>>46878594>>46878623>>46879043the ship can kinda work but the problem is consistency in characters
most of the time she's shown as a tomboy that's a little headstrong, kinda like an older misty
>MC gets BTFO by an anime trainer, the guy with a meowth>right after the fight, Zinnia talks and pic related happens, which starts off okay until she starts bitching out Vulpix>MC then thinks a bit about styles and his pokemon, goes to bed upset and opens the next chapter with thoughts on a battle style and "uh oh these people are REAL I'm REALLY in a REAL pokemon world where people are REAL and not a GAME"it wasn't so much him getting humiliated as it was that Zinnia going to far and against what her established character was. The scene itself wasn't the problem, it was how it happened.
the next chapter after this makes it all the more jarring when she suddenly starts bawling out an apology and saying she could've phrased things better.
the whole scene basically has a vibe similar to a shitty filler episode in the anime that most people hate, like that one where Ash gets builled by an entire town + may
