Disclaimer: Olih: Thanks! Yeah, I got lazy, so I copied them lines : P
Question: Who do you ship Ash with?
My Answer: Mainly Misty : )
Characters: A collection of Ash shippings (includes Cynthia, as requested).
Summary: Holy shit, Ash is paired up with SO MANY PEOPLE WHAT THE HELL.
Comedy of Errors
One's first love is always perfect, until one meets one's second love. ~Elizabeth Aston
Love
Maybe Ash can't ever fall in love, but that won't ever stop them from trying to make him trip.
Hate
"I hate you," May growls, blowing out her cheeks.
Ash just chuckles and deflates them with a poke of his finger, and she thinks that she (maybe, just might, possibly) love his childishness.
Cold
"Are you cold?" Ash asks, warming his hands over the fire.
Latias looks at him with the round eyes of Bianca, and nods. He gestures for her to come over, and she does so gladly, cuddling up to him with a purr.
Hot
"Wow," says Ash when he glimpses Cynthia: how her hair streams behind her; the lustre of her eyes; and the dips and swells of her body.
Brock perks up. Is Ash finally noticing girls? "She's hot, isn't she?" he prompts.
Ash scratches his nose, and his expression becomes clouded. "I don't really get what you mean," he says slowly, "but seriously, wow. It's the champion of Sinnoh!"
Brock is torn between feeling despair and not being surprised at all.
Relief
When Misty sees Ash for the first time since Kanto, his face is relief for her tired eyes; relief short-lived, however, that dies as soon as she glimpses his newest companion.
She smiles and smiles and smiles, but the tears she sheds when her togetic leaves aren't all for her pokemon.
Joy
Even Anabel's otherworldly senses aren't enough to determine the amount of joy meeting Ash brings her.
Nor are they enough to determine the amount of sorrow his departure inflicts.
Dry
"C'mon, Ash," laughs Bianca as she takes his hands and drags him undercover, her eyes closing as she smiles.
Wet
"Your hair is a lot smaller when it's wet," Ash remarks, smiling his lopsided smile. "I like it."
Iris slaps him to cover up her blush.
Wind
The wind picks up as Melody sits on an outcrop of rocks, the ocean lapping at her ankles. She hopes that it carries her ocarina's song to him, wherever he is.
Forward
"Let's go," says Ash, and Angie follows close behind as he leads her forward into the arena.
Behind
Misty never thought when she first met Ash that it would hurt so much to be left behind.
Innocent
Ash's eyes sparkle with innocence, and there's something about that that charms Dawn in a way nothing else has: the way he doesn't take advantage of her, doesn't ogle her, doesn't pressure her into anything…
…Well, until the day that it becomes annoying. How oblivious can a guy get?
Guilty
After Bianca's (or was it Latias's?) kiss on the dock of Altomare, Ash hides a guilty smile from Misty and refuses to acknowledge how his lips tingle hours after they've left the city.
Pictures
"Smile!" sings Anabel, taking a surprise shot of him.
Ash laughs good-naturedly, and Anabel blushes at the sound.
Words
"Ash," Misty says, her chin high and her eyes crackling with determination. Today's the day I tell him. Today's the day I tell him I-
"Yeah, Mist?" He looks up with those big brown eyes of his, and her composure falls and shatters into a million pieces.
"You still owe me for my bike!" she yells, flapping her arms in a frantic attempt to calm herself down. Then she storms off to go whack herself with her mallet.
Drawings
Bianca sighs, and throws the sketch out. No matter how hard she tries, she can never get his eyes quite right.
Pain
Each of them are torn between waiting for him to come around (because he showed interest, they know he did) and letting him go (because he's just one boy in a sea of millions, after all).
Pain and heartache visits them in every silence, and he travels on, collecting hearts in a jar he never bothers to look at.
And they'll just keep on waiting, because they can fish in the sea all they want and still end up comparing every catch to him.