Ok, imagine this you are misty coming back several years later to meet a childhood friend and when you arrive you realize he's no different. I my self have heard many retarded things like he's a vampire or a real hysterical one a spirit.No he's neither see Pokemon just wanted to keep ash forever as a ícone but wouldn't you think its weird if a friend you left as an adolescent never aged a bit? POOR MISTY is all i gotta say. But theirs a lot of weird things in Pokemon like the 38+ Officer Jennys and nurse joys