brock/Takeshi in any of the Pokemon multiverses, and as for those that do seem to exist, they aren’t well-known. This is all I’ve uncovered:

For the anime, I’ve seen:

Gymshipping (x Gym Leader Misty/Kasumi)

Monolithshipping (x Kahuna Olivia/Lychee)

Luckshipping (x Pike Queen Lucy/Azami)

Kitchenmaidshipping (x Maid Cafe Sister/aspiring Pokémon Breeder Autumn/Aki)

Opticshipping (x Gym Leader and Pokemon Sommelier/Connoisseur Cilan/Dent)

Plus some ships that I can’t find ship names or more than one website that acknowledges that potential ship

and then some crack ships.

From the games and mangas, I’ve seen nothing.

I wanna know what people like and maybe make some art. I do have one of these I like more than others...can I get some feedback in replies?

[zelzenik]

wait i just hit a follower milestone today?? thank you guys so much omg </333

i always suck at writing prompts because i get super perfectionist about them, but

perhaps

just this once

i will make an attempt

my ask box will be open for req's if you'd like to drop any in there, and i'll do my best to conquer my inner critic and write them, lol

[paradoxinyourpantshorse]

It took me ten years to understand the meaning of this ask.

That's for the request! I have some ideas of what I can do for this, but since I can't send a private message to an anon, I can't be sure that I'm on the right track...if you're still out there, would you like some icons? I was thinking something like these ships with the bisexual flag in the background or maybe the characters holding the flag. Something cute like that.

[pokemon-legends-and-legacies]

Fankidtober Day 23 - Adrian!

Adrian is Brock and Misty’s youngest son, born after their divorce, so he’s raised mostly by Misty. However, he did spend plenty of time like weekends and school breaks on Brock and Autumn’s farm with his older brothers and younger half-sister. He and Misty traveled a lot when he was younger, before settling down in Pallet once Misty joined the Kanto E4. 

He initially starts out on his journey as a trainer, traveling with childhood friends Sage and Scout, though he eventually decides to become a Pokémon Ranger instead. He attends the Ranger School in Almia before joining the Fall City base in Fiore, where he continues to patrol and train with his partner pokémon - Dewott.

[mimidorika]

THESE ARE MY CURRENT SHIPS, IF ANY OF YOU SHIPS THESE THEN PLS REBLOG SO THAT I CAN FOLLOW ALL OF YOU FREAKIN' WONDERFUL ANGELS. LET US FOLLOW EACH OTHER SPREAD THE LOVE! ❤💚💛💜

•Gin x Rukia (Bleach)

•Shikamaru x Ino (Naruto)

•Eraserhead x Ms. Joke (BNHA)

•Max x Nathan (Life is Strange)

•Flash x Hawkgirl (Justice League - Timmverse)

•Hans x Elsa (Frozen)

•Robin x Raven (Teen Titans)

•Claire x Leon (Resident Evil)

•Bakugou x Uraraka (BNHA)

•Misty x Brock/ Jesse x James (Pokemon)

•Aoshi x Megumi (Samurai X)

•Xiaoyu x Hwoarang (Tekken)

[write-geek-love]

boyfriend: what are you writing?

me: huh? since when do you care?

bf: is it your fanclub story? you know the one where Ash and Misty have sex?

me: No, that doesn't happen in this one (Runaway Mermaid).

bf: Wait what? You mean that you have one that they have sex in?

me: Uh yeah...

bf: That's...weird.

me: What? Why is that weird?

bf: Don't Misty and Brock have a thing for each other?

me: [laughing] No!

bf: I thought Brock had a thing for Misty.

me: ...no...

bf: Yes he does...or at least at the beginning right?

me: No...

bf: Oh no wait he has the thing for the gym people.

me: The gym people?

bf: You know, the center people?

[pkmnjesus]

P J a shipper? SHIP-A-THON ‘18

𝒫𝒶𝓇𝓉 𝒱𝐼𝐼

My case with the others:

Now the ships I like listed here are uncategorized by any series of the main-core anime series, such as QuestShipping. This pairing between Jimmy/Kenta (Trainer Gold’s anime counterpart) and Marina (Trainer Kris’s anime counterpart) can only be seen in the Legend of Thunder anime special. While their feelings for each other are flat out obvious, it’s nice to see a main protagonist that actually responds to a girl’s feelings for him *cough* *cough*

Other examples of unlisted pairings are Flint and Lola, Brock’s parents. They’re weird bunch if you’ve seen the anime specials they were in, but their love is definitely strong as a rock. Not even redesigning the Pewter gym to a water type gym with streamers around could break this marriage. And speaking about their son... 

The case with Brock/Takeshi: Now Brock deserves a special mention for this ship-a-thon post he is always finding for new love every day with every girl his age or older he meets. Unfortunately 95% of that he gets reject and gets his ear pulled, or poison jabbed. But there is that 5% of females that do like him (he didn’t really like the younger ones back though). And out of all that liked him back, Pike Queen Lucy from Battle Frontier was my favorite one (LuckShipping). I really got mad at Max for dragging him out in the end of that episode, where we clearly see Lucy blush. What’s funny about all of this is that she probably only liked Brock because most of the Pokémon she had at home had the same eyes (e.g. Skitty, Swinub, Snorlax) as he did xD I bursted out laughing because of that scene. On the friends side of things, he was Ash’s first big bro and chef. It’s amazing to see how close they were traveling for 3 series straight (the only companion to do so). GymShipping (Brock and Misty) had some cute moments too, but mostly goofy ones (like with Max’s ear-pulling lol). Big bro Brock also applies with May when she helps him buy for traveling supplies in Hoenn, or with Dawn giving her advice to lighten up during her times of depression. WE <3 YOU BROCK, screw all the girls that rejected you!

RocketShipping / KojiMusa (Jessie/Musashi & James/Kojirō): The favorite villain ship of the series definitely has a special place here in the others section since they were basically in every series! Take that Butch & Cassidy (I kinda ship them too) with your unoriginal motto! Along with PokéShipping, this is one of the most respected older ships in the community (as it SHOULD BE for being the longest running one TO THIS DAY). I feel like they’re already a married couple discussing plans every night before going to bed on how to catch Pikachu. This also the first adult pairing I grew up loving whether they eat, argue, cheer (in Jessie’s contests and performances), or blast off together, it’s really nice to see a mature (not really if you think about it lol) pairing over the course of 20 years in this show. Favorite moment - All the episodes with Jessebelle/Rumika (James’s childhood “friend”) in it. I remember watching the first one where they introduced James parents, and actually seeing a good side of James for the very first time outside of Team Rocket. At the end of that episode is really when the ship was sold to me. James pulls Jessie aboard the Meowth balloon, and they look into each other's eyes promising to continue to live without anymore personal commitments and resume Team Rocket operations. I’m sure hardcore RocketShippers loved that scene as much as I did. Unfortunately because of that sweet moment, they forgot about Meowth who was still in the ground running to the balloon as the episode ended xD

Meowth’s/Nyarth’s loves: Meowth has had its fair share of romances too that deserves a bit of mentioning. Meowzie was the first one he fell for, and in fact was the reason why he can talk and walk like a human! Too bad she had preferred to be with the Persian :( That episode broke my heart too because I was rooting for Meowth to succeed. After that we saw multiple occasion where he was infatuated with other Pokémon, such as Skitty, Glameow, Purrloin, and others I might be forgetting. KrazyShipping is the cat and mouse relationship he has with Ash’s Pikachu, although I really wouldn’t say there’s that much love in this relationship (gets shocked like every time they meet lol). In the end, his one true love is helping and aiding Team Rocket with Jessie and James (he loves them each of them you know it)...or fetishes with Giovanni fantasies. 

Inter-region interactions: There are some fantasy shippings people would like to see happen because of region barriers (I NEED MAX AND BONNIE TO MEET), however some came true in the form of cameos like Misty and May, May and Dawn, Brock and Cilan (FAV!! Gotta love the experienced chefs), Brock and Kiawe, or even Piplup and Oshawott (best Pokémon meeting/rivaly ever). But I would have to say that Misty and Lana’s recent interaction is worthy of praise. The two trainer specialists showcased their love and passion for water type Pokémon when they swam together finding the Gyarados that startled their group. There’s a bit of a watery rivalry in this cool and clean wet relationship (okay I’ll stop the water puns). I would definitely pay to watch a spin-off just between these two sailing the oceans of the Pokémon world together, and diving into the deepest part of the sea just to see more Pokémon. 

Movie shippings: There are a couple of movie shippings to take into account over the past 20 years, especially with the movie exclusive characters. I would have to say one of my favorite ones (besides AccordShipping that I explained in a prior post) is in Pokémon Heroes with Ash and Latias (AltoShipping...though MareShipping is the Bianca alternative term of the ship). This human Pokémon relationship is just so unique since Latias could transform to the human form of the movie’s Bianca (kind of creepy if you take advantage of that). Another one worth mentioning is CarnivalShipping in the Jirachi movie. I don’t remember much, but I know that Butler and Diane were an awesome magician & assistant dynamic...too bad Butler had evil intensions with Jirachi that made me (and Diane) lose respect for him a bit (he later redeemed himself but cmon man).

Game ships: Like with the movies there’s a lot of game shippings to take into account, but my favorites would have to be from Gen. V! I do like the pairing of Dawn and Lucas from Gen. IV and the player with Lille/Hau OR Lillie and Hau themselves from Gen. VII. A lot of obvious hints too! But the Gen. V games had AgencyShipping, FerrisWheelShipping, SequelShipping (FAV!!!) and VisorShipping. I don’t know why but the character designs stuck out to me and really enjoyed its characters emotionally. But I would definitely have to say TransceiverShipping is my favorite game ship simply because it is the first time where you can actually have a DATE OPTION IN A POKÉMON GAME. Whether if it was the male player and Yancy, or the female player and Curtis, the mysterious conversations you have with the Xtransceiver build up to the eventual date you’ll have with them. Some very, very cute stuff if you haven’t experienced it yourself. Go play Pokémon Black or White Version 2 NOW!!!

Shippings from Pokémon Adventures manga/PokéSpe: We gotta show some love to the manga side of things too! One of my favorite PokéSpe shipping include LuckyShipping (the flirting in here IS REAL), FranticShipping, ChessShipping (manga counterpart of AgencyShipping), and the pairing of X and Y (don’t know the name for that one). But SpecialShipping to me takes the cake on my favorite manga ship simply because of Yellow’s shy feelings for Red. It’s kind of like AmourShipping in a way, since Red is a bit dense in his own right to notice Yellow’s feelings AND Red and Yellow had their own childhood history before the Adventures storyline. It’s just very very adorable, and full of blushes! If you aren’t into PokéSpe, but love shipping cute characters together, you should definitely give it a read! 

KetchupShipping (Pikachu & Ketchup/Kechappu): BEST. SHIP. EVER. Favorite moment - The moment where Pikachu first laid eyes on that delicious bottle of ketchup at the Dark City episode, and licked it with cute pleasure :p

.....okay in seriousness what I really want to be talking about is PikaShipping

Of course the final Pokémon shipping I have to showcase here is between Ash/Satoshi and Pikachu of all people and Pokémon! I can’t really say favorite moment because almost every time these two interact, it is always a great moment in my book! RocketShipping maybe the longest, but this beats it by an inch because there isn’t a single episode where we don’t see Ash with Pikachu by his side. They made this show work ever since it started, and everyone around the world knows this dynamic duo since 1997! Ash leaves every Pokémon behind after Johto, BUT NEVER HIM. Everyone in the anime has had their one special Pokémon partner (Dawn and Piplup, Iris and Axew, Bonnie and Dedenne, Sophocles and Togedemaru, etc...), but it is not quite like the courageous and close bond that Ash and Pikachu share. Nothing will ever beat their Pokémon partnership...NOTHING!!!

P J’s ship-a-thon: OS | AG | DP | BW | XY | SM | Others | Non-Pkmn ships