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Kalos

Calem Chrysanthème

A teenager from Vaniville Town who became a trainer to travel the world and discover new phenomena about Pokémon. What was supposed to be his anticipated meeting with his role model snowballed into a chain of events, changing the tides of the story we know of.

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• Adaptation Name Change: He was a case of Only One Name in the games, but he's given the surname "Chrysantheme" here.
• Alliterative Name: Calem Chrysanthéme.
• Blue Is Heroic: He wears an all blue outfit and he's a good person.
• Canon Foreigner: Has no counterpart in the Blossomverse trilogy.
• Color Motif: Blue; he wears a blue outfit similar to what Ash wore, his Vivillion has blue wings because of its Marine Pattern and he also has a Greninja, a blue frog.
• A Day in the Limelight: He gets focus in The Night Garden Car, rescuing Mairin from an Elipzo grunt.
• Identical Stranger: His outfit — blue jacket and red cap — makes him similar to Ash.
• Keeping Secrets Sucks: He actually knew about the Infinity Train thanks to Victor and Gloria, but he promise them he wouldn't casually reveal it, which means he couldn't give Professor Sycamore some relief by letting him know what was possibly going on with Alain. He also explains to Meyer that he assumed the Train only came for children, not adults so he had no idea the train was even capable of taking Augustine away.
• Making a Splash: His Greninja, Grenou, is Water-type.
• Mirror Character:
  • Can be one to Chloe. He's a boy associated with the color blue while Chloe is red. He's never been on the Train but has friends who told him about it, while she's on the Train but has decided not to tell her family about what's going on. Calem likes exploring and doing research whereas Chloe isn't given anything to do at her father's lab and the research falls on Ash and Goh's laps. Also they have their first and last names starting with "C". He hails from a family of Pokémon Trainers and was pressured to be a Gym Leader or Champion while Chloe is pressured to get into Pokémon or being a professor like her father. But while Chloe had little to no help (outside her mom's "find something you like" advice and support from her brother and English teacher), Calem was given a Brutal Honesty treatment from his friends that gave him the courage to confess what he wants to be.
  • He's one to Ash since he wears a blue get-up with a red cap (to the point that Sycamore mistook Calem for Ash) and are into research. They also have a Greninja but Ash's can use Bond Phenomena while Calem's can't (not to mention that Ash's Greninja is released). Moreover, Calem becomes a supporting character involved with the Infinity Train shenaigans, whereas Ash focuses solely on the Pokemon side of things.
• Rule of Symbolism: Calem has a Marine Pattern Vivillon which Professor Sycamore ran into during their first meeting. This represents that their presence will alter the story of the Blossoming Trail, a literal Butterfly Effect.
• Screen Name: He goes by calmHeaded in texts.
• Secret-Keeper: Was originally this for his friends' journey on the Train until circumstances (Sycamore's disappearance) made him have no choice but to reveal them.
• The Smart Guy: Prefers to catch Pokémon to research them than to participate in the Gym Challenge.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: His accidental meeting with Professor Sycamore is this. If he didn't point out how much the professor is stressing out in the first place, Sycamore wouldn't start wondering if everything that happened to Alain is his fault and his outburst to him and his acquaintances that allows the Train to pick him up as its next Passenger wouldn't happen at all. He himself is not happy to realize this.

Officer Jenny

An Officer Jenny in charge of investigating Alain's disappearance.

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• Bearer of Bad News: She's the one who has to tell Professor Sycamore about the search for Alain being cancelled due to lack of clues.
• By-the-Book Cop: She blatantly tells Professor Sycamore that the police department can only do so much about investigating Alain's disappearance when they have no leads or clues as to where he's gone or where to look for next.
• Police Are Useless: Downplayed. She delivers Professor Sycamore the bad news regarding how the search for Alain has to be canceled due to lack of evidence, and she fails to provide the professor the relief needed after hearing such bad news, but she's clearly not happy about it either, and it's made clear she and the cops did try to look for Alain up to the point they couldn't keep going anymore.
• Small Role, Big Impact: It's her delivering the bad news about the investigation being discontinued that kickstarts the chain of events that lead Sycamore onto the Train.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She was only doing her job as a police officer by telling Professor Sycamore the search of Alain couldn't continue due to lack of evidence, but this essentially sets of a chain of events that leads the good old professor into the Train's tracks.
• What Happened to the Mouse?: She's never seen again after Professor Sycamore snaps at her to Get Out! of his lab.

Meyer

A repairman who moonlights as a superhero, Blaziken Mask. He is the father of both the Lumiose Gym Leader, Clemont, and Bonnie.

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• Action Dad: He's a superhero and father of Clemont and Bonnie.
• Arbitrary Skepticism: He can believe in Legendary mons, ghosts and a mirror world. But otherworldly therapy trains? Yeah that's a bit too farfetched.
• Secret Identity: He is the true identity of Blaziken Mask.

Mairin Castanea

A Pokémon trainer and close friend of Alain.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Has it even worse than the original trilogy, as not only does Alain go missing, but so does Professor Sycamore.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: In canon, Mairin and Serena form a sister-like bond that makes the two of them good friends. In here, because the latter's Adapted Out from this continuity, this means Mairin has essentially nobody to cry on, leaving her to mope alone.
• Ascended Extra: She played a very little role in the original trilogy — to the point she doesn't even have her own proifle — but here she has to deal with Alain and Sycamore's disappearance on the Train.
• Break the Cutie: Losing Alain was bad enough, but Professor Sycamore's disappearance breaks her even more.
• The Conscience: Chespie acts like this to her, particularly when Mairin is close to barreling onto the Infinity Train.
• Green Thumb: Has a Chespin named Chespie who knows Razor Leaf and Vine Whip.
• Heroic BSoD: She was stuck in a hotel room for four days after learning that Sycamore vanished.
• It's All My Fault: Blames everything with Alain and Sycamore on herself, and in particular Chespie, being the reason why the two vanished.
• Meaningful Name: Both her first and last name relate to the chestnut.
  • Her first name is similar to the Japanese word for chestnut, marron.
  • Her last name is part of the scientific name for the sweet chestnut, Castanea sativus.
• Mirror Character: To Parker, as both are young kids horrified to learn that someone they love is on the Train. But Parker learns to stay and improve himself while waiting for his sister to return home while Mairin is nearly tempted to join Elipzo to get on said Train to save Alain and Augustine.
• Missing Steps Plan: She wants to enter the Infinity Train to save Alain and Augustine, but Calem has to reign her in by telling her that she doesn't have any plan to find them once she gets there and will actually hinder Augustine's quest to find the former.

Clemont and Bonnie

The Gym Leader of Lumiose City and his little sister, along with being the children of Meyer.

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• Badass Adorable: Bonnie is around 5 years old, and isn't afraid to get into a battle at a moment's notice.
• Fairy Companion: Dendenne is Bonnie's partner and is part Fairy-type.
• Gadgeteer Genius: Clemont, per usual, is great with inventions.
• Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Both of them have blond hair and are noble characters.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: Both of them fill this role with Clemont the huge guy to his little sister's tiny girl. Even their Pokémon — Luxray and Dendenne — reflect this.
• Shock and Awe: Both of them use Electric-type Pokémon with Clemont using a Luxray and Bonnie uses a Dedenne.
• Sibling Team: They work together to attack the Berrybaker Kids' Makuhita.

Galar

Victor and Gloria

Victor Rosenberg and Gloria Daffodil

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

Calem's friends who were once passengers on the Infinity Train.

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• Abuse Mistake: Played for Drama. Gloria's ingenious analogy for Chloe's situation at the Cerise Institute is to try and paint it as an abusive household, despite the fact she's heard enough about the situation to know it's not as black and white as it is. Is it any wonder this results in an Analogy Backfire?
• Ad Hominem: Her analogy of the Cerise Institute eventually devolves from trying to get everybody to see why Chloe was miserable there to callously chew them out over acting like abusers and like they didn't give a crap about Chloe's well being.
• Analogy Backfire:
  • Gloria tries to explain to everybody how Chloe felt by painting her as an abuse victim and the people around her as abusers. This would be enough to backfire, since the people at the Cerise Institute didn't do it out of malice, but the way she says it is so unintentionally wrathful and mean spirited that it causes Professor Cerise to break and snap at her.
  • Victor explains to Professor Cerise and Goh during The Chocolate Car chapter that a similar backfire with their train partner culminated in her losing her reflection.
• Backhanded Apology: Gloria tries to apologize for her Analogy Backfire, but she doesn't take long before she devolves into a rant about how she called everybody abusive and how she was the worst and so on, which only really ends once everybody tells her she was ultimately right and is then given a chance to snap again in the massive angst fest of chapter 20.
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: Gloria becomes the Gentle Girl to Goh's Brooding Boy, being patient with him and helping him vent his frustrations. Though admittedly, she's a lot more tough-as-nails than the average trope.
• Brutal Honesty: Both of them seem to be very forward when talking to others.
  • Gloria doesn't mince words on that bottling your emotions ends up turning badly. Then again, considering she got on the Infinity Train because of it, she has a good reason to be blunt. Unfortunately, sometimes in her attempts to be honest, the brutality ends up hurting than helping and she's aware of it.
  • Victor doesn't take in Tokio's excuses as to why he never told Goh about his problems, and that he's been actively finding a reason not to talk about personal stuff.
• Cheshire Cat Grin: Gloria is described as having a Meowth-smile.
• Cool Big Sis: Gloria acts like this to Parker since she shares many similarities with Chloe.
• Composite Character: Both combine traits of Trip as former passengers on the Train, while Gloria takes Serena's position as the Cool Big Sis figure for Parker.
• Crazy-Prepared: Victor is one of these in a different flavor than Goh, as he captures multiple of the same Pokémon in order to trade with others.
• Distaff Counterpart: Gloria could be considered one of this to Trip, being a newcomer to Vermillion City who practices Brutal Honesty and whose encounter with Goh changes him (Trip for the worse, Gloria for the better).
• Easily Forgiven: Downplayed. Nobody is outright praising Gloria as a martyr for her horrible comment about the Cerise Institute being like an abusive household, but they're still pretty quick to tell her that it's okay and that she was right as soon as they see she's beating herself up for it.
• Everybody Hates Mathematics: Gloria admits that she detests math.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • Gloria may be a gamer girl but even she thinks Chloe getting into No More Heroes is a bit too much. She also doesn't like Chloe's classmates but notes that they don't deserve to be attacked by Sara nor be taken down via "The Ballad of Sara Berry".^ExplanationIn the song, Sara Berry kills the other contestants for Prom Queen in very gruesome ways like drowning them, slamming a rock to their heads, poisoning their drinks, or bashing their brains in
  • Victor and Gloria remark that Goh is being harsh on never wanting to see his parents again until he turns 18 as revenge for how his parents deliberately kept him isolated from Chloe's invitations.
• Females Are More Innocent: Despite crossing lines that even Trip never did, Gloria is treated sympathetically by the characters and the narrative simply by acting sorry about it and going on a meltdown over how everything is her fault.
• Flower Motif: Daffodils are associated with hope and rebirth. Gloria gives Goh the former when she actually hears him out and helps him vent his frustrations, while the latter can mean of her status as a former Passenger.
• Foil:
  • Gloria is one to Chloe as both are girls who like video games with fiery attitudes and passengers on the Train who, coincidentally, visited the Plush Penguin Car. But Gloria is blunt and ends up helping Goh with his attitude problems whereas Chloe is known to keep things bottled and just cut herself off from Goh. Gloria tasted some of Nico's bagels and said they were good, Chloe went the extra mile to help Nico out with his bagel stand. Chloe loves writing horror stories while Gloria is into isekai and sketches out monster designs for her self. Finally, Gloria isn't afraid to speak up her mind regardless of how hurtful she is, while Chloe keeping quiet about her problems is one of the main reasons why she wound up on the Train. They also have similar Demon nicknames with Chloe called "Demon Lord" and Gloria being "Demon Prodigy".
  • Victor is one to Goh, being the male partners of the Childhood Friend that are into capturing and collecting Pokémon, but while Goh just spams Poké balls without care, Victor takes the time to capture multiple types of Pokémon and trades with others. While Goh only uses standard Poké balls, Gloria states that Victor likes to carry Quick Balls on him. Victor has also shown signs of sticking to Gloria's side, whereas Goh unintentionally left Chloe behind.
• Gamer Chick: Gloria carries a Swish console and plays a few rounds of Super Smash Bros. Ultimate with Goh. From what Calem said, she's one of his gaming friends online. Apparently Gloria nearly blew up all of her and Victor's money for a hotel in Vermillion City cause she used on buying a copy of NEO: The World Ends with You. When she hits her BSOD, Victor hands her a copy of Metroid Dread. However she has limits as to which game she'll play, as even she knows that touching No More Heroes at her age is going to get her in trouble with her parents.
• Green Thumb: The narration states that one of them has a Rillaboom. Given how Rillaboom and its pre-evolutions are associated with drummers and music, it probably belongs to Victor.
• Heroic BSoD: Gloria enters one after her Analogy Backfire of Chloe being pushed around in abusive households ends with Professor Cerise snapping at her.
• Hero of Another Story: They were on the Infinity Train once, with one car they entered being something they call "Plush Piplup" (read Penguin) Car. Gloria also tells Chloe she also participated in a match in the Ninjala Car. They also were in the Chrome Car, which ended with Gloria's reflection being killed.
• Hidden Depths: Gloria apparently knows about "The Ballad of Sara Berry", as she agrees with Chloe that not even Class 5-E deserves what happened in the song.
• History Repeats: A frankly callous bit of Brutal Honesty and Analogy Backfire causes the honest person to make the situation at the institute worse and has to face the fact that their actions have not helped as much as they thought it would. Still think you're better than Trip, Gloria?
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • A two-fer. Gloria learns from Augustine that Alex Shepherd is a good person (as this is second-hand information from Paul London warning them about his experience) whlie Parker (who knows Silent Hill lore) immediately suggests that's not a good idea. But Gloria and Goh, who are already weirded out from Parker admitting the twist to Silent Hill 2, tell him to be quiet about it and inform Augustine to put his full trust in Alex, even sarcastically stating that they'll buy him ice cream if they're wrong. Come a chapter later and Parker breaks down at how Gloria and Goh are just like every single adult and kid in his life who sees him as lesser, stupid, pathetic, a loser, and a complete nobody before he shouts at them that Alex Shepherd can turn into Pyramid Head if he's super mean and that Pyramid Head was shown in other Silent Hill games, not just 2^note At that point, Yuri's only knowledge of the Silent Hill games was from 2 and London only knew the first two games. After Goh confirms that they royally screwed up in not letting Parker fully explain himself, Gloria sheepishly asks if Parker wants ice cream to make up for the blunder.
  • As if that wasn't enough, Gloria then goes on to compare the Cerise Institute to an abusive household and Professor Cerise as an abusive father when trying to make her analogy over how Chloe felt there. Professor Cerise essentially cracks because of it, and it's only the massive pity party that follows that the professor doesn't succumb to despair and gives up on living.
• Hypocrite:
  • Gloria is just as bewildered as Victor when they realize that Goh's only knowledge of Chloe is that she's no longer into Pokemon, and rip into him over how he didnt' bother to try learn more about her. When Gloria later makes her damning accusation against the Cerise Institute, she paints Chloe as exclusively a victim, without even bothering to try and learn more about the situation or if things were as black and white as they appear to be on the surface.
  • When chiding out Trip, Gloria teamed up with Goh in order to tell him how he not only mishandled the situation by focusing on being honest first, but how his words are ultimately doing more harm than good now. Come "The Ninjala Car" and she's pulling the same stunt he did: taking a look at one side of the story before harshly telling everyone off over how they didn't do enough for Chloe, with her particularly thoughtless comments to Professor Cerise (labeling him as an abusive parent) causing him to have a breakdown. She realizes what happened in the following chapter and starts beating herself up when that happens.
  • Speaking of Ninjala Car, Gloria was the one who told Parker to open up to others because they will listen to what he has to say...only for her and Goh to tell him to shut his stupid little mouth up just as he was about to say some important information about Alex Shepherd and sacrcastically remarked that they'll buy ice cream if they happen to be wrong.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Gloria went a bit too far by claiming Chloe was like an abuse victim with the adults around her as abusers, but Goh admits that the actual idea of her statement — that people didn't really bother to help her when she needed it the most and kept reassuring things will get "better" but not actively working on them — isn't exactly wrong.
  • Gloria and Victor state that if Goh just put a little more effort into noticing Chloe's problems, things wouldn't have escalated. They do apologize for their lack of tact, though.
• Ignored Epiphany: Possibly. A big part of the aftermath of her Abuse Mistake is that while she had a point, she was also so incredibly hurtful and spiteful that who knows how much farther she would've gone if Professor Cerise hadn't snapped at her in the moment he did. But the meltdown party in chapter 20 essentially forces her to adopt the same method that she used before, yelling at everybody over how stupid they're being and now they need to change for the better if things are to get anywhere.
• Insane Troll Logic: They join the rest of Vermillion City in calling out Goh for not going to school, by arguing that if he had gone, then he could've somehow stop the bullies from getting away with it. Gloria takes it even further by claiming that people not keeping their promises to Chloe, whether intentionally or not, equates to abuse.
• Karma Houdini: Outside of a stern calling out, Gloria faces no consequences for not only comparing the Cerise Institute to an abusive household, but causing Professor Cerise to snap from it. In fact, she gets rewarded when the group ultimately concede that she had a point despite the harsh words. That being said, she does acknowledge that she doesn't deserve to be let off so easily.
• Kick the Dog: Collectively, they both call out Goh over how he never goes to school to help Chloe with the bullies, despite telling him they wanted to help him earlier.
  • For Gloria, it's the moment she paints the Cerise Institute as an abusive home, Chloe as an abuse victim, and the workers within-Professor Cerise especially-as abusers after hearing why Chloe kept quiet (Professor Cerise made a promise that he had to break due to last minute changes and bumbled how Chloe could go next time without realizing how upsetting that really was, the fact that no one in the Institute seemed to pay attention to her and Goh's problems of breaking his promises to her all the time) that has her stoop to a new low. While this ends up being good in the long run, as it not only reveals Cerise's true feelings on everything that's he feeling but everyone else in the Institute air out how they were also just as responsible as he was for ignoring Chloe's feelings, it still came across as rather mean-spirited.
• Lack of Empathy: There's no other explanation for how callously blunt Gloria can get, from going against Goh just a few moments after she tried to help him heal, to comparing the Cerise Institute to an abusive household to explain what Chloe's situation was like there.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: Gloria is the more tough as nails and feisty female while Victor is more softspoken.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Victor's Shiny Charizard is called "Blake" which is an archaic word for "Black". And a Shiny Charizard does look dark colored.
  • Victor's last name, "Rosenberg" means "Red Hill".
• Metal Slime: Victor has a Shiny Charizard.
• Mirror Character: The two are essentially mirrors to Book 4 protagonists Ryan and Min-Gi, as they're childhood friends who got on the Train at the same time and are a Red Oni, Blue Oni pairing.
  • Victor's cool-headed personality and the fact that he's working on a DJ app makes him similar to Min-Gi from Infinity Train Book 4, with the only difference being that (aside from him not being Korean) he's not as condescending towards Gloria like Min-Gi sometimes gets with Ryan.
• Missing Reflection: Gloria has no reflection because Mirror Gloria was sanded down in the Chrome Car when she went rogue.
• More Insulting than Intended: Whatever Gloria was trying to say with her analogy, the fact she thought that comparing the Cerise Institute to an abusive household was a good idea meant her analogy was doomed to fail.
  • Along with Goh, she tells Parker to be quiet when they're in an important group chat with Augustine Sycamore. When Sycamore mentions London's warning of Alex Shepherd, Parker tries to warn them that it's not a good idea to fully trust them, only for Goh and Gloria to tell him to shut up (albeit not out of malice, but because they were creeped out at how he could explain the twist of Silent Hill 2 with a straight face) and then sarcastically stating they will give him an ice cream cone if they're wrong. Come one chapter later and Parker snaps at them stating, "Why didn't you let me explain that Alex Shepherd can transform into Pyramid Head?!" before she and Goh do an internet search and realize that they essentially ignored Parker like practically everyone else does. She has to sheepishly ask if ice cream will make it up to him.
• Mundane Solution: In comparison to how Sara wanted revenge on her mother by forcing the alcoholic abusive drunken bitch to act like a stepford mom using the Unknown, Gloria has a simpler solution. She wishes the Unown to broadcast the security camera footage of Marianna Diktaylis acting like an abusive bitch throughout all the TV and cellphone screens of everyone in the city, so that Marianna has no way of backtracking or denying that she's a horrible person and is swiftly punished for her actions.
• Noodle Incident: Apparently, Gloria once asked Victor to cosplay one of her characters who was based off Professor Sycamore. And on the Train, something happened that a denizen quickly screams how the "Demon Prodigy/Novice" returned. It's later revealed that this is due to Agares riling Gloria up so much that she got her hands on a spellbook that ran rampant across the car and terrified the second-ranked Goetia.
• Non-Protagonist Resolver: It's Gloria who ultimately takes down the threat of Marianne Dyktalis by using the Unown to wish that all her abusive behavior gets exposed, ensuring that she gets taken down and can't hurt anybody else.
• Only Sane by Comparison: Gloria at first looks like a more rational version of Trip, but as her Analogy Backfire shows, she's capable of the same spite and proud arrogance that he shows.
• Only Sane Man: Victor is more level-headed and calm in comparison to his partner.
• Playing with Fire: Victor has a Shiny Charizard.
• Real Men Wear Pink: Victor has a soft spot for Animal Crossing according to Gloria.
• Red Baron: Gloria is apparently known on the Infinity Train as the "Demon Prodigy/Novice". The Prelude to Act 2 explains that it had something to do with demon magic striking fear into a Goetia.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Brash and hot-blooded Gloria to cool and calm-headed Victor.
• Screen Name: They go by nextChAmP (Gloria) and musicTechn1c1an (Victor) in chats.
• Stating the Simple Solution:
  • When Gloria learns of the time Ash and Goh tried to chase after Gengar and failed, she points out that the two could've used their other Pokémon to help out (given that Scorbunny's moveset at the time wasn't useful against Gengar). While Ash admits that using a Dragonite indoors is a very bad idea (and given that Dragonite is a Blood Knight in battle, Ash was right to not use them), Goh stammers that the idea of using other Pokémon (like Misdreavus or Stantler, who have a type advantage against Gengar) never crossed his mind.
  • During his phone call with Tokio, Victor basically tells the boy that all of his problems with the Train and Goh could've been solved with a simple phone call if he was willing to tell his parents about it, meaning that all that Tokio endured on the Train (along with Goh and Chloe's crumbling friendship) could have been avoided if he just spoke up sooner.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: Gloria loves getting into physical brawls, Victor is the more analytical member of the duo.
• The Unfair Sex: By the end of Act 1, Gloria basically gets away with doing the exact same thing that got Trip put on a bus: letting her own bias and spite cause her honesty to spiral out of control and make the situation at the Cerise Institute worse. She doesn't even change as a character like Trip when she realizes this, instead going right back to being the burtally honest jerk that she was when she first appeared.
• Women Are Wiser: Played With in regards to Gloria. When she's on the ball, she can be very insightful and helpful to the situation. When she's off the ball or lets her anger get the better of her, she can do things that make even the likes of Trip wince at how brutal they are.
• Would Hurt a Child: Gloria wastes no time slapping Parker across the face when he starts ranting about how Goh is responsible for most of Chloe's problems while denying that he could've done more because he's Chloe's little brother.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: Victor and Gloria, mostly the latter, help Goh get out of his funk by pointing out that he still has a chance to make things right with Chloe. They do make a blunder by giving him the same nonsensical "you should've been at school" idea, but the fact they helped him before said statement speaks volumes.

Alola

Mallow

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Debut, First Appearance: The Chocolate Car) | The Firefly Funhouse Car (Mentioned)

One of Ash's friends from the Alola region who works at her family's restaurant. She was once a former passenger on the Infinity Train, partnered with Tuba.

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• Action Survivor: She got on the Train at the age of 5 with nothing but her Bounsweet and lived. Most notably, she and Bounsweet went through the Hidden Temple Car by themselves which took Chloe, Atticus and Lexi combined to go through.
• Actor Allusion: When she somehow finds herself in her Alolan Idol outfit in Act 2, a bright magenta one, she questions why the Magical Girl attire isn't green. Perhaps she would get along well with Mayo Nekoyashiki.
• Cassandra Truth:
  • She tried to tell her brother about the Infinity Train but he never believed her no matter what she tried, and this meant that there was little chance of anyone in Alola trusting her story and no one to be aware about Gladion's adventure either.
  • She tried telling Lillie to not give her brother a spiteful orange lily bouquet, else he would sent her brother to a "bad place". Lillie refused to listen and assumed the bad place was metaphorical, not physical. Cue the bouquet that would lead to the Infinity Train to completely stop in its tracks.
• Cope by Creating: Played for Drama; when she tried to explain her train trip to Ulu, he assumed that it was nothing but a fantasy she made to help her cope with her mother's death and tried to use Pokémon terms when describing Tuba as an Oruguru instead of a purple gorilla. This was the wrong assumption to make, because this made her think that no one would ever believe her story, thus this made her unable to fully explain the Infinity Train to anyone, and meaning that no one knew about Gladion's trip until much later. When Ulu learns of this story, he immediately apologizes for how his disbelief destroyed Mallow's trust in her.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Deconstructed; Mallow states that she couldn't tell anyone about the Infinity Train kidnapping Gladion because she states "There are no Trains in Alola". But others reveal that there are, which makes Mallow hurt and confused; if she had this information, Gladion's train trip would never have happened. But how does this deconstruction fit in? Because Elipzo put a geass on her that prevented her from seeing this information, so that way she couldn't easily reveal the truth about the Infinity Train to others.
• Exact Words: When Mallow tries to find info on trains in Alola, she states that she can't find anything. She's not talking about how there's no information online, because there is, she means she is physically incapable of seeing anything about it.
• Failed a Spot Check: She never told anyone about the Infinity Train because there are no trains in Alola. It turns out there are, which becomes quite concerning why she wouldn't know such a thing...It's later revealed that Elipzo brainwashed her to be unable to see any information on trains in Alola.
• Fictional Disability: Elipzo did something to her that made her unable to see anything related to trains back in her world, or rather that there's no such things as trains in Alola region, essentially turning her selectively blind.
• Green Thumb: She uses the Grass-type Pokémon Tsareena and once had a Legendary Pokemon in Shaymin.
• Hero of Another Story: She got on the Train at age five because she was unable to cope with the idea of her mother dying, ended up in numerous cars, helped make a malasadas shop, and was the partner to Tuba.
• Irony: Mallow's the only person in her friend group to have seen the Infinity Train. But when it comes to Trains in Alola? She's literally unable to look up any type of research at all.
• It's All My Fault: She blames herself for keeping the Train secret and not doing much outside vague warnings to others. Ash points out that if she didn't go to Phyco, then Tokio might as well have been on the Train forever. Everyone else reassures her that they also didn't really take her warnings seriously and Lillie was too wrapped up in her spite to even heed Mallow's warnings anyhow. Not to mention that when she did try to tell this to her brother, Ulu misinterpreted it as a story to help her move on from her mother's illness and death.
• I Warned You: She did her best to warn Lillie to not shove orange lilies to her brother and to tell Ash that something might be going on with Gladion. No one believed her until Ash admits months later that, yeah, Mallow was right and they should've believed her sooner. She's quick to shout this trope at him.
  Mallow: I knew it...I knew it! I told Lillie that giving her that bouquet of orange lilies would have put Gladion in a bad place! But she didn't listen! She said she wouldn't have cared if Gladion got sent to a bad place just as long as he knew how she felt!
• Mythology Gag: As Mallow cries how she wishes she was ignorant of the Train, she states that if she ever brought it up to her friends, not only would they not believe her, they would've made up some lame-ass excuse as to why she was worried about Gladion — the chief of them being that she had a crush on him. In Blossoming Trail, this is the main reason people assumed on why Mallow was concerned about Gladion. Moreover, Lana also is shown slightly cringing because in the same story, she made a Dude, Not Funny! joke that Mallow would've gotten on the Train for an "elopment".
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • On both her and her father and brother's side. She never fully explained the situation to the Infinity Train to anyone, meaning that they had no clue where Gladion was and would leave Ash struggling to figure out where Chloe went months later. But on her brother's side, when she tried to explain her adventure to him, he mistook it as a coping mechanism of her lost in the jungle for months trying to help her accept their mother's death which made her believe no one would ever trust her story.
  • She went under the assumption that, since there were no trains in Alola, then it's pointless to bring it up to anyone in regards to the Infinity Train. Turns out there are and she beats herself up for not noticing this. The Act 2 Prelude reveals she literally couldn't see that there was info on it; she was hypnotised as a young girl to not be able to see any information about them at all.

Ulu

Mallow's brother.

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• Agent Mulder: His sister tells him of her trip to the Infinity Train, and rather than think she's gone insane, he simply calmly deduces that it's a story made to cope with her mother's passing.
• Dumbass Has a Point: While him interpreting Mallow's explanation of the train as a sob story hurt her trust in him, you can't exactly blame him given how his lack of knowledge on the train means he wouldn't immediately recognize what she was talking about, and with her being a young child going through the death of their mother (not to mention she got on the Train because of the realization that her mother was at death's door), a hyperactive imagination and coping mechanism makes more sense.
• Easily Condemned: Subverted. He misinterpreted Mallow's explanation on the Infinity Train, and tried to comfort her over her mother's passing. This was still enough for Mallow's trust on him to be destroyed beyond repair, and leave her to never tell anybody else about it, believe nobody else would believe her. In his defense, Mallow did return after three months with the last time she was seen running out of the hospital screaming that she hated her mother for constantly getting sick. With the stress and worry from their mother's death and her having just run off, he honestly couldn't have known better.
• Innocently Insensitive: Ulu was doing his role as a big brother to comfort his five-year-old sister over the death of their mother. It's just that he honestly had no idea that Mallow's magical mystery train trip was real and Mallow was hurt that her brother truly couldn't see her point of view.
• Poor Communication Kills: He honestly meant well and empathized with Mallow over her story, trying to understand it in more "realistic" terms (like Tuba was an Oruguru and not just a "gorilla") due to her being a young child having returned three months after the death of her mother. Unfortunately, since he had no idea of the Infinity Train — and it's not like the Train was gonna arrive and explain all of this to the two — Mallow took it as him not believing her at all.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: He took Mallow's explanation of the Infinity Train as a coping mechanism for her mother's passing. Considering the Train's entire purpose, this is a fairly correct assumption to make.

Lillie Montblanc

One of Ash's friends, the younger sister of Gladion and daughter of Lusamine. She accidentally sent her older brother onto the Infinity Train because she gifted him orange lilies.

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• The Atoner: After learning what her actions caused for Gladion, she decides to make as much amends as she could. Before her brother gets on the Train, she hands him a bag of stone bracelets to give to his Gestalt partners.
• Awful Truth: She does not take it well that her brother's condition is all on her for spitefully shoving a bouquet of orange lilies in his face and not caring about the potential dangers he was in.
• Be Careful What You Wish For: She wanted Gladion to know what it was like to be alone while he went off and not give a damn about her. She learns the hard way months later that Gladion turned into a broken Nervous Wreck who wishes to die and she herself didn't even care for the pain and suffering he went through on the Train.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: Breaks down in tears over how she's at fault for everything that happened in her past. She never told Lusamine about her problems, which meant her mother could've paid more attention to her. She never directly told Gladion how much she hated him for disappearing, causing him to vanish on the Infinity Train. She didn't believe Mallow when she tried warning her and spitefully shoved orange lilies at Gladion's face. The entire tragedy that is her life is her damn fault, and she knows it.
• Females Are More Innocent: Nope. She wanted to believe she was the victim and Gladion just abandoned her to go on his personal narration to be a knight. While Gladion was in the wrong for not telling this sooner, she herself never told her mother that something was wrong and instead blamed Lusamine for her work as to why things went sour. She herself breaks down in tears at how most of her relationship problems could've been resolved if she spoke up sooner.
• Foil: To Mallow. While both of them had tragedies relating to their parents — Mallow's mom died, Lillie's father vanished into a wormhole (and he would appear to be fine in Journeys albeit with amnesia) — Mallow was hurt the most over it since she screamed how she hated her mother being sick all the time, while Lillie was too young to remember her father. Mallow's traumas come from how she didn't believe anyone would believe that she vanished onto a magical train, while Lillie's came from accidentally being kidnapped by Nihilego and her mind suppressed the trauma. And while the two had problems confessing their problems, Mallow at least tried talking about it to her brother, while Lillie never told her mother. They also have different relationships towards their brothers. Mallow still loves her older brother even though he didn't (initially) believe about her Train Trip, while Lillie spitefully shoved orange lilies to Gladion's hands and didn't care if he got in trouble before seeing how broken he became.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: She just wanted to express how angry she was at her brother, not make him a broken mess!
• Hypocrisy Nod: Admits to Mallow in Part 2 that for all that she hated Gladion for abandoning her and not telling her about Nihilego sooner, she's no better in asking her own mother for help.
  Lillie: I wanted Mother to understand what was going on, but I never told her. I could’ve understood why Gladion did what he did, but I spited on him and didn’t bother to ask how much he gave up to protect me…I wanted people to listen to me, but I barely paid attention to what you were trying to tell me.”
• Irony: Something never brought up is that Lillie, the more traumatized sibling of the two, never gets on the Train...because she didn't know what traumatized her, whereas Gladion kept ignoring that he was part of the problem.
• It's All My Fault: When she realizes what happened to her brother, all she can do is cry that it was her fault for being so spiteful, refusing to heed Mallow's warnings, or for not telling her mother sooner. It takes her until Act 2 to forgive herself.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Lilie maybe in the wrong to believe that her mother is completely at fault for her trauma (and she never bothered to mention she had a trauma), but she did make a point that her mom is a workaholic and so obsessed with the Ultra Beasts that she didn't bother to realize that something was wrong with her for the longest time.
• Lack of Empathy: She never seemed to be concerned about her brother's whereabouts on the Train or that she shouldn't shove spiteful "F You" flowers at her brother. By the time she learns the truth, she regrets it.
• My God, What Have I Done?: Is a broken mess when she realizes that her brother has been completely ruined because of her and she didn't even give a fig about his whereabouts for the longest time.
• Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Nice job giving those orange lilies to your brother who almost broke the Infinity Train!
• Poor Communication Kills: The only reason Lillie's problems on got worse is because she never decided to tell anyone about it.
  • Instead of stating how mad she was at Gladion running away from home instead of confessing that he knew what caused her to not be able to interact with Pokémon, she gave him a bouquet of orange lilies. And this caused her brother to get on the Train and almost destroyed it in the hopes of stopping a cult. Yikes.
  • Lillie tearfully admits that instead of waiting for answers, she could've told Lusamine that she had a problem at any time because she wasn't running away any time soon. Had she had done so, Lusamine would have helped her as much as she could and pay more attention to her problems.
• Small Role, Big Impact: For her brother's story at the very least, seeing that the only reason he got on the Train was because of her bouquet of spiteful orange lillies.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: By gifting Gladion a bouquet of orange lilies (which means "F you") to show him that she hated how he abandoned her, rather then stating how much she was hurt that he kept Nihilego a secret, it set off a chain of events that nearly destroyed the Infinity Train and made her brother a Nervous Wreck. However, while it is Lillie's fault for Gladion getting on the Train, the one who put it in his head to stop the Apex was actually Larkspur.
• Was It Really Worth It?: Lillie laments that telling Gladion off with the lilies was not worth the suffering he had to go through in the end, and how she didn't care about his well-being.

Professor Kukui

Professor Kukui

The Pokemon Professor of the Alola region and a famous wrestler.

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• Action Dad: He's a teacher who is also a famous wrestler and has a son named Lei.
• Badass Teacher: He's a teacher who moonlights as a wrestler, so he's the first one to pin Gladion down when the geass that sealed his memories of his train trip breaks.
• Happily Married: With Burnet.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: He has a grim look on his face when he tells the Alola gang about the Train. Apparently the look is as serious as him deciding to wear a shirt.
• Stopping the Blame Game: He ensures that his class doesn't point fingers at one another when they ask why Mallow didn't warn them about the Infinity Train picking Gladion up during the Ultra Beasts incident.
• Walking Shirtless Scene: He's so well known for going around shirtless to the point that something serious is the equivalent of him wearing a shirt.

Vermillion City

Goh Fujihachi

See his page here.

Kurune, Ikuo and Tomie Fujihachi (Spoilers Unmarked)

Goh's mother, father and grandmother who all have a bigger plot to play as to why Goh and Chloe's friendship has been completely obliterated.

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• Abusive Parents:
  • Tomie is a downplayed example. While she doesn't physically or emotionally abuse Ikuo, she has no problem verbally tearing him and his wife apart over their connection to Chloe, all the while ignoring the fact Goh nearly drowned to instead focus on Chloe's problems alone. She even goes so far as to say that, if the Infinity Train were to take them, she wouldn't give a damn if it will finally make them act like proper parents.
  • Ikuo shouts to his son that he doesn't give a damn if his friend drowned and never has the awareness to properly apologize for such a tasteless statement.
• Accidental Hero: In hindsight, Kurune and Ikuo encouraging their son to follow his Mew interest as extensively as they did have one major advantage. Namely, he didn't get stuck on the Train like Tokio and Chloe did.
• Accomplice by Inaction: Goh's big mouth is what drove Chloe onto the Train, but his parents are the ones who have the most egg on their faces. They were the ones who ensured Goh and Chloe stopped seeing each other and lied to their son's face about Chloe's invitations to hang out, leading to their friendship falling apart and a domino effect that would lead to Chloe having a miserable time at school. They also knew about Tokio but never decided to tell Chloe about him so she would have some understanding why Goh was a whiney mopey boy who hated her Mew magnet or, alternatively, suggest to Goh that he should finally bring up this white-haired backstabber to clear the air.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Not only do Kurune and Ikuo have to face their canonical problems, they also have to deal with the fact their son nearly drowned when he was younger, and Chloe, the only other person who knew about it, showed herself to be so apathetic to Goh's actual health, only caring when he would be ready for another adventure, that she gave them enough reason to believe she could get him killed outright and wouldn't care.
• Adaptational Context Change: Kurune and Ikuo's reason to hate Chloe. In the original trilogy, it's because she was indirectly responsible for Parker going on a rampage, which lead to the nightmare therapy that drove Goh to the brink of suicide, all while the parents were powerless to stop it. In Crocus, it's because when they were younger, Goh nearly drowned chasing after a Pokemon, and Chloe not only didn't bring him right away to camp to try and heal him there, but the way she worded things gave the parents reason to believe she didn't care about their son's safety, only if he was available to go on another ghost hunt with her.
• Adaptational Jerkass:
  • In the original trilogy, Kurune and Ikuo only showed their hatred towards Chloe after she returned and because she caused their son's mental breakdown. This version of the parents hated her for quite some time and were lying to Goh to pretend that nothing was wrong and keep him ignorant of Chloe's desires to hang out with him, even going as far as to say that she could drown and they wouldn't care what happened to her or her family.
  • Tomie is also given this treatment, though to a lesser extent. In the show and the original trilogy, she's a fairly chill and kind woman. In here, however, she not only snaps at her son and daughter-in-law regarding their actions with Goh and Chloe, but shows herself to be unempathetic to their potential distress, even telling them to their face that she wouldn't care if the Train took them right then and there.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: Kurune and Ikuo were present in Blossoming Trail since the very first act, though their roles were pretty minor. In Seeker of Crocus, they become The Ghost for the majority of Act 1, not even appearing until The Ninjala Car, and gain their vital roles in the beginning of Act 2.
• Adaptational Nice Guy: Zigzagged for Ikuo. In the original trilogy, he went as far as to slap Chloe across the face but this was after she returned from her Train Trip and the fallout of Goh getting on the Train. Here, while he doesn't physically abuse her, he is quick to tell his son that she should've drowned in a river years ago and never apologizes for it.
• Adaptation Origin Connection: Kurune and Ikuo had no connection to Chloe and Goh's strained friendship in the original trilogy. In here, they separated the duo as a result of fearing for the latter's life when the former brought him back, having nearly drowned, and only showed interest in when he would be ready for another adventure.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: The adults have these with Chloe, as they barely interacted with her in the original trilogy or even the anime in general. In Crocus, Kurune and Ikuo straight up hate her due to Goh getting sick during a trip years ago and her not showing any interest on his actual wellbeing, while Tomie is sympathetic enough to her that she not only snaps at Goh's parents to defend her, but ignores Goh's troubles to focus on how Chloe's feeling.
• Adaptational Sympathy: While they were called out about it in the original trilogy, Kurune and Ikuo were seen as unfortunate victims of a tense situation they failed to properly respond to in time. In here, Tomie tears them a new one and warns them that Talia is not going to be happy when she finds why her daughter lost her closest friend for years all because they hated Chloe for rescuing their son.
• Adults Are Useless: You think that any of them would've comforted Goh when Chloe ran onto the Train, but they barely even pay attention to him because they're busy with their own problems or assume that sticking them in his room is adequate enough as raising a child. Tomie isn't much better; ignoring Goh's problems to instead focus on how Chloe is suffering enough, despite having just as much of a hand in Goh's issues as the parents. A good example is during the Cyan Desert Car arc; when Sara decides to pretend she's Goh, she lies that Goh's doing fine at the Institute and he's not in the mood for stew with star-shaped carrots. Kurune doesn't find anything wrong with it, but Tomie — who stays at home and cooks the meals — sensed that something was wrong when "Goh" said he didn't like star-shaped carrots (it's shown in the anime that it's one of his favorite foods). And in a non-Chloe sense, Kurune and Ikuo care so little about their son's education that they not only refused to tell him to go to school for once, but they are behind on emails from the school telling them that their son is now transferred to a new class.
• Alcoholic Parent: It's implied that Kurune and Ikuo have been hitting the bottle after work, from Chloe's comments during the camping trip of them drinking out of "green bottles" and Kurune's flushed face when she tells the Pumkaboo to fly off, which causes them to be impaired during the fateful moment where Goh nearly drowns.
• All for Nothing: Shutting Goh away from Chloe ends up mentally destroying both their son and his friend, to the point that Goh is sick and tired of not getting any help from his family and Chloe is on the verge of suicide. Goh's parents now have to reevaulate their hatred of Chloe when it's revealed that Goh nearly drowning wasn't something she did either intentionally or maliciously, their son hates them for their secrecy and inability to be proper parents, and it's implied that Talia will throw them both to the Pyroar's den for what they did once Goh reveals everything to her.
• Anti-Villain: What Kurune and Ikuo did to Goh and Chloe's friendship was terrible, there's no doubt about that, but the reason they did it - to protect their son after he not only drowned, but his supposed friend cared more about having another adventure with him than wondering if he was still alive - is a perfectly understandable motivation given how not only were they not aware of the full context of what happened, but how little support their son truly had outside of themselves and the sheer depravity lying in the city they're stuck in.
• Ascended Extra: Sort of with Kurune and Ikuo. In the original trilogy, they're both very minor characters, only appearing once in a while. Though the same is true here, they also happen to have a much bigger role to play, sabotaging Chloe and Goh's friendship due to their fear that the former would get the latter killed without a shred of regret.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • Goh's parents wanted to make sure Chloe never got anywhere near Goh after that disastrous camping trip. Thanks to their actions, Goh granted their secret wish for them by (unintentionally) causing to Chloe run off to a dangerous therapy train where she's close to committing suicide, making sure that she can never be with him again should she meet her end. And even without the therapy train and Chloe seeking death, the Cerise family is already making plans to move out of Vermillion anyhow, ensuring that they never see Chloe ever again...just as Goh finally realizes that he wants Chloe in his life and how ignorant he's been to her these past three years, with this move making him even more alone than ever and having made him lose complete faith in his parents.
  • Ikuo proclaimed that he wouldn't care if Chloe killed herself. If Goh didn't call Chloe just in time that would've been her fate.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Kurune and Ikuo present themselves as good parents to Goh...then they completely snap and tell his friend that they don't care about what's going on with Chloe and wished she drowned in a camping incident years ago.
• Break His Heart to Save Him: Goh's parents did this over the years by making sure Goh saw Chloe's requests as nothing but Tauros-shit so that he would not recklessly join her on an adventure that would have him killed and instead be safe in his little computer room searching for Mew. This backfires when he learns the truth later on and how Chloe ended up lonelier than ever without her friend, and Goh's lack of a social filter, ended up having her run away from home and endangering her life. Not to mention how much they deeply loathed Chloe and wouldn't care if she died.
• Devastating Remark: When pressed by Tomie over what happened over the camping incident, Ikuo gets the bright idea to tell Goh that Chloe deserved to drown that day, not him. This ultimately leads to Goh choosing to stay as far away as possible from his parents.
• Did Not Think This Through:
  • Kurune and Ikuo didn't think of the long term events of separating their son from the only person who (besides Ash) cares about him or how it would even affect said person. It's not like they knew Chloe would've been suicidal, after all. They also didn't consider that shutting Goh away would've heavily affected his social skills either since it's ultimately his words that got Chloe on the verge of suicide in the first place. And finally, because Goh is shut in all of the time except for his "once in a while test day" promise, he is completely naive to others and their intentions. Goh was fooled by twenty classmates to believing they liked him and Chloe was doing okay, until Gloria and Victor actually asked him to provide evidence that things were doing fine.
  • Ikuo had the bright idea to say that he hated Chloe so much that she deserved to die during the camping trip instead of keeping his mouth shut over how heavily insensitive it is to say this towards his son. Naturally, Goh takes this as the red flag to stay away from his parents. Moreover, Tomie points out that if Talia should ever learn of this conversation — most likely from Goh himself — Ikuo may have completely destroyed his and his wife's reputation for saying something so damning if Talia decides to reveal this online.
  • Both parents decided to never talk about Tokio ever again...except without this little nugget of knowledge, Chloe would end up more and more isolated because she has no idea what's going on with Goh because he refuses to say anything either.
• Digging Yourself Deeper: Kurune and Ikuo go on a full on rant as to why they hate the living daylights out of Chloe but never seem to stop at how Goh would feel about this deception. Then Ikuo blurts out that Chloe deserved to drown more than their own son...
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child:
  • Kurune and Ikuo's busy work schedules meant that they spent so much time away from their son to the point that they hardly know a thing about him, even what kind of food he likes. When Sara changes her voice to be Goh to state that she's not hungry for stew with star-shaped carrots, they fail to realize that's not the real Goh. Only Tomie knows that it's false because she knows for a fact that Goh loves cream stew with star-shaped carrots. In fact, Kurune and Ikuo would've blissfully been unaware that their son was in any sort of trouble, and thus become tortured by Sara like what she did to Professor Cerise, if Tomie didn't tell them to go deliver a lunch of cream stew with star-shaped carrots at the Institute.
  • Another hint over how Kurune and Ikuo don't know anything about Goh is how Kurune states that Goh would never act like a Sore Loser like Chloe did over a Pokémon battle...except he did act like a complete Sore Loser in the canon series, whining how catching Pokémon was superior to battling after being curb-stomped by Hodge (something Professor Cerise tells Chloe in a text).
  • They also have no idea of Goh's absence at school since they pay so little attention to his education or who actually delivers his homework (Chloe). It takes two upper classmen to reveal that Goh is on the verge of failing the school since he hasn't gone back in so long.
• Dramatic Irony: Kurune points out to Augustine that Chloe acted like a Sore Loser to Ash before noting her son would never be like that. But in the canon series, Goh did act like a Sore Loser when he lost his first ever battle to Hodge, running away and whining how he'll just focus on catching Pokemon before Ash changed his mind. A fact the narration immediately highlights and Professor Cerise even mentioned to Chloe back in Act 1.
• Easily Forgiven: In their talk in the Harvest Moon Car, Chloe decides to forgive the parents even after learning that they're responsible for why she and Goh became distant, because she realizes that she had a part to play with the decision and wishes make it up to them when she makes it home. Averted with Goh, who refuses to forgive them for their apathy but has decided to move forward.
• Everyone Has Standards: Zigzagged; Kurune and Ikuo don't want Chloe dead as they tell Augustine...but just two chapters prior to this, Ikuo told his son that he wished Chloe drowned in a river.
• Failed a Spot Check: Kurune and Ikuo are so focused on their work that they tend to miss many signs about Goh.
  • Kurune has no idea what Goh's favorite food is, and was blissfully ignorant to how Sara was imitating her son's voice to realize that Goh was in literal danger. Had Tomie not picked up on that hint that "Goh" didn't like star-shaped carrots, Goh would've been screwed.
  • A look in the apartment reveals how they have little to no agency in Goh's life. Every picture of Goh has Chloe in it as well.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • The parents' desire to protect Goh. After their distatrous ghost hunting trip they feared that Chloe would endanger Goh's life again, possibly even kill him the next time. But instead of telling her to cut down on her constant requests to let Goh go ghost chasing, they shut Goh up in his room and lied to him to make him believe that Chloe's calls are for nothing. This ends up with disastrous results, the biggest one being that Goh's inability to socialize and properly discuss what he wants to say nearly led to Chloe committing suicide.
  • The parents also have an inability to let bygones be bygones and let their hatred guide their actions. While yes, they had a justified reason to be angry at Chloe's actions nearly letting Goh get sick, they are holding a grudge from when Chloe was only seven or eight years old, and the Chloe then and the Chloe now are separate people. Tomie even points out that blaming a child for their actions is completely unfair, and that their lack of empathy is not winning them any awards, especially towards their son. They also weren't willing to give Tokio the benefit of the doubt either and subconsciously blamed him for Goh's broken heart when that one was nothing more of an accident no one saw coming. It also doesn't help that Ikuo actually screams that Chloe should've drowned instead.
• Females Are More Innocent: Zigzagged and averted for Tomie and Kurune.
  • Tomie zigzags this by actually being more proactive when it came to the Unown attack — actually aware of someting wrong when "Goh" (actually Sara) says he hates star-shaped carrots — and tries to be more open over how she messed up with Goh. However she has the habit of defending Chloe instead of showing concern over the fact her grandson nearly drowned.
  • Kurune thinks she's the innocent one, but she's actually guilty for getting Goh and Chloe to separate and bragging how she knows her son better than anyone else but repeatedly proves that she doesn't have the answers.
• Foil: Suffice to say, the Fujihachi family are foils to the Cerise family.
  • Kurune is a foil for Talia. While both of them are mothers who care for their children, Talia at least has evidence of talking to her daughter about her problems while Kurune does nothing but shove her son in a room. Talia was passive until given encouragement that she could do better, Kurune was aggressive and didn't realize her mistakes until Tomie chewed her out. Last, Talia has never shown signs of blaming Goh for what happened to her daughter, Kurune is quick to point fingers at Chloe.
  • Ikuo is one to Professor Cerise. Ikuo seemingly follows Kurune along for blaming Chloe for their troubles, while Cerise makes his own decisions independent of Talia. Ikuo immediately tells Goh to his face that his friend deserved to die, while Cerise never badmouths Goh for the mistake that made his daughter run away. Professor Cerise's actions for Chloe were misunderstood but he truly did love his daughter and apologized for his actions, Ikuo doesn't even apologize for his horrible words to his son.
  • Tomie is one to Parker. Age and gender aside, Tomie was completely oblivious over what was going on with Goh, she tells Raboot that she was never told about Ilex Forest, while Parker knew everything about Chloe but never told anything out of fear that no one believed him. Tomie's actions in the Cyan Desert Car are to subtly deliver food to Goh — being the only one who knew that Sara was imitating her grandson, while Parker takes an action approach of convincing others, Tomie included, to confront their shadows and blame. Tomie blames her son and daughter-in-law for the six foot hole that they have dug themselves in, not even admitting that she's also at fault for Goh's problems, while Parker accepts that he played a part into Chloe's disappearance to Goh's Pokemon and even apologizes to Goh for misjudging him.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: The Fujihachi parents did what they did to Goh because of how two friends (unintentionally) had him injured and they were afraid of him losing his life so easily. Tomie is quick to point out that this does not give them the excuse to lie to their son's face all these years and to blatantly state that Chloe deserved to drown, not even considering how her mother and little brother would feel at hearing such a damning phrase. Even Goh points out how unfair it is because it's not only disregarding how he feels, but how they ignore that he's equally at fault for things going down.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: Harvest Moon Car reveals the parents didn't have nice things to say about Chloe and Tokio, both of them irresponsible "friends" who got Goh sick because of their actions. The only reason they soften around Tokio was because Tokio's betrayal was accidental (it's not like he was going to know he'd fall ill with a fever), yet they don't like Chloe (who they didn't know was bullied/suicidal and also Train bound) despite how Goh has forgiven her.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Like Goh, his parents saw Tokio's "betrayal" in a negative light, never bothering to consider whether or not it could've been a misunderstanding.
• Hypocrisy Nod: For all Kurune and Ikuo weren't willing to make Goh and Chloe be friends, Tomie is just as responsible for what happened with Goh because she didn't encourage him to be more proactive, something she has to admit in the Cyan Desert Car.
  Tomie: I won't sugarcoat that I could have been more firm in telling my husband and daughter-in-law to be more interested in my grandson's life. But I also could have steered Goh to a better future if I directly talked to him. So no more staying on the sidelines.
• Hypocrite: Hypocrisy seems to be a running theme in the Fujihachis.
  • Kurune and Ikuo hate Chloe for her Lack of Empathy when Goh was sick. They, for all intents and purposes, didn't show much concern for Goh growing up, being always focused on their work instead and could even care less that Chloe herself is just one second away from having her neck cleaved off by a draconic demon possessing Augustine. And for all they complained about Chloe's bad social skills, they did nothing to help Goh's social skills either.
  • Tomie isn't much better either. She ends her verbal lashing at Kurune and her husband with saying that if the Infinity Train were to take them, it would be to teach them empathy. While a point could be made, this is still being said by a woman who not only adds that she wouldn't care if her son and daughter-in-law got there, despite the real dangers involved, but glossed over her grandson drowning to instead focus on Chloe's pain alone.
  • For all they hate about Chloe not confessing her shit sooner, the parents never tell Goh about the crucial information that he could have used when he got himself sick until months after Chloe was stuck on the Train.
  • Kurune boasts that she's the expert on Goh. This is the same mother who was easily tricked on whether or not Goh liked star-shaped carrots, refused to show concern for him being in Sara's clutches until Tomie pushed her and Ikuo to visit him, and ignored how her son was an equally Sore Loser like Chloe was..
  • Ikuo tells Augustine that he and his wife don't want Chloe dead, but to just leave them the hell alone. Says the man who said he wished Chloe would drown in a river in front of his own son.
• Irrational Hatred: Downplayed; while many characters, Chloe included, accept that Kurune and Ikuo do have justified reasons to hate Chloe, the problem is that they're focusing on a version of her from years ago, and the girl then and the girl now have changed completely. Goh even notes that all the flaws Chloe has are the exact same flaws he has, and yet he never got scolded or reprimanded at all.
• Irony:
  • Tomie snaps at Kurune and Ikuo over not really doing anything to help Goh improve his social skills...while she, who actually does stay at home from time to time and even sees Goh once in a while, didn't do anything to help him either.
  • Kurune and Ikuo hate how Chloe and Tokio were ignorant of Goh's pains...and they were ignorant of how their "treatment" of Goh just aggravated Chloe's problems and made him an oblivious dolt who can believe anything you say to him.
  • The two parents hate everything about Chloe during that Vivillon incident, unaware or completely ignoring the fact that all the traits she portrayed are the exact same ones in their son and they never corrected him at all, something Goh himself addresses. And for all that Chloe did wrong, the Vivillon incident is mostly Goh's fault for not listening to Chloe's warnings.
  • Kurune and Ikuo were trying their best to separate Goh from Chloe for his own good and to ensure he would stay at home where it was safe and not cause him to die in a river. Their actions actually restored their friendship when Goh takes it upon himself to get the truth of what happened with the Vivillon, directly pointed out Chloe has been backtracking but has the kindness and compassion to forgive her and admit that he was at fault as well. It also led to their son drifting away from them, now that he realizes the lengths they would go to keep him and Chloe separated.
• I Wished You Were Dead: Ikuo screams how Chloe should be the one drowning instead of Goh. Cut to a later chapter when Chloe's about to kill herself...
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • After learning the truth from Goh about how her lack of concern for his health after the ghost hunting incident and his parents preventing the two from seeing each other, Chloe ultimately concedes they had every right to be angry at her for her behavior.
  • Kurune raises a valid point about Chloe's reactions to her loss to Ash being unreasonable, given that it was a completely normal Pokemon battle as far as anyone knew at the time.
  • Ikuo claims Parker should've done more in regards to his sister. While this is shown as a Never My Fault moment over the (in)action of a five-year-old compared to two parents who knew what was bugging Goh this entire time, he is correct in that Parker was Chloe's sole confidante and could've addressed the issues to the Cerise parents as well.
• Jerkass Realization: When Goh tells his parents the truth of what happened during the camping trip — it was nothing more than an accident, not an act of malice like they assumed, and this all started because of him refusing to listen to Chloe's warnings — and how they never noticed his problems for their work, he vows that he will never come back home till he becomes 18. This, and an unexpected appearance by Augustine chewing them out for their blatant hypocrisy, have the parents realize that they were total shit to the Cerise family for the past three years and didn't think to talk to Goh to address his problems or how to be a better friend.
• Kick the Dog: As he and Kurune talk about their annoyances with Chloe over the Vivillon incident, Ikuo proclaims how Chloe should've been the one who drowned in the river instead in front of their son without a single ounce of regret.
• Knight Templar Parent: Kurune and Ikuo kept their son from seeing Chloe because they saw her as a danger to Goh's safety after a camping trip nearly got him killed, to which she showed little to no concern or remorse for. Chloe admits that they had every right to hate her for that.
• Know-Nothing Know-It-All: Kurune believes that she's the one who knows her son better than anyone else, stating that it was Chloe who got him deliberately sick and that Goh would never whine and complain about losing a Pokémon battle...except 1) while Chloe did focus on meeting the Shiny Pumpkaboo instead of asking the Gourgheist to just take her and Goh to safety, it's mostly her son's fault for not listening to her when she said not to chase after a Vivillon over the river, and 2) Goh did act like a Sore Loser and whined over how he lost his first Pokémon battle, something Cerise specifically told Chloe and the narration points out as a reminder. She also thought that Goh was doing okay after "he" (actually Sara) said that he didn't like stew with star-shaped carrots, whereas Tomie immediately realized something was wrong because she's the one who actually cooks his meals at home and knows that he loves star-shaped carrots.
• Lack of Empathy:
  • Let's just say Kurune and Ikuo were completely apathetic to Chloe even before she got on the Train, due to the latter not caring about Goh's safety when they were younger and simply wanting him to go on another adventure with her despite him nearly drowning in the last one. Ikuo even goes as far as to say Chloe should've drowned in the river instead of Goh and doesn't give a flying fuck that Chloe is on the verge of suicide from the stress placed on her shoulders.
  • Tomie is just as bad, not only disregarding the fact Goh nearly drowned to focus on Chloe's pain, but telling the parents to their faces that they could die a horrible death and she wouldn't care at all. Goh even points out that while it's nice that Tomie is defending Chloe, he honestly wants someone to tell him he's an amazing person and not some unsympathetic asshole who can't properly talk to his friend.
• A Lighter Shade of Black:
  • What Kurune and Ikuo did to their son was cruel, but it was all because they were worried about losing him either to someone's antics or him being so head-strong and stubborn that he would've killed himself before he reached double digits. Compare them to Grace's parents, who don't give a damn about their daughter's concerns except how it's going to destroy what little reputation they have left, and the Fujihachis are shown in a good light.
  • The plot of the parents hating Chloe is shown in parallel to Alighieri, but while Alighieri is ready to attack Chloe and doesn't give a flying feather if she killed herself, the parents — outside Ikuo letting it slip that Chloe should've drowned — want Chloe to just bug off and never bother them again.
• Locked Out of the Loop: It's heavily implied that Tomie was completely in the dark of what happened in Ilex Forest with Goh as she remarks to Raboot that she did try her best to cheer him up but Goh refused to budge for three years. And judging by her furious reactions to Kurune and Ikuo bashing Chloe and telling she should go and drown, she also wasn't aware of what happened at the camping incident either.
• Mirror Character:
  • Kurune and Ikuo are mirror reflections of Ryoken Kougami. Their reactions to someone they know having been hurt and nearly dead is to shut them in their room and not seek therapy or any attempt to actually comfort the person who they're sheltering. While both have jobs related to computers and tech, Ryoken is a hacker whereas Kurune and Ikuo are softwhere developers. Ryoken refused to humor the idea of the infinity Train and Kurune and Ikuo refused to admit or reconsider if what they did to Goh was the wrong thing to do.
  • Kurune and Ikuo are this for Marianna Diktaylis as well. While both are strict parents, Kurune and Ikuo ultimately care about their son. And while they hated Chloe for being apathetic, they never physically harmed her and don't want her dead (if you ignore Ikuo telling Goh that she deserved to drown of course), just to stay away from their son. Marianna, on the other hand, is a hard drinker who abuses her daughter and blames Chloe for everything that happened, even going as far as to physically assault Sara and even slap Chloe across the face.
  • Kurune is a mirror to Grace. Both are dark skinned women who flapped their gums and think they're experts on a certain subject, but Kurune's actions were to protect Goh while Grace only did what she did to put herself on a pedestal. Kurune never manipulated Goh to hurt others, Grace commands an army of kids who destroy and murder others. Meanwhile, her husband is one of Simon who says a damning remark to the female to show how little they care about them (Simon's "You're no person" to Lake and Ikuo screaming Chloe should drown).
• Never My Fault: As Tomie chews the Fujihachi parents for their cold feet and how Parker had to save their asses, Ikuo starts whining that Parker should've done more in stopping his sister from going on a rampage, not the fact that as Goh's parents, they should be more responsible for what went wrong than a kindergartener currently stuck in a wheelchair and was also bullied for trying to stand up for his sister!
• No Sympathy For Grudge Holders: Tomie does not have any kind words to say to Kurune and Ikuo for how they hate Chloe for one mistake, even though she is struggling to survive on the Infinity Train and dealing with so much pressure that it's a miracle she hasn't killed herself yet, not to mention she's the only reason Goh is still alive in the present day since she pulled him out of a river before he drowned by jumping over a river to catch a Vivillon. Goh subverts this. He won't forgive any of them soon, but he's tired of blaming everyone and how his own parents can't give him emotional support. All he asks is that they work together to start healing. On Chloe's side, she decides to forgive them and move on with her life since she accepts that they had valid reasons to hate her at the time.
• Not Helping Your Case: Kurune and Ikuo insist that shoving Goh in a room and making him not be friends with Chloe was the best thing to do to keep him safe and not have his heart broken after the incident with Tokio, to the point Ikuo states that Chloe should've drowned in the river and not Goh. This ultimately makes Goh not want anything to do with them anymore if that's how they treat his friend and how they show so little concern about him.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: Discussed. Ikuo proudly shouts that he hates Chloe to the point she should drown in front of his son. Tomie points out that he has just fucked up his future; if Talia ever gets wind of this (most likely from his son), his reputation has been totally and irrevocably annihilated should Talia decide to post this online.
• Only Sane Man: Subverted with Tomie. While she does admit that Chloe will have to atone for her mistakes, she also points out that Chloe has done more for Goh than any of they had, was willing to risk her life to save Vermillion City from Sara and now has even more stress on her in trying to save her dad from committing suicide. The subversion comes from the fact that not only is she straight up assaulting her daughter and son-in-law despite their reasons and concerns, but she's ignoring her own grandson in favor of focusing on Chloe, who has more than enough support from everybody else as is, while Goh's lucky to have Ash, Victor, and Gloria by his side.
• Parents as People: Goh's parents (and to a lesser extent, Tomie) are often busy with work and their own lives, leaving their son without their supervision and direct care to help address his very poor social problems. The parents especially are so overworked they use alcohol to unwind and destress, which further decreases their time with Goh. They still do what they can with their limited time and more available funds, ensuring Goh has what he wants and needs and doing the best they can with him. Sometimes this works out, like ensuring he has a job at the Cerise Lab and new friends and people who can help him like Ash and Professor Cerise. Other times it can have unexpected consequences, like trying to permanently keep him and Chloe apart for Goh's own safety and even stating that Chloe should die to save everyone the trouble of her existence.
• Plot Parallel:
  • Kurune and Ikuo's confrontation with Goh in Harvest Moon Car is eerily similar to that of Grace and Simon calmly confessing to Jesse in "The Mall Car" that they give no fucks about wanting to wheel Lake and Alan Dracula, convincing Goh to believe what they said in an attempt to separate him from what they perceived as a "bad influence". Thankfully, just like Jesse puts his foot down and won't let anyone walk over him ever again and granting him his exit, Goh confronts them on how he doesn't want to return to Vermillion City until he's 18 as he's sick and tired of people manipulating him like he's some oblivious idiot who doesn't know right from wrong.
  • Kurune and Ikuo's hatred and spite for Chloe mirrors Aligheri's spite and vitirol for her in The Harvest Moon Car, hating her for doing something so heinous but never talking to her about what that is, even wanting her to go kill herself for all they care.
  • Kurune is a Know-Nothing Know-It-All dark-skinned woman who believes she's the total expert on a subject and refuses to admit that her paradigm is 100% wrong, tricking a gullible child to believe her words...she's essentially the Vermillion City's version of Grace Monroe.
• Poor Communication Kills: To put it this way, Kurune and Ikuo are the reason Goh has his infamous piss-poor social skills.
  • The two knew that Chloe wanted to hang out with Goh this whole time, but lied through their teeth to keep Goh in the dark, fearing that she could potentially endanger him again. Years later, this would effectively start ruining Chloe's self-worth to the point that she would've killed herself if the Train didn't save her (and even then she still is ready to kill herself if Goh didn't called her in time). They also didn't teach Goh any way to vent out his frustrations he kept hidden inside when Tokio "abandoned" him, especially since they completely forgot or failed to realize that Chloe was the only person whom Goh actually socialized with. Moreover, they didn't tell Chloe to get her priorities straight. If they talked things out with her, she would've been more willing to apologize for her mistakes.
  • If the camping story flashback is to go by, Goh's parents blamed Chloe for taking too long to bring Goh back, refusing to let her explain that she has been lost, afraid, and carrying a seven-year-old boy on her back for hours or that this was nothing more than an accident when Goh (who refused to listen to Chloe's warnings) slipped into the river trying to catch a Vivillon. Goh is in utter disbelief that his parents decide to tell about this camping trip after he spent the past two and a half months searching for Chloe. If he had known sooner, he would've been able to work on himself and realize his mistakes or at least message Chloe about it.
  • The two knew about Tokio not being there for Goh this entire time and could've revealed this to Chloe to help her be more empathetic and more concerned about what Goh was going through.They chose not to, so Chloe would always see Goh as someone who loved extroverted Pokemon lovers and would never care for any of her problems. In fact, she wouldn't have learned about Tokio until after she got on the Train. Or they could've told Goh to finally tell Chloe about this backstabbing boy so that she'd be more understanding.
  • The two have been paying little attention to Goh's schooling and he has no idea that he's now transferred to a new classroom and his new teacher demands he gets his sheets until two older classmates relay the news.
  • Last, instead of properly explaining they're sheltering their son in his room for his concerns over doing something reckless, the Fujihachi parents decide to leave him alone and lie that Chloe's asking for him to visit are nothing, instead of helping him understand they're trying to protect him from dying so young or properly telling Chloe to stop it.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • For all their paranoia and distrust of Chloe, Kurune and Ikuo weren't wrong to believe that something was going to throw their son in danger. It's just that they weren't expecting the idea of an interdimensional therapy train to do the deed.
  • Tomie was the only one who noticed something off about Goh claiming he didn't like star-shaped carrots, and hands Molly a thermos of cream stew with those carrots and a note telling Goh that help was on the way, even demanding her son and daughterin-law to join on the delivery. She was right to be worried as it was Sara emulating Goh's voice to keep the stupid adults off her trail.
• Psychological Projection: Brought up by Goh in Harvest Moon Car Part 4. Upon learning from his parents as to why they hate Chloe's guts, and him learning the real truth of the camping incident, Goh states that the only reason his mom and dad hate Chloe is because she's basically everything they hate about their son — a foolish, reckless child who never cares about other people's concerns about him, or doesn't listen to people trying to keep him safe, and does whatever he wants, whenever he wants, consequences be damned.
• Pyrrhic Victory: Kurune and Ikuo wished to never have to see Chloe again after what she did to Goh, driving a wedge the two of them so they stopped being friends and "save" Goh from being sick after he was "betrayed" by two friends. They got what they wanted in a divided friendship and the Cerise Family deciding to leave Vermillion City for good...but at the cost of learning the truth on how Goh nearly drowning was an accident, and Tomie has told them that they basically shot themselves in the foot when they have to confess this to Talia and the consequences that come from it. And with Cerise on the Train, Goh has decided he has no purpose to stay with his parents and won't come back to see them until he's 18, rendering their desire to keep him sheltered All for Nothing. Finally, for all that they did to separate them physically, it didn't stop Goh from calling Chloe before she ended her life and for the two ready to start again, and there's no rule saying Goh can't find some other way to see her in the future.
• Rage Breaking Point: Tomie kept it cool as Kurune and Ikuo rage and rage over how they hate Chloe, but she flips her lid the minute Ikuo decides to say "For Arceus' sake, Chloe should have drowned instead of our son!" After that, she tears into how apathetic they are for insulting a girl who has done no personal harm to them and that she's alone, struggling to survive on that Train, and in search for her father.
• Right for the Wrong Reasons: Kurune and Ikuo were so worried for Goh's safety after he got a fever from nearly drowning, so they decided to keep him at home and not let him go to school except for tests, believing that doing so would lead to Chloe endangering him. As the present day shows, they were correct in keeping him away, but with the wrong target; rather than worry about Chloe who, to be fair, probably would've still put Goh in danger without meaning to, they should've been worried about the school he would've been sent to, as it's repeatedly shown to be a cesspool of bullying and discrimination who would've likely destroyed Goh socially if he had gone alongside Chloe.
• Saying Too Much: If they didn't snap at Tomie talking about the camping trip, Kurune and Ikuo would've been able to keep the secret at how they separated Goh and Chloe to the grave. Instead, their anger over Tomie bringing it up leads them to confess how they were responsible for everything in regards to Goh losing his friendship with Chloe, along with their thoughts about he and Tokio.
• Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Kurune and Ikuo kept Goh in his room in fears of him being hurt by Chloe...only to learn three years later that Goh was hurt because of Chloe running away and starts blaming his poor social skills and inability to express himself to her as the reasons she's gone and ready to kill herself. Moreover, after Goh has learned the truth of what they did, he vows to not return home for a few more years, thus their actions caused a greater rift to their relationship.
• Skewed Priorities: Tomie accuses Kurune and Ikuo of this; so long as Goh is doing something that doesn't involve Chloe, like allowing him to nearly kill himself by jumping on a Lugia to obtain video evidence so he can be a research fellow, so what?
  Tomie: If Chloe wants to have fun with Goh, you refuse to let him go. But let's say he decided to do something like, I don't know, jump on the back of a Lugia, then just as long as it's not with Chloe, but rather anyone like Ash or Yeardley or Sara, then you don't even seem to worry about his well-being like the fact he could have died with one misstep. Just as long as it doesn't involve Chloe, then let him join Team Rocket to capture all the Pokémon in the world for all you care! Am I right?
• Spanner in the Works: When Sara has the Unown and uses their power to imitate Goh, she makes a snide remark that she hates stew with star-shaped carrots. Kurune, who is so busy with her work, never sees anything wrong with it. Tomie, on the other hand, knew something was wrong and forces Kurune and Ikuo to hand deliver a lunch with star-shaped carrots. By doing so, Goh is given hope that help is on the way.
• The Unapologetic: Ikuo spits at Goh that he doesn't give a fuck if Chloe drowned in the Harvest Moon Car. By the end of the car, he never apologizes to his son on how damning that is despite his wife proclaiming that they really don't want her dead, just gone from their lives.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Chloe risked her life to save Goh from drowning, but because she spent time gathering flowers from Gourgeist instead of directly asking, Kurune and Ikuo instead blamed her for endangering their son.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Kurune and Ikuo preventing Goh and Chloe from hanging out, and also not letting Chloe explain what happened that got Goh stuck with a fever, is what caused almost all of Chloe and especially Goh's problems. Because Chloe didn't have Goh to hang out with her, she started latching onto her classmates in the hopes of finding someone to connect with, which caused Sara and her classmates to bully her for annoying them, leading her to run away on the Infinity Train when Goh's inability to express his support to make Chloe search a dream lead him to shove his foot so deep into his esophagus that it's impossible to pull it back out. Moreover, Goh failed to develop the social skills he would've needed to talk to people about his problems or the ability to even compartmentalize his emotions which prevented him from moving on from Tokio's "betrayal" that fateful day in the rain because neither of them considered that talking to their child was of utmost importance over work.
• Walking Spoiler: Mention anything past "Goh's distant parents and grandma" is going to reveal how they're responsible for Goh and Chloe's separation and then some.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: Kurune and Ikuo kept Goh from seeing Chloe because they didn't trust the latter after she failed to show any concern for Goh's health afterwards, only asking when he was better they could go on another adventure again. They just couldn't predict how this would this would stunt both of their social skills and getting one person sent on a therapy train.
• Workaholic: The parents are usually known for working all the time, which backfires because they spend so little time on Goh that he ends up learning all the wrong lessons or never learning how to be more social, which directly leads to Chloe's worsening mental state.

Marianna Diktaylis

Marianna Diktaylis

Sara's alcoholic abusive mother.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Original Marianna was at least smart enough to realize when she wasn't capable of taking care of Sara anymore, and began to throw away the bottles after leaving her in foster care. This Marianna never reaches such a realization, and instead doubles down on being a fool.
• Adaptational Karma: The original Marianna was allowed to start anew after sending Sara to foster care and starting to throw away the bottles, while this Marianna never has a chance, as she's arrested for her abusive behavior and separated from her daughter.
• Adaptational Jerkass: In the original story she decides to ditch the bottles and places Sara in foster care, since she sees herself unfit to continue to raise Sara, but only after the Unown incident was taken care of and she's seen what her daughter has done. Here, however she remains an abusive asshole and even attacks Talia.
• Alcoholic Parent: She allegedly loves alcohol more than her daughter.
• Ascended Extra: She only gets one scene with most of the stuff she did hinted by narration in Blossoming Trail. She gets more focus in the Cyan Desert Car to explain how everything involving Sara, her classmates and Chloe is her fault.
• Break the Haughty: Gloria's email reveals that she's "putting on the waterworks" over being punished by the law for her abuse on Sara.
• Composite Character: In relation to The Ballad of Sara Berry (which is where Sara gets her name from), she combines Sara's abusive father with the name of one of the prom candidates Sara killed (the one with the "marinated remains").
• Hate Sink: She's an abusive alcoholic who's the mother of Sara, herself an example of this trope.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • When she finds her daughter at the Cerise Institute, she chews her out for the idea of running away from home. While Sara is doing what she can to escape her, Marianna isn't wrong. Sara doesn't know how to survive without an adult and she's technically under Marianna's care for better or worse. So if Sara does go missing, then the blame is all on Marianna for being neglectful. Even Ash admits that she was making legitimate points.
  • Again, just like her daughter, she has a right to be mad about Chloe violently retaliating with a paint can. While Chloe did this in self defense, even if she hadn't, the fact that Chloe's implied to have hated Sara only and ultimately did nothing to help the situation between them means she's as much to blame for Sara's descent as Sara herself.
• Laser-Guided Karma: The end of Cyan Desert Car Pt 5 has Gloria wish for her emotional abuse on Sara and attacking Talia — all recorded by security cameras — be seen throughout all of Vermillion City. She's last seen about to be under arrest with an email from Gloria in The Palimpsest Car revealing that she's going to be jail after all she's done, and lost all parental privileges as well.
• Never My Fault: Blames Chloe for what happened with Sara, bringing up the paint-can incident that caused her and Sara's troubles instead of the fact that she's a horrible mother. Gloria's email state that she's "putting on the waterworks", implying that she's only sad about getting caught, not about what she's actually done.
• Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Has the attitude of one as she accuses Talia of mocking her over what happens when someone like her "has no husband to lean on".
• Put on a Bus: Last referenced by Gloria saying that she's been sent to jail and with no parental privileges, crying her eyes out over being caught.
• Shadow Archetype: Of Talia. For all her faults on being blind to Chloe's troubles and not willing to do more to show she cared, Talia loves her children with all her heart and was strict with Chloe in their phone call so that she stopped dithering and realized that people truly care for her. Marianna is abusive and has no love for Sara to the point of physically assaulting her.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Her abuse of Sara and alcoholic tendencies are the reasons Sara turned out how she is, culminating in an entire class bullying Chloe on the basis that she's weird, nearly making Chloe a suicidal wreck, shutting down an entire school and the Unown incident.
• Too Dumb to Live: She attacks her daughter and slaps Talia in an area that is full of security cameras. Naturally, when Gloria makes one wish to spread this footage throughout all of Vermillion City, Officer Jenny slaps the cuffs and hauls her to jail.
• Would Hurt a Child: She's quick to attack her own daughter in order to try get her in line when she begins the Unown attack.

Class 5-E's Parents

The parents of the students in Chloe and Goh's class, who didn't seem to notice that their little angels had filthy souls.

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• Abusive Parents: An email from Gloria states that Yeardley's father is abusive and the whole Unown incident made Yeardley's mom finally split off from him.
• Accomplice by Inaction: Granted, it's mostly their children's faults for listening to Sara twice over to bully Chloe, but none of them actually put any signs of disciplining their children to ensure this didn't happen again.
• Adults Are Useless: At least forty parents never seemed to consider that their children were bullying someone behind their backs nor disciplined them after the suspension. And when Sara traps them in a crystal prison, they can't even fight their own shadows and have to rely on a little boy in a wheelchair to get the courage to do the right thing. Parker himself states the trope name because of this.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • Whether or not they tried to discipline their children, were aware of what they did to Chloe and were going to do something about their behavior or were completely gullible to the "I'm sorry" acts their children did is up in the air.
  • Whether or not they got fired from their jobs or their futures in their workplaces will be worse from the fallout of their children's expulsions is unclear. Gard may think so, but that is an assumption, not a certainty.
  • Were they ever aware that the classmates only bullied Chloe because they wanted to be Pokémon Trainers? Were they the reason why the classmates hurt Chloe because they didn't allow them to be Pokémon Trainers? As a matter of fact, were they going to let them be Trainers all or did they want the children to get more real-life experience before jumping into the fray?
  • Did the parents even know of the special permission slip Goh used to get the freedom to not be at school or did they assume that it wouldn't be of any use?
• Hated by All: Their children's actions have not left them with a positive reputation after it gets out.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Given how there's no signs of them disciplining their children at all, it seems like all of them saw their children as little angels who were oh so perfect and well-behaved.
• Instant Humiliation Just Add Youtube: The confession videos of their little darlings bullying Chloe and not showing concern about it essentially made them pariahs in their work places.
• Parental Obliviousness: Played for Drama. Whether it be work or having bricks for brains, no one decided to discipline their children about what they were doing to Chloe until the big confession blew up online.
• Useless Bystander Parent: None of them seemed to recognize that after the paint can incident that they should ensure their children would never pull a stunt like pressuring Chloe to fight the Alola League Chamipon Ash Ketchum or the stuff that would make her run away from home for two months, presumably having killed herself because no one knows where she was nor cared about the consequences of their monstrous actions.

Yeardley's sister

Yearldey's little sister who shows up at the worst moment.

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• Children Are Innocent: She was the last straw for Sara, but she's innocent for just being a little child who doesn't know about Sara's mental problems.
• No Name Given: Is never given a name, but it's implied to be Yvainne like in Blossoming Trail.
• Plot Parallel: Continuing with the many analogies to The Ballad of Sara Berry, she plays the role of Sara Berry's boyfriend, who ends up being the final straw with an ill-timed message.
• Small Role, Big Impact: She was the one who picked up Sara's call on her big brother's phone and brings out how Sara should've just gone to Professor Cerise directly to get her Pokémon. Sara does that and the Unown Incident comes quickly after.
• Stating the Simple Solution: She's the one who tells Sara that she should've just asked Professor Cerise for a Pokemon instead of destroying so many lives.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: Sara was already in a pretty fragile state of mind as her plans came falling down and her friends began to go away from her. It was Yeardley's sister's remark about how dumb she was that caused her to go off the deep end and set forth the events that would lead to the Unown incident.

Grandpa Myosotis

Patricia's wheelchair-bound grandfather.

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• Armor-Piercing Question: Gave one to Patricia when he saw the news of her confession — If she loved bullying a classmate and her little brother while acting sweet and innocent, is he next on her list?
• Break the Cutie: Broke upon learning what his granddaughter did to Chloe and refuses to speak to her.
• Despair Event Horizon: Was already depressed after losing his precious Jumpluff buddy, but learning how his loving granddaughter gleefully gloated on bullying two children (one of them a kindergartener) has made him not wanting to talk to her, and presumably will enact Death by Despair.
• The Ghost: Is mentioned but never seen outside UnChloe showing an image of him to Talia.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Played for Drama. He assumed that his grand-daughter was kind, loving, and learned from her mistake of enacting a Carrie-style prank on a classmate. The fact that she reverted to the bitchy right hand of Sara who gleefully boasted to a kindergartener that she loved bullying another while simultaneously keeping her "doting granddaughter" act has him emotionally demolished.
• Irony: His Pokémon was Jumpluff, a Grass/Flying type. He's confined to a wheelchair.
• Mirror Character: To Tomie. They're the grandparents to a child, but Grandpa Myosotis is broken over how his grand-daughter was a bully whereas Tomie is supportive of Goh. They were both unaware of their grandchildren's behaviors but Grandpa Myosotis chooses to not speak with Patricia while Tomie decides to work on herself.
• No Name Given: Is never named, mostly known as Patricia's grandfather.
• Small Role, Big Impact: He's the reason why Patricia went as far as to bully Chloe, if she didn't want to bully Chloe prior, because she wanted to make him happy again with a new Pokémon. He's also the one who makes her finally see how much of a bitch she was about to become.

Vermillion International School

Class 5-E

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (debut) | Firefly Funhouse Car (Mentioned)

Chloe and Goh's classmates at Vermillion International School. While Goh thinks they're nice kids, they're secretly bullying his friend to the point of suicide because she's not fulfilling her role as a Pokemon fanatic.

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• Adaptational Dumbass: Class 5-E were gullible in the original, but they managed to learn the lesson after Sara screwed them over once. This story has them fall for Sara's tricks not once, but twice.
• Adaptational Karma: While they still are in trouble for everything they pulled on Chloe, Ash does not give them an extra chance by giving them a Pokémon. However, they get a second chance of atonement when Talia decides to give them workshops so that they aren't wasting away doing nothing.
• Adaptational Late Appearance: The students were already key players at the start of Blossoming Trail but aren't physically seen until the very end of Act 1.
• Adaptational Sympathy: In the original trilogy, the classmates were only portrayed as sympathetic when an even worse monster came about in Parker. Here, we get to see them completely horrified at what they became and are scared of talking to their parents about it, believing that they hate them for being horrible brats who wouldn't have cared if Chloe actually died from their bullying.
• All for Nothing: They followed Sara's commands to ruin Chloe's life so that they could obtain a Pokémon and so that they can finally get this monster lover to shut the hell up about her hobbies. They end up losing respect from their fellow classmates, their parents' reputations at work have plummeted, they're pariahs on the Internet, they are expelled for the rest of the year, Professor Cerise bans them from getting licences and the girl that they mocked is now a beloved online celebrity with thousands of people supporting her love of demons and things not Pokémon. Hope it was worth it.
• All Take and No Give: They want Chloe to serve their every whims on getting a Pokémon without even thanking her or showing any kind of consideration. As long as their methods to make her a broken mess whom no one will love, so what?
• Ambiguous Innocence: It's unclear whether or not they actually understood the extents of their horrific actions until they finally got expelled and had the entire world turn on them/Chloe killed herself or they were always unhinged sociopaths in the making because one girl wasn't like them and couldn't stop talking about her hobbies, especially if we consider that they already got suspended for the paint-can incident but never learned from it.
• Ambiguous Situation: Given how we only have Chloe and Sara's words on the matter, which aren't the most reliable source of information, it's never made clear how much of their actions were their own and how much was due to Sara manipulating them. While they at least have the somewhat understandable reason of being annoyed with Chloe for trying to force her love of horror onto them, Sara points out that they still chose to follow her even after they got suspended. However, Julie stating that she "doesn't want to be [Sara's] doormat anymore" would imply that the latter had coerced them into following her, further muddying things.
• Ambitious, but Lazy: All of them have grand dreams to explore the world and be Pokémon Trainers...and they can't get their butts off of their seats at school to walk to the Cerise Institute for a Pokémon, instead destroying Chloe's self worth issues until she's too broken that she'll have no choice but to give into their demands of catching Pokémon for them (and we're talking at most a class of 20 students).
• Apathetic Student: All of them hate being in school and would rather be on cool Pokemon adventures to the point that they vent out their frustrations on Chloe and can't even be motivated to give Goh his homework during the period Chloe was gone.
• The Atoner: After opening up to Chloe and Talia in the Cyan Desert Car, they wish to work on bettering themselves, no matter how hard and how long it takes. One of their acts is to start decorating Parker's cast as an apology for the times they mocked him and laughed at how Sara knocked a paint can to his face while they watched. Even Chloe brings up that they should atone because it's the right thing to do, not because they want to get favors with the public again.
• Backhanded Apology: When they apologize to Chloe it's more on the lines of "We're sorry we didn't realize until now that our bully victim was connected to our dreams" instead of "We're sorry we did this in general and we should've stopped after our suspension or never even bullied you to begin with". Chloe then points out that the reasoning behind the bullying mattered; they would've hurt her even if her father wasn't a Professor because they loved being bullies for the sake of it.
• Badass Bystander: In the Cyan Desert Car they help pull UnCerise off of Talia — who he was choking to death — because they didn't want Talia to be a victim of their mistakes.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • They destroyed Chloe's self-worth in the hopes it'll give them what they deserve (being Pokémon trainers). They got it alright, — expulsion, their parents' reputations at work destroyed and humiliated on the Internet for being a bunch of assholes while their victim gets a petition and support.
  • One reason why they destroyed Chloe's life is because they just wanted her to stop talking about her monster hobbies for once. Lo and behold, she gets whisked away to another dimension where, if she just makes one wrong move, or if she ends it all by having her head lopped off by a dragon demon, she ain't coming' back.
• The Corruptible: Bad enough they joined Sara once to ruin Chloe's life just for a Pokémon, it's completely idiotic of them to continuing following this path after a suspension.
• Deadly Prank: They dared Chloe to challenge Ash to a Pokemon battle against Ash that they knew she would lose, hoping to see the utter humiliation on her face when she told them what happened/Goh decided to upload his recording without thinking of consequences. The thing is, this little "prank" of theirs could've ended in Chloe's death, either by the dangerous things she's gotten through on the Train, or just by her deciding to end her life then and there by jumping off the school's rooftop because she would rather die than live with the humiliation that she stupidly Tackled a Gengar until the day she died.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: They all represent children who want to get into Pokémon, just like the rest of the world does. However, instead of doing research, being good kids or talking about how they want Charmander over Bulbasaur, they only see Pokemon as quick tickets to adventure and excitement, Professor Cerise is their meals ticket to luxury, and his daughter is a punching bag who will quickly give them their life's desires while showcasing a a severe lack of empathy that makes them on par with some of the evil teams in the games. They don't understand until after their expulsion that being a Pokémon Trainer and having a mon is considered a privilege, not a right, which can be taken away from them at any moment.
• Demoted to Extra: Yeardley — the boy who is the real-life reason Blossoming Trail got written and has his own folder — has less screen time here and is lumped with the other classmates.
• Did Not Think This Through: A lot of problems they had could be solved if they just thought before they acted.
  • Not a single one of them considered the consequences of their actions, particularly bullying Professor Cerise's daughter or gloating about their bullying to his son. Goh even points out in a Facedex post that Goh and Ash work for Chloe's father and Cerise has quickly told the other Professors to ban them from holding a trainer's license for the forseeable future, their parents' reputation are shot, and they got expelled with the Internet raging on them for being idiot bullies. And finally, because they admitted to wanting to bully someone abnormal, this also suggests that they will bully someone disabled (like their classmate Franklin who has Asperger's). Needless to say, they f'ed things up considerably.
  • At any point, they could've just stopped what they were doing — something Sara smugly points out — or consider that a suspension was a warning to not screw up again else face severe repercussions. If they honestly apologized and worked on themselves, it would have been painful, but they also would've had better chances of getting what they wanted.
  • When they try to apologize to Chloe and admit they didn't realize who they were bullying, Chloe then asks if it would have mattered if she wasn't the daughter of a professor before pointing out that it didn't matter; as long as Sara told them to bully someone if it means getting what they wanted without working for it, they'd do it without hesitation.
• Disproportionate Retribution: They were annoyed that Chloe was always trying to force her love of demons and the macabre onto them, but instead of telling her to dial it back a little, or at least try to find common ground with her, they listened to Sara's lies about her being a jerk, and started bullying her to the point that she would rather jump off the school's rooftop or spend eternity on the Infinity Train than spend another day as their doormat.
• Easily Forgiven: Subverted. Chloe hasn't forgiven them for all that they've done to her, but she's hoping to move on in the future and befriend them when she finally returns home. The class agrees and promise to work on themselves.
• Easily Swayed Population: All of them took one sociopathic girl's lies for granted and bullied Chloe for the sake of getting Chloe so broken, that she'll give them Pokémon from her daddy's institute to make it all stopped. None of them seemed to consider the consequences except that Chloe is an evil witch who must be chased out in order to save their souls from her nasty curses and monsters while Princess Sara must be protected at all costs.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • During the video conference in the Cyan Desert, the class is nothing but relieved to learn that Chloe is safe and sound. For all that they did in wanting Chloe to just shut up about her hobbies, they realized that they didn't want her dead. They also get to see first hand how much Sara's actions are absolutely atrocious, giving them the realization that they were monsters who didn't care who they hurt. The last they see Sara, and learning about her home life, they show nothing but pity.
  • When Julie notes that she had a nightmare of Chloe falling off the school's rooftop, the class is horrified about the possibility that Chloe could've committed suicide, thus traumatizing the lives of her family because of their apathy, ignorance and desires to be Pokémon trainers. They are also terrified at how Sara wants to destroy all of Vermillion City.
  • For all they did to Chloe, they are horrified with how Sara commands her "father" to kill Talia, who is nothing but an innocent victim and practically the only person in Vermillion City willing to give them a second chance. They decide to dogpile UnCerise to ensure Talia doesn't get hurt.
• Fair-Weather Friend: All of them are this to Sara. They only joined her under the belief that they would get a Pokemon out of Chloe if they followed her in destroying Chloe's self-worth. But when all of them get expelled, they immediately tell Sara to bug off for getting them into this mess.
• Fatal Flaw: Apathy. They showed no signs of stopping their bullying on Chloe or mocking it in her little brother's face and would've continued to do so until Chloe ultimately decided that she should commit suicide to escape it. They also are impatient and lazy to the point of making Chloe do all the work for them instead of walking towards the Cerise Institute themselves. So long as Chloe was humiliated and destroyed and remembered how she's a monster lover whom no one will love, so what?
• Foil:
  • All of them are polar opposites of Goh. Goh never goes to school except for tests and is a Pokémon Trainer with a goal to search for Mew while working for Professor Cerise. All of them aspire to be Trainers and go to school every day but never seem to go to the Institute for that chance. Goh never interacts with Chloe despite "claiming" they're friends, while the class interacts with her and treat her like dirt. Goh works to complete his goal, all of them would rather force Chloe go give them their dreams on a silver platter than work on them. Goh knows nothing about Chloe except "doesn't like Pokémon" whereas the classmates are annoyed at having to constantly hear Chloe's love of the macabre. Both Goh and her classmates said some very mean things towards her, but Goh was trying to motivate her to be better and everything came out in the worst interpretation possible, whereas the classmates knew what they were saying, didn't care as to how much those words hurt, and simply wanted Chloe to know how it felt to be essentially harassed by somebody who wouldn't shut up about their interests before Sara came in and corrupted them. Last, after the classmates realized they were a bunch of douchebags, they immediately bolt from Sara and never admitted that they are equally as responsible as her for their expulsion, while Goh learns that both he and Chloe were at fault with how their friendship fell apart and starts making up for it.
  • All of them act as one for Chloe as well. They all want to be Pokémon trainers but live with families who presumably live in mundane jobs, Chloe has a professor father but she shows little interest in Pokémon (mostly due to everyone hounding on her to be like him). All of them actively stated how much they hated Chloe while Chloe simmered with anger until she became like a shook soda can and exploded at everyone else. They "act" nice to Goh but she acts rude and aloof to him before it's revealed that the classmates despised him the whole time and Chloe did her best to care for him when they were younger. While Chloe harassed them with her love of the macabre, she only retaliated after a prank gone too far, but they continuously bullied her physically and emotionally even when she never struck back. Chloe becomes famous on the Infinity Train for her bravery, the students become infamous for being stupid bullies who didn't care if their victim died. And last, when push comes to shove, Chloe is willing to step up to the plate and throw her life on the line to protect others, but they are all a bunch of whimpering cowards who can't stand up for themselves until it's way too late to fix anything.
• For the Evulz: Why would they bully a girl who has done nothing wrong to them except annoy them with her hobbies? Because they find it funny if their victim's life is destroyed and it would force her to give them a Pokémon to make it stop and also to just shut the fuck up for five seconds. They also loved laughing at how a baby like Parker tried to act like a hero but could do nothing to stop them. Chloe even points out that regardless of whether or not she was a Professor's daughter, they would still find some petty reason to destroy her life.
  Asher: You [Chloe] can try to befriend them, change yourself so that you’re more acceptable in their eyes, and set a bar if you like to change their minds. But they will never stop until they see you squirm to your feet, and even then they’ll continue to do so because they get happy from your pain.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Whatever reasons they had to hurt Chloe — with the implications being that they won't be able to become Trainers so easily like "she" can and because they didn't like her talking about her love of horror — was no reason to bully her to the point of suicide and nearly destroying her family for a Pokemon. Chloe herself even states that even though they're victims now, they weren't held at gunpoint when they systematically destroyed her life.
  Yuri: And whatever justification you have over seeing Chloe suffer are just explanations, not excuses for everything going on.
• Gang of Bullies: They became one to harass Chloe and turn her life into a living hell under the misguided belief that she'll get them Pokémon like Sara made them believe (and also so cause she was annoying them about her hobbies). They eventually learn their lesson on why bullying is bad once they see how much damage their blind following of Sara unleashed on Chloe, her family, her friends, themselves and their parents and decide to redeem themselves, even admitting that for all that they did, they didn't want her dead. And even when they confess that they shouldn't have bullied Chloe, Chloe brings up how they would've just bullied someone else if Sara pointed their finger at them. However, prior to their expulsion, they had no qualms on hurting kindergartener Parker by insulting his sister or laughing when Sara slammed the paint can at his face just for the act of trying to protect Chloe from them. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has Chloe rattle off the insults they gave her, targeting her hair, her weight, her softball skills, and that time Yeardley nearly licked her hair scrunchie.
• Gone Horribly Wrong: Sara convinced them that if they bullied Chloe, they'd get to be Pokemon Trainers...instead, they receive humiliation, expulsion, Chloe's father banning them from getting a Pokémon, and their bullying target is so depressed that she'd rather her head chopped off or jump off the school's rooftop then spend another day living amongst them.
• Grass is Greener: All of Chloe's classmates thought her life was the best there was because her father got to be around Pokémon and she must've had hundreds of those creatures and be such an expert at battling. But this got to the point where they tried to use her as a meal ticket for their goals in life and destroyed her self-confidence until she wished for nothing more than the sweet release of death.
• Gullible Lemmings: Somewhat justified in that their kids, but they really should've known better than to continue harassing Chloe after a suspension and her threats to kill them. Or that a sweet little girl was a monster compared to the bitch that is Sara Diktaylis.
• Hate Sink: A bunch of nasty apathetic brats who destroyed Chloe's life solely for their own benefit to the point that suicide was better than living and never felt sorry for hurting her or her little brother until they were forced to confront the consequences.
• Hidden Disdain Reveal: While they acted "nice" around Goh, a comment from some Year 7 students revealed that none of them were willing to deliver Goh's homework after Chloe disappeared, which has been for nearly three months, all but blatantly spelling out they never really liked him.
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • They 100% trusted Sara's words that Chloe was a monster and evil and thus harassed an innocent girl who was utterly confused as to why she was suddenly the class's favorite punching bag all because she talked too much about her love of the macabre, destroyed her self-worth, led her to be isolated from the people who could've helped her and caused her to run away onto a magical therapy train for two months and they couldn't give a flying feather that she's vanished and that no one knows where she has gone to, except that she's going on a Pokémon journey. Once everything comes to light about their actions and they willingly trusted Sara over their own conscience — especially in the light that Chloe might have committed suicide or got herself in critical danger without anyone knowing where she went — they realize how they shouldn't have bullied Professor Cerise's daughter and instead actually tried to befriend her or just not bully her anymore. Chloe does admit that they could've been bullies to anyone Sara pointed to; what mattered was that they just wanted to hurt someone and have a laugh over their suffering.
  • They loved fooling Goh because he thought he was such a gullible idiot who wouldn't care if his supposed "friend" was in trouble. When Goh gets wind of what they did, he is absolutely not happy as to the extent of their actions. They also saw him as a complete waste of space when he was actually their best chance to get a Pokemon without destroying others' lives.
• Hourglass Plot: Before Chloe ran away from home, they were proud, haughty and confident at what they were doing to Chloe, not giving a damn about the consequences and made Chloe unable to have hope or a dream, not to mention unable to talk to her parents about her problems, before ultimately had her Driven to Suicide. By the time Seeker of Crocus is in full swing, Chloe is now pressing forward with a dream and having love and support from her friends and family, while they have had their lives ruined and are afraid of even taking a step forward without people hounding them on their mistakes and can't confess their problems with their parents for fear of looking like idiots.
• How the Mighty Have Fallen: They were once somewhat popular in their school and were following the queen bee who would've given everything they wanted, getting away with their harassment and bullying of Chloe for who knows how long, despite how she nearly killed Sara for the paint-can incident. However, their need to gloat to Parker over everything they did to her was to make themselves happy got posted on the Internet and ruined their reputations for good.
  Gard: Everyone at school hates us because now there's a huge investigation on other bullying incidents, our friends have thrown us under the bus wheels, our parents are probably going to be fired, we’re going to have to move, we’ll probably be forced to join Team Rocket in order to survive and...
• Hypocrite:
  • They hate/are annoyed at Chloe for having such a love of monsters but they act more monstrous than the beings she adores, and even Chloe in general, by destroying her life until she's ready to kill herself.
  • Were terrified of Chloe screaming how she'd "kill them all kinds of dead" yet she never went through with the threat, hoping to behave and not get herself in more trouble. They willingly broke her to the point that Chloe wished to kill herself.
  • They loved to tell Chloe that she and Goh were never because she's everything the opposite of him. They immediately told Sara to buzz off after they get expelled and their relationship are akin to a mafia don and his underlings.
• If We Survive This: Yeardley internally notes that if he lives through Sara's madness during the Cyan Desert Car, he vows to study more and not get annoyed by his father asking him to stop using his "My life is a work in progress" excuse.
• Ignored Epiphany: The group had a chance to be better after Chloe nearly killed Sara with a paint can and Chloe even accepted their apologies...but they decided to go against it and hurt her more just cause they didn't want to stop destroying their life for kicks nor did they actually believe that Chloe would follow up with her threat to kill them "all kinds of dead". This ruined any chances of a better life in the immediate future.
• Insane Troll Logic: They all went along with Sara's belief that bullying Chloe would make her give them each a Pokémon because she's a Professor's daughter and therefor the most certified for the job. Then again, they were probably more agreeable to how it would make Chloe just stop talking about her hobbies.
• Irony:
  • Gloating to Parker on what they did to his sister (despite knowing full well what happened the last time they hurt him) got them expelled and their futures in complete ruins. This same boy is also the reason that their parents are fully able to understand the guilt they're carrying and helps them walk on the road of atonement so that they have a chance of a future.
  • Like in the original Blossoming Trail, the girl who they saw as nothing more than a personal punching bag saves them from an even worse monster.
  • They like to talk shit about Goh...the boy who can capture any Pokémon with ease and actually has a job as under Professor Cerise. So they essentially snubbed the only person capable of mass catching Pokémon if they decided to see him as their Meal Ticket instead of Chloe. Moreover, if they went and gave Goh his homework, they would've had a better chance to go into the Institute and get their damn Pokemon without destroying Chloe's life.
• It's All My Fault: At the climax of the Cyan Desert Car, they all admit that what they did to themselves was their fault. They could've walked away at any point and befriended/apologized to Chloe — something even Sara gladly points out — but now they have to see their lives in complete tatters and are too scared to admit to their parents that they don't deserve a second chance from anyone, let alone the mother of the children they hurt, and should be punished for all eternity. It takes Parker wishing for the parents to hear what their children are thinking to help move on and work on themselves.
• Jerkass Has a Point: Make no mistake that they're all assholes, but they are right that Goh is too oblivious for his own good.
  • When Goh asks point blank how his clasmates stupidly continued to pester Chloe and yet acted nice and sweet towards him so he never knew the truth, Yeardley states "It's not like you would've cared" before he's shut up by a Death Glare from Goh and his parents. As tactless as it is, Yeardley is right in stating that it took Goh forever to understand what was going on with Chloe, and when she tried asking where he was when she's in need of help, he immediately states he's "chasing his dream" instead of realizing his very bad habit of abandoning her. "Firefly Funhouse Car" even has Goh lampshade how Yeardley isn't wrong when he commented that Goh should know more about Chloe since he's friends with her.
  • In the flashback that detailed Chloe picking up his homework again, they snidely remark that Goh would never care for her unless she "dressed like Mew". Given how the scene immediately after is when Goh is returning after the Lugia ride, they're accurate that Goh can care less about Chloe doing stuff for him. Goh himself bluntly admits that he never thanked Chloe for this because, to him, it's "just homework".
  • And finally, picking on Chloe was 100% in the wrong, but calling her friend "No-Show" Goh wasn't. Goh doesn't give a Fearow about his schoolwork or how his goals make it hard for Chloe, let alone anyone, to be study partners with him. If Goh doesn't care about his schoolwork, why should they care about giving it to him?
• Jerkass Realization:
  • After they lost everything due to their bullying, all of them realized that they've been unsympathetic jerks to a girl who truly wanted to their friend, they've been expelled for the rest of the school year^ExplanationThe school year in Japan starts in April and while it's only been stated that it's been "two months" since Chloe has vanished, Orchid Observer and Rey Mysterio Versus the Cosmos take place in early June, their parents are in a load of trouble and now they can't pursue their dreams to be Trainers for a few more years or even dream of pursuing anything at all without the whole world thinking they're idiotic sheep who can't use common sense.
  • When they tell Chloe that they should've been more considerate on who they were bullying, Chloe asks them if it would have mattered if she wasn't the daughter of Professor Cerise. This makes them realize that it wouldn't; Sara would just point to someone else and they would've gleefully ruined the target's lives because it was hilarious to see them suffer. After all, they attacked her brother (age 5) and told him that he was a little brat who can't do anything and laughed at his face at all the fun they had ruining his sister's life without thinking of how the world at large was going to feel about it.
• Karma Houdini: Parker notes in Act 2 that Yeardley got away with breaking his sister's arm and never apologized.
• Kick the Dog: They gleefully told Parker to his face how much they were happy in destroying his sister's life when all he wants was to just hear good things about the sister he might never see again, all while laughing at how he could do nothing to stop them. They also laughed at him getting a paint can slammed to his face during the infamous pant can incident.
• Kids Are Cruel: Hell to the YES. They were a bunch of bullies who harassed Chloe and destroyed her self-worth before she got on the Infinity Train because they were sick and tired of her talking about her hobbies and Sara suggested they destroy her life so they can get their deepest desires out of her before leaving her to crawl into a corner to die. That being said, exactly how bad they actually were is unclear, since their most upsetting actions only happened after being corrupted by Sara, and most of their actions come from Chloe's biased mouth. What is known is that they laughed at Sara hitting Parker with a paint can and didn't give a Raticate's ass about telling him how much they loved destroying Chloe, and Act 2 confirms that they didn't care when Chloe got her arm broken in dodgeball.
• Lack of Empathy: They seemingly didn't care that Chloe was gone for months because of their actions and gleefully gloated about how they had more fun breaking her to the point of suicide, focusing more on telling Goh that she was a dumbass for stupidly tackling a ghost. Not to mention that they didn't care that they broke her little brother who tried to defend his sister after their Carrie prank and boasted how they just loved to destroy his sister's spirits. It's only after their sins are broadcasted and they get expelled do they how cruel their words and actions were and are nothing more than relieved when they learn that Chloe isn't dead whey they talk in the Cyan Desert Car with Act 2 confirming that they didn't want her to kill herself after Julie recalls a nightmare of seeing Chloe jumping off the school's rooftop.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Their actions on Chloe have landed them nothing but trouble from the Internet, the school and their families by giving them attention like they wanted. Moreover, since this was all on how they all wanted to become Pokémon Trainers, they're now banned from that dream for a few more years by her professor father.
• Lazy Bum: They would rather destroy Chloe's life to force her to give them a Pokémon then do the deed themselves, and Act 2 reveals that no one delivered the homework for Chloe or Goh prior to their expulsion, as it's been more than two months since her disappearance.
• Meaningless Villain Victory: They successfully made the Professor's daughter a Nervous Wreck with low-esteem issues and made her run away from home with no one knowing where she went all in the hopes it would get them their own Pokémon. Instead, they get expelled and can't be Pokémon Trainers for a few more years, destroyed their reputations and that of everyone else around them, and are the laughing stock of the Internet.
• Mindless Sheep: They followed Sara like she was a holy Shepherd to destroy the devil who was Chloe Cerise. Sara even uses a variation of the trope name by calling her classmates "Stupid Mareep".
• Minor Major Character: All of the bullying that they did was done before Chloe ever stepped foot on the Train, yet their actions, and reason behind it, play a humongous impact on shaping Chloe as she is now and affected her friends and family for the long run, not to mention having changed their school's reputation and their lives for the worse. To see how big of an impact, take a look at all of the tropes in this folder.
• Mirror Character: They're surprisingly a foil to Team Skull from Pokémon Sun and Moon. They're young kids who aspire to be Pokémon trainers but actively destroy a person's life in order to get what they want. Meanwhile, Team Skull were once those wide-eyed kids who went on those journeys but life just destroyed them. Class 5-E hate Chloe for multiple reasons, mostly due to her having a "privileged" life and cause she's an obsessive nightmare loving freak, while Team Skull do kick puppies but more because they're trying to survive the cruel world they live in. Class 5-E's antics got way out of hand and the entire world chewed them out for nearly making their target a suicidal wreck, while Team Skull's tactics are just dismissed by the citizens of Alola as comedic and pathetic. Team Skull are stuck in Po Town trying to be self-sufficient and no lack of parental figures in sight, Class 5-E are expelled but stay with their parents but Talia is doing their best to give them something to look forward to. Last, Team Skull is completely loyal to their leader, Guzma, whereas the class bolts from Sara the minute things go sour.
• Missing Steps Plan: 1) Destroy Chloe's life for kicks, 2) Get a Pokémon from her once she gives into our demands, 3)...wait, what comes after 3? The students don't have any concrete plans to actually do anything after they get their Pokémon nor do they have any idea on what it means to travel on their own. Not to mention that sooner or later, their parents will get suspicious as to where they got these Pokémon and just who they trampled on to get it...
• Motive Decay: Initially, they only bullied Chloe because they were annoyed with her obsession with macabre and wanted her to know what it felt like to pestered about things she didn't like. Then Sara begins filling their heads with ideas...
• My God, What Have I Done?: They realize long after Chloe ran away and the repercussions that came from their confessions that they were monsters towards her and that their actions have hurt so many people around them. It's notable that the first thing they say when they talk to Chloe after two months is that she's not dead from what they did to her.
• Never My Fault: The group are quick to blame Sara for their problems when Sara accurately points out that they all had a chance to stop their shit after the suspension yet continued anyway because they wanted to ruin Chloe's life just a bit longer.
• No Sense of Personal Space: According to Chloe, many boys were touching her hair, pulling her scrunchie off and blew at the back of her head during choir. There's also the physical altercations like the broken arm by Yeardley. "Firefly Funhouse Car" confirms the scrunchie inicident and Horrorland Car confirms the broken arm.
• Offscreen Karma: By the time Sycamore's about to be train-bound, the class has already been expelled from school and banned from getting Pokémon while their bully victim has a petition for her to come home.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: The classmates will mostly be known as "A bunch of jackasses who destroyed Chloe's self-confidence because they wanted to use her to get a Pokémon and didn't care of the consequences" to the Internet and it will take a long long time — if it ever happens — for public opinion to change their minds.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: When Julia shouts at Sara that she and the classmates don't want anything from her, the narration notes that it's rare for her to raise her voice.
• Poor Communication Kills: Because they all listened to Sara's words instead of their own conscience, they end up screwing themselves over and over and nearly end in them indirectly causing someone to almost commit suicide.
  • A lot of problems they had come from not actually talking to Chloe directly and instead let Sara's little lies push them in the wrong direction. Had they treated Chloe like a normal person or apologized for their initial behavior, or maybe talked to their parents about what they were doing was wrong, a lot of trauma could have been avoided. Speaking of which, they could've told Chloe to just stop talking about her hobbies for one second or maybe tried to see what was so interesting about them. Instead, they took a much more violent approach that brought Chloe to the face of death multiple times and had her contemplate wanting to drop off the school's rooftop, making this a near literal case of poor communication killing someone.
  • If they wanted Pokémon so much, they could've gone to see Professor Cerise at any point instead of harassing his daughter in an attempt of blackmail or perhaps wait for a time to see Professor Oak in Pallet Town. Goh, who works for Professor Cerise, points this out in his Facedex post that they shot themselves in the foot for their stupidity.
  • Given how they knew Chloe's love of the macabre, any of them could've told Goh about it so he would've learned something other than "My friend's not into Pokemon anymore" and find more common ground with her or at least ask him to make her stop talking for a while.
  • Firefly Funhouse Car has Goh mention that if they just asked the school for a signed form that allows them to reduce the days they had in school, especially mentioning talking to their parents to sign it, there would be no point in destroying Chloe's life.
• Reformed Bully: By the end of the Cyan Desert Car, they've decided to have a fresh start and work on themselves for as long as it takes under Talia's tutelage.
• School Bullying Is Harmless: At least that's what they thought they were doing when they pulled off their stuff on Chloe as a way to get her to stop harassing them with her obsession over horror or how they were willing to beat Parker up because he was in their way. Not like anybody would care for a pathetic monster loving freak like her if she ran away from home or died, right? Right?!
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: By the time they appear in the Cyan Desert Car, they want nothing to do with Sara after they took the time to realize that they messed up their futures by following her toxic words. When she rings them up during a video call, they mute her when she starts gloating about bringing them to her "palace".
• Secretly Selfish: Wanting to be a Pokémon trainer is fine. Wanting it by being bullies and ruining Chloe's life for kicks is another. Chloe points out that they just wanted to hurt anybody Sara pointed to just as long as they could get away with it.
• Shadow Archetype: All of them are dark shadows of Goh if he didn't have anyone to advise him to be better or if he used other people to get what he wanted instead of working on it himself. Case in point, Goh doesn't have problems with Chloe giving him his homework outside his disinterest in them whereas the classmates want to destroy Chloe so she captures a Pokemon for them instead of doing the work themselves.
• Skewed Priorities: Chloe ran away from school? So what? Chloe gets her ass whooped by Ash because of our dare? Ha-ha! Let's all laugh at the stupid Monster Lover tackled a Ghost because we knew all along she was such a loooooser! Goh even calls them out for how they cared more for the battle than someone running away from home and nearly dying to a Mad Scientist!
  Goh: We all mocked her, pushed her away, and never thought that she was a lonely girl who needed help. And yet I searched, and searched, and searched for her for three days straight! I wanted to apologize but all you and everyone in school cared about was Chloe was stupid to use Tackle on a Ghost!
• Spared by the Adaptation: Because Sara's the Unown user, that means none of them get violently traumatized since Parker is actually trying to do all he can to stop the madness and is, in fact, the one who helps their parents realize that these kids are drowning in guilt for their actions.
• State The Simple Solution: A conversation between Goh and Patricia reveals all it would have taken for the class to not have to go to school like Goh is a signed form that would let them travel around and be trainers and have limited, if few, responsibilities with school. While parental approval is necessary, it is far more simple, and much less violent, than Sara's plans to become trainers.
• Stupid Evil: They decided that it was a good idea to bully the daughter of a Pokémon Professor and even go as far as to mock and belittle the son of said professor as well in order to achieve their goals to become Trainers and kept bullying Chloe even after she snapped and pummeled their ringleader with a paint can. It goes exactly how you'd think it would go. Chloe later admits that they would've just bullied anyone Sara pointed them to. Hell, Sara points out that they could've stopped being assholes at any moment; they just didn't care to think about it.
• Super Gullible: Even though they were warned by a red-painted covered Chloe, saw their leader nearly die after she ran her big mouth, had the entire experience recorded and then suspended, they still fell for Sara's lies.
• Tall Poppy Syndrome: Practitioners of it; they destroyed Chloe because they saw her as "better" than they were to the point that she became quiet, ostracized, filled with wrath and on the verge of suicide.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine:
  • They harassed Chloe with their love of Pokémon as payback for her always talking about her love of the macabre without ever considering if her classmates were as into it as she was.
  • On the flip-side, they get a taste of their medicine when the Internet decides to destroy and mock them just like they ruined Chloe's self-worth with their harassments and insults.
• The Unapologetic:
  • Zigzagged; they did apologize to Chloe for what happened with the paint-can incident...but they weren't sincere with the apologies because they thought that this one sorry was enough to let them continue with their antics just as long they weren't caught. After their expulsion and when they get to talk to Chloe, they give a sincere apology for their actions and hope to change for the better.
  • Horrorland Car has Parker comment how Yeardley never apologized for throwing a dodgeball at his sister's head that ended with her getting a broken arm.
• Would Hit a Girl: Yeardley allegedly broke Chloe's arm and the boys pushed her (and only her) too hard by throwing a dodgeball at her. How much of this is actually true and how much of it is everybody blowing things out of proportion is, like most things involving Class 5-E, not clear. Horrorland Car confirms that Yeardley breaking Chloe's arm was true.
• Would Hurt a Child: They didn't mind letting Sara hurt a kindergartener like Parker by hitting him across the face with a paint can and laughing at how pathetic he was, nor did they mind laughing at his face at how much fun they loved hurting his sister and would continue to do so since she's such a pathetic weakling who knows nothing about Pokémon battling and all cause she can't shut her stupid mouth about horror, because this little boy could do nothing to stop them.
• You Do Not Want To Know: When Specter makes a comment on Sara being "Princess Sara Berry", Yuri quickly tells them that they shouldn't ask what that's a reference to.

Patricia Myosotis

Patricia Myosotis

A classmate of Chloe and Goh and former best friend of Sara Diktaylis.

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• Aesop Amnesia: Promised to never bully Chloe again and be on her best behavior. Quickly forgot about that and doubled down on the bullying.
• All for Nothing: She bullied Chloe because she was duped into believing that it would get her a Pokemon for her grandfather. She ends up destroying her school life, loses her friends, and the grandfather she loves with all her heart is too horrified by the revelation to the point that he will die of sadness. "Firefly Funhouse Car" hammers it home at how she stupidly destroyed her life when Goh innocently tells her about all the Pokemon he caught so easily and tells her that she's always welcome at the Cerise Institute if she ever decided to use her legs and walk there.
• And Then What?: Her grandfather asks her this question. She bullied her classmate to the point of running away and cruelly mocked her little brother for having the audacity to talk to them, so who's next on her list to destroy? Him?
• Ascended Extra: Downplayed. She was just a face in the crowd with no backstory behind her in the original trilogy. Here, while not a major player by any means, she gets a bit of focus as to why she did what she did and her relationship with Sara in the main story and in "The Firefly Funhouse

Car".

• Beta Bitch: She was Sara's right-hand girl for the bullying placed on Chloe and the one who started the "Monster Lover" chants as well. She's since learned the error of her ways.
• Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: At home, she dotes on her wheelchair-bound grandpa and wants to gift him a Pokémon to make him happy. At school, she's one of the many bitches who bullied Chloe because they believed it would get them a Pokemon, coining the term "Monster Lover" to the delight of her classmates.
• Bullying the Disabled: Discussed by her paraplegic grandfather. If she's willing to bully a classmate and a kindergartener to get what she wants, solely because they're stupid and weak, will her next target end up being him for falling for her charms and being unable to walk?
• Did Not Think This Through: Sara tricked her into bullying Chloe because she thought it would get her a Pokemon for her grandfather. Even if she had obtained a Pokemon like Sara promised, there's no guarantee it would've been a Pokemon her grandfather would've liked or if he would appreciate that she got it by bullying someone to the point of suicide or laughing at how a little boy got smacked in the face with a paint can.
• Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She loves her grandfather with all her heart and everything she did was to make him happy again. Unfortunately, her grandfather is more horrified with HOW she planned to get a Pokemon for him while hiding it under a caring facade and refuses to talk to her.
• Foil: To Goh. Both want to catch a Pokemon for different reasons — Goh wants Mew in his hands as part of his childhood dream, Patricia wants a Pokemon to make her grandpa happy. But Goh works hard to chase his dream, Patricia destroys someone else's life and makes them do it for her. Patricia smugly insults Chloe by calling her a "Monster Lover", Goh innocently makes an insensitive comment on how his friend is a coward or can't find a dream.
• Former Friend of Alpha Bitch: She was the Beta Bitch to Sara's alpha, but she leaves Sara upon realizing how screwed up her future is and how Sara essentially lied to her for nothing.
• Four Eyes, Zero Soul: She was a bully with glasses who partook in the bullying of Chloe in order to get a Pokemon, hiding it under the facade of being a kind grand-daughter. She grows out of this trope once she realizes her mistake and how Sara essentially lied to her.
• Grew a Spine: She's the first of the class to finally tell Sara to shut the hell up, question if Chloe hated Sara more than the other classmates, and realize that it's her fault that they're in a lot of trouble.
• He Had a Name: Non-death version. As Sara gets mad over how that "Monster Lover" has friends, Patricia immediately snaps and shouts at her former friend to stop calling Chloe that. Sara reminds her that she is the reason Chloe got saddled with that nickname in the first place, but Patricia admits that she messed up and points how Chloe never gave them insulting nicknames now matter how hard they broke her.
• Heel Realization: Her wheelchair-bound grandfather seeing the news of her bullying on Chloe and Parker has him asking if he's next on her list, at which point she realizes what Sara has turned her into.
• Humble Goal: She doesn't want fame or adventure. She only wanted to make her grandpa to be happy by giving him a Pokémon after his previous one died (as it's implied through her grandpa sobbing over a photo of the two of them and a Jumpluff).
• Innocent Beta Bitch: N to the O. She's just as complicit as her friend in destroying Chloe's life, being the one who gave the "Monster Lover" moniker.
• Ironic Name: Her surname means "Forget-me-not". She completely forgot, or perhaps didn't care, about what happened the last time she bullied Chloe and has to live with the consequences of it.
• Jerkass: She was every bit as willing as the rest of Class 5-E in order to bully Chloe to get a Pokèmon and destroy her self-worth in the process while hiding it under the facade of a loving grand-daughter. She stops being an asshole after she's expelled and her grandfather wants nothing to do with her.
• Karmic Shunning: Her grandfather gave her the silent treatment over what she did to Chloe and Parker as he's too broken to learn that his grand daughter was a bully behind his back.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: Even as Sara begs to get revenge on the Cerise family for their troubles, Patricia knows that this was all their fault and wants nothing to do with her former friend at this point.
• Meaningful Name: Myosotis are also known as "Forget-me-nots". The flowers are usually associated with National Grandparents Day, and Patricia's motivation to get a Pokemon was to make her grandfather happy.
• Motifs: The Hoppip line is associated with her. She's known to wear Hoppip clips, and her grandfather weeps over a photo of him, Patricia, and a Jumpluff. Hoppips are Grass/Flying and can easily be carried away by a gentle breeze like Patricia got carried away with the bullying.
• Motive Decay: Her initial goal was to get a Pokémon for her grandfather. It later morphed into "make sure to destroy the Monster Lover so thoroughly that it doesn't matter if she kills herself so long as I get a Pokemon".
• My God, What Have I Done?: She realizes that she was becoming a horrible person when her wheelchair-bound grandfather asked if he was going to be next on her "people to bully" list and he refuses to talk to her.
• The Promise: "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that she promised to not get in trouble again after the paint-can incident...only to botch it up spectacularly.
• Satellite Character: Initially described as Sara's right-hand girl, she later gets more characterization on why she acted the way she did.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After airing out how she has just destroyed her future and her bond with her grandfather to Sara, Patricia tells her former friend to Sawsbuck off.
• Stealth Pun: Patricia, who has a Hoppip motif, is pissed off at Sara for what happened. Or rather, hopping mad.
• What the Hell, Hero?: Patricia's grandfather quietly asks her if he is next on her list before he wheels himself back to his bedroom. This was the moment that makes Patricia realize how horrible she's been.
• What Were You Thinking?: She asks this of herself and her classmates at how they recklessly destroyed Chloe's life for nothing.
  Patricia: What were we thinking when we poured red paint on her or hit her brother across the face with a paint can? Or everything else we did and said to her? I can’t even think about them without wanting to puke.
• Would Harm a Senior: For all of her nastiness, whether it's bullying someone to the point of suicide or laughing at a little boy's face, hurting her grandfather is a line she will never cross. However, her grandfather questions if Sara would make her do it given how much fun she had destroying people's lives before being exposed.

Sara Diktaylis

See her page here.

Daiki and Hannah

Two Year 7 students who catch Goh up on what he's been missing out on.

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• Bearer of Bad News: They're the ones who tell Goh that he no longer has a delivery person for his homework and he's now in a new classroom with a teacher who downright demands he stops being lazy and get to school for once.
• Mister Exposition: They're the ones who fill in the backstory over what happened when Sara learned of Chloe's disappearance and why Chloe didn't get help sooner.
• Noodle Incident: How exactly do these two know about "No-Show" Goh?
• Poor Communication Kills: On their part, the two thought Chloe was getting help from teachers. Boy were they wrong.
• Remember the New Guy?: Suddenly appear in Act 2 as if they knew Goh all along. Justified in this case because Goh hasn't been in school for so long that he probably forgot about them.
• Small Role, Big Impact: They're essentially the Officer Jenny to Augustine's Goh, delivering the information Goh sorely needed to make him wake up from his denial and finally see what he missed out on.
• Spanner in the Works: If Hannah didn't question where Chloe was at, Sara wouldn't have had to open her big fat mouth and expose herself as the monster she truly was.

Miss April

Chloe and Goh's initial homeroom teacher, who obliviously does not know how horrible her class is.

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• Adaptational Late Appearance: Just like her students, she doesn't appear in Crocus until the end of Act 1.
• Adults Are Useless: At any point she could've policed her class better, but she ignored it and assumed they were getting along with Chloe. The Internet has accused her of being a useless teacher that allowed the bullying to continue for far too long and she's been fired.
• Apathetic Teacher: To anyone not named Goh, she could care less about what happened to them.
• Demoted to Extra: She had her own arc in Blossoming Trail dealing with the ramifications of her stupidity. She only appears in one chapter in Crocus.
• Didn't Think This Through: Her system of "have someone give Goh his homework" falls flat when the only person who actually gave a damn about him runs off. And the system only worked for Goh, not Chloe, and she never thought to give incentives or a reason for her class to be a good samaritan.
• Horrible Judge of Character: Saw nothing wrong with the bullying done on Chloe and thought her class were angels. The Internet disagreed.
• It's All My Fault: Her first scene in the story is her beating herself over how she foolishly didn't realize how she had a class of assholes.
• Misplaced Kindergarten Teacher: She acts more like she's teaching innocent playful preschoolers then apathetic adolescents.
• Reasonable Authority Figure: Was quite willing to work with Goh's special status to let him attend school only for tests, having no problem with it as long as Goh's grades stayed good, which was the case. Her status with her other students was less effective.
• Spared by the Adaptation: For some reason, Sara never uses the Unown for her, so she ends up being safe from mental assault and a suicide attempt.

Coach Zee

The never seen but frequently mentioned PE teacher.

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• Female Misogynist: Hannah comments that Coach Zee hates girls for being physically weaker than boys, which explains why she picked on Chloe when Yeardley broke her arm. A lot of secondary female students pressed charges for her double standard.
• The Ghost: She's always mentioned but never seen, barring an imaginary scenario.
• Jerk Jock: She's a PE teacher who is an absolute douchebag as well, not even caring to get Chloe help when she broke her wrist.

Mr. Bradbury

The English teacher for the Primary students.

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• Cool Teacher: Does not take any shit from Sara when she badmouthed Chloe and made her go to his class for a personal talk.
• Demoted to Extra: Had an extensive role in the Pokemon side of things in the original trilogy, now reduced to a cameo here and there.
• The One Guy: Of all the teachers mentioned in Vermillion International School thus far, he's the only male so far.

Miss Valente

Goh's new homeroom teacher after Miss April was fired.

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• Adults Are Useless: Despite being supposed to replace Miss April, she doesn't seem to be doing much better in handling the bullying problem or Goh's situation, forcing him to come pick up his homework and attend more classes instead of appealing to either have him retain his current status, be homeschooled or removed from the school outright, especially as Goh himself submitted signed documents to have his status for his original set up in the first place.
• Ambiguous Situation: Is she exactly like Miss April, worse than her, or more reasonable? While she doesn't seem to be doing anything to fix Goh's situation, Daiki and the narration mention that this is more on her not having enough evidence to even understand Goh as a person, since Goh only arrived for testing and his classmates pretended to be friendly with him all to destroy Chloe even more. There's also the fact that Goh hasn't been in school for two months and being told he's now moved into a new class after a massive expulsion is something he should be aware about. Firefly Funhouse Car would imply that, charitably she doesn't know about Goh has special accommodations with the school for limited classroom appearances, or uncharitably that she's outright ignoring said documentation.
• The Ghost: She's only mentioned in passing by Daiki.
• Rule of Symbolism: She's the opposite of Miss April due to the first letter of her surname, 'V', looking like an upside-down A.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Mentioned in one sentence but the changes she makes to Goh's schooling is what makes the boy finally realize how he was such an apathetic and ungrateful asshole to Chloe and his homework.

Cerise Institute

Parker Cerise

Parker Cerise

"I do [care about Chloe]... but what am I supposed to do? Oh right, I'm just a little kid who can do nothing! Can't be heard, can't be listened to...Always told that I can't play with the big kids! And when I only want something good, they tell me how much they had fun hurting my sister!"

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Debut, First appearance: The Twisted Lab Car)

Chloe's little brother who is going through a grieving process of his sister disappeared and the horrible truths of what her classmates did to her.

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• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Thanks to supporting sibling figures, along with Goh realizing his mistakes and Chloe promising to return home, Parker never goes to the deep end of unleashing the Unown. In fact while he does create an UnChloe, this version is a benevolent genie figure who wishes to protect everyone and encourages him to be brave.
• Adaptational Personality Change: Thanks to Gloria and Victor's influence on Goh, and helping him realize how being angry at Goh won't help fix things, Parker retains his cheerful innocent little brother attitude and apologizes to Goh in the Act 2 Prelude.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: He hated Goh in the original trilogy for supposedly being a monster who loved Pokémon more than life, and Chloe, itself. In Crocus, once he sees how horrified Goh is at his mistakes and that Chloe was also at fault for their friendship failing, he realizes that he pegged Goh wrong and apologizes to him in the Act 2 Prelude for his initial attitude.
• Adaptational Heroism: Thanks to the changes in the story, Chloe calls Parker and vows to return and when he gets his hands on the Unown, his version of UnChloe is a protector figure. He also apologizes to Goh for how mean he was.
• Adaptational Sympathy: He doesn't suffer the same Character Shilling he did in the original trilogy, and gets called out on his angry, frankly illogical bias much earlier than the original trilogy.
• Adaptational Wimp: He never gets to wield the Unown in this version, with that honor instead going to Sara. That said, he still was able to make an UnChloe through the Unown, but she's not as powerful as she was in the original trilogy.
• Adult Hater: Has it even worse than Chloe; at least in her defense, she can become friendly with an adult provided she's given space and time to build trust with them. Parker, however, holds most adults with caution at best, outright contempt at worse, most of it brought forth by both how they didn't help his sister, barely pay any attention to him or his feelings about what's going on, and how they just refuse to hear his saintly advice whenever he gives it.
• Aesop Amnesia: Much like in Blossoming Trail, Parker has to be repeatedly taught that keeping people's secrets is not worth denying them the help that they need.
• Ambiguous Innocence: He's just a five year old boy who's closest thing to a more complicated worldview are his sisters' very biased words. With this in mind, it's unclear how much of what he says and does is driven by him being legitimately terrible and him not knowing any better. In the Harvest Moon Car, Chloe explains to him that her calling Ash and Goh "boyfriends" was out of line and that she should've done and said more to express her problems.
• Asshole Victim: Downplayed. He gets one of his legs crushed by Sara by a giant paint can as a demonstration of her new Unown powers. While most people are horrified by it, it's difficult to say Parker didn't have it coming given what an unhelpful, spiteful and wrathful brat he's been prior to this moment. He even admits he kinda deserved it in The Harvest Moon Car.
• Awesome by Analysis: All it takes for him to pinpoint Goh's hypocrisy over how lop-sided he takes is promises seriously is a scroll through of all the text messages Goh and Chloe shared over the months — namely, many of them have Goh unable to arrive on time when Chloe asks, but he had no problem arriving on time for Tokio...
• Batter Up!: He wields his sister's softball bat Silver Night when first seen.
• Be as Unhelpful as Possible: Instead of just telling somebody about Chloe's problems and what could be done to help her, he instead decides to keep it to himself while acting like he has the moral high ground. Furthermore, rather than just tell Gloria and the group that Alex Shepherd can turn into Pyramid Head, he only gets halfway before devolving into a giant rant over how nobody trusts him before spilling the beans. In his defense on the Pyramid Head case, both Gloria and Goh told him to shut up twice before he could properly explain why Alex shouldn't be trusted immediately, and Parker casually revealing James Sunderland killing his wife didn't help matters.
• Berserk Button:Never tell him that he's just a kid or ignore him when he's trying to say something, which is synonymous to being called "useless".
• Big Sister Worship: Like in canon he loves his older sister and he also gets along well with Gloria.
• Big "WHY?!": His breakdown after telling Gloria and Goh that they were being insensitive about not listening to him about Alex Shepherd potentially becoming Pyramid Head more out of not wanting to hear another horrible twist instead of being mean to him, ^note Sycamore brought up London's warnings but didn't get the hint that Shepherd was not to be trusted because he turns into Pyramid Head and Yuri's only source of Silent Hill lore was from 2. Chloe wouldn't have learned about this conversation for a few more chapters. has him questioning why everyone hated his sister and him screaming at the two, "Why the hell did you two tell me to shut up before I could say anything?!"
  "And why did everyone ignore Chloe? Why did no one talk to her? Why did she have to run away from home? Why? WHY?! Why did everyone hate her?!"
• Black-and-White Morality: You helped Chloe? Then you're a good person. You didn't, whether intentionally or because you didn't know any better? You're scum! He later starts growing out of this when he sees that Goh was not a monster and Chloe wasn't as innocent as she wanted to be.
• Break the Cutie: Parker was already this when he has to learn his sister ran away, learning about what she went through at school and being lost on some interdimensional Train with no way to contact her. Then he gets confirmation that a poem he saw her wrote about Icarus wasn't about "getting free from everyone to hurt her" as it was "wishing to die because she can't take everyone's ignorance and expectations". And then literally in this case when Sara uses the Unown to beat him up with a baseball bat and then break his leg with a giant paint can. When he tries to initially help the adults trapped and attacked by shadows, he gets knocked out of his wheelchair and ends up screaming in pain and fear because he is unable to do anything.
• Bully Magnet: Just like his sister, he's targeted by her classmates for being a pathetic little brat who can do nothing to stop their fun. Unfortunately, this aspect also made him unable to fully trust his parents or other adult figures to do something because he's learned that standing up for your sister means you're getting a paint can in the face.
• The Cassandra:
  • When Augustine brings up how there's a person named Alex Shepherd in the Fog Car who will help guide the Windchasers throughout Silent Hill, Parker immediately states that is not a good idea. But Gloria and Goh tell him to shush it just as he is about to say it. Come one chapter later when Parker has a breakdown where he states, no, don't trust Alex because he could turn into Pyramid Head and the pyramid thing was found in games outside the second Silent Hill, Goh does a quick internet search to see that Parker was right and they just gave Augustine the A-Ok to trust the soldier.
  • He fears that he'll become this in the end: he was right all along but yet no one gave a damn about his opinions due to his age. This is why he can't trust adults or bigger kids in the end since none of them ever give him the time of day to sit down and listen to what he wants to say.
• Character Development: Act 1 has him distrustful of adults and older kids due to his experiences dealing with Chloe end up badly and he was unwilling to talk about things because of fears of no one believing him. He starts to gradually understand that he also could've been able to prevent his sister from running away if he opened up more, that many people really are sorry for not helping out sooner and never meant to be ignorant or oblivious, and begins apologizing for snapping at other people.
• Cheerful Child: Minus some dark revelations of his sister's true feelings, he's cheerful and upbeat. And then the Cyan Desert Car happens...
• Composite Character: Of all things, he combines his sister's derogative comments about Goh and Ash "being boyfriends" with about as much spite as in the original and even notes that Goh is into "boy friends" than girl friends when comparing how Goh obsessed over Tokio than Chloe.
• Deadly Euphemism: After he learns what his sister meant by becoming like Icarus, he uses this when he realizes his father is about to get train-bound at the end of Act 1.
  Parker: So...dad is gonna pull an Icarus?
  (cue Asher and Specter cringing a little, not sure what to say)
• Decomposite Character:
  • His role as the wielder of the Unown is instead handed over to Sara. However he still creats an UnChloe from it.
  • Sara has the role of Sara Berry while he and his sister are Julie Jenkins. While his sister gets the sympathy and being better than Sara, he gets the injury, in this case a broken leg instead of completely losing it like Julie Jenkins did in the song.
• Demoted to Extra: He's nowhere near as prominent as in Blossoming Trail, as the events that would cause him to go mad get averted and his role as the unleasher of the Unown is given to Sara. However he still plays an important role in the Cyan Desert Arc both in creating an UnChloe and also making Class 5-E and their parents start working on forgiving themselves.
• Disability as an Excuse for Jerkassery: Downplayed, as he was already pretty blatant about it beforehand, but he begins talking even more crap about adults after he's confined to a wheelchair, even going so far as to snap at Renji when he tries to help him get up. He does later get over this and apologize later on, though.
• Disabled in the Adaptation: One of his legs ends up being broken by Sara as part of her stint as the Unown wielder, confining him on a wheelchair.
• Disabled Means Helpless: After having his leg broken and being confined on a wheelchair, he becomes even angrier, as he feels like it'll give adults even more reason to look down on him and that he's not able to do anything to help. Of course, it never seems to occur to him that being confined to a wheelchair leaves him at a significant disadvantage against Shadows and their wielder, the Unown-empowered Sara and that the adults only want to protect him.
• Fatal Flaw:
  • Like his sister, he was afraid of opening up to his parents about Chloe's problems because of how he learned the hard way that standing up for her ends with him being hurt, mocked and no one giving a damn about his feelings because he's just a kid. Thankfully, he's reassured that he's helping out by revealing what he knows about Chloe once he's given enough trust from others.
  • He has severe trust issues with adults and older kids because he's been shown time and time again that they either ignore him, hurt him, or are too incompetent to actually comprehend what he has to say. This ultimately worked against him; if he was willing to speak up more, he would've alerted everyone to Chloe's problems and prevented her from getting onto the Train.
• Felony Misdemeanor: What did this boy do to get the wrath of twenty students? He just tried standing up to his sister and only wanted their help on making a "Welcome Home" present for his loving sister. Needless to say, these acts broke him and made him believe that he was a nobody who could never make a difference.
• Five Stages of Grief: Initially in the anger stage as he is angry at everyone who caused his sister to run away, the chief person being the "childhood friend" Goh. He moves out of it thanks to Gloria and getting a phone call from Chloe promising that she'll return.
• From the Mouths of Babes: It's kinda unsettling that a 5 year old can reveal the big twist of Silent Hill 2 like it's normal conversation. Unfortunately, this is also what caused Gloria and Goh to shut him up and made him unable to reveal the twist of Alex Shepherd as Pyramid Head. Gloria and Goh immediately go, "You can trust Alex Shepherd, he's a good guy" to Augustine as Parker's casual revelation of the earlier info caused them great discomfort. They regret their decision to make Parker shut up in the next chapter when he snaps and reveals where else Pyramid Head appears.
• Good Is Not Nice: He's firmly on the side of good this time around, but his general anger and distrust for everybody in Act 1 is still the same as it was in the original trilogy. By Act 2, he becomes nicer and willing to help out.
• Harmful to Minors: He was struck with a paint can when he tried to help his sister after she got red paint dumped on her for having the audacity to try and salvage their prank on her, was laughed at by her classmates for thinking he can't do anything to stop them, and when Sara gets her hands on the Unown, she beats him up with a bat like he's a pinata and crushes his leg with a large paint can. And that's not mentioning the mental and emotional scars from the bullying of his sister, the bullying on him and learning that his sister was just one moment away from jumping off the school's rooftop...
• Hidden Depths: He has a good throwing arm, playing catch with Yamper at the beginning of the Cyan Desert Arc. This turns into a Chekhov's Skill when he remembers he has a softball in his pocket and throws it towards Sara, prompting Yamper to catch it and giving him enough time to grab the Unown box in the hopes of getting a wish.
• Holier Than Thou: He holds himself to a higher moral ground than everybody else because he knew more about Chloe's issues than anybody else and actually tried to talk to his sister when everyone else ignored her... despite the fact this also means he's just as responsible for her suffering if not even moreso because he never brought this up to anybody. He breaks out of it when Act 2 begins and apologizes to Goh about his demeanor, as he was more afraid that no one would ever care about what his sister has gone through.
• Horrible Judge of Character: His trust issues and the results of trying to stand up to bullies ending in failure has made him see everyone associated with his sister who don't do anything to help as a combination of stupid, insensitive, ignorant and just plain evil. It takes a lot of trust and promises from others to help him realize that they were ignorant in many areas but they never meant to intentionally hurt him or Chloe and they would've been more willing to help if he just spoke up more.
• Hypocrite:
  • He constantly chides people for not doing more to help the situation, especially in regards to Chloe. Parker himself is guilty of this too, keeping information about Chloe that could've helped people be more aware of her problems a secret. Parker later confesses to Goh's Pokémon that he could've done a better job.
  • He also tends to snap at people over how they never listen to him just because he's a kid. Parker himself never listens to anybody no matter how good an argument they make or how much they actually want to help.
  • He gets pissed off that Goh's immediate reaction to Tokio "abandoning" him is "He intentionally did this to me, I'll hate this liar forever and Pokémon are more important than human friends!" instead of thinking of alternatives or talking to others about what was going on, culminating in Chloe's disappearance. However, when Parker brings up Silent Hill: Homecoming in regards to Alex Shepherd, he focuses on the Pyramid Head ending instead of the other endings from the game and also doesn't think of fully expressing himself about his problems.
  • When he accuses Renji for hating Chloe due to her loving horror and he despises it, Renji quickly asks if Parker hates his friend, Jinny, solely because she likes mermaids and he doesn't. Parker is quick to get the analogy this time.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: That said, Parker is in the right to point out that Goh should've been more alert to what was going on with his "friend" or at least try and do better with Chloe after his fall-out with Tokio and that Goh only started caring when Chloe ran away, not when she was actually at the Institute. He also points out that despite Gloria trying to be the better person than Trip, she also fell into the same trap as every adult in the Cerise Institute did by not listening to his warnings about Alex Shepherd (because of Parker spoiling the end of Silent Hill 2) and telling him to be quiet and "let the big kids (she and Goh) talk" even though Goh promised chapters earlier that he promised to listen to what others had to say.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: Is completely in the dark about how Goh's Pokémon are ready to beat the stuffing out of Chloe when she gets out of the Train. And it's best that it stays that way.
• Ignored Expert: Justified. Parker has knowledge about the Silent Hill series since it's a series that Chloe loves, but people don't listen to him because not only are they having trouble understanding that a five year old has such knowledge on such a horror game, but Parker does such a bad job at actually explaining himself that people assume he doesn't know anything or they're so busy with something else to not notice when he's about to say something.
• In Spite of a Nail: He's not the one who unleashes the Unown and gets corrupted by it this time around, but he still goes out to create UnChloe from it.
• Irony:
  • The little kid that no one bothers to pay attention to, and was as much of a target to the bullying his sister went through because he's a baby that can do nothing to stop the monsters from wreaking havoc, is ultimately the key figure who helps topple Sara's kingdom by actively being noticed and listened to for once.
  • Parker constantly condemns everybody over not listening to him, since he actually has an idea of what's going on. However, whenever people do try to talk to him, he instantly decides to clam up out of sheer spite.
• I Warned You: When Gloria and Goh keep refusing to have him say why Augustine trusting Alex Shepherd is a bad thing (not out of malice but more cause they were freaked out from Parker's casual bringing up on the twist to Silent Hill 2), even stating they'll buy him some ice cream if they end up in the wrong, he mutters that they're going to regret it. Come one chapter later when he reveals why Alex Shepherd shouldn't be trusted after Gloria and Goh said that Alex is is 100% trustworthy — namely because Pyramid Head from 2 has an appearance in Homecoming and one ending can have Alex turn into one of them if ends up being spiteful in three critical choices — Gloria sheepishly asks if some mint chocolate chip ice cream will make up for this blunder.
• I Want My Mommy!: Says this in the Cyan Desert Car as everything goes to hell and not a single adult is paying attention to him, cementing that he's a scared little boy who is going in over his head and no one ever wants to consider his feelings cause he's just a kid. Not helping that he's in a wheelchair at this point.
  Parker: (sobbing) I want my mom...I want my dad...I want Chloe...
• Jerkass: What he ultimately boils down to in the beginning of Act 1; a spiteful little brat who'll crucify anybody who badmouths his sister Chloe or even treats her with anything but the same adoration as him, all while not doing much to actually help the situation. That said, once he gets a better understanding of what's really going on, he can be cheerful and friendly and apologize for his actions.
• Jerkass Realization: At the end of the Cyan Desert Car, he realized he was being mean to Renji in the previous chapter — as Renji was trying to reassure Parker and to escape the danger they were in while the poor boy has a broken leg and a wheelchair and he snapped in response — and decides to write an apology letter and promises to make it up to him. In the Act 2 Prelude, he also admits to Goh that he was wrong to chew him out and see him as a monster who would let his sister be hurt and he never cared.
• Just a Kid: And he hates it, because it makes it feel like he's absolutely worthless and no one will want to listen to what he has to say. He was mocked and attacked by Chloe's classmates in trying to be the knight to protect her — not to mention those same children gloated about how much the loved hurting his sister — and Gloria and Goh dismissed his concerns about Alex Shepherd was a menace (due to second-hand information from Sycamore assuming Shepherd was a normal soldier from London and not getting the deeper meaning and the two were weirded out on Parker revealing the twist to Silent Hill 2) until he bursts into tears and shouts how Alex Shepherd can turn into Pyramid Head just after they convinced Sycamore that Shepherd is someone you can trust. This is why he never spoke up about Chloe's problems in the past — because no one would ever believe what he was saying due to his age nor did they recognize that he even exists.
• Karmic Nod: Confesses to Goh's Pokémon that he deserved his injured leg for how he acted towards everyone.
• Kid Amid the Chaos: As things go to hell during the Cyan Desert Arc, Parker tries to wish himself a way to help the parents of Class 5-E to realize they're being (literally) afraid of their own shadows. Problem? He's in a wheelchair and as everyone is in full panic mode, he gets tipped over and falls. The stress of everything at that point causes him to break down in tears over how he can't do anything to help.
• Moral Luck: Parker gets to call out Goh and Gloria over neither of them listening to him about how Alex Shepherd couldn't be trusted and could turn into Pyramid Head, with several characters agreeing with him and saying he was in the right because no one bothered to research the Silent Hill franchise up to that point (Yuri only knew about Silent Hill 2 and Chloe wouldn't know about Augustine's talk with Walter until chapters later). However, Parker's statement required a lot of dumb luck and many a Contrived Coincidence for it to even be possible, with the chief among them being Alex becoming Pyramid Head being only one possible ending of Alex's game.
• Moral Myopia: Adults not doing more to help Chloe with her issues, whether they knew about it or not? Clearly they hate her and deserve to be held in contempt. Parker keeping quiet about those same issues, thus depriving Chloe of some very much needed help? He was only trying to protect her from those mean adults!
• Mythology Gag: Gloria brings up the possibility of Parker unleashing torture on the classmates in his pursuit of justice, which is what he did in the original Blossoming Trail.
• Never My Fault: He initially refuses to see himself as part of the reason why Chloe's so miserable, instead yelling how everybody else is to blame. Gloria has to literally smack some sense into him to help him understand that Chloe could've been in safer hands if he was willing to talk to someone about these problems. As of Act 2, he's apologized for his mistakes and vows to be better.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • He tried to defend his sister after her asshole classmates dumped paint on her. This got him the painful lesson that protecting Chloe ends up in failure and that he's powerless to do anything to stop it when said assholes smacked him across the face with a paint can and told him he was a baby who couldn't do anything right.
  • He was the one who tried to stop Sara from using the Unown; he gets a broken leg from it.
• Not Helping Your Case: Like in the original trilogy, Parker constantly chides people for not listening to him about Chloe, but the fact that he lashes out at them (sometimes for no reason) and his refusal to actually help or listen when they do talk to him leads to him doing more harm than good.
• Not Now, Kiddo: His biggest fear and anger is that no one ever listens to him nor believes what he has to say due to his age and he has justified reasons to believe this is the case.
  • Before he can bring up the reason why Augustine shouldn't trust Alex Shepherd, Gloria and Goh immediately shush him up and joke that they'll give him ice cream if they end up wrong, despite him begging them not to (since he just blurted out the big twist to Silent Hill 2 much to everyone's discomfort)...and they heavily regret it the following chapter when he says Pyramid Head is also in Silent Hill: Homecoming and Alex has the potential to become one...
  • He gets angry when Renji tries to tell him to get out because it just means adults don't want nor care to listen to Parker when he has something important to say. However, once he calms down chapters later, he writes an apology letter and promises to be nicer to Renji from now on.
• Oblivious Guilt Slinging: In the Harvest Moon Car, Parker talks to Goh's Pokémon about his sister's struggles and how she's gone through a lot of hell (like being strangled by Mirage Mewtwo and nearly incinerated by an army of broken mirage Pokémon and also strangled by her own father) but also stating that she's brave, strong and she'll kick ass and save everyone...all while he has no idea that these same mons just recently drew lots on who gets to beat the living shit out of her when she leaves the Train. The shock of learning just how much Chloe has gone through, not to mention just remembering how she saved their asses from Sara's tyranny, causes Sobble to let out an Emotion Bomb that makes everyone cry, and Parker thinks they're crying cause he complimented them.
• Only Sane by Comparison: He likes to think of himself as having the moral high ground over everybody else because he knew the most about Chloe's issues. However, this only serves to make him more guilty than everybody else, as this means he had the perfect chance to help his sister but ultimately decided to keep quiet due to his fears of not being noticed or anyone actually willing to listen to his observations.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: He's more "neutral" than an outright hero, but still, he derisively refers to Ash and Tokio as Goh's "boyfriends" while condemning him over not being a better friend to Chloe. Given he's only five years old, it's unclear whether or not he understands the homophobic implications behind it. Chloe helps to set the record straight in their call in the Harvest Moon Car when Parker calls Goh and Ash "boyfriends" and she admits that she said that out of anger.
• Poor Communication Kills:
  • A lot of Chloe's problems could've been solved if he was willing to tell a trusted adult what was going on. When he has to explain himself, he tells Gloria that he couldn't let his parents learn about Chloe because they were arguing after the paint-can incident and it sounded like they blamed her for it (Talia has to confirm they were more frustrated that a bunch of kids decided to pull a Carrie on their daughter, not at their daughter's justified rage towards them). Part of his development is to be willing to trust adult figures and openly explain his troubles without fear of not being heard.
  • In the Cerise Institute, Parker is the only person who knows anything of Silent Hill outside James Sunderland's adventure at that point (since that's the only game Yuri has knowledge of), but because Gloria and Goh tell him to shut up his face before he can explain why one shouldn't just trust Alex Shepherd immediately (not out of anger but because he honestly blurted out the twist in James' story) he can't warn Sycamore that he shouldn't trust the guy who can potentially turn into Pyramid Head until after these two know-it-alls give Sycamore the a-ok to trust the soldier who can transform into the executioner of Silent Hill.
• Rage Breaking Point:
  • Parker was able to keep it cool when Gloria and Goh tell him to shut up his face about why trusting Alex Shepherd is a bad idea. The next chapter has him snapping after his dad proclaims he would never hurt him by stating that no one ever gives a damn about what he's saying. Including the fact that Pyramid Head is in Alex Shepherd's game!
  • When Renji rightfully tells Parker to get out of danger (as he's stuck in a wheelchair and cast), the boy tells him to shut up before laying out how angry and hurt he is when idiot adults don't listen to children when they have a problem or notice something is wrong. He later acknowledges it was wrong to get mad at Renji and writes an apology letter.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: On the surface, he's initially seen as an angry little brat who blames Goh for being so flaky and obsessed over a boy he only knew for a single day rather than the childhood friend he's known for far longer and shoved a foot so deep into his mouth that Chloe has disappeared completely and may never be found. Deep down, he's a broken, grieving little brother who has to learn horrible truths about his sister and see that practically every adult in his life — even his parents — doesn't give a flying feather to either notice this or even hear him out, and is even more afraid that he'll never see Chloe ever again because of the boy who shoved his foot into his mouth.
• Spanner in the Works: Twice in the Cyan Desert Car.
  • By grabbing the Unown box in the Cyan Desert Part 2, some tiles get knocked over when Sara pulls it away, spelling "CHLOE". This forms into UnChloe, who will be the key figure in stopping Sara's rule.
  • He is the first to accept the shadow monsters attacking numerous adults — which is a risky move since he's already handicapped — but his persistence is enough for the adults to accept that these shadows represent their sins and make them move on from their pasts.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Since he's not the main Unown user this time around, and Victor and Gloria are supportive of him, Parker ends up relatively sane with the worst he gets is a broken leg.
• Sunk Cost Fallacy: Even as the Shadows summoned by Sara are closing in and he's stuck in a wheelchair all the while, Parker still insists on yelling and condemning everybody around him as complete idiots for not listening to him, long after it's been made clear that at this point, the only thing he can do to make things better is shut up and think before he speaks. Ironically, this ranting saves everyone because he tells them that the adults are so spineless and scared of their own shadows and get them to accept their flaws and do better.
• Took a Level in Kindness: After Goh admits that he made mistakes and the mess of the Cyan Car, he slowly starts realizing he's been mean to others and that he could've trusted someone to listen to him to the point he writes an apology letter to Renji and fully apologizes to Goh about how he saw him as a monster before friendly chatting up and trying to befriend Goh's Pokémon.
• Turn the Other Cheek: Despite how Chloe's classmates caused her to run away from home to the point of suicide, and how they attacked him for being a dumb baby who could do nothing to stop their fun, he doesn't hound on them during the Cyan Desert Car and accepts the scribbles they make on his cast.
• Ungrateful Bastard: Renji tries to help him up after he falls off his wheelchair while the Shadows are surrounding them. Parker's response? To call all of them pathetic cowards who wouldn't listen to him if their lives depended on it. He later realizes how hurtful this was and writes an apology letter to Renji.
• Wise Beyond Their Years:
  • Parker still show signs of this like he did in the Blossomverse, with him pointing out that Goh was being hypocritical over losing Tokio after an entire afternoon and barely putting Chloe's concerns in consideration even though it's been three years since Tokio "betrayed" Goh. However, he can also be blinded by rage and anger when it seems like others don't seem to want to listen to him (which is all the time).
  • When he confronts Goh's Pokémon while in a wheelchair, he admits to them that he got karma for being such an asshole, acknowledging a sense of humility that most five-year-olds wouldn't grasp so easily.
• You Are What You Hate: He hates adults for not doing more to help his sister with her issues, but this applies to him too, if not even moreso, given he knew what was going on but kept quiet about it.
• You Didn't Ask: The only real excuse he has for not telling others about what he knew about Chloe's situation, outside of him simply not trusting adults, is because they never asked him about it before (or don't recognize that he can be a reliable source of info) or if they did, he refused to help just to be a jerk.

Talia Cerise

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

Wife of Professor Cerise, mother of Parker and Chloe. She's a stay at home mom who also works as an illustrator.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: While her husband is the one who gets the brunt of the accusations, Talia isn't clean either.
  • She had as much chances to get her daughter some counseling or a shoulder to lean on, or perhaps talk to her husband on how to get her to go out more, but doesn't do anything except make smiling happy faces. Parker even questions whether or not even she hate Chloe given how she has done so little to help, especially in the part of "Why can't you tell dad to let Chloe go out more?".
  Victor: You also had a chance to tell your husband about this. He isn't the only one at fault. If you could have been stern and read your daughter's emotions more, then she might open up more about her problems. It's your responsibility to raise your daughter right and that also means working through the sad parts of life.
  • While her husband also could've called Chloe, Talia herself never even bothered to send a quick text or phone call either — despite it being a little over two months after Chloe vanished. The idea sounds almost foreign to her when Victor brings that up and Chloe herself questions why the hell she hasn't tried communicating with her own daughter.
  • Unfortunately, the Cyan Desert Car makes her a brutal inversion by turning her call out against UnCerise into another beating against her husband, who's aware the entire time, and thus making her an accomplice by action.
• Action Survivor: She has Yamper use Spark on UnCerise and even kicks him in the face after he tries to strangle her.
• Adaptational Badass: A minor example, but she shows that she's not afraid to get dirty when facing UnCerise
• Adaptation Personality Change: She's much more proactive once given the chance compared to the mother who doesn't do anything in Blossoming Trail until its second act.
• Adults Are Useless: The only notable thing she did to help Chloe was give advice to take it easy. After that, she decided that her role as a mother was done and went back to the perfect smiling Chloes she always drew. Moreover, while her husband is the one who puts Chloe in the Institute, it's not like she was doing anything to convince him to give Chloe some fresh air or actually trying to be supportive of her daughter's interests or how Parker is reeling with everything. She's also completely powerless against UnCerise, and the one thing she does to try to help the situation, call him out, blows up in her face. Thankfully, she works on averting this trope by calling her daughter to force her to see that people do are for her and is the only person hoping to give Class 5-E a chance to do something after their expulsion.
• Advice Backfire: Her advice to Chloe about taking life easy when everyone wants her to be a puppet to their whims is turned into this, as Chloe not only completely failed to realize what this meant, but it only gave people even more reason to see her as a pathetic enabler of the bullying at school, since she did little else after that.
• Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: When she sees Specter for the first time, the first thing she tells Chloe is that he looks like her OC, complete with her own interpretation of her daughter's character.
• Ascended Extra: Talia doesn't do anything of great importance until Act 2 of Blossoming Trail. Here, she becomes more assertive and willing to open up to both her children in early Act 1 and will help convince Class 5-E to not give into despair during the Cyan Desert Car.
• Character Development: After Victor, Gloria and Parker tell her to stop living in Ignorance Is Bliss, she calls Chloe at the end of the Twisted Lab Car to tell her about what's going on in Vermillion City. When Chloe refuses to listen, she puts her foot down and tells her that attitude will get her nowhere before hanging up. She also learns to become much more proactive and willing to take care of Class 5-E in their lowest points when no one is willing to care of them.
• Doesn't Know Their Own Child: While she did give Chloe advice to take it easy, she doesn't think of figuring out what her daughter is into, so Chloe has some comfort to find what she loves and not let the bullies get her down. Even Parker knew more than she did.
• Failed a Spot Check: Admits that she and her husband missed some glaring red flags in regards to Chloe's troubles at school. More obviously, she touches up old photos of her daughter into drawings. That's fine and all, but Victor notices that most photos of Chloe she touches up have her frowning and looking sad.
• Fatal Flaw: Denial, particularly in the Ignorance Is Bliss category. She keeps ignoring the signs that Chloe was uncomfortable under the guise of "If I make these drawings fine, things will be better". This means that it's way too late for her to realize that she could've helped Chloe by being a bit more supportive of her hobbies. Parker even has to ask her if all she cares about is drawing Chloe happy than actually helping Chloe be happy.
• Failure Is the Only Option: Just like her husband, Talia can't seem to do anything without it blowing up in her face; try to give her daughter advice? Chloe doesn't get it and it instead gives people more fuel to call her useless. Try to cheer herself up by making happy paintings? Yet another fuel to the fire for people to call her useless. Actually trying to be proactive during the Cyan Desert Car saga? She completely fails to be of use against UnCerise, and her husband is aware of her call out the entire time, meaning she only succeeded in sending him into the Infinity Train.
• Foil: To Kurune. They're both mothers who care for their children, but Talia is an active part of Chloe's life who did try to talk to her about how to take things easy while Kurune simply shoved her son into his room and thought nothing of it. Talia didn't even know what Chloe liked, while Kurune did help create Goh's Mew Tracker to support his hunt for Mew. Both were in denial of their childrens' flaws, but Talia was given gentle advice to stop looking at her drawings while Kurune was shouted at how she has to wake up and look at what she did to Goh. Talia works at home, Kurune works at an office. Talia is firm but loving in her advice to Chloe when they talk, Kurune never gives advice for Goh to be better. Talia actually gets into the action in the climax of the Cyan Desert Car, Kurune completely ignored signs of her son in danger until Tomie pushed her to go see him. Last, Talia never blamed Goh for anything that happened between him and Chloe, while Kurune is quick to go "This is all Chloe's fault and I don't care what you tell me."
• Good Is Impotent: Suffers this worse than her husband. At least he managed to do something about Chloe's situation, even if it ultimately backfired on his face. Literally everything Talia tries to do in this story either backfires horribly on her, or ends up adding a cruel twist of fate to make her actions all for naught.
• Hidden Depths: She apparently has watched Black Mirror given that the grim futures of Class 5-E get to compared to the White Beartic episode and she does not have fond memories of watching it.
• Ignorance Is Bliss: She's much happier to draw smiles on her illustrations and ignore the signs that Chloe wants to perform an Icarus. Parker points out that all she draws is Chloe Chloe Chloe, no drawings of him, and no cares of helping his sister when she needs it.
• Irony: She puts a lot of work into a facsimile of her daughter to make her smile, while blatantly ignoring the reality that is her daughter about to kill herself.
• Mama Bear: According to Gard, she's quite terrifying with a pen. And when she has a phone call with Chloe, she quotes Nora Estheim's famous "Moms are tough" line.
• Missing Steps Plan: Her plan for giving Chloe advice boiled down to tell her to take it easy and find something you like. Gloria then asks if Talia ever decided to get interested in Chloe's hobbies or even asked what she was into. Talia's look of horror and stammering says it all.
• Noodle Incident: Once watched an episode of Black Mirror called "White Beartic". She heavily regrets it.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: She gave Chloe advice to "Find something you love and don't rush in trying to figure out what you want to do in life" before leaving it at that. But, as Victor notes, she didn't really bother to truly get into Chloe's passions so Chloe had some comfort and understanding that someone in her family supported her as Talia herself can't even properly describe what her daughter even likes.
• Otaku: A downplayed version compared to Lusamine. Her ringtone is from the soundtrack of The Unfinished Swan (and given that Parker is noted to be playing it later, she apparently likes the game too) and she compares Chloe's final stand against the Mirage Army like The Z-Wave.
• Parental Obliviousness: Less so than her husband, as Chloe actively did talk to her about her concerns once. However, she still has problems of not reading her daughter's face very well, and that her daughter needs a talk and support than a smiling illustration of her with a Yamper.
• Parents as People: Like her husband, she truly does wants what's best for her daughter and even gave her advice to take it slow and steady and to find something she likes. She just has a tendency to focus on the smiling sketches of her daughter than actually see that Chloe needs a supportive mother in the real world.
• Poor Communication Kills: "Chloe, all you have to do is find something you love and take it slow and steady. Meanwhile, I'll ignore how you're sad in real life while I obsess over my perfect happy smiling illustrations of you and neglect any idea of talking about how much dad and I love you as you are or even bother to like your horror stuff! And I'm just so busy with my art work to not even call or text you for two months! Have fun fighting for your life without me!"
• Selective Obliviousness: She keeps ignoring the simple fact that her daughter does not look happy in every photo she tries to make drawings out of. It isn't until Victor tells her that she could've been more proactive to actually make Chloe smile in real life if she wasn't so obsessed with her drawings that she realizes that she's just as guilty as her husband for her daughter's disappearance.
• Skewed Priorities: Daughter is unsure of her life choices and having bullies pressure her to do what they want? Give her advice to take it slow and then focus on your work like nothing could ever go wrong.
• This Is Unforgivable!: Says this to UnCerise at the tail end of the Cyan Desert Arc. But given how they essentially tried to choke her to death while possessing her husband's body and would eventually do that to her daughter as well, can you blame her? Unfortunately, she learns from Asher that this was actually her husband's last straw; he'd been fully aware of everything said to him and now sees himself as unforgivable, culminating on a trip to the Infinity Train.
• Useless Bystander Parent: She's happier making happy faces in her work, not on her daughter's face even though she's fully aware that Chloe's not happy in the slightest. Victor tells her that she's equally responsible for many of Chloe's problems for her lack of action, particularly in that she had all the time to talk to her husband about her concerns or even just text or call Chloe to ask how she's doing (as Chloe has been gone for two months at this point). Thankfully she learns to get out of this.
• Unwitting Pawn: Since Sara's plan during the Cyan Desert Car saga involves torturing the Cerise family, Talia unwittingly aided them by calling out UnCerise for his horrible behavior, since her husband was aware the entire time and further driven into despair by it.
• You Are in Command Now: With her husband currently stuck on the Infinity Train for some much needed time away from Vermillion City's brutality, Talia is left alone to run the Cerise Institute until he returns.
• You Fight Like a Cow: States the trope name, albeit cow is replaced with "Miltank", when Marianna slaps her.

Professor Cerise

See his page here.

Yamper -> Boltund

An adorable corgi-like Pokémon from the Galar region who is the Cerise family pet. Loves Chloe very much.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Yamper evolved in early Voyage of Wisteria whereas he evolves near the end of Act 1 (The Cyan Desert Car) in this story.
• Adaptational Explanation: Why does Yamper like her more than anyone in the Cerise family? Professor Cerise theorizes that he senses that Chloe is sad and lonely on the inside and wishes to cheer her up.
• Big Friendly Dog: When he fully evolves into Boltund, he's a happy-go-lucky dog.
• Expy: He's given a parallel to Hachikō as he waits for his beloved friend to come home. Bonus points in how Hachiko was waiting for Professor Ueno to arrive from the train station, like Chloe was unexpectedly picked up by the Infinity Train.
• Heroic Dog: A noble canine who will fight to the bitter end to protect his family. When Chloe and Goh got lost during a camping trip, he's the one tackling everything in sight to get them to safety.
• In Spite of a Nail: Despite the circumstances and timing, Yamper still evolves into Boltund the same way — by Chloe professing her love for him.
• I Will Wait for You: Even with Chloe on the Train, he waits at the Cerise Institute to see her again. Professor Cerise gives the analogy to Hachiko for his loyalty and patience.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: It's repeatedly stated that Yamper only takes commands from Chloe, like when Gengar rampaged in the Institute but wouldn't listen to Professor Cerise. The fact he allows Talia to tell him to use Spark in the Cyan Desert Car states how dire the situation is.
• The Power of Love: He evolves when Chloe states how much she loves him.
• Shock and Awe: He's Electric-type and knows Spark.
• Undying Loyalty: He is given the parallel to Hachiko for how he waits for Chloe to return home. Professor Cerise even writes that even when Chloe told him to disappear, he came back when he saw how much Chloe felt horrible for telling him to leave. They get to see each other during the events of the Cyan Desert Arc before Chloe has to go back to continue her quest.
• Unknown Rival: To Ash's Gengar, given how Gengar utterly whomped the puppy when they fought. Not like Gengar cares or anything, laughing at how pathetic the Hound Pokemon is.

Snom

A Bug/Ice type whom Goh caught in his Galar trip as a gift for Chloe.

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• Big Eater: Snoms are known for their big appetites.
• An Ice Person: They're part Ice-type.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: They're an adorable little ice grub, something that Chloe is quick to point out when seeing them for the first time.

Renji

One of Professor Cerise's assistants.

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• Adaptation Personality Change: He's really sick and tired of the shit going on in the Institute this time around and is quick to tell his boss to admit that both he and Chloe messed up and that he needs to start moving forward.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: While Renji and Chloe barely interacted in both Blossomverse and in the anime, Renji apparently was kind enough to let Chloe borrow some of his games. He also tells Parker that for all that he's not into her horror, that doesn't mean he hates her since he and Chryssa helped Chloe during the period she had her broken arm.
• Hidden Depths: He's into video games, with one of the games that he let Chloe play being No More Heroes.
• The Scapegoat: He was blamed for not telling anything about Chloe's problems even though he knew...whereas the Professor admitted that he withheld therapy for his daughter and thus knew something was wrong.
• What the Hell, Hero?: He's quick to call out Professor Cerise over not only withholding therapy for Chloe, but also pinning the blame on him earlier after he confessed he knew about her problems but didn't speak up.

Chryssa

One of Professor Cerise's assistants.

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• Adaptational Jerkass: Chryssa in canon is a nice, patient woman who gets along with Chloe, but this one couldn't be bothered to get to know her better and "procrastinated" on doing so. Downplayed in Act 2 when she regrets her mistakes.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Chryssa and Chloe get along just fine in canon, but this Chryssa couldn't be bothered to get off her sorry butt and get to know Chloe better by her own admission. However, Horrorland Car reveals she did care enough for Chloe to help her when she had a broken arm.
• Dismotivation: Admits she didn't get to know more about Chloe 'cause she didn't feel like it although it's later revealed that she thought that there'd be more time to do so.
• Ridiculous Procrastinator: By her own admission; she procrastinated on getting help for Chloe. She tells Parker that Chloe was so focused on her stuff that she just thought there'd be more time to get together, never expecting a therapy train to pick her up.

Other Trainers

Trip

"I thought I was getting better...learning to open up and trust others, warn them to not do anything stupid. You know, just come in, tell the truth and fix wrongs. Stop people from getting into what I got into…”

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Skill Crane Car) | Oak Lore (Mentioned)

One of Ash's former rivals from the Unova Region and former passenger on the Infinity Train who had a nasty encounter with a certain cult.

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• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Not much about his life after the Train was explored in the original trilogy, but here, it turns out that his parents had no idea where he was while he was missing, and seeing a similar situation on the Cerise Institute caused him to remember those bad times. And this is without bringing up how he has to come to face with the facts his actions were causing more harm than good way earlier than in canon.
• Adaptational Context Change: The reason why he's so brutally honest with the Cerise Institute. In the original trilogy, it mostly boils down to him believing everyone's words about them being terrible to Chloe. In here, it's because their supposed inability to help her reminds him of his own parents, who did nothing while he was away on the Train for an entire year, and he thus gets angry at them for the comparison.
• Adaptational Intelligence: Trip in the original trilogy had a hard time taking the hint that his honesty was not making things better, nor that his way of doing things was the only way to go about it. In here, once he gets called out by Goh and Gloria, he finally understands he's not helping and decides to leave without further coercion.
• Adaptational Explanation: Why is Trip so cold towards the Cerise Institute? Because he's seeing the events of his own past when he left the Train one year after he got out. Namely, adult figures not caring to understand the sheer trauma their children are going through.
• Adaptational Karma: Trip in the original trilogy basically got away with not only making the situation at the institute, but becoming Ash's boyfriend despite the outright horrible treatment he gave him. He's not so lucky here; not only is his relationship with Ash put on pause, but he's forced to leave the institute after being made to see that he's done nothing but make things worse for everyone.
• Ambiguous Situation: Were his parents that oblivious to the fact their son was gone missing for a year? Given that this is a world where children at age 10 can travel around the world to be Pokémon Trainers, it wouldn't be surprising if he was so busy with his training that he didn't call them since most children make phone calls to loved ones at Pokémon Centers, not to mention that Trip was always known to be quite a loner in the anime and quietly vanishes after his last tournament.
• Berserk Button: A subtle case, but it's implied that he hates Parental Obliviousness due to how he states his own parents were unaware he was gone for a year's time. Hearing everything the Cerise Institute didn't do for Chloe is why he's so brutal with his observations.
• Broken Bird: Male example; his Train experience still haunts him as he was completely alone for most of it, had to fight off a cult and was gone for a year to the point that no one, not even his parents, knew he was missing.
  Trip:: Why did the Train have to pick her [Chloe] up? Make it so that it’s impossible to figure out why you’re there? Created a cult that rampages and hurts everyone in their path? A Train to help fix people?
• Brutal Honesty: One of his trademarks; unfortunately he doesn't have the empathy to go along with his blunt observations, which makes it hard for others to actually heal and move on.
• Cassandra Truth: Heavily implied that his parents didn't believe he wasn't gone on a Pokémon journey but rather struggling to survive an interdimensional Train for a year.
• Demoted to Extra: Stays long enough for one chapter before realizing he's not ready to really be an advisor or a good boyfriend.
• Did Not Think This Through: He assumed that it was fine if Goh was ignorant about the Train due to the basis of Goh being tone-deaf to anything that doesn't involve Pokémon or Mew. He gets an earful from Goh and Gloria that it would've been better if he just told Goh in the first place.
• Eye Scream: His right eye is faded because Simon struck him across the face with a sledgehammer.
• Freudian Excuse: His time on the Train is what causes him to block Goh off from it and why he's so bitter and blunt to the Cerise Institute; he rather not have anyone go through what he did and was struck in the face with having idiotic parental figures having no idea what was going on.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Even after revealing the reason why he acted the way he did, Goh and Gloria still tear him a new one because, even if his reason is sympathetic, he still caused a lot of unneeded angst and trauma to an already troubled Cerise Institute all because they reminded him of his parents.
• Hero of Another Story: Like in the original trilogy, he ventured on the Infinity Train for an entire year and crossed paths with the Apex once.
• Hidden Depths: It's implied he hated the Cerise Institute's hands-off approach to Chloe because of how his parents didn't seem to recognize that their son just vanished for a year.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • Downplayed as he's more blunt than a jerk. He points out that if anyone tells Goh about the Train — given how he is known to be obesssed with a topic to the point of ignoring everything else unless someone tells it to his face and — it might drive him to get onto the Train and could lead to a domino effect. One-One later reveals that said domino effect, an Exodus, is catastrophic in the leagues of passengers the Train will pick up.
  • His excuse as to why he didn't tell Goh all of this is because he's too obsessed with Mew or Pokémon to listen to anyone else, or if he does tell, it will just spur Goh to actively get on that crazy train. While it doesn't excuse him for keeping this secret from Goh, Trip isn't exactly wrong to point out that Goh has No Listening Skills when it comes to his "childhood friend" in the slightest. After all, while Chloe had problems not expressing herself fully, Goh is equally at fault for not actively listening to Chloe's concerns or warnings and instead does whatever he wants, consequences to them be damned. As proof, Goh nearly died in a camping trip because he refused to listen to Chloe's warnings to not chase after a Vivillon by a river. Moreover, the first thing Goh wants to do is actively get on the Train before Gloria has to slap him across the face.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: His way of telling others off was insensitive, but he truly did want to do the right thing, helped the Cerise Institute grapple with what was going on with Chloe and the Infinity Train, and exposed how Chloe's classmates ruined her life.
• Last Kiss: Gives one to Ash before he leaves Vermillion City.
• Leaving You to Find Myself: He leaves Ash and Vermillion City because he's not ready to be a good advisor/boyfriend.
• Mirror Character: With Gladion. They're aloof rivals of Ash Ketchum who ventured on the Train but with different experiences: Trip was mostly alone and his encounter with the Apex ended with him getting a faded eye and he had to figure out how to escape by himself. Gladion got on the Train after One-One got reinstated and he went on a quest to actually confront the Apex. Both of them had family oblivious to where the hell they went but Trip's parents weren't the cause of his journey whereas Lillie spitefully giving orange lilies to her brother is what caused his journey. Last Trip wants to do good and warn others about the Train whereas Gladion on the Train wanted to become something akin to a knight, both of them failing miserably in their attempts to do better.
• No Last Name Given: This Trip doesn't have a surname, so it's unknown if it's the same as his Blossomverse one (Espinosa).
• Parental Neglect: His parents showed no concern over him vanishing for a year, especially since Infinet was not created at that time and he had no idea how to talk to them.
• Psychological Projection: He was known to be brutal to the Cerise Institute for being ignorant about Chloe's angst...because he's seeing how he felt when his parents were unaware that he got kidnapped and taken onto a therapy train for a year while going through hell trying to survive.
• Scars Are Forever: His faded right eye and the Apex wavelength tattoo on his wrist are reminders of the trauma he face don the Train.
• Spared by the Adaptation: Because he bugs off from Vermillion City before the events of the Cyan Desert Car, he gets spared from the Unown when Sara goes on a rampage.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: He is extreme on not wanting to tell Goh about the Train, but that's more because he wants to protect Goh from the dangers that he had come across, having been stuck on the Train for a year and no one — not even his parents — realized he was missing.

Ash Ketchum

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (First appearance: The Poring Village Car)| Oak Lore| Firefly Funhouse Car (Mentioned)

A boy from Pallet Town who wishes to be a Pokémon Master and is one of Professor Cerise's research fellows.

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• Accomplice by Inaction: Zig-Zagged. Ash wanted to befriend Chloe and did make an honest effort, but because she repeatedly refused to get to know him out of personal dislike for him, there wasn't much he could do. Goh states that out of everyone in Vermillion City, Ash actually has the least baggage.
• Achilles in His Tent: Ash doesn't participate in the Rainbow Rocket invasion of Alola because he's in Galar trying to take a break from the mountains of bs he suffered in Vermillion City alongside Burnett and Nanu asking him not to come for his safety. Once he gets encouragement from Goh, he decides to get off his tent and go to Alola to turn the tide of battle.
• Adaptational Angst Downgrade: Thanks to Victor and Gloria altering the events of early Blossoming Trail, Ash doesn't get his Guilt Complex like in canon and decides to head back home to train for the World Coronation Series, therefore avoiding the worst of the Cerise Lab angst prior to the Unown Arc.
• Adaptational Intelligence: A minor one. When Gloria asks why he and Goh didn't use their other Pokémon to hunt Gengar in the Cerise Institute, Ash makes the logical answer. A Dragonite wreaking havoc in the Institute would cause collateral damage.
• Adaptational Sympathy: The early narrative of the original trilogy featured a lot of characters who refused to be sympathetic to Ash regarding how he "didn't do more" in order to befriend Chloe before she got on the Train. Crocus gives him a bone by having multiple people be more willing to cut him some slack, realizing how the situation wasn't as black and white as once believed. Even an alternate Chloe tells him he is a good person deep down.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Ash and Trip eventually became boyfriends later in the original trilogy, despite a turbulent first impression between them. In here, because of Trip being made more aware of his honest bias towards Ash much earlier, they decide to put their relationship on hold while Trip leaves the institute to work on himself.
  • Ash grew to consider Parker one of the few people he well and truly hated because of his hand in the Unown incident and mental and psychological torture he inflicted upon him and his friends. Because Sara is the one to be begin the incident instead, Parker and Ash share a more neutral relationship.
• All-Loving Hero: He's a truly nice boy who cares for others and Pokémon. Unfortunately, his cheerful personality made Chloe assume the worst of him and that he was a "black hole" who would suck everyone away from her. Her constant refusals to open to him didn't help, either. Thankfully, Chloe is able to see that he was truly sincere for his actions.
• Always Someone Better: A running theme in the story starting from before Chloe was defeated by Ash in a battle, both in Chloe's views and words, and Chloe's own actions, show Ash to ultimately be better than Chloe in practically everything.
  • Ash is able to make friends with virtually anyone, earning the friendship and respect of people throughout the world in a variety of fields all tangentially related to Pokemon, including his own fame. Chloe has only one friend, whom is also Ash's, and struggled for ages to get any recognition from those around her.
  • Ash has achieved many more great adventures in his time traveling the world, many of which had opportunities that Chloe could have taken advantage of but squandered out of spite. Despite having saved the world at least a few times, met and saved the creator of the universe, traveled through time, and countless other things, Ash is rather modest about the whole thing and doesn't often bring it up unless it is relevant and sees himself as just a regular person. Chloe meanwhile, created an entire persona of 'Chloe of the Vermillion' to be something other than a regular girl and milked any achievement she managed to get, such as defeating Professor Yung, for all it was worth, especially as it might compare to Ash.
  • Ash is willing to take any criticism he gets to heart, working on bettering himself, without lashing out as a result of experience and maturity gained along his journeys. Chloe struggles to admit to any wrongdoing, always finding some excuse to blame others for her problems whenever possible, and is prone to self-harm as a means of venting instead of striving to improve herself.
  • Chapter 45 also adds another layer by revealing how Ash was actually a better friend to Goh than her; when they were younger, they went on a trip to the Kalosian forests, where Goh nearly drowned. Though Chloe saved him, she failed to show any concern for his health, only caring about when he would be ready to go to another adventure. Ash showed himself time and time again to be able to take Goh on adventures and is always concerned about his well being. To add to this, Ash never slandered nor pushed Goh away, when slander was one of the many questionable things she did on her first few months on the Train, and Chloe pushed Goh away because he couldn't read her mind.
  • Ash's own handling on his own mistakes and failures very notable reflects several of Chloe's, displaying noticeably greater maturity. Where Chloe has been hung up about having Yamper use Tackle on a Gengar in a casual match for months, Ash has made similar mistakes in his own matches, including the very same mistake on a Ghost-type, in two of his most important battles (against Brandon to complete the Battle Frontier, and against Professor Kukui at the Alola League). Ash strove through them in seconds. Ash has also been humiliated not just in front of his peers, but on live television, most notably at the Indigo League where he faced similar injustices (being kept from the match for hours by a very persistent Team Rocket and clearly not being in a good state when he arrived, but forced to battle anyway) and lack of sympathy from those he loved as Chloe believes she faces. (Though how fair Misty, Professor Oak, Brock, and his mother were about his loss is a topic of immense fan debate). However, while Ash did sulk about it for a day, he ultimately emerged from the experience a better person who put more work into his training and no longer relied on raw luck or strength but also planning, strategy, and hard work with no hard feelings for his family, friends, and mentor figure. This is very much not how Chloe handled a far less severe situation.
• Ambiguously Bi: Most ships involving him are all about girls (Serena his most prominent one) and while he does accept Trip's love confession, he's willing to wait until Trip becomes better to reciprocate those feelings. Oak Lore implies more strongly that he's Bi specifically.
• Apathetic Citizens: It's alarming how he so quickly shrugs off heading to Alola to help with the Rainbow Rocket invasion, instead leaving it to his friends to deal with it. Turns out he ''is'' concerned and was obliging Burnet and Nanu's advice to not get involved, and after some heart-to-heart with Goh, he decides to go to Alola and fight.
• Awakening the Sleeping Giant: Ash was simply not in the right mind to interfere with the Rainbow Rocket invasion of Alola after both the verbal beatings and Unown attacks he suffered in Vermillion City, simply wanting to take a moment to rest. But once Goh reassures him that he can still do the right thing, he decides to go to Alola and help defeat Rainbow Rocket once and for all.
• Berserk Button: Don't hurt his friends or his Pokémon. Got that, Sara?
• Book Dumb: A line in "The Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Ash can do basic math but his brain starts hurting if he multiplies two double-digit numbers in his head.
• Bullying a Dragon: Ash is the Dragon, being the Alola League Champion with multiple championships and Pokemon experience under his belt. The only reason he doesn't use this to get his naysayers to shut up is because he's too nice for his own good.
• Callousness Towards Emergency: Subverted with Chloe, whom he had no idea needed help nor knew how to help her, but played definitely straight for the Alola gang when news about the Rainbow Rocket invasion reach him but decides to not interfere. The final part of Palimpsest Car reveals that he does want to enter, but he was asked by Nanu and Burnet to not enter Alola...not that it will stop him thanks to Goh's encouragement, his mother preparing his Pokémon and Gary asking his Alakazam to teleport Ash to Alola.
• Character Exaggeration: A lot of Chloe's issues with Ash are rooted in him being a shining, Famed In-Story example of The Ace. Apparently her classmates were constantly comparing Chloe to her new "houseguest", and she quickly grew bitter at always coming up short. However, while the accomplishments attributed to Ash hold true to canon, his reputation does not. Fans of the series are more likely to note the fact that Ash was treated like just another rookie for most of his twenty years on the road, and even after he was officially recognized as one of the best Trainers in the world in more recent seasons, the awestruck fans he meets are still heavily outnumbered by those who are willing to treat him as another experienced Trainer, or just not recognize him as anything at all.
• Chick Magnet: As well as dude magnet: His mom has a chart keeping track of it all.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot: When he and Chloe get a talk in the Act 2 Prelude, he admits that if he didn't fully accept Goh's "My friend doesn't like Pokemon" Non-Answer and actually dug up more info about her, the two would've been friends quicker.
• Crazy-Prepared: Played With. He always brings Pikachu with him everywhere, but whether he brings the rest of his Pokemon is a different story. Delia, in fact, prepared his Pokemon to come with him in case he decided to go to Alola, in order to thwart the Rainbow Rocket invasion.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Gave one to Chloe when they battled, which would become one of the nails that caused Chloe to get on the Train. Deconstructed because of the vast gap of experience between them (Ash is both the Alola League and Orange Island League Champion, 7-time participant of the Pokémon League, and Battle Frontier conqueror. Meanwhile, Chloe only knows that Yamper can use Spark from her father) and it only worsened Chloe's self-worth and issues about herself. It made her feel like she was always a loser and never worthy of anyone's love and support to try and get into Pokémon since she's not Ash. In his defense though, he wasn't being malicious about it at all, and was under the perfectly reasonable assumption that she wanted a normal, honest battle and wasn't even aware that she had been dared by her classmates to challenge him until much later.
• A Day in the Limelight: He's a fairly minor character in the main story proper, but he's the main protagonist of Oak Lore.
• Demoted to Extra: He gets hit with this even harder than his original trilogy self, as he doesn't even get to participate in the Unown event with Parker and UnChloe taking the spot where a critical strike is done at the Unown user in order to finish them off.
• Depending on the Writer: His relationship status with Trip is heavily played down in Oak Lore with the implication that it is best dropped due to Trip's more problematic characters, with Oak Lore written by Cross, while Crocus proper plays it straight and unambigious.
• Easily Condemned: Even more notable than Professor Cerise; at least the professor is a relative nobody with little influence he can use to get back on his assailants. Ash is not only the Alola League Champion, but is in a competition where it's clear he's one of the strongest trainers in the world. So the fact that people are so quick to call him the worst makes you wonder if they have a death wish.
• Easily Impressed: He's the only one in the Alola region who sees Colette's Dudunsparce as impressive. To everyone else, it's basically labeled as "bigger Dunsparce" (even as Colette points that it's a rare three-body Dudunsparce). It's also a bit of a Mythology Gag; he's shown to have gotten interested in Dunsparce twice in Best Wishes and XY.
• Extreme Doormat: It's easy to see him as this, as everybody tramples on him verbally and calls him the worst while he's the Alola League Champion and one of the most powerful trainers in the world.
• Felony Misdemeanor: What did Ash do to deserve being repeatedly told he's the worst and that he was a terrible supposed "friend" to Chloe? He beat her in a Pokemon Battle and and invited her to join him and Goh on Pokemon explorations.
• Good Is Dumb: He's not the sharpest tool in the shed, though to be fair to him, that's in part because nobody tells him anything or if they do, it's because either they don't have all the answers or have procrastinated on issues that should've been addressed sooner.
• Good Is Impotent: He's one of the nicest people in the entire story... and he does absolutely nothing of value across Act 1 outside punching Sara in the face. It gets to the point he simply decides to leave Vermillion City and go elsewhere because it's clear he's not getting anything from there other than verbal abuse.
• Heroic BSoD: He's in one of these when he appears in the Poring Village Car due to the upcoming Guilt Complex of not helping Chloe out more and being asked where other people are and he doesn't have answers to those questions. Thankfully, he manages to get out of it and return to his normal self.
• Hidden Depths: According to Oak Lore alongside his love of all things Pokémon, his other interests include baseball and Star Trek, in a reference to The Electric Tale of Pikachu. Apparently he's just not really into any other fandoms.
• Hypocrite: He came this close to developing the same Guilt Complex as in the original trilogy when he thought Chloe was in danger but didn't help. He doesnt show anywhere near as much concern when he learns his Alola friends are currently undergoing an invasion by Team Rainbow Rocket, where he decides to stay put and let them handle it. The end of the Palimpsest Car reveals it's not because he doesn't care (he does), but Burnet and Nanu called him to stay out of this and eventually he goes out to Alola.
• Innocently Insensitive:
  • He truly, truly meant well in trying to befriend Chloe and getting her out of her shell. It's just that his means to get along with her boiled down to "Join Goh and I on a Pokémon expedition" instead of actively trying to find out what she liked or actually confronting her about her problems. To his credit, he points out that Chloe closing herself off gave him so little to work with and the typical reaction to a girl saying no is to not pester her further.
  • He never meant to make Chloe feel as lesser when they battled. He gave her a good battle, did praise her for her first attempt in fighting, and didn't even know she was dared to fight him until much later.
• In-Series Nickname: Chloe would always refer to him as either a "black hole" — something that sucks everything away — or "Alola League Champion" Ash — which relates to how everyone seems to kiss the ground he stands on and she's a complete nothing compared to them. In Chloe's mind at least.
• Late-Arrival Spoiler: He's the Alola League Champion.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Chloe's inability to express herself and Goh never bringing up Tokio to anyone except his parents means that he's unable to get to the root of what's bugging them and thus he can only focus solely on Goh in the present.
• Mirror Character:
  • Of Tokio; they're (male) friends of Goh with Pokémon-oriented goals, but Tokio was the reason Goh became be a shut-in, albeit unintentionally, whereas Ash is the one who makes Goh open up. Tokio is white-haired, Ash is black-haired. Tokio was incapable of explaining what was going on with him (due to sickness) and gave the bare minimum with a letter in Celebi's shrine, whereas Ash is always open about what he feels and gives Goh direct advice. Tokio has a Chikorita and Hoot-hoot, while Ash has a Bayleef and (Shiny) Noctowl on his team.
  • Of Chloe: both of them are Goh's main friends, but while Chloe was a long-term friend whose relationship started to fray, Ash is a new friend whose friendship with Goh is much more stable. Ash is a extrovert, Chloe is an introvert. Chloe struggles to make and keep friends, while Ash is so good at it Chloe's unwillingness to be his friend and active hatred of him is actually distressing to him. Chloe has issues with her parents that Ash seems to lack despite having a second set of them in Alola and a absentee biological father. Both faced massive humiliations in front of their peers that they in some way fueled, Ash with his initial laziness as a trainer and Chloe with her poor handling of the school's social life, and in some way was thrust on them, with Ash being jumped by Team Rocket for hours exhausting himself and his team and Chloe with the fact she didn't choose to be bullied. However while Ash took the lessons to self improve to a point he'd eventually win two leagues and conquer the Battle Frontier, Chloe took everything to mean everyone hates her and to make herself into someone completely different while struggling to ever admit she screwed anything up. Ash is a Humble Hero while Chloe demands acknowledgement. Ash has come back from dying several times while Chloe wants to kill herself.
• Momma's Boy: Like in canon, Ash loves his mom. Parker, Goh, Victor and Gloria see a clip of him fighting an Unown-created Entei when he kidnapped her and he wastes no time punching Sara when she subtly implies that Delia is on the chopping block if she gets in her way. He has a similar relationship with Professor Burnett, and her asking him to avoid being in danger in Alola is capable of staying Ash for a while from doing so.
• Oblivious to Love: Like in canon, Ash does not understand the concept of love. He had no idea what a crush was until Trip confessed to him and he wasn't even aware that Bisexuality was a thing until Gary mentions it. He also doesn't seem to be able to tell that Ralts has a big crush on Riolu.
• Poor Communication Kills: He did want to be friends with Chloe, but never managed to connect with her like he did others he met on his journey. In his defense, he took Chloe's "No" as sincere and gave her the space (he assumed) she wanted and Goh's answer at the time was the best he could get, and he also admits that he also wasn't putting enough effort to see what she was into. Chloe admits that she should've been more open about what she wanted. He even tells her that he goes down the route he did with her because that's how he learns more about a person.
• Pure of Heart: Like in Wisteria, he's good bait for luring out Galarian Ponyta for Gary during Oak Lore.
• Put on a Bus: After Gloria tells the Cerise Institute to take time off for themselves, he's staying in Pallet Town to train for the World Coronation Series. He returns for the Cyan Desert Car arc, for better or for worse.
• Rage Breaking Point: Ash was testy as it was with Sara, but it's only when she threatens to hurt his mom that he snaps and punches her.
• Relative Button: Implying you're going to hurt his mom will get you a punch in the face. Got it, Sara?
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: A more positive example. After going to Galar with Gary and having to face Team Magma grunts all while Alola is attacked by Rainbow Rocket, he decides that he won't stay on the sidelines any longer and uses Gary's Alakazam to teleport directly to the Alola region.
• Skewed Priorities: Fails to befriend and help a girl he met recently, who implied she didn't even want to be his friend? "I'm the worst! I should've done better!" His Alolan friends, including a professor he sees as a father, being all but stated to be in danger due to the Rainbow Rocket invasion? "Eh, they're strong, they can handle it themselves." It's later revealed that Nanu and Burnet specifically said not to go to the Alola region, not that it's going to stop Ash for long.
• Small Role, Big Impact: Chloe's trip on the Train came because she learned that he was the Alola Champion and she was pressured to fight him by her classmates once they learned that such an amazing and badass trainer was working for her father. She lost to him, and it set off a domino effect that got her on the Train when everyone praised him for his victory and paid no attention to the girl who was sick and tired of being pushed to the side again and ready to end her life to save herself a lifetime of mockery, just because she can't muster the same "excitement" for Pokémon.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: Chloe is the warrior, a title she was given after Gloria and others bore witness to her beating Sara with the paint can, with Ash as the soldier. While Ash does enjoy what he does, he fights within the confines of his world, as a trainer, and thus within what society and the world at large respects and accommodates not just as a socially acceptable path, but as a career. Chloe's use of violence on other humans has gotten her in trouble where doing so with a Pokemon battle would not have. Ash, while having faced many terrible and dangerous things from evil teams to rampaging gods, does not look for them, but deals with them as they come to him a la a knight errant, while Chloe choose to go after the Apex to become a more glorious figure, Chloe of the Vermillion.
• Superman Stays Out of Gotham: Even if he's not enough to defeat Rainbow Rocket Giovanni, he still has enough experience and his Pokemon enough power to help foil the Rainbow Rocket invasion, but decides to stay out of it and let the Alolans deal with it because Nanu and Burnet told him not to go. (Not that it stops him at the end of the Palimpsest Car).
• Throw the Dog a Bone:
  • He and Chloe have a talk about the horrifying stuff they went through and admitted that both of them should've left their comfort zones and talked to each other more.
  • When Colette Cadieux sees Ash down about how he can't tell if there were two Chloes how he'd identify his own because Colette is an alternate Chloe who gets along really well with her Ash (and Colette is currently with her red hair down and wears glasses), she cheers him up by stating that Ash truly is a good person, and his Chloe will eventually see that.
• Would Hit a Girl: Punches Sara in the face and gladly states that he will do it again if it means stopping her reign.
• You Didn't Ask: When he and Chloe talk in the Act 2 Prelude, Chloe questions why they didn't talk about something not Pokémon and discussed the horrific stuff Ash has gone through. Ash wants to say it's because Chloe never asked him, but he quickly admits that he wasn't putting enough effort to ask what Chloe liked, thanks to him accepting Goh's "answer" and leaving her alone.

Ash's Pokemon

Ash's various Pokemon caught from all over the world over years of traveling.

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• Adapted Out: Due to the focus on Parker as the resolver of the Unown plot instead of the antagonist, Ash isn't in a place to bring his team in to deal with the Unown this time. In addition Farfetch'd, who was in Ash's possession in the series and during the original 'Blossoming Trail' take on the arc, wasn't present, with Oak Lore explaining he had stayed at the lab to train when Ash had returned.
• Original Character: Ash catches a Ralts during Oak Lore, a Pokemon he doesn't have in canon.
• Puppy Love: Ralts has a very big, very obvious crush on Riolu that everyone but Ash can see. Extra points for Riolu being a puppy.
• Took a Level in Badass: All the training to avoid the Cerise Laboratory drama has done that for them, with Torterra and Farfetch'd knowing new attacks in Headlong Rush and Leaf Blade.

Reggie

The older brother of Paul Drangea from Veilstone City.

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• Distressed Dude: Elipzo goons kidnap him for unknown purposes during the Routine arc.
• Parental Substitute: Tries to act like one to Paul, but Paul refuses to accept it.
• Nice Guy: He's definitely a nicer person than his little brother anyhow.
• Nothing Is Scarier: Hasn't been seen after his minor appearance in the Fashion Runway Car. And no one recalled how he was asking Ash where his brother was...
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: He stopped being a Trainer after losing to Brandon (especially since he was just one Frontier Badge away from conquering the Battle Frontier). Paul has never forgiven his older brother for this, even after Reggie is found himself doing something that he loves without regretting the loss, which is one of the reasons he's become the asshole trainer he is today.

Gary Oak

Gary Oak

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned) | Oak Lore (Debut)

Ash's fellow Pallet Town trainer and member of Project Mew. He invites Ash over to Glimwood Tangle in order to both catch a Galarian Ponyta and give the trainer a break from all the Vermillion City drama.

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• Adaptational Early Appearance: Gary doesn't appear in Journeys until Episode 69. Here, he arrives around 30 episodes earlier.
• Break the Haughty: He suffered his before the story, which he calls his "Giovanni" and "Melissa" moments; the former gave him a wake up call that still let his ego adapt, while the latter popped his bubble completely and made him realize he had to change to get anywhere. As he summarizes, he believes the Unown fiasco was Chloe's "Giovanni" moment; an event that made her realize she could make mistakes and she wasn't perfect, but still gave her enough wiggle room for her ego to adapt and still see herself as the victim.
• Brutal Honesty: Not only does he call out Chloe as a "tsundere" at best and a brat at worst, but he makes it clear that until she gets her "Melissa" moment, or face reality in a way that her ego can't adapt, then she's not going to change for the better in a meaningful way.
• Distressed Dude: Is briefly caught up in a leg trap by one of his fellow Project Mew chasers and stays hanging from a tree until Riolu punches the Chaser and her Meditite clean through the woods.
• Excellent Judge of Character: Blunt he may be, but his description of Chloe as a "Tsundere at best, brat at worst" is completely correct, especially considering all her back and forth in Act 1 and her Backhanded Apology to Ash during Act 2. He also sees Ash for the kind person that he is and that he shouldn't beat himself up because he failed to befriend one person, and he sees that someone like Trip isn't a good pick for a love interest.
• Friendly Rival: Has become this with Ash, seeing himself as his rival but being nice enough to invite him over for a break from all the Vermillion City drama.
• Hidden Depths: Gary seems like the last person to know anything about romance, but he actually gives Ash some solid advice, telling him not to jump into getting together with the first person who confesses to him and take it slow.
• Older and Wiser: Gary is also the child of a Professor like Chloe who also had a number of complexes as a result, but grew out of them thanks to the losses he took against Giovanni and Melissa. As of Oak Pride, he sees Chloe has only having taken the former and still has the latter to 'look forward too'. This doesn't mean he gives Chloe any slack: he outright calls her a 'Tsundere at best, Brat at worst' and makes fun of her backhanded apology she gave Ash quite openly.
• Original Character: Alongside his canon Blastoise and Umbreon and the implied origin of his Hatterene at the end of Oak Lore, Gary also catches a Galarian Rapidash as part of a Project Mew mission.
• Shipper on Deck: While he is happy to see Ash noticing romance a bit more, he isn't particularly a Ash and Trip shipper and advises Ash not to accept the first romantic confession he gets.
• Took a Level in Kindness: He was an utter brat when he started his journey, but once he had his "Giovanni" and "Melissa" moment, he became a nicer person.

Bea

Bea

The Gym Leader of Stow-on-Side and a participant in the World Coronation Series

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• The Ghost: Mentioned only in Crocus, she appears at the tail end of Oak Lore in person.

Marnie

Marnie

A trainer from Galar.

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• Adaptational Badass: While we first meet Marnie in the original 'verse during Wisteria, where she's catching her Impidimp. Here, more in line with the anime, she's shown to already have a Grimmsnarl.

Looker

Looker/Avalon

A Special Agent who meets up with Team Rocket on a quest to find information on Sycamore's disappearance.

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• The Bus Came Back: He dropped out of the anime after the Black and White series, which is something Team Rocket notes.
• Composite Character: Has his anime's friendship with Team Rocket yet is part of a secret organization like his game counterpart.
• Meaningful Name: His code name, "Avalon", is named after the island in King Arthur mythos where the titular king rested to heal his wounds.
• Non-Answer: When asked on more information, Looker always gives answers in this matter. When Renji asks of his rank, he says "In the middle", and when he has to confess what his true name is...he just reveals his codename.
• Odd Friendship: He's on the side of the law yet Team Rocket treat him as an old friend.
• Shout-Out:
  • He's part of a secret organization which Renji assumes is the Illuminati, even asking if he's "1 of the 36" (according to Weissman, there are 36 ranks and an equal amount of agents per rank.). This was most likely intentional as Green Phantom Queen noted that the expanded world building moving forward was directly based on how Gargoyles did it.
  • The name of the organization he works for, Orinoco, is named after Enya's "Orinoco Flow". Bonus points is that his codename, Avalon, is one of the locations referenced in the song.

Other

Unown

The Unown

Mythical Pokemon who are believed to be the source of the alphabet.–—-

• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: They have no connection to Parker in this story and instead flock to Sara, when the opposite was true in the original story.

The Creation (Spoilers)

UnChloe

A Unown-made manifestation of Chloe, made as Parker's wish for his sister to save him.

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• Adaptational Heroism: She's actually on the side of the good guys this time around.
• Adaptational Wimp: She doesn't have as much power like her Blossoming Trail self has because Parker isn't in control of the Unown this time around. Her powers are more limited to teleportation and breaking barriers and she even admits that she can't just magically wish things back to normal.
• Bifauxnen: She wears a suit, shorts and top hat in contrast to Sara's princess outfit. It also helps her mirror Chloe's outfit at that point (suit, skirt over slacks, and top hat).
• But Now I Must Go: After the Unown return to the box, she goes with it.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: She wants to be of greater help, but she only has a fraction of the Unown's power since Parker doesn't have the Unown under his thumb this time around. Most likely because if she could just make things turn to normal like Parker wants, there's no drama.
• Establishing Character Moment: Appears addressing her other self with a kinder attitude and handing Parker his breakfast, revealing that she is not the witch of Blossoming Trail.
• Good Wears White: In contrast to her Blossoming Trail side, she wears a pure white outfit.^note Her outfit is inspired by Chloe's circus attire from Journeys episode 98.
• Walking Spoiler: It's impossible to talk about her without spoiling one of the bigger revelations of the Crocus Unown arc.

The Invader (Spoilers)

Rainbow Rocket Giovanni

An alternate version of Giovanni from a world where Team Rocket conquered the Pokemon World. He and his forces arrive in the Crocusverse to conquer it as well.

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• Alternate Self: To the Giovanni of the canon universe.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: He literally destroys everyone with his Mewtwo. Even Rey Mysterio — who supposedly has a Numinae contract — gets thrown around like a ragdoll!
• Olympus Mons: He has a Mewtwo with Mega Evolution.
• Politically Correct Villain: When talking to his benefactors, one of them asks Giovanni to respectfully use "they" pronouns after calling them a "he". Giovanni quick apologizes for the misgendering and vows not to do it again.
• Signature Move: Mewtwo, which has the ability to Mega Evolve into Mega Mewtwo X.
• Take Over the World: His main goal is to do this to the Crocusverse, as his forces already conquered their dimension.

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