History Trivia / InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail

** Goh's an interesting case, since Goh ''himself'' isn't the problem: rather, it's the way the anime [[SpotlightStealingSquad puts more focus on him than Chloe]], [[DesignatedHero treats his main traits as good things without seeing the flaws]], and the ''bucket list'' of unintentional DoubleStandard regarding him and Chloe that's the issue.
** A more straightforward example would be Yeardley: his whole "my life's a work in progress" brought the ''entire story'' into existence, as the author points out how much DoubleStandard he gets when he can give an open-ended answer while Chloe is harassed by everyone ''else'' about her career choices, and his counterpart here is turned into a mysoginistic bully that always gets what's coming to him by karma.
** Professor Cerise also gets the brunt of the author's anger because, at the time the story was written, it was easy to mistake the professor as being negligent on Chloe. It gets to the point that the story tries to paint him treating Ash and Goh like they were his sons, despite them being his workers.
** Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent are this to the author. On numerous occasions, the author has stated that she hates both of them for the damage they caused and is not sympathetic to both of them, which becomes much more apparent as the writing then goes to take any sympathetic traits they had and either changes them, gives them a darker twist, or outright remove them, all in the name of making them into arrogant sociopaths who only care about destruction. The author said it best in a recent author note; note from chapter The Pirate Car; she believes Grace got a slap on the wrist for all she's done and that she does not think Simon deserved redemption.

** The author wrote the story because she was annoyed by the lack of CharacterDevelopment Chloe had been receiving in the anime, and the partly number of fan works exploring the character (there was only one other Chloe-focused story on [=AO3=] at the time). Episode 29 was coming up around the same time as the first five episodes of ''Infinity Train'' Book 3 and the author was itching to make any type of ''Infinity Train'' story just for the heck of it. Ironically, the first chapter was posted just ''days'' before Episode 29, which turned out to a major Chloe-focused episode that delved a bit into her backstory. She also pointed out the DoubleStandard moment from Episode 11; when asked about what Chloe wanted to do in life, everyone immediately assumes that she's going to become a Pokémon Trainer or Professor, whereas the student prior to her (a boy) got away with a "My life is a work in progress" without any criticism.

** In Act 3, the author stated that the Cerise family dynamic was based on Creator/SionSono's ''Noriko's Dinner Table'', particularly how Talia's obsession with touching up family picture (where Chloe is seen frowning) with happy smiles to highlight the distance and communication problems between parents and children.

** In Act 3, the author stated that the Cerise family dynamic was based on Sion Sono's ''Noriko's Dinner Table'', particularly how Talia's obsession with touching up family picture (where Chloe is seen frowning) with happy smiles to highlight the distance and communication problems between parents and children.

** [[Characters/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailLexi Lexi]]

** [[Characters/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailAshKetchum Ash Ketchum]]

** Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent are this to the author. On numerous occasions, the author has stated that she hates both of them for the damage they caused and is not sympathetic to both of them, which becomes much more apparent as the writing then goes to take any sympathetic traits they had and either changes them, gives them a darker twist, or outright remove them, all in the name of making them into arrogant sociopaths who only care about destruction.

** Professor Cerise also gets the brunt of the author's anger because going by the anime, he never gives his daughter anything to do in the Institute for ''30 episodes'' to the point that you have to wonder why Chloe is even ''going'' to said Institute in the first place and the DoubleStandard that comes up for how little he notices her and would rather dote on Ash and Goh like ''they'' were his children.

** Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent are this to the author. On numerous occasions, the author has stated that she hates both of them for the damage they caused and is not sympathetic to both of them. And it shows in her writing that the Apex crimes and the amount of damage and trauma they caused are given full details. For Grace, it is reminded that while she lost a lot in book 3, she still was a leader of a cult that committed many crimes, considering the size of her number. Her crimes were shown were in the prequel, where it was revealed that Grace murdered a Denizen in front of his child partner casually plays it off as her "saving" him. Then it was revealed Simon ripped apart Lexi's pages while Grace gloated him on before they buried him alive. For Simon, all the sympathetic traits he had before he went off the deep end in the canon are gone. In canon, he did care for Grace, and even those he betrayed her when she saves his life, he was horrified with his actions, and it was clear that despite himself, he did feel guilty about what he was becoming and that he was destroying himself. His death was treated as a tragedy and was mourned by Grace and the Alex kids. In this story, he had no hesitation in making a deal with the devil or betraying Grace. Simon was not destroying himself. He truly embraced being a monster and had no regrets, so his death was given no sympathy, and he was mourned by no one other than Grace and Samantha. The author said it best in a recent author note from chapter The Pirate Car; she believes Grace got a slap on the wrist for all she's done and that she does not think Simon deserved redemption.

** Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent are this to the author. On numerous occasions, the author has stated that she hates both of them for the damage they caused and is not sympathetic to both of them. And it shows in her writing that the Apex crimes and the amount of damage and trauma they caused are given full details. For Grace, it is reminded that while she lost a lot in book 3, she still was a leader of a cult that committed many crimes, considering the size of her number. Her crimes were shown were in the prequel, where it was revealed that Grace murdered a Denizen in front of his child partner casually plays it off as her "saving" him. Then it was revealed Simon ripped apart Lexi's pages while Grace gloated him on before they buried him alive. For Simon, all the sympathetic traits he had before he went off the deep end in the canon are gone. In canon, he did care for Grace, and even those he betrayed her when she saves his life, he was horrified with his actions, and it was clear that despite himself, he did feel guilty about what he was becoming and that he was destroying himself. His death was treated as a tragedy and was mourned by Grace and the Alex kids. In this story, he had no hesitation in making a deal with the devil or betraying Grace. Simon was not destroying himself. He truly embraced being a monster and had no regrets, so his death was given no sympathy, and he was mourned by no one other than Grace and Samantha. The author said it best in a recent author note; she believes Grace got a slap on the wrist for all she's done and that she does not think Simon deserved redemption.

* FollowTheLeader: While far from the first Infinity Train crossover fanfic, it's definitely the first one to not only crossover with Pokémon (and Silent Hill to an extent), but do so while deconstructing every single trope related to a particular genre or story. Naturally, it's great popularity caused several similar stories to pop up, ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint'' chief among them.

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** Lexi originally wasn't supposed to be the third member of the trio -- the role was originally supposed to be for [[spoiler:Amelia]] -- but the author loved his character so much that she added him in. [[spoiler:The author would eventually make Amelia the SixthRanger to compensate.]]
** Chloe wasn't originally written as a NightmareFetishist, but the author found the idea of her being one so compelling and how it would contrast a girl like Chloe herself that she kept it as part of her character.

* WordOfGod: The author likes writing multiple notes about inspirations and fun facts about the characters along with her annoyance on the writers' on how they "write" Chloe

** Many changes in the story had to be worked around due to Book 3, particularly [[spoiler:Amelia being the original third member of the party but was swapped with Lexi instead.]]

** Another idea that was scrapped was when Goh would've been found on the train. Chloe would've escaped into something called "The Fog Car" -- which is essentially ''VideoGame/SilentHill2'' but on the Infinity Train -- and Goh was teamed with Simon to rescue her with Goh and Simon having to face their inner demons, while Chloe -- who had no sins at this point -- was free to frolick across the Car and escape early. Goh would've fallen into despair at this point; no matter how hard he chased after Chloe, she would always be out of reach. However, as noted above, Simon's fate had that scrapped. The author later would bring The Fog Car as part of Arc 2 but with Hop instead of Goh.

** The Unown Arc was going to last even longer but was scrapped to about 3 chapters so that it didn't overstay its welcome. This also meant that Bede's role was also reduced as he was supposed to be fighting alongside Goh to stop the Unown.

** The Curry Car was once a cooking academy whose theme when Chloe entered was curry. There, Romin would've already been working on her curry from her show and Chloe would've easily dismissed it...then be shocked when the curry got a pass. Chloe's lesson was to think about who she'd cook curry for and she would've made three curries: one for Atticus, one for Lexi and one for herself. She decided to change it to the current one to coincide with Olmec's words from The Hidden Temple Car.

* CreatorsPest: Goh's an interesting case, since Goh ''himself'' isn't the problem: rather, it's the way the Anime [[SpotlightStealingSquad puts more focus on him than Chloe]], [[DesignatedHero treats his main traits as good things without seeing the flaws]], and the ''bucket list'' of unintentional DoubleStandard regarding him and Chloe that's the issue.
** A more straightforward example would be Yeardley: his whole "my life's a work in progress" brought the entire story into existence, as the author points out how much DoubleStandard he gets when he can give an open-ended answer while Chloe is harassed by everyone ''else'' about her career choices, and his counterpart here is turned into a mysoginistic bully that always gets what's coming to him by karma.
** Professor Cerise also gets the brunt of the author's anger because going by the anime, he never gives his daughter anything to do in the Instiute for ''30 episodes'' to the point that you have to wonder why Chloe is even ''going'' to said Institute in the first place and the DoubleStandard that comes up for how little he notices her.

** The author wrote the story because she was annoyed by the lack of CharacterDevelopment Chloe had been receiving in the anime, and the partly number of fan works exploring the character (there was only one other Chloe-focused story on [=AO3=] at the time) and Episode 29 was coming up around the same time as the first five episodes of ''Infinity Train'' Book 3 and the author was itching to make any type of ''Infinity Train'' story just for the heck of it. Ironically, the first chapter was posted just ''days'' before Episode 29, which turned out to a major Chloe-focused episode that delved a bit into her backstory. She also pointed out a DoubleStandard moment from Episode 11; when asked about what Chloe wanted to do in life, everyone immediately assumes that she's going to become a Pokémon Trainer or Professor, whereas the student prior to her (a boy) got away with a "My life is a work in progress" without any criticism.

** Professor Cerise also gets the brunt of the author's anger because going by the anime, he never gives his daughter anything to do in the Instiute for ''30 episodes'' to the point that you have to wonder why Chloe is even ''going'' to said Institute in the first place.
* DevelopmentGag: In Chapter 7, Trip mentions that one of the cars he visited was a gallery where they could paint a portrait of the most important person on your mind. According to the author's notes, it's referencing a car Chloe would've entered called "The Self-Portrait Car".

* WordOfSaintPaul: The co-writer will occasionally give his own impressions on things in comments to the fans, though he is always careful to clarify he is only the co-writer and not the final word.

** The author wrote the story because she was annoyed by the lack of CharacterDevelopment Chloe had been receiving in the anime, and the partly number of fan works exploring the character (there was only one other Chloe-focused story on [=AO3=] at the time). Ironically, the first chapter was posted just ''days'' before Episode 29, which turned out to a major Chloe-focused episode that delved a bit into her backstory. She also pointed out a DoubleStandard moment from Episode 11; when asked about what Chloe wanted to do in life, everyone immediately assumes that she's going to become a Pokémon Trainer or Professor, whereas the student prior to her (a boy) got away with a "My life is a work in progress" without any criticism.

** A more straightforward example would be Yeardley: his whole "my life's a work in progress" brought the entire story into existence, and his counterpart here is turned into a mysoginistic bully that always gets what's coming to him by karma.

* CreatorsPest: Goh's an interesting case, since Goh ''himself'' isn't the problem: rather, it's the way the Anime puts more focus on him than Chloe, treats his main traits as good things without seeing the flaws, and the bucket list of unintentional DoubleStandard regarding him and Chloe that's the issue.

** April 1st 2021 was rung in with a fake 'sequel' made in collaboration with all three authors, called 'Dreams of Indigo'. Link here: https://archiveofourown.org/works/30403389/chapters/74956974

* CreatorsPet: Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, which is odd considering Chloe's supposed to not like her family, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Act 1 (like, for example, trying to smash Yeardley's head with a bat), and not only is he the one family member to never get calling outs, but the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'' he accomplishes several major events in part 1 that should have, easily could, and had the characters for, older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Part 2 many characters in story would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents) and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out and make others feel responsibility even after everything and few if anyone characters continue to enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he still is the stories biggest monster. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''.

* CreatorsPet: Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, which is odd considering Chloe's supposed to not like her family, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Act 1 (like, for example, trying to brain Yeardley's brain with a bat), and not only is he the one family member to never get calling outs, but the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Despite being ''five'' he accomplishes several major events in part 1 that should have, easily could, and had the characters for, older and more reasonable characters like Professor Cerise and Trip. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Part 2 many characters in story would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents) and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out and make others feel responsibility even after everything and few if anyone characters continue to enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he still is the stories biggest monster. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''.

* CreatorsPet: Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, which is odd considering Chloe's supposed to not like her family, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Act 1 (like, for example, trying to brain Yeardley's brain with a bat), and not only is he the one family member to never get calling outs, but the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out. Even as he turned into an antagonist in Part 2 many characters in story would defend him to some degree or another (particularly his parents) and his court scene in the aftermath still has him able to call out and make others feel responsibility even after everything and few if anyone characters continue to enforce the reminder that, five year old or not, he still is the stories biggest monster. Author commentary from a chapter where Delia does call him out even suggests doing that was a ''struggle''.

* CreatorsPet: Parker Cerise. Not only is he the only family member Chloe trusts, which is odd considering Chloe's supposed to not like her family, but he gets away with ''a lot'' of questionable actions in Act 1 (like, for example, trying to brain Yeardley's brain with a bat), and not only is he the one family member to never get calling outs, but the story almost always takes his side when ''he's'' the one calling people out.