#the way she says hikari and daijobu in songs post DP also makes me a little insane

[love-is-a-pearl]

Do you ever just wonder if the writers were secretly rooting for Ash and Dawn to become a couple for their entire time together? Like, cmon. The Sky Bouquet, that one obscure manga series they had together, that damn Dominos commercial, Dawn being there for Ash’s most important battle, their entire thing being the fact that they’re best friends, like cmon they had to have know what they were doing, right?

Eh, I would love to say yes lmao but honestly pokeani always enjoyed some shipping bait. There was plenty of moments for misty and may before, and serena after it (not to mention the sheer gayness that is movie04 despite the problematic implications, gary, ritchie, goh and other charas of the day). pokeani staff just likes putting those kiddos in romantic situations *shrugs*

I think the most likely thing is that the staff just liked dawn lmao. would explain why they would put her in a cute outfit for the domino's ad but not ash (in fact i think even his animation is reused there while hers is completely unique)

I think there was even an interview about her cameos in JN where they did say those exact words :v (rica, aka ash's JP voice actor; even called her cute which kills me cause i wish someone would have recorded it so we could have audio of sato calling hika cute sioahxias)

Now, what they were thinking when they brought her for the Leon battle is a mistery to me. Like, why not Delia? Brock? Cerise and fam if they just needed someone else to be there with Chloe? Why even send Goh away??? Like, my pearl brain can only reason that that's because she is his most important person so duh, but like, objectively????? I DONT UNDERSTAND???