>>43173736>She should've been the love interest long before Serenawhile Dawn is best girl and I do ship Pearl on the side ..
.. actually trying to force romance into the show itself and make Dawn "fall" for Ash romantically would have ruined their dynamic and probably her as a character too
and the way the writers wrote amour in XY proves that they shouldnt even attempt something like that, especially with Ash x main girl
part of the appeal of Pearlshipping is that its friendship based, with no actual Ash x Dawn romance in the show itself