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The eponymous otherworldly train of the story. It picks up people (or "passengers") who are going through a mental trauma or pain in their lives and challenges them through a series of Cars or pocket dimensions and worlds filled with quirky Denizens who will aid them in their journey to heal and return home.

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Infinity Train

The Train

The eponymous therapy train.

Ambiguous Situation:
- Brought up in Orchid Observer in regards to Tulip. Did the Train conveniently placed Tulip in the Snow Car — where One-One was residing — so that she'd bond with him and help him return as the True Conductor or was it all just plain coincidence since Tulip was picked up when it was snowing?
- Did the Train really send that lightning bolt to save Chloe? At no point did the Train do anything like this prior and it's a bit too convenient...
Been There, Shaped History: According to Titus, the Train is responsible for the Lost Colony of Roanoke, as the colonists there assumed that it would take them to the nearby Croatoan Island. They're also responsible for multiple myths due to many denizens being revered as deities.
Blue-and-Orange Morality:
- The Train does want to do a job of helping passengers...but it does this by kidnapping them at their lowest point, regardless of their issues and age, give them a number that they have no clue what is supposed to do until One-One's instruction manuals came about in 2020, strand them in another dimension without any way to contact their loved ones — prior to the creation of the Infinet — until they finally realize what's bugging them (which can take months to years if they don't get it like Jeremy in Book 4) and drops their bodies off if they die all while their soul becomes reincarnated as a denizen to continue the process. This also isn't accounting for untrustworthy denizens and being randomly placed in a car far away from food, water or shelter. Even Rey Mysterio notes that the Train does want to help, but just doesn't know how to.
- Passengers are seen as more important to the Train while the denizens are considered "lesser" to their eyes. The Apex can get away with killing and injuring denizens and not care for the damage they cause as long as it makes their numbers go up.
Bolt of Divine Retribution: Unleashes this in the Palimpsest Car when the street cleaners are ready to kill Chloe, showing that it's pissed off.
Cool Train: An interdimensional train that hosts numerous worlds within all in the hopes of helping passengers with their problems.
Everyone Has Standards: For everything the Train has done wrong, they are actively on the side of LGBT people, as Tres notes that many denizens on the Train actually fit in the LGBT spectrum.
Irony: The Train creates anything it wants and wants passengers to figure their problems and go home...except it never thinks to make instruction manuals for the millions of people who have been on it for the past thousand years or so.
Pet the Dog: There are moments that the Train cares for those about to enter, particularly to those who are suicidal. Examples of this include Amelia (who canonically went to the rooftop of her university during Alrich's funeral) and Chloe (who admitted that she was going to jump off the school's rooftop than face another day of humiliation).
Poor Communication Kills: It wants people to figure out their problems, but never considers telling people just how or what to do, even when it would make it easier for people to survive the train. It's not until Tulip Olsen arrived (in November 2019) and wishing for a book on how to survive the Train that One-One finally creates instruction videos (and even then they're a bit outdated).
Reality Warper: It appears anywhere at any time. Whether indoors, outdoors, on a boat...
Sink or Swim Mentor: You either learn what's bugging you or you stay on the Train for a long period of time until you die. And if you die before you figured out your problems, you get reincarnated until you get it right.
Time Abyss: It's existed for thousands of years given that two types of denizens were worshipped as gods and demons by humankind, along with shaping events of world history.

One-One

A bowling ball with two personalities that really wants to help passengers with their traumas. even if they have some trouble with it.

Big Good: His role as Conductor is to help passengers able to change and confront their problems.
Bystander Syndrome: Tres points out that prior to Amelia taking over thirty years prior, there must have been a lot of uprisings, wars and violence on the Train and not once did this little bowling ball do anything about it. Most notably, the Apex have been unleashing hell for years and even though he's been back as Conductor for months, he's not doing anything to address the problem, having chosen a little girl with a pipe to take them down. One-One is unable to say anything, and ends up vibrating in anger.
Deadpan Snarker: Sad-One's morose voice leads to very snarky comments.
Didn't See That Coming: He did not expect Chloe's stint with the Mirage Army that turned them into denizens.
Hypocrite:
- Sent three members of White Gestalt packing yet chooses to keep the denizen slaying cult on the Train and not do anything about stopping them. Needless to say, the heroes are not happy about this choice. The same can be said that he lets Amelia — the same woman who usurped him and is the cause of everything that had happened, especially the cult — to still work under him as an assistant.
- He tells Palimpsest that the messed up for not considering the consequences of their actions...says the Conductor who built the car and did nothing to teach them empathy.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Unless you live under a rock, it's hard to not avoid the fact that One-One is the Conductor.
Mister Exposition: He has videos explaining how to survive the Train and also is the one to explain what an "Exodus" event entails.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Acts like One when others practically begged for him to lift the ban on White Gestalt. Then he starts acting in fear when Augustine snaps under the pressure and threatens to destroy him and the train if he doesn't do it now.
Parental Neglect: One created the Palimpsest Car but never taught Palimpsest what was right and wrong and then blaming them for everything that happened, ranging from the war and up to the train that nearly killed his chosen one. Tres quickly calls them out on it.
Poor Communication Kills: Ironically, despite making videos explaining what to do when you get on the Train, when Augustine first arrived on it, he hadn't updated the videos to reveal that it's now possible to communicate to your loved ones outside the train. Augustine is naturally annoyed at this.
Running Gag: Most passengers like to call him a "bowling ball" due to his round shape.

Tomas

A denizen who works under the Conductor and creator of the Infinet.

Artificial Limbs: Has a cybernetic arm.
Demoted to Extra: Had a significant role in Voyage of Wisteria, but since Ogami is murdered, then his main role is to bring up info for One-One over new developments.
Ignorance Is Bliss: Has no idea that Ogami, the reincarnation of the passenger who killed him is dead.
Mister Exposition: He's the one who tells One-One about the Moonlight Passengers — aka those like Tres who have blue moon marks on their hands — and that they hail from another dimension.
Panthera Awesome: He's based off of a leopard.

Denizens

See here.

Passengers

Passengers that debut in Act 1

Alain Sativus

"In my restless dreams, I see that town. Silent Hill."

A former assistant to Professor Sycamore in the Kalos region who left on the journey to aid him to research on Mega Evolution. However, a series of tragedies and incidents caused by Team Flare and their leader, Lysandre changed everything for Alain. Even after he and Ash worked together to save the world from Lysandre's clutches, his doubts and guilts caused him to become a Passenger of the Train and a pawn to the Denizens of the Fog Car's schemes. Sycamore's end goal is to figure out where he's gone and he's not going to like what happened...

For more information about his Blossoming Trail counterpart, go here.

Ascended Extra: Somewhat; Alain had the least focus out of the three trainers stuck in Silent Hill due to his designation as "Dreams" making him an Empty Shell but the story is focused on Sycamore's quest to find him and highlights more on his personality as an empty-headed doll.
Broken Ace: While he was the winner of the Lumiose Conference and a skilled Trainer in his own right, he was guilt-ridden of his actions when working for Team Flare, which earned him an entry into the Train.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Were it not for his traumas and the fact he wasn't currently stuck in Silent Hill (with his Pokémon currently in the hands of Walter and Henry), he'd be out of the train right about now.
Empty Shell: By the time Professor Sycamore enters the story, there's barely anything left of Alain who has decided to forgo everything about himself for a peaceful sleep. And readers will already remember that Alex Shepherd is currently in possession of his soul that is sealed in his Honor of Kalos Medal...
Guilt Complex: His Fatal Flaw, the reason he was stuck on the Train and why he accepted Henry and Walter's hypnotherapy and became just another piece for their Evil Plan.
Hero of Another Story: One of the cars he passed by was the Monster City Car and saved it from destruction.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Don't read this story unless you already know what Alain's fate is.
Meaningful Name: Sativus is Latin for "Cultivate"; he was tricked by Lysandre to cultivate Mega Evolution energy and now his memories and nightmares are being cultivated for Walter and Henry's schemes.
Perpetual Smiler: Always smiles because of how his mind is warped with mindless bliss.

The Apex

A cult of children who rampage through cars injuring denizens and passengers alike, led by Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent.

The Bad Guy Wins: White Gestalt got disbanded and three members exiled. Meanwhile, they escaped completely unharmed and lived to kill Denizens another day.
Cult: They're this in all but name who worship the Conductor by raising numbers, raising cain and ruining the lives of denizens for their fun.
Even Evil Has Standards:
- They're horrified to see Chloe about to die from the Mirage Pokémon army.
- They were also shocked and apalled about the incident at the Noir Princess Car.
For the Evulz: Everything they do, if it's not for their survival, is for their benefit of having fun.
Ignored Epiphany:
- After White Gestalt's plan to use the Tapes went wrong, even after they escaped, they didn't seem to accept that they had to change and culminating in a battle that nearly ended the Train.
- Even after seeing the shock of Chloe's last stand against the Mirage Army, they don't get that they need to start changing since there are powerful things and more monstrous humans on the Train who can kill them; instead they focus on wanting to become strong and powerful so the train notices them.
Kids Are Cruel: What else do you call a bunch of kids who rampage through other communities with the intent of injuring and even killing them just for some sick fun?! They were all laughing at seeing the denizens in the Ninjala Car running for their lives like it's some kind of Sadist Show! One girl (Tiffany) snatched the heart of Lampetia, even as Specter is left screaming her name in panic. They also didn't give a damn when they tore Queen Cutie's ear and leg apart and could barely remember about her friend and what they did to her.
The Scapegoat: As it turns out, they had nothing to do with the Noir Princess Car but were made to be blamed through manipulative editing.
Super Gullible: While they all fell for Grace's "I know how the Train works" spiel, they also were convinced to leave their home and march into Silent Hill for their friend.
Villain of Another Story: They're well known for the path of destruction left in their wake. They rampaged through Tobe's car prior to their Musical Car rampage and had an encounter with White Gestalt months ago.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: If you're human, you're fine unless you're either an adult or you want to ruin their fun. If you're not human, then just go and die for all they care (which is none).
With Us or Against Us: You're either there to raise numbers and raise cain or you're the enemy and must be stopped by any means necessary.

Grace Monroe and Simon Laurent

Grace Monique Monroe and Simon Laurent

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Debut) | Orchid Observer (Mentioned) | The Firefly Funhouse Car (Mentioned)

The leaders of the Apex and the most dangerous of them all.

0% Approval Rating: No one likes them because they are the ones putting hell on the denizens. Even their own reflections hate their guts.
Abusive Parents: In the show, Grace suffered through emotionally neglectful parents. Eight years later, they haven't learned their lesson as when her mother calls, the two get into a heated argument that ends with Mrs. Monroe disowning her daughter.
Actor Allusion: Simon mentally notes that Grace once saw the Train as "her good place".
Adaptational Angst Upgrade:
- Not only are the two thrown into more violent situations that they can't counter (like London nearly choking them to death), Grace is separated from Hazel much earlier in canon, not to mention being disowned by her parents and Simon has to deal with the fallout that their crusade was presumably for nothing.
- Simon tells the Cat the story of his next door neighbor, Edith Finch and also bringing up how his father died when he was a kid. He also has to learn from his mother that Edith died some years prior to the start of Crocus and that he could've seen her if he knew the truth of the Train, making him realize that he's been going on a pointless crusade and that if he doesn't stop now, then he and the Apex are all going to die from the Cage of Flauros and never see their families again.
Adaptational Intelligence: Simon, when he put his mind to it, was good at the puzzles on the cars and nothing more since he refused to follow by any rules except his own and wouldn't believe Grace's words after she kept Hazel's revelation as a denizen to herself. The beginning of Act 2 has him starting to dismantle Grace's boast of saying the Conductor had a giant number...before realizing that wasn't the real Conductor because they had a number, something only passengers are supposed to have. He also puts together how the Cat just abandoned him and left him to die without explaining what numbers were meant to do.
Adaptational Jerkass: Grace did boast about wanting to beat Chloe up in Blossoming Trail but not to the point of actually using the Apex to beat her to death. This Grace, due to losing Hazel earlier, is losing her mind and believes that tearing Chloe into shreds is the only way she'll prove that she's the best.
Adaptational Sympathy:
- Downplayed; Grace does get some sympathy over having her parents disown her...but that doesn't necessarily mean that she's changing for the better and doubles down on her ways.
- Simon was known as a jerkass Tragic Villain at the end of Book 3 with not a lot of people mourning him and no backstory prior to his train trip, and his Blossoming Trail counterpart was a full-blown murderer. In the beginning of Act 2, we see him talking to his mother and sister of how scared he was not being able to go home, that he honestly had no clue what to do because his partner never bothered to give him instructions and that he will never see his childhood friend, Edith, ever again. It's through this that he decides that he can't be Apex anymore.
Be Careful What You Wish For:
- Grace just wants to be noticed; she's now remembered as the one who killed Utahoshi and for being a demon that needs to be exterminated ASAP, something that deeply annoys her. She also screams at her mother in a phone call that she'd rather stay with the Apex then come back home. Cecilia then announces that fine, Grace is now disowned and has no home to return to.
All for Nothing: Like in the show and the original trilogy, both of them realized they're crusade is pretty much pointless. Unlike the show, Grace continues to spiral into denial while Simon recognizes how destructive this is and attempts to pull the Apex out before Silent Hill eats them alive.
Being Evil Sucks: Sure Grace is the proud den-leader of the Apex and raising hell wherever she goes, but it's not worth it after she's learned the truth of her actions and thousands of denizens want her dead. Simon himself gets the epiphany in early Act 2, especially when he learns that being stuck on the Train meant he never gets to see his friend, Edith, ever again.
Big Bad Wannabe: Grace wants to be seen as the baddest bitch on the Train, but practically everyone sees her an annoyance at best and a bully at worst due to more stressful situations going on, ranging from the Fog Car, Elipzo, and Chloe's attempts to save her father. This does not settle well with Grace's desires to be noticed.
Big Brother Instinct: The Palimpsest Car reveals that Simon cares for his little sister. When Grace brings the suggest of Simon bringing her on the train for a tour, he gets furious.
Big Ego, Hidden Depths: Like in canon, Grace likes to see herself as the know-it-all and "total expert" of the Train. But when no one is looking, she has a lot of self loathing issues, deeply wants love from her parents, and is shaken up when others question her methods.
Book Dumb:
- Both Grace and Simon are this, due to the fact that they got on the Train at around 9-10 years old and haven't had an education for close to a decade, but it's implied that Simon's not good at spelling. Edith snapped to him that no one would read "a book report written by someone who didn’t know how to spell-check" and what got Simon on the Infinity Train was mispelling a word (albeit he was also nervous from Edith's spell check remark). That said, they can both be crafty when it comes to it.
- Simon says that he studied a lot while his mom worked two jobs but spelling was his weakest subject.
Simon: So I made sure to study super hard, made sure to answer every question, and went online to study math. But English? Despite reading the words out in front of me, I was just as bad at spelling as that bear with stuff and fluff.
Break the Haughty: Asher and London tell the two what's really going on throughout the train in the Chocolate Car. However, while it shattered their views a little, they still stubbornly hold onto that they were in the right even when others point out that it's the opposite. By Act 2, Simon starts piecing things together that he's been a horrible person while Grace keeps going deeper and deeper into her delusions that she knows what to do.
Brilliant, but Lazy: Orchid Observer reveals that Simon can be a bit lazy, yet he can also be quite inquisitive if he wants to be.
Broken-System Dogmatist: Grace has been stuck on her own fantasy of how the train works that, even when multiple proof appears that it's not as usable as she thinks it is, or that it's even how the train actually works, she still holds onto the belief that it works. Simon, by contrast, slowly realizes that the system doesn't really work and hopes to change it, or at least get the Apex out before Silent Hill eats them alive.
Bullying a Dragon: Grace tried to smack-talk Paimon, the 9th ranked Goetia who knows mind control. Paimon has none of it.
But for Me, It Was Tuesday:
- Grace and Simon deny anything about laying waste a car filled with turtles...right in front of the creator of said car, and the Conductor they worship, Amelia.
- When Amelia asked if Grace remembers the time she killed Utahoshi, she denies it. This is the same rabbit who is the reason Kisaragi brainwashed Tokio in order to have a replacement White Rabbit, by the way. Of course, it's made clear later on that Grace doesn't remember mostly because she doesn't need to; as everybody just won't shut up about it.
- Grace can barely remember that she sicced the Mirror Police on MT months ago, tried to wheel Alan Dracula and Lake while Jessie wasn't looking, or that she and her cult hurt Cutie and separated her from her best friend, Rose. This only proves that Grace shows no pity for her actions as it's all just a big blur for her.
Calling the Old Man Out:
- Grace chews out her parents for being assholes, but this does nothing for them to change their minds.
- Simon tells The Cat that she's such a selfish little brat who cares more about her life and her precious collection of junk than she ever did about him. This actually convinces the Cat to make amends as little as she can, albeit begrudgingly.
Composite Character: Simon gets Blossoming Trail Yeardley's characterization in Act 2: namely in that he has a mother and little sister who actually care about his feelings and encourage him to do better and love him despite all of his mistakes. Also helps that both he and Yeardley are Book Dumb.
Decomposite Character: Grace has many of Blossoming Trail Chloe's traits, namely feeling oppressed by someone better than them despite not actually knowing anything else about said person (the person in question, ironically, being the Crocus Chloe).
Deconstructed Character Archetype:
- Of the ultimate evil concept from Blossoming Trail. Grace Monroe has done a lot of atrocities for a teenager and created the cult that has spread nothing but mayhem and tragedy whenever they set foot, refusing to admit that she doesn't have the answers and that the only thing awaiting her and her cult is utter agony and death if they don't stop now...but she's ultimately a scared girl who only wanted mommy and daddy to love her and was just as confused as all the other passengers before One-One's reinstatement and videos. But does that matter to the Train and the denizens that have been indirectly hurt by her actions? Nope. And because no one is willing to give Grace the benefit of the doubt to explain herself, the fact that she's too stubborn to admit she's wrong, and pushing it over and over into her mind that she's evil, she decides to screw everything and let the entire Train burn by hoping to enter Silent Hill to mess with the Cage of Flauros that the heroes are trying to prevent.
- They also deconstruct the concept that they're incapable of understanding what went wrong. As Act 2 starts, Grace decided to just give up on trying to explain her side of the story and continues her ways. Simon, on the other hand, starts connecting the dots and with a little help from Specter, he begins thinking back as to how he got on the Train and comes to the realization that he has to stop now. In other words, it is possible for them to get it, but not with being all ham-fisted about it.
Did Not Think This Through: Grace's ideas of "kill nulls first, give fucks never" come back to bite her when a certain pattern is revealed about who she injures: royalty. She's torn apart the prince of Azada and spitefully said his father wouldn't care about it even after he willingly let her and Simon stay at his home to rest, she tore apart the innocent Queen Cutie and callously killed the leader of the 400 Rabbits, Utahoshi. This paints her as a dangerous monster who no one is willing to forgive for the atrocities of regicide and puts a bigger target than she wanted. She also doesn't consider that sooner or later, denizens are going to hear about her escapades and have very strong feelings about her actions.
Dirty Coward:
- Grace stabbed Utahoshi while his back his turned with her bronze knife, cementing her as someone who has no honor and will kill an innocent denizen without hesitation. Cutie even points out that the denizens Grace and the Apex have killed were innocent beings who could never fight back (as Cutie can attest with her stitches).
- Augustine calls her one of these when she refuses to question the idea that the numbers are wrong and that going back home is the death of her.
Augustine: So you are saying going back home is doom for you. Hmph… You really are a coward. A useless coward jealous of a little girl’s achievements.
Disappeared Dad: Simon tells Grace that his dad died in a car crash when he was 4 or 5.
Does Not Like Spam: Grace admits to Queen Cutie that she's not into peanut butter. Cutie gets panicky and pulls all the peanut butter cookies away before she gets Grace so mad that she'll kill her.
Dramatic Irony: A younger Simon tells Edith that her great-grandmother was at fault for everything that happened because she loved lying and couldn't stop romanticizing death, adding that many people could've been saved if she just shut up. Years later, he ended up clinging onto Grace Monroe...and she would fit every description of Edie Finch.
Simon: She's [Edie] nothing but a coward who is afraid of saying what she wants to say. All she had to do was to not fill everyone's heads with this stupid curse and none of this would happen. The only reason people like the story is because she's a LIAR!
Driven by Envy: It's implied that Grace's crusade to enter the Fog Car to mess with the Cage of Flauros is solely based on how she can't stand Chloe being more popular and beloved by her. Augustine even notes that Grace is a coward who is jealous of everything the Demon Lord of the Rebellion has accomplished.
Dude, Where's My Respect?: Grace is the feared leader of the Apex, but everyone focuses on her killing Utahoshi by stabbing him in the brain when his back was turned. This annoys her more than anything.
Easily Forgiven: Subverted for both of them. Neither Simon's mother or sister forgive him for his sins, but they are willing to sympathize with his pains. As for Grace, well, let's just say you could make a sense that the Denizens of the train are sadistic racists for how much pain they put on her...
Epiphanic Prison: The Train was once Neverland to the two...but once everything they've done has come to life, now it's become a living hell because they either admit they're wrong, lose their numbers and admit their weak only to go home to their horrible home lives or they could continue they way they were, but now their way of living is hollow. Simon even notes that Grace once saw the train as her "Good place"; now it's the opposite.
Even Evil Can Be Loved: Simon's mother and little sister love him even after he gave them the bare minimum of what he's been doing with Nadia even telling Simon to go get his number down and confront his fears in Silent Hill.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Simon clearly loves his mom and little sister, to the point that he can't lie to Nadia about what he was doing on the Train and feels ashamed of what he's done. When Grace sarcastically asks if Simon is gonna drag his sister onto the train, he warns her to not mention Nadia in that light again.
Everyone Has Standards:
- For all the horrors they unleashed, even they were horrified at what happened in the Noir Princess Car, with Simon solemnly stating that the princess can't be saved.
- Both of them are at a loss for words when Chloe was seemingly killed by the mirage army.
Simon: She's not dead, right?
- As Grace starts going through Sanity Slippage at the end of Act 1, it's Simon who starts getting worried about her and looks at Grace as if she's insane for how she wants Chloe Cerise (age 10) to rot in hell.
Evil Counterpart: Grace is a somewhat Book Dumb person whose been on an adventure since she was 10. She inspires others around her to be like her, and acts like a mentor to many of them. She's left a mark wherever she's gone, Chloe doesn't like her, and her adventures seem to have no end point. This is a lot like Ash Ketchum, except for how she does these things. Whereas Ash adventures in an adventure-friendly world, Grace is trapped in a Death World. Where Ash inspires people around him to be better without any benefit for himself, Grace encourages negative developments if it'll make her be noticed and adored. Ash leaves the mark as a competitor, a hero, a rival, and a friend, while Grace is a vandal and a raider. Chloe doesn't like Ash for reasons that aren't particularly fair to him, like being more naturally inclined to his father's work and her best friend's interests, being a more social human being, and not immediately catering to her whims, while Chloe doesn't like Grace because of her crimes. Ash's adventure never ends because there is always more to explore and do, with his ultimate goal in his final episode is to explore and befriend every Pokemon out there, while Grace rejects the intent of the Infinity Train to stay there forever. Also while Ash loves his mother and doesn't seem to have any thoughts on his father, Grace has a bad relationship with both her parents.
Exact Words: During her argument with her mother, Grace insists that she's not killing humans; she's killing denizens, many who might have been human once.
Famed In-Story: Grace is the proud den-mother of the Apex and has a hit-list of killing royalty (Utahoshi being her most well-known murder) and injuring all who gets in her way...which Grace detests. What she wanted most was to be loved and idolized by the Apex, not to mention have the highest number as a sign of strength. However, her reputation of becoming the most infamous passenger the Train has ever seen rubs her the wrong way when Chloe of the Vermillion, Seeker of Crocus, and the returning White Gestalt are a thousand times more loved than her. You certainly won't have passengers lined up to seeing dance performances starring Grace Monroe in the future.
Fatal Flaw:
- Grace's Know-Nothing Know-It-All attitude. No matter how many times you tell her that she's wrong, she refuses to admit that she messed up.
- Stubborness: Both of them are too stubborn to admit that they need to take a good look at themselves to change for the better. Even nearly dying to London isn't enough to make them realize that they made huge mistakes.
- Cowardice. Grace refuses to admit that she's afraid or in the wrong and boasts that she doesn't know what fear is. This is despite the fact that her main target is to lay a beatdown on a ten-year-old girl with her little cult alongside her.
Flipping the Bird: Grace does this to Chloe when Chloe wanted to make peace with her.
Freudian Excuse:
- Grace's parents don't give her the time of day, and didn't seen that her shoplifting was really a plea for her parents to notice that she needs help, and so she made a cult both to protect the kids from the Train and also so that she can be loved. Lexi — who once wanted to travel with her — is not amused at her backstory.
Lexi: (upon seeing the upload of Grace's parents admitting their sins on Infinet) Wait, that’s why Grace made a cult?! Abusive parents? So she can ruin all our lives because mommy and daddy don’t care for her?!
- Simon's excuse comes from when he was on the Train when the Cat abandoned him to a Ghom to save his own skin.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse:
- Grace wanting mommy and daddy to love her is no excuse for all that she unleashed, especially when said parents are abusive and neglectful as Lexi points out. Chloe even points out that Grace has a reason to hate her parents, but that's no reason to manipulate and corrupt children from their families just to selfishly be loved and looked up to.
- Simon comes to his own epiphany that his own troubled past with The Cat is not an excuse for his actions as well.
Full-Name Ultimatum: When Grace gets the call from her mother, Cecilia Monroe addresses her by her full name of "Grace Monique Monroe".
Grew a Spine: After Simon gets the epiphany at what he's done wrong, he starts standing up for himself and telling Grace that he's not going to play her games anymore. Notably, when she commands him to start wreaking havoc in The Cat's chalet, he refuses to do so, both because he still cares for The Cat and also because The Cat was gracious enough to house them when no one else would.
Hard Work Hardly Works: Grace has spent years creating the Apex, a base of operations, and to just survive the Train. She is then outclassed by a ten-year-old princess with a puppy, a prince and a pipe, somehow becoming even more famous and well-known within the span of a few months. To be fair, it's implied the spread of Infinet has made it quicker for Chloe to get the word out, whereas Grace's reputation was slowly built one car at a time.
Heel Realization: When Specter states that the Apex is a curse, Simon starts considering his actions on whether or not what the Apex have done is good. He later gets this when he calls his family and explains that Silent Hill is a car on the Train...and realizes that it's preparing a deadly ritual to wipe out the Apex and that means he's part of it. This makes him ultimately decide that the Apex has to change before a worse fate comes for them.
Her Own Worst Enemy: While this usually will apply to Simon in canon and the original trilogy, it's Grace this time around who sees it. Her stubborn refusal to admit that she doesn't have all the answers and that her answer against most denizens is to kill them on sight/into the wheels, is preventing her from realizing that she needs to let this control and desires to be "noticed" go, else the "good place" where she's reigned as queen and "total train expert" will become her tomb.
Hidden Depths:
- Implied; Grace asks Simon to translate the Noir Princess's lines (which are in French), meaning he has some knowledge of it.
- Simon is aware of Alice in Wonderland as a younger him connects Edith's older brother Lewis to the author Lewis Carroll.
Horrible Judge of Character: Ultimately, both of them see denizens as lesser beings who should be trampled upon, but there are other key moments.
- Grace insists that Utahoshi was a nasty null who hurt others. Utahoshi, in truth, was a kind rabbit who only unleashed a barrier as self-defense.
- Neither Grace nor Simon saw Amelia as someone of any importance when she started asking them important questions and even after showing off her humongous number...they don't learn until the Act 2 Prelude that she's the conductor that they worship. While Grace can't accept that the Conductor and Amelia aren't the same person, Simon becomes more civil with Amelia, asking her if she knows anything about another passenger named Milton Finch.
- Grace sees Chloe as a black hole soaking up everyone's attention while she's struggled to survive on the Train. She has no idea that Chloe's mask as a hero is hiding a girl with low self-esteem who escaped the Train to avoid killing herself and has a Hair-Trigger Temper.
Hypocrite Has a Point: Grace tells Chloe that the Train isn't her "personal playground" to do whatever she pleases...says the woman who formed a cult from lost, vulnerable, and plainly gullible children for the past eight years and runs around the Train thinking she owns the place. That said, it's repeatedly pointed out that Chloe isn't focusing on bettering herself as she is trying to focus on an alter-ego that she thinks is much better than the weak Chloe Cerise whom no one would care about.
Ignored Epiphany: Even when Grace gets a realization that her lies and attitude did more harm than good, she refuses to change because that means admitting that she was wrong and she doesn't want to believe that because that will make her lose everything that she built up over her little lies.
Insane Troll Logic:
- When in the Chrome Car, Simon tries to kill Mirror Grace in an attempt to free Grace...even though he willingly swapped places with his mirror self in order to open the door to the car seconds ago.
- Grace has gotten to the point that she decides to kill Chloe to protect the Apex even though Chloe is a ten-year-old girl and has less beef on the Apex compared to White Gestalt and putting the Apex in their memory tapes, to the point Simon worries that she's getting delusional.
In-Series Nickname:
- London calls Grace "Little Miss Gracie".
- Simon's sister called him "Simi" (pronounced "See me").
Irony:
- Grace could care less about her murder of Utahoshi and only focused on being the feared Apex. In the present day practically everyone is more focused on her killing the innocent rabbit than being the den-mother of the murderous cult.
- Grace's wish that got her on the train was that she wanted to be "noticed". She gets noticed after she disappeared, as it's mentioned in the Boutique Street Car that there was a campaign, news crew, and even a documentary about her disappearance.
- In Orchid Observer, Jesse notes that Grace's attempts to break him and Lake only built them up to be stronger and go home together.
It Gets Easier: Simon's answer as to London's question on how someone could just freely kill denizens. This gets London — who killed Lampetia per her request and hated it — to start attacking him for his apathy.
It's Personal: Grace wants Chloe dead for having the audacity to topple the Apex...but that's nothing in comparison to her not hating the likes of Jesse so much for having actually telling it to her face that he's not going to follow her rules and having personal beef with her in wanting to kill his friends.
Jerkass Has a Point: The two are manipulative, two-faced liars who love beating the Nulls to death, but they're not wrong in some areas.
- While Grace is highly responsible for everything she's done on the Train, she points out that her parents weren't getting Best Parents of the Year award for how hands-off and apathetic they were. She's also being apathetic that she's not killing people, but given that it's hard to tell whether a denizen or not was once human, she comes off as somewhat right.
- While Grace did corrupt many kids just to get praised and worshipped, the narration as she goes through sunk cost fallacy notes that it was also for their protection, given that the Train doesn't seem to consider how kidnapping scared and traumatized children without instructions is going to help them figure out their persona problems.
- Grace scoffs at how Chloe doesn't know what it's like to be "caged"; while she doesn't know any of Chloe's bullying problems (or how her former bully just made her dad train-bound), she is right. Chloe had plenty of opportunities to go out and do something and her parents were flawed but loving, whereas Grace's parents treated her like a trophy to parade around and never cared about her feelings at all. In her same tirade, she also points out that Chloe is only loved because no one knows the truth about the type of person she really is and that the Train isn't for her own amusement (albeit that last statement is somewhat hypocritical of her).
- Simon's backstory had him tell Edith that her great-grandmother Edie had to stop obsessing over death and grow up. Callous? Yes. Not wrong? ...Also yes, given that it's somewhat implied that she might've aggravated the family curse by encouraging everyone in the family to think that the curse is what's causing them all to die instead of them being flighty and doing reckless actions in the first place.
Lack of Empathy: So what if they kill and injure denizens? They're not human, so it doesn't count. Act 2 has Simon starting to realize that he's been horribly in the wrong.
Lethal Chef: Simon apparently can't cook instant ramen, which Grace notes that even Lucy (aka the girl who lost an eye) can do.
Metaphorically True: Grace tries to argue with her mother that she's not technically killing people in the denizens. Some of them were once human.
Momma's Boy: Simon was close to his mom growing up, justified since his dad died at an early age, and his peers loved to tease him about that.
Moral Myopia: If Grace kills or injures a denizen, it's justified by her protecting her and the Apex. If a denizen does the same thing to protect their loved ones? Sacrilege.
More Insulting than Intended: Simon told Edith that it must be lucky to live in a strange house and be famous due to her great-grandmother being well-known in the media for the fact that her family is known to die tragically. Edith then brings up how Edie died alone mixing pills with alcohol, and this led to an arguement over Simon stating that Edie should've stopped whining and moved on and Edith stating that no one would read from someone "who couldn't use spell-check", which would lead Simon on his train trip when he bungled up during his school's spelling bee.
Mortality Phobia: After Simon heard the story of how Edith Finch's older brother, Lewis, died by getting his head sliced off in a salmon cannery, he started screaming how he didn't want to die.
Morton's Fork: Upon finally learning what you're supposed to do on the Train, the two are stuck in a dilemma: they can either start working on themselves and pass this onto the Apex — which would mean that the Apex learns that Grace ran her big mouth for years and have to admit that they're weak — or they can continue as they are, destroy everything in their path but at the cost of knowing that it's not as fun as it used to be and dealing with the fact that everyone they'll come across will slam the door in front of their faces. For Grace personally, she can either take the time to do the right thing but get rewarded by going home to abusive and neglectful parents or continue as she is but be labeled as a monster with no hope of redemption.
Must Make Amends: In the Palimpsest Car, Simon realizes that he's done horrible things after a phone call with his mom and sister, and decides to do what's right in saving Grace and the Apex from Silent Hill.
Mythology Gag:
- When Asher reveals that if you die, you become reincarnated as a denizen. Then he remarks that perhaps the next time they met, Grace ends up as a mute music note. That's her fate in Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria.
- When Simon says he has a big number, Nadia asks if it covers his face and he states he hopes not. Simon ends gets that big of a number in the show.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: Because of Simon being on the Train without the hint that "numbers are meant to go down so you can go home", he'll never see Edith again as she dies in 2017 by childbirth and the story takes place in 2020.
Never My Fault: After Grace has to take a walk of shame out of the Chrome Car, she gets frustrated that everyone is picking at her mistakes and sees herself as blameless and the victim, despite everything they're accusing her for has a valid basis for her stubbornness and refusal to admit that she's wrong.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: As Jesse notes in Orchid Observer, he and Lake only got their happy ending because Grace thought it was smart to interfere with them. If she didn't say she and Simon were going to kill Lake and Alan Dracula, Jesse would never have gotten the courage to make them shut up and leave the Train. And Lake wouldn't have found the drive to leave the Train if she never sicced the Mirror Police on her.
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: The two are thrown into one of these by London and he's close to strangling them if Asher didn't intervene.
London: (as he repeatedly slams Simon's face to a wall after Simon makes an uncouth remark about Tiffany throwing Lampetia's heart into the wheels) You...absolutely...apathetic...unloving...unkind...ASSHOLE!
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: Make no mistake that Grace is dangerous, given her silver tongue, her ability to control numerous ankle-biters for years to a quasi-military force, and has a knife that can and will harm anyone non-human (which is basically everything made on the Train), but as the story goes on, it becomes painfully clear that even the likes of Tokio or Yuri are capable of kicking her ass due to the new weaponry or supernatural abilities bestowed upon them.
Not Helping Your Case: Grace tries to clarify to her mother that her cult isn't killing humans, but it only exasperates her mother's hysterics.
"Not So Different" Remark: Queen Cutie makes one about Grace; she will protect the Apex from those who harm them, but what about Utahoshi? Was he so different for knocking her away with a barrier so he could protect the rest of the rabbits under his care? Are any of the other denizens who protect themselves in self-defense against the Apex lesser than her actions?
Once Done, Never Forgotten: Grace gets sick of everyone reminding her that she murdered Utahoshi years ago and not be praised as the leader of the Apex. It's to the point that if anyone wants to remember how bad of a person she is, bring up Utahoshi's name. In Act 1's Intermission, the major thing that the Zenkaigers are told about her is that she killed a rabbit.
Only Sane Man: By Act 2, Simon's the one with his head in the game as Grace descends deeper into insanity.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: You know things are really bad if Simon is the one who's consoling the grief-stricken Grace who had a bad falling out with her mother who is now disowning her.
Overshadowed by Awesome: If you think about it, a girl who survived eight years on her own and cultivated a group of scavengers to fight off against the dangers of the Train would be considered awesome. Except 1) most of the denizens and cars she raided don't agree with the methods they use (like murder) and 2) it's small potatoes to the other passengers who have done more than she has — Augustine stopped a Space War, Chloe converted an army into denizens, and Gladion and his group were able to fight and race Mad Ben in a tie. This also leaves Grace with a crippling case of jealousy that stems with her wishes to be noticed.
Pet the Dog:
- Before leaving the 400 Rabbits Car, Grace shows concern about Hazel's whereabouts (as Amelia asked Kisaragi to take Hazel and Tuba far away from the Apex leaders) and begs that the denizens not hurt her since she hasn't committed any sin.
- Despite Simon having antagonism with the Cat, he does not destroy anything in her chalet and rather defends her and Frank for their hospitality when everyone shut the door on him and Grace.
Poor Communication Kills: Her big lie about knowing the Train aside, Grace never properly told her parents how she hated being neglected. In the Boutique Street Car, the parents make a point that if she wanted her parents to go see her ballet recital, she could've just asked one of her babysitters to record it for posterity.
Psychopathic Manchild: They're both 18, with neither of them having a proper education since age 9-10, and love destroying things both for survival and for the pure fun and sadism of it. As Act 2 begins, Simon starts getting his act together while Grace loses it more and more.
Sanity Slippage: Grace starts losing it mid-Act 1 and wants nothing more than to kill Chloe for having the audacity to try and topple her.
Shadow Archetype: Like in the original Blossomverse, Grace is a darker Chloe. While both got on the train, Chloe learns to forgive herself, those she hurt, and wishes to make amends with her parents. Grace keeps doubling down on her antics to be the top and refuses to talk to her parents, deciding that she'll become the baddest bitch the Train has ever seen and take everyone with her. The Act 2 Prelude cements this when she notes her parents are known to cage her just like Chloe would always insist that she was being "caged" in the Cerise Institute. Not to mention that Grace starts hating Chloe for just existing and sucking up everyone's attention away from her, just like Chloe hated Pokémon Trainers (and Ash, who she saw as a black hole) also "existing", with the main difference is that Chloe opens her horizons and apologizes for her actions while Grace doesn't know the meaning of an apology. Speaking of parents, Grace could care less that her parents are being punished, but Chloe is horrified about her father on the Train and is desperately trying to contact them while she has had phone calls with her mother and is ashamed of being such an Attention Whore.
Single-Issue Psychology: Grace's obsession with power, strength and attention comes from the Parental Neglect given to her from her parents and the isolation she had from not being like other girls. Unfortunately, instead of recognizing that this is unhealthy, she keeps doubling down on attention seeking.
Sinister Suffocation: Combined with Psychic Strangle, but this is how London is ready to end them. If Asher didn't intervene, then they'd be done for.
Skyward Scream: Grace does this after her disastrous phone call with her mother who disowns Grace after she states that she would rather stay on the Train forever than go home.
Speak Ill of the Dead:
- The two like to spit out how they killed filthy Nulls despite the "Nulls" in question — Utahoshi and Lampetia — being kind and tender souls who wanted to help people. This does not endear them to London, they guy who actually has killed people with his bare hands and placed a Mercy Kill on Lampetia by her request (not to mention that the second death of Lampetia came from her saving an Apex child and said child boasted that she got a battle trophy from it).
- Simon told Edith that her great-grandmother was at fault for causing all of the Finch family's misery — as it's implied that Edie poisoned her entire family to blame their misgivings and deaths on a curse and become reckless fools that would've been nominated for many Darwin awards — which made Edith snap since it's heavily implied that Edie died alone, mixing pills with alcohol and had to outlive practically everyone in her family. When Simon talks to her mother, he says that he's sorry for saying something so insensitive.
Sunk Cost Fallacy: When Grace gets a tiny epiphany that she might be in the wrong, she has to tell herself that she needs to continue now because admitting it will mean that everything was for nothing and she would rather die than swallow her pride. Jesse in Orchid Observer even brings up the trope name when discussing her.
Jesse: She doesn’t care what you tell her. She’ll just spin it into an excuse that she has to continue as she is, regardless of how painful it will end.
Narration from The Cyan Desert Car: If she was wrong, then all these past eight years of being the best were for nothing! Everything she did was nothing more than crimes she could never redeem to everyone and her former parents! And the Apex, all those children…they were for her. To make her feel special, and she was helping them! They would be dead if she didn’t teach them how to survive!
Swapped Roles: As the story continues, Grace is becoming more and more unhinged in denial while Simon is gradually realizing how much they messed up. This was invoked by the co-author who noticed that this was apparently a common fanfic plot but has never actually seen stories where the two swap roles.
Teens Are Monsters: They care about destruction and fun, having unleashed a high kill count of innocent denizens, and injuries on passengers who fought back against them, in their wake. By Act 2, Grace keeps being stuck in this mindset while Simon starts realizing that he has to make changes now.
Then Let Me Be Evil: Thoroughly pissed off at being called "the apathetic heartless cult leader who murdered Utahoshi for shits and giggles" and pushed to stop being an asshole without anyone even trying to sympathize with her (or even trying to explain her case), Grace decides that she's going to show them all and actively walk into Silent Hill when the heroes are trying to stop a deadly ritual from getting out of control.
They Just Dont Get It: No matter how many times you tell them that what they're doing is wrong, they'll be so deep in denial that you can paddle upstream without problem. Even nearly dying doesn't register that they should change. Only London and Asher stating that One-One is calling their parents and London's beat-down on them was livestreamed to the entire Car do they realize that they're screwed (although it turns out that London's No-Holds-Barred Beatdown was never broadcasted that far; it was only shown to the Alola region and Vermillion City). By Act 2, it takes Specter telling Simon that the Apex is nothing but a curse that it triggers a memory of one of the last people he saw before he got on the Train, and subsequently gets him to realize that he's been on a goose chase. Meanwhile, Grace still refuses to admit she messed up and decides to burn everything down.
Too Dumb to Live: During the second half of the Chocolate car, Simon fails to read the room when his comments about Lampetia slowly makes London (who was forced to kill her) more and more willing to kill them.
Tragic Monster: Both count, but especially Grace: over a decade ago, she was just another Passenger stuck on a Train with denizens who refused to explain what's going on, leaving her to figure things out on her own. By the present day, she's been through so much pain and misery, as well as the dogmatic denizens worshipping a little girl while only stopping this short of performing race crimes against her, that it's all but stated that Grace cannot be saved and has to die to save the train.
Unknown Rival: Grace hates Chloe for being such a princess with a puppy, a prince and her pipe galavanting and soaking up all the spotlight and wants her dead for taking away all the attention. Chloe, for her part, sees Grace only as the leader of the Apex that needs to be stopped and has more problems to deal with like her father on the Train and her worsening mental health to pay attention to such a petty one-sided grudge. Simon himself questions why Grace hates a ten year old girl so much.
Villain Respect: Upon learning about Lake killing off the Mirror Police — especially by grinding Mace through the wheels — Simon admits that he would've given her respect for how she did so.
Was It All a Lie?: Simon is not happy to learn that Grace lied to him about knowing how the Train works in the Pond Car. However, he still sticks by her side instead of storming off (moreso to stop her from going out of control).
What You Are in the Dark:
- Simon, in the Pond Car, actively rescues Grace from being swallowed whole by the giant catfish despite the fact that he could've left her to drown after realizing Grace was lying through her teeth about knowing what numbers meant.
- Simon, again, has a chance to use the nanobots that The Cat gives him while Grace is unconscious...but chooses not to and instead lets her rest up.
Would Hurt a Child: Grace sicced the Mirror Police on MT, the reflection of a 13-year-old girl, and then didn't care to remember it. She's also willing to beat ten-year-old Chloe within an inch of her life for daring to stand up to her, and she's also fought off against Trip, Gladion and Tokio, (the first two in their teens and Tokio the same age as Chloe) because they had the audacity of going against her.

Matt Hardy

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Flashback, Act 2 Prelude; Voice only) | Rey Mysterio vs the Cosmos (Physical debut)

A wrestler who entered the Fog Car three months prior to the beginning of the story, whose powers of premonitions get Chloe Cerise on the radar of the Silent Hill Trio.

Ascended Extra: Was The Ghost in the original trilogy but he has more prominence as one of the few people Rey can talk to about developments in regards to Elipzo.
Blessed with Suck: His "premo-NEE-tions" will only give him a glimpse of the future, not the context.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's absolutely nuts when he's BROKEN, but his premonitions are nothing to sneeze at and he's also a well-experienced wrestler in his late forties. Rey himself notes this to Indigo:
Rey: Now I don't like Matt whenever he's broken or woken or when he hungers for green beans, but I know better than to not dismiss one of his 'premo-NEE-tions'.
Dark Is Not Evil: He wears a long black coat but he's not evil as he is just eccentric.
Does Not Like Spam: Detests mustard with a passion.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Being blessed to see into the future is fun, but the problem is that Matt can't control the how or why things happen, in contrast to Aerostar just not willing to explain everything.
In-Series Nickname: He's called "Seer" by Lanturn and Indigo.
It's Personal: He wants his hands on Elipzo because they broke his brother.
Mad Oracle: This is BROKEN Matt Hardy and his powerful "premo-NEE-tions", many of them being pretty accurate. However, he can't see everything that happens, unlike Aerostar who can see the entire time stream, rather he can see the general stuff. In other words, he knows what will happen, but neither the how nor why.
Mythology Gag: Rey refers to Matt as "broken or woken" as the latter is what his BROKEN gimmick was called during his WWE run due to the trademark dispute between the Hardys and TNA at the time.
O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When he calls Rey in the Act 2 Prelude, he has warnings about what is to come...but Oscar notes that Matt is no longer with his weird British accent, with Rey realizing that something is going on.
Powerful and Helpless: For all his powers of seeing the future and blessed by the Seven Deities, not even he can stop Elipzo from targeting his little brother, not to mention that he's on the Infinity Train and Jeff isn't.
Stealth Hi/Bye: Not him, but his scribe somehow teleports onto the Train whenever Matt calls for him.
Trademark Favorite Food: Green beans in his BROKEN state. Alex makes him a green bean casserole and he demands extra green beans with his salmon. When he's shown in the Canals of Fondue Car in Rey's story, he's dipping green beans into the cheese fondue.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: It's his premonition about Lady Destiny that has Chloe becoming a key component of the Flauros since his premonition accurately describes her.
What the Hell Is That Accent?: He has what seems to be a weird British (Galarian) accent when BROKEN. It's telling that something is wrong on his end when he doesn't have it.

Asher's Former Partner (Spoilers)

A Passenger that was once partnered with the Denizen who would become Shadow Sycamore. He would eventually become something even worse.

The Ghost: They're never seen in the flesh. Turns out they have, once Asher reveals that their former partner is Austen Plane, leader of Elipzo.
Small Role, Big Impact: They have basically no presence in the main story, but their abuse of their Denizen partner eventually led to the creation of Shadow Sycamore. Subverted when it's later revealed he's Austen Plane.
Villain Has a Point: He was ruthless in attacking Shadow Sycamore, but he's not in the wrong that the Train gives nothing to passengers (at the time) as to what they're supposed to do leave, leaving people to figure it out themselves and going the opposite direction in their numbers, to the point that they'll hurt and destroy if that's what it takes to "survive" or they killed themselves when they couldn't figure out how the stupid thing worked.
"The lack of instructions, throwing unwanted danger to us, and worse of all, forcing us to stay here until we settle our problems through a form of numbers etched in our hands. It did nothing but to give both passengers and Denizens alike despair. That’s why many took their own lives. That’s why the false Conductor overthrew One-One. That’s why the Apex exists."

Dr. Yung

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Ninjala Car)

A prominent professor who was a pioneer of a system he called Mirage Pokémon. He was said to be missing for some time, only to wind up in the Infinity Train to make his mirages better than ever.

And Then What?: He asks this of Chloe in regards to what will happen to her when she leaves the Train since no one will ever actually believe she's a heroine on a therapy train — because there's so little evidence of a therapy train and fewer people who actually give a damn about anything she says — and she's still stuck as she is as a girl who knows nothing of Pokémon battling. Chloe turns it around, asking him what is he going to do with his Mirage System because anything from the Train can't be taken back when he returns home, and even if he goes back home, he's a wanted criminal and will be put under arrest.
Any Last Words?: Asks this of Sycamore and Chloe before he lets Mirage Mewtwo kill them. The drama from it falls flat when Chloe has to ask what a Mewtwo is. He repeats this again after Chloe is paralyzed by Psychic, to which Chloe asks her Armor-Piercing Question.
Arc Villain: He's the main antagonist of the Ninjala Car arc.
Ax-Crazy: What else do you call a guy who not only creates an army of violent artificial Pokémon, but then throws all of them against a single person because they slighted you? And said single person is a child?!
Big "SHUT UP!": Screams this at Chloe when she starts talking smack about how his Mirage System won't make it with him if/when he leaves the Train.
The Corrupter: Almost sways Chloe to his side; were it not for her father's email, she'd be forever branded as a traitor.
Deal with the Devil: Tries to tempt Chloe into one by giving her a Mirage Pokémon so she can deal with anyone who would ever mock her for not being into Pokémon like they are. She almost goes through with it, but refuses once she gets a message from her father and realizes that she doesn't need that type of strength any more.
Did Not Think This Through: Chloe puts it in his head that all his work in his Mirage System is for nothing since he has to wait for the Professors to enter the Train (which will be never) and even if he did leave the Train, he can't bring said system back and Officer Jenny will arrest him. and if he tries killing Chloe herself? Well, due to her status as an idol, everyone on the Train will go for his head.
Didn't See That Coming: Not only did he not expect Chloe to somehow survive a kamikaze attack from his army, but he also didn't see her somehow turn his own army against him.
Disproportionate Retribution: Chloe mocking him that he can never show off his Mirage Pokémon because of how the Train works? Send an entire army to kill her and boast how she'll return to her home as a bloody smear.
Dramatic Drop: Drops his gun and Ippon katana when he sees Chloe alive and his mirage army on her side, which ultimately becomes his undoing as it gives Augustine an opening to knock him out.
Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: He dismisses the idea of love and kindness in favor of mindless creatures under his control. He's ultimately defeated by Chloe learning how her father truly did love her for all his flaws and telling her the story of Yamper's Undying Loyalty. It's this love that Chloe fuels her World-Healing Wave that turns the mirage army good.
Evil Counterpart: To Professor Cerise. Cerise studies all about the bonds between humans and Pokémon while Yung could give a fig about bonds and love and only cares about the Mirage Pokémon for their power. While Cerise refused to even talk to Chloe or see her point of view and how she was suffocating under the pressures of being like him (albeit Chloe was also not speaking up and Cerise never intended to hurt her), Yung nearly traps her with a Mirage Pokémon so she can shut everyone up. And last, Cerise truly loves his daughter, Yung would only see Chloe as some tool before tossing her aside and nearly ended up killing her when she refused his advances.
Eviler than Thou: He's somehow worse than the Apex as Grace and Simon and the cult themselves are horrified at Chloe — who is going off to stop him — nearly dies from a kamikaze attack.
Evil Genius: A Professor who creates Mirage Pokémon through the use of the Train.
Failed Attempt at Drama: He tries hyping up his Mirage Mewtwo as a wrecking ball that will obliterate anyone he targets, only for Chloe to interrupt him by asking what the heck a Mewtwo is.
Four Eyes, Zero Soul: Has a pair of glasses and is a sociopath who can and will murder a child for mouthing off at him.
Hate Sink: There are no redeeming qualities about this asshole, in comparison to the likes of the Apex. He's a sociopathic, unsympathetic monster of a man who will destroy everything and kill an innocent girl because he wishes to.
Hope Crusher: He states that he'll become this by making his army kill Chloe, the icon of the Train's hope against the Apex. It fails.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: He's a human with his holographs but he's more monstrous than either Grace or Simon would ever be and is equivalent to the the likes of Walter and Henry with how much he wants to destroy everyone in his path.
Hypocrite:
- He claims that Augustine's use of a Ninja Log ability is childish, Augustine retorts that Yung is holding on to a childish petty grudge against Ash.
- For as much as he notes that Cerise sucks at battling, he's no better and is only a threat because of his Mirage Pokémon. Once they're gone, he quickly goes with them.
Irony: Dismissed the girl who had no idea that Tackled was useless as Ghosts as a threat...and watches in horror as girl turned the tables on him.
Jaw Drop: Does this when he sees Chloe not only alive but also with his reformed mirage army glaring at him.
Jerkass: Is probably an understatement on how horrible he is.
Knight of Cerebus: The first two parts of the Ninjala Car focus on Chloe's issues of not speaking up and learning to move on from her past mistakes. When he shows up at the end of Part 2 and throughout Part 3, it then becomes trying to stop him before he unleashes a massacre on to the denizens and nearly ends up killing Chloe for backtalking him.
Lack of Empathy: He shows no qualms about the denizens, people or Mirage Pokémon he hurt.
Laser-Guided Karma: Mocked the little princess for being a weakling and not knowing anything about Pokémon. Said princess turns all his mirages against him through the strength of her heart as she knows that the army doesn't deserve to be his pawns.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Dr. Yung is also the Mirage Mastermind.
Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Subverted; while his army does betray him, they don't land the final blow. Instead, Augustine does that.
Morton's Fork: Chloe presents one to him: he can't bring any of his Mirage System back to the Pokémon world because anything originating from the Train stays there. He can't wait for the Professors to enter the Train because that involves them mentally broken in order to do so and they'd have to traverse to one in a million cars to get to him, provided they survive that long to get there or they figure out their problems that they leave before even reaching him. And even if he does get his number down to 0, he'll be arrested on the spot by Officer Jenny. No matter what he does, he loses.
Non-Action Big Bad: He doesn't participate in fighting, barring a spare with Augustine and even then it's simply blocking an attack with an Ippon katana before he decides to shoot the kidified Professor. And once there's an opening, and his army is basically neutralized, he's taken out easily.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: He was able to recreate his Mirage Tech through the use of the Train without anyone aware of it. In contrast, Amelia was Conductor for 30 years and she could never make that perfect car for her to escape into her past and it would always have a glitch where everything came out as turtles.
Psychopathic Manchild: He's always ranting and raving like a spoiled child who never learned their lesson and if things don't go his way, he's more than ready to murder someone.
Rule of Symbolism: His number when exposed in the Ninjala Car is 42906, which is the date when Mastermind of Mirage Pokémon aired.
Shadow Archetype:
- To Professor Cerise who wishes to studies the bonds of humans and Pokémon and really cares for them (and Chloe, even if he didn't show it at the time) while Yung only cares about himself and the Pokémon he creates to be weapons.
- To Chloe as both of them want to become strong and shove away everyone else for what they perceive as "perfect" (Yung wants his Mirage Pokémon over normal ones whereas Chloe couldn't take anyone else's apologies under the reason as they weren't "sincere"). Chloe herself is almost tempted to get a Mirage Pokémon so that she never had to feel pain from her bullies laughing at her face, but decides to choose love over power whereas there is no love in Dr. Yung at all.
- To Amelia; while both of them used the Train's tech for their own purposes, Amelia's reasoning was more sympathetic (she only wanted to create a car that could mimic her past with Alrick) whereas Yung is doing it to prove his superior might with his Mirage Pokémon. And while Amelia did attack Tulip, she never went as far as Yung did towards Chloe.
The Sociopath: He's obsessed with his mirages and sees them as tools, cares nothing for love or kindness, and is willing to kill a child who badmouthed him. Yeah, he definitely qualifies.
Theres No Kill Like Over Kill: How he wants to make sure Chloe is dead. If she survives being thrown out a window by his Mirage Mewtwo? That's fine...because he'll just make all of his mirages turn her into paste just to make sure.
This Cannot Be!: Shouts this when he sees Chloe not only alive — as he commanded his Mirage Army to kill her — but his army is now on her side.
Underestimating Badassery: He saw so little in Chloe of the Vermillion because she wasn't into Pokémon. But she cared for them more than he ever did which resulted in them joining her side instead of sticking with him.
Villain Has a Point: He is trying to convince Chloe by her side, but he points out that her explaining about her adventures on a magical train would sound completely farfetched to others. It's proven throughout the story, and other tales in the Blossomverse, that many people won't believe in the Infinity Train's existence unless solid evidence was given. Not to mention that a lot of people in Chloe's immediately circle didn't even believe that she had a lot of problems on her end until after she ran away, with Gloria even pointing out that the people around her just didn't care enough to even interact with her until it was far too late to fix anything.
Villain of Another Story: He fought Ash and his friends during his Battle Frontier saga.
Villainous Breakdown: Goes into one starting with Chloe bringing out how he can never have his life work be seen by the Professors, going so far as to want to murder her with her army and then screams in anger when said girl converted his Mirage Army into denizens!
Would Hit a Girl: He has absolutely no qualms sending his Mirage Pokémon to slaughter Chloe.
Would Hurt a Child: Aside from having his army murder Chloe, he also doesn't mind shooting a Ninja Gum affected Sycamore or have his mons attack Yuri (age 11).

Paul Drangea

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Boutique Street Car)

A trainer from Veilstone City and former rival of Ash Ketchum. He's not in a good place.

Adaptational Early Appearance: In Blossoming Trail, Paul's not revealed to be on the Train until the Cyan Desert Car (the middle of Blossoming Trail Act 2) whereas he appears makes his first appearance prior to the Cyan Desert Car here (which is the end of Act 1).
Bound and Gagged: He's blindfolded and stuck in a straitjacket.
Break the Badass: He's stuck in a straitjacket, blindfolded, tortured, separated by his Pokémon and told that he is a pathetic excuse of a human being for freezing his heart on how his brother lost just once. All in order to make him the componnent of Despair.
Cold-Blooded Torture: Walter has no qualms of gagging him and both verbally and physically abusing Paul if that's what it takes to make Despair.
Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Paul is an asshole because he saw his brother lose once. This is nothing compared to other people who have had worse traumas than him as Walter points out.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Like with Alain, Paul's reveal on being on the Train, his role in the Cage of Flauros and him letting a kid drown in Silent Hill isn't revealed into Blossoming Trail Act 2, the main difference is that the author implied that Alain got on the Train but there was no foreshadowing of Paul also in it at the time.
Would Hurt a Child: Said to have let a child die in Toluca Lake, although readers would know that this was an accident.

Tony Clark

"It looks like it's the Tonester's turn to save the day and get to the next car!"

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned: The Lumberjack Car, First appearance: The Boutique Street Car)

A young boy/agent of WOOHP found in the Boutique Street Car hoping to save the day when the thief known as Indigo strikes.

Amazon Chaser: A PG-version. He immediately falls in love with Chloe because she's capable of kicking ass, especially since she first appeared to him saving his and Yuri from Indigo, even gushing about all of her victories in battle. They later have a date that involved beating up masked murderers.
Big "NO!": Screams this when his MPCOM doesn't work, thinking he's doomed to unable to tell his siblings about his location. Thankfully, Amelia lets him use a spare tablet.
Book Dumb: When he learns that someone (Rey Mysterio) is asking him to do research about a "Burning Spear", he complains that this means he has to study.
Buffy Speak: He calls Mjolnir "Myeh-myeh".
Chekhov's Gunman: He's described by Lantern in the Lumberjack Car of the Routine Arc as "a boy in yellow and blue with black and blue hair in a swooping hairdo" and the author revealed that he'd be important in the following arc; true to form, he appears in the Boutique Street Car a few chapters later.
Color Motif: Yellow, to help him stand out to Yuri's blue and Chloe's red.
Fire-Forged Friends: Ends up becoming friends with Yuri after Yuri saves him from falling to his death and because they both want to stop Indigo.
Hero of Another Story: He's a spy for WOOHP and he and his siblings fight off crazy supervillains once a week. He also mentions meeting up with three spies named Sam, Clover and Alex meaning that he was taken by the Train some time after the episode "Operation: Dude Ranch Disaster" but before "Operation: Scary Jerry" if Aerostar is accurate.
Hidden Depths: He's into Norse Mythology, as he tells Wyn that he wants to be like "Magnus Chase" and boasts that he's worthy to lift "Myeh-myeh" (Mjolnir).
Hyperventilation Bag: He breathes into two of these during the Cyan Desert Car when he learns that gods and demons are denizens on the Train and he's supposed to go search for one.
In-Series Nickname: Likes to call himself "the Tonester".
Kid Hero: He's a secret agent for WOOHP at the tender age of 11.
Killer Yo-Yo: His Ninjala weapon is the Shinobi Spinner.
Locked Out of the Loop: Had no idea what the Train was about because he didn't watch One-One's instruction videos all the way to the end. He learns the truth about two weeks into his stay. He also has no idea who the Apex is, to which Yuri sighs at how he'll have to explain this.
Mirror Character: To Goh. Both are young dark skinned black haired energetic boys, but while Goh is an only child to parents who are software engineers, Tony is the youngest of four siblings and has a real estate mom and sports shop dad who were former spies. They also have differing opinions on Chloe. Goh could care less about her and doesn't seem that interested to anything Chloe is into outside "she's not into Pokémon anymore". Tony is completely enamored with Chloe and her badassery with the two even have a date with one another. Tony is a secret agent while Goh is a research fellow.
Oh, Crap!:
- Has this reaction when his magnetic boots letting him cling to the side of a building start failing as he didn't consider recharging them. He and his partner nearly fall to their deaths were it not for Yuri using Ibn Batutta's Garu spell to slow their descent.
- He has this reaction again when he learns the truth about the Train — that time on the Train and the real world are the same — because he's worried that his parents, his siblings and Jerry will assume he's been kidnapped by a supervillain.
Plucky Comic Relief: As revealed in the author notes for Cyan Desert Car Part 2, Tony was added to bring in levity in to the story.
Poor Communication Kills: He had no idea what the Train was supposed to do since he got bored of One-One's explanation videos. And in a downplayed version, he failed to tell Titus that he got a message from Rey Mysterio until after he brought up the "Crown with the question mark" logo.
Puppy Love: Has a crush on Chloe and the two had a date in a car filled with rooftop skyscrapers.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The hyperactive impulsive Red to the calm concerning blue of Wyn and snarky Yuri.
Rule of Symbolism: His number is 66, a combination of two episodes from his home series that focused on him — 16 ("Operation: Grow Up") and 50 ("Operation: Tami Trouble").
Shoo Out the Clowns: Appears during the breather chapter of the Cyan Desert Car (Pt 4) and then disappears until the aftermath of the Unown attack at Pt 6.
Sticky Shoes: He has a pair of shoes that lets him scale up walls and buildings. Unfortunately, he forgot to recharge the batteries.

Aerostar

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Cyan Desert Car) | Rey Mysterio versus the Cosmos (Debut)

A warrior from the cosmos, he is a luchador who entered the Train to figure out where Paul London has gone off to, as he'll be needed to save the "other world".
He's one of the main characters in Rey Mysterio vs The Cosmos which explains how he learned about the Infinity Train and warning Rey about the Fifth Sun.

Adaptation Personality Change: Aerostar was depicted as a gentleman technico who fought with honor. Here, as he's based on his Season 4 Lucha Underground self — who is dealing with situations like Drago brainwashed by Kobra Moon, Fenix dead by Mil Miertes, the sacrifices to Mantanza, Fenix resurrected as a drooling zombie and the lost of the Gauntlet (the last two being his fault) — he seems much more tired.
Ascended Extra: In Lucha Underground, he's one of the bigger players in the war going on between the 7 Aztec Tribes, to the point that he's the closest to a Big Good that the show had by the time of its cancellation, but he's the sole representative who goes searching for London on the Train. According to the co-author, he was chosen because he was the best wrestler to help get London the boost he needs to better himself.
Blue Is Heroic: His attire is blue and he's a tecnico time traveler. He also has a Hydreigon as a partner, who has a blue body
Borrowed Catchphrase: When he fights Tony in Ninjala, he shouts "BOOYAKA!"
Cool Board: In the Ninjala Car, he uses the Ninja-caliabur for his weapon.
Cryptic Conversation: His main way of speaking, as he is relaying warnings from the future and has to be careful not to make things worse or tip off the bad guys.
Drama-Preserving Handicap: Rey reveals in Seeker of Crocus that Aerostar can only see the future in a certain plane. So as long as he's on the Infinity Train, he's incapable of seeing what is going on in the Crocus world (Which is why he gave a warning what Rey was getting into prior to his trip). Not to mention that after his mistakes in Lucha Underground, he's wary of trying to fix things without it messing up in the future.
The Dreaded: Apparently he's dangerous enough that even Elipzo is wary of him. Given that he's a time-traveler from the future with the ability to manipulate the past as he pleases, that fear is justified.
Full-Name Basis: He addresses passengers and denizens in their full names. This is espcially noting since he somehow knows Wyn's name and reads Easter as "Earth-as-Specter".
Fluffy Tamer: His Mirage Pokémon is a Hydreigon, one of the most violent Pokémon out there. And it nuzzles him like a giant puppy! And he calls it the cutest!
Hero of Another Story: He's had his own adventures, including something that has gotten the Figure of Elipzo to take notice of. Rey Mysterio vs The Cosmos reveals what he's been doing in regards to what happened after Season 4 of Lucha Underground.
"Hey, You!" Haymaker: He gives one of these to a Team Flare grunt to save Lio.
I Need a Freaking Drink: After Rey tells him about the Infinity Train, Aerostar notes that he needs to down a glass of hibiscua aqua fresca.
Insistent Terminology: He doesn't use his time travel abilities to teleport from place to place. He walks.
Masked Luchador: Just like his real-life counterpart.
Meaningful Name: He named his Hydreigon "Graeae", named after the trio of old women from Classical mythology who shared a sole eye and tooth among them. Moreover, one of the members is named Deino, like the first stage of the Hydreigon line.
Mythical Motifs: Dragons. He tells Tony that he wants a Dragon-type Pokémon as a partner — said partner ends up being a Hydreigon — and he mentions how he's close friends with the wrestler Drago.
No Name Given: He goes by Aerostar since his name is too complicated to pronounce. The out-of-universe reason is that his performer's real name hasn't been revealed due to the traditions of Mexican lucha libre.
Not So Above It All: He's seen chuckling after he and Tony take on the Rollercoaster Car and is willing to indulge in a round of Ninjala.
Offscreen Moment of Awesome: How did he tame a Mirage Hydreigon?!
Really 700 Years Old: He states that he's at least 1000 years old.^note.
Rule of Symbolism: His number, 110, reflects the episode he debuted on Lucha Underground (Season 1, Episode 10).
Story-Breaker Power: He's capable of traveling through time and manipulating it to his own needs. But due to a previous experience that messed up one of his allies, he refuses to use them again under any circumstances. Rey also notes that his future-vision only works on a specific plane, so he can't communicate what's going on in the Crocus world as long as he's on the Train.
Time Master: He's capable of moving forward in time or claiming that he "walked".

Queen (Unmarked Spoilers)

Queen

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

Adaptational Karma: She was given an Uncertain Doom fate in the anime by Ai, but she's killed in the heart by Elipzo.
Ain't Too Proud to Beg: Her final words before she's killed is her begging for her life.
Asshole Victim: She gets killed off by Elipzo, but given all of her atrocities in Season 2, the readers don't feel sorry for her. Subverted for those who know in Den City, who are horrified to hear of her death.
Cheated Death, Died Anyway: She survives whatever canonical fate was supposedly placed on her because Ai was forced to log them out of VRAINS, but she ended up on the Train and then killed.
Chess Motif: She's named after the chess piece, like all higher-ups in SOLTech. Combined with her dress and you get the Red Queen.
Death by Adaptation: Her final fate in the anime is unknown, but she's dead with a bullet wound to the heart in the fanfic.
Eviler than Thou: She's more monstrous than the Knights of the Hanoi, to the point that Specter openly states how much he hates her.
Fate Worse than Death: After she died, her body hasn't returned to Den City (it's been stuffed into a freezer) and her soul is now in the hands of Elipzo, meaning she won't be able to go through the reincarnation process.
Females Are More Innocent: Nope! While George was the one who caused Earth's death in the first place, Queen was still the one who gave the order and didn't give a rat's ass about Earth's feelings just as long as she got money out of the data. Elipzo does not see her as innocent in any way, shape or form, hence why she gets killed.
Lack of Empathy: Her heart is empty as a bone-dry well in regards to her actions towards Earth. This gets her killed by Elipzo.
Lady in Red: She was last seen in a red dress according to London, which is what she wore in her final appearance in the anime.
Mirror Character: To Specter, both of them don't have a real name and were nasty pieces of work from the beginning. But Specter learned to change and make amends for his actions, willing to venture throughout the Train and understand what it means to have empathy and companionship, whereas Queen was presumably stuck in place in one car and didn't care to better herself. Specter is alive on the Train and in the hands of allies, Queen died alone, her body stuffed into a fridge and her soul unable to be reincarnated.
No Name Given: She's only called Queen.
Walking Spoiler: The fact that she got on the Train thanks to Ai and then died means that not even passengers are safe from Elipzo's wrath.

Yusaku Fujiki

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

A high school student that is also the legendary VRAINS hero, Playmaker. He's somehow gone missing around the same time Ai has...

Ambiguous Situation: How did Yusaku get on the Train with Ai in the first place?
Brainwashed and Crazy: Ai keeps putting Yusaku in trance so that he and Ai never have to leave the Train, especially since their numbers are synced together.
Demoted to Extra: Hero of VRAINS, minor character in Crocus.
Mirror Character: To Augustine Sycamore as they are related to a black wearing non-human who have physical appearances based off of them and were brainwashed under their orders. The sole difference is that while Asher initially did it to Augustine as a way of "protecting" him before he gets permission to have triggers placed in Augustine's head, Ai places the hypnosis on him to keep him "happy" and so that Yusaku can't have a chance to drop his number to 0. And amusingly enough, both Augustine and Yusaku share the same dub voice actor (Jake Paque).

Ai (Dark Ignis)

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

An AI, also called the Dark Ignis, who was once the partner of Yusaku Fujiki.

Achilles' Heel: His duel disk. If that's destroyed, he can't summon any of his Duel monsters. Thus, when a hunter in the Horrorland Car strikes it with an arrow, he's defenseless.
Adaptational Jerkass: In Season 3 VRAINS he carried around a Sad Clown Jerkass Façade but was capable of Kick the Dog moments. Here, he's willing to mock Specter for his bonds and makes very dark jokes like how Lampetia is a sight for sore eye after she lost half of her face from one of his monsters.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The only time Ai interacted with Specter was during Specter's duel with Playmaker —- episodes 35 - 37 — and most of it was on snarking about Specter's mom being a tree, not even mentoning the connection of Specter to his Ignis when dueling George Gore in Season 3. Here, Ai really hates Specter for having a Heel–Face Turn and another chance at a happy ending and wants to make sure that the Knight of Hanoi doesn't get that chance, and he absolutely detests how Specter plans to Save the Villain.
Adaptational Villainy: While Ai did get a more antagonistic role later in the show, he was at best a neutral ally of Yusaku until then. In here, he's a mind controlling madman who's willing to keep Yusaku trapped in a false fantasy world just to satisfy his desire to be happy under the pretense of helping Yusaku, and he doesn't give a flying feather if he destroys Specter's spirit (or just kill Specter) if he can give a middle finger to the Hanoi.
Ambiguous Situation:
- How is he on the Train with Yusaku? And why does he have a 300 on his hand? The Palimpsest Car reveals that Ai started getting worried that people were catching onto what he did to Yusaku and the Train came to them.
- Does Ai really care for Yusaku or is he using Yusaku for his own needs? It's well known in VRAINS that Yusaku originally saw Ai as a "prisoner" and they snarked at one another, but they gradually began to care for one another as partners.
Arc Villain: He's the main villain for White Gestalt during the Palimpsest Car arc.
Awesome, but Impractical: Having so many monsters at your beck and call sounds awesome, but the impractical part comes when they're completely defeated and you have no fighting skills, or the time it takes to actually summon them. Hence, by the time the White Gestalt destroys his strongest monster, he can't do anything but rant and rave how it's impossible.
Berserk Button: Ai gets angry when Specter says his human appearance — which is based on Yusaku and he has a black military coat — looks like a "Gothic sell-out".
Ai: YOU TAKE THAT BACK!!!
Beware the Silly Ones: He's a goofy little AI that gained a human body and has one of the most powerful deck in VRAINS.
Composite Character: He essentially is the Knight of the Orange Lily version of Specter: he uses his duel disk instead of having any combat prowess, he's known to have a serious air amongst the wackier characters, and he's also dragged along for a ride he doesn't want. Amusingly, Specter in the Crocusverse is much more positive, willing to be silly and have comical moments, and is pushing to have another go at the Train.
The Drag-Along: After his rampage through the Soda Beach Car, he's forced to travel alongside White Gestalt.
Evil Counterpart:
- To Asher as both are darker versions of their partners who use mind control on said partner for their own security. The main difference is that Asher was trying to protect Augustine and then uses said hypnotism as a way to protect him whereas Ai only uses the mind control to protect himself and doesn't care for Yusaku's safety on making him a puppet.
- In a humorous sense of irony, he's the evil counterpart to Specter. Aside from their colors being a contrast (Ai wears Black, Specter is associated with white), the way they treat their partners are complete opposites. Ai claims he cares for Yusaku but puts a cap on Yusaku so he can't grow as a person and leave the Train and doesn't try to make friends on the Train. Specter cherishes the bonds he has with his denizen partners and proudly states that he's part of the White Gestalt. In fact, Specter himself notes that Ai is just a reflection of his old self during his first trip on the Train, and even vows to knock sense into him.
- To Lampetia. Color scheme and gender aside, both of them have a notable eye motif and different interactions with Specter. Ai loathes the Knight of Hanoi while Lampetia treats him like a friend. Ai's main goal is to presumably stay on the Train forever with Yusaku while Lampetia desires to stay with Specter and see him grow. Ai and Lampetia can summon allies — Ai's duel monsters and Lampetia can summon the shadows of the Gestalt — to help but Ai is ready to sacrifice them all for a humongous juggernaut and never fights, but Lampetia's allies work alongside her as a united team.
Evil Has a Bad Sense of Humor: His reaction to seeing Lampetia losing an eye is to say that she is a sight for sore eye. Specter reacts accordingly to this horrible insensitive pun.
Specter: SHUT UP!!!!!
- He later makes a joke that London doesn't want to be disarmed — by the same @Ignister that made Lampetia lose her eye — while making a chopping motion to his own arm.
Evil Is Hammy: He dresses up like a vampire and is prone to mad gesticulations and laughter. London even tells him to quit it with the maniacal overlord act.
From Nobody to Nightmare: An Ignis initially reduced to an eyeball trapped in Yusaku's Duel Disk before gaining a human-like body, one of the most powerful decks in VRAINS, and a mentality to ensure he never leaves Yusaku's side.
Humans Are Bastards: The incident with SOLTech (particularly the vivisection of Earth), the persecution from Ryoken and the Hanoi for five years, and the death of all his siblings has made him see humanity as a selfish breed that would do anything for power or money.
Hypocrite:
- Whines how it's unfair how White Gestalt use underhanded tactics to beat The Arrival. The Gestalt is quick to point out that Ai basically swarmed the field with his monsters and knocked London to the side while trying to save Lampetia from a sword that shaved half her face off.
- States that humans are nothing but a bunch of a-holes, but he himself is no better with how he mocks Specter's compassion and bonds to Lampetia and Easter. And that's without mentioning what he did to Yusaku...
- He considers Ryoken putting a cap on Pandor's program, which resets when Pandor strays too far from programming, to be disgusting... When this is the exact same thing he's doing to Yusaku, under much worse circumstances (Keeping him from getting his number down to zero, and thus work on his issues, just so Ai can feel happy.)
Improperly Paranoid: He tries to run away from Specter because he presumes that the Hanoi want him dead. Specter admits in the Act 2 Prelude that Ai is the least of his worries right now.
Inseries Nickname: He's called "Vampire Breath" by Stine since he has a gothic look to him.
Ironic Name: Ai means "to love" in Japanese. Ai himself notes that once upon a time, he did love people, humanity, and his family but lost it after Lightning's machinations.
Jerkass Has a Point: He tells Specter that for all his aggravations on not getting his bond with Earth, it's completely shallow. Earth was Ai's brother in a sense and thus Ai had the bond much longer than Specter ever had and it's hypocritical that he's preaching it now when the Hanoi wanted nothing more than to kill every last one of the Ignis and didn't even care for the collateral damage.
Just You, Me, and My GUARDS!: States the trope namer but replace "Guards" with "Earth Golem @Ignister".
Kick the Dog: To really rub salt into an open wound, Ai notes to London, Specter, Easter and Lampetia that the first @Ignister they decide to destroy was Earth Golem @Ignister...and in canon Earth (Specter's Ignis) is the first Ignis to bite the dust. London immediately realizes how much of a puppy-kicking line this is, especially since Specter never got to develop a proper bond.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Let's just say Ai in a human body is huge endgame spoilers for VRAINS.
Mind Rape: Subverted, he reacts like this to Chloe using her cloak on him akin to Asuka from Neon Genesis Evangelion (to the point Chloe calls him "Ai Langley Soryu") but the worst he gets is Augustine using "Purifying Blade" in an attempt to make him see the light.
Mirror Character: To Asher as a figure whose main element is darkness with a traumatizing backstory and their partner is put under hypnosis, but while Asher is mainly doing it to protect Augustine, Ai is doing it to protect himself and keep Yusaku from leaving the Train.
Morton's Fork: The Figure/Austen Plane gives Ai the task to deliver Lampetia's heart to Specter. If Ai does, this will definitely rouse suspicion in Specter — who knows the last person who had her heart was a little Apex brat who'd never give her "battle trophy" so easily — but if Ai refuses, Austen will reveal to Den City that Ai kidnapped Yusaku and forced him into a painful trance just so Ai can stay with Yusaku forever and thus giving Ryoken an incentive to get on the Train to kill him.
Non-Action Big Bad: He can't actually fight without his Duel Monsters, so once every single one of them gets defeated, or if his Duel Disk gets destroyed, he has nowhere to run.
Punny Name: His name can mean "Love" in Japanese, it's short for Artificial Intelligence, and Yusaku first met him when he was reduced to an eyeball.
Sad Clown: Underneath his silly facade is an AI that has serious grieving problems. This is symbolized by Chloe finding him in a mental landscape of A.I.Land — which is essentially an amusement park with bright colors — and he's found in front of five graves, each of them representing the other dead Ignis.
Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Upon learning that Specter is on the Train, Ai is doing all he can to run away from him. Then Austen forces Ai to make a delivery of Lampetia's heart to Specter.
Shipper on Deck: He notes that he shipped Specter with Blue Angel, albeit he could be joking about it given how he keeps ragging on Specter's closeness with London.
Shut Up, Kirk!: During their fight, Specter gives a speech about how White Gestalt came together for similar reasonings and they're on the Train to rediscover themselves. Ai immediately tells him to shut it.
Ai: If there's one thing I hate more than everyone not listening to me are long monologues, which are coming from you of all people!
Single Tear: Sheds one when Specter reminds him that his name means "love" when Ai states that Specter is a parasite who doesn't know what it means to be human.
Taking You with Me: Given everything that he has gone through, he decides that if Austen does reveal what he's done to Yusaku, he's taking Specter down so the ghost doesn't get his happy ending by rampaging with his @Ignister monsters. He fails.
This Cannot Be!: Is stuck screaming this when White Gestalt plows through all of his monsters and are about to lay the killing blow at The Arrival Cyberse @Ignister.
Troll: Gets a kick out of pissing off Specter, particularly when he mocks Lampetia for having a single eye. After being dragged along with the Gestalt, this is default behavior.
Villainous Breakdown: He gets more and more pissed when White Gestalt destroy his monsters, unable to stop them.
What Measure Is a Non-Human?: His backstory was about having to be on the run from the Hanoi and by the time everything in Season 2 and 3 begins, he feels nothing but grief that he's the only Ignis left standing and can never have a happy life as he is, because Ryoken is so intent on killing him. The fact that Specter is able to have happy relationships with two partners — Easter and Lampetia — riles him up to no end. Hearing about Pandor being an AI made by Ryoken as an anti-Ignis program that has a cap on her development should she go against her program disgusts him.

"Young Girl"

Kino

A passenger Rey Mysterio met up during his travel on the Train. She had a bike and would usually stay in a car "for three days and two nights."

Cool Bike: She travels with a talking moterrad. Whether or not this is Hermes — and whether this version is a denizen or not — is unknown.
No Name Given: She's not named but the hints given through the comic Oscar reads concludes this is Kino.
Walking the Earth: Kino's specialty, and her creed is to stay "for three days and two nights".

"Fallen Knight"

Oersted

Auric: A knight with the same amount of optimism as you [Augustine] went in here many years ago and as time passed, his hope wavered until it shattered and became a monster until he was put down. He believed that 'as long as one person believed in you’, he could conquer anything."

A knight who once entered the Train a thousand years ago, who clung onto the idea of hope "as long as one person believes in him". It didn't end well.

Death by Adaptation: In his game, Oersted would become the Lord of Dark Odio who would either be killed or unleash Armageddon. In here, he gets killed on the Train.
Despair Event Horizon: He went through a horrible one. Those who played his game will know what it entails.
Fallen Hero: He was once a Knight in Shining Armor then his philosophy got destroyed into rubble (thanks to his best friend, no less!) and he was killed off.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: If you never played Live A Live or never got to the Middle Ages chapter, then congrats at having the biggest twist of the game explained to you.
No Name Given: He's never mentioned by name, but those who know his backstory would know this is Oersted.
Sanity Slippage: He did not take losing everything well.
Shadow Archetype: The barista tells the tale of Oersted to Augustine as a warning of what's going to happen if he doesn't change his view of what it means to bring hope.
Spared by the Adaptation: Depends on how you define "spared". He doesn't become Odio, but he still dies alone and without anyone who knows or cares about him.
Tragic Hero: He was supposed to be the knight to save Alethea from the Lord of Dark. Unfortunately, his story ended in tragedy.

Seto Kaiba

"If I had a dime every time I heard the word 'destiny', I'd be even richer."

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Cyan Desert Car) | Firefly Funhouse Car (Mentioned)

The CEO of Kaiba Corp. and one of the best duelists in Domino City.

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: When he meets Alister in the Chess Car, he doesn't seem to recognize him. Presumably, this is because this is a Kaiba who got on the Train prior to the Waking the Dragons arc or this is his manga counterpart and Alister doesn't exist in that continuity.
Adaptational Wimp: Dueling-wise anyway; if it's him before Waking the Dragons, then he's stuck with his Season 4 deck and won't have the Fang of Critias.^Explanation
Ascended Extra: Only had three references in the original Blossomverse trilogy — as one of the victims of Gladion's attempts to stop the Apex in Knight of the Orange Lily, Chloe referenced playing chess with him, and Romin's letter mentioned that he passed by Maccadam's in Blossoming Trail — but he makes a full on appearance at Part 4 of the Cyan Desert Car.
Badass Longcoat: His silver duster is a thing of beauty.
Cutting the Knot: He's working with Alister to figure out a way to just escape the Train without the whole "dropping the numbers" situation...provided that is Alister's actual plan...
Deadpan Snarker: Kaiba is just dripping with snark.
If I Had a Nickel...: His character quote says it all.
Mundane Utility: He uses the Infinet to help him coordinate business meetings and running his company through his little brother.
Rule of Symbolism: His number is 3000, which is the attack strength of the Blue Eyes White Dragon. In his next appearance, it's 2500, which is the attack strength of Dark Magician, the signature card of his eternal rival.
Smart People Play Chess: A genius CEO who plays chess. Chloe admits that she completely lost to him in a round, which is confirmed in "Firefly Funhouse Car".

Alister

A teenage who lived in a war-torn country and wants revenge on Kaiba by any means necessary.

Ambiguously Evil: It's hard to say when Alister was taken onto the Train but at the very least he's not aligned with Dartz at this point.
Dramatic Irony: Wants revenge on Kaiba for the death of his little brother. Fans of Yu-Gi-Oh! will know that Seto was not involved in the slightest.
Evil Redhead: Has red hair and is the antagonist compared to Kaiba being an Anti-Hero.
In the Hood: He's first seen wearing a green mantle.
Mythology Gag: His end goal is something called the "Void End Cannon", which is based on a similar cannon created by the Crown of Thorns Amelia Hughes.
Shock and Awe: He emits sparks from his fingers.
Smart People Play Chess: He's introduced in the Chess Car, wanting to challenge Kaiba to Fidchell, the Celtic ancestor of chess.
Unknown Rival: Presumably wants revenge for how Kaiba's company destroyed his hometown and took his little brother away from him. Kaiba either doesn't know nor does he care.

Obra Dinn Survivors

Titus: At least they [The Roanoke Colony] weren’t as bad as the survivors from that doomed ship, the Obra Dinn. All because of one greedy a-hole…I’m more surprised that the Train didn’t pick up more of the doomed souls.

A collection of passengers who were taken in after chaos involving a doomed ship.

The Ghost: Titus references them in an example of doomed passengers from the past but are never seen. Justified because what happened on the Obra Dinn took place in 1802 and they would've eventually left by the time the events of the game took place in 1807.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Downplayed. Titus reveals just how the Obra Dinn got doomed (a greedy asshole) but never explains who said asshole really was.^Spoiler
No Name Given: None of the survivors are mentioned, most likely because it would be major spoilers for the game itself.^Spoilers
Posthumous Character: They entered the Train during the early 1800s so they've been dead for two hundred years now.

Angela Orosco

"You [Rey] see it [the flames] too, don't you? For me...it's always like this."

A woman with a troubled past from abuse caused by her family whom Rey tried to rescue. Her fate ends in tragedy.

Abusive Parents: Her father physically and sexually abused her and her mother stated that she deserved it.
Broken Bird: She was already broken and battered before the Train got to her and she ends up deciding to end her suffering instead of trying to make herself better. Notably when Rey tries to help her, his number goes down. When she refuses, hers goes up.
Death Seeker: She ends up killing herself by ascending up a staircase as the Dollhouse Car burns around her.
Driven to Suicide: She dies this way, engulfed by flames.
Kill It with Fire: According to Rey, the Dollhouse Car made constructs of her parents. And thus she killed them.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: Unless you haven't heard or played Silent Hill 2, then you should already know her fate.
Posthumous Character: By virtue of appearing in a flashback.

Bede

"What the hell is this?!"

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Chocolate Car, unnamed)

A Pokémon Trainer taking part in the World Coronation Series, who would rather be anywhere but the therapy train.

Ambiguous Situation: Whether or not he's responsible for Hop's entrance onto the Infinity Train, like in Blossoming Trail, isn't made clear as of late.
Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: He laughs and boasts on his victory towards a little girl and doesn't show any empathy at how he crushed her.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was the boy whom Tokio snapped at back in the Chocolate Car, being described as a boy with curly white hair and a purple-pink coat.
Everyone Has Standards: He does admit to Austen Plane that he feels a bit guilty for indirectly causing Tokio's breakdown and questions what happened to the boy to react like that.
Mind over Matter: His Hattena is Psychic-type.
Mythology Gag: He wakes up in the Blue's Clues Car, just like he did in Court of Cyclamen.
No Sympathy: Doesn't show any ounce of this upon how he made a little girl cry by going "So what?" Tokio does not approve.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here:
- He runs the hell away after Tokio starts beating him for his apathy.
- Tries doing this in the Blue's Clues Car, but Steve and Austen Plane have none of it.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Him gloating at how he could care less about beating a girl in a Pokémon battle in front of Tokio, and having the gall to say "So what?" only exasperated Tokio's memories of what happened on the Train and would eventually get him on that very same train.
White Hair, Black Heart: Has curly white hair and is a jerk.

Passengers that debut in Act 2

Amaya Sei

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Palimpsest Car)

A passenger from Japan who has an obsession with trains and is the conductor of the Third Rail.

Chekhov's Gunman: She's described as having blue hair and when the Windchasers and Red Lotus Uprising enter the Third Rail the first time, Atticus nearly bumps into one of the identical servers — all wearing red kimonos and painted masks — that also had blue hair. This clues into Atticus later that something was amiss because he can't see red or green, but blue? Absolutely.
Dark and Troubled Past: Her mother had a few screws loose and Sei found her at home one day with a knife in her chest. Instead of calling the hospital to do something about it, she simply watched as her mom bled out.
Females Are More Innocent: Out of the females in the Palimpsest Car that are either indirectly or directly involved with the chaos, she's the innocent one of them all. She didn't cause the war in Palimpsest, she wasn't selfishly taking control of a Train for her personal issues, and she doesn't lash out at others. Out of six women shown — Cassimira, Ululiro, Amelia, Chloe, November and herself — she's the most mentally stable and willing to move forward with her life when the time is right.
Foil: Of Amelia. Both of them are a conductor to a car but Amelia selfishly usurped One-One for her needs whereas Sei only takes charge so that Augustine doesn't go into a breakdown. While Amelia is still reeling with her mistakes and is indirectly the cause of a lot of problems on the Infinity Train, Sei has shed no blood and has not caused any crimes, but rather gives a suggestion that the Third Rail's parents should go into therapy. Last, Amelia (age 60) got on the Train after the death of Alrick, Sei (in her twenties) got on it due to her mother's suicide.
Last-Name Basis: Downplayed since she's using Japanese naming structure — which is how her name was presented in the original book — with Amelia calling her "Amaya" before Sei corrects her.
Parental Issues: Her mother was a bit crazy and eventually killed herself. Meanwhile her father was a simple salary man who was busy with work.
Rail Enthusiast: She's obsessed about trains, and she hails from Japan (the novel had her working at a ticket kiosk), with the Palimpsest Car having a train that's perfect for her. Or at least, it was supposed to be...

November Aguilar

A beekeeper who was once Casimira's champion, tasked to find three other passengers to help break the barriers of the Palmipsest Car. She now wants nothing to do with Casimira and would rather live in peace in her small book shop.

Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In the original Palimpsest, she ends up in a relationship with Casimira — despite Casimira going as far as to chop her fingers — but the fanfic has them split up once November realized how toxic Casimira was.
Ambiguously Bi: She had an affair with Casimira but she's split up and is now working alongside Ludovico. This is actually in line with the original novel since Ludovido decides to pursue a relationship with November and that in it's not uncommon for people to sleep with those of either gender to enter Palimpsest in the first place.
Fingore: The ring and pinky finger of her right hand was cut off by Casimira as proof that she was willing to be her champion.
Obsessed Are the Listmakers: November's tic was how she was always making lists of impossible things.
Shadow Archetype: She's essentially a Bad Future version of Chloe if she decides to stay on the Train and doesn't work herself. Like Chloe, she had an estranged relationship to her father, an obsessive love for a book, and chosen for some grand destiny to change the fates of denizens...except she suffered an abusive relationship with Casimira with her fingers chopped, and ended up stuck in the same car she "liberated", finding no joy in adventuring out of the other Cars to improve herself.
Stopped Caring: She wants nothing to do with Palimpsest or getting better and would rather stay in Palimpest than move forward.

Tres

"I'm used to solving problems through the power of therapy!"

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Palimpsest Car)

A passenger who was working in one of the cars in the Third Rail. But something seems off about him...

All Therapists Are Muggles: In comparison to the therapy train and the denizens made to help passengers with their troubles, he's a bonafide human and does a much better job in getting Augustine and Chloe to confront their issues.
Berserk Button: He warns Usagi and Palimpsest (who is speaking through Alrich) to not make a jab of how he — a trans man — does not "fit anywhere".
Catchphrase: The author notes reveal that his catchphrase is how he solves something "through the power of therapy".
Character Tics: Clapping his hands together once before he makes an announcement.
Chekhov's Gunman: He was the one comforting Sei when she had a meltdown in Part 3 of the Palimpsest Car, identified by his bracelet.
Contrived Coincidence: So a therapist just so happens to be on the very same train and appears just when Augustine is in dire need of therapy before he kills himself in despair? Amelia mentally notes that this is too convenient.
Dude Looks Like a Lady: He's described as having an androgynous face before Asher quickly realizes he's trans by his transgender coded earring and bracelet. Author notes reveal that Tres was originally planned to be a cisgender male before it was decided he would be be a trans man. Glad-One even lampshades this by calling Tres that "nice therapy girl-boy".
Heart Is an Awesome Power: Being a therapist doesn't seem like much, but given that a person is only on the Infinity Train due to the fact that there's something bugging them and in most cases no one even bothers to take these troubled people to seek therapy in the first place for reasons that can stem from not having money to afford it, not paying attention to the fact that someone needs help or therapy is not in anyone's dictionary — not to mention how hands off the Train can be when it comes to people trying to survive the Train as they are in fixing themselves — then having a therapist at the right moment basically is the difference between having a sane mind that can start fixing themselves or being stuck in a mental prison for a longer time than needed. He even jokes how therapy is his super power.
Heart Symbol: Wears a heart-shaped earring.
Hidden in Plain Sight: Usagi had no idea that he was working in her car because of the kimono and red mask that covered his identity, which is the uniform of those who serve tea in one of the Third Rail's cars.
Iconic Item: His transgender flag patterned heart-shaped earring and bracelet.
In-Series Nickname: "Mister Mask" by Asher.
{{Irony}: An unexpected therapist does more to help Augustine and Chloe go through their issues in one talk than an infinite therapy train has ever done.
Lunacy: He's associated with the moon. He has a blue moon mark on the back of his hand, and the app he gives Chloe has a blue moon on it. He even proclaims that he's a "Moonlight passenger."
Muggles Do It Better: He's only human, but his therapy is leagues better than what the Train did.
Mundane Made Awesome: He proclaims that he is used to solving problems through the power of therapy.
Mundane Solution: He solves most of the problems plaguing Augustine and Chloe just by talking to them, something the Train, and outside forces, has failed to do. He also gives Chloe an app she can use to talk about her traumas and connect with others, a solution that is infinitely much better than her father's solution to ignore therapy and keep her in the Institute.
Outside-Context Problem: Downplayed. He's a passenger on the train but when he shows his hands, there's no number on the palm and the back of his hand has a shining blue dot, and he isn't the first passenger to have that particular quirk as Horace notes. However, his presence saves Augustine and Chloe due to the fact that he's a therapist — something that the two sorely need at this point.
Queer Colors: He wears a heart-shaped earring and bracelet that are both blue, pink and white, reflecting the colors of the transgender flag. True to form, Asher identifies him as a trans man.
Token Minority: Outside of Specter (who is coded demiromantic by the authors) and November (who is considered Ambiguously Bi as she had a relationship with Casimira but is currently working with Ludovico (who is straight in the novel they come from), Tres is the only LGBT passenger that's coded as trans.
Unsettling Gender-Reveal: Downplayed, but Amelia reacts in confusion over the idea of Tres originally being a woman and question how that's possible for someone to declare themselves as the opposite gender. Justified in this case because Amelia has been on the train for more than thirty years — she got on the Train in the 80s while Book 3 takes place in 2020 — so she's seriously behind in the changes to the LGBT movement.
Wearing A Flag Around Your Head: The trans passenger has an earring and bracelet patterned after the transgender flag (cyan, pink and white).

The Passenger of the 8th Wanderer (Spoilers unmarked)

Alec Cerise

"All I ask is for you to take a peek at the worlds I had seen, the lesson I had learned, and pray that my descendants never have to face the surrealness that I encountered and instead live a normal life in the world I call home. With this, I begin my tales towards the path of infinity. Come and join me if you can."

— An excerpt from his journal

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned) | Orchid Observer (Debut) | Arcanum Archives: Descendant's Shadow | The Firefly Funhouse Car

A man with a turtle with fluffy ears that once entered the Infinity Train around fifty years ago and ended up entangled in matters invovling nightmares and demons. He's the great-great-grandfather of Colette Cadeiux (real name: Chloe Cerise).

Action Survivor: His initial journal entries in Descendant's Shadow imply he was initially this, given that the only other partner he had at the time was a Wartortle. He would eventually outgrow it if the rumors of him making a covenant are true.
Animal Motifs: Serpents. He has a purple-black serpent tattoo on his left shoulder, Gladion finds his diary after noting a symbol of a snake wrapped around a crown, and his signature weapon was a knife whose handle looks like a serpent, and even named after a mythological one..
Ascended Extra: Kinda. He's dead by the time Crocus and its side-stories begin, but "Firefly Funhouse Car" puts a lot more focus on him and what he did on the Train.
Character Tics: Placing a hand under his chin, in which a tiny flame illuminates his glasses.
Deal with the Devil: "Firefly Funhouse Car" implies he made a covenant with the Goetia known as Bifrons.
Decomposite Character: Blossoming Trail Chloe was compared to Wirt but many of Wirt's traits in Crocus go back to Alec: being anxious about the unknown, being good at writing (Wirt was a poet), and eventually learning to not let the darkness get him down.
Distinguishing Mark: For some odd reason, he had a purple/black Ekans tattoo on his left shoulder. A similar mark is on his great-great-granddaughter's shoulder.
Dork Knight: He's a Professor who can cook, loves nonograms and sudoku, would eventually gain a Covenant and stopped an evil mayor while subsequently creating the Horrorland Car...yet can't solve a game of hangman to save his life.
Famed In-Story: He's well-known for how he created the Horrorland Car. In the titular car itself, Gladion sees a painting that depicts Alec Cerise shaking hands with a Horror.
Family Theme Naming: Alec Cerise and his great-grandson Aldrich Cerise. Descendant's Shadow will later reveal a grandson named Albert Cerise.
Foregone Conclusion: Given that he needs to have a great-grandson and great-great-granddaughter, it's obvious that he'll leave the Train.
The Greatest Story Never Told: Downplayed; he never told the story to his family, but he logged them in his journals, which would become the basis to how Arcanum would learn more about the Train. Whatever he did on the Train has also been lost to history with only a few denizens remembering them.
Goal in Life: His field of study was to research the history of human-Pokémon bonds, expanding on the work of Professor Laventon by noticing patterns in other regions.
Good with Numbers: He loved number puzzles like nonograms and sudoku.
Hero of Another Story: He got on the Train and entered a large grassy field with goblin villages alongside his Wartortle, and would later be in possession of an artifact so powerful it had the power to bring either creation or destruction. His journals were left in the possession of Wakana Himika when he returned to his homeworld. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals he is responsible for the origins of the Horrorland Car and arrived at least half a century before Crocus starts. Horrorland Car would later reveal that he crossed paths with Armand and Nal on their adventures.
Identical Grandson: Inverted; the first time Chloe sees a painting of him, she assumes it's a painting of her father.
Irony: He's known to write long-winded journal entries but he absolutely sucked at word puzzles like hangman, anagrams, crosswords, etc.
Light Is Good: Had the ability to make "magic candles" and was known as a heroic figure.
Making a Splash: He had a Wartortle when he entered the train. By the time of Descendant's Shadow, it's a Blastoise.
Mirror Character: An obvious one to the Chloe on the Train. He had a bonafide Covenant while Chloe makes due with a cloak that can mimic the power of a Goetia and Numine. He was mostly associated with light while Chloe is more into fire. He was mostly recognized for his intellect whereas Chloe is known for her literal firepower.
Nightmare Fetishist: He had a Covenant and is the creator of the Horrorland Car. However, he wasn't initially this, according to Uncle Howdy.
Ominous Fog: His famous knife, Vasuki, could unleash a dark mist for the price of blood.
Posthumous Character: He's already dead by the time the Crocusverse is in swing, with all that's left of him are his journals and a portrait of him on the Train.
Pragmatic Hero: If the Arcanum Professor Cerise and his journals are correct, Alec was said to be this.
Real Men Can Cook: He could make a decent pasta dish with leftover ingredients.
Red Baron: "Demon Researcher" and "Four-Eyed Demon".
Running Gag: His journal entries keep Tempting Fate whenever he remarks that he hopes his descendants never get involved in what he's gone through.
Spear Counterpart: He's a male adult version of Chloe Cerise due to them being prolific writers, a Red Baron associated with a demon, and a love of nightmarish things. "Horrorland Car" cements the paralells even more: the two love mint chocolate desserts, they loved performing stage plays, and dealt with doll-like denizens in a madhouse.
Tempting Fate: His journals state that he prays that his descendants don't get involved with what he's gone through. Unfortunately, his great-great-granddaughter has gotten entagled with the Infinity Train as shown in Orchid Observer (albeit she's not on the Train, but the fact still remains).
Walking Spoiler: It's hard to keep his name a secret and he later starts having a significant role in the backstory of Crocus.

Armand and Nal

Armand and Nal (Vale)

"Darkness is inevitable. It is an aspect of one’s life that cannot be denied, like death. The more you try to run away from it, the bigger the shadow you leave behind. Many people die never ever confronting their fears. Only those who have had the courage to look the darkness straight into the eye have come out stronger, wiser, and understanding of their existence. They learn that instead of seeing there is nothing to live for, they can decide to decorate the darkness with what they see as important, and what matters to them most of all."

Armand

A passenger and his shadow demon whom Alighieri encountered years ago.

Ambiguously Related: Armand shares the (real) name as Asher but what relationship they have is unknown.
The Anti-Nihilist: Armand accepted that the darkness was bleak, but also that people can shine a light with the things that gave them joy.
A Boy and His X: A boy and his shadow demon.
Casting a Shadow: He had the ability to summon a shadow demon, presumably where Uncle Howdy's nickname of "Shadow Master" comes from.
Dark Is Not Evil: Armand had an affinity for darkness and even made a deal with a shadow demon, but was kind enough to pity Alighieri (not like the feather face appreciated it). However, his own philosophy is that the darkness is to be respected, never trusted.
Deal with the Devil: Armand was given a wish from Nal, any wish he desired. He...only asked for a friend. Surprisingly, Nal didn't twist the wish for his favor.
Hero of Another Story: Crossed paths with Alighieri, to the point that Buné is in the know of that encounter, and Uncle Howdy implies they met up with Alec Cerise also. Madame Doom in the Horrorland Car also brings up some of the adventures as well.
Madame Doom: But according to him, he started to travel with several friends, opened their own kingdom as a melting pot, battled a nightmare monster, and dealt with a scandal that he said "almost deprived him and his friends of their powers".
Identical Stranger: Armand looks very similar to Augustine, including the fact that they currently have a gold and blue eye.
Mundane Wish: When given a wish from Nal, Armand only asks for the shadow demon to be his friend.
Noodle Incident:
- Armand fought off against Alighier years ago and won.
- Armand met with Uncle Howdy in the past and also went into something called the Duels Car where he had to do an improv for his challenge, wearing an outfit that makes Lotus blush.
Red Baron: Uncle Howdy calls him "Shadow Master".
Posthumous Character: Armand entered the Train around fifty years prior and has passed on by the time Seeker of Crocus starts but Nal's fate is unknown.
Superpower Lottery: He gained the bond of a powerful shadow demon and Orchid Observer mentions he was capable of using a magical ability known as "Chord" — a creative energy that can be used for battle purposes — being the last known wielder of it.
What You Are in the Dark: When Armand met with Nal in a dark cave, he would be granted any wish. Armand was bullied and any decent person could've used these powers to enact revenge. Instead, he simply asked Nal to be his friend.

Milton Finch

A young boy who comes from a family well known for everyone known to die in gruesome ways, and older brother of Edith Finch. Simon is off to find him to tell him the news.

Deal with the Devil: He's mentioned making a covenant with a Goetia, with Amelia realizing that said Goetia is Malphas.
The Ghost: Mentioned frequently in Act 2, but never seen.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: The fact that Milton may or not be the same king from The Unfinished Swan.
Last of His Kind: Not counting Edith's son, Christopher, he's the only surviving member of the Finch family.
The Runaway: He ran away to build a kingdom of his own making, but ended up on the Infinity Train...to build a kingdom of his own making.

Jonathan Chiller

A shopkeeper in the Horrorland Car who owns "Chiller House". He tasks White Gestalt to a scavenger hunt to escape Horrorland.

Abusive Parents: Just like in the Horrorland series, he did not have loving parents.
Affably Evil: He's calm and polite when he speaks, which is a heavy contrast to his sinister core.
Always Someone Better: Chiller outranks Specter in mind-games, carefully manipulating the Knight of Hanoi's buttons while knocking off each of his crutches without ever getting a hit in.
Ambiguous Situation: Are the artifacts Chiller collects exactly as he says they are? While some are dangerous, like the lawn gnomes, the scarecrow, and the mask, he also has such a silver tongue that can trip Specter up.^note The Haunted Mask on Tokio is presumably a mixture of the mask's influence and his own bitterness coming up to the surface, but it still needed Tokio to love himself and accept his faults before it could be removed.
Arc Villain: The main villain of the Horrorland Car.
Artifact of Doom: Or rather, artifacts. He collects numerous artifacts with dangerous powers in his little shop.
Blue-and-Orange Morality: A very bizarre case for a passenger. When it comes to hunting his prey, he goes after White Gestalt because of their legacy of surviving numerous horror cars and isn't afraid to use some nasty tricks to even the playing field. But when asked why not use it on the Apex, he states that the Apex don't play fair and he's got enough of a brain to understand that many of the horrors in the car would seem excessive.
Chiller: Do you want any of the Apex wreaking havoc with magical artifacts that they don’t understand? Do we want them to have their wishes going wrong so they backfire on us? And on the flipside, do you think the Apex deserves to be terrorized by Pumpkinheads? Ghostly dogs? Mummies? Lawn gnomes?
Borrowed Catchphrase: Chiller proclaims, "It's time to play the game...TIME TO PLAY THE GAME!!!" to which London lampshades the source.
London: Wasn’t funny when Hunter Hearst Hemsley said it, it’s not funny now!
Classy Cravat: To sell his age, and the Benjamin Franklin comparisons, he wears one.
Collector of the Strange: His shop carries a myriad of evil artifacts that can be dangerous if someone unscrupulous used them.
Composite Character: He's a mixed bag of traits from various characters.
- Specter: Silver-haired and silver-tongued man who can poke holes at a person's psyche.
- Gladion: Stuck in his delusions.
- Chloe: Wanting to prove herself as better than others, particularly mentioning the father, and is a Nightmare Fetishist.
- Grace: Leads a group of child-like hunters and had abusive parents.
- Simon: Delusional and rejects reality.
- Walter/Henry: Resides in a nightmarish car full of horrors.
- The Cat: Has a collection of items precious to them.
- Amelia: Extremely high number and refuses to move on.
Daddy Issues: His issues stem from how his father disregards him as a hunter and now he wants to prove that he is a hunter...despite the fact that his parents are most likely dead by now.
Deal with the Devil: Heavily implied to have made a deal with the Goetia to account for how he was able to gather all of his artifacts in a short amount of time and how he could return to Horrorland no matter how hard the residents asked him to leave.
Egomaniac Hunter: He mostly wants to hunt White Gestalt to satiate his ego, proclaiming that he'll become infamous for doing something no horror-filled Car did: utterly break them.
Even Evil Has Standards: While he has low opinions on the Apex, he knows not to have let them be assaulted by even more dangerous monsters or let them get their hands on his artifacts.
Evil Counterpart:
- Of Olmec. While both collect strange artifacts and push passengers to compete in dangerous challenges, Olmec is mostly benevolent and warns Chloe of the dangers awaiting the Apex, even granting her the Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet to aid her. Chiller collects malevolent artifacts that can spell doom in the wrong hands and isn't afraid to use them on his opponents. Moreover Olmec is a denizen whereas Chiller is a passenger.
- Also to Amelia. Both of them are old people who entered the train when they were young (Chiller as a child, Amelia in her thirties) and whose crimes are such that their numbers became impossibly big. However, Amelia managed to hear reason and is at least willing to try and fix her mistakes, while Johnny's so stuck up in his own delusions that he doesn't seem to be aware/care his parents are long dead by the time he appears in the story.
- A third one to Chloe. Both have parental issues, particularly not being what their father expects them to be, and love nightmarish things. Sole difference is that Chiller's dad was abusive whereas Cerise truly does love his daughter, not to mention that Chloe is learning to move forward — figuratively and literally traversing the train — whereas Chiller refuses to move on and stays in one place.
- To Alec Cerise. Alec was a heroic figure who helped save the Horrors and make the Horrorland Car, but Chiller exploits the horrors within the car to torment others.
Evil Old Folks: He's a man in his sixties — as he entered the Train when The Beatles were making it big, and the books he's from mention he was a kid in 1960 — and he is pure evil.
Hypocrite: He refuses to bring the Apex to his car on the basis that they'll just weaponize the artifacts he has...and yet he's willing to bend those rules if it gives him an advantage against the Gestalt.
Karma Houdini: At the end of Horrorland Car, the worst he gets is to be momentarily traumatized by his "friends" saying goodbye and being knocked out by London. He'll still be stuck in his little shop to torment future passengers, something that irks Gladion to no end. London, however, sees this as a personal victory because Chiller will never grow up and move forward, while the chuni has a chance to be better.
Lesser of Two Evils: To the Silent Hill Trio. He dislikes the Apex as well, but he's not going all out in a monster-slaying ritual that will kill them, as he knows that there are huge risks involved should the Apex get their hands on something dangerous, and he has more important things to do than go looking for a bunch of brats. Not to mention in that all he wants is to terrify the White Gestalt and to have it burned in their minds that he scared them, whereas the Trio wants to terrifyi the Apex through the use of a demonic ritual and don't care how traumatized they'll become.
Manipulative Bastard: In just one scene, he knocks out all of the Gestalt's heavy hitters with only Ai and Gladion unscathed (and even then Ai would get his Duel Disk damaged).
Mythology Gag:
- London says that he looks like Benjamin Franklin, which was a Running Gag in the Goosebumps: HorrorLand books he's from.
- Someone who wants revenge over his parents despite being dead at this point? Seems like Chiller can be friends with Daiki Chisou from Melancholy Afterlife.
- Chiller being terrified of his costumed identities saying goodbye to him is how he's defeated in the book series.
Never Heard That One Before: He only chuckles when London calls him Benjamin Franklin.
Nightmare Fetishist: He's a passenger who willingly stays in Horrorland and collects numerous artifacts for his enjoyment. He also relishes in a hunt.
Non-Action Big Bad: He's the main antagonist of the Horrorland Car, but he doesn't fight anybody since he's too old and unequipped to risk a counter attack. He can, however, break them emotionally, which he does expertly. How expertly? He whittles down three of White Gestalt's heavy hitters. The three that are connected to Specter's mental health.
Non Chalant Dodge: He just moves around as Specter tries swiping him with his staff before turning around and getting Specter to collide with a shelf full of lawn gnomes.
Obviously Evil: Evil grin, sinister plot to hunt down the White Gestalt, mind-games? Someone pin the word "BAD GUY" on his chest please!
Pragmatic Villainy: When asked why he doesn't lure the Apex to his horror house, he points out that he'd like to...but that also risks the Apex getting their grubby little hands on some of the more dangerous artifacts he owns. Like a Rewriting Reality typewriter or the tooth of a ghost hound that will grant them their every wish. That, and his ego's a bit more important to feed right now.
Purple Is Powerful: Wears a purple suit and his mind-games are nothing to sneeze at.
Running Gag: White Gestalt constantly calls him Benjamin Franklin.
Shadow Archetype: To Gladion; while the two of them are stuck in their delusions, Chiller has no qualms of hurting others or moving forward and is content with that. Gladion himself learns that his delusions have hurt others and resolves to move forward instead of playing games of vengeance that never get anywhere.
Shout-Out: When he introduces himself, London pronounces that he's waiting for them to pull out a gun to make someone justice, the night, Batman. Because the man who killed Thomas and Martha Wayne was named Joe Chill.
The Thing That Would Not Leave: The denizens of Horrorland Car have constantly tried to kick him out of their home, but he always returned every single time.
Troll: He basically trolled the entire White Gestalt with his challenges, doing all he can just to get a reaction, and a souvenir in London's staff, out of them.
Villain Ball: Dismantles each and every single member of White Gestalt in some way...except for Gladion, who still has his weapon and Pokémon on hand. While Tokio also has his Pokemon, Chiller presumably didn't know about that either. Subverted in that the main focus was to terrifying them and get a souvenir of his own.
Villain Has a Point: He asks White Gestalt if the Apex really are that deserving of the crime of being scared to death by horrifying monsters. Considering the initial plan for them is to trap them in Silent Hill, he has a point to state that denizens and passengers are being excessive for a bunch of brats.
White Hair, Black Heart: An elderly man with white hair and a heart so black that he makes Specter look a good guy.
Would Hurt a Child: Zigzagged; he won't go hunt the Apex, but putting the Haunted Mask on Tokio is fair game.

"The Juggler"

Eike Kusch

A passenger who has been stuck on the Train for 400 years, alongside his "partner", Homunculus.

Mythology Gag: The fact that he's a juggler is a reference to his game. A future version of him dressed up as one to give Eike a warning to pick up something metal in the future.
No Name Given: Is never given a name in the narrative so only those who know his source material would know his identity.
Really 700 Years Old: Due to some spoilers regarding his game, he's been on the train for the past four centuries.

Keisuke Amazawa

A hacker found in the Cyberchase Car who has a message to share with the Gestalt.

Big Creepy-Crawlies: His Digimon partner is a Tentomon named Kabu, described by London as "Giant talking bug Digimon".
Blue Is Heroic: Described as wearing a cyan jacket.
Playful Hacker: He hacked the phones of the Gestalt in the Horrorland Car, not just to troll them but to ensure that they can't start blabbing too much info to One-One before it's time.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He nearly got the Gestalt in trouble because he bricked their phones just before they could enter Horrorland, meaning they can't call for help when the situation gets dire.

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Denizens

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Passengers that debut in Act 1

Grace Monique Monroe and Simon Laurent

Dr. Yung

Paul Drangea

Tony Clark

Aerostar

Queen

Yusaku Fujiki

Ai (Dark Ignis)

Kino

Oersted

Bede

Passengers that debut in Act 2

Tres

Alec Cerise

Armand and Nal (Vale)

Eike Kusch

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Denizens

Passengers

Passengers that debut in Act 1

Grace Monique Monroe and Simon Laurent

Dr. Yung

Paul Drangea

Tony Clark

Aerostar

Queen

Yusaku Fujiki

Ai (Dark Ignis)

Kino

Oersted

Bede

Passengers that debut in Act 2

Tres

Alec Cerise

Armand and Nal (Vale)

Eike Kusch

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