History Characters / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusDenCity

* AllLovingHeroine: She slowly shapes up into one of these as she decides to follow an email to the Ignis, pondering over how she wants the Ignis and their partners to reunite once more.

* ADayInTheLimelight: The VRAINS arc in Horrorland Car is focused on her going to pursue what could be the locations of the Ignis reborn.
* EveryoneHasStandards: She harbors hatred towards Specter for good reason -- implanting a virus in her that put her in a coma and how he crushed her in a duel they had that involved him burning a copy of her childhood book that kept her from falling into despair -- but she finds Ryoken not letting Specter go back on the Train as plain cruel.
* {{Foil}}: To ''Ryoken'', oddly enough. While she has beef with Specter over what he did to her, she shows pity for him all the same, compared to Ryoken refusing to let him go to the Train to heal himself. And while Ryoken wants to continue his quest to kill the Ignis, Aoi decides to follow a email left by Bohman that would presumably lead to the revived Ignis. Bonus points in that she wants Specter to see Earth whereas Ryoken shows no pity towards the poor ignis ''or'' his subordinate.

* {{Foil}}: To ''Ryoken'', oddly enough. While she has beef with Specter over what he did to her, she shows pity for him all the same, compared to Ryoken refusing to let him go to the Train to heal himself. And while Ryoken wants to continue his quest to kill the Ignis, Aoi decides to follow a email left by Bohman that would presumably lead to the revived Ignis. Bonus points in that she wants Specter to see Earth whereas Ryoken shows no pity towards the poor ignis.

** Trolls online never made her forget her face-plant after she lost to Specter.

* TheUnapologetic: He ''never'' apologizes for what he did to Earth nor does he even consider how the Ignis was alive in the first place.[[note]]The ''VRAINS'' event in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links'' would later reveal that he does apologize for his mistakes even though he doesn't fully grasp the Ignis situation.[[/note]]

* AmbiguousSituation: When Yuri comments on how Ryoken is "Too Wimpod to see his ''beloved'' [emphasis included] Specter run away at midnight again", Ryoken states he doesn't see Specter in "that light". Was he mentioning how Specter was a runaway or highlighting that he doesn't see Specter in a romantic way (as the co-author confirmed that Specter crushes on Ryoken)? This continues in Act 2 as Ryoken insists he doesn't see Specter "in that way" and Pandor asks what he means by that and he refuses to answer and when Specter confesses his love for Ryoken, Ryoken coldly rebuffs him. Either way, Specter sees Ryoken's answer as proof that his boss is not giving a damn for his mental issues.

* OnceDoneNeverForgotten: Alternate Ryu will not let Aoi forget how she menacingly attacked his Digimon pal with trays.

* HonestCorporateExecutive: In contrast to Queen, and is considered the closest to a BigGood in Den City.

* MirrorCharacter: To Chryssa as they're the sole female assistant to their respective leaders. Main difference is that Kyoko tried to comfort Specter and showed concern while Chryssa admitted she procrastinated on trying to talk to Chloe.

* {{Foil}}: To Ryoken, oddly enough. While she has beef with Specter over what he did to her, she shows pity for him all the same, compared to Ryoken refusing to let him go to the Train to heal himself. And while Ryoken wants to continue his quest to kill the Ignis, Aoi decides to follow a email left by Bohman that would presumably lead to the revived Ignis with bonus pointsin that she wants Specter to see Earth whereas Ryoken shows no pity towards the poor ignis.

* LightFeminineAndDarkFeminine: The Light to the Dark of both Chloe and Emma.
** To Chloe: Aoi's initial alias was Blue ''Angel'' and would usually wear white outfits accented with blue, whereas Chloe is Demon ''Lord'' and her current outfit is black. Aoi is a romantic with some ShipTease towards Yusaku while Chloe doesn't have a main love interest -- outside a date with Tony Clark -- and her arc is more focused on reconciling with the men in her life (her father, Ash, Goh).
** To Emma: Emma is a teasing CoolBigSis figure with a shapely body and a hacker while Aoi is the gentle younger sister figure still in high school. Emma uses Altergheist, a Dark Attribute archetype, compared to Aoi's initial Trickstars, which are Light.

* ThoseTwoGuys: They're mostly observing the confersation at Café Nagi, knowing that they shouldn't interfere.

A famous Celebrity duelist and wrestler, who decidates his wins to an orphanage he was raised in. However, there's a dark part of him that some people just don't want to him forget.

* TheUnapologetic: He ''never'' apologizes for what he did to Earth nor does he even consider how the Ignis was alive in the first place.[[note]]The ''VRAINS'' event in ''Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Links'' will later reveal that he does apologize for his mistakes even though he doesn't fully grasp the Ignis situation.[[/note]]

* SmallRoleBigImpact: His death had a huge impact for practically everyone in the anime that still lingers in ''Seeker of Crocus''. It showed how much [=SOLtech=] and Queen could give a damn about the Ignis, Emma and Aoi were horrified at how cruel the action was, Akira realized how he had been working for the bad guys all along, and the rest of Café Nagi (particularly Ai and Flame) were shocked at the death of their kind. But the one most affected by this was ''Specter'' who sensed Earth's death and realized later on that he could never get that type of companionship that the other Lost children could. Moreover, [[spoiler:Elipzo has brainwashed George Gore as vengeance for being the one tho defeat Earth which lead to his death, not to mention having implanted himself with a Data Chip ''based on Earth's data'' in order to get a victory against Playmaker.]]

* AmbiguousSituation: When Yuri comments on how Ryoken is "Too Wimpod to see his ''beloved'' [emphasis included] Specter run away at midnight again", Ryoken states he doesn't see Specter in "that light". Was he mentioning how Specter was a runaway or highlighting that he doesn't see Specter in a romantic way (as the co-author confirmed that Specter crushes on Ryoken)? This continues in Act 2 as Ryoken insists he doesn't see Specter "in that way" and Pandor asks what he means by that and he refuses to answer. Either way, Specter sees Ryoken's answer as proof that his boss is not giving a damn for his mental issues.

* JerkassHasAPoint:

* ALighterShadeOfBlack: Subverted; while at first he acts much better than Grace and Simon, one must remember that his ''first'' plan to destroy the Ignis was using the digitized minds of ''thousands'' of people, and allowed his right hand man to implant Blue Angel with a virus that caused her to go on a rampage. In contrast, the Apex only kills those they ''know'' they can fight (or in this case, Grace goes the DirtyCoward route of shanking someone when their defenses are down).

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* LighterShadeOfBlack: Subverted; while at first he acts much better than Grace and Simon, one must remember that his ''first'' plan to destroy the Ignis was using the digitized minds of ''thousands'' of people, and allowed his right hand man to implant Blue Angel with a virus that caused her to go on a rampage. In contrast, the Apex only kills those they ''know'' they can fight (or in this case, Grace goes the DirtyCoward route of shanking someone when their defenses are down).

* AmbiguousSituation: When Yuri comments on how Ryoken is "Too Wimpod to see his ''beloved'' [emphasis included] Specter run away at midnight again", Ryoken states he doesn't see Specter in "that light". Was he mentioning how Specter was a runaway or highlighting that he doesn't see Specter in a romantic way (as the co-author confirmed that Specter crushes on Ryoken)? This continues in Act 2 as Ryoken insists he doesn't see Specter "in that way" and Pandor asks what he means by that and he refuses to answer.

* JerkassHasAPoint: He has extreme methods, but no one can fault him for his paranoia considering the circumstances as to how Specter both disappeared and reappeared absolutely broken.

** So far, Roboppi hasn't been seen throughout the story, despite them having gotten their own body at the same time Ai did.

An AI created by Ryoken to initiallay neutralize Ai but later acts as support for the Hanoi.

* EveryoneHasStandards: She harbors hatred towards Specter for good reason -- implanting a virus in her that put her in a coma and how he crushed her in a duel they had that involved him burning a copy of her childhood book that kept her from falling into despair -- but she finds Ryoken not letting Specer go back on the Train as plain cruel.

* KickTheDog: Did not give any fucks over defeating Earth except it was an AI that had to be killed. And then he used a Duel Chip ''based on Earth's data'' without an ounce of pity.

* TheUnapologetic: He ''never'' apologizes for what he did to Earth nor does he even consider how the Ignis was alive in the first place.

[[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusWindchasers Windchasers]] ([[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusProfessorSycamore Professor Sycamore]]) | [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusInfinityTrain Infinity Train]] ([[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusDenizens Denizens]], [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusRedLotusUprising Red Lotus Uprising]] [[[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusChloeCerise Chloe Cerise]]], [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusWhiteGestalt White Gestalt]] ([[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusSpecter Specter]]), [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusElipzo Elipzo]]) | [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusPokemonWorld Pokémon World]] ([[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusProfessorCerise Professor Cerise]], [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusSaraDiktaylis Sara Diktaylis]]) | '''Den City''' | [[Characters/InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusMultiverse The Multiverse]] -] ]]]]

!! Passengers

[[folder:Queen]]
!!Queen

Former vice president of [=SOLTech=] who will do whatever she can in the pursuit of money. She was last seen running away on a cruise ship before picked up on the Infinity Train.

* AdaptationalKarma: [[spoiler:She was given an UncertainDoom fate in the anime by Ai, but she's killed in the heart by Elipzo.]]
* AintTooProudToBeg: [[spoiler:Her final words before she's killed is her begging for her life.]]
* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:She gets killed off by Elipzo, but given all of her atrocities in Season 2, the readers don't feel sorry for her. Subverted for those who know in Den City, who are horrified to hear of her death.]]
* CheatedDeathDiedAnyway: [[spoiler:She survives whatever canonical fate was supposedly placed on her because Ai was forced to log them out of VRAINS, but she ended up on the Train and then killed.]]
* ChessMotif: She's named after the chess piece, like all higher-ups in [=SOLTech=]. Combined with her dress and you get the Red Queen.
* DeathByAdaptation: [[spoiler:Her final fate in the anime is unknown, but she's dead with a bullet wound to the heart in the fanfic.]]
* EvilerThanThou: She's more monstrous than the Knights of the Hanoi, to the point that ''Specter'' openly states how much he hates her.
* FateWorseThanDeath: [[spoiler:After she died, her body hasn't returned to Den City (it's been stuffed into a freezer) and her soul is now in the hands of Elipzo, meaning she won't be able to go through the reincarnation process.]]
* FemalesAreMoreInnocent: Nope! While George was the one who caused Earth's death in the first place, Queen was still the one who gave the order and didn't give a rat's ass about Earth's feelings just as long as she got money out of the data. [[spoiler:Elipzo does not see her as innocent in any way, shape or form, hence why she gets killed.]]
* LackOfEmpathy: Her heart is empty as a bone-dry well in regards to her actions towards Earth. [[spoiler:This gets her killed by Elipzo.]]
* LadyInRed: She was last seen in a red dress according to London, which is what she wore in her final appearance in the anime.
* MirrorCharacter: To Specter, both of them don't have a real name and were nasty pieces of work from the beginning. But Specter learned to change and make amends for his actions, willing to venture throughout the Train and understand what it means to have empathy and companionship, whereas Queen was presumably stuck in place in one car and didn't care to better herself. Specter is alive on the Train and in the hands of allies, [[spoiler:Queen died alone, her body stuffed into a fridge and her soul unable to be reincarnated.]]
* NoNameGiven: She's only called Queen.

[[folder:Yusaku Fujiki]]
!!Yusaku Fujiki
->'''Appears in:''' Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned, First appearance: Act 1 Intermission)

A high school student that is also the legendary VRAINS hero, Playmaker. He's somehow gone missing around the same time Ai has...
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* AmbiguousSituation: How did Yusaku get on the Train with Ai in the first place?
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: [[spoiler:Ai keeps putting Yusaku in trance so that he and Ai never have to leave the Train, especially since their numbers are synced together.]]
* DemotedToExtra: Hero of ''VRAINS'', minor character in Crocus.
* MirrorCharacter: To Augustine Sycamore as they are related to a black wearing non-human who have physical appearances based off of them and were brainwashed under their orders. The sole difference is that while Asher initially did it to Augustine as a way of "protecting" him before he gets permission to have triggers placed in Augustine's head, Ai places the hypnosis on him to keep him "happy" and so that Yusaku can't have a chance to drop his number to 0. And amusingly enough, both Augustine and Yusaku share the same dub voice actor (Jake Paque).
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[[folder:Ai]]
!!Ai (Dark Ignis)

->'''Appears in:''' Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned, First appearance: Act 1 Intermission)

An AI, also called the Dark Ignis, who was once the partner of Yusaku.
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* AmbiguousSituation: How is he on the Train with Yusaku? And why does he have a 300 on his hand?
* AwesomeButImpractical: Having so many monsters at your beck and call sounds awesome, but the impractical part comes when they're completely defeated and you have no fighting skills, or the time it takes to actually summon them. Hence, by the time the White Gestalt destroys his strongest monster, he can't do anything but rant and rave how it's impossible.
* BerserkButton: Ai gets angry when Specter says his human appearance looks like a "Gothic sell-out".
-->'''Ai:''' YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!
* BewareTheSillyOnes:
** He's a goofy little AI that gained a body and has one of the most powerful deck in VRAINS.
* CompositeCharacter: He essentially is the ''Knight of the Orange Lily'' version of Specter: he uses his duel disk instead of having any combat prowess, he's known to have a serious air amongst the wackier characters and he's ''also'' dragged along for a ride he doesn't want. Amusingly, Specter is ''much'' more positive and willing to have another go at the Train at this point.
* TheDragAlong: After his rampage through the Soda Beach Car, he's forced to travel alongside White Gestalt.
* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: His reaction to seeing [[spoiler:Lampetia losing an eye]] is to say that she is a [[spoiler:sight for sore ''eye'']]. Specter reacts [[UnstoppableRage accordingly]].
-->'''Specter:''' SHUT UP!!!!!
** He later makes a joke that London doesn't want to be disarmed -- by the same @Ignister that [[spoiler: made Lampetia lose her eye]] -- while making a chopping motion.
* HiddenDepths: He tells Specter that he shipped him and Blue Angel, hinting that he's a romantic.
* HumansAreBastards: The incident with [=SOLTech=] and the death of all his siblings has made him see humanity as a selfish breed and would do anything for power or money.
* {{Hypocrite}}: Whines how it's unfair how White Gestalt use underhanded tactics to beat The Arrival. The Gestalt is quick to point out that Ai basically swarmed the field with his monsters and knocked London to the side while trying to save Lampetia from a sword that ''shaved half her face off''.
* ImproperlyParanoid: He tries to run away from Specter because he presumes that the Hanoi want him dead. Specter admits in the Act 2 Prelude that Ai is the least of his worries right now.
* IronicName: Ai means "to love" in Japanese. Ai himself notes that once upon a time, he did love people, humanity, and his family but lost it after Lightning's machinations.
* JerkassHasAPoint: He tells Specter that for all his aggravations on not getting his bond with Earth, it's completely shallow. Earth was Ai's ''brother'' in a sense and thus he had the bond much longer than Specter ever had and it's hypocritical that he's preaching it now.
* JustYouMeAndMyGuards: States the trope namer but replace "Guards" with "Earth Golem @Ignister".
* KickTheDog: To really rub salt into an open wound, Ai notes that London, Specter, Easter and Lampetia that the first @Ignister they decide to destroy was Earth Golem @Ignister...and in canon Earth is the first Ignis to bite the dust. London immediately realizes how much of a puppy-kicking line this is.
* MirrorCharacter: To Asher as a figure whose main element is darkness with a traumatizing backstory and their partner is put under hypnosis, but while Asher is mainly doing it to protect Augustine, Ai is doing it to protect ''himself'' and keep Yusaku from leaving the Train.
* MortonsFork: [[spoiler:The Figure/Austen Plane gives Ai the task to deliver Lampetia's heart to Specter. If Ai does, this will definitely rouse suspicion in Specter -- who knows the last person who had her heart was a little Apex brat who'd never give her "battle trophy" so easily -- but if Ai ''refsues'', Austen will reveal to Den City that Ai kidnapped Yusaku and forced him into a painful trance just so Ai can stay with Yusaku forever and thus giving Ryoken an incentive to get on the Train to kill him.]]
* NonActionBigBad: He can't actually ''fight'' without his Duel Monsters, so once every single one of them gets defeated, he has nowhere to run.
* SadClown: Underneath his silly facade is an AI that has serious grieving problems. This is symbolized by Chloe finding him in a mental landscape of A.I.Land -- which is essentially an amusement park with bright colors -- and he's found in front of five graves, each of them representing the other dead Ignis.
* SelfFulfillingProphecy: Upon learning that Specter is on the Train, Ai is doing all he can to run away from him. [[spoiler:Then Austen ''forces'' Ai to make a delivery to Specter.]]
* ShipperOnDeck: He notes that he shipped Specter with Blue Angel, albeit he ''could'' be joking about it given how he keeps ragging on Specter's closeness with London.
* ShutUpKirk: Specter is giving a speech about how White Gestalt came together for similar reasonings and they're on the Train to rediscover themselves. Ai immediately tells him to shut it.
-->'''Ai:''' If there's one thing I hate more than everyone not listening to me are long monologues, which are coming from ''you'' of all people!
* SingleTear: Sheds one when Specter reminds him that his name means "love" when Ai states that Specter is a parasite who doesn't ''know'' what it means to be human.
* TakingYouWithMe: Given everything that he has gone through, he decides that if [[spoiler:Austen does reveal what he's done to Yusaku]], he's taking Specter down so the ghost doesn't get his happy ending by rampaging with his @Ignister monsters. He fails.
* ThisCannotBe: Is stuck screaming this when White Gestalt plows through all of his monsters and are about to lay the killing blow at The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister.
* VillainousBreakdown: He gets more and more pissed when White Gestalt destroy his monsters, unable to stop them.
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: His backstory was about having to be on the run from the Hanoi and by the time everything in Season 2 and 3 begins, he feels nothing but grief that he's the only Ignis left standing and can ''never'' have a happy life as he is, because Ryoken is so intent on killing him. The fact that Specter is able to have happy relationships with ''two'' partners -- Easter and Lampetia -- riles him up to no end. Hearing about Pandor being an AI made by ''Ryoken'' as an anti-Ignis program that has a cap on her development should she go against her program ''disgusts him''.
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!! Other

[[folder:Earth]]
An Ignis based off of Specter. While he didn't last long, his death lead to a significant impact for much of the characters in Den City.
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* PosthumousCharacter: He was killed off mid-season 2 of ''VRAINS''.
* SacrificialLion: His death kicked off the lows Queen would go for power and that George couldn't give two fucks about what he was doing, especially since George would ''be implanted with a data chip with Earth's AI''.
* SmallRoleBigImpact: His death had a huge impact for practically everyone in the anime that still lingers in ''Seeker of Crocus''. It showed how much [=SOLtech=] and Queen could give a damn about the Ignis, Emma and Aoi were horrified at how cruel the action was, Akira realized how he had been working for the bad guys all along, and the rest of Café Nagi (particularly Ai and Flame) were shocked at the death of their kind. But the one most affected by this was ''Specter'' who sensed Earth's death and realized later on that he could never get that type of companionship that the other Lost children could. Moreover, [[spoiler:Elipzo has brainwashed George Gore as vengeance for being the one tho defeat Earth which lead to his death, not to mention having implanted himself with a Data Chip ''based on Earth's data'' in order to get a victory against Playmaker.]]
* WhatMeasureIsANonHuman: He was just an Ignis who waned to live, fall in love with Aqua and protect his precious crystal heart...but George destroyed said heart, gave him to Queen and she watched him be ''vivisected'' as he lost his memories one by one, his data then placed into an AI Chip implanted into the brain of the one who killed him. Emma and Aoi were horrified, Akira stunned, Specter ''teared up'' and neither Queen ''nor'' George gave a rat's ass about him, George especially since he decided to be implanted with a data chip based on Earth himself, thus seeing the Ignis as nothing more than a performance drug that he could use to get at least ''one'' victory over Playmaker.
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* AmbiguousSituation: When Yuri comments on how Ryoken is "Too Wimpod to see his ''beloved'' [emphasis included] Specter run away at midnight again", Ryoken states he doesn't see Specter in "that light". Was he mentioning how Specter was a runaway or highlighting that he doesn't see Specter in a romantic way (as the co-author confirmed that Specter crushes on Ryoken)? This continues in Act 2 as Ryoken insists he doesn't see Specter "in that way" and Pandor asks what he means by that and he refuses to answer..

* ObliviousToLove: Has no idea that Specter crushes on him (the co-author reveals that he's gay), as his remark to Yuri in regards to being too cowardly to see his "beloved" Specter run away at midnight is that he doesn't see Specter in "that light". Albeit he probably was countering in that he doesn't see Specter as a damsel in distress, not a romantic partner.

* CompositeCharacter: He essentially is the ''Knight of the Orange Lily'' version of Specter: he uses his duel disk instead of having any combat prowess, he's known to have a serious air amongst the wackier characters and he's ''also'' dragged along for a ride he doesn't want.

* TakingYouWithMe: Given everything that he has gone through, he decides that if [[spoiler:Austen does reveal what he's done to Yusaku]], he's taking Specter down so the ghost doesn't get his happy ending.
* ThisCannotBe: Is stuck screaming this when White Gestalt plows through al of hismonsters.

* SmallRoleBigImpact: His death had a huge impact for practically everyone in the anime that still lingers in ''Seeker of Crocus''. It showed how much [=SOLtech=] and Queen could give a damn about the Ignis, Emma and Aoi were horrified at how cruel the action was, Akira realized how he had been working for the bad guys all along, and the rest of Café Nagi (particularly Ai and Flame) were shocked at the death of their kind. But the one most affected by this was ''Specter'' who sensed Earth's death and realized later on that he could never get that type of companionship that the other Lost children could. Moreover, [[spoiler:Elipzo has brainwashed George Gore as vengeance for being the one tho defeat Earth which lead to his death, not to mention having implanted himself with a Data Chip ''based on Earth's data''.]]

* AwesomeButImpractical: Having so many monsters at your beck and call sounds awesome, but the impractical part comes when they're completely defeated and you have no fighting skills. Hence, by the time the White Gestalt destroys his strongest monster, he can't do anything but rant and rave how it's impossible.

* EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor: His reaction to seeing [[spoiler:Lampetia losing an eye]] is to say that she is a [[spoiler:sight for sore eye]]. Specter reacts accordingly.

** He later makes a joke that London didn't want to be disarmed while making a chopping motion.

* AdaptedOut: So far, Roboppi hasn't been seen throughout the story, despite them having gotten their own body at the same time Ai did.

* {{Hypocrite}}: Whines how it's unfair how White Gestalt use underhanded tactics to beat The Arrival. The Gestalt is quick to point out that Ai basically swarmed the field with his monsters.

* NonActionBigBad: He can't actually fight without his Duel Monsters, so once every single one of them gets defeated, he has nowhere to run.