Although this might've been discussed before on other threads , but what would Misty, May, Dawn and/or Iris think of Serena. How will they react to the relationship between Serena and Ash. What would Serena think of Misty, May, Dawn and Iris?
I think they'll tolerate her. After all, if Misty could tolerate May who was as girly as, if not moreso than Serena (to almost ditz levels), she most certainly can tolerate Serena. And I'm also doubtful Misty will get jealous of Serena, anyways, especially when she didn't get jealous of May when they met (and remember, this was the girl who got miffed when Melody gave Ash a welcome kiss to Shamouti Island in Pokémon the Movie 2000, even when it wasn't even a flirtatious kiss at all, so if she could get miffed from that, she definitely could have gotten jealous of May at any point, yet she didn't). Serena MIGHT get jealous of Misty though, but I'm still not so certain about that. And she might look up to May and Dawn due to their having similar goals. Don't know about Iris, though. And besides, we're still not sure whether they'll even enter a relationship anyways (especially when Ash and Serena are underage anyways, and most likely wouldn't care about getting into a relationship anyways).
I know people are going to be citing the upcoming date episode regarding it being confirmed that Ash and Serena are a couple, but frankly, I'm going to take that with a grain of salt because there have been prior episodes where their Japanese titles and previews indicated something would happen that the actual episode doesn't even match up with. Take Date with Delcatty, for example. The Japanese title implied that Misty would have risked her life and nearly get herself killed, yet in the actual episode, she doesn't really do anything like that, at least not the kind like her taking poison stings for Gyarados in Cerulean Blue. There's also Luvdisc is a Many Splendored Thing, which had its previews strongly hint at Orangeshipping becoming canon, when in actuality, most if not all of that were from Daisy's overactive imagination [and the closest it ever came to actually being reality, they were under the influence of Attract by the two Luvdisc for the purposes of the water show]. I might as well also point out that the Simpsons' season premiere pulled something similar: They teased that a major character will die in the Season Premiere. However, when the actual Season Premiere aired, the only character who died was Krusty's father, and he was not a major character at all, he was at best a minor character, and at worst a background character. All I say is that you keep the horses in the stable and don't count your chickens yet regarding Serena and Ash being a couple. There may be a possibility that the date actually would be what the title implies, but given what the show's titles and previews have pointed to before, I would personally treat it as a low probability. I'm not even a Pokeshipper, yet I still think we should hold off claiming they are a couple until the episode airs, assuming it even IS what the episode title claims.
