#considering their dynamic is pushed hard in dp (albeit not inherently romantically). or they worried dawn/zoey looked a bit too gay

[glitchfang]

im truly sorry i keep bitching abt this one character, but the more i think about kenny (the dp rival) the more im baffled about him from basically every angle. like, im trying to think about his appeal from a marketing standpoint and i cant see anything.

hes not a good rival for us to root against because hes mostly just incompetent or losing in most of his appearances, to the point that hes eliminated in the appeals round at the grand festival for a really embarrassing mistake

he’s not a good foe for dawn because his opposition towards her is just…. mocking her as a way of dealing with his crush (and his mockery is either a ha ha funney running joke or legitimately traumatic for dawn depending on how the writers feel? so idek how im supposed to feel?)

he’s not great ship bait for dawn because most ppl tend to find characters like him annoying, and hes not exactly a character many young boys who like dawn would want to project on (just look at how simple and cutesy his design is compared to ash or drew). and young girls probably didnt like him because he was another “boys are mean to you because they like you” type

zoey is already a great main rival for dawn (and ship bait character lbr) and ursula later on is a more competent “mean” rival so hes not even unique in dp, hes just redundant (and ive already said how drew basically did his character concept way better in AG). and nando is literally right there as another competent rival for dawn that goes criminally underused.

like i really dont understand what his appeal is supposed to be. why is he here. it shouldve been barry.