Fanfic / Orange Rose Gathering

Orange Rose Gathering, found both on Fanfiction net and Archive, is a Lighter and Softer spinoff of both the main Blossomingverse and Pokémon Reset Bloodlines by Cross and Exotos in an alternate universe where a teenage Chloe gets a vacation job at the Ketchum Family Reunion as part of a plan to help Chloe out of her shell. The first M-rated story in the Blossomingverse, due to it being a Sex Comedy.

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Tropes included in the story:

• A-Cup Angst: Chloe isn't necessarily lacking, but when she sees that that many of Ash's half-sisters, who are around her age or older, are quite buxom, it makes her feel inadequate at being seen as attractive.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Double Subverted with Chloe. At first it seems that while she used to be as angsty and petty as her Blossomverse counterpart, she's in the present day a fairly average Bratty Teenage Daughter. Come the family reunion, however, and it becomes clear this Chloe does have issues, primarily with her feelings and sexuality, that her counterpart never had to deal with due to Orange Rose Chloe being older. The main difference is that her issues are more inward facing than the outward ones of the regular Blossomverse, as she's more likely to feel bad about herself than start yelling at others.
• Adaptational Badass:
  • Chloe not only gets her own Pokémon, a Smeargle, seemingly earlier than canon, but she even manages to win her first Pokémon battle in an Offscreen Moment of Awesome as well as a few others. Those battles are even part of the World Coronation Series and Goh outright says she is the highest ranked student at their school now.
  • While it is not said outright, the story hints that Ash's Totodile evolved into Feraligatr, though retaining his tendency towards dancing.
• Adaptational Intelligence: A slight example with Ash. While there are no signs this Ash is a peggy sue, he did have the idea to set multiple alarms the day he became a trainer to ensure he woke up on time. He broke all three while he slept anyway.
• Adaptation Personality Change: Compared to her usual Blossomingverse self Chloe seems to have dropped a bit of her most extreme angst, though there is still plenty remaining and it does flair up on occasion. It just seems to be a point she can self medicate it better at 15 than she did at age 10 via interests, games, and snark. Also being 15 she's a little....horny.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • A slight example as here, Ash is not a full time member of the Cerise Institute. He's brought in to help Goh, who is a full member, with dangerous assignments he isn't ready for and to help prepare him for working on his own one day. He seems to get along with the rest of the Institute staff as well as in canon, however.
  • In the Blossomingverse proper, Chloe hated Ash's guts, and it was only after her Train trip did she even start humoring the prospect to befriend him. In here, while still testy towards him, Chloe's more amicable to Ash than she ever was in the original fanfic universe, and it is eventually clarified that her attitude is at least partially the result of Chloe having feelings for Ash she had trouble expressing and was handling in a tsundere manner.
  • Chloe and Goh's friendship was heavily strained in the Blossomverse, but here, what little is shown of their relationship seems to be on the neutral to amicable side.
  • In the main Blososmverse story Chloe and Delia's relationship was very much strained due to Chloe's role in Parker's actions and her own part in Ash's issues in the story, and the best they managed was a sort of unease peace where Chloe accepted that Delia would likely never fully trust her. Here without this Delia treats Chloe like she treats almost everyone: she's friendly, nice, and jokes with Chloe. The only part of their relationship that has any strain is Chloe's feelings about Delia having dated her mom, and that is more played for comedy than any actual animosity.
  • A bit of an odd example, as in the Blossomverse Chloe does not like The Cat, at all. She outright had The Cat's life ruined for what happened with Simon, and even to Wistera The Cat is still in disgrace. Here, in the fiction based on the Infinity Train, The Cat's fictional counterpart 'The Skitty' is Chloe's favorite character.
  • Talia and Delia are good friends in Blossomverse, but just like in Branching Paths, they used to be an item and are Amicable Exes.
  • In Cherry Bloodlines, Chloe didn't exactly like Lita, seeing her as someone who symbolized everything she hated about Trainers and only begrudgingly getting to like her by the end of it, but here, the two get along just fine from the get go and become quick friends and eventually having Chloe ask Lita out.
• Adaptational Sexuality:
  • Blossomverse Chloe, whenever she shows romantic interest, only ever really shows interests in guys, but this Chloe is at the very least some form of bi, finding both guys and girls attractive.
  • Lita is a minor example. In the original Cherry Bloodlines, she's Ambiguously Gay, being highly affectionate to Chloe while treating guys platonically. This story, meanwhile, wastes no time establishing that she's most definitely into girls with any interest in guys being ambiguous due to the vast majority of guys in story being her half brothers.
  • Like in Branching Paths, Delia and Talia are bi, having had a fling a long time ago.
  • In Chapter 5 Chloe suggests that her bully Sara is attracted to girls, something never hinted in the original story.
• Ambiguous Situation: While Chloe thinks the moms might be screwing each other, she only thinks that and has no real proof.
• Amicable Exes: Delia and Talia, like in Infinity Train: Branching Paths, dated as teenagers and are still fond of each other, as their relationship ended due to Delia having to return home instead of a breakup. Chloe finds this more than a little disconcerting.
• An Offer You Can't Refuse: After Chloe and Lita are caught peeping at the second lake, Ash and his girlfriends... Invite them to do some Skinny Dipping. Given that the only other option is them having to say what happened and possibly get fired or hated...
• Ascended Fridge Horror: It's mostly implied, but with Ash's father being the same bastard as in Bloodlines, and the Train all but confirmed to exist, a possible reason for his absence was that the Train took him. One of the ghost stories not only implies this is the case, but that he wants to get out.
• Bastard Bastard: These are confirmed to exist among Ash's gargantuan family, but luckily for Chloe (and the readers), none of them are invited to the reunion, with the closest being those who had a Heel–Face Turn (Belladonna).
• The Bet:
  • Professor Cerise and Talia apparently have a bet if Chloe does or does not lose her virginity. It is apparently multi-staged, as Chloe not losing it in a few days means Talia owes her husband a soda.
  • Chloe and Lita bet on if Ash is in the magazines they are reading. Lita wins the bet when Ash is found and gets a kiss from Chloe. They have a second bet on seeing anything weird or sexual while on a 'door knocking' mission for Delia, but this goes nowhere.
• Beach Episode: The lakes in the hills around Pallet Town are major locations of the story, taking up large chunks of the first chapter at the main lake and the second chapter with the secret lake for skinny dipping. Chapter 5 takes place near entirely at the lake, as a part of the reunion festivities are taking place there.
• Big Brother Instinct: The older siblings of Ash's family, including Ash himself, are quite helpful and friendly to their younger siblings. This will turn into Knight Templar Big Brother if the sibling should be sufficiently harmed however, which would lead to, to paraphrase Chloe, "every 6 foot + sibling with dangerous powers and likely a legion of Pokemon at the top echelons of strength will descend on you in a swarm".
• Big Eater: Like in Reset Bloodliners eat a lot. Unlike in Reset this includes Chloe's snacks, which is one of the reasons she finds Ash annoying (even if he does always replace them before he leaves). Chloe's job involves mostly aiding in cooking food for hundreds of them, a prospect that often leaves Chloe tired and moderately traumatized.
• Big, Screwed-Up Family: Big is certainly not in question for Ash and his half siblings, who number possibly to the thousands. Screwed up is more for beyond the core we see at the party, featuring infamous criminals, those who desire to take over the world, and the like.
• Book Dumb: Ash, who is 18 in story, has not been in school since he was 10. While he is an accomplished trainer, he needs Pikachu to do math for him.
• Breast Attack: Chloe slaps Lita's breasts in rage after the larger girl says she's hotter than she thinks she is. Chloe's rather stunned once she processes what happened.
• Cain and Abel: While it isn't elaborated on Ash does mention he has evil siblings, with only one of them (Fender) being named.
• Canon Foreigner: A few siblings exist in story that don't in any other Reset-based works.
  • Celesta: A 13-year old sister from Johto who Chloe borrows a swimsuit from.
  • John Lenot: A Straight Gay brother who explains to Chloe and Lita about a few logistical bits with the siblings that weren't staying at the inn.
  • Aether, Dolomite, and Duke: a trio of brothers Chloe and Lita meet while skinny dipping who take a liking to Chloe.
  • Chloe's first Pokemon, a Smeargle.
  • Jinx Evren: A older female Ash sibling with the Face of a Thug and an intimidating Amazonian appearance.
  • Charlotte P.K Finch and her eight children Amaru (her biological son), and the adopted Coca, George, Clover, Sorrel, Dar, Tox, and Melody.
  • The scary story participants Reeve Poppy, Juliet Avon, Angust, and Pamela.
  • Delaney and Germander, a sister and brother who are among the siblings crushing hard on Chloe.
• Canon Immigrant: Lita Allegro comes over from Cherry, along with Talia's criminal brother (though he's only mentioned).
• Chivalrous Pervert: Aether, Dolomite, and Duke are very much interested in having sex with Chloe, but also clearly hoped to have something more with her than a fling. And when they stumbled into the situation where they are familiar with Talia's R-18 work and Chloe isn't, they choose honesty on what they meant over avoiding the topic and not ruining the moment, a choice that Chloe lampshades the decency of.
• The Clan: Ash's family is ginormous. If we count everybody who goes that Ash considers to be 'around Chloe's age' at the reunion, or to be specific the ones around 14 to 16, that's just over four hundred people. That isn't including the younger and older.
• Cool and Unusual Punishment: Because Chloe and Lita's initial attempt at spying lasts only thirty seconds before Iris smells them, the majority of Ash's girlfriends decide that inviting them in to swim in a offer they can't really refuse and save face is enough of a punishment. Ash and Iris didn't even realize it was a punishment and thought they were just being shy.
• Covert Pervert: Would you expect Talia Cerise to draw and write hentai? Chloe certainly didn't.
• Cuddle Bug:
  • Acerola apparently likes to give hugs to cheer people up, if what she did to Chloe is taken as a hint.
  • Lita is quite cuddly to Chloe when they wake up in chapter 4.
• Darwinist Desire: Charlotte, like Chloe, was and is interested in Bloodliners. Unlike Chloe, she expressed this by willingly banging Ash's father to have a Bloodliner child.
• Defeat by Modesty: How Chloe wins a Combusken Fight against Iolani, one of Ash's half-sisters, by pulling off the latter's bikini top. While Iolani laughs this loss off, Chloe wisely doesn't use this strategy when she is up against Delia.
• Demoted to Extra:
  • The Infinity Train, while vaguely mentioned in a means similar to Cherry via a 'green portal residue' and confirmed by Word of God to exist and be the inspiration for Chloe's favorite book 'The Endless Trail', is not present in of itself or affecting the plot in anyway. The fic's the second in verse, after Cherry Prince and Princess, to lack a crossover tag with Infinity Train and be primarily focused on the Pokemon verse.
  • On the Blossomverse side of things, Chloe, Ash, and Delia are the only characters who appear in all chapters of the story. Professor Cerise, Chryssa, and Renji, are only relevant in the first chapter as part of the setup, Talia has a major scene in chapter 3 after not appearing in chapter 1, and Goh has a bit more of a presence with a minor role in the climax of the third chapter by texting Chloe as well as the first, while Parker sits out the plot entirely alongside all the major Infinity Train characters (see above). Chloe does mention them often enough.
• Denser and Wackier: The story is considered a crackish Sex Comedy rather than one of the darker tales of the Blossomverse, same with the Resetverse.
• Dude Looks Like a Lady: Aether, one of the brothers who go Skinny Dipping in Chapter 2, has long hair and a body type similar to Chloe's, to the point the narration lampshades it.
• Enemy Mine: Ash and his oldest brother, the Bloodline Prince, have teamed up against common enemies before despite the later being one of the evil siblings.
• Ethical Slut: Meliae, one of Ash's sisters, is more prone to sleeping around with multiple people than settling with a single long term partner (though she is interested in finding one someday) and is as nice as any of the family and has a large role in chapter 5 helping Chloe with her issues with her sexuality and body image.
• Expy: The Skitty is a in-universe expy of The Cat in Chloe's favorite book 'The Endless Trail', which itself is an expy of the train written by a former passenger.
• Fainting: Chloe does this after learning just how big Ash's family really is.
• Family Disunion: The main bulk of the story takes place at the Ketchum family reunion, where Chloe not only opens up to people and gets to know Ash better, but slowly begins to realize things about herself she never thought of. The family itself isn't disunited and seem to get along very well with each other.
• Famous Ancestor: More than a few of Ash's relatives and lovers are related to famous people long dead, like Acerola's status as the last of the Alolan Royal Family and the Lono twin's ancestor Ti Lono.
• Fantastic Racism: While it isn't obvious and thrown in your face about it, a few hints in the story do suggest that Anti-Bloodliner views are still a thing in this story. During the second chapter Lita is careful about keeping people from seeing her use her abilities to charge Chloe's phone, while the townsfolk in Pallet are not informed about what connects the large group to their small town.
• Flower Motifs: The Orange Rose of the title refers to the language of flowers for 'life, energy, passion, and excitement'. It is certainly rather descriptive of Ash's many siblings in general.
• Generation Xerox: Chloe and Talia have feelings for Ash and Delia, though Talia doesn't seem to know the former nad Chloe only learned of the later in story to her distress, though seemingly entirely in the means of disliking thinking of her mom in a relationship in general.
• Ghost Story: The majority of Chapter 4 is spent with Chloe and Ash's giant family yelling these to each other, with whoever tells the scariest story gaining a prize. Chloe ends up winning, naturally.
• Gone Swimming, Clothes Stolen: The fate of the knight in Juliet's scary story started to kick in because he took a bath and his armor was stolen by residents of Glimwood Tangle (most likely Impidimp).
• Has a Type:
  • Chloe, as Lita catches by Chapter 5, has a thing for people with black hair like Lita, Ash, and Valerie. Chloe mentally confirms this does not extend towards Goh.
  • Lita has a fondness for redheads, being quite attracted to Chloe and finding Flannery 'smoking'.
  • Chloe initially thinks Ash has a thing for purple hair as half of the girls he's dating have that colored hair (Iris, Anabel, and Acerola), which he hadn't noticed before she pointed it out. It's actually confirmed he has a thing for girls with long hair.
• Hated by All: Ash's father, and the father of all of the half siblings, is not liked by anyone. The kids don't like being abandoned, the mothers beat deadbeat husband piñatas inspired by his lack of a presence in their life, and Ash says they are all glad he's dead. The closest we see to anyone being nice about him is Charlotte, who at least apparently knew what she was getting into, and she doesn't particularly like him as much as 'doesn't hate his guts'.
• Hereditary Homosexuality: Talia and Chloe are both mother and daughter and bisexual.
• Heroic Bastard: Ash and every one of his siblings is illegitimate, and Chloe has yet to meet a Bastard Bastard among them, though they are confirmed to exist.
• Hero of Another Story: Many of Ash's siblings, just as in Reset, have had their own share of adventures similar to that of Ash. We hear snippets of their adventures here and there.
• Hormone-Addled Teenager: Chloe is....a bit of a hormonal mess and that was before she was surrounded by a bunch of hot Ash siblings in various states of dress.
• Hotter and Sexier: Easily among the most raunchy stories in the Blossomingverse thanks to its M rating and older cast.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: This is pretty much Ash's deal with most of his girlfriends due to his height, but Acerola takes the cake, whose the shortest at five foot two while Ash is over six feet tall (somewhere around the mid six feet), so she typically aims higher than usual when hugging someone to counteract this.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Chloe says the trope almost verbatim in Chapter 5, revealing that her sexual urges are also connected to feeling alone and craving for some romantic affection.
• Incompatible Orientation: After Chloe rips Iolani's bikini off to win a Combusken Fight, Iolani tells the girl that she's straight.
• Insecure Love Interest: Part of Chloe's Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality. She's afraid she won't be good enough for someone else to be in a relationship with her.
• I Was Just Joking: Well, half joking, but when she is told about taking the first baby steps in stepping out of her comfort zone, she asks if that includes accepting nothing bad will from from her touching another girl's breasts. She didn't expect Meliae to take her answer seriously.
• Later-Installment Weirdness:
  • While this is the second story without the Infinity Train tag, it's the first to have absolutely no connection to the main stories in the verse, since even Cherry Prince and Princess had a flashback to the previous timeline. While most spin offs have a Loose Canon or a Broad Strokes relation to the main universe, this one has none and is a full alternate universe.
  • Most of the other stories ranged from G to T in rating, but this story is an outright M.
• Lighter and Softer: The declared aim of the story being to write something a lot lighter and sillier than the usual Blossomingverse fair. It's also a lot more silly than the average Reset story, playing the familiar situation more for comedy than Reset does, though possibly justified by the fact Ash admits he's had years to get used to it.
• Love Confession: One of the big events of Chapter 5 is Chloe admitting she's interested in Ash. To this, all Ash could say it is all up to Chloe if she wants to pursue a relationship. His harem, at least, approves of her and Ash being Friends with Benefits.
• The Magazine Rule: Chapter 3 has Chloe and Lita, to pass time, read magazines featuring Trainers in swimsuits.
• Marshmallow Hell: In Chapter 5, Chloe asks Meliae to let her hug and snuggle her head between the latter's breasts. Meliae gladly allows her to help her feel better.
• Massive Numbered Siblings: Ash has hundreds of paternal half siblings, if not thousands, with the plot being set around a family reunion of them that Chloe is employed at the reunion as help.
• Mathematician's Answer: Ash's answer to Chloe asking why he has an amazon sister (Jinx) is 'the same reason he has ninja ones'. Chloe does not like this answer.
• Meaningful Name: Chloe notes how many gym leaders have names like this in the magazines spreads (like Lt. Surge and Flannery) and wonders if it is coincidence or 'their families being terrible'.
• Mundane Utility: Lita can charge Chloe's phone for her with her bloodliner powers.
• Mythology Gag: To various canon, Reset, and Blossomingverse events.
  • Ash reminds Goh he had tried to catch a Zapdos at one point.
  • Ash referring to Vedia having once been a bad person brings to mind how Vedia and the rest of Belladonna's group were originally introduced as antagonists.
  • Iris's explanation of where she and Ash first met matches up with her Reset debut.
  • Zossie and Phycho's alter-ego names of Zeezee and Phineas from Orange Lily are referenced by Evanna.
  • Chloe has a intense first reaction to seeing Valerie in the swimsuit magazine and finding her very attractive, calling back to how, originally, Chloe was written with one in a few side stories before Exetos realized just how old Valerie was.
  • Ash's Shiny Chansey from Reset and the Blossomingverse appears in chapter 3.
  • Dawn's scary story is the events of Pokémon: The Rise of Darkrai and Ash vaguely describes Pokémon: Arceus and the Jewel of Life after Dawn finishes.
  • Chloe paraphrases Misty's self-deprecating joke from The March of the Exeggutor Squad.
  • The Reset S.S. Anne chapter is referenced via the use of a Pokeball bobbing game at the beach in Chapter 5. Chloe also brings up the ship's anime fate, which the Reset ship lacked.
• Never Heard That One Before: Averted, as Jinx has legit never heard her name used in a 'jinxed it' joke and finds it hilarious.
• Noodle Incident: Plenty
  • Before the start of the story Professor Cerise had sent Renji and Chrysa to spy on the school to get an idea of what was going on as Chloe wouldn't tell him. They have war flashbacks over it
  • Ash missed one of his mom's birthday parties because Charizard veered off to fight an Articuno. Delia had Charizard burn things for her in punishment for it.
  • Ash has gone to the jungle to fight the hordes of death Chloe keeps referencing, though he hasn't in a year. No further context was asked for.
• The Nose Knows: Iris smelling Chloe and Lita in the bushes is the reason they're spotted while peeping on Ash and the girls.
• Not Quite Dead: Reeve's scary story implies that Ash and co's father isn't dead as suspected, just trapped on the Infinity Train. And he wants out.
• Offscreen Moment of Awesome: Chloe manages to win her first ever Pokémon Battle with only a Smeargle and minimal knowledge. It's offscreen, and her streak quickly goes down the drain when Jinx appears, but it's still impressive.
• Older Than They Look:
  • Vedia's small stature making her seem like 10, and thus even younger than Chloe, she's actually among the oldest of those present at 19. Though this was Chloe herself guessing this due to how virtually everyone she meets is larger than most are at their age.
  • While no one seems to outright think Chloe is younger than she says she is, they do default to a 13 year old's swimsuit for her as the siblings do age up faster than most others.
  • Lusamine looks as young as she ever does even in her fifties.
• Only in It for the Money: The only reason Chloe's working at a family reunion with hundreds of Ash siblings is because she really needs the money. Well that and one other reason. She comes to enjoy herself on its own merits over time.
• Open-Minded Parent: Delia's reaction to Ash being a relationship with multiple girls? Don't make her an early grandmother.
• Panty Thief: Impidimp in the Glimwood Tangle are known to do this, though not for sexual reasons. They are just as likely to steal a person's left sock or car keys than a woman's underwear, and it is more because Ballonlea is mostly inhabited by woman than any sexual reason they tend to steal panties.
• Parental Sexuality Squick:
  • Chloe does not like imagining her parents naked, she does not like hearing them having sex, and she does not like hearing her mother's ex say that she has 'an artist's fingers'.
  • In a reverse of the trope Professor Cerise also does not like thinking about his daughter being interested in being sexually active.
• The Peeping Tom: Chloe is a female version of the trope, and is frequently interested in seeing things. Though we only see her actually do so in chapter 2.
• Polyamory:
  • The various Ash siblings, including Ash, lean towards this as in Reset, though monogamous pairings are seen.
  • Chloe is headed towards this in Chapter 5, having both confessed her interest in Ash and asked Lita out on a date.
• Promoted to Love Interest:
  • Acerola is one of Ash's girlfriends, which is not the plan for her in Reset.^note Reset began early in the XY era when Acerola did not exist yet.. Inverted with Dawn, where here she is one of many Ash's half-siblings, vs one of his planned girlfriends for Reset.
  • Chloe has a crush on Ash that influences her actions in the story until her confession in Chapter 5.
• Public Secret Message: Chloe's favorite book, 'The Endless Trail' was written based on the author's experiences on the train to cope and to let others who experienced it to know they aren't alone, and to contact the author about it if need be.
• Really Gets Around:
  • The unnamed father of Ash and his seemingly countless siblings, obviously. Borders, distance, sense, it didn't stop him from leaving children everywhere with only the Draconids and Ultra Megalopolians not having his children among them. And his children are 'fixing' that.
  • Meliae sleeps around and doesn't have a solid partner, though compared to her father she's far less megalomaniacal and nasty about it.
• Related in the Adaptation:
  • While a few of Ash's siblings are canon characters whose moms mistook him for their child as in Reset, Aunt Hilary from the Blossomingverse is switched from being Delia's sister in law to her biological sister. This doesn't mean they get along any better.
  • In Reset's main universe Wicke is only linked to the large family via her nephew Zilant, with a alternate universe Wicke briefly sees showing her one where she has a daughter in the family as well. Orange Rose takes the later approach.
  • Dawn is one of half siblings, which is not part of Reset's canon. Of course, this means she isn't one of Ash's girlfriends.
• Remarrying for Your Kids: Averted for the mothers of Ash's half-siblings that came to the reunion. It is mentioned that the half-siblings that do have stepfathers generally don't have moms attending since they don't need support from the larger clan.
• Rewatch Bonus: After Chapter 5's reveal that Chloe had feelings for Ash the entire time, parts of the story have a different meaning to them.
• Running Gag: A few
  • Chloe will reference 'going into the jungle to fight the hordes of death' at least once a chapter.
  • Someone in Pallet Town will insult Carl, a Pallet Town antagonist from Wisteria, at least once a chapter for the first four chapters, though he is spared from it in Chapter 5.
• Sibling Rivalry: Delia and her sister Hilary do not get along, to a point Ash suggests they have a policy to stay on the opposite side of Kanto from each other. While Ash gets along with the vast majority of his siblings, he and Red seem to reflexively desire to battle each other the instant they see each other and speak tersely whenever they see each other. Yellow has to play peacekeeper.
• Silver Fox: Being grandparent age doesn't prevent Drayden and Drasna from being in the swimsuit magazine Lita and Chloe read.
• Single Parents Are Undesirable: Delia mentions to Chloe in chapter 4 that while the people in Pallet Town do think she's the prettiest lady in town, this trope keeps them from engaging in a relationship with her.
• Shared Family Quirks: Most of the seen Ash siblings have a selection of similar traits to him behavior wise. They are friendly, more or less resistant to Chloe's snark in the lines of taking offense, and have a certain level of cluelessness about them (with various siblings not knowing what cherry blossom trees, serenading, and 'jinxed it' mean). Perhaps by sheer osmosis these traits are also present in many of their lovers and mothers, though this is not a uniform trait.
• Shout-Out:
  • Ash mentions having been in the region of Kaskade for a month while reuniting with Betty.
  • Several to Yu Gi Oh series, as is tradition for the Blossomverse.
    • Goh channels Earth when he texts Chloe in chapter 3 about him being 'socially awkward'.
    • The scary story rules being based on the level of card drawn is taken from an early episode of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX.
  • When Delia bemoans the "terrible" disaster of a delayed delivery of 50 cakes, Chloe responses that the word "terrible" should only be used when the number of cakes are 40.
• Skinny Dipping: A large part of the second chapter, where Lita and Chloe sneak up to a second lake where this is practiced to do so (or to peep), but quickly are spotted and are invited in under the assumption of being shy.
• Slice of Life: Ignoring the Bloodliners and Pokémon, the story basically involves Chloe tagging along to Ash's family reunion in order to rest and relax, make friends, get into goofy antics, and have a good time.
• Spared by the Adaptation:
  • Lita's mom in Cherry Bloodlines was trapped on the Infinity Train and had been for a while, while in this story she had avoided that fate.
  • In a more subtle manner, it's implied that despite her angst, this Chloe wasn't snatched by the Train.
• Stacy's Mom: Chloe's raging hormones means that she often is attracted to moms, having hormonal reactions on screen and off to Delia, Grace, Lusamine, and Wicke.
• Statuesque Stunner: Many of Ash's sisters are over six feet tall and, at least by Chloe's opinion, all very attractive. Chloe outright calls Lita 'merely' six feet tall in comparison to her older sisters like Betty and Belladonna, who are in the mid-six foot range.
• Suspiciously Specific Denial: With Chapter 5's reveal on Chloe's real views on Ash, a review noted she was prone to this.
• Tournament Arc: A brief, offscreen one takes up a good deal of Chapter 3, with Chloe being added and getting a Pokémon, a Smeargle, to participate.
• Thanks for the Mammary: Accidental example. When Acerola tries to hug Chloe to help her feel better, she, due to being smaller than her other companions, aims a little higher and ends up groping her instead.
• Twin Threesome Fantasy: In Chapter 5, it's mentioned that Lana got herself "a hot twin sandwich".
• Ultimate Universe: The timeline of events in the backstory of Orange Rose seem to be some sort of fusion of the events of canon, Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, and the Blossomingverse.
• Waterfall Shower: While offscreen this is apparently how most of the Ash siblings shower outside of Delia's inn.
• The Wild Hunt: The Hawaiian equivalent , the Night Marchers, are the focus on Acerola's scary story.
• Yaoi Fangirl: Chloe is more than a little interested to hear about a Ash sibling whose with another man, and admits to Ash she sort of expected to see him and Goh doing things of that nature together, which Ash confirms to not be the case.
• You Are Grounded!: Parker is grounded during the events of the story for violence. This causes the story to happen as his punishments eat up all the chores Chloe might otherwise use to earn money.
• Younger Than They Look: The vast majority of Ash's siblings are really tall and big for their ages due to their father being very large. Chloe cannot guess any of their ages correctly just by visuals.