>>42041310Her "character," such as it was, revolved entirely around Ash and her desire to be in a relationship with him. This continued until about halfway through, when they suddenly decided to have her take an interest in Contests and performing - which had already been done by Dawn and May before her, and frankly was done in such a weak, blatant attempt to give her depth that it would have failed even if they hadn't done it in the most half-hearted manner.
You see, the problem with Serena - the absolute biggest, most damning issue - is that they didn't write a character, but a satellite orbiting a boy that doesn't care. Her entire backstory is like something out of terrible fanfiction, where the author rewrites a canon character's backstory to insert their special OC and build importance artificially. There was exactly one person on the writing team lobbying for this painfully forced pairing, and it shows. Serena is a failure on every conceivable level, at least from a writing standpoint, and the very idea that this completely one-sided attraction would ever see the conclusion you desire, is laughable. The pairing was doomed from its inception; it was not going to happen, and you all need to move on.
