#ask ash ketchum

[ask-time-rewind-ash]

@hoopa-is-hoopa

You're ashkan but not the ashkan that Hoopa knows but still a ashkan! Need help? Hoopa will help!

"Huh? Aren't you that Hoopa, me and my friends from Kalos met in the past before?"

[yamujiburo]

Ash with glasses "Wow, Jessie, I didn't realise how many wrinkles you had!"

"We've made a huge mistake, Delia"

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[stgosupremacy]

"After all, don't forget, we're friends!"

[mewtwoandme]

Hey Mewtwo, have you ever sparred with Mew? If you have, what’s it like?

[qcoded]

Can you please draw Kid Emperor Belos in Ash Ketchum's costume? They have the same energy of a child who never gets old.

Wait, after I put it that way, I also remembered about Peter Pan. Hey, the Collector could be Peter Pan! Peter had a sentient shadow, and the Collector was a shadow while he was sealed.

Ahhh i didn't have the energy to make a full drawing of Collie, but I think the chibi turned out cute 😭

i was genuinely giggling while drawing kid belos LOL

[patriamrealm]

So, what would Ash's aspects look like if he had them in the Anime?

A Pikachu! Also with all the trouble he's gotten into you cannot convince me this boy would not have a plethora of scars.

[astroaaron]

Favorite thing about pokeshipping?

You put them together and they're just always playing off eachother. Either he's trolling her or she's scolding him. Or they're sharing a brain cell. Or they're defending eachother from a threat. No matter what, they're always doing something to involve the other. There isn't a scene I can't think of where they aren't the other's wingman or critic.

And it's always entertaining to watch.

[rainbowrocketrevival]

Anime Giovanni: "A recurring nightmare of mine is that my scientists accidentally clone that annoying meddling kid instead of Mewtwo somehow. Then that clone grows up to be 8ft tall and chases me down the hallways of the facility. It is unbearable."

[harukadrawsthings]

Looking back at all the stuff ash went tho

Does he...remember all his deaths.

If so,did he tell goh or his mother...

Or a threapist-

I believe he both remembers and forgot about times he nearly died due to his altruism combined with recklessness 😆. Ash has travelled so much since he begun his career as a competitive Pokémon Trainer that his stories would be enough to write a collection of books!

And he wouldn't tell Goh about every single moment he happens to remember, he knows his husband can get agitated about that. The same goes about telling his mother!

[ask-time-rewind-ash]

"I... I don't think I'm in my own past anymore... My real Dad's name is {Unknown} Ketchum, not someone named Red Ketchum. And he isn't a Champion... infact I don't remember knowing what happened to him for all my life. Mom said that he's traveling around Kanto in achieving his dream, becoming a Pokemon Master just like me."

Ash's mind started to fill with unanswered or unfilled questions of his unknown, missing Dad.

"If he's traveling around Kanto then... Why didn't he ever called me, and Mom on the phone when he was trying to achieve his own dream? Why doesn't he send us mail or show us pictures about his whereabouts or the many locations of Kanto?... why hasn't he ever come back, and return home in Pallett Town?... where is he anyway?... Where... where am I anyway?"

[stgosupremacy]

"I'm gonna find Gengar! I can't leave it like that!"

proceeds to run off cutely

First the surprise but not surprise because its ash ketchum... then the fond smile???? AAAAAAAA

God this boy needs help please

THENTHENTHEN

*quiet laugh* "Of course you can't leave it like that. That's so you."

Im sorry 😃 GIRL WHAT DID YOU JUST SAYGSBHNJMSK

The way he says it so fond. look at him. LOOKATHIM. that is a pure look of love if i ever seen one. RIGHT THERE

I see somebody has been doing a little observing, eh goh?...hm.

speaking of observing

aw the sweet bean lol look at that innocent littl-

WAIT

AINT NO WAY

BAHAHAHAHHA HE TOTALLY KNOWSSSSSS no way is he giving goh the look of I KNOW WHAT YOU ARE how on earth anipoke is this meant to be interpreted platonically. please, tell me

look at him omg its literally the S M I R K HELLLLLLLLLLLP

Oh wait, theres more <3

Goh is taking a minute yall

Goh: Wait what do you mean

Scorbunny: ...

first can i say

He dida little oopsie of realisation OkAy- 🥰

"I-I've got one thing on my mind and that's catching Gengar! I never once thought about helping Ash!"

what. as in

like i mean

WHAT THE HELL ANIPOKE 😂😂😂😂😂 THE STUTTER AND THE BLUSH AND THE TSUNDERE IS SPEAKNG OUT LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING ?????????????????

what do you mean "only one thing on your mind" 😏😏😏(SERIOUSLY. WHAT WAS THE NEED TO HAVE THIS IN THE SCRIPT) are you implying you had that someone else on your mind? because it sure feels like it hehehehehe

(sorry i am enjoying this way too much)

God and the voice acting in this makes him literally a tsundere. like what is even happening anymore somedbody please help how did this scene not blow up

SCORBUNNY I ACTUALLY LOVE YOU BAHAHHAHA hes literally me like

"what am i going to do with you" he totally knows goh is in utter denial here omg and aware of his secretly lovestruck manner as much as Goh would have tried to deny it <3

this satogou scene is underrated af and deserved to be ranted about so

[mairyplace]

If one of them was to have a growth spurt while the other remains a shorty, who do you think ends up the tall one between Ash and Goh?

im sorry but i will always be a tall ash and short goh girl. ash is just so canonically strong he would be able to carry goh so easily,, goh smallest spoonn❤️

[qcoded]

WIP

[unluckyozzyart]

Could you draw Red and Green together?

who invited this bastard???

well...at least they still took a picture together (?:

[alolanrain]

Alolan Class: Hey we're going to watch Barbie this weekend, you want to come?

Ta! Au Ash: Yeah sure, I didn't have plans that day anyways *sigh*

He then proceeded to show up in an eyesore of a bright pink Hawaiian shirt with flowers all over it, and him and Pikachu both had the sunglasses to match

Gary would watch oppenheimer first and then Barbie but Ash would watch Barbie then oppenheimer then finish with a Barbie chaser

[kohakhearts]

randomly thinking about pikachu's popularity as a mascot but also like in-universe imagining how many little kids would see ash and pikachu win the world championships and decide that they simply Must have a pikachu. you could take this from the angle of like, ash's championship win indirectly dramatically changes the viridian forest ecosystem and other pikachu habitats, but also, imagine how many young trainers + pikachu partners ash starts encountering on his journeys after that who are all clearly awestruck by him. i like to think he would be like "huh weird we've been battling a lot of pikachu lately" and not make the connection that this is His Impact

i'm OBSESSED with this concept and if i had more time/energy i would have immediately written a fic when you sent this because it's so funny to me but alas :p but i'm seeing this with like...all of the above implications like

ash visiting home sometime down the road and crossing paths with gary or tracey maybe, who is/are currently trying to figure out why there's a sudden influx of rattata in the viridian forest area. ash might even help them investigate a bit, you know, 'cause he's helpful like that. he doesn't get the implications. he hears "pikachu and rattata don't tend to make their homes in the same areas" and thinks the reason rattata are popping up suddenly is just that they've gotten over some territorial difference. "i mean obviously there are still pikachu in the forest - we just fought like three of them!"

so he leaves his friends at the oak laboratory absolutely flabbergasted and moves on. he keeps seeing trainers with pikachu, which is great. they ask for a battle and he obliges and it never even registers to him the starstruck look in those trainers' eyes has anything to do with him. he's just like, yeah my buddy's great, isn't he? your pikachu's great too! keep training! :)

when he hears from misty about all these new gym challengers with pikachu, he doesn't think too much about it. i mean, come on, it's a water-type gym. of course they're gonna bring an electric type. when he hears from brock that his brother said the same thing is happening in pewter city, well, that's just new trainers trying to think outside the box. forrest is probably exaggerating a bit anyway, maybe he's just embarrassed that his rock types got beaten by a pikachu? there are simply no dots to connect

of course, this isn't only happening in kanto, though. he hears from cilan about seeing more pikachu than usual in unova, a concerning trend considering pikachu aren't exactly native to the region. ash figures it's just more visitors from outside regions, like he was. it's so cool to see more people embracing inter-region travel! that's probably the one thing he does know he motivated others to do - i mean, surely being the kanto-native champion of alola would inspire a few trainers out there to tackle far-off leagues of their own? he inspired his friends to do it, so it's only fair that trainers who caught his big championship win on tv might have felt similarly!

except he's got the whole thing wrong, of course. one of his more research-oriented friends (i'm betting sophocles) has absolutely been crunching numbers and can 100% confirm that new trainers taking on the league challenge in most regions are about 20457x more likely to have a pikachu in their active roster this year than any year before. ash doesn't have a response to that one, because he's simply too baffled by the metrics of this study to digest the implications of it. he's really hung up on the idea that somehow sophocles met all these people as opposed to acknowledging the more likely scenario that he hacked into the league's database, because how would he even do that? ash isn't thinking about ethics or anything. he's just wondering how he can meet all these trainers too because he'd really like to battle them all, wow!

so basically, everyone else has figured it out...except for ash. he keeps getting approached by strangers asking him about training methods specific to pikachu, which he has no answer for other than "uhh rubber gloves don't really work i guess?" (and then ofc he'd say something very Ash about how no matter what kind of pokemon you're training you just have to believe in them etc etc) because the thing all those people don't realize is he never set out to train a pikachu in the first place. arguably, his pikachu trained him. and that pikachu? absolutely knows what's going on, and finds it hilarious. but he won't tell ash. he's having fun meeting all these different pikachu, anyway :p