>>50249276>It was written into canon and was a great sub plotDumb spic.
Misty and Ash also had good chemistry, while is true Misty was a shit character, she fulfilled her role of evening out the trio's dynamic, related to her shipping, it was teased here and there in the Og Japanese, it's not a 4kids thing, 4kids only elevated it to 11, but it wasn't made by them
