Altoshipping (AKA Ash and Latias)

[Billy(2257)]

I couldn't find a thread for this, so I'll just put it here. Don't they look so cute together? Screw you Misty, Latias is here!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wHo87g92Gc There's your proof. Let's see (gets out checklist)

• Brown/orange eyes? Check
• No voice? Check
• He actually ****ing stopped the boat to see her? UBER CHECKZ

 

[LusterPurge]

This was also sort of discussed in the "Latias?" thread, and I'd like to quote DewgongStorm, since he pretty much summed up most of the evidence for and against this ship:

I'm late to the party. Well...

Like Ryuu said, in Pokemon Heroes, there is a girl named Bianca. She's a painter, and wears a white beret. Latias is very close to her, thus, it takes the form of Bianca to avoid being seen by other humans. They look exactly the same, except Latias does not have her beret and instead has the normal Latias-orange eyes.

In the ending scene, an unnamed girl looking exactly like this appearance (without the beret) runs down the dock, puts a scroll into Ash's hands, and kisses him on the cheek. The scroll turns out to be a painting of Pikachu, done in Bianca's pastel art style.

Though this girls' eyes are orange and she is missing the whte beret, AltoShippers (Ash and Latias, in Pokemon or Bianca human form) argue that it is Latias in human form. MareShippers (Ash and Bianca) say you generally wouldn't give someone a romantic gift being a painting if someone else painted it. They also argue that the orange coloration of her eyes is just caused by the odd sunset lighting in the scene.


Though the evidence more strongly suggests that she's Latias, MareShipping was almost as popular. I expect whoever put up that quote for the forum description put it up around the year Heroes was released.

What I personally find very strange when it is Latias, is that Latias gave a picture she didn't make to Ash, and not a picture of herself, or something more personal, just like Dewgong mentioned. I think it is equally possible that Bianca wanted to say goodbye to Ash herself after all, but was perhaps a bit shy to approach him at first, and then came up with the idea of pretending to be Latias, by not speaking.

Or another theory, that it was Latias who gave the picture and kissed Ash, but she did it to let Ash know Bianca likes him, so she kinda was helping to bring them together, as some "love doctor". It would explain why she gave a picture that Bianca made to Ash, instead of a more personal gift.

I consider the beret not so important. Even Ash is sometimes without his cap. If Bianca was in a hurry to catch up with Ash before his boat had left, it is likely she forgot her beret, or simply didn't have time to grab it from her room.