The false Chloe has come to live among the unbelievers and Chloe learns to move forward to new horizons.
Tropes in this arc include:
- Armor-Piercing Response: While Goh and Lexi's argument started civil, it takes an ugly turn once Goh declares that Chloe abandoned him despite having asked her to come join on explorations with him and Ash and Lexi decides to rub salt in an already aggravated wound.Lexi: You gave up on her first.
- And then Goh, by the end of it all, has an even better response: pointing out to Lexi how not only was Chloe not as perfect as everyone thought she was, but that everyone (including Chloe herself) has learned that but him.
- Bait-and-Switch: Amelia replays everything the fake Chloe told the Red Lotus Quarto. The guards start stating that "Chloe" would only be stating these... if she was angry at the people who were aggravating her.
- Blunt "Yes": When asked if Chloe's pain is much more real than Goh's, Lexi can only state with this.Goh: It's always how Chloe was hurting, Chloe was in pain, everything Chloe went through...Is her pain more real than mine?!
Lexi: Considering how you turned a blind eye towards her, I say...Yes! So happy and carefree to not even sleep over at her own house or celebrate her birthday or eat curry with her! - Both Sides Have a Point: Lexi and Goh's heated argument about everything Goh has went through. Lexi calls out just how petty and back-biting Goh's Facedex post was, and that Goh only really cares about Chloe now, rather than back when she needed him the most because he's too stubborn to recognize that his friend is alone. On the other hand, Goh points out that the callout post only lasted half a day at most before being taken down, that Chloe herself has forgotten about it, and most importantly, he's not the same Goh who made that decision. He's been broken down and is trying to change, and being constantly reminded and hounded over the mistakes that already haunt him isn't helping.
- But for Me, It Was Tuesday: An interesting case with Goh's Facedex message. Lexi remembers it for wounding Chloe's ego during a somewhat critical moment, and Goh remembers it as the catalyst for his worst nightmares, with everyone taking him to task for what the message did to Chloe. But for Chloe herself, the message was so inconsequential in light of literally everything else that happened (particularly the Unown incident), she's completely forgotten about the message.
- Call-Back: When Goh hits his Heroic BSoD, he mutters phrases from Chloe's farewell text from the Blossoming Trail Intermission.
- Continuity Nod: Professor Cerise brings up how Shauntal wants to help publish Chloe's stories.
- Engineered Public Confession: Attempted on the false Chloe. The first one fails, the second one is successful.
- Foreshadowing: Parker sees Chloe heading for dark times ahead and that her Eevee will be helpful in that regard.
- For Want Of A Nail: Hazel questions if things would have been different if she never met Grace or Simon.
- Heroic BSoD: The leaf guards not believing in the engineered confession causes Goh to break down into this as he keeps muttering phrases from Chloe's farewell text.
- Horrible Judge of Character: The leaf denizens completely believe Dahlia being the real Chloe even when Amelia has recorded evidence that proves otherwise and after Dahlia just called Hazel a brat.
- Informed Attribute: Lexi's petty and snippy attitude towards Goh in this entire story makes it so that, when Goh brings up what Chloe said about him, he starts to think he was only ever nice to her and nobody else.
- Ignored Epiphany: After Goh's Armor-Piercing Response to end their argument, Lexi looks stunned... Then contacts One-One to reveal his number in an attempt to try to prove how he's not so high and mighty.
- Insane Troll Logic: Lexi tries to back up his argument over how Goh is in the wrong by claiming that no matter how angry Chloe was, that she'd never try to slander people the way Goh's Facedex post did... when that's exactly what she did when she first arrived on the Train.
- Likewise, once they end their argument, Lexi thinks to call One-One in order to reveal Goh's number rose, believing that him going on a diatribe has made it go up... When circumstances makes it clear him airing out his emotions rather than internalizing them would help him. Lexi's forced to confront his attitude once One-One tells him as much.
- The reason that the first Engineered Public Confession falls through is that the denizens assume that the only reason someone as kind and wonderful as Chloe would be so harsh was if the people she was talking to, including a child, were horrible people who deserved it. Goh speculates that this logic fuels Lexi's view of him.
- In Spite of a Nail: Chloe tells Delia that it wouldn't have mattered if Delia didn't go Mama Bear that moment with Mew. Sooner or later that train would've picked Goh up.
- Internal Reveal: Kurune learns that Goh might have been suffering through childhood depression, something that she could have found out about sooner and actually addressed had she or Ikuo ever attended a Parent-Teacher conference or the teachers actually contacted them about this.
- Irony: Dahlia, the smug liar who makes everyone fall for her looks, is the one who is terrified when "Maya" has a pistol pointed at her, which Jane reveals was never loaded.
- Jerkass Realization: Lexi realizes how horrible he's treating Goh and that Chloe would be pissed to hear how he's treating her friend. It strikes home even more when he hears from One-One that the argument actually caused Goh's number to drop by a hundred like how Chloe's number dropped after she called Goh and her father out.
- Kick the Dog:
- Aside from snatching someone else's corgi for her own use, Dahlia calling Hazel a "disgusting little brat" pretty much tells Amelia and Lexi that this girl is a bitch.
- Goh and Lexi's argument is somewhat civil, at least until Lexi has the brilliant idea to claim that Goh's pain isn't as real as Chloe because of how he abandoned her first along with asking if Chloe ever abandoned Goh in the rain (emphasis included). This also comes right after it's revealed to the audience that Goh had a longstanding history of suffering through Childhood Depression — which was implied in Journeys episode 62 — which recontextualizes everything he's been through in a much worse light and does not help Lexi's case.
- The Last Straw: Amelia was fine talking to the fake Chloe... until she called Hazel a "disgusting little brat".
- Goh being called out by Lexi over the Facedex post is what tips him over the edge and convinces him to call him out over his bullshit.
- Once Done, Never Forgotten: Deconstructed. Lexi never forgave Goh for the Facedex post, which he brings up during their argument. However, not only has the post been deleted and forgotten about by pretty much everyone else (including Chloe), but things have changed so much that the post itself is a weak excuse at best, and completely irrelevant at worst, making Lexi come across as petty and mean-spirited to Goh.
- Sadistic Choice: One-One gives this to the denizens of the Deep Jungle Car: if they don't free the Red Lotus Quarto or do anything to harm them, then they can either face a storm of Stewards or be quarantined.
- Spit Take: When Jane tells Chloe about how the movie's script made Yeardley the Childhood Friend, Chloe just takes a glass of water, does a spit take then rolls on the floor laughing.
- Strange Minds Think Alike: Goh and Chloe have the same reaction to learning about the movie mixing up Yeardley as Chloe's childhood friend.
- Teach Him Anger: Warbler's role in breaking Goh out of his Heroic BSoD, getting him to actually express his anger at Chloe and Lexi rather than keep internalizing. This was actually beneficial as One-One reveals that Goh's number is now in the 700 range.
- That Man Is Dead: Goh tells Lexi in no uncertain terms that the person he wants to crucify so hard for daring to insult the oh-so perfect Chloe Cerise is gone, and that the guy he's been taking it out on is nothing more than a corpse that's done being verbally abused.
- Took a Level in Badass: Sobble shuts Dahlia up with a Water Gun, letting him evolve into Drizzile.
- Wham Episode: The final scene of Part 2 has Dahlia meet up with a denizen named "Sarang"...who is surrounded by green butterflies and has a personal interest in Goh...
