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Red Lotus Trio (Chloe Cerise) | Infinity Train (Passengers [The Apex, Grace Monroe], Cage of Flauros, The Unsub's Crew) | Pokémon World (Vermillion City [Goh Fujihachi, Parker Cerise], The Ketchum Family, Pokémon Trainers)

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Chloe Cerise

"This is my story…And I wanna see how it goes..."

"Do not underestimate me, for I am Chloe of the Vermillion, a grand member of the Red Lotus Trio/Quarto! NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!!!!"

A girl from Vermilion City who is the daughter of Professor Cerise. However, unlike most children who wish to become Pokémon trainers, she wants nothing to do with Pokémon at all and is tired of everyone and everything reminding her of that or ignoring her in favor of these creatures due to her status as the Professor's daughter. After a horrible day at school and at her father's lab, she runs away and ends up on the Infinity Train, embarking upon an adventure to reinvent herself, stay as far away from home as possible and to eventually dismantle The Apex.

In Voyage of Wisteria, now that she's off of the Train, she must learn to readjust to her life after the life-changing experience on the Train while hoping that her childhood friend is doing all he can to change himself.

For the tropes on her interpretation in Seeker of Crocus, see here.

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A - B

• Abusive Parents: Subverted. We're initially lead to believe that Chloe's parents are very negligent when it comes to her needs and, in the case of her father, far too willing to keep her "trapped in a cage" and unable to be her true self. However, as the story goes on, it's revealed that while they could have been a bit more attentive, Chloe's parents really did love her and meant no harm, nor were they actively malicious. In fact, it's made clear that a good deal of Chloe's problems came from her decision to keep her problems to herself rather than open up about them.
• Accomplice by Inaction: Since her scathing message to Parker was the last thing she sent him before going radio silence, people make her responsible for Parker's Unown-empowered rampage across Vermillion City for essentially kickstarting it and doing nothing to stop it.
• Acting Your Intellectual Age: Zig-Zagged. Chloe is a bit self-absorbed and childish like any ten year old, but every other aspect of her personality screams early teens. She hates the authority figures in her life, loves grim and dark media, and speaks with an eloquence far beyond her years.
• Action Girl: Takes to being this after entering the train, managing to fight off against numerous hunters of The Wild Hunt and even knock The Erlking off of his high horse in her first fight, before receiving any actual combat training from Lexi (and later Zack). By the time she reaches The Dead Carnival Car, she's the one racking up the most kills when traversing through CarnEvil and fights The Organ Man one-on-one before heading off to mow through Silent Hill baddies. This continues in Voyage of Wisteria as she fights off Team Rocket with a pipe alongside Yamper.
• Adaptation Expansion: In the anime, the reasons behind Chloe's (initial) distaste for Pokémon and her aloof attitude is only lightly touched upon as stemming from annoyance that she's expected to interested in them purely because her dad is the local professor and Goh's only reason for her dislike is that she just "lost interest in them one day". Here, the story expands deeply on these traits, going more in detail why she hates Pokémon, exploring the relationships she has with her family, Goh, and her classmates, and revealing some of her hobbies.
• Adaptation Personality Change: In the anime, Chloe is prone to making snarky remarks on the side, was quite aloof when it came to anything related to Pokémon during her early appearances (as in Episode 11) and had issues speaking up for herself, but ultimately had a heart of gold underneath it all. Here, the setting change reveals additional layers of caring and kindness, anger issues, and self-loathing.
• Adaptational Badass: While Chloe does show a protective streak in the anime, she's also overly cautious and hesitant to do much without some prompting from others, with her most notable action by the time the author began writing this fic being to use Spark on an already weakened Gengar under her father's advice. When she gets on the Train, we see her regularly standing her ground and holding her own in enough fights. By the end of Arc 1, denizens in train cars she hadn't even visited yet are already aware of her bravery and she's tasked by One-One himself to help stop the Apex. By Act 2, she's capable of using her creativity and proficient use of Cheshire to tackle all of CarnEvil without flinching and in Act 3, she's the one facing off a lot of Silent Hill baddies.
• Adaptational Dumbass: Not in the sense that she's dumber than canon per say, but she makes a lot of hasty decisions that bring about terrible aftermaths without considering the consequences. For example, she assumes that Parker is a good option for The Confidant, despite the fact that he's five.
• Adaptational Intelligence: A bit. Chloe started off deliberately avoiding learning any information about Pokémon, and thus doesn't have much knowledge on them in both the anime and fanfic. In the fanfic, this seems to mostly concern how they function in battle — as she doesn't know that a Tackle is not the best move against Gengar — since she's able to perfectly identify most Pokémon and is aware of their abilities, if only to strengthen the content of her stories.
• Adaptational Jerkass: She's a lot more vindictive, toxic, and temperamental here than in canon. She also flat-out hates Pokemon here, referring to them as "creatures", whereas her canon counterpart was neutral towards them at best. Whether directly or indirectly, her actions end up harming a lot of people and giving them loads of psychological trauma, Goh and Ash being two prominent examples.
• Adaptational Skill: Chloe had no interests to speak of in the anime when the author began writing, so she was given a love of writing and reading macabre stories. Later chapters show she has a good singing voice, a knack for costume design, and is reasonably athletic (her favorite sport being softball).
• Age-Appropriate Angst: Chloe's biggest issues stem from drifting away from her childhood friend and being pressured to follow her father's footsteps by peers who are impressed by his work or envious of having such a "cushy lifestyle", especially since 10 is the age most kids are allowed to leave home and become Trainers. This trope is, however, Inverted when it comes to her issues with curry, as they're relatively minor and trivial compared to everything else she's dealing with, which even Amelia ends up pointing out.
  • Unfortunately, the people around Chloe inadvertently make things worse by not taking this trope into account. After hearing Chloe recount her troubles, Atticus and Lexi wasted no time in gently imparting some Hard Truth Aesops on her; that she doesn't owe anybody forgiveness, and sometimes it's necessary to break away from people when your relationship with them grows too toxic. Great, necessary advice, if somewhat hard to hear- if it had been directed at a twenty-year-old with an abusive partner, or a thirty-year-old with a deadbeat parent. By giving this advice to the ten-year-old Chloe, her new friends unknowingly encourage what was ultimately a temper tantrum, and end up causing a lot more angst than was necessary. If they had kept in mind that even an intelligent child like Chloe can easily end up exaggerating her misfortunes, and kept mainly to more typical Aesops for her age group about managing one's temper and forgiving one's friends after a fight, this story would probably have been quite different.
• Age-Inappropriate Art: All of her stories, which she comes up with by herself, count as these. They're regarded in-universe as very good and even win a contest, but it frequently involves gruesome deaths and deals with devils among other mature themes.
• Age-Gap Romance: While they never enter a true relationship, Chloe gets many a Ship Tease with Lexi, who later realizes his feelings for her after she leaves. Lexi's age is never stated, but he spent eight years buried alive and was presumably mature enough to travel on his own away from his home before that.
• Alice Allusion: Chloe fits most of the criteria. She fell Down the Rabbit Hole after desiring a world of her own creation, wears a white and blue dress, and is traveling a whimsical world of talking animals and other quirky characters. She lampshades the similarities almost immediately, and in Chapter 6, she outright celebrates her Unbirthday while dressed up as Alice Liddell.
• All-Encompassing Mantle: Her Cloak of Marchosias and Wepawet is a long red cloak ala Red Riding Hood.
• All Loving Heroine: To those on the Infinity Train at the very least: she bonds instantly with Atticus, forgave Lexi for how he accidentally had her should struck with hot water and tells Amelia that she's truly atoning for her crimes. As for those back her hometown, however, she's unwilling to forgive them just yet. And she will certainly not forgive the Apex for all the blood on their hands or the fact they were happy that she died trying to protect them.
• All for Nothing: The reason she ran away from home was because she not only wanted to stay away from Vermillion City for a while, but also so that everybody who ever hurt her or bullied her would get their stuff together and apologize to her, or otherwise get punished for it. The result? Parker goes completely off the deep end in doing just that, creating an evil Chloe clone that not only traumatizes everyone, but sends her family into a lawsuit-infested downward spiral, with her reputation utterly in ruins by the end of it all. To add insult to injury, Goh, the one person she wanted an apology from the most, has been so thoroughly broken he can't even fathom the idea to try fix everything, believing himself to be an utter failure.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Chloe feels this way because she doesn't like Pokémon like everyone in her family, Goh, Ash, and her classmates do. She was also heavily mocked by her classmates for the things she did have interest in, most of them involving the macabre, and pushed into doing what they wished they could be, causing her to bury her interests from everyone else, becoming afraid to speak up for herself or to even try something new.
• All Take and No Give: This is what people ultimately see her as after the Unown are dealt with and her actions are examined: by effectively running away without explaining what happened, and holding onto the grudges she's cultivated over the years, Chloe comes across as an ungrateful brat who ran away from home out of spite, and allowed things to get back as it did for petty revenge against people who couldn't read her mind.
• Always Someone Better: She was better in softball than Yeardley, which gave him all the ammunition to bully her until she was too broken to fight back.
• AM/FM Characterization: Many of the bands she listens to reveal her obvious Nightmare Fetishist tendencies. Creature Feature, The Decemberists, and a few others are either referenced by her, used in her videos, or sang to calm herself down.
• Animal-Eared Headband: Non-headband example. Olmec's cloak includes a wolf-like hood, complete with ears.
• Anger Is Not Enough: Chloe is just a bundle of anger waiting to explode even before she entered the Train, and when she does blow up, she does it with a five star performance. However, just because she's venting her frustrations doesn't mean she's actually trying to improve anything, and she eventually falls prey to Fury-Fueled Foolishness that renders her quest All for Nothing.
• Animal Motif:
  • Wolves. She drew the Seal of Marchosias (depicted as a fire-breathing wolf) on her newly made scabbard for Cheshire (with Parker noting elsewhere that that Marchosias is Chloe's favorite demon), she's taken aback at the wolf-like pajamas Lexi made for himself in Chapter 10 and one of her horror stories involves the Moon God turning into a wolf on the night of the Wolf Moon. The author notes for Chapter 11 reveals that one of Chloe's favorite games from The Legend of Zelda is Twilight Princess — in which Link is capable of transforming into a wolf. Wolves are known to be part of the supernatural and she's also a lone wolf because she's so different from everyone else. In the Hidden Temple, Olmec gifts her a cloak blessed by Marchosias and Wepawet^Explanation The White Wolf Egyptian God of War, letting her transform into a wolf with the ability to breathe fire and can see into a person's soul.
  • A Pokémon motif is Houndour/Houndoom: She thinks of Lexi's pajamas of being a Houndoom, she slowly starts becoming interested in Pokémon after recalling an old man with his Houndoom who makes deliveries and when she's beating Sara with a paint can she "triple Houndour dares" the girl to make fun of her. They're dual Dark/Fire type with the former representing her interests and the latter showing off her personality: gentle, calming and warm when nice and ready to burn you to a crisp when pissed off.
• Anti-Role Model: While initially made to seem like a great person, as the story goes on and things become more complex, it becomes clear Chloe's early personality is not someone that people should aspire to become: she's incredibly selfish, highly vindictive, doesn't talk about her problems even when it would be to her benefit, expects people to read her mind and lashes out when they don't, has severe anger issues, and while she is capable of kindness, she's very selective over who gets said kindness, and those she believes aren't worth it tend to receive the worst of her wrath. Part of her development involves shedding this trope and become someone that, while still rough around the edges, is nowhere near as malicious as her early self.
• Ascended Extra: When Green Phantom Queen wrote the story (prior to Episode 29 of Journeys which is Chloe's second focus episode), Chloe only had Journeys Episode 11 focused on her or gave her a significant role in the narrative whereas every time she's on screen, she's usually an observer to Ash and Goh's antics or to reply with a "No" whenever they ask her to hang out with them. Blossoming Trail and Voyage of Wisteria is all about her struggles and growth, while everyone else in the Pokémon World only appears in the B-plot.
• Ascended Fangirl: Much of the train is a deconstruction of Wish-Fulfillment for her, particularly in regards to the stories she enjoys. She loves Alice in Wonderland, so her life becomes one massive Alice Allusion. She loves demonology, and gains the ability to summon them. She also loves Silent Hill and CarnEvil, so she gets to become a main character in both.
• A Tragedy of Impulsiveness: Chloe became The Runaway after all her buttons were pushed one time too many, and barely looked back and thought things through before entering the train. The amount of damage done because of this decision, both to herself and those of Vermillion City, is staggering:
  • In the case of Vermillion City, her family begins to unravel as they have to re-examine themselves, Goh slowly but surely loses his mind as he's forced to confront his part in her decision to run away, her classmates have their futures destroyed when their bullying gets revealed, Parker goes totally off the deep end and makes the city a living hell for everyone using the Unown, creating a monstrous clone of her in the process, her family is swimming in lawsuits because of it, the campaign that was made to raise awareness of her situation is tarnished, her teacher Miss April gets fired and nearly commits suicide, Goh is sent to a suicide ward, and once the Unown are dealt with, the aftermath and trauma of the situation makes it so Vermillion City will live in infamy.
  • And for Chloe herself, her family is all but broken by the end of it all, and not only was it caused by her little brother, one of the very few people she trusted, but her reputation is in ruins thanks to the Unown incident, and there's a very big chance that when she leaves the train, the Vermillion City she used to know will be gone. To add insult to injury, because the Unown fiasco happened because she got Parker into horror, Talia puts her foot down and forbids her from anything related to horror, which was the very thing she feared would happen if her parents found out about her interests.
• A Taste Of His Own Medicine:
  • When Chloe ran away, her email to her father made it clear she wouldn't return unless all of Vermillion City apologized and actually worked to earn her forgiveness, even if she never plans to do so. The events of Act 2 have made it so that when she leaves the Train, Chloe will be the one who'll have to work for everyone's forgiveness, and deal with the very real possibility that some people will never forgive her.
  • Thoroughly sick of Goh always replying late to her texts with "promises" of not doing it again, Chloe either ignores every single worried text he gives her, deletes them out of spite, or sends him verbally abusive messages of her own. Eventually, this behavior gets examined in Voyage of Wisteria, where Vox and Dahlia show the denizens of the Infinity Train every single message she sent Goh out of spite; Gard and Julie are horrified, while Chloe herself feels disgusted with herself now the highs of personal catharsis has long since worn off.
• Audience Surrogate: Briefly serves as this at the beginning for those who don't know anything about Infinity Train, with Chloe asking numerous questions about the train and events that previously occurred in the show. She even laughs at Atticus mentioning "The Ball Pit Car", referencing many fans' reactions to what was such a seemingly innocent title.
• Badass Adorable: A sweet ten-year-old girl who is armed with a steel pipe — er, donut holer — and isn't afraid to use it.
• Badass Bookworm: She's quite a reader and a writer of horror stories, but that won't stop her from getting her hands dirty and fight for her life.
• Badass Cape: She gains a nice red cloak in Act 2 courtesy of Olmec and she kicks plenty of ass as it gives her the ability to cast fire, transform into a wolf, gryphon wings and a serpentine tail to act like a third arm as it's partially inspired by the Ars Goetia demon Marchosias.
• Bag of Spilling: By the time of Wisteria, she's lost all of the equipment she gained in Blossoming Trail. Her cloak was destroyed by Simon, her Donut Holer was taken by the police as evidence, and all the rest of her stuff was confiscated by One-One.
• Batter Up!: Chloe wields her weapon (a steel pipe/"donut holer") like a bat to strike someone or hit something at high velocities to the face, and it later turns out that she used to play softball, owning a proper softball bat at home named "Silver Night". After it gets destroyed, Gard gifts her a new one she names "White Claudia".
• Beautiful Singing Voice: She's an alto with a charming singing voice, though past bullying incidents means she isn't all that comfortable singing in front of strangers. She later has the courage to serenade Lexi and Atticus during their stay in The Crayon Car.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: Played With: Her fear of things going back to the way they were causes her to tell Parker that unless everyone in Vermillion apologizes to her, she will go back on the Train for good. This ends up being a major contributing factor for Parker unleashing the Unown to punish her tormentors, ending with everyone traumatized, with Miss April and Goh ending up in the hospital, and the majority angry at her family. Chloe herself is horrified, saying that she never wanted that and when Parker reminds her of her threat, she admits she worded it wrong.
• Befriending the Enemy: In the Canals of Fondue Car, Chloe begins chatting with the former Conductor, Amelia and tells the older woman that she's doing all she can to atone and wishes her the best of luck. Amelia returns the favor by joining the Red Lotus Trio and starts giving Chloe advice for her inevitable trip home.
• Berserk Button:
  • Curry is one of biggest ones as it's a big reminder of how and Goh's friendship broke apart. Deconstructed later; it wasn't the curry that she's mad at, rather the loss of having more opportunities to spend time together.
  • Anything involving Goh or her father or Pokémon as it's only a reminder of how everyone else wants her to be what they want and not consider her feelings. She gradually is learning to move onto that after The Cyan Desert Car.
  • Also, don't call her "princess"; it just reminds her of her bullies (particularly Sara) and it's somewhat sexist as if to say that she can't be anything but some dainty girl trapped in a tower.
• Beware the Nice Ones: She's a generally sweet girl, if prone to a fair amount of dark humor, but she's also host to an explosive temper when she feels that she or those she cares about are being threatened. Whether this manifests in just a stern threat, a brutal physical altercation, or both depends on what happened to set her off.
  • In one of her worst moments, she tries to beat a classmate to death while mocking her for her dead father.
  • Oh, and if you think she can't go toe-to-toe with a Silent Hill baddie? Tell that to Walter when she summoned Lucifer against him.
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, she goes off against Team Rocket with a pipe and attacks them when they start mocking her for not being a Trainer.
• Be Yourself: One of the biggest lessons Chloe has to learn is to be who she wants to be, without everyone's projections and bias on her, without doubt or fear of what other's think of her. Unfortunately, she takes the lesson to mean to be her current self, as in the selfish, entitled brat with anger issues, rather than be your better self and grow up as a person, which is part of the cause for her stagnant nature through most of the story. And while she ultimately learns her lesson and changes for the better, her acting out on her selfishness and entitlement ends up causing a lot of damage to Vermillion and she’s left to deal with the consequences of her bratty behaviour.
• Big Damn Heroes: Thanks to Parker and One-One, she arrives at her old school to save her classmates in the penultimate chapter of Blossoming Trail.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Downplayed. Chloe isn't a bad person per say, but behind her cute, seemingly ordinary looks lies a self-deprecating, yet self-centered girl with a volatile temper and a fuse that doesn't take long to light up. And if you wrong her? She'll hold a grudge to the end of the Earth.
• Bias Steamroller: Easily Chloe's biggest flaw-out of many-is that she refuses to put her biases second to anything else. Just about everything she does is painted in her own bias over how she's the victim, how everybody else is her victimizer, and how Trainers are essentially perfect beings whose mere existence threatens her own. Ditching this trait is key to her character development, and she makes some decent progress by the end of Blossoming Trail.
• Big Sister Instinct: A good thing to get her angry is to hurt her little brother. While Parker getting injured with a paint bucket wasn't when she finally snapped, she threatens to kill her fellow classmates if they ever hurt him again. Or not, seeing as Parker is already doing that in her name...
• Black-and-White Morality: In early Blossoming Trail, she believes that anybody who encourages her to be her own person is good, while those who even imply that "being into Pokemon" is the better choice are bad. As the story goes on, she slowly grows out of this mindset, but it's a very long, slow process.
• Black Magician Girl: Her Act 2 self is equipped with fire magic and the ability to summon demons and she has the spunky personality to tear through zombies, a Curry Prince and Silent Hill baddies. Her donut holer is used instead of a wand but she also will go head on and smash shit up alongside Lexi.
• Black Sheep: Chloe perceives herself as being this amongst her family members, since she can't muster up as much interest in Pokémon as they can, which just adds to her self-loathing. Turns out she never was this; in reality her parents just didn't know how to reach out to her due to their own problems.
• Blaming the Victim: When she meets Despair, she blatantly tells them that what they went through was their own fault, and that it was long overdue karma for their past actions. She quickly changes her tune once she actually looks inside their head, however.
• Body Motifs: Shoulders. Symbolically, they represents the pressure about how she must get into Pokémon because of her father's job. She also gets her left shoulder burned by hot water stopping a fight between Lexi and Titus and Lexi constantly places a hand on said shoulder for comfort. When she returns home to fight off Ms. Turner, she gets shot in the shoulder.
• Break the Cutie: While Chloe was already broken from the bullying and isolation she had at home, she was shown to be getting out of it throughout her adventure on the Train. Then halfway into the Cyan Desert Car, it has her screaming into a paper bag and setting fire to the Cyan Desert when she learns what her brother did...
• Break the Haughty: Over the course of the story, she becomes so obsessed with what people have done to her in the past and seeing herself as the victim, she refused to acknowledge how the people back home are feeling, threatening that if they don't change, she'll leave for good. This threat ends up becoming the main factor in Parker unleashing the Unown and torturing everyone that has hurt her: Her class, her family, Ash and Goh, all of whom end up mentally scarred by the experience (with Goh’s sanity completely shattered) and her family’s reputation in ruins. Finally, Talia sends her an email to tell her what Delia told her about Chloe’s selfishness and refusal to open up (and that she almost agrees with Delia), orders her to stop it with her toxic behaviour and tells her that she is not blameless in what happened.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Generally acts as the gentle girl to Lexi's brooding boy, though Chloe is no stranger to sprouting out morbid jokes and song lyrics.
• Bullied into Depression: The pressure and antagonizing by her classmates along with little to no adult help made Chloe unable to fully embrace her interests and become indecisive about her future, feeling like she can't explain herself to others because she's so "different". It additionally manifested in resentment towards anyone who likes Pokémon, especially her friend Goh; her relationship with him by the start of the story is so poor that even seeing curry, a food they used to eat together all the time, has become a rage-inducing sight and the first sign that she's had enough of Goh is her throwing his Rotom Phone into a plate and then slamming another into his face.
• Bully Magnet: She's singled out by her classmates because they believe her father's job as a Pokémon professor makes her incredibly privileged and gives her an easy path to being a Pokémon Trainer.
• But Now I Must Go: A given, as this is the fate of all passengers. After the end of the Fog Car and alerting the news about the fate of the Apex, Chloe declares it's time that she becomes a new person, which drops her number to 0 and she can finally go home.

C - D

• Catch-22 Dilemma: Chloe's Self-Inflicted Hell basically takes the form of this: She feels like she's alone because nobody understands her, which is only the case because people don't know much about her. This could be fixed by asking her friends or family what she like, but they draw blanks there too. Failing that, this could be easily fixed if she opened up to people or at least made an attempt to suggest or hint what she might like... which she's not willing to do with anybody, leaving people not knowing a thing about what Chloe likes or is like, further fueling her feelings of loneliness.
• Calling Out for Not Calling: When she finally talks to her father in the Canals of Fondue Car, the first thing she asks is why he never bothered to call her, since even Goh, master of social incompetence, made that his first priority.
• Calling the Old Man Out: Her father praising his daughter for finally "getting into Pokémon" after suffering a devastating loss against Ash is the straw that breaks the Camerupt's back, as she chews him out for only caring about his Pokémon research and Ash and Goh, and never acting like he cares about her wellbeing and interests, which continues until the end of Act 1. This is flipped in The Dead Carnival Car, when Talia emails Chloe to stop throwing such a temper tantrum for not confessing what was going on her end and Chloe decides to write a proper email in response.
• Catchphrase: "NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!!!" which is what she shouts when she's about to aim a killing blow at the enemy.
• Character Development: As part of the course of passengers on the Infinity Train, Chloe develops into a better and mentally stable person.
  • The beginning of Blossoming Trail showcased Chloe being indecisive about who she wants to be, unable to stand up for herself or express what she's really feeling, and wishing to just get away from Pokémon in general. In contrast, by the end of Arc 1 and beginning of Arc 2, the Chloe who entered the Infinity Train has reignited her passions for the macabre, become confident and self-assured enough to voice her opinions more frequently and talk back against any slights, is capable of defending herself with a donut holer, and is even becoming slightly more interested in Pokémon on her own terms.
  • By the Cyan Desert Car, Chloe is not only able to consider a Pokémon partner for herself — an Eevee specifically — but also has fully admitted where her issues with Ash lay. This led to her seeking Ash out to apologize for her own actions, and to request that he help her with said partner search when she returns. She's also quite willing to trust Ash with saving Parker and her mother from Parker's actions.
  • Post Cyan Desert Car has Chloe given a reality check that most of the problems she faced were on her and that she can't go back to being the girl who shut herself off from the world and blamed everyone else for not hearing her out and that she's going to be away from horror for a while. After some screaming, Chloe decides to take the steps forward to better herself for real, starting with styling what's left of her hair and changing Lexi from a specter to a dragon-like youkai. The next chapter has her prepare herself for her "destiny" as she swaps her beach dress for a cosplay of Fran Bow.
  • By the Fog Car, Chloe can see herself in both Grace and Hop, and realizes how foolish she's been in thinking only of herself. She gets a big lesson on how her bias over Pokémon Trainers was one big lie and begins to let go of that preconceived notion and how her catharsis from chewing out other people was hindering her. In the end, she decides that she is strong enough to live with the consequences of her actions and is ready to move on to be a new Chloe Cerise, making amends with the class who bullied her and is capable of getting into Pokémon in her own way.
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, Chloe admits during a test to obtain a Galarian Ponyta that she did plenty wrong and that she didn't hate Pokémon as she did just hate herself for being different. She then states that it didn't give her the right to be so poisonous to others and she's learned that she just likes Pokémon differently than the norm and that's okay with her.
  • Battling wise, Chloe improved when she fights Team Rocket in comparison to her fight with Ash in Voyage of Wisteria. Chloe is more confident and focused, improvising a strategy with Yamper whereas she was unsure of herself when fighting Ash's Gengar. When she arrives at Alola, she decides to really get into battling now that she's in a kinder environment, there are no classmates to laugh at her rookie mistakes and she wants to get ready for her brother's premonition. She even participates in a tag team battle royal and, while she lost, she did show off some potential in being a decent battler in the future. She also goes to capture a wild Porygon for Goh's sake and learns from her initial mistake of "Don't use a Normal-type move on a Ghost-type" to trick it into being weak to her Ponyta's Confusion.
• Chekhov's Skill: Chloe's ability to see into people's souls with her cloak goes largely unused for the bulk of the story, and she freely admits she has no idea how it works. When she reaches the Fog Car, however, she uses it multiple times in succession.
• Cherry Blossom Girl: Her name is translated into "Cherry Blossom" (her messenger handle on the Infinity Train's messenger app is "Cherry_girl"), she gets taken onto the Infinity Train and learns to grow as a person, is associated with destiny and resurrection — both in that she's tasked with stopping the Apex via One-One and that she's targeted by Henry and Walter as the embodiment of Destiny, she died but then came back to life, and is shown to be a kind and compassionate person once she goes through a healthy dose of Character Development. However, she's actually born in Autumn (a Libra) instead of Spring and associated with the color red instead of pink like in the anime.
• Chess Motif: The Queen, befitting a girl who loves Alice in Wonderland. She quotes Alice's line from Through the Looking Glass on wanting to be a queen and her first empowerment song to fight the Apex is Ava Max's "Kings and Queens". A Queen is the most powerful piece on the board, able to freely move wherever they can in all directions like Chloe is able to truly discover herself upon entering the Train. The Queen has a very important yet understated role, like how Chloe's disappearance has a significant effect on everyone she knows back in Vermillion City. Last, Queens are the evolution of a Princess, something Chloe dislikes. On an unrelated note, her Tarot Card is the Queen of Wands. And in a Stealth Pun, she can be compared to the Red Queen because of her red hair.
• Childhood Friends: She's friends with Goh since they were young, but they rarely hang out these days due to Goh's obsession with Mew and him spending more time with Ash, causing Chloe to start resenting him and has to take all the bullying from their classmates. Goh desperately wants to repair their relationship after she runs away, but doesn't understand how, while Chloe has decided to cut him out of her life entirely by the end of Arc I. In Arc 2 and 3, she begins questioning her role and lack of interactions with Goh before deciding she'll try again to be his friend. Voyage of Wisteria is all about her reconnecting with Goh.
• The Chosen One: Discussed in an early chapter; she watched the episode of The Noctowl House that dealt with how there's no such thing as a prophecy or "chosen one" and she needs to make her own destiny. Her efforts across the Train has gotten One-One's eye and he now tasks her, Atticus and Lexi to help dismantle the Apex. A darker version of this is revealed by Walter — for his and Henry's ritual to work, they need someone to embody Destiny and it was prophesied that she would have flowing red hair and a white dress...
• Clingy Jealous Girl: While there's no romance between them, her attitude towards Goh regarding his friendship with Ash more or less paints her as a jealous ex-girlfriend.
• Closet Geek: Chloe became this after being harassed and teased for her interest in macabre things and writing chilling horror stories was mocked by her classmates, who nicknamed her "Monster Lover". She gradually decides to embrace her loves once more after Lexi questioned what was stopping her from doing what she loved.
• Color Motif:
  • Red. In contrast to how the anime likes to play off the color pink, the fanfic is more fond of using red to represents her newfound passion and her unbridled rage if pushed too far. She has maroon hair (which is dark red), she hails from Vermillion City (vermillion being a vibrant autumn red color), her last name is French for "Cherry", her witch outfit in Chapter 9 has plenty of red on it (including the white roses on her hat covered in red paint) and she gives herself the persona of "Witch of the Carmine Grove" when wearing it, the list goes on.
  • White is a secondary color for her: her school uniform and beach dress are pure white, the book she collected all her short stories from is a white and the character that she based Lexi's human form off of wore a white suit. Moreover, one of her favorite deities is Wepwawet, depicted as a white wolf.
• Composite Character:
  • According to Word of God, this version of Chloe deliberately invokes character traits and plot elements from every passenger shown in Infinity Train up to Book 3: she has a fiery temper regarding her family problems, runs away from home after an argument with a parent and partners with Atticus (Tulip), she is constantly pushed and pressured by her peers and had a little brother who looked up to her (Jesse), she desires to craft a new identity for herself. gets angry upon being called insulting names and even goes through a wardrobe change to begin the process (MT), she feels neglected by her own parents and peers (Grace), desires to stay on the train forever and has a penchant for writing (Simon), wants to relive her past life in some way (Amelia) and can be quite plucky when need be (Hazel). As time goes on, she starts developing into her own person.
  • At the end of Chapter 14's Author Notes, when the writer notes the analogous roles that the characters play in the following Silent Hill-inspired story arc, Chloe is listed as a mixture of Heather Mason and Mary Shepherd-Sunderland. For the former, she's an Action Girl who is heading through a world of terror and monsters that is part of a dark ritual to bring about paradise. And for the latter, she's the girl that Goh (James Sunderland) is searching for who is also known to have two different types of moods (sweet and caring to her friends, hateful and unforgiving towards those who hurt her) who was very close to the Laura figure (Parker).
  • Continuing the Silent Hill influences, she's both Cheryl Mason and Alessa Gillespie. The Alessa influences come from how she was bullied at school for being different and her influence causes her hometown to become a demonic landscape. Ironically, even though both are associated with fire, Chloe can tame it while Alessa fears it.
• Cool Big Sis: Parker sees her as this because he loves her horror stories and aspires to write stories like her. Ironically, despite her own issues with freely indulging in her hobbies, Parker sees her as a role model in becoming more comfortable with his own interests, such as watching girly shows.
• Cope by Creating: While she certainly writes for the fun of it as well, the horror stories Chloe creates are implied to have some roots in her attempting to vent her many frustrations around being bullied, plus all the Pokémon-related expectations others have of her.
• Cornered Rattlesnake: If pushed too far, she will retaliate without hesitation.
• Corrupted Character Copy: Chloe Cerise from Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail is a more bitter and spiteful version of Luz Noceda from the The Owl House. Both Chloe and Luz are outcasts from their classmates because of their interests that are looked down on because there not seen as normal. They both enter a new world, with Chole entering the Infintally Train and Luz entering The Boiling Isles; both of them find both acceptance and friends in their new world and prefer the new world to the old one. The difference is that despite it being implied that Luz is afraid of human teens because of all the time her classmates bullied her and that the only connection to her world is her mother, she continued to be a kind and forgiving person, and it implies that she does not wish harm on her former classmates. Chole, however, despite generally loving and caring for her new friends and little brother back home, has a lot of anger and spite towards her parents and classmates. While a lot of Chole's anger towards her classmates is understandable and her parents should have been better, a lot of her problems are not black and white; however, she refuses to see that or forgive her parents. Eventually, Chole's anger and spite have tragic consequences for her classmates, family, and town.
• Creepy Good: She's a ten-year-old girl who loves the macabre and is knowledgeable of monsters and demons which she can summon without abandon. She's also the main hero of Blossoming Trail.
• Creepy Loner Girl: Chloe is a loner at school from classmates who mock her for her tastes with anger issues that heavily indulges in horror and the macabre, writes stories that end with characters getting a Fate Worse than Death, enjoys making dark jokes and references, has a bit of a thing for demons, and occasionally engages in dark fantasies about her former friend Goh dying. That said, she far from takes on the usual look expected of this trope, opting for whites and vibrant blues over dark colors, and being normal cute rather than creepy cute.
• Create Your Own Villain: Her terribly worded message to Parker about how she will return to the Train if things don't change in Vermillion City, including everybody there actually apologizing for what happened, is one of the main factors that sends her through a downward spiral into ruthless, self-centered justice in her name, which causes him to unleash the Unown.Chloe is ''horrified'' when she finds out about this.
• Cultured Badass: Has an encyclopedic knowledge of demons, monsters (monster monsters, not pocket ones) and obscure myths, is a gifted writer for her age, has a good singing voice and will not hesitate to fight you with her donut holer if you get on her bad side.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Only in the first arc of Blossoming Trail due to her inexperience.
  • She tries to battle Ash — mostly to get everyone in her school to leave her alone — but ultimately loses. No surprise that a girl who barely knows about Pokémon battling has no chance in fighting the Alola League Champion. Worse is that her classmates knew that she'd lose because she has no experience.
  • She lost to Zack in the Burial Ground of Blades Car — again because she's not skilled enough to fight a Serial Killer — and was only spared because Zack was taken off-guard by her praising his friendship with Ray and couldn't find any joy in beating someone who would say something so saccharine in the middle of a death battle.
• Cute Bookworm: She's a sweet girl whose stay in the Library of Flying Books Car has her immersed in mountains of books and reinvigorates her love for writing stories. She also plays softball and ends up stopping Walter Sullivan of Silent Hill via summoning Lucifer.
• Cute Bruiser: Has an affinity for fashion and saccharine cuteness, but is shown to prefer physical violence over her acquired powers.
• Cute But Psycho: She's usually a Shrinking Violet Nightmare Fetishist who doesn't want to hurt anyone... until you push her Berserk Button.
• Cuteness Proximity: Despite her macabre tastes, she coos over seeing the Sorbet Shark puppies in the Plush Penguin Car. A comment from the author stated that she fawned over the art style on the Swish release of The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening.
• Cute Witch: Dresses up as one to set the mood for one of her stories in the Plush Penguin Car, and seemingly her favorite type of costume to wear. She has another witch costume at home for when she was planning to attend a horror writing convention, and Parker suggests their mom making an illustration of Chloe as a witch on a broomstick with Yamper as a familiar would be a nice thing to welcome her back with. In fact, it's this look that the Unown bases UnChloe off of.
  • By Act 2 of Blossoming Trial she's basically a witch: she wears a cloak, can cast fire, summons demons and her donut holer works for a makeshift wand.
• The Cutie: At her very best she's sweet, pure, innocent, lively, kind and downright adorable.
• Cynicism Catalyst: Ironically for all that Goh has done to her, she becomes his as the story goes on due to his inability to understand that he had hurt her more and that he can't understand that she can't be with him for the time being due to 1) she has a mission to stop the Apex, 2) she can't physically leave until her number drops to 0 and 3) she can't stand being by his side cause she knows that he'll just abandon her again for Mew.
• Daddy's Girl: Chloe initially aspired to be this, but their disconnected interests and his obliviousness to their weakening father-daughter relationship eventually has her snap at him after his comment over fighting Ash goes horribly wrong, and she later decides that she doesn't want to even acknowledge him as her dad. Halfway into Arc 2, Chloe reveals that despite her animosity between them, she doesn't want him dead and later decides to write up a proper email to him.
• Death Amnesia: Averted. She tells Ash in the finale of Blossoming Trail that she somewhat remembers dying by Destruction's claws.
• Death Glare: Scream in her face for long enough and you'll get one of these, plus an implied threat of violence. In the prologue to Voyage of Wisteria she has one of these even after Ikuo slaps her across the face.
• Death of a Child: Gets killed by Destruction near the end of the Fog Car, but thankfully is resurrected by Atticus.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype:
  • In the anime, Chloe is supposed to fill the role of "female character who travels alongside Ash", but the fic explores what happens when such a character doesn't want the role. Chloe feels ostracized and is incredibly resentful of Ash because the attention of her best friend and father are completely on him. Knowing that doing something in relation to him is the only way to get their acknowledgment infuriates her. Moreover, since she now knows that Ash is the Alola League Champion, it makes her feel even worse about herself since she's never going to be as good as him and her classmates are more interested in Ash than they are in her. A part of the story is about her learning to be her own person without having to be associated with Ash.
  • The fact that she initially had little to no screen-time in the anime — having only one focus episode before the story even begins (and the episode (29) that was about to air would've been her second focus episode) — means that no one knows anything about her. Ash and Goh are at a loss as to what Chloe is actually like since they never got the chance to know her or were so focused in their own dreams and goals to ask, leading them to go on opposite paths in the wake of her disappearance. Her father realizes that he just ignored her over Ash and Goh to the point that it looks like favoritism, her mother isn't sure how to get her into a hobby because she's not even sure what she likes and was so into her cutesy artwork to not notice her daughter's problems and her classmates see her as someone to pick on and belittle instead of a person because of her supposed "status" of being a Professor's daughter.
  • She's a pretty harsh deconstruction of the protagonist of a Betrayal Fic. Like in most fanfics of the same type, Chloe eventually snaps at her family, runs away, gains new friends, and grow stronger. However, Chloe is ignorant of her own role in everything that just happened, her new companions do not approve of her increasingly petty grudges and would rather have her move on from them, her justified anger morphs into Fury-Fueled Foolishness that causes her to do a lot of damage to everyone, and the ultimate desire of a Betrayal Fic protagonist, to return to the same Home as the start only to either beat up or call out her family, is used as the catalyst for Parker's in Blossoming Trail Act 2, which ends with her family home in ruins, and her reputation on the floor.
  • The Resenter is taken apart with her as well. Chloe holds a lot of resentment towards the people who hurt her in life, and if that was it, it would at least be justified. However, she extends this resentment to people who've been nothing but nice to her, like Ash, because she's just so stubborn in holding onto those resentments that she comes across as a whiny, selfish bitch and once people finally realize this, they make it clear that if she won't forgive them, then they won't forgive her.
  • After spending years internalizing her self-loathing and resentment, Chloe has a very easy time falling back on old habits, and her being bullied for being different makes her scared to change herself, lest the bullying returns.
• Descent into Addiction: An example that doesn't involve drugs. In Blossoming Trail, her very first rant gave her such an adrenaline and cathartic high that Chloe has been craving it ever since. While she carries herself fine in Act 1, by Act 2 she suffers Motive Decay and lowers her standards more and more until, by Act 3, she's ranting at a mentally broken man just to get her fix. Alain even discusses this trope and helps her realize that this isn't worth it, making it the final lesson she has to face before she can go home.
• Defiant to the End: Attacked and injured by Simon/Destruction and her artifacts ruined, Chloe glares at him and states that he will die alone before he lets her plummet to her death. Thankfully she is resurrected.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: She has no idea what she wants to do in her future and resents that everyone sans her mother just assumes that she'll either become a Pokémon Trainer or Professor because of her father, not helping that she has no support for the things she does like. She later decides that she wants to get interested in myths and the sequel has her trying out battling for the first time.
• Determinator: Starting from fighting The Organ Man by herself, Chloe is put through the wringer of fighting back throughout Act 3 at the tender age of 10. She goes through the combo of Delirium and the Bogeyman and even after dying she goes off against Walter's abomination form without a single ounce of fear. In fact, it's implied that her summon of Lucifer and his power came from her putting her fury and determination to destroy Walter once and for all.
  • However, this trope is a double-edged sword, since just as she's determined to brave against the dangers and horrors the Train has for her, she's also determined to hold onto her spite and bias, and her Descent into Addiction primarily comes from her determination to continue getting high off of chewing out people about their flaws and mistakes. And this never completely goes away either; come Voyage of Wisteria, and she's still capable of shouting and snapping at people, regardless of if she's beating a dead horse over it.
• The Ditherer: She is very indecisive of what she wants to do because most of her classmates like to belittle for her likes and push her into something they want instead, she has little to no adult/friend support and is so broken by her experiences that she has little to no self-confidence about who she wants to be. She starts growing out of it by The Crayon Car, now more comfortable about writing again and gaining a newfound interest in learning about legends and myths regarding Pokémon. UnChloe breaks her down by stating that all the things she did were only because of her refusing to do anything herself and expecting others to do the work for her. However, Chloe later subverts this by saying that even though people gave her advice, it was still her choice to take it.
• Didn't Think This Through: For someone who's known as The Ditherer, Chloe has a bad habit of leaping first and asking questions later.
  • She becomes The Runaway in order to give Vermillion City something to think about, and also to spite everybody who hurt or bullied her. This causes the cynicism in the city to skyrocket, with everybody playing the blame game when they're not trying to find her.
  • She decides to give Goh A Taste Of His Own Medicine by not answering him until two weeks later, only to tell him how much he sucks and how she doesn't want to be friends anymore (along with how she can't go back to see him at the moment due to her number). This sets off a chain reaction that causes Goh's mental health to deteriorate.
  • She sends an email to her father making it clear that even if she leaves the train, she won't return to Vermillion City until absolutely everybody apologizes to her and faces consequences for putting her through the wringer. Parker uses this as his motive to give everyone horrific hell when he gains the power of the Unown.
  • Speaking of Parker, she introduced him to her Horror-centric interests in order to try have someone who could like the same things that she did. This makes the punishments Parker delivers with the power of the Unown over ten times worse than if she hadn't shown him that.
  • She kept her interests in horror a secret from her parents, being worried that they wouldn't accept them if she knew. While an understandable idea, the fact she's not there to explain herself means that her parents get the wrong idea (that she got them from somebody on the Internet) and after the Unown incident, they have every reason to not approve of them after what Parker did.
  • She never reminded Goh of the curry promise that they made to each other. Doing so could've at least cleared things up between them, rather than be the last straw that destroys his sanity.
• Disappointed by the Motive: Finds herself on both sides of this trope.
  • On the giving end, she's disappointed in The Cat for her saying she accompanied Simon so she could have her own partner, since it doesn't change the fact she abandoned him and then never returned for him.
  • On the receiving end, just about everybody are shocked in disbelief at best and beyond furious at worst when they realize her running away and keeping everybody in the dark about where she was, which lead to the Unown Incident among other things, was brought because she thought she was in a black and white situation and that people weren't paying enough attention to her because she "wasn't into Pokémon." Even Chloe herself finds this motive disappointing by the sequel.
• Disappointed in You:
  • Becomes this towards Parker when she learns what he and UnChloe have unleashed back home, making it clear how how hurt she is by his actions.
  • She, in turn, becomes this to her mother, who finally puts her foot down and bans her from anything related to horror, while also making it crystal clear how petty and self-centered Chloe has been lately and how she has to take responsibility for everything lest she ends up truly alone.
• Does Not Like Men: Chloe seems to have a nastier attitude when dealing with men: Goh, Ash, her father, most of her teachers, Yeardley, Paul and more get worse treatments from her than, say, her mother, Amelia, Romin, and so on, most likely stemming from her belief that boys get away with everything.
• Does Not Like Spam: She hates curry, though less because of the food itself and more because it serves as a reminder of how she and Goh have drifted apart as friends. She later decides to make her own curry to Goh as a way to start over, but whether she still doesn't like it or likes it again is ambiguous.
• Doesn't Trust Those Guys: At least in early Blossoming Trail, she doesn't like anybody who's either a Pokemon Trainer or someone who likes Pokemon, due to bad experiences involving being made to believe she needed to be both to be accepted. She eventually grows out of this once she realizes the situation isn't as black and white as it seems and starts seeing Pokémon Trainers as actual people, rather than ideas.
• Dragons Prefer Princesses: Simon sees her as an effeminate princess archetype, and kidnaps her when he turns into a dragon. Naturally he suffers for it, taking her for a Damsel in Distress rather than a Pretty Princess Powerhouse.

E - H

• Eating Lunch Alone: She's eating her lunch at school at an empty table when Blossoming Trail begins and enjoys the solitude until her classmate Akemi decides to sit with her and unintentionally kickstarts the plot.
• Elemental Eye Colors: Played With: Chloe has green eyes, which would be this trope... if she controlled earth, rather than fire.
• Elemental Hair Colors: What? The Significant Green-Eyed Redhead has Playing with Fire powers? What a shocking revelation!
• Elemental Motifs: For Blossoming Trail, Arc 1 focuses on Water while Arc 2 and 3 focuses on Fire.
  • Water — specifically the ocean/sea — for Chloe instead of the Flower Motif that she's usually associated with, which the author points out an earlier chapter. The shift represents a new Chloe who is free to wander the train and no longer feels weighed down by everyone's expectations of her.
    • Instead of wearing her school uniform — which has two large anchors on it — her train outfit has a more free-flowing design with sea life on the collar and waist. She also has an umbrella with fish decorating it, a necklace of yellow seaglass trapped in wire, and sandals with shells on the laces.
    • In Chapter 3, she has a dream of entering a door decorated with pearls, coral, and shells. The same chapter also has her show interest in visiting the Beach Car.
    • In Chapter 5, Chloe pushes Lexi out of the way from a kettle filled with hot water before lead to a large washtub to be cooled down. This event becomes imperative to Lexi slowly becoming close to her.
    • Some of her most significant friendship moments with Atticus and Lexi are done by a body of water. For example, she befriends Atticus while they sit by a river in the Corgi Car, while she emphasizes with Lexi's anger as they sit on the sands of Butterscotch Beach, watching the sunset over the Soda Sea in The Plush Penguin Car.
    • The story in Chapter 9 is about a boy who wished to swallow the sea, and ends up befriending Vine, a demon who was known for creating storms. The story within the story also revolves around a sunken kingdom.
  • Fire represents her passion and determination to face challenges head on along with burning away all that have hurt her.
    • Chloe's favorite demon is Marchosias, which is a fire-breathing demon.
    • In Chapter 14, Chloe is gifted a cloak from Olmec that will allow her to transform into Marchosias himself, which includes Flamethrower.
    • In Chapter 17, she's given the name "Lady Lahab" (Lahab being "Flame" in Arabic) for her fire powers.
    • The Tarot Card representing her is the Queen of Wands, and the Wands suit is associated with Fire.
• Embarrassing Nickname: "Klutzy Chloe" and "Monster Lover" by her classmates, the former for making mistakes and the latter for her love of dark and frightening subject matter. By the end of Part 1, she's decided to embrace that she is a Monster Lover.
• Entertainment Above Their Age: As is repeatedly pointed out by her classmates and family, Chloe loves horror movies, horror music, ancient mythology (particularly the more gruesome and obscure stories), and shows that aired before she was even born on top of her other Nightmare Fetishist tendencies. How a 10 year old gained access to all of these media is never made clear.
• Entitled Bitch: Deep down, Chloe's easily one of the most self-centered characters in the story: she wants people to read her mind and give her exactly what she wants, whenever she wants, and if she doesn't get it? Then she throws a temper tantrum. To Chloe's credit, when called out on it by her mother, she does acknowledge it and works to fix that flaw in herself.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • She vehemently clarifies that whatever she writes in her stories, (i.e people meeting gruesome fates) is not something she wants to do in real life.
  • Even if she hates her father, she doesn't want him dead and does not approve of the torture Parker has inflicted on people and hastily texts him to stop.
  • For all her hate on Goh abandoning her and being incredibly insensitive, she is shocked to learn that he's been put in a suicide ward due to what Parker did to him.
  • She winces at the torture she sees Paul go through when she looks through his memories and is just lucky to see even one good memory.
• Expy:
  • A comment from the author said that she compares Chloe to Moon Dancer as a shy girl who isolated herself from others after being abandoned by her closest friend. However, while Moon Dancer eventually forgave Twilight for unintentionally leaving her behind, Chloe decided to just give up on Goh.
  • The author admits that she borrowed some traits of Luz Noceda when crafting Chloe, particularly her creative mind, writing skills, love of horror, altruism and interest in witches, to the point that Chloe is a fan of "The Noctowl House".
  • Chloe has been compared to Wirt. Their biggest flaws include fear based on a hobby of theirs, running away from their problems along with blaming them on someone else with their actions making them enter a magical world, and their character growth and their insecurities are based on a girl named Sara. The major difference is that Wirt's peers are actually supportive and chill, while (most of) Chloe's are malicious or apathetic at worst, and genuinely naive at best.
  • As someone who is not outright evil, but is prone to selfish and short-sighted behavior, being emotional volatile, oversensitive to disagreements and critique, having a history of being bullied for having 'unusual' hobbies that led to distrusting everyone around her, the difference between her and Ridley can be outlined mostly by their preferred hobbies and means of escape, as Chloe is less into video games than Ridley and lacks the ability to bring digital beings to life, as well as a lack of an attempt to be The Mole on those she dislikes.
• Fairy Tale Motifs:
  • Chloe invokes Little Red Riding Hood what with her having a dream wearing a crimson cloak in Chapter 11 — and even writing her own version of the story with her as the main character — having an Animal Motif with wolves and granted a red cloak from Olmec that lets her transform into a wolf.
  • Simon references Sleeping Beauty on her after he kills her, mocking that there's no prince to kiss her awake from her sleep (death). Bonus points in that in the Disney version, the Big Bad was Maleficient, who transformed into a dragon. As a middle finger to him, it's King Atticus who revives her.
• Fangirl:
  • She loves Alice in Wonderland and a show she got into before she got sucked into the Train was called "The Noctowl House". Later chapters show her in love with works in the horror genre or stuff that you don't expect a girl her age to like or know of (show of hands, who's ever heard of or watched The Electric Piper?).
  • She and Parker are huge fans of Erma and she has made fanart of Parker and Erma as friends.
• Fantastic Slurs: She initially calls Pokémon "creatures" as a way to distance herself from them. She later lightens up after finding out that she can find common ground with them.
• Fatal Flaw: All passengers who board the train has at least one of these and Chloe is no exception. Fear is her biggest one of all. Everything on this page, the Fury-Fueled Foolishness, The Resenter, Kick the Dog, and many other tropes have their origins on her fears coming to life: being abandoned, not being good enough, not being able to go back home ever again, and currently, of being utterly hopeless to fix a situation that has gotten out of everybody's control, herself included.
• Father, I Don't Want to Fight: Wants nothing, repeat nothing, to do with Pokémon or battling in any shape or form and chews out her dad for only caring about if she had finally gotten into them instead of bothering to engage her with literally anything else (as his only advice to her is to remember that you don't use Tackle on a Ghost). Chapter 10 gives her the small epiphany that she does at least find the idea of learning about darker Pokémon mythology and lore appealing, as it's a connection she can make to them on her own terms... meanwhile, her father is in denial about her possibly liking such topics without some negative outside influence (until he lightens up a few chapters later). By the end of the story and Voyage of Wisteria, she learns to like Pokémon in her own way and starts to learn how to battle.
• Females Are More Innocent:
  • If we're comparing her to Grace, then she's definitely this, since she doesn't go around brainwashing people in order to fight her own loneliness and teach them to murder others or lied to her followers just to make her look like a total expert. She also was much nicer than Sara.
  • Subverted when it comes to her and Goh's friendship: while Goh didn't do much to keep the friendship afloat, and was never there for her, Chloe herself didn't do much to keep it afloat either, keeping her problems to herself rather than try and reach out.
  • Played With regarding her family drama: while her parents really were neglectful and insensitive, Chloe, and to a lesser extent Parker, really shot themselves in the foot by, again, keeping their problems to themselves rather than reach out.
  • Vermillion City's opinion on her zigzags this:
    • Initially, they play this straight by taking the story of her life at face value, and going on to savagely, verbally lash out at his family for not being there for her... at first. It eventually turns out this trope's being exploited: rather than doing it because they care about her, the callers only do this to savor their own, delusional superiority over the Cerises.
    • And after the Unown incident, this gets Inverted: While yes, Parker is the perpetrator, things only went to shit because Chloe not only ran away, but spitefully left Vermillion City to burn because nobody read her mind. As a result, she's seen as a bitch who ran away in order to hurt everybody, and even had the gall to demand an apology from everybody when she was called.
  • Ultimately, Talia's talk with Chloe gets it through her head that this is Defied: no matter what people say or what she believes, she's not an innocent victim who's completely faultless in the fallout of everything, and that she has to accept this and actually put some effort into becoming a better person if she wants to have any hope of being forgiven.
• Feminine Mother, Tomboyish Daughter: Talia is a stay-at-home mother who cooks, cleans and also works as an illustrator with cutesy pictures of her daughter. In comparison, though Chloe has a few girly traits, they mainly concern writing horror tales with demons, dark forests, and grizzly fates for characters and athletic activities such as softball... or beating someone over the head with a heavy steel pipe she calls Cheshire.
• Feeling Oppressed by Their Existence: To Chloe, at least initially, Trainers are nothing more than perfect pests that hold people, especially her, to stupidly high standards. Ash, in particular, she feels is a black hole intent on taking everything away from her, despite being one of the sincerest, kind people in Vermillion City. It takes her most of her journey to realize that's not the case and that Trainers don't have the glamorous life that she has been constantly told.
• Feminine Women Can Cook: A trait she obtained from her mother. Her stay in the Library of Flying Books Car takes ample time to show her cooking. It's later revealed that she can be good at cooking if she is allowed to be herself.
• Fiery Redhead: The maroon-haired Chloe can be quite passionate with anything relating to her hobbies and quick to arm herself for combat when any one (or more) Berserk Button of hers gets pressed too many times.
• Fire/Water Juxtaposition: In Blossoming Trail, while she's mostly represented with water in Arc 1, Arc 2 also have her play off its opposite. Aside from her bright red hair and personality, her favorite demon is Marchosias, a fire-breathing wolf. Olmec even gifts her a cloak that essentially lets her become said demon, fire-breath included. In a Tarot Card sense, Chloe is represented with the Queen of Wands (the Wands being associated with Fire) while Amelia is associated with the Three of Cups (the Cups are associated with Water). This is symbolized in Chapter 23 when she obtains her Important Haircut and adds blue streaks into it.
• Firing One-Handed: In the Dead Carnival Car, she has a shotgun in one hand and her donut holer in the other.
• Flaming Sword: Possesses the ability to light her donut holer on fire magically, which she uses in her fight against a passenger named "Walker".
• Floral Theme Naming: Her name translates into "Cherry Blossom", which makes her a contrast to Atticus's former partner, Tulip Olsen, and Amelia Hughes, named after the Amelia rose.
• Flowers of Femininity: Chloe is associated with flowers, from having her name being read as "Cherry Blossom", to naming her, Atticus and Lexi the "Red Lotus Trio" and even wearing a witch outfit decorated with roses.
• Flower Motif: Her name means "Cherry Blossom" and she named the team of her, Atticus, and Lexi after the lotus flower, which are symbols of rebirth and renewal, after a memory of seeing lotus flowers in the park. Chapter 11 has them rowing across the pond in the Crayon Car where lotus flowers rest on the surface.
• Forgiveness: Zig Zagging; for those on the Infinity Train, she's willing to forgive them (Lexi, Zack and Amelia) because they're at least trying to atone for their mistakes. But for those in Vermillion City, except for Parker, she is not willing to give that same kindness.
  • This goes two ways though as Delia is not willing to forgive her to how she essentially caused all of the story's problems in the first place and would have to prove herself when she returns.
• Four Is Death:
  • Chronologically, she's the fourth person from the Pokémon world to cross the Apex with Trip, Tokio and Gladion coming before her. And it's she who helps bring about the end of the Apex.
  • She's also part of a group of four with Atticus, Lexi and Amelia. She also ends up dying by Simon in Chapter 34 of Blossoming Trail, although she gets revived by Atticus.
  • And she's one of four Pokémon Trainers needed for the Cage of Flauros who ultimately make sure it never manifests.
• Freudian Excuse: Chloe was constantly bullied by her classmates, lost much of her confidence and self-worth to it, and eventually began to feel lesser than her peers just because she wasn't into Pokémon, especially when her supposed best friend, Goh, was never there for her.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: However, the above not only fails to justify rejecting Ash's offers to go on journeys with him and Goh, especially since he was one of the few people who treated her nicely, nor justifies the sheer spite in her words regarding coming back to the Train, but the sheer scale of the damage she ends up doing, both directly and indirectly, thanks to her running away, as well as her inability to accept her responsibility or the role she played in everything, causes her to seem less sympathetic than intended. And eventually, everybody wises up in Act 2, creating a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in the process. Eventually, Chloe’s mother sends her an email calling her out for her actions, stating that while she and her father make mistakes, they still care for her, and she needs to accept responsibility for actions that cause her problems.
• Friendless Background: She doesn't have any friends at school due to a combination of being a shy loner, her classmates' jealous bullying over her father's job, and her macabre interests creeping everyone out. Her strained friendship with Goh at the start of the fic means that he barely counts as a friend either.
• From Nobody to Nightmare:
  • In Arc 1, on the Infinity Train, Chloe was just another passenger who was at a loss on what to do in her current situation and is essentially a princess having fun with her puppy pal and prince. Come Arc 2, she's the fabled Chloe of the Vermillion and everyone who hears of her is in awe of her bravery, creativity and determination to end the Apex. By Act 3 she ends up succeeding in stopping the Cage of Flauros and brings about the fall of the Apex.
  • This also works the opposite direction in Vermillion City: during Act 1, she was only known as a "Monster Lover" who the daughter of a Pokémon Professor, and little to nothing else. Come Act 2, and Parker's rampage in her name makes the citizens see her as a cruel girl who caused needless amount of trouble for everybody by running away, all while acting like a self-righteous brat demanding people to ask for her forgiveness if she was to ever return.
• Fury-Fueled Foolishness: Where do we begin? The easiest way to make this light novel-sized trope into a short story is to say that, if Chloe wasn't so easily and stubbornly blinded by rage regarding everything about Goh and Vermillion City, things wouldn't have gone to hell, or at least, they wouldn't have done so as quickly as they did.
• Gamer Chick: Implied, as she was the one who bought Limbo for her brother but later confirmed, with Chapter 11's author notes revealing her love for The Legend of Zelda and interest in Silent Hill (but has yet to find good quality copies of the latter game). Another author's note reveals that she was once teased by her male classmates (one of them being Yeardley) for trying to play CarnEvil and got a higher score than them despite not getting to the Final Boss.
• Girls Love Chocolate: Chloe has a love of the sweet stuff as these examples show. Examples include washing her hair with a shampoo that smells like chocolate, sipping hot cocoa or enjoying mint chocolate ice cream.
• Girl with Psycho Weapon: She's an adorable girl who decides the best weapon to fight off bad guys is a rusty pipe.
• Girly Bruiser: Chloe is a girl at heart who is kind, compassionate, wears a dress and loves chocolate. She's also capable of wielding a donut holer like a baseball bat (especially because she loves playing softball) and if pushed far enough, will beat you half to death with a paint can.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: Boasts long maroon hair, wears dresses, her wrist decorations are hair scrunchies and she's associated with water and flowers. She's also shown to be good at cooking, has a thing for chocolate and loves books and entering fantastical worlds. However, she's proficient in softball, is willing and capable of knocking someone off their high horse with a donut holer, her love of books also extends to darker subject matter like demons, she's into video games of high fantasy (like The Legend of Zelda) and horror (Silent Hill and CarnEvil), and the animal associated with her is the wolf.
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, she gets a cute fluffy Eevee as her starter Pokémon and her attire now includes overalls and long-sleeved shirts.
• Gone Horribly Right: Her decision to run away and threaten to never return hits both ends.
  • Right: People eventually realize how badly they treated her, but start blaming each other for it, and even other people who had nothing to do with it. The ensuing cynicism drags everybody down, to the point that people start to wonder if they can even change anything by the time she returns. She also sent her brother a message that if things didn't change, she'd never return, and he sure as hell listened...
  • Wrong: Still reeling from Chloe's message and with his rage going overboard, Parker unleashes the Unown and his wrath upon all of Vermillion City, shredding the future of several dozen people and going to such lengths that everything good that came out of it is ruined, and her family's reputation is tarnished, as well as their future being very well in question. Chloe's actions are also finally re-examined, and they only succeed in making her come across as a selfish jerk who ran away to hurt everybody because they couldn't read her mind.
• Good Is Not Soft: Oh sure, she looks harmless because she's not a Pokémon Trainer, but piss her off and she will bludgeon you to a bloody pulp and threaten to kill you all kinds of dead. Best shown in the final battle against Henry and Walter where she decides to summon Lucifer.
• Gosh Dang It to Heck!: Likely due to her age, Chloe's 'swearing' is all intensely sanitized, often using Pokemon names (her most well-known one is calling Henry Townsend "Mister Sir Henry Mother-of-Furfur" instead of the more profane "Mister Sir Henry Motherfucker"). The worst insult she uses, in the case of fighting somebody who wants her dead, is 'sucka'.
• Green-Eyed Monster: While it's only implied in the anime that this is why Chloe doesn't like Ash (at first), here in the fic, Chloe directly says that she hates him for essentially taking her place as Goh's friend and for all his accomplishments.
• Grew a Spine: Becomes more confident in herself as the story continues. By the time she reaches The Canals of Fondue Car, and the denizens assume that she's the sister of the "White Wolf Trainer" (Gladion, It's a Long Story) while asking her to show off her Pokémon, she calmly tells them that she's not a Trainer and that she doesn't need Pokémon to find herself. She also is able to make Zack to give his word on keeping promises to help her train to fight off the Apex.
• Growling Gut: When she wakes up in the Corgi Car, it's said that her stomach is growling like "an angry Pyroar" since she had skipped lunch and refused to eat the curries Mr. Mime made in the previous chapter.
• Guile Heroine: She tricks Simon aka Destruction into going on a rampage by telling him that his new transformation will only manifest in the Fog Car, playing on his stubbornness and denial to have him activate the locks on the doors.
• Hair-Contrast Duo:
  • Chloe has long maroon hair and is a Shrinking Violet with a short fuse slowly getting out of her shell and learning to embrace her likes. Lexi is a paper person with short ashen grey hair who, interests in the train aside, holds a resentment for "free-riders" yet shows a soft and caring side for Chloe.
  • She is a foil to Ash and Goh, who are boys with short black hair and are obsessed with Pokémon. However, while she's starting to blossom as a person and learning to embrace herself, both Ash and Goh are struggling with the worsening situation in Vermillion City.
  • In contrast to the brunette Amelia, red-haired Chloe is childish and wide-eyed to the wonders on the Train along with possessing a kind heart to others and also has her hair flow freely. Amelia, in the meantime, prefers to work alone and keeps her hair in a braid, coming off more like a stoic soldier than an innocent maiden.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: One of Chloe's greatest weaknesses is her unrivaled temper, which causes her to not only take hasty and impulsive decisions, but also convinces her to wallow and bathe in her spite and self-loathing whenever she gets closer to making things right, and her Descent into Addiction is partially fueled by the pleasure she gets from rage-derived speeches.
• Hated by All: After the Unown incident left Vermillion City in shambles, and several dozen people hospitalized or traumatized, if not even worse, the citizens have come to hate not only Chloe but her entire family for letting things escalate the way they did. Talia doesn't mince words either: she either changes for the better, or she'll never be accepted again. She later gains some people's forgiveness upon saving her former classmates from Ms. Turner.
• Hates Being Alone: She might've liked Eating Lunch Alone at the start of Blossoming Trail, but this is what she actually feels.
• Hates Everyone Equally: Besides Mr. Bradbury and Parker, she hates absolutely everyone in Vermillion City: Goh, her parents, Chryssa and Renji, her classmates, even visitors like Ash because of how they are all into Pokémon, they force her to do what they want her to do, she feels isolated and alone, and no one bothers to know the true her.
• Hates Their Parent: Chloe tells her father to his face that she hates him for being absorbed with his research and "research fellows" to the point of neglecting her, and for being more concerned with her liking Pokémon than anything else about her. By the end of the Dead Carnival Car, her mother tells her to stop with this childish attitude and Chloe agrees, beginning to write a long, overdue email to him.
• The Hero Dies: Temporarily in The Fog Car thanks to Simon. Thankfully, Atticus uses his Pendant of Life to bring her back.
• Heroes Love Dogs: She may have a frosty relationship with Yamper, but her friendship with Atticus is truly genuine and she's grateful for his advice and presence. In Voyage of Wisteria, she starts bonding with Yamper once again and her love for him spurs his evolution into Boltund.
• Heroic Self-Deprecation: In the first few chapters of Blossoming Trail, she's been known to give lots of negative self-talk, most likely due to the fact that she's had no support for her problems. As she grows more and more confident, this becomes less and less.
• Hidden Depths: A given, since the anime gives her next to nothing about her hobbies outside watering flowers and gardening. Later deconstructed, as she deliberately hides these depths from others because of how much they already mock her, and the fear of being subjected to even more mockery if she expresses them.
  • Judging by the accessories she wears to go with her Fran Bow outfit, she takes in a lot of consideration to symbolism and meanings.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: No matter how hard she tries to pin the blame on somebody else, at the end of the day, the biggest obstacle Chloe has in her journey across her Train is her own inability to move past her own bias, envy, and hatred over the way she was treated back at home. She ends up having to face these consequences and realize what she's done wrong when she gets the first Internal Reveal of what's happened in Vermillion City while she's aboard the Cyan Desert Car.
• Horrifying the Horror: Chloe is a Nightmare Fetishist who writes multiple stories where characters end up with gruesome fates and is a lover of demons. So, the fact that she's terrified at seeing Henry and Walter's true forms is a deeply concerning thought about what types of horrors will await her when she gets to The Fog Car.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Deconstruction. One of Chloe's problems is her tendency to assume the worst of anyone she thinks has wronged her in some way, due to having been disillusioned by those who have put her down so many times, even if they really didn't hurt her and only meant well.
  • Chloe assumes her father sees her as The Un-Favourite, is disappointed that she's neither interested in Pokémon nor a boy, and that he never cared or loved her. The truth is that he did love her, but he never figured out how to show it properly and refused counseling when the teacher who actually cared about her suggested it. Chloe also contributed to the problem by not telling him how she felt, which could have mitigated the deterioration of their relationship.
  • She thinks of Ash as a living black hole whose absorption of everything she loved towards him was not only intentional, but maliciously so. Ash, however, is Innocently Insensitive at worst and genuinely tried to treat her nicely such as respecting her boundaries and reaching out to her, but didn't know enough to do something about her problems (due to him just asking Goh and being told how Chloe isn't into Pokémon) until long after she disappeared and Parker notes that he's only asking now. This later leads to Delia being completely unforgiving for what happened to her son and being ready to assume the worst of Chloe as well.
  • Downplayed with Parker. Her assessment that he loves her and would do anything for her is completely true. She just didn't realize how far he would go to do so.
  • Also Downplayed with Goh. Everything she says about him (he's too obsessed to notice her, doesn't care about making friends, would rather spend time with Pokémon than her than actually care for what she really wants, and so on) is totally right. However, she misjudges two critical things: she thinks Goh forgot about the curry promise they did because he didn't care about her, and that he never loved her. However, Goh does care about her, but carried enough of his own baggage that he couldn't show it properly, and the curry promise thing can be chalked up to Goh having no reason to remember it in the present and Chloe never thinking to remind him of said promise.
• Hourglass Plot:
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, the interview in The Darkest Day is effectively Chloe's version of Goh's Nightmare Therapy, complete with a grinning demon as the host, a not-her alter-ego rubbing in salt, and all her mistakes getting thrown in her face, all while being Forced to Watch. The only real difference is how the ordeal ends: she accepts responsibility for her mistakes, and Goh forgives her.
  • In Blossoming Trail, Goh was repeatedly lambasted over how he was a terrible friend to Chloe with no way to hit back. Now Chloe is the one getting it drilled into her about how she was a bad friend to Goh, and she's in no position to argue over it.
• Hypocrite: Deconstruction. She blames everyone in Vermillion City for not reading her mind in regard to what she wants, ignoring her in favor of Pokémon, bullying her for being a Professor's daughter, and/or standing by and letting her suffering happen. However, it soon becomes clear that much of her problems - and the story's events - were caused by her own reluctance to open up and her spiteful desire to make everyone earn her forgiveness by running away and refusing to come back until she's certain they've learned their lesson. And for all her bemoaning that Goh is the worst friend ever, she ends up fulfilling those criteria herself by shutting him out of her life, emotionally abusing him for perceived wrongdoings, and leaving him behind while not telling him she's alive just to make him suffer for not being the ideal friend she wanted... turning Goh into a suicidal wreck with broken dreams by the time she gets off the Infinity Train.

I - L

• I Am Not My Father: Does not like being compared to her Professor of a father and is thoroughly sick of people expecting her to follow in his footsteps. She eventually gets called out on it by Talia, who orders her to stop the childish behavior and to stop treating her father like a scapegoat for everything wrong in her life.
• I Am What I Am: One of her final revelations before she leaves the train, which she gains just in time to pass on to Hop. She spends so much of her time on the Train thinking of herself in relation to other people, and only in rejecting destiny and vowing to live for herself does she complete her arc. As she puts it to Hop,
  "I am me, and no one can change that!”
• I Call It "Vera": Chloe has a habit of naming her belongings; her "donut holer" is named Cheshire in direct reference to Alice in Wonderland, she owns a softball bat at home called "Silver Night", and she nicknames her umbrella "Riddle". Her new softball bat in Voyage of Wisteria is named "White Claudia".
• Iconic Item: Her donut holer Cheshire, to the point that Randall got a lot of sales for being the one who gifted it to her in the sequel.
• Iconic Outfit: Her white beach dress with blue sealife and long red hair later accessorized with a red wolf hood cloak. So much so that in Voyage of Wisteria, many denizens in the Canals of Fondue car cosplay her in that particular outfit.
• I Hate Past Me:
  • By Voyage of Wisteria, having to play as the formerly bitter and resentful Jerkass she used to be, in order to endear herself to Mr. Foster, makes her sick to her stomach.
  • In the "interview", Chloe is not proud to face everything her old self had written, nor see her rather dramatic reactions back before she got on the Train. Having all of her angry speeches and texts repeated back to her makes her physically ill.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: In Blossoming Trail, she's sick and tired of everyone pushing her to be someone she doesn't like and only wants someone to like her for who she is. In truth, she truly was loved, but her refusal to bring things up and her parents’ ignorance of her problems prevented any progress to be made.
• I Just Want to Be Normal: A variation, in that Chloe wants to be her own definition of normal, as somebody with no interest in Pokémon, rather than the average normal of at least enjoying Pokémon's company or forced into a role that she hates. By Voyage of Wisteria, she's learning to get interested in Pokémon in her own way.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Paradoxically enough, however, Chloe adopts the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona rather quickly despite it being as far removed from being "normal" as it seems.
• I Just Want to Have Friends: She wants to have friends, but the problem is that she's afraid of opening herself up to others due to either people deriding her for her interests or because their focus is on Pokémon.
• I'll Kill You!: Stated this in a flashback to her classmates when she finally snapped at the bullying she went through:
  Chloe: [while covered in red paint] If any of you freaks [her classmates] hurt my brother, call me a 'Monster Lover' or dump paint on me again, I am going to do even worse than what I did to Sara. I am going to find you, bind you, and then I am going to KILL EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU! AND I PROMISE YOU WHEN I SAY THAT I SWEAR THAT I'M GONNA KILL YOU ALL KINDS OF DEAD!!!
• I Know Madden Kombat: Chloe has a love of softball and she uses this when she fights with her donut holer Cheshire, mostly for swatting things at the enemy until she gets up close and whacks them across the face.
• Irrational Hatred: It's one thing to be angry at Ash, Goh, her family, classmates, and teachers since the story makes it clear that their actions/inactions drove Chloe to snap. It's another thing to extend that anger to all of Vermillion City, whose only real "crime" was simply being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Parker is more than willing to act on this anger, too....
• Important Hair Accessory: Her pink flower scrunchie which keeps her braid intact. When the Train comes for her, the scrunchie falls off, leaving it as the only evidence that Goh finds and which alerts her mother that something really is wrong, since Chloe never removes it until she arrives home. When Chloe realizes her braid is undone, she is slightly hesitant because she feels embarrassed about her hair, but she decides to let the matter go and keeps her hair as it is from now on, even after Atticus provides more scrunchies for her. Goh still has it by the time he enters the Train and assumed that Chloe thought it was thrown into the trash. He gives it to Hazel as a gift.
• Important Haircut: After the CarnEvil car ends with her having to shear off her red hair to save herself, Chloe restyles it into a sideswept wave and adds blue streaks to reflect her new outlook on her situation, hoping to try new things, learn to work on herself and to stop lashing out and blaming others for her problems.
• Improperly Paranoid: As her backstory pre-Train gets examined, it turns out a few things she thought were the truth back then turn out to be not.
  • She thought Chryssa and Renji were The Mole, watching her every step in case she makes a mistake to report it to her father. In reality, they were just ordinary lab assistants for Professor Cerise, and had no beef with her.
  • She thought Professor Cerise was putting his focus on Ash and Goh because he was planning to replace her, seeing them as the sons he could never have. In reality, while some of his buying could've been a bit much, they were all explicitly business expenses, and his relationship with Ash and Goh was kept professional.
  • Speaking of her father, she thought he was a neglectful jerk who was more than willing to keep her caged in the institute, unable to express herself. Truth be told, while he could'be paid more attention, Professor Cerise only wanted what was best for Chloe. In fact, the biggest reason why he didn't do more to help her was because Chloe kept refusing opening up about her problems.
  • But the biggest example of this trope also leads to her biggest blunder: believing that things won't change in Vermillion City even if she returns, she sends a message to Parker that if Vermillion City doesn't change for the better, she's gonna go back into the Train and stay there. However, not only did she put even further pressure on her grief-stricken brother, but this leads him to unleash hell on Vermillion City with the power of the Unown on her name, rendering all the goodwill that had been accumulated since her disappearance for naught and turning her family into pariahs.
• In the Blood: For all of their differences, Chloe is just as passionate about her interests as her father (despite hiding them) and both struggle with looking past their bias and presumptions. Chloe presumes that others aren't interested in getting to know the real her, while the Professor was blind to just how much she was struggling, and can't seem to grasp why she dislikes Pokémon. On a lighter note, they both share the same love of mint chocolate sweets. The Cyan Desert Car reveals reveals that Chloe's love of softball comes from Professor Cerise himself as he used to play it in his university years.
• Inferiority Superiority Complex: This can especially be seen in Chloe's email to Parker. After Act 1 put her distress and self-confidence issues on full display, that email turned around to express total confidence in herself. Just going by that email, one would think that Chloe never had a doubt that the people in her life would value her presence and forgiveness enough to do just about anything to get it back. Thus, the email issues instructions to Parker that amount to demands that the entire city cater to her, disparages her father and Ash in advance for trying to go through Parker instead of groveling to her, and loftily declares Goh Beyond Redemption, instructing her brother not to listen to him no matter what. This show of absolute self-confidence comes back to bite Chloe and Parker harder than they could have imagined.
• Innocently Insensitive: For all that the world is like this to Chloe, she can also be insensitive.
  • During their stay in the Canals of Fondue Car, Chloe begins talking to Atticus about the malasadas (donuts) they'll try out won't have grape jelly in it (dogs can't eat grapes). The mentioning of "grape jelly" brings to mind the large grape jelly puddle in the Unfinished Car and Atticus's current worries about King Aloysius, causing him to snap at her, much to her confusion. Atticus does admit afterwards that Chloe had no way of knowing why jelly would have a triggering response and forgives her.
  • She does it again in the Fog Car when she angsts about how she's about to go back to a home where everybody hates her... right next to Trainers who won't get the luxury months or even years down the line.
• Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist: The insecure protagonist to Grace and Simon's arrogant antagonist.
• In-Series Nickname: Many. "Little Blossom" by her father, "Chloe of the Vermilion" by Atticus, "Klutzy Chloe" and "Monster Lover" by her classmates as Embarrassing Nicknames, and "Bad Girl" by Zack (although Chloe quickly vetoes that last one and demands him to call her by her real name). Rashid and Azam call her "Lady Chloe" or "Lady Lahab" (Lahab means "Flame" in Arabic), Henry and Walter proclaim her as "Lady Destiny" while Grace and Simon mockingly calls her a princess.
• Instant Web Hit: Calling Chloe, the media sensation picking up once word of her disappearance and the factors that led up to it spreads. Her school is pressured into punishing all responsible for her bullying, many people speak up in support of her and Parker, and messages are left for when she returns encouraging her to not let the negative influences in her life get her down. The fact that she's a 10 year old daughter of a well-off Professor almost certainly helped the story spread.
• In the Hood: Olmec gifts Chloe a red wolf cloak with a hood that gives her the ability to transform into Marchosias, gifts her with fire-breath and sees into a person's soul. She loses it when Simon tears it to shreds in the Fog Car.
• Insistent Terminology: Whenever Chloe discussed her situation back at the Cerise Laboratory during Blossoming Trail, she loved referring to it as "imprisonment" or "being caged." Now, seeing as she was ten years old and going through a really rough time at school, this is entirely Justified; she certainly had a right to feel like she was imprisoned within those walls. But once the situation was examined in full… She was spending the afternoons at her father’s workplace. There were always snacks available, and she was never without a book to read or space to do her writing. She had no chores that she was required to complete in exchange for this space- unless you count delivering the class handouts to Goh. Basically, she was more or less allowed to do whatever she wanted- a lot of the aspects she hated about the setup were self-inflicted. Ash and Goh were always coming and going; she might have seen that as salt on the wound, but they were always happy to chat with her, or even invite her along on expeditions! Ren and Chrysa were basically fixtures in the lab, but Chloe never bothered to approach them- she assumed that they were both The Mole, and looked down on Ren for his dislike of horror. And finally, of course, there’s her "jailer"- also known as her loving father, who would probably have been happy to accommodate her desire to go to after school activities if she had ever let on to him that she was unhappy. No one is denying that she had the right to dislike the situation… but given that Passengers are required to have some level of Dark and Troubled Past as their entry fee, and many Denizens exist in some sort of Death World, they probably had a very different picture of what her "cage" must have looked like.
• Ironic Name:
  • Atticus gives Chloe the moniker "Chloe of the Vermilion" — since she introduced herself from Vermillion City — to which Chloe notes that it doesn't really fit since she wears white and blue, not red.
  • Chloe's name is translated as "cherry blossom", but she's not associated with red.
• Irony:
  • Her starting number is 151. Why is it ironic? Because this is the National Pokédex number of Mew, the very reason her and Goh's friendship deteriorated.
  • Chloe's favorite book is Alice in Wonderland, about a girl who enters a world where logic and order is out the window. She herself is afraid of trying anything new and would rather like it if things were always the same.
  • She has very dark interests but wears a white dress. Of course, there's even more irony since white in Asian cultures means death.
  • She drew the seal of Marchosias onto the scabbard for Cheshire. Marchosias is a wolf demon; Cheshire was named after the Cheshire Cat. Speaking of which, Alice herself is associated with cats, Chloe is associated with canines.
  • Her name gives off a Spring motif (her name can be translated to "Cherry Blossom" and her Japanese name (Koharu) could mean "Little Spring"). The author notes establish that she's a Libra, meaning she's born in Autumn.
  • She's into monsters, but not Pokémon (aka Pocket Monsters).
  • Was essentially ignored and belittled while in Vermillion City, but when she gets on the Infinity Train and is gone for a few weeks everyone starts pouring the support and love for her. Upon learning about this, Chloe bitterly notes that it's only when she's missing that people actually begin to care about her.
  • Her second outfit is that of Fran Bow who entered a dark world to save her cat Mr. Midnight. Again, Chloe's associated with canines.
  • The bullying and lack of support she got in Vermillion City convinced her that she wasn't loved. Initially it turns out she really was loved, but after Parker's rampage, the Vermillion City citizens have come to hate her for being responsible for so much chaos and mayhem.
  • She wanted Goh out of her life one way or another and told him as such. Hearing what Parker did to him, however, horrifies her.
  • She wanted her family to pay for neglecting and not loving her. Parker made sure of that, and he did such a good job at it that their lives have been turned upside down, possibly forever.
  • Chloe utterly Hates Being Alone, and only wanted someone to be her friend and support her back home. However, her anger issues and inability to speak up caused her to act in a way that drove people away from her, and after it's discovered Parker's rampage can be traced back to her, absolutely nobody wants anything to do with her, effectively ensuring that she will be alone.
  • Her designation in the Cage of Flauros is "Lady Destiny", but what she decides to do is screw it.
  • Chloe is the only Pokémon character who encounters the Apex who wants nothing to do with Pokémon (Trip and Gladion were trainers and Tokio hopes to find Celebi). Grace, who has already encountered Trainers and thought they were the biggest threat to her, ended up humbled by the girl who didn't want her life to be defined by them.
• It's All About Me: Post-Cyan Desert Car, Delia has this view of her: a spoiled princess that resented the world for not reading her mind nor giving her what she wanted on her exact terms, lit matches that burned everyone on her way out and then demanded that everyone work for her forgiveness. Talia and Chloe reluctantly agree that she isn't completely wrong in that assessment. This pops up again in the Darkest Day arc in Voyage of Wisteria, when Chloe gets everything thrown back in her face about how she truly had everything she wanted but threw it all away because it wasn't given to her exactly on her terms and because she was more concerned with painting herself as the helpless victim while demonizing those who only wanted to help her.
• It's All My Fault: After spending a majority of the story blaming others for her problems, near the end of the Fog Car she comes full circle and goes on an emotional rant about how everything that's happened is her fault and that so much pain and heartache could've been prevented if she'd just yielded to everyone's expectations and become a Pokméon Trainer. Fortunately, Hop, Alain and Paul snap her out of her of it by stating that this bias is actually painful.
• It Only Works Once: Both her cloak and mark function like this as revealed in the author's notes.
  • Her cloak: She can only see into someone's soul once.
  • Her mark: while she can summon many demons and creatures, each one can only be summoned a single time.
• It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time:
  • Boarding the Train seemed like a harmless idea, since Chloe really needed some time to herself after the fiasco back in Vermillion City. Unfortunately, not only is she stuck in the Train until her number reaches zero, but she's trapped in a world that has Outside-Context Problem written all over it. Even worse, she prefers the Train than home ecause she has no pressure, bullies or ignorant people to disturb her.
  • Sending Parker her "I won't return until Vermillion City is better" message, while stupid on so many levels, at least made some basic sense in one regard: Parker was the only person she trusted back in her family, so surely, he'd understand, right? The Cyan Desert Car would like to differ...
• I Wished You Were Dead: At the start of the story, Chloe desired for Goh to get out of her life, even telling him as such when he texted her. Talia feels disgusted with Chloe when she finds out about this and proceeds to send her daughter every single thing Goh heard her "say" in both text and dreams via email.
• Jeanne d'Archétype: She becomes one starting in Blossoming Trail Act 2, having a mission from God (One-One) to rally the train to rise up against the Apex with the desire to stop the cult from hurting/killing anymore people. Lexi equates her to a "knightess" at one point (even though she never wears anything resembling armor) but her cloak and summoning magic actually makes her more of a witch (which she's a big fan) with the irony on how her signature element is fire. She also ends up dying via dropping to her death but Came Back Strong and, amusingly, summoned Lucifer to defeat someone who called themselves "the God of Silent Hill".
• Jerkass Has a Point: While threatening to run away back to the Train if things don't improve was a dick move, she actually had some valid points at the time. Sara and Yeardley were shown not to get the point that they messed up up until Professor Cerise screamed at their faces and Parker unleashed the Unown, her teachers didn't do anything to help nor apologized for their inaction, and her father promptly ignored advice to take his daughter into counseling.
• Jerkass Realization: She gets this after the chaos of the Cyan Desert Arc: She's forced to realize how selfish she was after Parker’s rampage and reading Talia's email telling her how she could had avoided everything if she had done things differently, how she expected everyone to cater to her and all of it (including her passive-aggressive behaviour and refusing to call Professor Cerise her father) had to stop.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: At her absolute worst, Chloe's an entitled, self-centered mess of anger and resentment that's really hard to tolerate. And even looking past her character flaws, Chloe's quite aloof and snarky to anyone she doesn't know (especially if they've wronged her in some way before). However, she's a fast and compassionate friend to anyone who gets on her good side.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Once the Darkest Day arc comes, Chloe gets hers as she's forced to witness an interview and several scenes where she acted like her spiteful self, with her being unable to talk at all lest she makes her situation worse. And since the interview is public, this means that all the Denizens who once saw her as a perfect little girl get to see the lengths of brutality and savagery she was willing to enact over a mere mistake.
• Kid Hero: The main protagonist of Blossoming Trail at 10 years old.
• Kids Are Cruel: Deconstructed. She's 10 years old during Blossoming Trail, and while she did go through severe bullying at school and Parental Neglect at home, she ultimately ended up being no better than her tormentors. She became an emotionally abusive person who constantly wallowed in self-pity while demonizing those she believed had 'wronged' her, regardless of what they actually did. She also felt she was entitled to everything she wished for, threw tantrums when she didn't get what she wanted, and spent much of Blossoming Trail enjoying the catharsis she got from making people languish in guilt over their perceived wrongdoings, all while she had a fun little adventure on a magical train. Her behavior ends up ruining hundreds of lives, causing everyone from adoring her in the beginning to hating her following the Unown Incident. This comes to a head in Voyage of Wysteria when Vox and Dahlia, wanting to psychologically break her, reveal all the cruel things she did and said to everyone who admired her on the Infinity Train for an 'interview' - with Goh, the one person she ruined the most, tearfully calling her out for her mistreatment of him.
• Kick the Dog: You're almost glad Yamper didn't come with her, 'cause it sometimes feel like she'd kick him too if she had the chance.
  • She had a few people she could've sent her ultimatum to, but she chose to send it to Parker, her grieving younger brother, then buggered off without so much as trying to comfort him.
  • Chloe leaves Goh hanging when he messages her, which is A Taste Of His Own Medicine since Goh did the same thing to her. Her answering him only to state she wants nothing to do with him is practically this trope.
  • One instance only becomes clear after the Cerebus Syndrome hits. During Chloe's farewell to Goh, one of the messages she asks him to send is for Miss April; "Tell [her] that I wished she understood what it meant to be talked over, overshadowed, and that I will never ever talk to her again." Come the Cyan Desert Car, and it becomes clear that Chloe sent that message knowing full well that Miss April had been trying to leave an abusive boyfriend.
• Kick Them While They Are Down: As part of her mission to try dismantle the Cage of Flauros, Chloe goes to see Despair/Paul and tries to get him to go back to his normal self. At this point, Despair/Paul is essentially a shell of their former self, unable to really do anything or even have hope of being saved because they've been that broken down by the actions of Walter. What is the first thing that Chloe does when she meets them? Tell them that everything that happened to them was karma for how much of a jerk they were back in the Pokemon World. It doesn't take long for Saint Ash to call her out on it, and even Chloe quickly comes to regret her words once she actually looks into their memories and sees how bad they had it.
• Lady Swears-a-Lot: It can be easy to miss since she swears in Pokemon-ified versions of the actual words — for an example, she tells the Apex to "Go Sawsbuck yourselves" at one point — but Chloe swears a lot for a ten year old. Against her enemies, against her family, against anyone who mildly inconveniences her. She even repeats a dick joke while singing 'Kings and Queens' by Ava Max ('If I had [A sword], it'd be bigger than yours'), although it's unclear if she gets the meaning or is just repeating an Innocent Innuendo due to her wielding a donut holer as if it was a holy sword.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Much of her actions end up backfiring on her massively due to how hypocritical, biased, and petty they came off as.
  • Chloe hated Ash for not putting much effort in connecting with her^note  Or rather, refusing to be his friend, then blaming for not being her friend, humiliating her with a Curb-Stomp Battle, and taking away her father's attention - so much that she felt oppressed by Ash's very existence. So, she reacted by using Ash as a scapegoat for every single problem in her life, leading to Ash developing a Guilt Complex and later massive PTSD after being constantly called out and (in Parker's case) tortured by very disgruntled people who took Chloe's story at face value without knowing the facts. This leads to Delia calling Chloe a cruel and ungrateful brat who decided to hurt her son out of spite for not instantly reading her mind or bending to her will, which Talia agrees with and relays to Chloe via email.
  • While Goh is to blame for their friendship deteriorating, and the reason Chloe ran away from home when he comments that he was better than her cause he had a dream and she didn't, Chloe contributed to it by giving him mixed messages while expecting him to know what's going on, not reminding him of a childhood promise they made regarding curry, and refusing to respond to his calls after she runs away until he earns her forgiveness (albeit this one had some reasoning as he kept ignoring her messages and when she tried to explain things to her, he still didn't get the hint). Her grudge against Goh not only makes him go through a gradual Sanity Slippage, it later spurs Parker to torture him with the Unown, making Goh so traumatized that following a botched suicide attempt, he becomes a broken shell of himself who believes he's Beyond Redemption. Talia eventually calls out Chloe for her Never My Fault behavior regarding Goh, and proceeds to send her a document full of everything Goh heard her "say" in both text and dreams to show her how much she screwed up with him.
  • While her parents - especially her father - screwed up with her magnificently, many of their mistakes could have been mitigated if Chloe decided to open up to them about her problems instead of bottling them up until they boiled over. Instead, she decided to accuse them of neglecting her and refused to forgive them or acknowledge them as family until she's certain they've learned their 'lesson'. This eventually leads to Chloe's parents getting so fed up with her passive-aggressive sniping that Talia calls her out via email for constantly playing the "blame game" with them without actually owning up to her own mistakes.
  • By telling her upset, grieving, and angry younger brother that she'll be leaving Vermillion City for good unless everyone earns her forgiveness, Chloe causes Parker to unleash the Unown and use the ancient Pokemon to torture anyone he believes is a Karma Houdini regarding his sister's mistreatment... even those who were actually innocent. It backfires massively - the #Calling Chloe movement is irreversibly tarnished, the Cerise family as a whole becomes city-wide pariahs for Parker's actions, and Chloe herself gets labeled as a ungrateful Jerkass bitch who ran away to spite everyone for not reading her mind once her own actions get examined. It also leads to her mother banning her from horror, while her friends on the Train feel massively disappointed with her pettiness.
  • This comes to a head in Voyage of Wisteria, where the trope is invoked by Vox and Dahlia to thoroughly tarnish her reputation as a hero in the eyes of the Infinity Train. Chloe not only has to rewatch every moment in her life where she acted like a selfish, petty, and entitled Jerkass to everyone, but also listen to Vox and Dahlia read every single text she made in Blossoming Trail, which were extremely cruel and abusive. And because this happens in a public 'interview', everyone on the Train who knew her as a kind, helpful girl ends up learning just how cruel Chloe could be in the past. Then there's Goh, who tearfully gives Chloe an epic What the Hell, Hero? speech on how she mistreated him, lashed out at him for not being a 'good' friend when she frequently shut him out of her life, and turned him into a scapegoat for everyone to point fingers at, which led to what happened with the Unown. Goh then asks her if he was a truly terrible person who deserved his abuse. Chloe is so devastated by this that she tearfully begs for forgiveness at Goh's feet, which is also karma for how, in Blossoming Trail, she wanted all of Vermillion City to grovel for her forgiveness out of spite for not being catered to on her terms.
• Letting Her Hair Down: Chloe's hair is usually made into a braid, but the gust of wind caused by the train's arrival pulled off her hair scrunchie. Even when Atticus teachers her how to braid her hair, Chloe keeps it down to establish herself as someone different from how she was back home.
• Light/Darkness Juxtaposition: She's a girl in a brightly colored dress and is associated with goodness and light. However, she is also a Nightmare Fetishist, writes a lot of macabre stories, and also has a love of witches (even dressing up as a witch in The Plush Penguin Car).
• Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: The Light Feminine to Amelia's Dark Feminine, who initially wears a pure white dress with her hair down, has a gentle and caring disposition, and journeyed on the Train as a quest of identity and finds herself in awe at everything she sees.
• Light Liege, Dark Defender: The light liege to Lexi's dark defender. She's a girl in a pure white (later yellow) dress with a kind heart who wants to be able to find herself and move on from all the anger and hurt in her past. However, she's not defenseless as she is shown capable of fighting off opponents with her donut holer and has a self-admitted aggressive streak.
• Little Miss Badass: Ten-years-old, lover of demons and wolves, writes dark stories, has a love of chocolate...and is capable of wielding a steel pipe like she's up to bat.
  Chloe: NOW EAT THIS, SUCKA!!!!
• Little Red Fighting Hood: Starting in Blossoming Trail Act 2, once she obtains her red cloak from Olmec, Chloe starts becoming a kick-ass fighter with her donut holer. During the trip in the Cyan Desert Car, she apparently fought off against someone named Walker with a flaming donut holer.
• Lonely Among People: Her living in a world filled with people obsessed with Pokémon while she herself doesn't care about them has her feel incredibly isolated from her family and peers at the start of the story.
• Longing for Fictionland: Her rant before she enters the Infinity Train explains all you need to know about her: she wishes to find a place for her to be who she is, where she can be with her Childhood Friend, where there are people who actually see her as a person, and never experience the pressures of being into something she hates.
• Long Hair Is Feminine: Her hair falls past her shoulders, and she's shown to be a sweet girly-girl when she lets her hair down. The Erlking even notes of her "lovely flowing hair" in his Princess checklist and Henry and Walter proclaim that Lady Destiny was heralded as a girl with flowing red hair. Chloe loses most of her long hair after the Dead Carnival Car and her Important Haircut, but still has enough to style it into side-swept waves.
• Loved by All: By the end of Arc 1 and starting with Arc 2, Chloe is becoming a celebrity on the Infinity Train for being the leader who helps rally the denizens against the Apex. This is eventually diminished in Voyage of Wisteria, where Vox and Dahlia's "interview" with her reveals her dark side to the Train, causing everybody to realize what a petty and wrathful girl she was behind the mask of Chloe of the Vermillion, and since it's public, just about everybody gets to see it. Some people still like her afterwards, but it's nowhere near the adoration she once had.

M - P

• Made Out to Be a Jerkass: It's eventually revealed that the reason that she was bullied was because Sara convinced everybody that Chloe was a genuinely bad person with a weird love for monsters. And now after Parker's rampage, people have good reason to believe this was right, as it as both done in her name and while she was still demanding everyone's forgiveness after running away.
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, Vox and Dahlia host an "interview" that exposes all of Chloe's past abusive behavior towards her friends and family, hoping to make everyone on the Train see that she was far from the kind-hearted, flawless heroine they saw her as.
• Malicious Slander: What gets her in the most trouble in both Blossoming Trail and Voyage of Wisteria is the fact that a good deal of what she says about Ash, her parents, and especially Goh is actually this, with her mindset constantly coloring her perception to make her make them look worse than they actually are. This becomes even more prominent during her "interview" during The Darkest Day, as she's made to see not only how much of her pain was her own doing, but how she essentially looked at certain things and decided to paint them as people hurting her and being malicious when the situation wasn't as black and white as she thought it was.
• Magic Is Feminine: Chloe gains a cloak that lets her cast fire and a mark to let her summon demons, which is considered "Magic" in the technological based Train. She's also the girly-girl of the Red Lotus Quarto with Amelia filling in as the tomboy.
• Magnetic Hero: Ironically, while she hates Ash for being one of these, Chloe seems to have made friends easily when she's allowed to be herself. On the Train, she's befriended Atticus and Lexi (even taming his darker impulses to murder Grace and Simon), saved Zack from electric torture and forgives Amelia for everything she's done. She's gotten One-One's attention for this and she hopes to unite the denizens of the Infinity Train to topple the Apex.
• Martial Pacifist: Despite how she likes writing up very creative ways for people to die or meet a Fate Worse than Death, she would rather not make that a reality. However, she will fight if there is no other option or is pushed too far. In her video to the denizens of the Infinity Train, she requests the denizens defend themselves from the Apex but not critically injure or harm them, seeing that it's pointless to shed even more blood.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Zigzagged with her and Lexi. Chloe is a girl at heart who is quick to fight opponents off with a donut holer and loves the macabre while dressing up in a dress and has flowing hair. Meanwhile, Lexi is given an aloof air and is a bit of a brooder, but he is capable of drawing, will dance to the Lobster Quadrille and coos over cute things like an adorable, winged jaguar cub.
• Meaningful Name: Her first name is translated into "Bloom", and Blossoming Trail is all about the journey she takes to become her true self.
• Messianic Archetype: As well as Jeanne d'Archétype. She's a Chosen One with a group of True Companions who spreads her teachings to the masses, becoming a figure of purity and goodness to the denizens of the train. She's killed by a non-believer, but resurrected to continue aiding the Train before finally leaving for good.
• Misplaced Retribution: Being angry is one thing, but the problem with Chloe is that it's who she vents it out to because of how she has so much self-loathing towards, well, everyone for putting too much on her, bullying her, and never wanting to know the true her.
• Missing Child: Becomes this when she runs away from home after all the shit she goes through from being pushed into fighting Ash.
• Missing White Woman Syndrome: Alongside Character Shilling, this is the trope that she benefits from during Act 1. Her suddenly going missing due to being snatched by the Infinity Train causes such an upheaval in Vermillion City that not only does the whole Cerise Institute frantically look for clues as to where she went, but they even go as far as to make a hashtag to bring more attention to her situation and hopefully make things better in Vermillion City for her return. This is in heavy contrast to fellow, male Passengers Gladion and Goh, the former going missing for months with nobody batting an eye (except Mallow, who was too vague in explaining herself to let people know anyway) while the latter was known to have been snatched, but had potential times to check up on him put on the backburner in favor of keeping Chloe happy and mentally stable enough to avoid entering the Train again.
• Moment of Weakness: When she sees the injured Mew, she nearly relapses into the same spiteful, hate-filled girl she was pre-Train, which prompts another Moment of Weakness from Delia, which leads to Goh being picked by the Train.
• Mocking the Mourner: When Sara dumps paint on her after her performance, Chloe begins beating her with the bucket, all the while mocking her for her dead father and alcoholic mother.
• Modesty Towel: Wears one in when dipping in a hot spring in the Elephant Teapot Car.
• More Insulting than Intended: It'd be easier to list the things she said that didn't become this in hindsight.
  • She doesn't answer Goh's messages for a long time — because it's a reminder of how Goh has a bad habit of replying late to her messages and "promising" to not do it again — and when she does, it's to call him out on his bullshit and officially end their friendship. This comes after Goh spent several days looking for her, while having no idea where she went.
  • Her "message" to Parker was a pretty big Kick the Dog moment from her, but once Parker uses it to justify his rampage across Vermillion City, ending with everyone practically traumatized, this trope is most definitely in play.
  • She effectively spits in Paul's face by claiming that everything they've gone through was well deserved karma, right before looking into their memories and discovering that no, this was not deserved.
  • And of course, once the situation becomes less black and white and her actions gets actually analyzed, couple with the fact she's literally Chloe's constant angsting over her home life become grating precisely because of this trope.
• Motif: A recurring element of her stories involve trees and forests in some way.
  • Her "Specter of the Black Forest" was a baby raised by something called "The Maiden Tree", and her two book reports were A Monster Calls (which had the Monster made from a Yew tree) and a previous unnamed story that involved an evil tree. She also gets into her first real fight, in which she begins to come into her own, in The Midnight Car, which is a dark forest where The Wild Hunt roams. Honestly, if she ever changes her mind about becoming a Trainer, a Trevanent would be right up her ally.
  • According to Parker, a dream match of Chloe was between The Birch versus The Beast, both of them being tree-based abominations. Moreover, Chloe was wearing a white jacket with a black tree silhouette on it on the day she read him her "Specter of the Black Forest" story. Continuing onto this, Lexi designs the walls of their room, the bedsheets and pillows in Hotel Crayola with black tree silhouettes.
• Music/Age Dissonance: Chloe listens to songs from bands like Creature Feature, The Decemberists and The Birthday Massacre which are bands that you don't expect ten-year-old girls to get into. She also likes foreign language songs, having one in French and Spanish on her phone.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Has a massive moment of this during The Cyan Desert Car when she sees what her threat to run away again unless everyone in Vermillion apologizes has caused.
• Narcissist: Early Blossoming Trail has her act like this in all but name: her ego becomes quite inflated once she becomes known as Chloe of the Vermillion, and what people think of her affects her a lot; if they think she's great and amazing, she'll consider them an ally, while if they even so much as imply they don't like or understand her, she'll see them as enemies to be taken down. She slowly grows out of these traits afterwards.
• Naïve Everygirl: Really dislikes being one of these, especially due to how she isn't into Pokémon like everyone else in her world. She immediately starts shedding this trait once she enters the Train.
• Never Be Hurt Again: After getting the courage to become her own person, she vows that no one is going to hurt her again in her email to her father during her email to him while in the Canals of Fondue Car. It's deconstructed when she tells Parker that unless everyone apologizes to her, she'll never come back, leading to him unleashing the Unown and punishing her tormentors, inflicting massive amounts of psychological trauma and spurring two people (Ms. April and Goh) to try commit suicide. Now everyone in Vermillion City sees her as an ungrateful Jerkass brat who ran away over some petty slight and expected them to beg for her forgiveness if they truly want her back.
• Never My Fault: Deconstructed. While there are outside factors that led to her current predicament,^note  the bullying at school, Goh obsessing over Mew, adults in her life not even caring about her problems (etc.) Chloe ignores the fact that most of her problems were on her due to refusing to explain what she wants and then expecting people to read her mind and cater to her. It's not until long after she's boarded the Train and called out by her mother for her bitchy attitude that she finally makes an effort to become a better person and starts accepting responsibility.
• New Friend Envy: She hates Ash because of how he easily wins over Goh due to them loving Pokémon and how Goh "abandoned" her for chasing Mew. She gets over it in the Cyan Desert Car, asking to be friends with Ash for real this time and apologizing for how she acted towards him.
• Nice Girl: Downplayed initially, but she has a sweet and gentle heart that gradually manifests to the Denizens on the train first: it's her kindness that attracts Lexi (for taking a blast of hot water for him) and Zack (for destroying the shock collar he was wearing). Voyage of Wisteria also sees her extending this to her classmates and Ash's social circle.
• Nightmare Fetishist: Chloe holds an interest in the macabre to the point that even the supportive Atticus and Lexi are occasionally surprised by some of the things she comes up with, while the few people back in Vermilion City who were aware she held such interests prior to her disappearance were either mocking or wholly disturbed by it (except for Parker and her literature teacher Mr. Bradbury, who were wholly encouraging).
  • She's good at making rather dark stories. She writes one where an Expy of Goh gets cursed to follow a wish-granter for all eternity as part of her trial for the Library of Flying Books Car, and a story she's currently writing on her phone is about children raised by malevolent trees. Parker reveals that she actually has an entire collection of stories written in a book she calls "Tome from the Lands of Blazing Darkness". Chapter 12 reveals that she entered a horror writing contest and got third place.
  • The character she made for the 'Create-a-Crush' app became the being known as the Specter of the Black Forest who saw a tree as his mother... and said tree fed on the life force of children to live.
  • A subtle one is how she knows about Eligos (from the Ars Goetia), meaning that she has a not insignificant amount of interest and knowledge on demons. This is confirmed in later chapters as she has written a story focusing on Vine and drew the seal of Marchosias on a newly crafted scabbard for Cheshire.
  • When Lexi wants to describe how he wants to horrifically torture Grace and Simon, Chloe's suggestion is pretty dark, even if she is quoting the chorus of "The Mariner's Song".
  Chloe: Find them, bind them, tie them to a pole and break their fingers to splinters, throw them to a hole until they wake up naked crawling at the ceiling of their graves?
  [Beat]
  Lexi ...Was any of that sarcastic?
  • To calm herself down, she sings the lyrics from The Art of Poisoning and A Gorey Demise. The last one was only after the penguins who heard the former song request something regarding the alphabet.
  • Chloe can calmly explain what happens should you drive a pair of scissors into one's ear while Lexi questions where she even learned such a thing.
  • Subverted in Chapter 18; whatever Henry and Walter's true forms are like, they're so horrifying that Chloe begs them not to show it until she and the others reach the Fog Car.
  • She's shown to be excited in playing in CarnEvil for real and even after going through it once, she wants to go at it again so she can finally beat Tokkentaker.
  • The chapter after the Dead Carnival Car has her happily dressed up as Fran Bow, which was a horror game about a girl entering a world of madness.
• No Sympathy: Chloe's self-loathing and hatred are so deeply rooted in her mind from the trauma she endured and the ignorant people in her life that she simply cannot bear to be sympathetic to those who once wronged her, no matter how much they're sorry about what they did or how much they've been punished for their actions. Eventually, once her actions are reexamined following the Unown incident, she ends up being on the receiving end as everyone starts seeing her as a petty, spiteful brat who ran away and burned bridges over some trivial matter.
• No Sympathy for Grudgeholders: After holding a laundry list of grudges, both justified and unjustified, against the people of Vermillion City, her mother finally calls her out on her shit at the end of the Dead Carnival Car, letting her know that the her decision to hold grudges has caused more harm than it's worth, and that if she doesn't get her act together, she'll never be accepted again not just in Vermillion City, but the rest of the world, as the Unown incident spread far beyond Vermillion City.
• No One Gets Left Behind: In Chapter 11, she vows to Lexi that she's going to stay with him until they can find the Apex, even if her number reaches zero.
• Noodle Incident:
  • In a flashback about how her classmates make fun of her, when she gives a book report of A Monster Calls, Sara makes note of her last book report regarding an evil tree.
  • Of all her train adventures, only a handful are actually seen, and a few more revealed in flashbacks. As such, much of the adventures that create such a legacy for her are only alluded to.
• Not Helping Your Case: Chloe had been Made Out to Be a Jerkass by everyone courtesy of Sara convincing them that she was a bully writing bad things about them. The fact that she was rather antisocial and generally unpleasant to everyone even before the bullying took place didn't help matters.
  • In addition, there's the way she reacted after reaching her Rage Breaking Point at the talent show. Throughout the entirety of Blossoming Trail, she thinks of it as one more layer of proof of her classmates' idiocy that they continued to bully her even after that incident. However, while she might have a point in that, she never seems to consider that threatening to '''murder her entire class''' if they crossed her again might ''not'' have helped them feel comfortable around her.
• Not Like Other Girls: She feels isolated from her peers because she doesn't like anything they do, from the type of guys they're into to, of course, Pokémon. This causes her a lot of angst because she also feels like she doesn't belong with the boys either.
• "Not So Different" Remark:
  • In the penultimate chapter of Arc 2, Chloe admits that deep down, she was exactly like Goh: both of them decided friendship was worthless and hung onto an obsession, not realizing how they were hurting others by not confessing their pain sooner.
  • In Wisteria, Carl Foster tries to get her to side with him by claiming they're in the same boat regarding their anger and jealousy towards Ash. She doesn't buy it for a second because 1) she already realized how harmful that sort of entitled mindset is for everyone and pulled herself out of it, and 2), Carl drove his son Kris insane by constantly projecting his envy towards Ash onto him, and then abandoned him when he didn't turn out the way he wanted.
• Not So Similar: She notes that she's just like The Cat, running away from problems like a coward towards a boy (Simon/Goh) and making them become worse. Atticus, Lexi and Amelia reassure her that she's not The Cat because Chloe did realize how she hurt Goh and is working on making amends whereas The Cat never did anything in the slightest.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: She sees her not knowing that Ghost-types No-Sell Tackle as this, as she confesses to Azam in the Cyan Desert Car, because it makes her feel like she is a complete idiot for not knowing simple Pokémon battling techniques and for not being just like everyone else who expect her to love Pokémon. However, it's subverted, as she is the only one to keep bringing up that mistake. Even her bullies only really comment on the moment once, before moving on to other points of mockery. Obviously practically no one on the Train would know of the context for that mistake, never mind the incident itself, and Chloe's friends and family are a bit too busy trying to bring her home to worry about her battling skills. When this is brought up in Voyage of Wisteria, the Alola gang comfort her in saying that she wouldn't have known since Ghost-types are weird like that.
• Otaku: Aside from the list of spooky kid shows that her brother brings up and her love of demons, author notes states she reads Black Butler, and her favorite arc is the Noah's Circus arc. She also admits to have read Uzumaki and When Wingulls Weep.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: Both Played Straight and Inverted across the story.
  • At the beginning, it's sorta played straight: Chloe is pretty talented... except when it comes to Pokémon and anything involving it. The entire story starts when she is dared by her classmates to fight Ash Ketchum the Alola League Champion. Combined with Goh recording her loss and cheering him up, not to mention her father "reassuring" her with battle advice as if she forgot about it, it makes her seem that she is considered a nobody because she's not a genius in regards to Pokémon.
  • By the middle and end of this story, however, this trope is thoroughly Inverted, as just about everybody is quick to summarize how Chloe is actually an incredible person and so much better than all the people back home, whether it's her old bully Sara, former childhood friend Goh, or even Ash Ketchum.
• Parasol of Prettiness: One of the items Atticus hands Chloe before they leave Corginia is an umbrella decorated with fish on it. She later weaponizes it by using its wooden handle to destroy Zack's shock collar.
• Parental Issues: Wants her dad to notice her for once, but at best he praises her when she's into Pokémon and at worst his eyes are on Ash and Goh for they like Pokémon and he completely forgets how she's not into battling and doesn't know about type-effective moves. It's one of the factors as to why she ran away from home. Act 2 has Delia point out that Chloe was truly selfish in what she wanted when she never wanted to explain what was going on.
• Passionate Sports Girl: It turns out that one of her interests was softball. She uses her experience with battling as part of her combat style with Cheshire whether it's to smack someone across the face or to swat items with it.
• Performance Anxiety: When Lexi tells Chloe she should read some of her stories to the Sorbet Sharks in Chapter 8, Chloe refuses immediately as she's already had trouble getting her own classmates to listen to her. It takes a pep-talk from Lexi and Atticus to help her let go of the idea that the sharks will have the same mocking reaction.
• Pipe Pain: Before she got on the Train, Chloe lets out her frustration by beating up trash cans with a nearby pipe. Before she leaves the Corgi Car, she is gifted a steel pipe (or "donut holer") from Randall and names it Cheshire. Unlike Tulip, who only used it in the final episode of her story arc, Chloe uses it constantly as a weapon during her more violent journey, using it like an improvised baseball bat due to her skills in softball. One-One allows her to bring the pipe with her home which she uses to knock Ms. Turner unconscious and save her class. Unfortunately, Chloe is unable to keep it after since it's completely ruined, and the police took it as evidence.
  • She tries doing this when fighting Team Rocket and gets a few hits in, until Meowth destroys the pipe with Fury Swipes.
• Playing Card Motifs:
  • A piece of fanart of Chloe has her hair have highlights based on the playing card suits instead of chery blossoms like in the anime.
  • An accessory Chloe wears for her "Fran Bow" costume is a sword broach with the suits on the blade.
• Playing the Victim Card: Intentionally or not, Chloe has a tendency to go into theatrics over how her life sucks and how she's a victim of her city's system to justify her actions. It takes her mother calling her out on it for Chloe to cut the bullshit and actually work on herself.
• Playing with Fire: Olmec's cloak gives her the ability to summon fire which she uses as a Flamethrower, Fireballs or using it to set Cheshire on fire.
• Plucky Girl: By the time Act 2 of Blossoming Trail starts, she's a determined and feisty warrior who is ready to take on the Hidden Temple and steps up to the plate to help dismantle the Apex once and for all.
• Pop-Cultured Badass: On top of Cultured Badass. Some of her tastes skew older, such as enjoying the Ars Goetia and various mythologies, but many of them are more contemporary. She spreads her favorite pop songs to the various denizens and openly references television shows and videogames everywhere she goes.
• Precision F-Strike: Tells the Apex to "Go Sawsbuck yourselves" upon being resurrected as she knows that the Apex would not give a fuck if she died.
• The Promise: The end of Blossoming Trail and prologue of Voyage of Wisteria has her make a promise to the Red Lotus Quarto. Stay in her world and never come back to the Infinity Train while they are on the lookout for Goh.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Played with: Sure, her threat to Parker has ensured her bullies and her school will never torment her again, but it is made clear that no one is going to grovel at her feet for forgiveness like she had secretly wanted.

Q - V

• Quote Mine: A unique example where actions speak louder than words. One of Chloe's most bitter memories of Goh is of him telling her that he wasn't around much because he was "Chasing [his] dreams, which is something you lack!" Chloe tends to dwell on this phrase whenever she stews about how unfair things were in Vermillion City, so her new friends were made well aware of it, and by the time Goh is trapped on the Train Lexi uses this line as one of his most potent "weapons" against him. What Chloe neglects to mention is that this line was spoken at the tail end of a vicious argument- specifically, several minutes after Chloe threw a plate of spicy curry into Goh's face. In addition, even Chloe was unaware for the longest time that Goh had followed this statement by desperately running after her to make sure she was okay when she ran from the Institute.
• Rage Breaking Point: Chloe is essentially a ticking time bomb in a pretty dress.
  • The first chapter of Blossoming Trail is essentially this, following Chloe becoming more and more frustrated and upset throughout the day until her father starts talking about her finally becoming a Pokémon trainer, causing her to lose it, slam a plate of curry onto Goh's face, chew out her dad, Ash and Goh for never caring about her, and then running away to enter the Train.
  • In the Crayon Car, the flashback of the Talent Show at her school had Chloe get completely drenched in red paint by Sara, with her brother getting hurt in the process. She just barely manages to keep her calm until Sara throws on a final insult, saying that Professor Cerise doesn't give a shit about her, at which point Chloe tries to bash the girl's head in with a paint can (getting doused with the paint to look like she's drenched in blood) while screaming bloody murder and daring anyone else to attempt messing with her, lest they receive the same treatment.
• Rage Quit: She eventually gets so angry about everything that's happening in the Chapter 1, with the breaking point being Goh claiming she has no dream, that she snaps at everyone and decides to straight up run away. This is when the Train takes her, by the way.
• Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Inverted. Unlike the female protagonists in Infinity Train usually wearing pants unless it's part of a challenge (Tulip being the exception with a skirt but with additional leggings albeit that was due to the weather at the time), Chloe is a girly girl with long hair, a compassionate heart, likes cute stuff, cooks and wears dresses for the most part. However, she is not weak in any sense of the term, being willing to get her hands dirty if she has no choice.
• "The Reason I Suck" Speech: After her Heel Realization she gives a few of these, most notably during the Fog Car, and always responded to by her peers with You Are Better Than You Think You Are.
• Red Baron: "Chloe of the Vermillion", initially a nickname given to her by Atticus in their first introduction, eventually becomes her title as a proud warrior ready to fight off the Apex. She later gets "Slayer of the Apex" for helping bring the Apex down for good.
• Red Is Heroic: The heroine of Blossoming Trail with long maroon hair, a red cloak and is associated with the color red in general.
• Redheads Are Uncool: She has maroon hair, in contrast to other students in her class who have black, brown or blond hair, and she's an outcast because she's into horror and not a Pokémon lover.
• Rejection Projection: The more we learn about the situation regarding Chloe and other people besides her classmates, the more it becomes clear that Chloe being "rejected" by her peers happened more often than not in her head. This is particularly clear with Goh and Ash; Chloe insisted that the two weren't trying to get to know her and were shutting her out, when in reality she was constantly telling them "no" whenever they did invite her to one of their adventures, simply because it wasn't what she wanted to do.
• The Resenter: Underneath the surface, Chloe shows a lot of resentment and hate for the people in her life from bias and everyone pushing her to a role she does not want. Part of her character growth is to let go of this and understand that barring her bullies, her loved ones were never spiteful or abusive and truly wanted to help her.
  • Hates her father for never noticing her at all in favor of Ash and Goh or anything relating to Pokémon as if she's actually interested in it. By the end of The Dead Carnival Car and beginning of The Curry Car, she decides to reconcile with him again.
  • Hates Ash, as he's the reason why Goh spends even less time with her, and in addition to him being much more accomplished than she is, making her believe that she will never be anyone of great importance. Eventually, she decides to start anew with him and hopes to go on plenty of adventures when she returns.
  • She hates Mew even more than Ash because the Pokémon has become Goh's sole obsession for the past few years, causing their friendship to shatter into pieces. seeing Mew injured by Ms. Turner caues her to reconsider.
  • And finally, she hates Goh for abandoning her for his goals, for constantly talking about Ash, him shutting her out to focus on Mew and the last straw was shouting out her face that she had no dreams at all that made her seem so inferior to him. The end of Blossoming Trail and most of Voyage of Wisteria is about her making steps to rebuild their friendship.
  • This trope eventually gets Deconstructed: Chloe eventually ends up resenting everybody so much that she takes some very questionable actions in order to spite them, eventually leading to Parker unleashing the Unown on Vermillion City as retaliation. And in Voyage of Wisteria, her resenting so much people give Vox and Dahlia more than enough ammunition to ruin her reputation by making everybody witness how she used to act before she entered the Train, revealing her darker side to everyone.
• Retroactive Idiot Ball: Chloe's freak out at the start of the story initially made sense, as she was horribly bullied at school and nobody seemed to care about her as a person or her problems. However, as the story goes on and more context of the situation is provided, it becomes clear this was a big overraction on her part, one that could've been easily dealt with, along with her problems, if she had actually bothered to speak her mind about her issues and not relied on people figuring it out on their own.
• Revenge via Storytelling: She admits to Lexi that she writes a lot of these stories mostly to get back at all who have hurt her. The first story she writes in Blossoming Trail essentially states how much she wants Goh to suffer for relentlessly chasing Mew.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Before entering the Train, Chloe's hair is stuck in a braid, representing her rigidity, how she's always keeping her head low and unable to decide who she is. When the Train arrives, its entrance causes her braid to be undone and with it, she is free to become her true self away from those who weighed her down.
  • Chloe's lunchbox is faded and something she kept for years as a gift from her mother. Giving it away to Atticus is her first step of shedding the old Chloe and the first steps of her becoming someone new.
  • Starting with the Intermission, Chloe calls herself "Chloe of the Vermillion" instead of Chloe Cerise. This shows off how she no longer associates herself with her father, and she is called a name given to her by a good friend of hers (Atticus).
  • After the fight with The Organ Man making her lose most of her hair, Chloe styles it into sideswept waves and adds blue streaks. This is coming after her mother's email to tell her to stop making excuses and admit that she made plenty of mistakes, which has her learning to experiment and try new things and casting off many of her flaws and resentment she had in others. Moreover, Chloe is depicted as a Fiery Redhead and this is around the time she's letting go of a lot of her anger and is learning to be calm like water.
  • Chloe's zodiac sign is Libra, the scales. It's the only non-human/animal symbol of the Zodiac, which reflects how Chloe is so alone and different from others.
  • Chloe's Pose of Supplication after she's made to see how horrible she was before and how she hurt Goh for not reading her mind is precisely what she demanded from Vermillion City back in Blossoming Trail, proving that she has gone from a girl who'd never accept responsibility and would rather have everybody else apologize to her, to actually assuming responsibility for her actions and apologizing, even if it's seen as too little, too late.
• The Runaway: After blowing up in the Cerise Lab, Chloe decides to run away and have her own journey, believing no one really cares for her as a person, and reasoning it can't be too hard if other ten-year-old children leave home all time. Of course, most don't end up on the Infinity Train...
• Sarcastic Clapping: She types this in her message to Ash when he finally realizes how much curry was a sore spot to her.
• Satiating Sandwich: She's known to eat plenty of sandwiches on the Train.
• Scare 'Em Straight: To ensure everybody that she's not joking about it, she sends Parker a message that says that if things don't get better in Vermillion City, she will return to the Train, possibly for good. Parker listens, alright...
• Screw Destiny: During the Fog Car arc, Chloe finds herself having to face off against Walter and Henry's machinations and the other components of the Cage of Flauros. Even after being called Lady Destiny, she decides that she's not going to fulfill that role and will save everyone via her methods.
• Secretly Selfish: Post Cyan Desert Car has her be told out that she was just as selfish as Parker, Goh and perhaps her class when she requested everyone give her what she wanted yet never did anything to confess her problems. Chloe admits that it's true and decides to truly change herself for the better.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Just as she had always feared, her mother has forbidden her from enjoying horror (albeit temporarily), because her hiding what she liked in the first place started a domino effect that had effects including her running away, Parker abusing the Unown to hurt people, and getting the family entangled in lawsuits.
• Shrinking Violet: Due to many of her issues, she's usually unable to stand up for herself. Once she's on the train, she vows to fix that, getting back into her passions of horror writing, being able to read one of her stories on stage to roaring applause, and realizing that there is nothing in the way of her being who she truly is.
• Shrouded in Myth: Amelia weaves tales about Chloe being a powerful witch to The Apex. Given that Chloe can cast fire and later summon demons, that's not entirely wrong.
  • In Voyage of Wisteria, the denizens in the Canals of Fondue Car are talking about all her feats and somewhat exaggerating them. This doesn't help Goh in the slightest.
  • Come "The Darkest Day" arc, however, and this trope gets trashed as Vox and Dahlia send a video to all of the Train to see how Chloe really acted before entering it.
• Significant Green Eyed Red Head: Has green eyes and maroon hair, and she's the focus of Blossoming Trail and the deutagonist of Voyage of Wisteria. The green eyes are symbolic of how she's green with envy towards Ash, and her maroon hair adds to her being associated with the color red.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift:
  • Chloe's first outfit on the train is a white beach dress with blue sea life to signify her new desire to unmoor herself from other's expectations of her and freely try new experiences. This is in contrast to her school uniform decorated with giant anchors, reflecting her indecisiveness and hesitance to do unfamiliar things and how she's weighed down by her insecurities and the pressure on doing what society dictates she should do.
  • Chloe's second Train outfit makes her resemble Fran Bow to highlight how she's heading off to a world of darkness.
• Silk Hiding Steel: She's a girly girl with long hair, a pretty white dress and a kind and caring disposition. She also carries a steel pipe (or "donut holer") as her main weapon and will use it if you push her buttons too many times.
• Small Girl, Big Gun: Trades her Donut Holer for a sizable shotgun in CarnEvil, which she wields one handed and manages to surprisingly hold her own with.
• The Smurfette Principle: Among the representatives needed for Henry and Walter's plan — Dreams, Destiny, Death, Destruction, Desire, Despair and Delight — she's the only girl, filling in as "Lady Destiny".
• So Proud of You: When she meets up with Zack and Ray after the Fog Car, Zack can't help but praise how Chloe has grown under his tutelage.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: On the surface, she is initially aloof and would repeatedly turn down chances to hang out with Ash and Goh. We later learn that, thanks to severe bullying and lack of a parental figure who actually notices her, she's actually extremely sad inside, if immensely spiteful.
• Speaks in Shout-Outs: Not entirely, but many of her quotes and lines reference the media she enjoys, enough so that it may be hard to read for those not already familiar with them.
• Spit Take: Does this with her cup of tea in the Cyan Desert Car after learning of Parker's rampage across Vermillion City with the Unown.. In Voyage of Wisteria, this is invoked when she learns that her official movie mixed up Goh for Yeardley regarding her childhood friend.
• Spoiled Brat: Played With: While she isn't really spoiled by anyone around her, Chloe's issues end up making her a VERY entitled person, expecting people to immediately know what's on her mind and give her what she wants when she wants it. And during the story, she even threatens that if even one person in all of Vermillion City doesn't change to cater to her, she will stay on the Train forever. It takes Parker terrorizing the city with the Unown, leading to several people getting hurt and traumatized (complete with Miss April and Goh nearly ending up dead) due to said threat and being massively called out by Talia and Delia for Chloe to realize she had no right to demand such things, that the majority of her problems were on her for never opening up, and now she will have to change to avoid being rejected by the remainder of the world.
• Stepford Smiler: Was considered this most of the time in prior to entering the Train in Blossoming Trail. By the time of the sequel, she still has shades of this but mostly to hide her worry about Goh being on the Train.
• Stock Shoujo Heroine:
  • Chloe is a sweet and passionate girl who starts out depressed, insecure and saddled with nicknames like "Klutzy Chloe" and "Monster Lover". As she gradually traverses the Infinity Train, she starts becoming the girl she should be, reaches out to others with love, kindness and friendship while also willing to defend herself with a donut holer, stand her ground against injustices and speak her mind without shrinking back in fear. She is tasked by One-One to help defeat the Apex not because she has a magic power, but more for her determination to stop them from doing more harm to others and her kind heart.
  • Moreover, she is not an Idiot Hero, having a brilliant mind capable of writing lots of horrifying tales and knowledge of demons at her disposal. She doesn't have a love interest (with the closest thing to one, Lexi, described as a head taller than Chloe, being a close friend and confidant. Oh, and also because he's technically a talking book). She is known to have a love of sweets and insecurities of not being noticed and loved by others due to constant bullying problems. And unlike the anime, the fanfic focuses on red instead of pink as her focus color.
  • However, this trope also works against her: in any other series, Chloe wouldn't have stood out that much, but in the world of Pokémon, especially the one presented in this story, she not only stands out like a sore thumb, but does so in a way that causes people to grow envious of her and bully her in return, causing her to hide a lot of baggage behind her layers.
• The Storyteller: She is known to recite many of her stories in Act 1 due to her love of writing. The Cyan Desert Car arc has her travel for a story-festival.
• Stopping the Blame Game: After spending the entire story blaming everybody else for her problems while refusing to see her role in everything, the email she sends Ash when she's about to enter the Fog Car explicitly notes that, if she does on the Train, that it won't be anybody's fault. She still has to work on it though, as seen halfway into the Fog Car.
• Summon Magic: Chloe is given a blessing of a crimson wing mark on her arm during the Cyan Desert Car. She uses this during her fight against The Organ Man, allowing her to summon Amdusias to destroy his contraptions and later brings in other demons before culminating it with Lucifer.
• Sweet Tooth: She has a love of chocolate and other types of sweets and almost every car has her indulge in her love of them.
• Symbol Motif Clothing: Chloe's first train attire is a white dress with sea life on the collar and waist. Unlike her school uniform, with two large anchors that scream how she's stuck in place and unwilling to move forward, her new dress shows the fish swimming freely to signify a new her about to go on an adventure and willing to experiment.
• Tame His Anger: Wrath is easily one of Chloe's most consistent flaws, and it's one that she has a lot of trouble working out due to having to bottle up her emotions for years. Act 2, in part, is focused on Chloe realizing this trope's not only in effect, but that she can't be The Ditherer regarding this: she must learn to control her anger, lest things go back the way they were, and she ruins what little good will she has left from people.
• Tantrum Throwing: After running away from the lab, Chloe rips posters off an alleyway and beats up trash cans with a pipe as she lays out her frustration over Pokémon, her friends, her father, and her own self-loathing. She repeats this in The Cyan Desert Car when she learns what Parker got up to, with more firepower.
• Tautological Templar: This is actually a fairly good way to describe Chloe's state of mind at the start of the story! Due to the way her class had treated her, Chloe had long made the idea that she was a martyr to all the "Pokemon lovers" of the world one of the key aspects of her identity. Once she regained some confidence in herself upon making new friends aboard the Infinity Train, Chloe had no qualms about snapping back at the "Pokemon lovers" who had been around her the most; She demanded that her father never bother her with details of his career again. She ended up giving Ash Ketchum a Guilt Complex because he dared to stay in Vermillion City, bond with her Only Friend, and defeat her in a Pokemon battle.. And speaking of Goh, Chloe made no secret of how worthless she thought his dream of finding Mew was, since it prevented him from hanging out with her and working on her dreams. Throughout Act One of Blossoming Trail Chloe was convinced that not only was she completely justified in treating the people back home this way, she was being magnanimous, because what they'd done to her was too terrible to forgive, but she was willing to consider doing so. The thought that she might be acting unnecessarily cruel to them clearly didn't occur to her.
• Teach Me How To Fight: She asks Lexi to teach her how to fight with her donut holer in the Crayon Car not only for future fights but also if they ever bump into the Apex. She also requests training from Zack every time the Red Lotus Trio cross paths with Zack and Ray.
• Teacher's Pet: Downplayed with her relationship with Mr. Bradbury. He's one of the only people she's nice to back in her more spiteful days, but she doesn't suck up to or glorify him; the most she ends up doing is claiming her was a better father figure for her than her actual father, of which the story later provides more than enough evidence to call into question. If anything, it's Bradbury who glorifies Chloe, seeing her as the daughter he could never have.
• There Are No Therapists: If only she had a counselor, or if her dad listened to Mr. Bradbury's advice to get her one, she probably would've been a much more stable girl. Alas, there'd also be no story if that was the case. and given what's later revealed about her situation, a therapist could only help so much.
• They Just Dont Get It: Through most of Blossoming Trail, Chloe can't get it on her head that not only is the situation back home not as black and white as she thinks it is, but that she herself isn't the innocent victim she thinks she is. She starts to let go of this trope by Act 3, but Voyage of Wisteria hints she's not quite over it, particular not being how unnervingly easy she falls back to her former self while undercover to expose Carl. It takes until an interview with Dahlia and Vox that reveals all of her faults in a way that forces her to look at herself to finally get the point.
• This Is Unforgivable!: While she's more willing to forgive those who are actually trying to atone for their mistakes, she has little patience for those who made her life a living nightmare. One of the things she must do is learn to forgive those who never meant to do so much harm:
  • She is unwilling to forgive Goh for all of the pain he gave her until she sees how much damage the Unown did on his psyche.
  • She can't forgive her father for his Parental Neglect, never understanding what she is into, assuming that she's just as enthusiastic into Pokémon like him and putting his time and attention onto Ash and Goh (or his "new sons" as she puts it). She tells him to never email her again while she's on the Train and heavily threatens that if he does anything to upset her when she returns that she will just run away and stay on the Train for good. In Arc 2, she later decides to email him as a way of her reaching out to him and forgiving him for his mistakes.
  • The Apex and their crimes honestly make her determined to topple them as their chaos reminds them too much of those who hurt her and given how they said she deserved to die after she was dropped out of the sky by their leader who turned into a dragon. Even after they are disbanded, she has no words to say to them. Speaking of which...
  • Her entire class, and her homeroom teacher, could rot in Hell for everything they did to her. She later learns to forgive them all, yes even Sara (although she asks the bully to never talk to her again), once she gets a bigger picture of what's going on.
  • Ash, for just taking up the spotlight, pulling everyone away from her and not once approaching her with something other than those creatures and not even noticing how it would affect her. She eventually asks for his forgiveness in the Cyan Desert Car.
  • She never says this out loud to Ms. Turner but it's clear that she did not like how this madwoman put her former class hostage and kidnapped her friend.
  • She eventually gets a taste of her own medicine after the Act 2 fiasco happens, at which point everything that just happened gets traced back to her, and the Vermillion City she once demanded forgiveness for wants nothing to do with her and her family anymore. And not even just them; Delia makes it clear she's not going to cut her some slack like everybody else.
• Tomboy and Girly Girl: The Girly Girl to Amelia's Tomboy with a dress, long hair, love of chocolate and cute things and being much more innocent of the duo.
• Took a Level in Badass: Pre-Infinity Train Chloe was unable to stand up for herself. Infinity Train-Chloe has become much more assertive in who she is and is receiving combat skills from Lexi and Zack to combat the Apex. By the time she faces CarnEvil, she's the one who goes toe-to-toe with The Organ Man, and only asks Lexi to help cut her hair off so she can escape the Organ Man's grasp. And by the time she enters the Fog Car, she's facing off Delirium and the Bogeyman, and summons Lucifer to destroy Walter's monster form. Should we mention that this last one was done after she got killed by Simon?
  • In contrast to how she couldn't fight Ash's Gengar, when she fights off Team Rocket with a pipe and Yamper, she actually manages to get a few hits in. By the time she gets into a Pokemon battle, she actually holds her own against an opponent's Mawhile and Incineroar, only losing when the Inceinroar uses Thunder Punch to paralyze her Eevee.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Was once an Aloof Dark-Haired Girl who didn't show any signs of liking anything and exploded at her friend, Ash and father when they express how much they love Pokémon to her. In contrast, the Chloe on the Infinity Train is happier than she's ever been in her life. By the time she returns home in Voyage of Wisteria, she happily hugs Ash's Dragonite and is getting into Pokémon research one step at a time.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: Before hopping on the Train, Chloe was a withdrawn girl who kept her emotions bottled up until they tipped over, causing her to lash out to grandiose effect. Once she gets taken by the Train, the euphoria and bliss she gets from being in a place that she doesn't have any expectations thrust upon her causes her to not only indulge in her darkest fantasies, but also become almost as worse as the real targets of her hate in her righteous anger, to the point she begins to Kick the Dog with everybody who she once knew just to make herself feel better at their expense, whether they deserve it or not. This bites her in the ass when she essentially threatens Parker (one of the few people that always accepted her and DESPERATELY wants her to come home) that she will never come back home unless all of Vermillion grovelled at her feet, causing him to take drastic action to grant her wish. When she learns of what he had done, and what had drove him to such things, she is horrified and guilt-stricken, realizing how low she sank (mostly due to Taila’s email) and resolves to change for the better.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After multiple Internal Reveals about how everyone in the Pokémon world is taking her disappearance and haughty attitude, and finally getting some constructive criticism and encouragement towards reflecting on her responsibilities for her predicament, she (after quite a bit of loud screaming) sincerely vows to change for the better, becoming a much more considerate and emotionally mature person.
• Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: At the story's beginning, she stops eating her mother's lunch after she got pressured into battling Ash by her classmates and then refuses to eat all the curry Mr. Mime makes before she ultimately snaps and slams a plate of spicy curry into Goh's face and runs off. How hungry she is only hits her after she gets on the Infinity Train and meets Atticus.
• Tranquil Fury: Chloe is usually seen with a Hair-Trigger Temper, but she drops into this when she tells the Apex — who were happy to see her dead and wanted to make sure she wasn't resurrected — to "go Sawsbuck themselves" in a calm voice.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: For a ten year old, most of the things she enjoys are shockingly grim. She tends to reference them frequently in casual conversation, which naturally disturbs the adults and others around her. On top of that, she becomes very proficient with a bludgeoning weapon whilst riding the Train, and we find out later that she had a history of violence towards classmates before that.
• Try to Fit That on a Business Card: Across the story she gains many titles, which are used interchangeably. 'Chloe Cerise of the Vermillion/Red Lotus Trio (Quarto), Witch of the Carmine Grove' is her primary.
• Trying Not to Cry: In Azada, she refuses to cry in front of Lexi when she explains how she feels so different from her classmates.
• Turn the Other Cheek: She doesn't hold any qualms for getting her arm and part of her back hit with boiling water when stopping a fight between Lexi and Titus, as it was only an accident. This act allows her to have Lexi join her on her Train journey.
• The Un-Favourite: Views herself as this trope, feeling that everyone in her life values those who love Pokémon, such as her younger brother Parker, Goh and Ash, over people like her who don't. This was never actually the case, but the damage is already done by the time we find out.
• Ungrateful Bitch: While Ash could've done more than just invite her to hang out with him and Goh, he did do more to get to know her than anybody else ever did. She still treated him very harshly and painted him as a black hole who was going to take everything away from her.
• Unreliable Narrator: While Chloe's issues when venting aren't wrong or made up, she blows them so much out of proportion and peppers them with her own bias to make a heavily different story than what really happened.
• Unwanted Rescue: Refuses to be rescued at all by Goh due to how she hates how he essentially abandoned her and also because she's physically unable to as long as she has a number.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Chloe didn't introduce Parker to horror with the idea that he'd encounter the Unown, create living nightmares, Mind Rape people, and other terrible things. Nonetheless, she is still the reason why Parker is doing that in the first place. Let alone the fact that it is largely in part to her having run away and her last email stating that she won't come back home unless she's certain everyone cleaned up their acts else she'll run away again for good, that Parker was in a state where the Unown would react to him. In her defense, she had no idea that her running away from home would lead her onto the Infinity Train. She's horrified to learn what Parker has become.
• Voluntary Shapeshifting: One of her Olmec-granted powers allows her to shift into a red wolf with gold wings, which she calls 'Marchosias Mode'.

W - Y

• Water Is Womanly: In the first arc, Chloe has a water motif and is the sole girl of the Red Lotus Trio. This is represented by her having a gentle and caring nature, wearing a dress that evokes the sea and most of the experiences that relate to her character growth involve water. That said, she can also be quite aggressive when pissed off, reflecting how water can shift from calm to dangerous in a second.
• Waxing Lyrical: Has a tendency to pepper her speech with various literature and song references, mostly to make a dark joke to the point that she can catch Lexi and Atticus off guard with some of her morbid ideas.
• Was Too Hard on Him: As the reprecussions and consequences of her actions begin to settle in, Chloe slowly comes to realize that she was incredibly harsh on everybody back at Vermillion City, especially her family and Ash.
• Wants Versus Needs: A big part of Chloe's character early on in the trilogy is the fact that she wants everybody to own up to their mistakes and ask for her forgiveness for how bad they treated her. However, as the story goes on and the complexity of the situation comes out to light, Chloe eventually learns that what she really needs is to grow up and stop blaming everybody else for her misery, as well as accepting the fact that at least part of her issues come down to her own flaws rather than the world around her.
• Weapon-Based Characterization: Despite her femininity and kindness, Chloe has a deep streak of anger issues that manifests in horribly brutal attacks on others. Naturally, her primary weapon is an improvised bludgeoning tool, treated like a sword.
• We Used to Be Friends: By the time Blossoming Trail begins, Chloe had already basically given up on her friendship with Goh, even if Goh honestly believed they were still close. The argument over curry served as The Last Straw, and most of Arc 1 was dedicated to giving Chloe the courage to leave Goh behind... before eventually shifting gears to reconcile them once Chloe realized she Was Too Hard on Him. This trope was even Invoked in the In-Universe narrative about "Chloe of the Vermillion"- but judging by her reaction, most of the Train assumed that Goh had begun outright bullying his former friend. They were rather taken aback when it came out that Chloe was completely breaking away from Goh because Goh missed her birthday celebration and wasn't spending as much time with her as he used to.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: Chloe only wants her father to pay attention to her, but he only recognizes her when she fought (and lost) to Ash because he takes it as a sign that she's finally taking an interest in Pokémon battling and doesn't consider the fact that she doesn't like being in the Institute. By the time the Professor starts realizing how he's been a neglectful parent, Chloe has given up on this goal, as she no longer sees him as a father until her mother emails her and tells her to stop thinking this way.
• Western Zodiac: She's a Libra, denoted by the journal she wrote that contains all her stories being marked with the symbol on the front. Libras are known to be fair-minded and peaceful individual who hate violence and injustice, and prone to indecisiveness, self-pity, and holding grudges. Despite her darker thoughts, Chloe has no interest in actually harming her classmates, and at one point says that she wants help for her anger issues. The flaws mentioned above just so happen to be three of Chloe's fatal flaws, as well. Finally, they also hate being alone, mirroring Chloe's angst on having no support whatsoever.
• What the Hell, Hero?: In Voyage of Wisteria, the Darkest Day has Vox and Dahlia revealing the extent of Chloe's past cruelty, spitefulness, and emotionally abusive behavior through a public "interview" that leaves both Gard and Julie appalled and disgusted with Chloe. Everyone else on the Train who knew her as a nice girl who could do no wrong starts going through a Broken Pedestal moment as they all learn how Chloe treated her family and friends back in Vermillion City. But the crowner comes from Goh, who gives her a tearful "The Reason You Suck" Speech detailing everything Chloe did to him to make his life an utter hell, just because she thought he was a poor friend and was more concerned with Playing the Victim Card instead of hearing his side of the story. Chloe is reduced to tears by the end of it, and she grovels at Goh's feet (which is karmic on her end for previously wanting everyone to beg for her forgiveness) and tearfully, genuinely apologizes for her mistreatment of him.
• When All You Have Is a Hammer…: Despite picking up such varied powers as shapeshifting and flamethrowing, her tried and true method through the entirety of Blossoming Trail is to get up close and personal with a metal pipe. Justified because, more often than not, it works.
• Wish-Fulfillment: The bulk of the story is Chloe entering a fantasy land full of infinite possibilities, and choosing to act out the role of her favorite fictional protagonists. She travels in a posse of heroes, dresses up in fancy clothing handpicked by her, and gets to see and interact with fictional monsters and creatures just like she writes about. She even asks Lexi to take the form of a gryphon from time to time, befitting her Mythological interests.
• With Friends Like These...: As much as she claims that Goh was a terrible friend to her, later acts of Blossoming Trail and Voyage of Wisteria make it clear she wasn't that much better than him; not only did she keep to herself and was never once straightforward with him, allowing the issues between to bubble until they boiled over, but once she realized Goh wasn't going to get hints, she outright gave up on being friends with him, with the worst example being how she ended their friendship when they finally talk, after he had driven himself sick looking for her for days.
• Write Who You Know: In-universe; the story she writes in Azada is essentially based on Goh and her friendship and Goh's obsession with Mew, albeit it's a dark and twisted variation that ends with a Karmic Twist Ending.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Chloe starts to have a panic attack about reading one of her stories on stage in The Plush Penguin Car, because she's afraid of being mocked at and ignored like at school, Lexi gives a speech of this kind.
  Lexi: Chloe, listen to me very carefully. Those sharks are not insensitive classmates. You're not in that classroom where no one listens to a single word you say. You are in a land of ice cream and penguins and these pups are not going to laugh at you. And you want to know why? Because they'll be too engrossed with your tale to even consider laughing at it. You're going to wow them.
  • The end of Le Chat Chalet Car has her told by Atticus, Lexi and Amelia that she's better than what her classmates and Grace and Simon make her out to be as she's doing all she can to fix her mistakes to go home.
• You Are Grounded!: In a way: Talia tells her in her email that once Chloe gets home, she will NOT do anything related to the horror genre for a long while. She ends up agreeing, giving Lexi and herself a makeover and deciding to try new things.
• You Are Not My Father: In the Intermission, she addresses her father as "Professor Cerise" in her email to him, cementing that she no longer sees him as her father after he failed to be there when she needed it. Talia puts an end to it after the Dead Carnival Car, sternly telling her that while Professor Cerise seriously screwed up, his intentions were out of love. The chapter ends with Chloe writing an email starting with "Hey dad".
• You Don't Look Like You: The Chloe who returns home after the Infinity Train is so vastly different from the one who entered it (wearing a yellow dress, striped stockings, and newly cut and styled hair), it's kind of hard to believe that they're supposed to be the same character. This is also used to her advantage, since keeping her old looks would just remind people of UnChloe, and nobody wants to remember her.
• You Remind Me of X: Amelia has a soft spot for her because Chloe reminds her of Alrick; preferably since both have a fondness for Alice in Wonderland. She and One-One also see Tulip in Chloe.
• Young and in Charge: A 10 year old girl leading a team of an older man and a more mature dog into battle. Doubly so when Amelia joins the trio, a 60+ year old woman answering to said 10 year old. Albeit, all of them are working with her as equals rather than subservient to her.

Chloe's Pokémon

Yamper -> Boltund

Chloe's first Pokémon and the Cerise family pet who was left behind when she ran away.

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• Ascended Extra: Yamper never had a big role outside Episode 11 and Episode 29 of Journeys. But here he is able to tell everyone in the Institute what Chloe really needed from them, he now partakes in more battles by her side in Voyage of Wisteria, evolves and becomes a permanent member of Chloe's party instead of being relegated to the Institute.
• Big Brother Instinct: Becomes this to Eevee as a Boltund.
• Big Friendly Dog: When he becomes Boltund.
• Brutal Honesty: Proves to be a fountain of this, being extremely straightforward and having no filter whatsoever when it comes to revealing what was really going on with Chloe.
• Evil-Detecting Dog: Knows full well that UnChloe isn't his real master, and that Parker has crossed a line.
• Irony: Is the only sane and observant member of the family even though he's a Pokémon. It's also worth mentioning that he knew Chloe better than her own dad.
• Precious Puppy: He's like this as a Yamper when he likes someone (like Chloe).
• Shock and Awe: Is Electric-type with his only Electric move being Spark.
• Shut Up, Hannibal!: When he gets his speech, he spends most of it shooting down Parker and UnChloe's attempts at a Hannibal Lecture.
• Simple-Minded Wisdom: Isn't the most complicated thinker, which protects him from most of UnChloe's attempts to manipulate him because he doesn't think about 'what ifs' the way the others do.
• Taking the Bullet: Gets hit by Team Rocket's cannon to protect Chloe. This doesn't deter him from saving his owner from Meowth and evolving shortly thereafter.
• Took a Level in Badass: Evolves into Boltund during his and Chloe's fight against Team Rocket.
• Undying Loyalty: The only reason he's not on the train with Chloe is that he wasn't present when she ran away.

Eevee

A wild Eevee Chloe finds in Pallet Woods and subsequently captures.

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• Adaptational Badass: In the anime, she only got into the battle alongside Yamper to copycat Spark and knock down Team Rocket's Pelipper — due to the Rocket Prize Machine not working at the time — but here she also copies Metal Claw to save Pikachu first. She's also more willing to get into battles.
• Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not this Eevee is capable of evolving is never revealed.
• Badass Adorable: Once she's freed by Chloe, she gets to work to help free Pikachu from Team Rocket and then helps unleash an electrical attack to sent Team Rocket blasting off again. And when she becomes Gigantamax, she uses Copycat to one-shot an attack from Eternatus.
• Cute Giant: When she getes hit by one of Eternatus' beams, she becomes a giant, yet still adorable, Eevee.
• Early-Bird Cameo: We first see her in a vision of a potential future shown to Goh by Zeno, with Chloe meeting Goh for the first time after leaving the train. At this point, she's just picked up Eevee with Ash's help, and carries them in her arms as she talks.
• Establishing Character Moment: She's first seen imitating Rattatta by wagging her tail like them.
• Non-Elemental: A Normal-type Pokémon that knows Copycat and Tackle.
• Power Copying: Knows Copycat which she demonstrates to copy the Metal Claw from Team Rocket's Ursaring. She can even copy an attack from Eternatus.
• Recurring Element: Discussed; before she's captured, Chloe gets to know that her getting an Eevee isn't the first time as Serena, Lana and May also have their own Eevees.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: She's an adorable fluffy Pokémon with a penchant of copying others.
• Rule of Symbolism: Chloe specifically wants an Eevee because of how they can evolve into different things, reflecting how she is trying to find her path in life.
• Weak, but Skilled: Knows Copycat which means that she can copy any move she sees and strike the opponent before they have a chance to know what hit them.

Ponyta

A Galarian Ponyta in the Glimwood Tangle whom Chloe must prove that she is of pure heart to obtain.

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• Canon Immigrant: Chloe encountered Galarian Ponyta in the anime, but never captured it.
• The Medic: Knows Heal Pulse, which comes in handy once Darkest Day arrives and many people are in need of medical assistance.
• Mind over Matter: It's Psychic-type and uses Confusion against a Porygon.
• Only the Pure of Heart: Like the myths of unicorns, they only allow those with pure heart to approach them. Chloe has to convince the Ponyta that she is this, confessing that she never wants to be the spiteful girl that ruined other's lives.
• Unicorn: Galarian Ponytas are unicorns.

Grookey

A Galarian starter Chloe receives in exchange for trading a Porygon with Goh.

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• Green Thumb: It's a Grass-type.
• Last Episode, New Character: Debuts at the final chapter of Voyage of Wisteria.

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