don’t mind me, just a bit of late night ship rambling.....
so, for the most part, i’m content with the fact that i’m a huge ass multi-shipper, and i don’t ever see the point of trying to force yourself to stay “loyal” to one ship
but sometimes, mostly for the fun of it, i’ll try to pick out an “endgame” ship; like, if i could have one pairing that’s actually canon in the end, which would it be? what ship gets to ride off into that korrasami sunset?
for ash ships in the pokeani, i’ve always struggled to pick an endgame between pallet and diode, bc i waffle between them for my otp. usually, when i reach an impasse and can’t decide between two ships like this, then i just slap them together in a polyamory, but it wasn’t quite working out and gelling together in my head, bc i don’t ship gary/clemont.
but now, i think i’ve finally found a way to make peace with clemont/ash/gary in my head, and to have it all click into place:
what i realized is that i’ve attached a lot of my own ace feelings onto clemont (which is part of why i don’t like seeing nsfw stuff for diode), so i’ve been kinda headcanoning him as ace w/o fully realizing it. i tend to think of ash as demi, so i guess my official headcanon is that clemont and ash are in a romantic ace relationship, and ash is also dating gary (and if ash did have needs that he can’t get from clemont, he can fulfill them with gary), and then clemont and gary have more of a queerplatonic relationship, where they like to be science nerds and geek out together.
well, even if this mess is incoherent to y’all, i understand the thoughts in my brain, so i’m satisfied XP
(pokeani endgame ships so far: clemont/ash/gary, misty/serena, brock/n, may/iris, dawn/zoey, cilan/kiawe, bonnie/mimo, mallow/lillie, tracey/alain, lana/mairin, sawyer/max, morrison/sophocles)