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Tulip
Tulip Olsen
"It feels like every time I find something logical about this train, it's thrown back at me and I'm stuck without answers."
Voiced by: Ashley Johnson
The main protagonist of the show's first season. A 13-year-old girl who ran away from home after an argument with her mother, Tulip finds herself awakening on the Infinity Train after boarding what she believed to be a train to Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Now she resolves to meet The Conductor so that she can return home, as well as uncover the mystery of the glowing green number that now adorns her hand.
- Action Survivor: Though not all of the cars rely around surviving danger obviously, Tulip still manages to hold her own and figure out multiple hazardous situations after coming to terms with being in danger.
- Aerith and Bob: Between her trio, she zig-zags it: She's the Bob to One-One, but the Aerith to Atticus.
- Affectionate Nickname: Her parents call her "Bud".
- All Just a Dream: She initially believes that her encounter with the Infinity Train was just a hallucination she had. Alas, we wouldn't have a series if that were the case, would we?
- Arbitrary Skepticism: One-One, perhaps unwittingly, calls out Tulip on this in the pilot when she thinks the number on her hand could have no relation to the monster menacing Corginia.Tulip: It's just so unlikely...
Sad-One: Unlikely like a fart car. - Anger Is Not Enough: Her temper is front and center whenever her emotions spill out, and not only does it make it harder for her to see both side of the conflict, but tints her view to make things seem worse than they actually are. Her arc in the first book is to try learn how to deal with her emotions for this reason.
- Arc Hero: Tulip is the protagonist of first season.
- Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Her red hair and green jacket call to mind the red petals and leaves of...well, a tulip.
- Badass Bookworm: She's both intelligent and athletically gifted. According to
Word of God, she could join a sports team with ease, if she wanted to. - Badass Normal: For a thirteen-year-old girl way in over her head on the train, Tulip acclimates rapidly to dangerous scenarios and does her best to resolve them while not only being quick on the uptake about puzzles but also surprisingly nimble. This culminates in a direct fight with the Conductor/Amelia, hitting a moving Ghom'd Atticus with a focused shot to revert him to normal, and even getting a good hit on Amelia's cockpit while not getting hit at all.
- Bizarre Taste in Food: Enjoys eating whole raw onions the way one would eat an apple. She calls it "having a sophisticated palate".
- Bespectacled Cutie: Tulip is very cute and wears a pair of glasses.
- Broken Tears: Break down at these in the end of "The Ball Pit Car" after Atticus gets transformed into a Ghom.
- Character Catchphrase: Whenever she's convinced to try doing something in a different (usually less logical) way than she would prefer, she growls out an irritated "Ugh, fine."
- Contrived Coincidence: What are the chances that the car she first entered just happened to contain the original Conductor of the Train?
- Deadpan Snarker: She does snark to herself from time to time when she gets annoyed or frustrated.
- Determinator: When her parents can't drive her to coding camp, she decides to walk there herself, which starts her adventure on the train.
- Decoy Protagonist: Downplayed but the show wasn’t revealed to be an anthology until after Book 1 ended before that the trailers and promotional material made it look like the entire show would have her as the protagonist.
- Disappeared Dad: In this case, her parents are divorced and she lives with her mom with her dad rarely coming by for visits.
- Didn't Think This Through: When it turns out her parents can't take her to the camp they promised to take her, Tulip decides to go there by herself. On foot. With nothing but a backpack. And while the camp is several hundred miles away from where she starts. It's kind of a blessing the train comes to pick her up right then and there.
- Early Installment Character-Design Difference: In the pilot, she had big glasses and large eyes. Both of these shrunk in the official show, with her also gaining more realistic proportions all around. Also, her boots were grey in the pilot but became blue in the TV series, and her skirt also became longer.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: At the end of season one, she returns home as a kinder girl, one more willing to accept love and loss equally. Though she never sees Atticus and One-One again, she is satisfied knowing they are both restored to their proper forms and that Amelia is on the path to redemption.
- Enraged by Idiocy: Has very little patience for One-One's antics during the first few episodes, though to be fair, at that point One-One acts as The Load who operates on too much vagueness for Tulip's liking. She eventually gets better.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first half of "The Grid Car" shows off everything we should know about her: she has a love of onions, she's trying hard not to think about her parents' divorce, she isolates herself and shows off a love of coding and does not understand how her mom and dad are struggling through said divorce and blames them for everything that happened.
- Expository Hairstyle Change: Seven months after she returns home, Tulip gets her hair cut to about chest-lenght and has real bangs instead of having part of her hair cover her forehead.
- Fatal Flaw: Her biggest flaw is her refusal to actually confront and work through her emotions, instead preferring to ignore them, deflect, and try to bury them."The Cat's Car" is all about her confronting this fact about herself.
- Floral Theme Naming: The Tulip, obviously. Taking her red hair into account, the red Tulip comes to mind.
- Fiery Redhead: Downplayed most of the time, since although she has a temper, it takes a while for it to blow up. It's when her parents' divorce comes up that she plays the trope straight.
- Foil:
- According to Word of God, Tulip is intended to be a foil to the Infinity Train itself. The Infinity Train is bizarre and illogical, which contrasts with Tulip's need for everything to be logical and make sense.
- She's also one for the Conductor, since both are Control Freaks in a sense, who want the world to do their bidding. The main difference is that Tulip understands and eventually accepts that life can't always go her way. She also cares about the friends she makes on her journey while the Conductor sees the character on the train as puppets who have to stay in their cars for all eternity. If they rebel, she'll turn them into Ghoms without hesitation, in direct contrast to Tulip, who encourages her to explore. Just like Tulip, the Conductor/Amelia was also a person who entered the train, but while Tulip was able to make friends and lower her number by resolving her issues, Amelia just became more and more obsessed with what she had lost, thus increasing her number to an amount that has crawled up to her neck and eventually taking control of the train itself in a desperate attempt to recreate her old life and her lost love in one of its cars, which Tulip is able to reject when Amelia offers to do the same for Tulip, creating a world where her parents were still together, because she knew that it wouldn't be real.
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- Gamer Chick: She's shown creating her own video game.
- Giver of Lame Names: The characters in her video game are "Good Guy" and "Bad Guy". The game itself is named "Good Guys Popping Bad Guys," which at least sounds catchy, but it's still rather weird.
- Heroes Love Dogs: Unlike with One-One, Tulip and Atticus hit it off pretty well.
- Hypocritical Humor: When One-One first tells her his name, Tulip comments that it's an unusual name, unlike her own. Except that "Tulip" is an unusual name. It's Played for Laughs, and The Cat spends a good portion of the series mocking her "perennial" name.
- I Choose to Stay: Despite having resolved all her personal issues keeping her on the Train by "The Past Car", she puts off leaving to save Atticus.
- In-Series Nickname: She's regularly called "Ms. Tulip" by One-One and "Tulip the Literate" once by Atticus. The Cat also calls her "kitten" from time to time.
- I Reject Your Reality: Her memories about the past are a lot more rose-colored than is probably true — but her memories of pain, such as her parents' separation, are worse than the mundane dinner-table discussion they actually had. The videotape prison in "The Cat's Car" forces her to confront the fact that her parents' marriage was troubled, but that they really did want the best for her; and that while selfishly blaming them for ruining her life wasn’t fair, her pain itself was reasonable.
- Irony: Her hair is a bright orange/red and tulips in those colors can either symbolize happiness or love. She certainly doesn't have any of that in her life or else she wouldn't have been on the train, now would she?
- Jerkass: Downplayed but present at the beginning of the series. Between the three main characters, she's easily the most aggressive, impatient, irritable, and above all else tends to lock away how she really feels, which leads to a multitude of social issues. She's not overly mean, and has a genuine friendship with Mikayla, but is also somewhat unfriendly to the first few people she meets on the train and is cold towards her parents because of the divorce. By the end of the book, this is all but gone entirely, leaving her as quite the Nice Girl. Turns out the train did her a lot of good in the end.
- Jerkass Realization: Realizes in "The Cat's Car" that she's been demonizing her parents over their divorce when in reality they were as torn up by it as she was, and that her behavior wasn’t making it any easier to deal with.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Regardless of this, she's also supportive, loyal, and cares deeply about those around her, and the entire series is her evolving past her biggest issues.
- Karmic Jackpot: At the end of the Past Car, she has her door home but refuses to enter until she saves Atticus and stops the Conductor. This turned out to be the best choice over all: she frees Atticus, stops Amelia from causing more trouble and brought One-One, the true Conductor, back to his proper role.
- Logical Latecomer: As the newest arrival on the train, she questions everything that happens on it.
- The Magnificent: Atticus calls her "Tulip the Literate" (since she introduced herself that she likes books) when they first meet.
- Meaningful Name: Discussed. When One-One asks if she's called "Tulip" because she has a big bulbous head, she explains that when she was born she had breathing problems, but she bounced back "like a perennial flower", so her parents named her Tulip after said flower.
- Missing Reflection: While it's not obvious after the Chrome Car, the final episode of Season 1 shows that Tulip no longer has her reflection even when returning to the real world.
- Nice Girl: What she's become by the final few episodes of the series, being much happier to play with the train's denizens and much more forgiving to others.
- Not So Above It All: She's embarrassed to admit that one of her happiest memories was singing loudly to pop music during road trips with her parents. The problem for her is that it's the clue to a puzzle that demands she sing a meaningful song that reflects love. After realizing that she doesn't have a choice, Tulip opens her mouth and belts a silly pop song that she adores. It ends up doing the trick, and making her feel better about regaining that memory.
- "Not So Different" Remark: This is how she convinces Amelia to pull a Heel–Face Turn. While angry about Amelia transforming Atticus into a Ghom For the Evulz, Tulip sincerely tells her that she knows what it's like to lose someone you love, and with them a past that seems magical. The divorce was as painful for her as Alrick's death was for Amelia. She also says that they can't recreate a past that has long vanished like the desert sand in the wind.
- Only Sane Woman: It comes with her logical mind and thinking. Unlike practically everyone else that got on the train, Tulip realized that it had to have a conductor, ergo someone as an authority figure. Her quest was to find the conductor and ask how to get home. She figured out the solution to the train in days, while some like Simon and Grace were trapped for years and had some Entertainingly Wrong conclusions that ended up hurting more than it helped. This tendency also allowed her to figure out that Amelia wasn't the real conductor, after viewing the Cat's videotape of the latter, and to get the means to restore Atticus from Ghom form.
- Only-Child Syndrome: Tulip is the only child of her divorced parents.
- Parental Issues: Her parents are divorced and you can tell by the first episode alone that this is having an effect on her. By the finale, she's accepted it and recovered.
- Redhead In Green: Wears a green hoodie as part of her outfit. Her hairclip is also the same color. She also wore a green shirt in the family photo from her vacation at DolphWorld.
- The Runaway: Played with. She planned to go to Game Design Camp by herself after both of her parents declined, without telling anyone.
- Shmuck Bait: Tulip had absolutely no reason to trust The Cat, and the entire setup reeked of a trap, but the idea of a videotape with all the answers (and her name on it) was too much to resist.
- Shut Up, Hannibal!: In the season 1 finale, Amelia tries to win her over by offering to create a car where her parents are still together, Tulip shoots her down by pointing out her failure to even create a car without any turtles in it.
- Small Role, Big Impact: In the grand scheme of things, she's just another passenger. But she happened to luck into the right set of circumstances to meaningfully change the train itself, and the events of Books 2 and 3 would have been much different without her intervention.
- Specifically, she dethroned Amelia and restored One-One to being the Conductor of the train, sending the woman on a path of redemption to reduce her astronomical number down to zero, leading to the end of the Apex in Book 3 and allowing One-One to help new passengers with his introductory videos.
- She also released her reflection from the Mirror World, and MT would go on to pull off the presumably unprecedented feat of making it into the real world as a denizen, along with helping Jesse come to term with his problems.
- Smart People Play Chess: In the pilot, one of the previous cars Tulip puzzled her way through was built around chess pieces. On the floor, walls, and ceiling. In the show proper, she was heading for programming camp before winding up on the train.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: Tulip is interested in coding, and wears U-framed glasses.
- Spanner in the Works: She ends up being this to Amelia, who had taken over as Conductor for the train. The train deposited her in the Snow Car, where Amelia had left One-One. Despite herself, Tulip bonded with the robot and refused to let either of their halves go over the course of their journey, even for the slightest hint on getting to the conductor. By staying loyal, she ended up undoing Amelia's plan, convinced the lady that they were not so different about wanting a past they couldn't reclaim, and said goodbye to everyone on the train with no hard feelings and One-One restored to their rightful place.
- Sour Outside, Sad Inside: To most people, Tulip seems like an ill-mannered jerk who has a lot of trouble keeping her emotions in control. However, beyond that layer lies a girl who's still processing her parents' divorce, and who honestly doesn't know what to do with her situation.
- Tomboyish Ponytail: Wears her hair like this when we first meet her and all across her journey through the train.
- Tomboyish Voice: Has a rather raspy and boyish voice later on, fitting with her personality and mannerisms.
- Trademark Favorite Food: Onions. She's shown eating them like one bites into an apple.
- Workaholic: A child variant. She's completely obsessed with finding out all of the rules of the train, because she fears that the train might kill her if she breaks one. However, she can get so into it that it overwhelmed One-One.
- When You Coming Home, Dad?: Her father rarely visits her and her mother after their divorce which, coupled with everything else Tulip's going through at the moment, only further fuels her own angst.
One-One
Atticus
Atticus
"I must warn you, I am a pacifist by nature, but a warrior by necessity."
Voiced by: Ernie Hudson
A talking corgi who rules Corginia, an entire land of talking corgis in one of the Infinity Train's cars. Desiring to ensure that a creature known as the Steward is no longer a threat to his people, he joins Tulip as her second companion on her quest to see the Conductor, in hopes that doing so will also solve his dilemma.
- Ancient Grome: His culture is very much Athens-inspired while his own name is Latin.
- Badass Adorable: Isn't he just the cutest heroic corgi you ever saw?
- Black Bead Eyes: His eyes, like the other corgis, are drawn like this.
- Breakout Character: In an early interview
with RebelTaxi, Owen Dennis commented that he had no immediate plans to make Atticus a main character, despite the positive fan reaction he received. Jump forward to the premiere and Atticus is very much a main character. - The Cameo: He's shown in One-One's pre-recorded message in "The Black Market Car".
- Civilized Animal: He's the leader of a small kingdom of talking dogs.
- The Comically Serious: His wisdom and seriousness is bellied by the fact he is still a corgi, and acts accordingly.
- Cool Crown: He wears a small dome shaped crown over his head and when Tulip manages to turn him back to normal, she places the crown back on his head and he admits he felt odd without it on.
- Face–Monster Turn: After the Conductor turns him into a Ghom in "The Ball Pit Car". He gets better.
- Fate Worse than Death: His transformation into a Ghom, which erases his entire personality and appears to be a painful process. However, Tulip does find a way to turn him back to normal by the final episode.
- Female Feline, Male Mutt: As the King of Corginia he is most definitely the male mutt to The Cat, the female feline.
- Forced Transformation: In "The Ball Pit Car", the Conductor punishes him for leaving his car and siding with Tulip by turning him into a Ghom.
- Gory Discretion Shot: When the Conductor shoots Atticus; combined with Dead Hat Shot when his crown drops on the floor shortly thereafter.
- Heroic Dog: Is an adorable corgi who is also one of the good guys.
- Heroic Sacrifice: In "The Ball Pit Car", he distracts the Steward to give Tulip and One-One the chance to escape. He survives this, but is then captured by the Conductor and turned into a Ghom.
- It's Personal with the Dragon: The reason he joins the group is to hunt down the Steward and ensure she never threatens his kingdom again and fights her in all her appearances. He's ultimately the one to destroy her in the end.
- Long Bus Trip: While other denizens like One-One, Randall and the Cat have appeared after the end of Book 1, Atticus has yet to make another appearance. Presumably he's kept quiet busy ruling over the Corginians.
- The Magnificent: His full title is "Atticus, King of the Corginians, and Uniter of the Cardigans and the Pembrokes".
- My Instincts Are Showing: To his embarrassment, he still acts very much like a corgi who likes belly rubs and eats spiders.
- Only Sane Corgi: With Tulip usually on the edge of a nervous breakdown and One-One being One-One, it's usually Atticus that is the calm voice of reason.
- Out of Focus: Out of the three protagonists in Book 1, he doesn't get as much character development or focus until "The Ball Pit Car". And even then it ends with him turned into a Ghom for the last two episodes.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: Atticus personally joins Tulip to defeat the monster, and braves the Steward's machine gun fire in a valiant (but ultimately futile) attempt to attack it. He subsequently fights the Steward every time it threatens the heroes and is eventually the one who destroys it.
- Sacrificial Lion: He is transformed into a Ghom in "The Ball Pit Car", bringing about the Darkest Hour in the series. Fortunately, Tulip turns him back in the season finale.
- The Spock: While being a dog gives him a fair share of eccentricities, he is usually right to be suspicious whenever Tulip is convinced by an Ambiguously Evil character tries talking Tulip into doing something.
- Turning Back Human: Or corgi, in this case. In the final episode Tulip finds the gun used on Atticus, inserts a corgi orb, and manages to turn him back to his original form.
- Vocal Dissonance: He's an adorable corgi with Ernie Hudson's legendary deep voice.
Supporting
The Cat
"The Cat"/Samantha
See the main character page The Steward
The Steward
Voiced by: Ashley Johnson
A robotic entity who enforces order on the train on the behalf of the Conductor.
- The Brute: It's the Conductor's enforcer. Denizens of the train who know what it is are terrified of it.
- Combat Tentacles: Its whole body is made of a giant bundle of wires.
- The Dragon: For the Conductor. In "The Cat's Car" we see that it actually takes orders in form of tone sequences.
- Fireball Eyeballs: The Steward has blue flame coming out of its eye sockets. Behind the mask is a pair of tubes generating the flame, which also contain its machine guns.
- Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy: Despite being equipped with machine guns, it never actually seems to hit anything with them. Probably justified, since it isn't a combat robot but a Train service bot.
- Mini-Mecha: In Book 2, it serves as this for One-One after being rebuilt. He rides in the slot behind its mask, and the brief shot we got of that slot in Book 1 implies that this was its original purpose for whenever One-One needs to personally confront/fix something and/or go outside the engine room. This is confirmed in Book 4, while also being revealed as his method of making Train-wide announcements and restraining passengers through their mag-boots before Amelia's takeover removed the boots.
- Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: The Steward tosses Atticus next to the broken pipes in "The Corgi Car". While it goes after Tulip, he manages to turn off the water to stop the flooding.
- Non-Malicious Monster: It doesn't seem to have much intent of its own, acting solely on the orders of the Conductor.
- Off with His Head!: Atticus bursts out of his Ghom form right through the Steward's mask face.
- Shout-Out: Visually, it bears a strong resemblance to Koh the Face Stealer from Avatar: The Last Airbender.
- Sliding Scale of Robot Intelligence: Unlike One-One it appears to be completely non-sentient, requiring directions from the Conductor in order to take any action.
- Starfish Robots: It's a humanoid face that moves around on tentacles.
- Tinman Typist: Its three-pronged claws can open into more intricate fingers to access the equipment behind the holographic shells of the cars.
- You Have Failed Me: All signs indicate that its retaliation against The Cat for failing to detain Tulip was going to be pretty gruesome.
The Conductor (UNMARKED SPOILERS FOR BOOK 1!)
See "Amelia" on the main character page
Minor
Mikayla
Mikayla
I thought your game was cool when I played it. And you know how I feel about video games.
Voiced by: Reagan Gomez-Preston
Tulip's best friend at home.
- Hipster: Maybe. She hates video games, but she liked Tulip's. Since Tulip's game is in its early stages, it implies she never played a video game before.
- Innocently Insensitive: She asks Tulip for details about her divorced parents and seems to be oblivious to how upset it makes Tulip.
- Only Friend: May be Tulip's only friend as she's seen in the beginning of Book 1 and in one of Tulip's memories in "The Cat's Car".
Tulip's Parents
Megan and Andy Olsen
Voiced by: Audrey Wasilewski and Mark Fite
Tulip's recently divorced parents.
- Amazingly Embarrassing Parents: Tulip certainly thinks so, to the point that sharing a memory about them makes her uncomfortable.
- Amicable Exes: They're trying to be this, but they still get frustrated at each other. By the final episode of Book 1, they seem to have finally found common ground.
- Parents as People: They appear to be trying their best for the sake of their daughter, but they both have demanding jobs and communication can be an issue. Unfortunately, Tulip's needs, such as needing a ride to coding camp, end up lost in the shuffle and kickstarts the plot.
- Passive-Aggressive Kombat: A number of their fights utilize this. They're outwardly polite but passive-aggressively digging into each other. Their fight at the water park being a primary example, with the issue of Tulip's eyesight being ammunition for an argument.
- Poor Communication Kills: Andy got the schedule of coding camp wrong, which only fueled Tulip's anger at her parents and the divorce, which culminated in her heading out to Minnesota on her own and onto the train itself. To his credit, he realized his mistake and sent an apology text.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Without the divorce and her father accidentally getting the schedule of the coding camp wrong, Tulip would never have run away and boarded the Infinity Train.
Greige
Greige
A crystalline gentleman who helps Tulip get through his car.
- All There in the Script: His name is only mentioned in the credits.
- The Cameo: He makes a brief appearance in "The Lucky Cat Car" playing a dance game.
- Heroic Mime: Conveys most of what he needs to say via mime, which Atticus helpfully translates.
- Meaningful Name: Greige is a beige/grey color...which is exactly the color he is.
- Silicon-Based Life: Obviously.
- The Speechless: Comes with the territory of being made of crystal, and thus having no vocal chords. His vocalizations are limited to the occasional quiet "Ah" noise.
Nancy
Nancy
Voiced by: Lindsay Katai
A humanoid flower who resides in the "Straight Up Italy"-Car. She owns a restaurant, Tulip helps her deliver her goods.
- The Blank: She doesn't seem to have a face, or if she does, it's hidden in her petals.
- The Cameo: She's seen in "The Lucky Cat Car", selling some of her homemade pasta.
- Non-Human Head: She looks perfectly human, save for the head, which is a giant rose.
- Plant Person: She has a rose for a head.
Aloysius III
Aloysius III
- Voiced by: Matthew Rhys
A talking Galapagos tortoise who is the king of the turtle people inhabiting the Unfinished Car.
- Cool Crown: He wears a crown on his head.
- Furry Confusion: Unlike the rest of the turtles which are Funny Animals that walk on two legs, he looks like a regular tortoise.
- Interspecies Friendship: Forms one with Atticus, who is eager to meet a fellow royal.
- The Magnificent: His full title is "Aloysius III, emperor and unifier of the hard and soft shells".
- Non-Mammalian Hair: He has Big Ol' Eyebrows.
- Significant Double Casting: Aloysius is voiced by Matthew Rhys, who also voices Alrick. Word of God says this is intentional, as Amelia had created the Unfinished Car in an attempt to recreate her life with Alrick and got so close to recreating him that she got the voice right.
- Talking Animal: A tortoise in this case.
- Uncertain Doom: He's not seen at all when the Apex raid his car in "The Musical Car". Amelia herself doesn't even mention his name when she brings up that she sent the car all the way back to the caboose.
- Wise Old Turtle: He is elderly and a wise king.
Mirror One and Mirror Atticus
Mirror One and Mirror Atticus
Voiced by: Jeremy Crutchley (Mirror One), Ernie Hudson (Mirror Atticus)
The reflections of One-One and Atticus, respectively.
- Foil: Mirror One is much closer to One-One's original self before they'd became a Literal Split Personality, while Mirror Atticus is more timid compared to his prime.
- Mirror Self: Like MT, they function as this to One-One and Atticus, only they never attempt to escape the Chrome Car.
- Naïve Newcomer: Mirror Atticus nervously admits he doesn't know how to help Tulip since it's his first day reflecting anywhere else, since his prime has only reflected himself in a river from Corginia.
- Never Given a Name: Promotional materials only refer them as "Mirror One" and "Mirror Atticus", since they're reflections like MT and were treated the same way as she was.
- Small Role, Big Impact: They only appear for a brief time, but Mirror One alerting the Reflection Police about MT going rogue set the events of Book 2 in motion and by extension, indirectly brought about the Flecs' downfall.
Khaki Bottoms
Khaki Bottoms
Voiced by: Ron Funches
A living plush rabbit who resides in the Ball Pit Car.
- Bunnies for Cuteness: He fits the bill.
- The Cameo: Shows up in "The Lucky Cat Car" carrying the jiggle-wiggle.
- Ear Ache: "The Lucky Cat Car" reveals that he survived the incident of "The Ball Pit Car", though not without losing an ear.
- Living Toys: He's made from plush and can walk and talk about.
- Manchild: Considering how he resides in a Ball Pit Car.
- Mundane Made Awesome: He makes a trip across the Ball Pit Car sound like it's some epic quest.
- What Happened to the Mouse?: The Steward destroys the Ball Pit Car for the most part, and he's never seen again. He appears in "The Lucky Cat Car", jiggle-wiggle in hand although he lost an ear and had to patch it up.
Alrick (Unmarked Spoilers for Book 1!)
Alrick Timmens
Voiced by: Matthew Rhys
The deceased husband of the Conductor, Amelia Hughes.
- Alice Allusion: The first flashback in "The Past Car" showed him with a book report in regards to Alice in Wonderland, with the two paragraphs talking about growing up and identity.
- Childhood Friend Romance: He and Amelia have known each other since they were kids, which is probably what made his death even harder for Amelia.
- Dark Is Not Evil: He wore a black hoodie just like the Conductor, but he was a really sweet person in life.
- Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold: Had blond hair and was such a sweet person.
- Hidden Depths: Given what Owen revealed about his death, it's likely that he participated in motocross, a dirtbiking sport that originated in the UK. According to Word of God, he died from a dirt-biking accident.
- In the Hood: He was shown to be wearing a black hooded jacket.
- Ironic Name: His name means "old ruler"...but he's dead when Book 1 begins.
- Late-Arrival Spoiler: He's mentioned in "The Hey Oh Whoa Car" when Amelia explains how she got on the train in the first place.
- The Lost Lenore: Amelia's grief over his death is why she boarded the train, and her inability to let him go is why her number is so unfathomably high.
- Loved by All: In life, no one disliked Alrick. His and Amelia's friends mention they're all attending the funeral and want her to come. Likely, this is what made his death so much harder for her, why a good person she loved had to perish.
- Meaningful Name: His name is French for "old/noble ruler", which is probably a Red Herring to make people think that he was the Conductor and not his wife, Amelia.
- Morality Chain: When Amelia lost him, she started sliding into villainy on the train. She cries Tears of Remorse on realizing this, that he wouldn't have liked the person he would become.
- Nice Guy: He's a bit of The Gadfly and The Prankster, but we see that in life he liked everyone, and doted on Amelia. That's what made his death all the more tragic.
- Nothing Is Scarier: Thanks to One-One messing with the tape, Tulip doesn't find out how he died. He was a fairly young man, didn't seem to have any health issues, and didn't seem to take risks. We just know it happened.
- Plot-Triggering Death: Had he not died, Amelia would have never gotten on the Infinity Train, and never tried to meddle with Tulip's quest, wouldn't have indirectly make Grace kickstart the Apex, and would never have made everyone's lives more miserable.
- Posthumous Character: He's only seen in flashbacks from Amelia's tape.
- The Prankster: It's implied he put a whoopie cushion at the teacher's desk to cheer up Amelia.
- Red Herring: Is thought to be the Conductor due to him wearing a similar black hooded jacket and the flashback having him use a voice modulator that emulates the Conductor's robotic voice. It turns out that it's actually his wife emulating those quirks to keep his memory alive.
- Satellite Character: His biggest contribution to Book 1's plot is that he is the catalyst for Amelia's descent as the Conductor.
- Small Role, Big Impact: Only appears in flashbacks in the penultimate episode of Book 1, but it's his death that sparks Amelia's trip to the Infinity Train and subsequently becoming the Conductor along with unintentionally creating the Apex in Books 2 and 3.
- Smart People Wear Glasses: He wears glasses, and is shown to be fairly intelligent.
- Sweet Tooth: He loved jelly, and in the first flashback of "The Past Car", he's eating out of an open jar of grape jelly on his desk. This explains the jelly on the road found in "The Unfinished Car".
- Too Good for This Sinful Earth: So good that his wife was unable to move on and tried to make other passengers aboard the Infinity Train miserable if she couldn't get him back.
- Walking Spoiler: This character's entire existence is the biggest spoiler of Book 1. How big? His existence ties to the Conductor's true character.
