History Characters / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusChloeCerise

** The reason why Chloe never asks for anything or keeps refusing Ash and Goh's invitations to go out and see Pokémon is because she once wanted to go to a softball camp in Celadon which her father promised she could go if she behaved for a week, which she did. But when he had to rescind it at the last minute to go to a conference and tried to reassure her she could just go some other time, she begrudgingly accepted it until Sara said that his refusal was proof that the Professor never loved her.

** Another cry that Chloe does is getting Goh's homework (being the only person who does it, in fact) and constantly texting him to come back as soon as possible because she just wants to spend more time with him.

** Finally, Goh would've drowned during a camping trip in the Kalos incident because he refused to listen to Chloe to ''not'' jump on a Vivillon over a river were it not for Chloe jumping in to pull him out and try to get him back to safety.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Despite being allegedly just a SupportingProtagonist this time around, a good deal of Act 1 still focuses heavily on her and her development, with the final confrontation of Act 1 even being a fight between Chloe and her long time bully Sara. However, this trope gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] pretty harshly, since not only does she get the brunt of both good ''and'' bad attention, but [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore neglects his own problems in order to focus on ''her'' growth and quest to stop the Flauros, causing him to become more and more fragile as the story goes on until he cracks when she rejects him.]] This is addressed in author notes for Horrorland Car, as the co-author points out that Chloe is getting a big chunk of focus on Act 2 because almost everyone in the story up to this point have connections to her, and also to set things up for when Augustine succeeds her.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the flashback to the camping trip, Chloe could've walked off and let Goh suffer after he repeatedly refused to listen to her. Instead, the ''second'' he misses "catching" Vivillon, she immediately jumps into save him and spends an entire afternoon struggling to get back to the camp, even going as far as braving a spooky cave to get flowers from a Gourgheist.

* SpannerInTheWorks: For all of Ash being there for Goh to open up and finally start chasing his dreams, Goh probably wouldn't even be around if Chloe didn't stay by his side.
** "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Goh was ready to bolt out of school because he was traumatized from Tokio betraying him, demanding that Chloe never abandon him. Chloe promising to still be his friend, thus making him not do something drastic like get onto the Infinity Train. Speaking of which...
** On his birthday, 8-year-old Goh was about to run off in shame because he was still so heartbroken over "losing" Tokio and rejected Chloe's Mew magnet in his despair...which means ''he'' could've entered the Infinity Train or even run away from home in general if no one looked out for him. Because Chloe convinces Goh to keep searching for Mew, he stays in one place.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Despite being allegedly just a SupportingProtagonist this time around, a good deal of Act 1 still focuses heavily on her and her development, with the final confrontation of Act 1 even being a fight between Chloe and her long time bully Sara. However, this trope gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] pretty harshly, since not only does she get the brunt of both good ''and'' bad attention, but [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore neglects his own problems in order to focus on ''her'' growth and quest to stop the Flauros, causing him to become more and more fragile as the story goes on until he cracks when she rejects him.]] This is addressed in author notes for Horrorland Car, as the co-author points out that Chloe is getting a big chunk of focus on Act 2 because almost everyone in the story up to this point have connections to her, and to set things up for when Augustine succeeds her.

** The classmates are shown to hate Goh because he has all the privileges to leave school and is smart enough to easily finish up his classwork as shown "The Firefly Funhouse Car". In contrast, the ''worst'' Chloe has ever done to them before the paint-can incident was just excessively talk about her hobbies. And yet the classmates were pushing her to suicide solely because she was at school more often.

* GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak: She likes to wear dresses, has a fondness for chocolate, and turns red upon learning Ryan and Min-Gi got married. She's also willing to get into a brawl with a pipe, has a love of demons and nightmarish things, likes violent video games, and her final outfit for Act 1 involves a top hat and suit jacket.

** She makes an offhanded remark on how she's into a boy band she calls [[Music/{{BTS}} "Berry boy scouts"]] even though they have constant debates about [[SeriousBusiness whether or not mint chocolate ice cream should exist.]] .

* AdaptationalContextChange: In ''Blossoming Trail'', one of the core reasons for Chloe running away was because she felt out of place due to her dislike of Pokemon. While it's still a major focus, her other reason is she just wanted Goh to pay more attention to her for once and appreciate her for the things she's done for him.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" shows Chloe taking the the steps to talk to Goh again, texting him that she's fine and would like to try to mend fences. A sharp contrast to the girl whose texts to him were to berate him for never caring for her than shutting him out of her life.

** Chloe is mostly aware of Goh having a "personal promise" with his schooling, but is she aware that it's a promise he made ''to the school'' with a written slip and all? Or is she taking Goh's words, as always, at face value as "It's on my code of honor that I ''promise'' to go to school only for tests?"

* CowardiceCallout: Is on the receiving end of this twice by Goh: once during a flashback where snapped at her for trying to stop him from chasing a Vivillon, and then again during Harvest Moon Car when he chews her for constantly running away from her problems.

* AttentionWhore: Chloe '''hates''' being ignored and constantly acts out to get people to notice her. She even admits that she knew full well that none of her classmates liked horror and were annoyed by her antics, but she kept pestering them because she just wanted someone to pay attention to her.

** Her Halo of Valac makes her summon a demon of any choosing, but it's mostly tailored to ''her'' being the only one who actually knows the Goetias by heart and she can only use it for one task. [[spoiler:She's also calling upon the ''soul'' of a Goetia, meaning someone has to be the guinea pig and be knocked unconscious until Chloe figures out a request from them]]. Last, the request has to be worded ''precisely'' or else there will be consequences. [[spoiler:When Chloe asks Buné to leave Augustine's body, she didn't state that he also removed the draconic transformation left behind, to which she even said she thought that was implied in her command.]]

* AdaptationalContextChange: In ''Blossoming Trail'', one of the core reasons for Chloe running away was because she felt out of place due to her dislike of Pokemon. Here, she just wanted Goh to pay more attention to her and appreciate her for the things she's done for him.

** The whole thing of Goh remarking how Chloe's "not into Pokémon anymore" in ''Journeys'' episode 11 gets a focus in Act 2. Chloe actually ''did'' like Pokémon once, Ghost-types specifically; but Goh was so sheltered by his parents due to a camping incident that nearly ended with him drowning and her attempts to get her classmates into them led to her them ostracizing her, and ultimately she began to hate Pokémon and herself for not being like everyone else who ''didn't'' like monsters or creepy things.
** While ''Blossomverse'' barely showed times of her and Goh hanging out, there's more focus on things like a camping trip and birthday parties showing how Chloe tried to be there for Goh while he was still his angsty self. "Firefly Funhouse Car" also expands more on some text messages she and Goh shared, highlighting more of her frustrations with him, along with a scene when she tried to ask him what happened in Ilex Forest, only for him to snap and demand she never bring it up again.

* StrongGirlSmartGuy: When paired with a male like Augustine, Yuri, Specter or Lexi, she's usually the powerhouse who barrels her way through any and all problems with a donut holer in hand. However, by no means is she ''dumb'' -- her creative mind and knowledge of the Goetias becomes important during late Act 1/Act 2.

* TameHerAnger: One of Chloe's flaws is her wrath, brought on by her refusal to speak up about her issues under a belief that no one would listen or help her. Throughout her trip, she must learn that she can't solve her problems through anger and violence, lest she cause even more problems from them. Buné helps her understand that her anger is actually her hiding so much grief due to how she feels the entire world is against her, and how she can never catch a break. He allows Chloe to finally feel her rage and hatred for herself in one loud cry of agony, connecting to that side of herself she hates and to start healing. She also is given a tattoo as a visual reminder to take a pause before she flies off the handle.

* {{Lunacy}}: Chloe has a minor moon motif, fitting for someone based on a character who can turn into a werewolf. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a notebook of hers depicted with the cover of a swarm of Vivillon surrounded by a full moon, Bune's tattoo for her has a crescent moon next to a butterfly in a heart, and the arc that is focused on her forgiving herself and starting anew is the Harvest Moon Car.

* MsViceGirl: She shows signs of envy over seeing how Ash and Goh (in her eyes) always get everything they want, like the freedom to travel, and her most signature sin is wrath due to generally reacting to any slight against her with a temper tantrum at best, and a violent rampage at worst. But that does ''not'' mean she is evil or bad at all and is capable of realizing she's made mistakes when called out on it. It just takes her a long time to make her confront her issues.

** The reason she becomes Chloe of the Vermillion is because it gave her a chance to be a better, stronger, more ''lovable'' Chloe who will never have to worry about being hurt again, never be ignored by ''anyone'' once they learn of her feats, or blowing up at other people because she didn't properly address her feelings. She also admits to Goh that she became Chloe of the Vermillion because she ''despised'' being the girl whom Goh (seemingly) never cares about over Pokemon loving boys.

** The reason why Chloe never asks for anything or keeps refusing Ash and Goh's invitations to go out and see Pokémon is because she once wanted to go to a softball camp in Celadon which her father promised she could go if she behaved for a week, which she did. But when he had to rescind it at the last minute to go to a conference and tried to reassure her she could just go some other time, she took his words to mean that he didn't care about ''her'' needs.

* GaveUpTooSoon: As revealed in a later chapter, her FreudianExcuse that is the professor promised to take her to softball camp one time, but a last-minute conference came up and he had to cancel those plans. Despite arguing for alternatives, honoring her promise to behave for a week, ''and'' being reassured she could just try again in the future, she just gave up on him altogether.

* GrassIsGreener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it better because they're not judged or considered weird by others. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't constantly harassed by bullies doesn't mean they ''don't'' have their own problems; Goh has to deal with his own lacking social skills after all, though her actions ensured that his problems became a lot worse, and ''she'' is frankly the reason Ash had any problems at all (as any issues he had before Chloe's hissy fit was nowhere near as bad).

* HalloweenCostumeCharacterization: "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that she dressed up as [[WesternAnimation/PhantomInvestigators Daemona Prune]] for Halloween when she was 9. Daemona is a girl with green eyes and red hair who has a huge love of chasing supernatural entities, which can accurately describe Chloe herself.

* HanlonsRazor: Chloe initially has no concept of people making honest mistakes, treating even minor slights against her as personal attacks, and believing everyone is always out to get her.

* HatesBeingAlone: All of her worries and flaws come from her fears of being utterly alone solely because she doesn't follow the crowd and the evidence at school, home and the Institute pound it to her head that she will never be loved for who she is and she is afraid of being mocked for not being "enough" of a know-it-all in the field of Pokemon. The Train gives her the freedom to be noticed by denizens who won't be so quick to judge her if she makes a mistake and allow her the chance to breathe and make a new identity for herself.

* TheHeart: While she's initially seen as the leader of the Red Lotus Uprising, Harvest Moon Car actually reveals this is her true role. Atticus, Lexi, and Amelia would never have joined on their quests without her, especially since Atticus and Lexi have justified beef with Amelia for being responsible for their traumas. Amelia herself only joins because Chloe is the ''only'' passenger who has ever stood up to her defense instead of pushing her away or told her she is at fault for everything going wrong. Hewie wouldn't even ''be'' a part of the Uprising, let alone have a name, if Chloe hadn't befriended him or saved him and the other Mirage Pokemon from Yung's control. It's her kindness and empathy for them that keeps everyone together and all of them care for her well-being, enough for them all to tell Alighieri to shut up when he tells them to ditch her.

** A literal example of heart being a strength. Barring Chloe's cloak and amulet, the things Ash likes about her is how she's "nice to Yamper," and in the orienteering event hosted by the Cerise Institute, she was the one keeping focus and getting people out of trouble. Chloe is dismissive of these traits [[OvershadowedByAwesome because it's not like anyone notices them]] over Ash's battling skills, Goh's dream for Mew and ability to capture so many Pokemon at once, and her father's research. But in Act 2, Goh admits Chloe's kindness and concern for him ''are'' her best traits. In fact, if it wasn't for Chloe watching out for him, Goh probably would've had it worse off/be dead because it's shown that without ''someone'' keeping an eye on him, he'll end up recklessly endangering himself. Not to mention that being kind is how she gained practically every single member of the Red Lotus Uprising, taking a blow of hot water for Lexi, standing up for Amelia when Henry and Walter mock her, and taking the courage to befriend Hewie.
** In her world, being a creative soul who likes macabre things and art only gets her negative responses because it doesn't involve Pokémon. It turns out those traits have purpose on the Train. Her open mind to the more fantastical things means she is able to integrate much faster into the weirdness the Train offers than those more close-minded and into logic like Augustine, Amelia, or Specter, which earns her lots of fans for being curious to know the Denizens better.

* HeroicLineage: Averted. Despite sharing many traits with a previous passenger named Alec Cerise: red hair with flower highlights, same surname, love of nightmares and mint chocolate desserts, prolific at writing, and possessing a title with "Demon" it, Chloe is ''not'' related to him.

** Because of how her classmates treat her, she assumes those who like Pokémon are gods to be worshipped and those who are aren't are to be thrown out like trash.
** Due to a bad experience of her father being unable to let her go to softball camp, she thought of her father's reassurance as "My dad loves Pokémon will always love more than me" rather than him reassuring her that she could just try again another time. This caused her to close herself off from Pokémon and anyone involved in them.
** Chloe's idea of Goh is "so obsessed with Pokémon that it's like I don't even exist". [[JerkassHasAPoint While she's not wrong]] to say Goh does have some problems with getting his priorities straight, she makes the mistake of assuming he wouldn't care if she ''killed herself''. Upon telling Goh her detailed suicide plot, which involves him hanging up on her when she's about to take the drop, and him screaming at her that he'd have ''instantly'' gone back to save her, Chloe immediately takes it back and apologizes for thinking so lowly of him.

** Chloe saved Goh from drowning after he refused to listen to her. Later, he vows to save ''Chloe'' from committing suicide after he finally listens to her.

* IdentityBreakdown: Act 2 has Chloe start questioning who she ''really'' is and what "Chloe of the Vermillion" means to her. However, the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona not hasn't helped her with issues, but worsened them as the denizens feed her ego by calling her a goddess. It takes Goh and Buné to help reveal that Chloe Cerise ''is'' a good person deep down, and she never had to go to such extremes to make people see the real her.
* IgnoredEpiphany: In the Harvest Moon Car, Atticus admits to Yuri there were a few times that he saw how Chloe's enthusiasm for what awaited in a future car was exactly like Ash and Goh wanting to look for Pokémon, but she never made the connection.

** The reason she becomes Chloe of the Vermillion is because it gave her a chance to be a better, stronger, more ''lovable'' Chloe who will never have to worry about being hurt again, never be ignored by ''anyone'' once they learn of her feats, or blowing up at other people because she didn't properly address her feelings. She also admits to Goh that she became Chloe of the Vermillion because she hated being the girl whom Goh (seemingly) hates.

* IJustWantToBeSpecial: [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. By the time the story starts, Chloe's so ''desperate'' to distance herself from her former ignored and weak self that she willingly adopts the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona in hopes she'll get the attention and adoration she craves, particularly the one where [[ObliviousToHints Goh]] ''finally'' [[FailedASpotCheck sees her]] as his equal instead of some afterthought who gives him homework he hates. Unfortunately, her determination to cling onto her fantasy causes her to drive away people back at home, while only accepting mindless sycophants who don't even see her as a person, just a symbol to be admired. She later grows out of this phase to return to herself after Goh tells her that she ''is'' special as she is and she can learn to love herself.
* IJustWantToBeYou: After getting verbally torn apart by Goh in Harvest Moon Car for her nasty attitude and lack of concern for other people, Chloe breaks down and tearfully admits that her real, '''true''' motive for becoming Chloe of the Vermillion and acting the way she did during their Ghost-hunt was because she wanted to be what she thought Goh wanted in his "perfect best friend" and began acting more like him in the hopes that he'd ''finally'' acknowledge her and appreciate everything she did for him over the years.

** Chloe tried to be exactly like the extroverted Pokemon-loving friend she thought Goh wanted, when all this time he liked her ''as she already was'' in being kind, quiet, and concerned for him. Moreover, while Tokio was the catalyst for Goh refusing to make friends, Goh actually tried searching for her for ''three days''.
** She made a big deal when Goh didn't show enough appreciation for her bringing him his homework. By the time he decides to do the same for her, she's too broken and suicidal to care for something so ''minor''.

** [[spoiler:After she goes through her FreakOut and snaps at Augustine that there is ''no way'' she can be hopeful after seeing what Sara unleashed, which culminates in his black/white view of the world shattering and he ends up becoming cynical in order to be saved, she asks if this is all her fault. Everyone reassures her that it's not, as it's more a combination of what Augustine has been hiding and Sara's machinations. Unfortunately, as Prelude to Act 2 shows us, Augustine ''really'' hates her for causing his trauma which becomes more and more aggravated when the street-cleaners of the Palimpsest Car ''also'' agree with this sentiment as they take turns physically assaulting her.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" has her realize that she doesn't want Goh to die by her hand, or die at all, solely because he was a less than ideal friend who said the wrong thing.

** After Goh berates her for acting like Sara despite all the progress she's made, Chloe sadly admits it's the truth and apologizes to everyone she hurt with her actions, vowing to take any punishment awaiting her back home. She gets another one prior to that, with Goh tearfully screaming at her that he would've personally stopped her from killing herself, making her realize how badly she had misjudged him for so long.

* TongueSuicide: Referenced in Harvest Moon Car, as she feels like her inability to say what's bugging her/lashing out at others is the reason that everything in her life has gone wrong, and it'd be better if she just shut her little mouth up and not be a burden to others.

* UngratefulBitch: A big problem for her as shown throughout Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2.
** Vermillion City becomes more aware of her circumstances and how they're going to try to make things better for her return, yet she only focuses on the fact they're finally realizing this when she's gone instead of being happy they realized it at all.
** Despite Professor Sycamore having done much more to help her with her issues than anybody back at Vermillion City, [[spoiler: she readily uses him as an emotional punching bag to take out her frustrations regarding the Sara situation, going so hard that the professor ''breaks'' and nearly ''ends the world''.]]
** Ash was one of her biggest defenders and a legitimate nice guy who at least ''tried'' to become friends with her with what little had about her to go on. Chloe just sees him as a "black hole" of a trainer who everyone falls for without putting any effort to it, and even when she realizes she's wrong and tries to apologize, she ''sabotages herself'' by only giving either a BackhandedApology or a self-pitying rant in return.

** When it comes to who is more at fault with her and Goh's friendship failing? While Goh ''was'' insensitive at times, he also tells Chloe she also kept things so tight-lipped that him telling Ash about her lack of interest on Pokemon was legitimate because it was ''only'' thing she ever mentioned.

** In regards to Augustine's mental breakdown, he sees both her ''and'' Specter fully responsible for it. Chloe herself also knows no amount of saying "It's not your fault" will erase her sins and her mistake any time soon, deciding to accept she will work on making up for this.

* FiveStagesOfGrief: Goes through the entire gambit of this at the end of the Cyan Desert Car at the prospect of [[spoiler:her dad getting on the Train.]]
** Denial: She buries the truth with a smile and insistent on trying to use her cloak to obtain knowledge or tends to focus on something else to keep her mind off of it.
** Anger: Is ''barely'' keeping it together with the stress of what's going on and ready to burn Yugure up.
** Bargaining: Is begging the Train and One-One to keep [[spoiler:her father]] safe.
** Depression: [[spoiler:Once the news kicks in he's on the Train, she starts breaking down.]]
** Acceptance: With reassurance from everyone else, she can put hope for the future and move forward, albeit she still show signs of slipping as shown in the Act 1 Intermission.

** The reason she refused help from others was the fear of Sara bullying her more for not "tolerating it". As Cyan Desert Car reveals, this was the exact reason Sara bullied her.
** Chloe is always bringing up her loss to Gengar, particularly her use of Tackle on him, as something her classmates will never forget. When Goh showed the recording, lo and behold, the first thing they did was indeed laugh at her.

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Bizarrely enough, She's one to ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lila Rossi]]'' of all people. Both of them are redheads with green eyes who [[ConsummateLiar lie like there's no tomorrow]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing act nice but are actually rather nasty on the inside]], [[NeverMyFault refuse to acknowledge their faults]] [[TheUnapologetic or apologize for those they hurt]], [[EntitledBastard feel like they're entitled to whatever they want without questions]], and [[AesopAmnesia never learn their lessons no matter how often they learn them]]. However, Chloe's lies stem from her messed up mentality as a result of the bullying she suffered, making her exaggerate and misunderstand people, while Lila's aware of the truth but lies regardless in order to get what she wants. At least some of Chloe's kindness is genuine and the rest is just hidden under several layers of cynicism and defense mechanisms, while Lila is rotten through and through, and any kindness she shows is just a farce to get people to lower their guard. Chloe can be made aware of her faults and is willing to apologize, if begrudgingly so; Lila believes herself above things like guilt and blame and continues to act like she did nothing wrong. Chloe's reasonable enough to understand that nobody owes her the world for honest mistakes, while Lila refuses to consider herself as unfitting for anything but the best. Finally, while Chloe does have a bad tendency to forget her lessons and go back to square one, she's at least cognizant enough to recognize this as a heavy flaw that needs to be corrected, while Lila has the lessons go in one ear and out the other, never acknowledging said lessons even when it would be in her best interest to do so. And for an extra comparison, it turns out [[spoiler: Lila is also going under a fake identity, just like how Chloe adopted the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona once she entered the Train. However, "Chloe of the Vermillion" was created by Chloe in order to be the ideal best friend she thought Goh wanted, and eventually she ditches it in order to go back to her real identity after realizing she wasn't being herself. Lila, meanwhile, has been living a double life for who knows how long, and she only ditches that disguise when she's been found out, with no indication her current persona, ''Cerise'', is her real one.]]

* AchievementsInIgnorance:
** Her telling Goh to use her Mew magnet, which he initially rejected on the basis over it not being the real Mew and because he was upset about how ''Tokio'' wasn't coming to his birthday party, as a symbol for his goal made it so Goh became Train immune (or at least not run away from home in general) because he put his focus on hunting them down.
** [[spoiler: She manages to transform the entire Mirage army into Denizens just by wishing to give them hope and a different path real hard. It's later revealed this was actually the result of her cloak, and the demon and god backing her up, but given this was done unconsciously the trope still applies.]] Lampshaded by Chloe herself as she had no idea how the heck she accomplished the feat in the beginning.

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: By the end of Act 1 and start of Act 2, Chloe has become a traumatized wreck due to [[spoiler:Sara unleashing the Unown to hurt her brother and father, her anger and despair breaking Augustine, having to been strangled ''by her own father'' before said father gets on the Infinity Train (and she can't message him at all as he's ''refusing'' to talk to her) and that's not counting panic attacks over her inability to properly apologize or how she nearly dies by a runaway train ''crashing into the house she was staying at'' and the irate street cleaners of Palimpsest blaming '''her''', and not Augustine, for the meltdown while no one saves her.]] This culminates in her ready to kill herself in the Harvest Moon Car.

** The whole thing of Goh remarking how Chloe's "not into Pokémon anymore" in ''Journeys'' episode 11 gets a focus in Act 2. Chloe actually ''did'' like Pokémon once, Ghost-types specifically, but Goh was so sheltered by his parents due to a camping incident that nearly ended with him drowning and her attempts to get her classmates into them led to her them ostracizing her, and ultimately she began to hate Pokémon and herself for not being like everyone else who ''didn't'' like monsters or creepy things.

** A big part of her arc in Act 1 deals with her coming to realize things weren't as black and white back home, and not all the people who hurt her did so intentionally. Despite this, her call to Ash at the start of Act 2 is peppered with mentions of how he didn't do more to help her, when it's already been made clear he was too out of the loop to do more, and can only provide a BackhandedApology until ''Ash himself'' has to step in before she digs herself too deep.

* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: Pre-Train and On-Train, Chloe's motivation is mostly to find ''some'' sort of happiness for herself she can call her own after the entire world chewed her out and left her to rot, believing that she has no one who understands what she really wants. It's only after talking with Buné and Goh that she decides her goal isn't to be happy if it means being just as bad as Sara, but to return home as a mature girl ready to start her own journey.

** Eventually, her entire "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona turns into this. In a bid to try become more confident and more ready to face the world when she returns, and to be the perfect partner she thought Goh wanted, the only thing Chloe succeeded in doing was use the persona as an excuse to lash out at others and refuse to change herself.

* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Just like in the original ''Blossomverse'', Chloe became her class's personal punching bag solely under the basis of her father's job and her hobbies with the added caveat they (i.e Sara) were doing it so they could get Pokémon out of her when she ultimately cracked. Comments in the Cyan Desert Car and "The Firefly Funhouse Car" have Chloe note that she's so despised that the classmates don't even want to do homework with her, and she's never invited to their parties because they either pretend they "forgot" their invitation for her or just rip them up in front of her face.

* AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim Chloe's easily the most unapproachable member of the Red Lotus Uprising. Atticus is perfectly cordial to most people, Lexi won't bother someone as long as they don't bother either him or Chloe, and even Amelia can be friendly under the right circumstances. Chloe, meanwhile, gets easily defensive at the drop of a hat, and even outside that she's incredibly violent once she's riled up.

* AllTakeAndNoGive: It's safe to say by the end of Act 1, most of her significant relationships have some degree of Chloe demanding ''everything'' from everyone and not giving anything in return: Goh ''has'' to put all his attention on her or else he's a bad friend, her father ''needs'' to put her needs above his job or else he doesn't care about her, Sycamore ''must'' throw his entire trip into jeopardy to help ''her'' get back home without expecting appreciation in return, and so on and so forth. Act 2 has her recognize this is selfish of herself in comparison to Casimira's entitlement and she decides to undo this.

** She had it bad at school, that much is certain. But exactly ''how'' bad things were isn't made clear, since most of what is known comes entirely from her word of mouth, and [[UnreliableNarrator Chloe herself is not the most accurate or honest source of information.]] At the very least, Act 2 confirms that Yeardley injuring her was true.

** Butterflies become her second motif after the Harvest Moon Car, representing her death and rebirth. Goh caught her a Snom, which evolves into a Frosmoth, her love of Ghost-types stemmed from Goh chasing after a Vivillon, Buné draws a butterfly tattoo on her wrist after she stops herself from committing suicide, and she gains the ability to summon fiery butterflies while the gryphon wings of her cloak are now butterfly wings. In Ninjala Car, she sarcastically tells Asher (who freaked out at seeing the seal of Marchosias) that she'll replace it with a Beautifly sticker to make him happy.
* TheAntiNihilist: After spending most of the story as a pessimistic, suicidal wreck, Chloe's talk with Goh and Buné in the Harvest Moon Car makes her realize that while life ''does'' indeed suck, that doesn't mean she shouldn't at least try to look at the bright side of things. Or in the words of Heather Mason, she chooses life over pain and suffering.

** Her Halo of Valac makes her summon a demon of any choosing, but it's mostly tailored to ''her'' being the only one who actually knows the Goetias by heart and she can only use it for one task. [[spoiler:She's also calling upon the ''soul'' of a Goetia, meaning someone has to be the guinea pig and be knocked unconscious until Chloe figures out a request from them]]. Last, the request has to be worded ''exactly'' or else there will be consequences. [[spoiler:When Chloe asks Buné to leave Augustine's body, she didn't state that he also remove the draconic transformation left behind, to which she even said she thought that was implied in her command.]]

* BackhandedApology: What Chloe is capable of apologizing, it's often in a manner that still shifts the blame onto other: her first apology to Ash is sincere, but it's less of "I'm sorry I treated you so badly and misjudged you" and more of "I'm sorry you didn't bend over backwards to get to know me better". The second one isn't much better: throwing away any pretense on trying to apologize to instead devolving into a pity party, forcing Ash ''and'' Goh to shut her up before she digs her own grave.
* BadMoodAsAnExcuse: Chloe will often rationalize that her jerkass behavior is her not being in a good mood in that moment. Whether this justifies it or not depends on the character, but Chloe later admits it's no excuse for what she's said and done.
* BeingGoodSucks: Chloe has been doing her best to support Goh as best as she can, and try to not get into trouble. She gets nothing but people ridiculing her and little to no way of relief. As "Firefly Funhouse Car" notes, what's the point of taking the high road when you end up alone and miserable?

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: One of the first hints that Chloe's power fantasy on the Infinity Train has taken a toll on her is her taking her own exaggerated tales of how her life was back at home to be the truth, something she holds on to even as more and more evidence piles up showing not only were things not as bad as she made them out to be, but Chloe isn't as blameless for the ordeal as she thinks she is.

* BigEater: She's known to wolf down a lot of food. Then again, this is one of Green Phantom Queen's traits of being a foodie at play. However, there are hints from the narration that she eats so much because she doesn't get chances to eat at school due to her classmates constantly stealing/ruining her lunches and texts from "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Goh once procrastinated so badly on returning, that she couldn't have dinner with her mother (along with a scene in Goh's perspective seeing Chloe asleep surrounded by juice boxes and candy wrappers).
* BlackAndWhiteMorality: Before Professor Sycamore appeared, Chloe only saw the world in shades of black and white: she and those who were on her side were good. Everybody else, no matter their intentions, was bad. The idea there could be grey areas in there or that misunderstandings were possible simply ''did not favor'' into her twisted worldview. Even after she gets a little better thanks to Sycamore's support, she still tends to fall back into this thinking, like when she tries to apologize to Ash but words it as if ''she'' was solely the victim and ''he'' didn't do more for her. After her talk with Goh in the Harvest Moon Car, her morality is of black, white and gray as she understands those who did bad weren't ''evil'', just trying to do what they can with what they were given.

* BoringButPractical: What weapon does Chloe use? A donut holer, which is essentially a rusty l-bend steel pipe once advertised by a sneaky con-artist cat to punch stuff to turn them into "donuts". It's not as flashy as a well-crafted sword from the Monster City Car, doesn't have magic like Amelia's Ice Wand and isn't made of crystal like Yuri's own sword, but a good swing of a heavy pipe to one's face is going to ''hurt'' in the morning and Chloe can easily translate her love of softball into it so she doesn't need extra training in order for her to step up to the plate.
* BreakTheCutie: If we don't count everything that happened prior to her Train trip, she has, in order: repeatedly slammed against a sky scraper window before being been thrown out of it via telekinesis, nearly incinerated by an army of Mirage Pokémon, strangled ''three times'', had to watch [[spoiler:her bully rain hell with the Unown]], see the mentor figure go into a suicidal verbal-lashing wreck (that she indirectly caused), and was nearly ''crushed to death by a runaway train'' and then assaulted by street cleaners when she was trying to act as peacemaker. In the Harvest Moon Car, Alighieri accuses her of causing something wrong with the Harvest King [[spoiler:namely her summoning of Buné through her Halo accidentally had his soul possess Augustine; something she had no idea because Anubis hadn't read Wepwawet's warning he sent his older brother]] before she finds himself believing even [[spoiler:Buné]] hates her and is ready to ''die'' instead of dealing with this bullshit for a second longer.

* BulliedIntoDepression: Being thoroughly bullied by her own class just because she talked too much about her hobbies and subsequently being ignored by her sole ChildhoodFriend for Mew no matter how many times she screams at him and another boy with the same things he likes, her parents and pretty much ''every'' adult figure she interacted with has caused Chloe to become withdrawn, afraid of hoping for things to get better, [[DrivenToSuicide has contemplated the thought of ending her life a few times]] and has become cynical, irritable, anxious, and impatient about people ''actually helping or noticing her'', already expecting Asher to make a comment about her being a "monster lover" even though the shadow has never met her before. She's also lost any interest in things, particular her loves of the arts, and has anxiety attacks over not being seen as exceptional or "perfect", and even had intrusive thoughts of wanting to attack Goh for never noticing her.

* CharacterDevelopment: Part and parcel in being a passenger. She lets go of her spite much earlier than her ''BT'' counterpart and begins to open up about her emotional problems. In particular, she is taught that her anger is actually disguising a lot of grief in her heart over how her life has gone wrong, while also allowing her to see how her attitude pushed a lot of people away after seeing how Casimira acted. She also learns to rekindle a love of Pokemon through Hewie, confesses her love to Yamper, and is happy to learn of the Snom Goh catches for her.

* EarlyPersonalitySigns: If the Ghost Hunt flashback is anything to go by, Chloe has had a LackOfEmpathy and inability to properly explain herself since she was young, as she not only focused on a grand adventure to get some flowers for Goh's sickness after he fell into a river even though he needed to go back to their camp immediately, but even when she did bring him back, her attempt at explaining things to his parents made it sound like she was more interested in having an adventure than the fact that Goh nearly drowned, which gave them ample reason to believe she was too dangerous to keep around.

* EmbarrassingHobby: Subverted. Chloe initially thinks her love of the macabre is this, but flashbacks eventually reveal that the hobby itself wasn't the problem: Chloe was just so obsessed with it that she tried to force her classmates to like it, causing them to avoid her/give her a taste of her own medicine to get her to leave them alone.

* ExtremeDoormat: Zig-Zagged. While Chloe does have problems with fully expressing what's wrong with her, it's more because she chooses not to speak up out of stubborn pride. Goh always keeps running late because she refuses to put her foot down and tell him to get his act together. Another reason she acts this way is because [[TheCassandra she fears no one will believe her if she ever told the truth.]]

* FairWeatherFriend: As much as she doesn't want to admit this, Chloe herself was no better of a friend than Goh was. While the latter ''did'' have [[NoSocialSkills serious social problems]], she also rejected ''every single instance'' of actually hanging out with him and Ash whenever they asked, never told him about her problems in the first place, and never supported his dream to find Mew. When Goh tells her off for this, she apologizes and admits she just didn't know ''how'' to be supportive of him.

** When it comes to who is more at fault with her and Goh's friendship failing? While Goh ''was'' heavily insensitive at times, he also tells Chloe she also kept things so tight-lipped that him telling Ash about her lack of interest on Pokemon was legitimate because it was ''only'' thing she ever mentioned.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her future butterfly motif was foreshadowed as early as the Ninjala Car. After Asher freaks out over seeing the seal of Marchosias on the scabbard of her donut holer, she sarcastically says she'll replace it with a sticker of a Beautifly to make him happy. "The Firefly Funhouse Car" retroactively hints this as well with a notebook with Vivillon on the cover that she uses to jot down her adventure on the Train.
* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: She assumes the ''only'' way people will ever forgive her is if she just kills herself, and is ready to end her life in the Harvest Moon Car because she knows for a fact that everyone hates her and she will ''never'' find peace even if she did a 180. It's only thanks to Goh and Buné giving her gentle reassurance, the latter whom she requested to kill her, that she can start forgiving herself without having to commit suicide to do so. Moreover, Buné shows Chloe how no one in the Harvest Moon Car (sans Alighieri) is mad at what happened and are just glad she is okay.

** The reason why Chloe never asks for anything or keeps refusing Ash and Goh's invitations to go out and see Pokémon is because she once wanted to go to a softball camp in Celadon which her father promised she could go if she behaved for a week, which she did. But when he had to rescind it at the last minute to go to a conference and said it wasn't necessary ''now'' (as in she could just go some other time), she took his answer to mean ''her'' needs are never as important to those related to Pokémon.
** Chloe's reason for why she hates not being appreciated for the things she does is because after a camping trip in Kalos ended with Goh catching a fever, Chloe managed to bring him back to their campsite, only to get berated by Goh's worried parents for [[SkewedPriorities disregarding Goh's health and dawdling with a Pumpkaboo.]]
* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite the earlier trope, this doesn't give Chloe any leeway in regards to her own passivity and refusal to open up, which Goh greatly calls out when they talk: he makes it clear she doesn't get to say ''he'' was solely at fault for their friendship failing when Chloe had just as much of a role as he did with her choosing to keep her problems to herself.
* FriendlessBackground: Chloe has no friends to speak of prior to entering the Train, as [[FairWeatherFriend Goh]] is (seemingly) too busy with Ash and his endless chase for Mew to care about her struggles. Parker tells Goh that on her last birthday, no one at school bothered to show up (and Chloe later admits that she refused to ask him to join because she knew that he cared more about Mew than doing friend stuff). Even then, outside of the Red Lotus Uprising, the denizens of the Infinity Train aren't so much "friends" as they're "blindly obedient sycophants who worship the ground she walks on" which, ironically enough, only ends up ''hurting'' her journey to work on her issues.

* GaveUpTooSoon:
** As revealed in a later chapter, her FreudianExcuse is the professor once promised to take her to softball camp one time, but a last-minute conference came up and he had to cancel those plans. While Chloe ''did'' try to argue for alternatives, fulfilled her promise to behave for a week, ''and'' was reassured she could just try again in the future, she just decided to give up on him altogether.
** Chloe believed she would never live down losing to Ash, especially her opening move of using Tackle on Gengar, and decides that killing herself is better than facing the mockery of being told how Professor's daughter is too stupid to use a Normal-type move on a Ghost-type for the rest of her school life and beyond. While Sara ''did'' laugh and mock her for it, it turns out the rest of the school was 100% on her side. After all, what mattered wasn't that she wasn't a total expert, but how she kept fighting despite the odds being against her, and many older students admit that any newbie would've tackled a Ghost as their first move.
** Chloe has given up hope on Goh seeing her as someone important in his life because, as she puts it, "If it's not about Mew, it's not his problem." By the time she's about to kill herself, she recaps her suicide to him after she gets laughed at for being a loser in Pokémon battles: desperately trying to call him one last time while on the school's rooftop, only for him to hang up on her because he's "too busy" with Ash/his research fellow job. Goh ''immediately'' chews her out for thinking so lowly of him, vowing to return to Chloe before she took her life and breaking down in apologies for how he's been so ignorant of her.

* GenkiGirl: On the Train she's a cheerful, bubbly girl with energy to spare. However, there are times where she uses this as a mask to hide the traumas of her school life and also to make sure to make this the persona of Goh's perfect best friend.

* GothsHaveItHard: Downplayed. Chloe does have a lot of mental issues to deal with, including suicidal thoughts and heaping amounts of anxiety and identity issues, but she's not a Goth because of it. Despite her love of demons and some of her outfits make her wear plenty of black, she likes demons because they're interesting and her use of black is more to express herself.
* GrassIsGreener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it so much better because of one major thing: they're not being bullied and forced to play a role they hate because they're weird or because they aren't Pokémon lovers. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't constantly harassed by bullies or forced to follow their parents' footsteps doesn't mean they ''don't'' have their own problems; Goh has to deal with his own lacking social skills after all, though her actions ensured that his problems became a lot worse, and ''she'' is frankly the reason Ash had any problems at all (as any issues he had before Chloe's hissy fit was nowhere near as bad).

* HairTriggerTemper: Thanks to Chloe's ''many'' issues, she's known to blow her stack at the drop of a hat, usually over very minor slights.

** A literal example of heart being a strength. Barring Chloe's cloak and amulet, the things Ash likes about her is how she's "nice to Yamper, and her brother, and Goh", and in the orienteering event hosted by the Cerise Institute, she was the one keeping focus and getting people out of trouble. Chloe is dismissive of these traits [[OvershadowedByAwesome because it's not like anyone notices them]] over Ash's battling skills, Goh's dream for Mew and ability to capture so many Pokemon at once, and her father's research. But in Act 2, Goh admits Chloe's kindness and concern for him ''are'' her best traits. In fact, if it wasn't for Chloe watching out for him, Goh probably would've had it worse off/be dead because it's shown that without ''someone'' keeping an eye on him, he'll end up recklessly endangering himself. Not to mention that being kind is how she gained practically every single member of the Red Lotus Uprising, taking a blow of hot water for Lexi, standing up for Amelia when Henry and Walter mock her, and taking the courage to befriend Hewie.
** In her world, being a creative soul who likes macabre things and art only gets her weird glances and jeering insults because she's not like her father or Goh or Ash since it doesn't involve Pokémon. It turns out those traits have purpose on the Train. Her open mind to the more fantastical things means she is able to integrate much faster into the weirdness the Train offers than those more close-minded and into logic like Augustine, Amelia, or Specter, which earns her lots of fans for being curious to know the Denizens better.

** She makes an offhanded remark on how she's into a boy band she calls [[Music/{{BTS}} "Berry boy scouts"]] even though they have constant debates about [[SeriousBusiness whether or not mint chocolate ice cream should exist.]]
** She knows how to swim, which becomes a big help when Goh nearly drowned chasing after a Vivillon.

* HonorBeforeReason: When she isn't being selfish or vindictive, Chloe at least tries to do the right thing, but her attempts tend to backfire on her because she doesn't consider other options that would save her the trouble.
** Goh points out to Chloe how she didn't need to look for the healing flowers herself; if she really needed them that badly, she could have just demanded the Gourgeist give them to her and take them straight back to their camp, which would have ultimately spared her from his parents' accusations.

** Chloe ran away because she hated her family while Goh doesn't show any signs of hating his own. As of Act 2, Chloe is preparing on returning home to reunite with her family once she comes to terms with herself, while Goh is so disgusted with how his parents treated him and Chloe that he vows to not come back till he's 18.
* HugeGuyTinyGirl: A platonic example but she's the tiny girl to Augustine. It varies when it comes to Lexi; his ''human'' form is based off a teenager, but his real form as a book is tiny compared to Chloe. And then there's also her with Specter which he towers over her.

** She claims she can't accept anyone's apologies because they're not sincere, yet she is just as unapologetic and refuses to say sorry unless she's forced to.
** Claims to not like hurting people...yet cruelly abandoned her home for a power fantasy, assaulted her childhood friend for not paying attention to her, and then raged at Ash for beating her in a Pokemon battle. And that's without mentioning how she [[spoiler:broke Professor Sycamore, who did everything in his power to help her get better, driving him to madness.]]
** One of the reasons Chloe hates her classmates so much is because they constantly bothered her by bringing up Pokémon around her, regardless of her feelings towards them. However, Chloe did ''the exact same thing'' to them with her love of the macabre before Sara gave them the idea to give her a taste of her own medicine.
** Chloe doesn't like Goh being focused on Pokémon, seeing it as an obssession that has caused the two of them to drift apart. It's later revealed that Chloe herself was the one who encouraged Goh to look for Mew in the first place.
** She's perfectly fine with making lots of friends on the Train, but doesn't like Goh having any other friends besides her.
** Chloe fears that people will never let her forget having Yamper use Tackle on a Ghost-type...often in the same paragraphs never forgetting about anything Goh did or didn't do that she'd hold over his head until the end of her days.
** "Firefly Funhouse Car" retroactively turns her into one regarding promises: being very religious with promises and reading Goh the riot act for constantly breaking them, Chloe once promised Goh that she would never abandon him after his disastrous Ilex Forest trip. Cue her doing just that by getting on the Infinity Train, cutting off all communication with him until she was convinced/forced to interact with him again. [[HypocrisyNod She does acknowledge this however,]] feeling guilty over breaking this promise but also knowing that she ''needs'' time away to gather her thoughts.

* IdentityBreakdown: Act 2 has Chloe start questioning who she ''really'' is and what "Chloe of the Vermillion" means to her. She's given up everything she was as the "invisble, klutzy, so stupid to tackle a Ghost Professor's Daughter" Chloe Cerise, primarily by hurting everyone back home and acting like they're at fault, but the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona not only hasn't helped her with issues, but worsened them as the denizens feed her ego by calling her a goddess. It takes Goh and Buné to help reveal that Chloe Cerise ''is'' a good person deep down, and she never had to go to such extremes to make people see the real her.

* IJustWantToBeFree: Chloe wants to no longer feel shackled to the Cerise Institute, but her refusal to open up about her issues or look for other alternatives had left her unable to do so until the Train arrived. The other type of freedom she thinks of is the sweet release of death as she thinks it'll be the only way to escape the escalating bullying and loneliness in her heart caused by people crushing any hope she has left by breaking promsies with her.

* InformedAttribute: At several points in the story, Chloe is stated to be expected to follow in the footsteps of Professor Cerise and inherit the Cerise Institute. Thing is, ''nothing'' in the story has shown Professor Cerise actually expecting Chloe to inherit the business, or that he's even picked an heir at all.

* NeverMyFault: Just like her usual ''Blossomverse'' self, Chloe initially refuses to take responsibility for her actions and believes that it's always someone else's fault when things don't go her way; one of the most prominent examples being Chloe resenting Goh for ignoring her for his quest for Mew...despite the fact that ''she'' was the one who encouraged him in the first place.

* FatalFlaw: Besides her temper, Chloe's biggest issue is her LackOfEmpathy. She chooses to focus only on the pain and suffering that ''she's'' felt, leaving her unable to understand people around her.

* FireIsMasculine: Inverted. Chloe is a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak but she has a hard-hitting fighting style with her donut holer and is a passionate, impulsive, and determined girl ready to face off any and all obstacles on the Train. Moreover, the demon associated with her is Marchosias, the fire-breathing she-wolf, and her Mirage Pokémon partner is the Dark/Fire Houndoom.

* {{Foil}}: To Goh. Both are socially awkward, isolated young children whose hobbies are major parts of their lives, and have a lot of history that makes them that way. However, while Chloe is extroverted about her interests and tries to drag others into them with constant chatter, Goh keeps to himself and focused on his interest in Mew. When Goh met Ash, he started to change his approach and improved himself, opening up to new people and experiences despite the risk of being hurt again, while Chloe repeatedly refused Ash's invitations to hang out and do things with him because they were not things that ''she'' wanted to do. Chloe's skills were artistic, Goh's were more technical. Chloe is willing to leap into the fray and be violent, Goh stays on the sidelines and refuses to throw a punch. In Act 2, Chloe is making amends to reunite with her family, while Goh has decided he doesn't want ''anything'' to do with them until he hits 18. Goh never liked school and only went for tests, but this means he's clueless as to what goes on and two students ''at most'' remember who he is. Chloe went there every single day and, while bullied, more people remember her and the stuff she did.

* GenkiGirl: On the Train she's a cheerful, bubbly girl with energy to spare. However, there are times where she might be using this as a mask to hide the traumas of her school life and also to make sure to make this the persona of Goh's perfect best friend.

** Goh's parents hate her solely because she didn't bring Goh back to their camp right away and prattled on about her new Pumpkaboo friend, to the point that they lied to Goh about Chloe's requests to hang out with him and, even proclaimed she deserved to ''drown'' to their son's face.

** Chloe always gave Goh his homework, to which he showed little appreciation for. In Harvest Moon Car, Goh vows to gather ''her'' homework for her, but this time Chloe is too much of a suicidal wreck to even ''care'' about completing them.

* InformedAttribute: At several points in the story, Chloe is stated to be expected to follow in the footsteps of Professor Cerise and inherit the Cerise Institute. Thing is, ''nothing'' in the story has shown Professor Cerise actually expecting Chloe to inherit the business, or that he's even picked an heir ''at all''.
* InformedKindness: A lot of people comment on Chloe's kind and forgiving nature, and state it was her heart which led to her becoming one of the Train's greatest heroes. However, upon actually reading her exploits, she appears to be very ''selective'' with her kindness, to say the least. Initially, she's kind only to the people she meets on the Train because they coddle her and stroke her ego, while treating all the non-Train citizens like bad guys for supposedly ruining her life. Fortunately, as Act 2 goes on, she starts becoming more aware of her flaws and begins making an honest effort to be truly kind to everyone around her, and Goh comes to realize that all the things she's done for him ''are'' genuine.

** She believes people hate her simply because they don't give her what she wants when she wants it.

** She thinks that no one would like her in her world because none of her interests are Pokémon related as expected of a Professor's daughter. Act 2 reveals that people like her ''because'' of things that aren't Pokémon related, not because she's a Professor's daughter. Ash says he likes her kindness and how she keeps an eye out on Goh, everyone not Sara and her followers love her determination and how she is open about her loves of the macabre and her creativity, and Goh loves her kindness and concern for him.
** Chloe tried to be exactly like the extroverted Pokemon-loving friend she thought Goh wanted, when all this time he liked her ''as she already was'' in being kind, quiet, and concerned for him. Moreover, while Tokio was the catalyst for Goh refusing to make friends, Goh actually tried searching for her for ''three days'' yet never decided to do the same for Tokio despite the boy doing ''more'' to hurt him than Chloe did at that point.

** After Goh chews her out for not saying what was wrong with her, constantly refusing his and Ash's offerings to hang out, and putting the blame on him for their friendship going south, she breaks down and believes everything that happened is her fault because of who she is (a monster loving horror enthusiast) and because she's not who's she "supposed" to be (a Pokémon obsessed girl who will ''gladly'' partake in her father's footsteps, someone who has a dream of chasing after a legendary like Goh/Tokio, or is an epic trainer who can kick all sorts of ass like Ash). It takes Goh to help reassure her that wasn't the case and ''he'' also should've paid more attention to what was going on instead of fully believing their classmates in nothing was wrong, and he should've elaborated on what he was trying to ''say'' when he shouted she lacked a dream or why he recorded her battle with Ash.

** And finally, after Goh tells her despite her progress, she ''still'' is acting like Sara, Chloe sadly admits it's the truth and apologizes to everyone she hurt with her actions, vowing to take any punishment awaiting her back home. She gets another one prior to that, when Goh tearfully screaming at her that he would've personally stopped her from killing herself, making her realize how badly she had misjudged Goh for for so long.

** There's also the paint can incident. After reaching her breaking point, Chloe retaliated by nearly beating Sara to death and then threatening to murder her classmates. However, neither she nor Sara faced any major consequences afterwards. ''Firefly Funhouse'' expands more on this, where it was revealed that Chloe was suspended for three days, while Sara got a week.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that she's (unknowingly) the only thing, outside of Mew, that prevented young Goh from being a complete hikkikomori since he demanded that she never abandons him (read: "I'm scared of being betrayed again thanks to a boy named Tokio, please don't run away!") and she's stayed by his side. Unfortunately, Chloe's patience for him can only go so far, and the more he starts focusing ''his'' dreams, the angrier and more bitter she gets since ''he'' can't return the favor and he moves on from her to Ash without even looking back. Worse, since Goh never properly explained ''why'' he wanted her to never abandon him, the promise that kept them together turns out to be a noose slowly choking her to death.

* LoveMartyr: Platonic love. Chloe does all she can for Goh and the sake of their friendship, but he never notices because of his own personal problems preventing him from seeing her gestures, and refused to talk about his own issues. Instead, he demanded that Chloe never ask him about his problems ever again and she complied. It takes both her confessing to how she wanted to be like him to fully get his friendship and Goh profusely apologizing for how he treated her does she let go of this mindset.

* MadeOfIron: She's been telekinetically slammed into a high-story window and thrown out of it, strangled at least three times, [[spoiler:had her father drag her across the floor of the Cerise Institute]], tackled out of the sky by a gryphon-dragon, and pummeled by a bunch of street cleaners -- all of this despite being ''ten'' and some of the injuries are inflicted back-to-back without rest. Yet at no point has she shown any signs of broken bones or internal bleeding, and her cloak doesn't have healing properties.

** Despite Sara being the cause of all her misery at school, Chloe seems to have no interest in going after her. Instead, she chooses to lash out at those closest her, which includes Goh, Ash, her father, and even [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore]].

** As she tells Parker when she sees Snom, they're lonely and trying to find somewhere to go, reflecting Chloe feeling alone and desperately trying to find a dream of her own. Moreover, just like Snom is an ice type, Chloe is known to be cold and aloof to others. Snoms are known to eat a lot, and Chloe has quite an appetite.

* MoreDeadlyThanTheMale: Long story short, this little girl with a pipe is ''deadlier'' than most male characters.
** When it comes to the three "leads" of the heroes -- she, Augustine/Asher and Specter/Easter -- she's ''easily'' the most battle ready and dangerous. Case in point: the penultimate chapter of The Cyan Desert Car has her fight her bully Sara [[spoiler:who is empowered by the Unown at this point]], she's the one who goes to town with punches, kicks and lots and lots of screaming and cursing ala a wrestling promo while a powerful shadow and sadistic cyber terrorist would rather watch in the sidelines ''in terror'' than aid her. It also says something how ''she'' is the dangerous one of Red Lotus Uprising compared to Lexi who can drown an opponent with a ''tsunami'' of razor sharp papers.
** While Goh is the one always going on adventures and also lets his emotions get the better of him, Chloe out-tempers him and ''definitely'' is the one who gets more physical than he ever does. When Goh first sees Chloe rampaging online with a paint can, he's terrified to see her in such a state when pushed into a corner. And like Asher and Specter above, ''she'' is the one who gets physical with Sara, while Goh just stands there helplessly and horrified at her rampage. Also unlike Goh, who told his Pokemon to not beat up Chloe, Chloe outright ''fantasized'' about murdering Goh while on the Infinity Train.

* NamesToRunAwayFromVeryFast: Do you wanna get on the bad side of the girl who calls herself ''Demon Lord of the Vermillion''? Didn't think so.

** Like in the anime, Chloe's classmates ''expect'' her to be totally into Pokémon solely under the justification of her dad being a Professor. She ''hates'' this and it's part of the reason she has so much friction with Pokémon lovers; they're reflectsion of everything she's not.
** Played With on the Train. All of Chloe's achievements are her own and the mentioning of the Goetias observing her solely because they assume she's a descendant of Alec Cerise is only a passing theory by Tokio. Not to mention that she's ''not'' a blood-relative of Alec Cerise.

* NonChalantDodge: During her fight with [[spoiler:Sara]], she tilts her head so [[spoiler:Sara's baseball bat]] destroys a large bookshelf in the Cerise Institute.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Ironically, for all it seems Goh paid so little attention to her when she was at the Institute, she's ''always'' on his mind if it's not about Ash or Mew or Tokio or Pokémon. He feels deep regrets for not doing more or noticing Chloe's efforts, and he ultimately confesses he doesn't want ''lots'' of friends, rather only having ''Chloe'' as his friend because she was always there for him.

** She gets an epiphany on how she's just like all the other entitled women in her life after the disaster of the Palipsest Car. Amelia, Grace, Sara, and Casimira are all broken in some way, but they refuse to confront their problems or talk about them. Rather, they become selfish bitches who [[AllTakeAndNoGive take everything from others]] and stubbornly refuse help, ruining many lives because of it, both directly and indirectly, and they have to learn the lessons [[AesopCollateralDamage the very hard way]]. Goh even calls her and Sara sisters because of how similar they are.
** Patricia has this epiphany about her in the Cyan Desert Car; despite Chloe's macabre interests and dislike of Pokémon, she and their classmates had one thing in common. They were struggling to figure out their goals in life.

** When Ash asks what Chloe has learned while she's done her research on demons, he ends up complimenting her on how she's the same as Goh in some areas; they're both passionate about their hobbies and do their research on them.
--->'''Ash:''' That's not so different from Goh, then! You do research, you focus on your surroundings, you really get into it.

** And of course, there's the whole debacle with her father. The professor promised to take her to softball camp, but when a last-minute conference popped up and he couldn't cancel it, she failed to convince him to take another option. Chloe will nearly always use this incident to justify her resentment towards her father and refusing Ash and Goh's attempts to befriend her until she realizes that she could've done more by talking to them.
* OnlyFriend: Deconstructed. Chloe was Goh's sole friend (outside of Tokio) prior to Ash entering their lives, always doing her best to keep him company through birthdays and homework. The problem is how Goh was never appreciative of everything Chloe had done for him over the years, not even willing to open about his problems when she asked, since friendship things aren't something he's interested in due to him still holding resentment over Tokio's betrayal three years prior and being more obsessed with Pokemon than friend stuff. He also never showed concern for her when she texts him to think about ''her'' needs for once, despite being the only one actively worried for him. And the one time he actually tried to motivate her, it felt more like an attack because she's ''not'' what she (thinks) he wants. This gets reconstructed in the Harvest Moon Car. After Goh finally lays out some harsh truths Chloe needed to hear, he also admits he didn't want lots of friends, just ''her''. Why? Because she always stayed with him even when he wasn't aware of it and he loved her kind and gentle side more, and not the temperamental donut-hole wielder she ''assumed'' he wanted.

** Chloe usually fights with her donut holer and doesn't lay out punches, so something is ''seriously'' upsetting her when she decks out Casimira with a punch to the face.
** Throughout ''Seeker of Crocus'', Chloe never supported Goh and his dream to find Mew, nor ever said anything good about it. So it shocks Goh when she explicitly tells him how ''proud'' she is of him for finding a new lease on life.

* PerfectionIsImpossible: Chloe in her lowest moments has to tell herself to be the "perfect" Professor's daughter who ''loves'' Pokémon and never show signs of being a HystericalWoman, or else she has no purpose in life and no reason to live at all. And if not perfect Professor's daughter, she has to be Goh's "perfect" Pokemon loving fearless adventure friend, instead of the girl who gives him homework he never gives a damn about, if it'll ''finally'' make him look at her. Thankfully, Buné helps her to focus on the progress she has made on a person and to forgive herself for her mistakes while Goh tells her that he loved her as that kind supportive person she always was.
* PerformanceAnxiety: Zigzagged; she's not afraid to perform on the Train as she has numerous videos of her rallying the Train to fight the Apex and just having fun, but when she has to talk face-to-face in a video conference, she shrinks and finds herself unable to say anything without fear of being mocked the moment she starts speaking, especially since these are the friends of "Alola League Champion" Ash, while she's still nothing than a Professor's daughter who foolishly tackled a Ghost in the Pokemon World. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that while she can ''read'' on stage, the idea of performing on live TV paralyzes her since she is afraid of the mockery that the denizens will give her for messing up her lines or making a complete fool of herself.

** She is shown to have a kind heart filled with pity for others, wishing to help them like how she wanted help of her own or at least have ''someone'' notice her problems. Her cloak allows her to see into someone's soul and figure out the root of their problems [[spoiler:and she was able to convert the mirage army into denizen thanks to her desire to free them from Dr. Yung.]] Plus, Chloe has a problem only seeing things in black and white and doesn't understand that people also have their own problems to deal with. By using the ability to see into their souls, Chloe starts to develop empathy for others.

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: As part of her suicidal mindset, she goads people to end her life to get catharsis out of seeing her bloody corpse.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She uses the term "boyfriend" in a derogatory manner when describing Ash's friendship with Goh. However, she later admits she was just angry at Goh spending more time with Ash than her and makes it a point to clear things up with Parker when he repeats this back to her.
* PoorCommunicationKills:
** A lot of her problems at home could've been solved if she was willing to talk about them, ranging from asking someone in the Institute to hear her out or just let her go somewhere. Even asking Ash to just stop asking her to go do Pokémon-related stuff and bring up her own suggestions or ''finally'' putting her foot down and tell Goh to arrive on time could've been done, no questions asked.
** When she finally has a talk to Ash prior to Act 2, she's quite amazed at all the spooky and supernatural experiences he's gone through and asks why they never had this talk sooner. Ash admits that he's also to blame because he simply took Goh's NonAnswer as fact and never bothered to push more.
** On the flipside, she was unable to understand the ToughLove her father and Goh were giving her when they wanted her to be patient or stop moping and ''do something''. They both meant well with their actions, but she wasn't able to see it until they finally expressed ''why'' they were doing what they were doing and apologized for the toughness.
** In Goh's tirades toward her in Ninjala Car, he says ''she'' should've been the one to tell him or his parents about what's going on. But then it's revealed in Act 2 she ''did'' try calling his parents and even sent text messages to him...but because she was more concerned with doing ghost hunts than about Goh's wellbeing, Kurune and Ikuo went out of their way to separate them and lied to his face that these messages were not important. "Firefly Funhouse Car" also reveals that yes, Chloe ''has'' texted him before, but Goh simply refused to ''care'' about her problems because catching Pokemon and seeing Ash battle are more important than her.

** Chloe is always bringing up her loss to Gengar, particularly her use of Tackle on it, as something her classmates will never forget. When Goh showed the recording, lo and behold, the first thing they did was indeed laugh at her.

* QuietCryForHelp: This is Chloe usual method of trying to reach out to people, being too stubborn to just tell people directly.
** Chloe asks where Goh is when she's basically alone at school and, unknowing to anyone at the time, about to kill herself. But Goh, being the oblivious boy who (in her eyes) only cares for Mew, Ash, and Pokemon, directly stated he was finding his dreams and stated he was so much ''better'' than her. This proved to Chloe that Goh can't empathize with her, nor ''ever'' worry about her, and gets her on the Train.

* RedHeadsAreRavishing: In Vermillion City, her red hair is a target that makes people despise her. On the Train, her red hair is her most well-known trait that coincides with her title of "Chloe of the Vermillion" and both Lexi and Tony are infatuated with her.
* RedheadsAreUncool: Just like in ''Blossoming Trail'', she's a maroon haired girl who isn't popular with her classmates, to which Sara screams she has ''fugly'' red hair and Ikuo -- who screamed she deserved to ''drown'' -- even calls her hair "freakishly garish". Chloe even makes offhand remarks that her female classmates loved to brag how they were lucky to not have red hair, else they would ''die''.

* TheResenter: Chloe resents Ash and Goh for a number reasons: She resents Goh for not appreciating all that she's done him, Ash for being Goh's friend, and both of them for being happier than her. This resentment has at several points reached desires for murder and violence against them, while in turn they have tried repeatedly to be her friend and include her in their adventures, but Chloe only saw them inviting them to do things that ''they'' liked instead of the good intentions.
* RightForTheWrongReasons: Chloe assumed Goh hated her because she wasn't the friend he wanted (she's an introverted girl who's not a Pokemon enthusiast compared to Goh/Tokio/Ash being extroverted boys who love Pokemon more than life itself). Goh later admits that he ''does'' like her, it's just that he didn't want ''any'' human friends after a kid so similar to him just "abandoned" him that he's afraid of getting close.

* SaveTheJerk:
** Downplayed on the "jerk" part but Chloe risked her life to save Goh from drowning when they were younger despite Goh refusing to listen to her and called her a whiny little coward just for the crime of reminding him not to jump over a river.
** Or at least, try to work with them. Chloe warns Grace the danger looming in the Fog Car, and it's best they work together to save the Apex. Grace responds by raising [[FlippingTheBird a finger at her]] and tells Simon they're going to the Fog Car to spite her.

* SecretlySelfish: Despite Chloe claiming that everything she did, both on the Teain and at home (i.e adopting the "Chloe of the Vermillion" moniker and doing things for Goh) was for becoming someone strong and heroic, her true motivations are very shallow; she only does those things for the sake of [[GlorySeeker garnering sympathy and attention from people]]. It takes a while before she eventually decides to do the right thing and work on becoming a genuinely altruistic and kind person. She also admits to Goh that she does sound selfish over wanting to have a fantastic journey on the Train all on her own, but the others admit that it's a good type of selfish since she needs some time alone to recover.

** There's also a recurring theme of Chloe being upset when Goh refuses to do his homework, nor thanks her for bringing it to him. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveal how Chloe is the only student at school who is willing to deliver the sheets because it's both a sign of her showing concern and her way of trying to tell him to pay attention to her.

* TroublingUnchildlikeBehavior: '''Firefly Funhouse Car'' establishes that Chloe, a ten year old girl, fantasized about murdering Goh by beating him to death, after already having beaten Sara with a paint can prior, establishing this to be a routine pattern and desire of hers.

* TheUnfavorite: Subverted. She ''thinks'' she's this to her parents and Goh because they focus more on their hobbies/Pokémon than her, but this is eventually revealed to be all in her head: her parents didn't favor her any more than they normally did, and Goh always liked her just the way she was but it took him a long time for him to properly recognize and express this.

* UnknownRival: PlayedForDrama. Goh stopped making human friendships and maintaining his with hers because of Tokio "seemingly" abandoning him and cementing it that human friends are worthless compared to Pokémon ones, which is part of the reason why Chloe has so many issues to begin with since she's ''always'' been by his side and he never bothered to show gratitude for it. However, because they both ''equally'' didn't know about each other's existence (Tokio was on the Train at the time and Goh told Chloe to shut her mouth up about what happened in Ilex Forest) Chloe focused solely on making Goh pay for what he did to her, even when it was being made clear ''she'' wasn't as innocent as she made herself out to be. In a case of irony, Goh is ''always'' worried about what happened to Chloe than what Tokio has been going through.

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Bizarrely enough, She's one to ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lila Rossi]]'' of all people. Both of them are redheads with green eyes who [[ConsummateLiar lie like there's no tomorrow]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing act nice but are actually rather nasty on the inside]], [[NeverMyFault refuse to acknowledge their faults]] [[TheUnapologetic or apologize for those they hurt]], [[EntitledBastard feel like they're entitled to whatever they want without questions]], and [[AesopAmnesia never learn their lessons no matter how often they learn them]]. However, Chloe's lies stem from her messed up mentality as a result of the bullying she suffered, making her exaggerate and misunderstand people, while Lila's aware of the truth but lies regardless in order to get what she wants. At least some of Chloe's kindness is genuine and the rest is just hidden under several layers of pessimism and defense mechanisms, while Lila is rotten through and through, and any kindness she shows is just a farce to get people to lower their guard. Chloe can be made aware of her faults and is willing to apologize, if begrudgingly so, while Lila believes herself above things like guilt and blame and continues to act like she did nothing wrong. Chloe's reasonable enough to understand that nobody owes her the world for honest mistakes, while Lila refuses to consider herself as unfitting for anything but the best. Finally, while Chloe does have a bad tendency to forget her lessons and go back to square one, she's at least cognizant enough to recognize this as a heavy flaw that needs to be corrected, while Lila has the lessons go in one ear and out the other, refusing to acknowledge said lessons even when it would be in her best interest to do so. And for an extra comparison, it turns out [[spoiler: Lila is also going under a fake identity, just like how Chloe adopted the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona once she entered the Train. However, "Chloe of the Vermillion" was created by Chloe in order to be the ideal best friend she thought Goh wanted, and eventually she ditches it in order to go back to her real identity after realizing she wasn't being herself. Lila, meanwhile, has been living a double life for who knows how long, and she only ditches that disguise when she's been found out, with no indication her current persona, ''Cerise'', is her real one.]]

* WouldRatherSuffer: {{Deconstructed}} and Inverted. Chloe claims she'd rather kill herself than to continue living in a world she feels is against her. While she's eventually shown to be ''somewhat'' correct, her other unresolved issues causes her to ''double down'' on this belief, which also feeds into her stagnating nature as a defense mechanism as a result of the pain, childhood depression, and suffering she's gone through. It takes several back and forths between people letting her know they ''do'' like her, and her situation isn't as black and white as she claims, for her to be convinced that suicide ''isn't'' the better option for herself, and to start working on herself properly.

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Ikuo proclaims to Goh that ''Chloe'' should've been the one who nearly drowned during the camping incident due to her insistent talk of going ghost hunting. While it's supposedly framed as a MomentofWeakness, Ikuo never apologizes to Goh about the misstep even when he and his wife tell [[spoiler:Augustine]] that they don't want her ''dead'', just to stay away from them.

** [[DeconstructedTrope Deconstructed]]. Chloe was the only one in her class who liked demons and other scary things, and because she felt lonely, she tried desperately to get them into it by constantly bringing it up. However, Chloe went about it so hard, and in a way that didn't help her case, that she ultimately wound up ''alienating'' her classmates even further. Chloe admits that she was stubborn about this because she was doing her best to be like Goh in how ''he'' handled things in regards to his passions of wanting Mew.

** In general, Chloe's aspirations of being a brave and heroic badass of a girl was not only to escape how ''pathetic'' of a person she saw herself as back home, but also because it was what she ''believed'' Goh wanted from her since she didn't have a dream to pursue like he constantly boasted. But in reality, Goh honestly liked her true self as someone kind and gentle and ''supportive'' of him when he was at his lowest point and just wanted her to be more open with herself. The only reason it takes forever for him to get to that realization is that he struggled to acknowledge this.

** It's eventually revealed Chloe adopting the whole "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona was so people would notice her for once -- as in, just ''Chloe'', not Professor Cerise's daughter who should totally be obsessed with Pokémon like 99% of the world, or for Goh to just stop ignoring her like he does nine times out of ten. It didn't seem to occur to her not only would the Denizens only see ''her persona'' and not her real self, but going missing all of a sudden would've been enough for the people in her world to actually ''notice'' her absence for once.

* HairTriggerTemper: Thanks to Chloe's ''many'' issues, she's known to blow her stack at the drop of a hat, usually over very minor slights. She later breaks out of it once she understands where her anger is coming from and how it's prevented her from moving on.

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: As part of her suicidal mindset, she goads people to end her life and get catharsis out of seeing her bloody corpse.

** When she finally has a talk to Ash prior to Act 2, she's quite amazed at all the spooky and supernatural experiences he's gone through and asks why they never had this talk sooner.

** In Goh's tirades toward her in Ninjala Car, he says ''she'' should've been the one to tell him or his parents about what's going on. But then it's revealed in Act 2 she ''did'' try calling his parents and even sent text messages to him...but because she was more concerned with doing ghost hunts than about Goh's wellbeing, Kurune and Ikuo went out of their way to separate them and lied to his face that these messages were not important. "Firefly Funhouse Car" also reveals that yes, Chloe ''has'' texted him before, but Goh simply refused to ''care'' about her problems because Pokemon and Ash are more important than homework and her concerns for him.

* PrivilegedRival: Subverted. She's seen as this to her classmates, living in a nice two-story house and her father has that nice Pokémon Institute so she can see all the Pokémon she likes and have a head-start in being a Trainer. But this is coming from [[RichBitch Sara]], who lives in a high-class ''apartment'' and can take a week's cruise to Slateport for Spring Break while Chloe was fine with softball camp, and is like one of the many twisted lies she used to get the classmates on her side. In truth, it's Goh who has everything ''they'' want, especially the fact he gets to travel around the world under Chloe's dad, but they attacked Chloe more because she's at school more often and because she annoyed them with her hobbies.

** Chloe asks where Goh is when she's basically alone at school and, unknowing to anyone at the time, about to kill herself. But Goh, being the oblivious boy who (in her eyes) only cares for Mew, Ash, and Pokemon, directly stated he was finding his dreams and stated he was so much ''better'' than her. This proved to Chloe that Goh could not empathize with her nor ''ever'' worry about herself and gets her on the Train.
** Another cry that Chloe does is getting Goh's homework and texting him to come back as soon as possible because she just wants to spend more time with him.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Just like in ''Blossoming Trail'', she's a maroon haired girl who isn't popular with her classmates, to which Sara screams she has ''fugly'' red hair and Ikuo even calls her hair "freakishly garish". Chloe even makes offhand remarks that her female classmates loved to brag how they were lucky to not have red hair, else they would ''die''.

* {{Foil}}: To Goh. Both are socially awkward, isolated young children whose hobbies are major parts of their lives, and have a lot of history that makes them that way. However, while Chloe is extroverted about her interests and tries to drag others into them with constant chatter, Goh keeps to himself and focused on his interest in Mew. When Goh met Ash, he started to change his approach and improved himself, opening up to new people and experiences despite the risk of being hurt again, while Chloe repeatedly refused Ash's invitations to hang out and do things with him because they were not things that ''she'' wanted to do. Chloe's skills were artistic, Goh's were more technical. Chloe is willing to leap into the fray and be violent, Goh stays on the sidelines and refuses to throw a punch. In Act 2, Chloe is making amends to reunite with her family, while Goh has decided he doesn't want ''anything'' to do with them until he hits 18.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her future butterfly motif was foreshadowed as early as the Ninjala Car. After Asher freaks out over seeing the seal of Marchosias on the scabbard of her donut holer, she sarcastically says she'll replace it with a sticker of a Beautifly to make him happy.

** Chloe tried to be exactly like the extroverted Pokemon-loving friend she thought Goh wanted, when all this time he liked her ''as she already was'' in being kind, quiet, and concerned for him.

* FatalFlaw: Besides her temper, Chloe's biggest issue is her LackOf Empathy. She chooses to focus only on the pain and suffering that ''she's'' felt, leaving her unable to understand people around her.

* StressInducedMentalVoices: Has this twice in the Palipmsest Car and Harvest Moon Car as the stress and panic of being assaulted and misblamed for actions that cause chaos -- being blamed for the Third Rail going off course when Sycamore and Amelia are more to blame and accused by Alighieri of hurting the Harvest King when she had ''no idea'' what he's talking about -- has her beleiving that everone hates her for being who she is and nearly culminates in her suicide.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Despite being allegedly just a SupportingProtagonist this time around, a good deal of Act 1 still focuses heavily on her and her development, with the final confrontation of Act 1 even being a fight between Chloe and her long time bully Sara. However, this trope gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] pretty harshly, since not only does she get the brunt of both good ''and'' bad attention, but [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore neglects his own problems in order to focus on ''her'' growth and quest to stop the Flauros, causing him to become more and more fragile as the story goes on until he cracks when she rejects him.]]

** After Goh lays in to Chloe about she's also at fault for their damaged friendship, she apologizes and acknowledges that he's right...only to go right back to blaming him for her problems during her confrontation with Dr. Yung.

* AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim Chloe's easily the most unapproachable member of the Red Lotus Uprising. Atticus is perfectly cordial to most people, Lexi won't bother someone as long as they don't bother either him or Chloe, and even Amelia can be friendly under the right circumstances. Chloe, meanwhile, gets easily defensive at the drop of a hat, and even outside that she's incredibly violent once she gets going.

** It's unclear whether Chloe's issue with broken promises involves them being broken to ''her'', specifically, or just breaking promises in general. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals it's a mixture of both, as both texts that are shown in the first chapter reveal that Goh cared more about ''his'' stuff and she's an afterthought.

* AttentionWhore: Chloe '''hates''' being ignored and constantly acts out to get people to notice her. She admits that she does it because she just can't stand the idea of never being noticed.

** Chloe believed she would never live down losing to Ash, especially her opening move to tackle a Gengar, and decides that killing herself is better than facing the mockery of being told how Professor's daughter is too stupid to tackle a Ghost-type for the rest of her school life and beyond. While Sara ''did'' laugh and mock her for it, it turns out the rest of the school was 100% on her side. After all, what mattered wasn't that she wasn't a total expert, but how she kept fighting despite the odds being against her, and many older students admit that any newbie would've tackled a Ghost as their first move.

* GrassIsGreener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it so much better because of one major thing: they're not being bullied and forced to play a role they hate because they're weird or because they aren't Pokémon lovers. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't constantly harassed by bullies or forced to follow their parents' footsteps doesn't mean they ''don't'' have their own problems; Goh has to deal with his own lacking social skills after all, though her actions ensured that his problems became a lot worse, and frankly ''she'' is the reason Ash had any problems at all (as any issues he had before Chloe's hissy fit was nowhere near as bad).

* HatedByAll: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Chloe, jumping the gun yet again, assumed everybody back in Vermillion City hated her guts, particularly her classmates. However, it's later made clear only her classmates seem to hate her, and this was only ''after'' Sara manipulated them.
** Goh's Pokemon despise her so much that they're lining up to take turns assaulting her when she returns. While Goh tells them off for this out of fear that it would make things worse, the fact that her mother and little brother will most likely be against such a thing, and Chloe initially snarking over it once she finds out, she ultimately accepts that she deserves it for how she treated Goh and agrees to let them beat her up under Goh's supervision.
** Goh's parents hate her solely because she didn't bring Goh back to the camp right away and prattled on about her new Pumpkaboo friend, to the point that they lied to Goh by telling him that Chloe's requests to hang out with him were nothing and proclaimed she deserved to ''drown'' in front of their son's face.

* HealTheCutie: Act 2 is focused on this; in order for her to truly grow, she must forgive others for their mistakes, and learn to admit the fault she played in causing her SelfInflictedHell. She also learns to connect with her grief and gain encouragement from Goh, who finally admits he always liked her as she was.

* HeroicLineage: Averted. Despite many traits with a previous passenger named Alec Cerise: red hair with flower highlights, same surname, love of nightmares and mint chocolate desserts, prolific at writing, and possessing a title with "Demon" it, Chloe is ''not'' is not related to him.

** A conversation with her mother reveals she once watched a tokusatsu show involving motorcycles and a mirror world, although it's not confirmed if she was talking about ''Kamen Rider Ryuki'' or ''Kamen Rider Dragon Knight''.
** She brings up a wrestler to Gloria who loved chanting how he'd [[Wrestling/JeffHardy "fade away and classify himself as obsolete"]].

** She had ''practically no reason'' to accept a fight with Ash, knowing that the gap in experience between them was so massive it would've taken a miracle for her to win against him. But the very idea of being labeled as a coward for not doing it prompts Chloe to accept the fight...leading to the same result as if she had simply refused.

* HopeIsScary: She is afraid of putting trust in people, particularly adults, because every single one of them "promised" that things will get better...but they never did and the adults barely paid attention to help her. Her suicide is built on this trope, believing that if she called Goh before she takes the drop, he'll listen to her and save her from her pains...[[HopeSpot but instead, he completely hangs up on her]] because he's too busy with his dreams and "best friend" Ash to come back, cementing it in her mind that he never saw her as a friend, and she would willingly end her life right then and there. She starts learning to hope again when Goh vows to return for her and apologizes for his apathy.

** For all Goh is this trope, Chloe herself was this as well. She never knew about Tokio or what happened in Ilex Forest for three years because Goh demanded that she not bring it up, and his parents never thought to ever ''mention'' this boy to her face out of pure spite for an incident years ago, so she only saw Goh as a withdrawn, Pokémon-obsessed boy whom she thought never cared about her. She also didn't know about Goh's parents driving a wedge between her and Goh for years and how they lied about all the messages she tried to send him on wanting to have fun together.

* LoveMartyr: Platonic love. Chloe does all she can for Goh and the sake of their friendship, but he never notices because of his own personal problems preventing him from seeing her gestures, and refused to talk about his own issues. Instead, he demanded that Chloe never ask him about his problems ever again and she complied. It takes both her confessing to how she wants to be him to fully get his friendship and Goh profusely apologizing for how he treated her does she let go of this mindset.

** Throughout ''Seeker of Crocus'', Chloe never supported Goh and his dream to find Mew, nor ever said anything good about it. So it shocks Goh when she explicitly tells him how ''proud'' she is on how he's finding a new lease on life.
* OnlyOneFindsItFun: PlayedForDrama. Chloe's interest in demons and the macabre was something her classmates didn't share, and background hints imply she tried to get them into it repeatedly. However, her [[LackOfEmpathy difficulty in telling what people want]] and [[NoSocialSkills lackluster social skills]] caused her to pester them until they grew to hate it ''even more'', to the point they began bothering ''her'' with ''their'' interests in order to give her a piece of her own medicine and then using her as a meal's ticket before throwing her out to rot. Chloe admitted she liked ghosts because no one in her class found interest in them and she wanted to use it so people gave her attention, particularly [[ObliviousToHints Goh]]. This then gets turned around in Act 2 as other students begin highlighting how ''cool'' Chloe is able to express herself through her interests.

* RealWomenDontWearDresses: Like in ''Blossoming Trail'', Chloe is not weak just because she's feminine and not into Pokémon. She dresses up many times, with Uncle Howdy in "Firefly Funhouse Car" reavling photos that has Chloe wearing "dresses, leggings, and skirt over legggins" but never pants, but more for the sake of expressio. She is still a force to be reckoned with to the point a former cyber-terrorist and a ''Shadow'' are scared when she gets thrown into a vicious CatFight. The only time she's "forced" to do something is more due to her peers wanting to mock and bully her over it (in this case, she's expected to follow her father's footsteps, and never be her own person). She also plays with this in Act 2 when it's revealed that most of her tomboyish traits stem from Goh's devastating remarks of "You're nothing more than a ''coward'' who can't find a dream", and she takes it to mean Goh will never like her if she's a girly-girl scaredy-cat and not the two boys he's close with (Ash and Tokio). In reality, Goh realized he liked the girl who was always supportive of him and her true strength is her kindness.

** Goh's parents hate her solely because she didn't bring Goh back to the camp right away and prattled on her new Pumpkaboo friend, to the point that they lied to Goh by telling him that Chloe's requests to hang out with him were nothing and proclaimed she deserved to ''drown'' in front of their son's face. As a reminder, it was ''Goh'' who drowned and this was because he refused to listen Chloe's warnings.

* HerOwnWorstEnemy: Ultimately, the source of all of Chloe's grief is her own inability to understand others: She couldn't accept her father had responsibilities to his family and to himself, which led to her believing he didn't care about her when he had to cancel her softball camp trip. It didn't occur to her constantly pestering her schoolmates with horror wouldn't endear them to it, giving Sara everything she needed to turn them all against her. She was too stubborn to give people like Ash, Hannah and Daiki a chance to befriend her, feeding into her loneliness. Her lack of concern for Goh's wellbeing and safety during and after the ghost hunt led to his parents viewing her as a danger to their son and trying keep them from seeing each other. Finally, her refusal to take responsibility for her actions make it hard for her to keep what positive relationships she does have, managing to annoy even ''Ash'' with how unwilling she was to admit fault for her issues and trying to pin things on him instead. It takes Goh telling her she's acting like Sara before she finally gets the message.
* HeroicLineage: Downplayed. Chloe shares many traits with a previous passenger named Alec Cerise: red hair with flower highlights, Cerise last name, love of nightmares and mint chocolate desserts, prolific at writing, and have a title with "Demon" it. So it would be obvious that she would follow his legacy...if it wasn't for the fact that she's ''not'' the descendant of Alec Cerise.

** She had ''practically no reason'' to accept a fight with Ash, knowing that the gap in experience between them was so massive it would've taken a miracle for her to win against him. But the very idea of being labeled as a coward for not doing it prompts Chloe to accept the fight... leading to the same result as if she had simply refused.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" retroactively turns her into one regarding promises: being very religious with promises and reading Goh the riot act for constantly breaking them, Chloe once promised Goh that she would never abandon him after his disastrous Ilex Forest trip. Cue her doing just that by getting on the Infinity Train, cutting off all communication with him until she was convinced/forced to interact with him again. [[HypocrisyNod She does acknowledge this however,]] feeling nauseous over breaking this promise but also knowing that she ''needs'' time away to gather her thoughts.

** When Asher innocently asks her why she has Marchosias' symbol on her person, Chloe wastes no time assuming Asher is ''insulting'' her, despite the fact that he didn't even know who she was at that point.

* InsistentTerminology: Chloe likes to refer her situation at the Institute as her being "caged", because she's (allegedly) not allowed to go out and do things she loves. It's later revealed her father would've been willing to let her go if [[YouDidntAsk she just asked]], and the one time she ''did'', he actually was willing to let her go to to softball camp, but due to circumstances beyond everyone's control, he had to take it back and she mistook his attempt at reassurance (that she could just try again some other time) as him never caring about her needs.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" has her realize that she doesn't ''want'' Goh to die by her hand, or die at all, solely because he was a less than ideal friend who ran his mouth.

** And finally, after Goh tells her despite her progress, she ''still'' is acting like Sara, Chloe sadly admits it's the truth and apologizes to everyone she hurt with her actions, vowing to take any punishment awaiting her back home. She gets another one prior to that, when Goh tearfully screaming at her that he would've personally stopped her from killing herself -- since Chloe's suicide fantasy had Goh hang up on her as she's asking for help -- making her realize how badly she had misjudged Goh for for so long.

* KarmicNod: One of the biggest signs that she's learning to grow up is how she accepts a punishment from Goh's Pokémon to have them all line up and beat the snot out of her -- something Goh initially refused for fear of this being akin to her bullies hazing her for no reason and Chloe even snarked that she'll clean her neck first -- admitting that she has no excuse for how she's mistreated others.

* MinorInsultMeltdown: Getting called "annoying" is enough to send her into a near-suicidal downspiral. Thankfully, she gets better.

** Falling. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a nightmare of her falling into a pit when chasing after Goh, she gets thrown out of the window of a high-story building in Ninjala Car by Mirage Mewtwo, is kicked out of the sky by Aligheri in Harvest Moon Car, and her choice of suicide is jumping off a rooftop. Falling usually means helplessness, lost of control, and anxiety -- things that fit Chloe's mental state to a tee.
* MotiveDecay: Chloe claims that she originally created the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona in order to become what she thought Goh wanted in his perfect friend, and also to ensure she was strong enough to fight back against bullies back home. By the time she's first seen in ''Seeker of Crocus'', however, she's simply using the persona as an excuse to hurt people for their supposed mistakes, all while refusing to acknowledge her part in the misunderstandings.

** Chloe genuinely believes Goh never cares about her wellbeing, stating that on the day of her suicide, she would try to call him one last time...only for him to hang up on her because he's "too busy" with his job as a research fellow and hanging out with Ash to come back. The real Goh interrupts Chloe detailing her jump off the school rooftop by stating he would ''demand'' that Ash take him back to Vermillion and stop her from doing such a thing, asking Chloe point-blank if she really thought he was ''that'' horrible to her. This is what ultimately makes Chloe see Goh ''is'' a good person and he always cared about her. And earlier in the Ninjala Car, she's shocked to learn that Goh searched for her for three days without break, along with her ''actually hearing'' Goh about to cry.

* NoSympathy: One of Chloe's biggest flaws is that she gets so caught up in how ''she's'' suffered that she never considers people have their own problems to deal with and lives outside of her own. And while she is by no means a bad person, it still takes a while for her to learn and understand she's not the only person who feels pain and suffering.

** There's also a recurring theme of Chloe being upset when Goh refuses to do his homework, nor thanks her bringing it to him. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveal how Chloe is the only student at school who is willing to deliver the sheets because it's both a sign of her showing concern and her way of trying to tell him to pay attention to her.

* TameHerAnger: One of Chloe's flaws is her wrath, brought out by having no way to vent out, and her refusal to speak up about her issues under a belief that no one would either listen, care, or ever bother to help since she's a total loser. Throughout her trip, she must learn that she can't solve her problems through anger and violence, lest she cause even more problems from them. Buné helps her understand that her anger is actually her hiding so much grief due to how she feels the entire world is against her, and how she can never catch a break. He allows Chloe to finally feel her rage and hatred for herself in one loud cry of agony, connecting to that side of herself she hates and to start healing. She also is given a tattoo as a visual reminder to take a pause before she flies off the handle.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Initially played straight, as Professor Cerise refused to give his daughter therapy for fear of it being a scam or something that would hurt her -- Lexi describes it as "Therapy is not in the Professor's dictionary" and this was after he confessed how one of Chloe's teachers ''specifically told him'' to send her to therapy -- and there's no evidence if the school had a counselor to deal with her traumas. Thankfully Tres, a licensed therapist himself, not only talks to her about her problems but also downloads an app onto her phone where she can talk to other trauma survivors and get help that could've prevented her train trip in the first place.

* IJustWantToBeLoved: PlayedForDrama. Chloe wants to feel loved for who she is and not solely because she's connected to a Pokémon Professor, but her insistence on being loved only on ''her'' terms, refusal to open up about her issues and abrasive response to perceived mockery causes her to come across as unapproachable to the general person, which only fuels her loneliness.

* IJustWantToBeYou: After getting verbally torn apart by Goh in Harvest Moon Car for her nasty attitude and lack of concern for other people, Chloe breaks down and tearfully admits that her real, '''true''' motive for becoming Chloe of the Vermillion and acting the way she did during their Ghost-hunt was because she wanted to be what she thought Goh wanted in his "perfect best friend" and began acting more like him in the hopes that he'd ''finally'' acknowledge her and appreciate everything she did for him over the years. Goh quickly realizes that Chloe copying him is actually toxic and convinces her that he liked her as the kind, gentle girl who showed concern for him.

* InformedKindness: A lot of people comment on Chloe's kind and forgiving nature, and state it was her heart which led to her becoming one of the Train's greatest heroes. However, upon actually reading her exploits, she appears to be very ''selective'' with her kindness, to say the least. Initially, she's kind only to the people she meets on the Train because they coddle her and stroke her ego, while treating all the non-Train citizens like bad guys for supposedly ruining her life. Fortunately, as Act 2 goes on, she starts becoming more aware of her flaws and begins making an honest effort to be truly kind to everyone around her, and Goh comes to realize that all the things she's done for him ''are'' genuine and much better than if she just left him to rot.

** Chloe got it in her head that Goh is sexist just because two of his best and closest friends are boys.

** She made a big deal when Goh refused to show appreciation for her getting his homework. By the time he decides to do the same for her, she's too broken and suicidal to care for something so ''minor''.

* LivingEmotionalCrutch: "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that she's (unknowingly) the only thing, outside of Mew, that prevented young Goh from being a complete hikkikomori since he demanded that she never abandons him (read: "I'm scared of being betrayed again thanks to a boy named Tokio, please don't run away!") and she's stayed by his side. Unfortunately, Chloe's patience for him can only go so far, and the more he starts caring for ''his'' dreams and never her, the angrier and bitter she gets since ''he'' can't return the favor and he moves on from her to Ash without even looking back. Worse, since Goh never properly explained ''why'' she has to never abandon him, the promise that kept them together turns out to be a noose slowly choking her to death.

** PlayedForDrama. [[spoiler: She's utterly furious at Sara for everything that's happening back at home due to her use of the Unown, but she can't do anything to stop her since they're literally ''dimensions apart''. As a result, she snaps and directs her rage at ''Sycamore'' instead, causing the Professor to crack like an egg and go insane.]] She realizes her mistake and this hangs on her head long after.