AmourShipping

This article is about shipping. As hints and evidence for ships are mostly speculation, this page may contain personal points of view.

AmourShipping (Japanese: サトセレ SatoSere) is the belief that Ash and Serena belong in a romantic relationship. The name AmourShipping comes from the word amour, which is French for "love". The name was chosen since the XY series, like the games it is based on, is set in the Kalos region which is based off France. Though it is a recent pairing, it is becoming popular since it is revealed that Serena and Ash met before in their childhood, and Serena apparently has a crush on him. This makes some people in the fandom believe that AmourShipping will actually become canon.

Anime evidence

Serena's hints

• Lumiose City Pursuit

• When Serena sees a live news report of Ash trying to calm a rampaging Garchomp on Prism Tower, she silently eemingly in awe at Ash's bravery. jumps off the tower to rescue Pikachu, she gasps in fear for his safety. this may have been merely general concern, since the news camera never showed Ash'full until he was safely on the ground.
• Upon seeing Ash's face on TV, she ponders whether she recognizes hia flashback scene of a Ash at the end of the episode.

• XY003

Serena decides to begin her joueeing Ash on TV. Upon arriving at Professor Sycamore's laboratorre ch her starter Pokémon, Serena tells the professor that she is lohe boy who was on the news. Her eyes seem to light up considerably whre identifies him as Ash.

• XY005

• When Serena is walking down the steps in Santalune City, she thinks about ho't wait to see the look on Ash's face when he sees her. Then, she has a flyoung Ash extending his arm, as if he was offering her his hand. When the flands, she is seen blushing slightly.
• When she sees Ash battling Viola, she seems so overcome with happiness that she ard the battlefield, seemingly planning on going directly on theout noticing that the battle is still in progress. Then, as she watches Ash battling Viola, she seressed.
• Later, when Ase battle, Serena is obviously remorseful and attempts to speak to him, but he runs past her without noticing her, since he is concentrating on his injured Pokemon.
• When she searches the city, looking for Ash sreturn his backpack, which he left Gym, she is holding it tightlyhe returns his backpack to him, she starts to ask Ash something while blushing a little, only tted by the Pokémon Centre bell.
• When Ash is on the ground from the intense training, dirty after falling to the ground while catching Pikachu and Fletchling, Serena walks up to him and hands him a handkerchief to clean himself up with, showing he towards him.
• Serena looks evident she asks him if he remembers her. It i noten interacting with her mother, Serena has a sassy and rebellards her, but whenever she is around Ash, she seems to be extremely hesitant anadicting the personality that viewers have prior episodes.

• XY006

• After she asks Ash if he remembers her, she mentions that they met in Professor Oak's Pokémon Summer Camp in Pallet Town. When Ash remembers attending the camp, she is overjoyed and tells him that she went there as well. However, when he says that he doesn't remember her specifically, she is visibly disappointed, but instantly cheers up, obviously not wanting to be upset or angry with him.
• Serena quoted a sentence Ash once said in his childhood, about "never giving up". Ash responded with a laugh afterwards because he has forgotten the fact of saying this phrase.
• When the group is having dinner after the training session, Serena is shown glancing at Ash and smiling at him while he is eating. Since this is directly after him saying that he is sure to win the rematch, this strongly implies that she is admiring his determination and is impressed by it.
• Throughout the entire Gym battle, her cheering for Ash seems to be in a more enthusiastic way than Clemont and Bonnie. She also keeps reassuring Clemont, Bonnie, and Alexa that everything is going to be okay and that Ash would win, showing that she strongly believes in him. Later, when Ash becomes overwhelmed by Viola's new battling strategies, Serena cries out to Ash that he shouldn't give up. The emotions of the scene seemingly being emphasized by that moment of encouragement. This snaps him out of his panic and helps him win the battle.

Ash's hints

There have been none, thus as far.

Other hints

• On the second promotional poster for the series, it depicts Serena blushing while looking at Ash showing Serena is most likely to have feelings for Ash. This however does not mean Ash will finally respond to these feelings as seen in previous episodes/series.
• Ash and Serena met before when they were young children, prior to the start of the series.
• XY006

• After Serena asks Ash if he remembers her, Ash's Pikachu and Fletchling run to Clemont and Bonnie in response, implying that the two Pokémon sensed that this was a sensitive moment between only the two of them and that they should be left alone, though this is probably due to the tense moment.
• Before the start of the rematch between Ash and Viola, Alexa tells Serena: "I knew Ash needed a trigger (something to cheer him up and motivate him), but I didn't expect it to be you." This sentence implies that Ash wouldn't have been as inspired and determined to win the battle if Serena hadn't appeared.