>>19547138It was the journey he went on. As he travelled through each region, he absorbed more and more faggotry from the insufferable idiots he met and the cute little monsters he caught. He watched Brock go from the best male companion ever to Professor Ivy's bitch. He watched Gary, once the biggest and most glorious jerk on TV, eventually get reduced to a poetry-spouting professor's aide. And what about Pikachu? That thing should be Lv 1 zillion by now, but it still loses to nearly everything it encounters.
Everybody's got a breaking point, OP. Ash couldn't beat 'em, so he joined 'em.
