History AllForNothing / InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail

* [[spoiler:Everything Sara Diktaylis did to ruin Chloe's reputation and break her ends up leaving her with nothing in the end: she has no friends, she has no future, she has no one who will forgive her and no mother to care for her. She is now stuck blaming herself, unable to move on and is sent to the foster system to a family who, while better than she expected, she feels is making everything worse because she doesn't ''deserve'' loving parents.]]

* The reason Chloe Cerise ran away from home was because she not only wanted to stay away from Vermillion City for a while, but also so that everybody who ever hurt her or bullied her would get their stuff together and apologize to her, or otherwise get punished for it. The result? [[spoiler: Parker goes completely off the deep end in doing just that, creating an evil Chloe clone that not only traumatizes everyone, but sends her family into a lawsuit-infested downward spiral, with her reputation utterly in ruins by the end of it all. To add insult to injury, Goh, the one person she wanted an apology from the most, has been so thoroughly broken he can't even fathom the idea to ''try'' fix everything, believing himself to be an utter failure.]]
* Goh Fujhachi spends most of Act 1 frantically searching for a way to get Chloe back, growing more and more worried sick as he fails to make any progress. By the end of the act, he gets to call Chloe... who makes it clear she wants nothing to do with him and would rather stay where she is.

* Near the end of the Fog Car saga, The Apex come to realize their quest for strength was all for naught, and all they got out of it is an extended Train trip and probably being forgotten by everyone they ever loved [[spoiler:along with the fact that Simon and Sean are both dead, their bodies dropped off where the Train initially found them and their souls reincarnated into denizens for a very long time.]]
* Everything Grace did to make the Apex was for a proof of strength and so that she can be worshipped, looked up to and not be alone. Arc 3 has her learn very horrible truths that she's nothing more than a serial killer when she finds out that numerous denizens on the Train were once humans and that she must tell ''everyone'' the truth else they become subjected to the Cage of Flauros, especially Hazel, the girl that she began to bond with. [[spoiler:After everything is said and done, the Apex wants nothing to do with her and separate and she walks back to Le Chat Chalet Car knowing that it will take a long time for ''anyone'' to ever forgive her.]]

Unfortunately, a lot of the story's characters find that their actions amount to nothing.

** His search for the Infinity Train also ends like this. Not only does he fail to get even a hint as to how to proceed, but by Act 2, [[spoiler: when his trauma has made it fit for him to become a passenger]], he's too depressed to want anything to do ''anything''.

* Near the end of the Fog Car saga, The Apex come to realize their quest for strength was all for naught, and al they got out of it is an extended Train trip and probably being forgotten by everyone they ever loved [[spoiler:along with the fact that Simon and Sean are both dead, their bodies dropped off where the Train initially found them and their souls reincarnated into denizens for a very long time.]]

!!''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail''

* [[Recap/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailTheFogCarPt2 The Fog Car Part 2]]: Amelia wastes no time telling Grace that this little cult she made was absolutely worthless; the numbers don't do anything except say how far away you are from progress and Amelia does not care a single bit about them.

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!!''Fanfic/InfinityTrainKnightOfTheOrangeLily''
* Gladion doesn't want to admit that everything he did for his sister was this. All he had to do was show Type: Null/Silvally and explain that it was trying to help her from Nihilego to help her sister get through her trauma.

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!!''Fanfic/InfinityTrainVoyageOfWisteria''
* After constantly [[TheScapegoat blaming Ash]] for [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowing their children]], claiming that he ''forced'' their kids to pursue other paths in life, the adults of Pallet Town get a much needed wake-up call, learning that their ringleader Carl had been [[NeverMyFault blaming Ash for his own]] [[AbusiveParents failures as a parent]]. Their children were fully content with what they'd chosen for themselves, and there was absolutely ''no reason'' for them to seek {{Revenge}} on Ash... much less go along with a scheme that would have put innocent children at risk of ''being killed in a forest fire''. What's more, their kids [[InternalReveal learn what they did]] and that their parents ''never actually'' supported their dreams, creating a lot of rifts in a lot of families. All because the adults were pettily jealous of Ash's successes.
* London bitterly notes that the White Gestalt's quest against the Apex was this. From what we know, it wasn't pretty, it had to be ''[[LaserGuidedAmnesia erased]]'' [[LaserGuidedAmnesia from memory]], and by the time it sinks in, the statues made in honor of them will be pulled down.

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* After constantly [[TheScapegoat blaming Ash]] for [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowing their children]], claiming that he ''forced'' their kids to pursue other paths in life, the adults of Pallet Town get a much-needed wake-up call, learning that their ringleader Carl had been [[NeverMyFault blaming Ash for his own]] [[AbusiveParents failures as a parent]]. Their children were fully content with what they'd chosen for themselves, and there was absolutely ''no reason'' for them to seek {{Revenge}} on Ash... much less go along with a scheme that would have put innocent children at risk of ''being killed in a forest fire''. What's more, their kids [[InternalReveal learn what they did]] and that their parents ''never actually'' supported their dreams, creating a lot of rifts in a lot of families. All because the adults were pettily jealous of Ash's successes.

* After constantly [[TheScapegoat blaming Ash]] for [[OvershadowedByAwesome overshadowing their children]], claiming that he ''forced'' their kids to pursue other paths in life, the adults of Pallet Town get a much-needed wake-up call, learning that their ringleader Carl was [[NeverMyFault blaming Ash for his own]] [[AbusiveParents failures as a parent]]. Their children were fully content with what they'd chosen for themselves, and there was absolutely ''no reason'' for them to seek {{Revenge}} on Ash... much less go along with a scheme that would have put innocent children at risk of ''being killed in a forest fire''. What's more, their kids [[InternalReveal learn what they did]] and that their parents ''never actually'' supported their dreams, creating a lot of rifts in a lot of families. All because the adults were pettily jealous of Ash's successes.

* The Adults of Pallet Town finally learn that their children were happy with their paths in life after Carl is arrested...while their children learn of their crimes and how they weren’t really that supportive of what they chose to do at all at the same time. Not to mention that they were also siding with Carl's scheme and would've let children die from a forest fire.
* London bitterly notes that the White Gestalt's quest against the Apex was this. From what we know, it wasn't pretty, it had to be ''erased'' from memory and by the time it sinks in, the statues made in honor of them will be pulled down.

* Gladion doesn't want to admit that everything he did for his sister was this. All he had to do was show Type: Null/Silvally and explain that it was trying to help her from Nihilego to help her sister get through her trauma.

!!''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail''

* [[Recap/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailTheFogCarPt2 The Fog Car Part 2]]: Amelia wastes no time telling Grace that this little cult she made was absolutely worthless; the numbers don't do anything except say how far away you are from progress and Amelia does not care a single bit about them.

* Near the end of the Fog Car saga, The Apex come to realize their quest for strength was all for naught, and al they got out of it is an extended Train trip and probably being forgotten by everyone they ever loved.

* [[Recap/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailTheFogCarPt1 The Fog Car Part 1]]: Parker confirms that his 'nightmare therapy' was well and truly pointless when he recounts how he watched multiple futures where he'd never summoned the Unown, and in all except one extreme case, Goh cooled down before he did anything unforgivable and started making progress with Ash since there was no 'UnChloe' to distract anyone.