What bugs me about some amourshippers

I know all the other ones had the same amount of support, but I feel like the only reason everybody wants Serena back is more because of the crush than the character itself.

On the contrary, we have the strongest case for a hypothetical return of any character.
Dawn wasn't a side character but the first female co-star in the series alongside Ash. Yes, there were Ash's league and gym battles but also Dawn's story as well.

For XY we're seeing the same repeat of AG where Ash prefers to train his Pokémon over caring about Serena's goal.

They haven't brought back Iris or Dent and we're this late into the story. It's little more than three months when they make the Sun/Moon series debut. So why are they holding back on them? Unless if it's for ulterior purposes to advance the reason of Ash journeying to Alola.

They're never going to bring Misty back, they made Orangeshipping canon in BW and the only thing they have for her are flashbacks of Charizard or Pikachu.

With Ruby and Sapphire remakes, it's too late for them to bring back May. And that only leaves Dawn.

Serena for the matter was a character rushed at the last minute and it took the staff almost a year to come up with a goal for a useless background character. They still haven't given her much development, her personality is still pretty much 99.99% Amourshipping, Ash still doesn't give a crap about her because they still aren't on the same page, and the best Ash could do is to pretend to share her concerns. This is why I called Amour a trap ship because they know there are a lot of fans who would fall for their Amourshipping bait.

Serena takes the cake for being the most useless companion. And if it weren't for Amourshipping, its popularity would tank. But Japanese aren't fans of Serena, they have plenty of Serena hate threads and how bad XY is. Yes they do have their zealous vocal Amourshippers but they have an overall bad reputation. It's not that Serena doesn't do anything, she does nothing at all for almost a year and after that still doesn't do much for Ash's development. Even Iris and her 'kodomo nee' catchphrase were more than an influence on Ash than Serena's blushes. Cause BW Ash was really like a kid and Iris and even Dawn were pointing out the truth.

What Amourshippers only care about is Serena's blushes and just try to dig through scraps to find one hint of Ash having feelings for Serena. To make this easier on them, he doesn't and never will. Her goal of Kalos Queen is the most narrowest goal compared to the other characters. May just didn't like Pokémon because of how her dad was the gym leader. Dawn had the ambition to be better than her mother. Serena could have been better off as a rhyhorn racer or something. But the way how Serena was handled was just how they don't really care but at the same time it was their Ash version of KenHika or whatever. And they didn't bother giving her six Pokémon like Ash, just three. They could even give her a Piplup or Buneary just to wave the finger to Dawn fans and Pearlshippers.

But they didn't. Rather than thinking of direct references or clues. We piece together seemingly similar but not quite unrelated aspects together. They're in a slump, they could go back to selling more kinds of Piplup toys and partially raise their viewership ratings. But when XY is doing worse than BW, it shows the audience's general disinterest towards Pokémon with all the Serena blushes and Amourshipping troll bait.

So far, none of their Amourshipping sounding title names or elements led to anything significant for Amourshippers. They're still stuck at square one so to speak. I'd hate repeating myself over and over again. Ash and Serena had their spat but so did Ash and Iris; Ash and May; and Ash and Dawn plenty of times.

So I could argue that Dawn was fully developed and have no reason to return. But Ash is just as developed as Dawn because they're equals. But they're throwing all those little things related to Dawn over the years that it's impossible to ignore. They could either bring back Dawn or introduce someone like Dawn but a clone of her in some way. So after the fiasco that was BW, they're trying to avoid enraging their fans. But at the same time they introduce Amourshipping which had the opposite effect of their intent.

But for BW, if the first opening theme had elements of Dawn's speech 'daijoubu' then that could be that Dawn was their first Pokegirl success in Japan. In XY, some Japanese Pearlshippers note that Ash has on occasion somewhat adopted Dawn's catchphrase 'daijoubu' quite a bit in the series. And Dawn remains the strongest influence on Ash out of all the Pokegirls.

They could do anything at this point. So within these three months, we don't know what'll happen next. But it's a 50:50 chance and I feel that Dawn could come back but also not return at the same time. So Amourshippers are the most irrational and the most arrogant like many of the worst of the zealous Pokeshippers.

People often remark that Dawn is a female Ash but it's also apparent that Ash is a male Dawn. Serena may have Dawn's face but she is neither like Dawn nor Ash. They're not on the same level. They've repeatedly stated that Ash and Dawn are equals. Serena is arguably the worst Pokegirl because of her zero-dimensional personality. And DP cushioned the fall of the decline of Pokémon anime, the show was in decline during AG, Johto, BW and XY. Only DP showed some stability in rating and popularity.

But like I said in other posts, it really depends on how popular she still is in Japan. And we don't have solid evidence like polls or japanese forums about her popularity.

It'd be kind of cool if Dawn returned because this year is the 10th anniversary for Diamond and Pearl. If they bring her back, I wish Brock would return too, even if it's just a couple of episodes. I think it'd be nice to see the trio reunited.

It makes sense if Dawn was the most popular since she's literally the female version of Ash, and they shared the spotlight.