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Serena's return taking all my attention <3

weird tho, these are Contests. backstory is after Serena's success as a Showcase performer in Kalos she turned down the mentorship of a top performance manager or w/e to go out on her own journey, tho the manager suggest she try out Contests in other regions. so yeah, we knew she started doing Contests so okay that's what she's doing still

but uh these contests don't run like Contests anymore? they're.... just performances, like Showcases were. huh??? we're even in Lilycove this ep so yeah there's no reason it wouldn't be the old Contest format from Hoenn, which Sinnoh didn't even change much of anyways

boooooo tho she didn't realllly get to see Ash. the whole ep was her encouraging Chloe to try a Contest after getting scouted. Ash is stalled by Wallace who wants a battle, and he keeps distracting Ash and he doesn't meet back up with Chloe / Serena until their boat is about to take off and Ash just rushes to catch it when Serena goes omg ash! and they catch-up while the boat is literally driving the gang away from Serena who stays behind

I guess if there was traversal space between Ash & Serena he'd be in risk of the Smooch Zone