On his tenth birthday, Ash Ketchum was given a backpack of supplies, a belt of pokeballs, a stubborn Pikachu, and the title pokemon trainer.  To most people becoming a trainer was only a small accomplishment that children were allowed too, but to Ash it was a part of life.  Thats was why when ever someone asked if he and his friends were trainers, he always found himself nodding quickly before saying, "I'm Ash Ketchum of Pallet Town."

At age twelve he earned the title of best friend when he was forced to say goodbye to the two people he had traveled with for what seemed like forever.  But his grief lasted shortly for he was soon starting a new adventure in an unknown region called Hoenn and his newest traveling partner had deemed him with the title teacher.

After a year away he was met with both friends of old and new in his hometown, but their time together was short lived and once again he finds himself traveling away from friends he had to leave behind to reach new destnations with the new friends he had made.   But once again time repeats itself and he was forced to say goodbye, only this time he is given no title.

At fifteen, Ash Ketchum was no longer a child nor a man, but a teen who knows that he will one day become a Pokemon Master.  Yet, unlike a child, he now thought of a red haired girl he left behind of something more than just a friend.  They had given each other the title of best friend, but for some reason he can't help but think what it would be like if he earned the title of her boyfriend.   

Three years later he returned to his hometown, but not as the child who left in hopes of becoming a Pokemon Master, but as a man who recieved the title of Pokemon Master.

At twenty-three he found himself sharing a home, but not with his mother or a roomate, but with the woman who gave him the title of husband when she changed her name to Misty Ketchum.

Now many years have passed since he and Misty married and many things have changed; the woman who called him son has died, the children he once held who gave him the title of father have now grown, and the title of Pokemon Master dissapeared from him long ago.  Yet, despite how gray his hair had become and how many titles he had gained and lost, he would always be Ash Ketchum and that was a title in itself.