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* NoBisexuals: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Aria accepts bisexuality in general, but she personally believes that her love interest Serena is [[ArmoredClosetGay a lesbian in denial]]. This belief is based on Serena occasionally calling women they know “beautiful,” but not commenting on men’s looks… and likely also in Aria’s [[SomebodyDoesntLikeRaymond intense dislike]] of Serena’s boyfriend Ash. Aria even calls Serena out on this during a heated argument, telling her that [[OpenSecret she knows]] that her feelings for Ash weren’t actually romantic. Serena [[WhatTheHellHero blows up at Aria]] for the insinuation, telling her that she doesn’t know her private feelings and has no right to tell her she’s wrong about her own sexuality.
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* NoBisexuals: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Aria accepts bisexuality in general, but she personally believes that her love interest Serena is [[ArmoredClosetGay a lesbian in denial]]. This belief is based on Serena occasionally calling women they know “beautiful,” but not commenting on men’s looks… and likely also in Aria’s [[SomebodyDoesntLikeRaymond [[SomebodyDoesntLoveRaymond intense dislike]] of Serena’s boyfriend Ash. Aria even calls Serena out on this during a heated argument, telling her that [[OpenSecret she Serena knows]] that her feelings for Ash weren’t actually romantic. Serena [[WhatTheHellHero blows up at Aria]] for the insinuation, telling her that she doesn’t know her Serena’s private feelings and has no right to tell her she’s wrong about her own sexuality.
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* NoBisexuals: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. Aria accepts bisexuality in general, but she personally believes that her love interest Serena is [[ArmoredClosetGay a lesbian in denial]]. This belief is based on Serena occasionally calling women they know “beautiful,” but not commenting on men’s looks… and likely also in Aria’s [[SomebodyDoesntLikeRaymond intense dislike]] of Serena’s boyfriend Ash. Aria even calls Serena out on this during a heated argument, telling her that [[OpenSecret she knows]] that her feelings for Ash weren’t actually romantic. Serena [[WhatTheHellHero blows up at Aria]] for the insinuation, telling her that she doesn’t know her private feelings and has no right to tell her she’s wrong about her own sexuality.
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** Korrina calls out Aria this way when she finds out that the group has stalled out in planning because Aria [[UnwantedRescue absolutely refuses]] to allow Ash to help rescue her from Palermo. As Korrina points out, she and Clemont had already lost their jobs because of the conflict, and Aria was consistently [[HerOwnWorstEnemy making it more difficult]] to help her.
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* JerkassHasAPoint: While it would be hard to call all of Aria's reasons to hate Ash ''rational,'' she does make a good point in regard to Serena's relationship with him. Serena had [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy left Ash in Alola]] along with a girl she was ''sure'' was in love with him, and began dating Aria after a few months [[INeverGotAnyLetters without any letters from him]]. Aria ''did'' have reason to hope that Serena had decided to give up on Ash and start a life with her, and is therefore devastated when Serena has to basically tell her that someone had ''tricked'' her into the relationship.
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* NotHelpingYourCase: Aria is quite insulted when Serena accuses her point-blank of [[INeverGotAnyLetters stealing Ash's letters to her]] with the aim of breaking them up and having Serena for herself. As Serena points out, not only did Aria [[BatmanGambit orchestrate the events]] of ''The Camera Eye,'' supposedly for Serena's own good, but she had ''just'' given a speech about how her [[TheResenter resentment]] of Ash and all he stood for verged on IrrationalHatred. In summary, Aria claimed that Ash was [[TheyWereHoldingYouBack holding Serena back]] from her true potential, was completely unsurprised that Ash and Lillie ''weren't'' together (when that was Serena's [[AbsenceMakesTheHeartGoYonder main reason]] for “moving on” with Aria) and [[UnwantedRescue categorically refused]] to allow Ash to save her, even if it meant giving up and returning to [[VillainWithGoodPublicity Palermo]]. In short, it would've been difficult for Aria to give herself a ''stronger'' motive for stealing Serena's letters.
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* WrongAssumption: Aria genuinely believed that [[spoiler: Serena was a lesbian in denial, rather than bisexual, and she had allowed herself to be reduced to a SatelliteLoveInterest for Ash because she ''saw him as a father figure.'']] Serena is [[WhatTheHellHero not happy]] when she voices that belief saying that [[BrutalHonesty it needed to be said eventually]].
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* TheHero: Ash's role in life, as recognized by Serena.
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* NiceHat: Serena wears a wide-brimmed straw hat with a red ribbon while she is in Alola, a continuity nod to the straw hat she wore when she first met Ash at summer camp.
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** Taken UpToEleven by Bonnie in ''Distance over Time.'' Since Clemont is in a stable relationship, she finds a new purpose in life by becoming a self-declared professional shipper and maintaining shipping charts of all her friends.
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** Taken UpToEleven Exaggerated by Bonnie in ''Distance over Time.'' Since Clemont is in a stable relationship, she finds a new purpose in life by becoming a self-declared professional shipper and maintaining shipping charts of all her friends.
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* AlohaHawaii: Serena and Ash are greeted by a hula girl who gives both of them a lei when they arrive at the airport in Hau'oli City.
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* HulaAndLuaus: Serena and Ash are greeted by a hula girl who gives both of them a lei when they arrive at the airport in Hau'oli City.
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Mentor Ship is now YMMV; objective examples go under Teacher Student Romance. Can't tell which is appropriate in this case as it's a zce
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* MentorShip: [[spoiler: Serena and Aria.]]
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* RuleOfCool: Ash and Greninja's mega tsunami attack makes no sense at all, mechanically. It's the embodiment of Awesome But Impractical.
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** Taken UpToEleven by Bonnie in ''Distance over Time.'' Since Clemont is in a stable relationship, she finds a new purpose in life by becoming a self-declared professional shipper and maintaining shipping charts of all her friends.
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** ''Distance over Time'' contains several.
*** When Serena chases down Aria, she learns that [[spoiler: Aria never received any of her emails and that Palermo was deceiving her the entire time. She not only gave Palermo all the evidence necessary to expose Aria's ploy, but also led Palermo directly to where Aria was hiding.]]
*** After [[spoiler: Korrina's crushing defeat by Palermo]], everything falls to pieces. [[spoiler: The letter that Serena tried to send to Ash at the beginning of the story is returned to her, which strips away her last shred of hope. She gives up, kisses Aria, and ends up in a relationship with her for just long enough for Ash and Lillie to return to Kalos. Lillie then reveals that despite her kissing Ash, Ash was faithful to Serena the entire time and never stopped writing to her. Serena realizes that someone took Ash's letters to her, and that she was deceived into cheating on Ash.]]
*** In the final confrontation with [[spoiler: Palermo]], the full extent of her multi-layered plan is revealed, including [[spoiler: using ''Diantha'' to battle in her place due to not being strong enough to defeat Ash herself.]] After her apparent defeat, [[spoiler: Palermo returns to pursue Serena and the others at the airport. With her plan foiled and nothing to lose, Palermo resorts to unprecedented violence against everyone in her way. After having Florges attempt to rip the Aether Foundation's jet out of the sky, Palermo faces down Serena in what quickly turns into a CurbStompBattle, with her very first action being to have Florges viciously crush Ribombee to prevent Ribombee from healing Serena's team. When all of her team is seemingly either unconscious or dead, Serena begs Palermo not to kill ''her.'']]
*** After [[spoiler: seemingly dying]], Serena wakes up and finds herself [[spoiler: floating in an empty void, leading her to believe that she really is dead. After thinking about her life for a while, she is startled by the appearance of Delphox, who reveals that she is not dead at all, but rather deep inside her own mind. After offering Serena some words of encouragement, Delphox returns both of them to reality, where they merge minds and achieve a transformation similar to the one shared by Ash and Greninja. Together, Serena and Delphox easily overwhelm Florges, and when Palermo orders Florges to unleash a dangerously powerful blast, the reflected attack ''consumes'' Florges, leaving behind nothing but ashes in the wind.]]
*** When Serena chases down Aria, she learns that [[spoiler: Aria never received any of her emails and that Palermo was deceiving her the entire time. She not only gave Palermo all the evidence necessary to expose Aria's ploy, but also led Palermo directly to where Aria was hiding.]]
*** After [[spoiler: Korrina's crushing defeat by Palermo]], everything falls to pieces. [[spoiler: The letter that Serena tried to send to Ash at the beginning of the story is returned to her, which strips away her last shred of hope. She gives up, kisses Aria, and ends up in a relationship with her for just long enough for Ash and Lillie to return to Kalos. Lillie then reveals that despite her kissing Ash, Ash was faithful to Serena the entire time and never stopped writing to her. Serena realizes that someone took Ash's letters to her, and that she was deceived into cheating on Ash.]]
*** In the final confrontation with [[spoiler: Palermo]], the full extent of her multi-layered plan is revealed, including [[spoiler: using ''Diantha'' to battle in her place due to not being strong enough to defeat Ash herself.]] After her apparent defeat, [[spoiler: Palermo returns to pursue Serena and the others at the airport. With her plan foiled and nothing to lose, Palermo resorts to unprecedented violence against everyone in her way. After having Florges attempt to rip the Aether Foundation's jet out of the sky, Palermo faces down Serena in what quickly turns into a CurbStompBattle, with her very first action being to have Florges viciously crush Ribombee to prevent Ribombee from healing Serena's team. When all of her team is seemingly either unconscious or dead, Serena begs Palermo not to kill ''her.'']]
*** After [[spoiler: seemingly dying]], Serena wakes up and finds herself [[spoiler: floating in an empty void, leading her to believe that she really is dead. After thinking about her life for a while, she is startled by the appearance of Delphox, who reveals that she is not dead at all, but rather deep inside her own mind. After offering Serena some words of encouragement, Delphox returns both of them to reality, where they merge minds and achieve a transformation similar to the one shared by Ash and Greninja. Together, Serena and Delphox easily overwhelm Florges, and when Palermo orders Florges to unleash a dangerously powerful blast, the reflected attack ''consumes'' Florges, leaving behind nothing but ashes in the wind.]]
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*** During [[spoiler: the confrontation at her mansion]], Palermo reveals [[spoiler: the full extent of her manipulation via a series of [[BatmanGambit Batman Gambits]]. After using Serena as an UnwittingPawn to sleuth out Aria's plot against her, Palermo took the evidence she collected from Serena's attempted correspondences with Aria and spun it as evidence to frame Serena. She presented this fake evidence to law enforcement, thereby resulting in a search warrant that enabled her to confiscate Ash's letters to Serena upon arrival. Aware of the compliated romantic tension between Serena and Aria, she knew that leaving the two of them together under one roof and removing the one obstacle preventing them from being together would eventually result in the explosion of a drama bomb that would send Aria running back to her. Likewise, she knew that Serena and her friends would come after Aria, and she prepared for it by deceiving ''Diantha,'' revealed to be her former protege. Well aware that she stood no chance against Ash, she then turns over the battle to ''the champion of Kalos.'']]
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*** Upon Ash and Lillie's arrival in Kalos, Lillie drops a bombshell on Serena when she reveals that [[spoiler: she kissed Ash in Alola, but he refused to kiss her back and remained faithful to Serena the whole time]]. This leads to the even bigger revelation that [[spoiler: Ash never stopped writing to Serena, meaning that his letters to her somehow went missing]]. This all leads to Serena finally realizing [[spoiler: that she was wrong about Ash giving up on her and that she had, in fact, cheated on him with Aria]].
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** ''Distance over Time'' features a parade of these.
*** After chasing down Aria, Serena discovers that [[spoiler: Aria knows nothing about the emails Serena sent her, nor Serena's attempt to extort her for money. The email address Palermo gave her was a fake, and it was Palermo she was communicating with the whole time. Thus, Palermo uncovered Aria's plot to warn Serena and retaliated by confiscating all of her funds, leading to Aria's decision to run away.]]
*** After chasing down Aria, Serena discovers that [[spoiler: Aria knows nothing about the emails Serena sent her, nor Serena's attempt to extort her for money. The email address Palermo gave her was a fake, and it was Palermo she was communicating with the whole time. Thus, Palermo uncovered Aria's plot to warn Serena and retaliated by confiscating all of her funds, leading to Aria's decision to run away.]]
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** ''Distance over Time'' references Dream Theater, and all of the chapter titles are derived from their album titles, song titles, and lyrics.
** [[spoiler: Korrina]] is eventually revealed to have been [[spoiler: abandoned by her parents and left with her grandfather]].
** Psychic powers take a much more prominent role in ''Distance over Time.'' [[spoiler: Palermo's Florges]] displays a frightening mastery of them, the result of [[spoiler: decades of privately honing her skills]]. [[spoiler: Serena's Delphox]] puts them to use for a variety of purposes, most notably to [[spoiler: fight back against Florges]] and, eventually, [[spoiler: contact Serena telepathically and enter her mind]].
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** [[spoiler: Serena puts ''herself'' on a bus at the end of ''Any Color You Like.'']]
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** In a reversal of perspective from the end of ''Any Color You Like,'' [[spoiler: despite Serena placing ''herself'' on the bus, Ash and Lillie are absent from the first half of ''Distance over Time'']].
** In a reversal of perspective from the end of ''Any Color You Like,'' [[spoiler: despite Serena placing ''herself'' on the bus, Ash and Lillie are absent from the first half of ''Distance over Time'']].
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** Partially subverted by Aria in ''Distance over Time.'' Although she admits that she needs help, she is so adamant about [[refusing to be another damsel for Ash to rescue]] that she [[ specifically asks him not to help her, even though she knows he would succeed]].
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* FromBadToWorse: In both ''The Camera Eye'' and ''Any Color You Like,'' things get progressively worse and worse for Serena with little reprieve until everything boils over all at once.
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** The penthouse and the picture also foreshadow [[spoiler: the true nature of the relationship between Palermo and Diantha. Palermo is, in fact, Diantha's former mentor, and Palermo released Diantha from her grasp when she realized the threat Diantha would pose to her, choosing instead to turn her into a powerful ally.]]
** Serena experiences a headache almost every time she tries to [[spoiler: interact with Delphox]]. She eventually learns [[spoiler: that the headaches were an unintended side effect of Delphox attempting to contact her telepathically]].
* FromBadToWorse: Inboth ''The Camera Eye'' and ''Any Color You Like,'' all three stories, things get progressively worse and worse for Serena with little reprieve until everything boils over all at once.
** Serena experiences a headache almost every time she tries to [[spoiler: interact with Delphox]]. She eventually learns [[spoiler: that the headaches were an unintended side effect of Delphox attempting to contact her telepathically]].
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