>>53716017>most common...tropes in the worst shipping fics you read.Ash is HOT every single time. It's the most jarring fucking shit. It makes Misty and Serena come off as incredibly vein. Ash always grows up to be a super hot beefcake in these stories.
I don't think he should be ugly or anything, but the story stops to describe how handsome Ash is and how toned his muscles and face have become, it got to a point where it was pavlovian for me. I could read the words "Ash's figure" in my periphery vision and immediately know to skip the next paragraph.
Next up is forcing western drama tropes that even westerners hate namely that goddamn THIRD ACT BREAKUP before the resolution. Nobody likes it, it's maddening when you can feel it coming on. Suddenly Ash kissed another love interest (often Serena and Misty in opposite fanfics) and now it's just spiraling
Hand in hand in the above is introducing other love interests but blatantly only using them to air grievances with an enemy ship. Amour stories will have Misty show up and be unlikable but somehow a threat to Ash's love life, same goes for Serena.
I would list OOC but I'm kind of numb to OOC. There came a point where I accepted that the characters in these fanfics rarely would be actually based on the anime characters and were essentially going to be Disney channel characters bearing their names. Ash plays guitar in two of these stories