For me? It's Red x Cynthia...

For me? It's Red x Cynthia. Something about a strong trainer in Cynthia relying on an equally strong trainer of the opposite sex is kino.

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Me on the left

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I agree with like 90% of this

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They honestly make a lot of sense as equal-yet-opposites. Cynthia is full compfag as shown in BDSP, whereas Red sticks to his bros and is almost just as good.
They'd probably be considered evenly matched if GF ever had the balls to give Red's team Affection boosts.

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I self-insert as Red and date Cynthia

I dont particularly care for Cynthia and I dont self insert as Red, just think the ship makes sense and I like it.

But Cynthia is like 30 in SM and Red is 20

perfect

That...is actually unironically, extremely based.
It's pretty much been proven at this point that if you set Red and Cynthia's teams up against each other at relatively equal levels, with both having good EV/IV spreads, they're more evenly matched than you might think. Cynthia does still have an edge, but Red will come out on top 40-something percent of the time. It's surprisingly close. So I've always figured that if they gave Red the BDSP treatment he'd be quite the fun challenge.
But if they were able to make it so that his team was average in the stat department, like your typical playthrough team, but they got affection bonuses? He'd still be very tough, but in a new and interesting way that would set him apart from anyone else. I am 100% in favour of this. Of course it'll never happen, but a guy can dream

Honestly, though? That's not even that bad. Red's an adult, so it's not like Cynthia's perving on a kid. The only legitimate potential concerns is imbalance in the relationship's power dynamics and experience/maturity levels, but Red has been dealing with heavy shit since he was 11. I don't doubt that he's a lot more mature than your average 20-something. So yeah, it's a significant age gap, but probably not much of a maturity gap. Just two peers taking an interest in each other.

holy based

>rich white Stacy falls for a balding silent autist
Wholesome desu.

Affection is stupid and shouldn't be a mechanic, much less a forced mechanic.

>equally strong trainer
Subtle, Cynthiafag, subtle.
Red = Battle LEGEND
Cynthia = "Sinnoh's Archeologist" "Pokemon Trainer"