#i dunno many other ship names for the submas bois

[cutekittenlady]

tbh while Im all for making the funny train guys hotter, I think something is lost in the shipping sphere when we do that. Namely the image of said characters in universe fans (after all so many gym leaders and other trainers are celebrities in pokemon universe) one day learning their idol/celebrity crush/etc has a new bf and expecting them to be, like, someone super cool and sexy. Like a football player, or super model. But then they see an actual photo and its one of the dorky train guys from Unova.

I was mainly thinking about conductorshipping when I thought this (I like to imagine Elesa has fans who follow her mostly for her modelling career, and Emmet has fans who follow him mostly because hes a front face for the subway system) but its really applicable in several different ships.