History Characters / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusChloeCerise

* ProperTightsWithASkirt: Starting in Cyan Desert Car, while Chloe's torso always has something new to wear, she mostly sticks to a skirt with leggings to give a contrast to Amelia's pantsuit and Lampetia's tunic that exposes her legs, symbolizing that no matter what type of tomboyish interests she may have, she's still a girl at heart..

* MyGodYouAreSerious: Chloe has severe trust issues with people because of how she has been ignored or bullied for so long, so this trope is the ''only'' way she can start putting faith in people again.

** Chloe genuinely believes Goh doesn't care about her wellbeing, stating that on the day of her suicide, she would try to call him one last time...only for him to hang up on her because he's "too busy" with his job as a research fellow and hanging out with Ash to come back. The real Goh interrupts Chloe detailing her jump off the school rooftop by stating he would ''demand'' that Ash take him back to Vermillion and stop her from doing such a thing, asking Chloe point-blank if she really thought he was ''that'' horrible to her. This is what ultimately makes Chloe see Goh ''is'' a good person and he always cared about her. And earlier in the Ninjala Car, she's shocked to learn that Goh searched for her for three days without break, along with her ''actually hearing'' Goh about to cry.

* NervousWreck: The situation of the Cyan Desert Car, nearly killed in Palimpsest Car (whether by runaway train or the street cleaners having fun beating her to a pulp), and Alighieri's physical and verbal assault leaves her with only a few threads left of sanity before she asks Buné to end her life. She only holds on thanks to the dragon Goetia and Goh's intervention of making her take a good look at herself and to confront how she has been holding so much grief in her heart before she can start again. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals she had shades of this as well, since she finds herself paralyzed over the idea of performingon live TV to be a death sentence.
* NeverASelfMadeWoman:
** Like in the anime, Chloe's classmates ''expect'' her to be totally into Pokémon solely under the justification of her dad being a Professor. She ''hates'' this and it's part of the reason she has so much friction with Pokémon lovers; they're everything she's not. Chloe even tells Goh that she's always been told that she has to act like her father, like Ash, or like ''him'', to get anyone's love and respect and that she tried imitating him if it would finally get him to notice her for once in his life.
** Played With on the Train. All of Chloe's achievements are her own and the mentioning of the Goetias observing her solely because they believe her to be a descendant of Alec Cerise was only a passing theory by Tokio. She isn't.

* NotHimself: Her "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona eventually turns out to be her suffering a case of this. Chloe's often said to be a nice and kind girl, if quiet and unsure of what her goal in life shall become, but the persona involves her giving into her darker traits like spite and anger, refusing to forgive those for minor slights because they genuinely don't understand how much they hurt her or the pains she's suffered. The end result is a Chloe who prioritizes hurting others to feel good about herself over making amends back home, a fact she comes to realize as the Harvest Moon Car rolls along.

** In "The Firefly Funhouse Car", Lexi goes on a rant on how the Apex are jerks to the nth degree, to which Chloe admits that his remarks accurately describe her.

** Atticus tells Yuri that she's quite similar to Ash and Goh in some areas. Namely, even though she doesn't like Pokémon, she shared their enthusiasm to going on adventures, comparing her wanting to explore what's in the next car to how they like going on ther research expeditions.

* ObliviousToLove: Platonic love, that is. Chloe is so obsessed with adoration from everyone so she can be her "true self" and escape her anxieties and low self-esteem issues that she doesn't see she truly ''is'' loved by her family and Goh just as she is, even if they had problems directly telling her this. Her parents never pressured her to do anything she hated even if they missed the mark on what was really bugging her, and Goh and Ash always respected her wishes whenever she refused to go exploring with them. Speaking of which, Goh himself ''always'' cared about her; he just had problems properly expressing it.

** And of course, there's the whole debacle with her father. The professor promised to take her to softball camp, but when a last-minute conference popped up and he couldn't cancel it, she failed to convince him to take another option. Chloe used this incident to justify her resentment towards her father and refusing Ash's attempts to befriend her because she sees Pokémon and those who like them as more important than her needs until she realizes that she could've done more by talking to him.
* OnlyFriend: Deconstructed. Chloe was Goh's sole friend (outside of Tokio) prior to Ash entering their lives, always doing her best to keep him company through homework. The problem is how [[UngratefulBastard Goh was never appreciative]] of everything Chloe had done for him over the years, not even willing to open about his problems when she asked, due to him still holding resentment over Tokio's betrayal three years prior and being more obsessed with Pokemon than friend stuff. He also never showed concern for her when she texts him to think about ''her'' needs for once, despite being the only one actively worried for him. And the one time he actually tried to motivate her, it felt more like an attack because she's ''not'' what she (thinks) he wants. This gets reconstructed in the Harvest Moon Car. After Goh finally lays out some harsh truths Chloe needed to hear, he also admits he didn't want lots of friends, just ''her''.... because she always stayed with him even when he wasn't aware of it and he loved her kind and gentle side more, not the temperamental badass donut-hole wielder she ''assumed'' he wanted.

* OnlyOneFindsItFun: PlayedForDrama. Chloe's interest in demons and the macabre was something her classmates didn't share, and background hints imply she tried to get them into it repeatedly. However, her [[LackOfEmpathy difficulty in telling what people want]] and [[NoSocialSkills lackluster social skills]] caused her to pester them until they grew to legitimately hate it, to the point they began bothering ''her'' with ''their'' interests in order to give her a taste of her own medicine. Chloe admitted she liked ghosts because no one in her class found interest in them, and she wanted to use it so people would notice her, particularly [[ObliviousToHints Goh]]. This then gets turned around in Act 2 as other students begin highlighting how ''cool'' Chloe is able to express herself through her interests.
* OvershadowedByAwesome:
** Chloe has a plethora of talents, but none of them are particularly attractive to the world around her and, combined with her own personality issues like tendency towards secrecy and anti-social behaviors, tend to go unnoticed by those around her. Inverted on the Infinity Train as these very same skills that few pay attention to are what everyone praises about her.
** When she and Ash have a talk in Act 2, Ash says that one of her best traits is being "nice to Yamper". Chloe snarks that this trait is pretty much ''nothing'' compared to what Ash, Goh, and her father do.

* PerfectionIsImpossible: Chloe in her lowest moments has to tell herself to be the "perfect" Professor's daughter who ''loves'' Pokémon and never show signs of being a HystericalWoman; or Goh's "perfect" Pokemon-loving, fearless friend, or else she has no purpose in life nor reason to live. Thankfully, Buné helps her to focus on the progress she has made on a person and to forgive herself for her mistakes while Goh tells her that he loved her as that kind supportive person she always was.

* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: Chloe believes people will only like her if she's dead, so she tries to goad people into ending her life.
** When she learns why Sara has bullied her to the brink of suicide, she then tells her bully to just kill her if it makes her happy. Sara complies with a spiky crystal bat to the face. [[spoiler:Thankfully Asher comes in to save her.]]
** She also asks Buné to do the same with her, seeing as he publicly proclaimed her as ''annoying'' so the Train will be spared her presence. [[spoiler:He ends up "killing" the spiteful side of her with a hug.]]

* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of her problems at home could've been solved if she was willing to talk about them, ranging from asking someone in the Institute to hear her out or just let her go somewhere. Even asking Ash to just stop asking her to go do Pokémon-related stuff and bring up her own suggestions or simply putting her foot down and telling Goh to arrive on time would have mitigated things, no questions asked.

* PrivilegedRival: Subverted. She's seen as this to her classmates, living in a nice two-story house and her father has that nice Pokémon Institute so she can see all the Pokémon she likes and have a head-start in being a Trainer. But this is coming from [[RichBitch Sara]], who lives in a high-class ''apartment'' and can take a week's cruise to Slateport for Spring Break while Chloe was fine with softball camp, and is like one of the many twisted lies she used to get the classmates on her side. In truth, it's Goh who has everything ''they'' want, especially the fact he gets to travel around the world under Chloe's dad because he actually ''requested it'' from the school, but they attacked Chloe more because they see her often and because she constantly annoyed them with her hobbies.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Goh forced her to promise to never abandon him (he was trying to hide how Tokio "abandoned" him) and she complied.

* QuietCryForHelp: This is Chloe's usual method of trying to reach out to people, being too stubborn (or scared) to just tell people directly.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Her hair color isn't popular with her classmates, with Sara screaming how her hair is ''fugly'', and Ikuo (Goh's ''father'') even shouts that her hair is "freakishly garish".

* TheResenter: Chloe resents Ash and Goh for a number reasons: She resents Goh for not appreciating all that she's done him, Ash for being Goh's friend, and both of them for being happier than her. This resentment has at several points reached desires for violence against them, while in turn they have tried repeatedly to be her friend and include her in their adventures, but Chloe only saw them inviting them to do things that ''they'' liked instead of the good intentions.

** The concept of her changing clothes is this; outside of her wanting to dress up in outfits reflecting the media she loves, she's ''always'' not sure who she is, and wears more elaborate and stylish clothes to reflect her dithering and desires to be special instead of boring school uniform Chloe. By Harvest Moon Car, she decides to just wear something more practical -- skirt with leggings, and an orange blouse with a white vest aka the attire of Heather Mason -- to represent she is comfortable as ''herself'' and exposing the scars she's gained throughout her Train. Moreover, Chloe always feels like she can't measure up to Mew, a Pokémon who can shapeshift into whatever Pokémon they want, and Goh's dream as of late. She's changing herself in order to become the "proper friend" whom ''Goh'' wants.

* TheRunaway: She ran away from the Cerise Lab after being humiliated in a battle against Ash due to being dared by her classmate sto fight the Alolan league Champion and told she was pretty much ''nothing'' compared to Goh's "noble cause" to chase Mew -- in reality, Goh was actually trying to motivate her to find a dream and just got too excited about Ash's victory over her -- which got her picked up onto the Infinity Train. By the time the story starts, she's been missing for two months.

* SeriousBusiness:
** Breaking promises isn't something to make a habit out of, but it's still a relatively small thing most people would easily get over and move on from. Chloe, on the other hand, treats breaking a promise (minor or otherwise) as serious as a personal attack on her. When Goh can't just arrive on time and has to text her an apology, she ghosts his concerned texts and then tells him she doesn't want to be friends with him anymore. When her father had to take back his promise to let her go to softball camp due to a last-minute conference, she just decided to never ask him for help again because, in her eyes, his work was much more ''important'' than his daughter's needs.
** There's also a recurring theme of Chloe being upset when Goh refuses to do his homework, nor thanks her for bringing it to him. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveal that the only reason Chloe is willing to deliver the sheets because she just wants attention from him.

* SkewedPriorities: After Goh nearly drowned and caught a fever during a ghost hunt with her, you'd think Chloe would be worried sick about her friend's health, given that she saved him. She even constantly called this parents to ask when Goh would be better...so they could go ghost-hunting again, not to find out if he was okay after his near-death experience. Chloe herself apologizes, admitting Goh's parents had every right to hate her for that, and states that she was acting like ''Goh'' does with her -- disregarding everything else once a Pokémon gets in his sights.

* SourOutsideSadInside: When she's not showing her fiery self, she's cynical and aggressive at others...because she's a lonely girl who is ostracized because she's different, her childhood friend doesn't know she's in pain since he loves Mew and Ash more than spending time doing homework with her, no one seems to give a damn about her outside "she's the freakish monster loving daughter of Professor Cerise", and she's been contemplating ''suicide'' by the time the Harvest Moon Car reaches its peak. Buné helps her to understand that her anger is actually hiding so much grief she carries in her heart for her mistakes and everything she has endured before and during her Train Trip, and to start healing from within.

* SuicideForOthersHappiness: Chloe ultimately decides to end it all in the Harvest Moon Car to ensure everyone can be free from her so-called "annoying" presence, both on and off the Train, and wants Buné to behead her so it's swift and painless. She also requests this so others can ''rejoice'' over how she won't ruin their lives anymore just for the crime of existing. Thankfully, it never comes to fruition as he gives her a hug instead, metaphorically killing the spiteful girl she once was.

* TheyJustDontGetIt: Chloe just can't get it through her head that things are not as black and white as she thought, she's ''not'' completely faultless in it, and people ''aren't'' eager to tear her down. In particular, her first apology to Ash doesn't get a minute in before she starts accusing Ash of ignoring her and not doing more to help her, when it had already been clearly established that Ash ''didn't know any better'' about what was going on and how Chloe ''herself'' did not help by not approaching ''him'' and leaving everything to him. ''Oak Lore'' at least tries to explain this by Gary claiming how for this trope to go away, Chloe needs to go through a "Melissa" moment: an event that shakes her worldview so hard, Chloe has no choice but to face reality and stop making excuses for her behavior. Said "Melissa" moment comes just when she's about to die, when Goh berates her for acting just like Sara and she finally allows herself to just ''feel'' her sadness over everything going wrong. Chloe herself tells Buné that she wishes she can just make it "click" ''sooner''.

* ThrowTheDogABone: After everything she dealt with starting in the Cyan Desert Car, Harvest Moon Car gives her a breather when Goh ''finally'' apologizes for how horrible he was to her for the past three years, making a DeclarationOfProtection to finally come back for her before she killed herself, and even ''thanking her'' for all of the times she actually was a friend to him. Bune also gives her a hug to kill the spiteful front so she can properly start again, with no one in Little Paws (except Alighieri) blaming her for the disaster that struck.

* TheUnfavorite: Subverted. She ''thinks'' she's this to her parents and Goh because they focus more on their hobbies/Pokémon than her, but this is eventually revealed to be all in her head: her parents didn't favor her any more than they normally did, and Goh always liked her the way she was but it just took him a long time for him to properly recognize and express this.
* UngratefulBitch: A big problem for her as shown throughout Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2; Chloe constantly chides people for never showing appreciation for what she does for them, yet when they try to do things for her, ''she'' never thanks them due to it not being only on ''her'' terms.

* UnknownRival: PlayedForDrama. Goh stopped making human friendships and maintaining his with hers because of Tokio "seemingly" abandoning him and cementing it in his mind that human friends are worthless compared to Pokémon ones, which is part of the reason why Chloe has so many issues to begin with since she's ''always'' been by his side and he never showed gratitude for it. However, because they both ''equally'' didn't know about each other's existence (Tokio was on the Train at the time and Goh shot down Chloe when she asked about Ilex Forest) Chloe focused solely on making Goh pay for what he did to her, even when it was being made clear ''she'' wasn't as innocent as she made herself out to be. In a case of irony, Goh is ''always'' worried about what happened to Chloe than what Tokio has been going through.

* VictoriousLoser: While initially a SoreLoser over how she lost to Ash, she unknowingly ends up as the victor in regards to her and ''Sara''. Sara wanted it burned into Chloe's ''soul'' that everyone would mock her and she should just kill herself and be forgotten. In truth, when a few classmates learned of the battle, they can't help but say she was amazing for choosing to fight a losing battle. She also has friends on the Infinity Train and has started to rekindle her love of Pokémon, while Sara proves more and more that she only sees them as status symbols, not living beings, along with losing any and all "friends" she's had. Even with the whole "Chloe's so stupid to use Tackle on Gengar" thing, an upperclassman notes that that ''would'' be a move any newbie would make and she's instantly forgiven for her blunder.

* WhyDidYouMakeMeHitYou: When confronted by Ash and Goh, two people she very much hurt, she generally tries to absolve herself of most responsibility; first by trying to pin Goh as ''solely'' responsible for their failing friendship, and then by snapping at Ash over whether he even cared about her despite it having been long established he did. She apologizes for this behavior in the Harvest Moon Car.

* WorshippedForGreatDeeds: {{Deconstructed}}. While in the original trilogy, Chloe was seen as a hero to the Denizens, in here she's straight up identified as a goddess both because of her kind nature towards the Denizens and her quest to end the Apex, along with having the Goetias keep an eye on her progress. However, the constant coddling ends up feeding Chloe's ego and power fantasy on the Train, which leads her to continue living her fantasy and believing she's a flawless girl who was a victim of her "unfair homeworld", which only causes Chloe to get stuck on the train with no real way out.
* WouldRatherSuffer: {{Deconstructed}} and Inverted. Chloe claims she'd rather kill herself than to continue living in a world she feels is against her. While she's eventually shown to be somewhat correct, her other unresolved issues causes her to ''double down'' on this belief, which also feeds into her stagnating nature as a defense mechanism as a result of the pain, childhood depression, and suffering she's gone through. It takes several back and forths between people letting her know they ''do'' like her, and her situation isn't as black and white as she claims, for her to be convinced that suicide ''isn't'' the better option for herself, and to start working on herself properly.

* YouAreNotAlone: Chloe has been isolating herself after the end of Act 1 afer everything has hit the fan and she's ready to kill herself. It takes Goh and Bune to reach out to her, telling her she's not alone in her struggles, for her to finally open up over her life turned upside-down and for her to finally start healing.

** Chloe believed no one at school would ever care about her unless she was into Pokémon. It turns out it's not ''Pokémon'' they were interested in; it was actually the fact Chloe was brave enough to do the things she loved and how she kept fighting back when things were difficult. They don't care she lost to Ash, they loved how she kept fighting back despite it. They don't see her as a creep, they're wowed at how she still performed at a talent show even after Sara and her cronies tried to ruin it with paint on her costume, or she can draw and write whatever she likes when others get cold feet trying to submit a poem to the school paper.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Chloe has a plethora of talents, but none of them are particularly attractive to the world around her and, combined with her own personality issues like tendency towards secrecy and anti-social behaviors, tend to go unnoticed by those around her. Inverted on the Infinity Train as these very same skills that few pay attention to are what everyone praises about her.

* HatesBeingAlone: As stated above under AttentionWhore, Chloe absolutely cannot stand being ignored and feels the only she can get people to nice her is to do crazy, often dangerous things. The Train gives her the freedom to be noticed by denizens who won't be so quick to judge her if she makes a mistake and allow her the chance to breathe and make a new identity for herself.

** She angsts about how Goh never keeping a promise, where he decides to always reply to her requests with half-hearted apologies where he "promises" to never do it again via text, even though he technically sees her ''every single day'' at the Institute and she could always just talk to him about what's going on if she took the courage to do so. However "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that even when she attempts to be direct, he still refuses to take the hint.

* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Despite the earlier trope, this doesn't give Chloe any leeway in regards to her own passivity and refusal to open up, which Goh greatly calls out when they talk: he makes it clear she has no right to blame only him for their friendship failing when Chloe had just as much of a role as he did with her choosing to keep her problems to herself.

* GrassIsGreener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it better because they're neither judged nor considered weird by others, nor are they given high expectations solely due to their parents' jobs. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't constantly harassed by bullies doesn't mean they ''don't'' have their own problems; Goh has to deal with his own lacking social skills after all, though her actions ensured that his problems became a lot worse, and ''she'' is frankly the reason Ash had any problems at all (as any issues he had before Chloe's hissy fit was nowhere near as bad).

* HatedByAll: [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]]. Chloe, jumping the gun yet again, assumed everybody back in Vermillion City hated her guts, particularly her classmates. However, it's later made clear only her classmates hate her, and this was only ''after'' Sara manipulated them.

* HatesBeingAlone: All of her worries and flaws come from her fears of being utterly alone solely because she doesn't follow the crowd and the actions (and inactions) of people at school, home and the Institute pound it to her head that she will never be loved for who she is and she is afraid of being mocked for not being "enough" of a know-it-all in the field of Pokémon because of her dad's job. The Train gives her the freedom to be noticed by denizens who won't be so quick to judge her if she makes a mistake and allow her the chance to breathe and make a new identity for herself.

** The reason she becomes Chloe of the Vermillion is because it gave her a chance to be a better, stronger, more ''lovable'' Chloe who will never have to worry about being hurt again, never be ignored by ''anyone'' once they learn of her feats, or blowing up at other people because she didn't properly address her feelings. She also admits to Goh that she became Chloe of the Vermillion because she ''despised'' being the girl whom Goh (seemingly) never cares about.

* IJustWantToBeYou: After getting verbally torn apart by Goh in Harvest Moon Car for her nasty attitude and lack of concern for other people, Chloe breaks down and tearfully admits that her real, '''true''' motive for becoming Chloe of the Vermillion and acting the way she did during their Ghost-hunt was because she wanted to be what she thought Goh wanted in his "perfect best friend" and began acting more like him in the hopes that he'd ''finally'' acknowledge her as a true friend even if she's not into Pokemon like he is.

* LiteralMetaphor: When she's told that Goh's Pokemon want to beat her up, she snarks that she'll clean her neck. While it's a Japanese euphemism for "preparing for execution", it's probably more that she had been clawing at her neck enough to draw blood.

** For all Goh is this trope, Chloe herself was this as well. She never knew about Tokio or what happened in Ilex Forest for three years because Goh demanded that she not bring it up, and his parents never thought to ever mention this boy to her out of pure spite for an incident years ago, so she only saw Goh as a withdrawn, Pokémon-obsessed boy whom she thought just stopped caring about her. She also didn't know about Goh's parents driving a wedge between her and Goh for years and how they lied about all the messages she tried to send him on wanting to have fun together.

** Despite Sara being the cause of all her misery at school, Chloe seems to have no interest in going after her. Instead, she lashes out at those closest to her, which include Goh, Ash, her father, and even [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore]].

** Even the story as a whole could be seen as this. In the original trilogy, Chloe's reason for running away was at least somewhat understandable (feeling unloved and unwanted in a world she believed hated her for her dislike of Pokemon). In ''Crocus'', she ran away just because she didn't like Goh not paying attention to her or being appreciative of her doing things for him.

** Like in the anime, Chloe's classmates ''expect'' her to be totally into Pokémon solely under the justification of her dad being a Professor. She ''hates'' this and it's part of the reason she has so much friction with Pokémon lovers; they're everything she's not. Chloe even tells Goh that she's always been told that she has to act like her father, like Ash, or like ''him'', to get anyone's love and respect and that she tried imitating him if it would finally, just freaking ''finally'', get him to notice her for once in his life.
** Played With on the Train. All of Chloe's achievements are her own and the mentioning of the Goetias observing her solely because they assume she's a descendant of Alec Cerise was only a passing theory by Tokio. (She isn't)
* NeverBeHurtAgain: Chloe's deepest wish is to be strong enough to avoid being afraid for her life and loved for who she is and not for what others "expect" her to be. Part of her journey is to understand that it's ''okay'' to be vulnerable so that others understand what's wrong with her and can start healing, while also accepting that people ''do'' care about her, and their actions are more because they just don't know any better.

* NoSympathy: One of Chloe's biggest flaws is that she gets so caught up in how ''she's'' suffered that she never considers people have their own problems to deal with and lives outside of her own. It admittedly takes a while for her to learn and understand she's not the only person in the world who feels pain and suffering.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Ironically, for all it seems Goh paid so little attention to her when she was at the Institute, she's ''always'' on his mind if it's not about Ash or Mew or Tokio or Pokémon. He feels deep regrets for not doing more or noticing Chloe's efforts, and he ultimately confesses he didn't want ''lots'' of friends, rather only having ''Chloe'' as his friend because she was always there for him. To state how much he cares, he immediately goes to search for Chloe whereas he spits how he hates Tokio even though he had three years to uncover the truth.

** In "The Firefly Funhouse Car", Lexi goes on a rant on how the Apex are jerks to the tenth degree, to which Chloe admits that his remarks accurately describe her.
** She gets an epiphany on how she's just like all the other entitled women in her life after the disaster of the Palipsest Car. Amelia, Grace, Sara, and Casimira are all broken in some way, but they refuse to confront their problems or talk about them. Rather, they become selfish bitches who hurt others just to feel good about themselves, and they have to learn the lessons [[AesopCollateralDamage the very hard way]]. Goh even calls her and Sara sisters because of how similar they are.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She uses the term "boyfriend" in a derogatory manner when describing Ash's friendship with Goh. However, she later admits she was just angry at Goh always wanting to spend more time with Ash than her and makes it a point to clear things up with Parker when he repeats this to her.
* PoorCommunicationKills: A lot of her problems at home could've been solved if she was willing to talk about them, ranging from asking someone in the Institute to hear her out or just let her go somewhere. Even asking Ash to just stop asking her to go do Pokémon-related stuff and bring up her own suggestions or ''finally'' putting her foot down and tell Goh to arrive on time could've been done, no questions asked.

** Subverted with her wanting to be a Pokémon fanatic friend to Goh, or at least a replacement for Tokio (whom she didn't know at the time). When Chloe is about to end her life and admits her suicide fantasy of Goh dismissing her for Ash/his job, Goh finally tells her she never ''had'' to be Tokio to get his attention. He ''always'' cared for her as she was, but had trouble expressing or acknowledging it until it was almost too late.

** Her ImportantHaircut in the Fashion Runway Car symbolizes her and Augustine's relationship. She cuts her hair off as a sign of moving forward, but it looks uneven. It takes Augustine to style it to make it look presentable. This represents how Chloe must takes the step to change, but she also needs guidance from a mentor figure.

* SelfServingMemory: ''Firefly Funhouse'' has Chloe having a nightmare about Goh yelling at her to never bring up the Ilex Forest incident and then accusing her of betraying him. Whether it's truly just a bad dream, or another one of Chloe's warped memories is up for debate. It turns out that it's somewhat true since Goh did shoot down her attempts to find out about the incident and swiftly made her promise to never abandon him.

** There's also a recurring theme of Chloe being upset when Goh refuses to do his homework, nor thanks her for bringing it to him. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveal that the only reason Chloe is willing to deliver the sheets because she just wants a little attention from him.

* SpotlightStealingSquad: Despite being allegedly just a SupportingProtagonist this time around, a good deal of Act 1 still focuses heavily on her and her development, with the final confrontation of Act 1 even being a fight between Chloe and her long time bully Sara. However, this trope gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] pretty harshly, since not only does she get the brunt of both good ''and'' bad attention, but [[spoiler: Professor Sycamore neglects his own problems in order to focus on ''her'' growth and quest to stop the Flauros, causing him to become more and more fragile as the story goes on until he cracks when she rejects him.]] This is addressed in author notes for Horrorland Car, as the co-author points out that Chloe is getting a big chunk of focus on Act 2 because almost everyone in the story up to this point has connections to her, and also to set things up for when Augustine succeeds her.

** Chloe has ''every right'' to forever hate the Fujihachis for purposefully driving a wedge between her and Goh. Instead, she understands ''why'' they acted so horribly, and decides to work on making amends, even telling Goh not to spite them to the point they get on the Train.

** Like in the anime, Chloe's classmates ''expect'' her to be totally into Pokémon solely under the justification of her dad being a Professor. She ''hates'' this and it's part of the reason she has so much friction with Pokémon lovers; they're everything she's not.

* NeverMyFault: Just like her usual ''Blossomverse'' self, Chloe initially refuses to take responsibility for her actions and constantly looks for excuses to blame others when things don't go her way.
* NightmareFetishist: She ''loves'' horror which can range from a collection of kid horror shows, to researching demons to ''wanting to play Silent Hill''. Apparently she's the only one in her class who is capable of playing ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' with the Junior boss whereas Yuri and Sophocles can't even go through just Deaddy[[note]]Deaddy was made to make the game ''less'' terrifying, by the way[[/note]]. It should be noted in "Firefly Funhouse Car" that she, Atticus and Lexi went through ''numerous'' horror cars, one of them simply called the Backrooms Car.

* NoSympathy: One of Chloe's biggest flaws is that she gets so caught up in how ''she's'' suffered that she never considers people have their own problems to deal with and lives outside of her own. It admittedly takes a while for her to learn and understand she's not the only person who feels pain and suffering.

* TheNotLoveInterest: Ironically, for all it seems Goh paid so little attention to her when she was at the Institute, she's ''always'' on his mind if it's not about Ash or Mew or Tokio or Pokémon. He feels deep regrets for not doing more or noticing Chloe's efforts, and he ultimately confesses he didn't want ''lots'' of friends, rather only having ''Chloe'' as his friend because she was always there for him.

* ObliviousToLove: Platonic love, that is. Chloe is so obsessed with adoration from everyone so she can be her "true self" and escape her anxieties and low self-esteem issues that she doesn't see she truly ''is'' loved by her family and Goh just as she is, even if they had problems directly telling her this. Her parents never pressured her to do anything she hated, and Goh and Ash always respected her wishes whenever she refused to go exploring with them. Speaking of which, Goh himself ''always'' cared about her; he just had problems properly expressing it.

** And of course, there's the whole debacle with her father. The professor promised to take her to softball camp, but when a last-minute conference popped up and he couldn't cancel it, she failed to convince him to take another option. Chloe will nearly always use this incident to justify her resentment towards her father and refusing Ash's attempts to befriend her until she realizes that she could've done more by talking to him.
* OnlyFriend: Deconstructed. Chloe was Goh's sole friend (outside of Tokio) prior to Ash entering their lives, always doing her best to keep him company through homework. The problem is how Goh was never appreciative of everything Chloe had done for him over the years, not even willing to open about his problems when she asked, due to him still holding resentment over Tokio's betrayal three years prior and being more obsessed with Pokemon than friend stuff. He also never showed concern for her when she texts him to think about ''her'' needs for once, despite being the only one actively worried for him. And the one time he actually tried to motivate her, it felt more like an attack because she's ''not'' what she (thinks) he wants. This gets reconstructed in the Harvest Moon Car. After Goh finally lays out some harsh truths Chloe needed to hear, he also admits he didn't want lots of friends, just ''her''.... because she always stayed with him even when he wasn't aware of it and he loved her kind and gentle side more, and not the temperamental donut-hole wielder she ''assumed'' he wanted.

* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: She uses the term "boyfriend" in a derogatory manner when describing Ash's friendship with Goh. However, she later admits she was just angry at Goh spending more time with Ash than her and makes it a point to clear things up with Parker when he repeats this to her.

* PrivilegedRival: Subverted. She's seen as this to her classmates, living in a nice two-story house and her father has that nice Pokémon Institute so she can see all the Pokémon she likes and have a head-start in being a Trainer. But this is coming from [[RichBitch Sara]], who lives in a high-class ''apartment'' and can take a week's cruise to Slateport for Spring Break while Chloe was fine with softball camp, and is like one of the many twisted lies she used to get the classmates on her side. In truth, it's Goh who has everything ''they'' want, especially the fact he gets to travel around the world under Chloe's dad because he actually ''requested it'' from the school, but they attacked Chloe more because they see her often and because she annoyed them with her hobbies.

** Chloe is always bringing up her loss to Gengar, particularly her use of Tackle on him, as something her classmates will never let her live down. When Goh showed the recording, lo and behold, the first thing they did was indeed laugh at her.

* QuietCryForHelp: This is Chloe's usual method of trying to reach out to people, being too stubborn to just tell people directly.
** Chloe asks where Goh is when she's basically alone at school and, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, about to kill herself. But Goh, being the oblivious boy who (in her eyes) only cares for Mew, Ash, and Pokemon, directly stated he was finding his dreams, which she doesn't have. This made Chloe believe that Goh hated her, and gets her on the Train.
** Another cry that Chloe does is getting Goh's homework (being the only person who does it, in fact) and constantly texting him to come back as soon as possible because she just wants him pay attention to her.

* RedAndBlackAndEvilAllOver: Inverted. She has maroon hair, a red cloak based off a wolf, and her outfits for late Act 1 and early Act 2 give her plenty of black, plus her new moniker is ''Demon Lord of the Vermillion''. But she's also a kind-hearted, heroic girl underneath her anger who that hopes to stop the Apex threat.

* RedHeadsAreRavishing: On the Train, her red hair is her most well-known trait that coincides with her title of "Chloe of the Vermillion" and both Lexi and Tony are infatuated with her. Conversely...
* RedheadsAreUncool: Her hair color isn't popular with her classmates, with Sara screaming how her hair is ''fugly'', and Ikuo (Goh's ''father'') even calls her hair "freakishly garish".

* TheRunaway: She ran away from the Cerise Lab after being humiliated in a battle against Ash and told she was pretty much ''nothing'' compared to Goh's "noble cause" to find Mew -- in reality, Goh was actually trying to motivate her to find a dream and just got too excited about Ash's victory over her -- which got her picked up onto the Infinity Train. By the time the story starts, she's been missing for two months.

* SelfServingMemory: ''Firefly Funhouse'' has Chloe having a nightmare about Goh yelling at her to never bring up the Ilex Forest incident and then accusing her of betraying him. Whether it's truly just a bad dream, or another one of Chloe's warped memories is up for debate. It turns out that it's somewhat true since Goh did shoot down her attempts to find out about the incident and then made her promise to never abandon him.

** There's also a recurring theme of Chloe being upset when Goh refuses to do his homework, nor thanks her for bringing it to him. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveal how that the only reason Chloe is willing to deliver the sheets because she just wants attention from him.

* SinisterSuffocation: A recurring theme is for villains to do this to her to shut her up. The first one is by Mirage Mewtwo via Dr. Yung's command, the second one is [[spoiler:by [=UnCerise=] ''currently possessing her father's body'']] and the third one is by the street cleaners in Palmipsest Car along with one ''close to slicing her neck open''. Chloe internally notes while being chased by the Mirage Pokemon that being bullied by her classmates is akin to them all pressing their feet on her neck, making her unable to breathe.
* SkewedPriorities: After Goh nearly drowned and caught a fever during a ghost hunt with her, you'd think Chloe would be worried sick about her friend's health, given that she saved him. She even constantly called this parents to ask when Goh would be better...so they could go ghost-hunting again, not to find out if he was okay after his near-death experience. Chloe herself apologizes, admitting Goh's parents had every right to hate her for that.

* SourOutsideSadInside: When she's not showing her fiery self, she's cynical and aggressive at others...because she's a lonely girl who is ostracized because she's different, her childhood friend doesn't know she's in pain since he loves Mew and Ash more than her, no one seems to give a damn about her outside "she's the freakish monster loving daughter of Professor Cerise", and she's been contemplating ''suicide'' by the time the Harvest Moon Car reaches its peak. Buné helps her to understand that her anger is actually hiding so much grief she carries in her heart for her mistakes and everything she has endured before and during her Train Trip, and to start healing from within.

* SquishyWizard: Chloe has a lot of magic power wrapped around her little finger and she's the one who deals the biggest blows in the Ninjala Car. Her only downside is she's still a ten-year-old girl so those with more physical strength can attack her without question. For example, while she can fight off against Sara blow for blow [[spoiler:the second [=UnCerise=] steps in, her face is wiping the floor before she's gasping for air.]]
* StealthInsult: One of the things Chloe calls Sara is "Salt Princess" which is an allusion to the character Veruca Salt (as Sara calls Chloe "Chloe Bucket"), the fact there's a fairytale called "The Princess who Loves Salt" and Sara is being salty. The fairytale talks about how a princess stated she loved her father just as much as she loved salt, so she's essentially telling Sara she loves being a spoiled bitch just as much as she has so many daddy issues.

** She's into supernatural things, and later revealed to have found a love of Ghost-types, who got onto the therapy train because she felt invisible to others. When they finally feel worry and concern about her, she decides to ''ghost'' them back in retaliation.

* StressInducedMentalVoices: Has this twice in the Palipmsest Car and Harvest Moon Car as the stress and panic of being assaulted and misblamed for actions that cause chaos -- being blamed for the Third Rail going off course when Sycamore and Amelia are more to blame and accused by Alighieri of hurting the Harvest King when she had ''no idea'' what he's talking about -- has her believing that everone hates her for being who she is and nearly culminates in her suicide.
* StrongGirlSmartGuy: When paired with a male like Augustine, Yuri, Specter or Lexi, she's usually the powerhouse who barrels her way through any and all problems with a donut holer in one hand, and a fireball in the other. However, by no means is she ''dumb'' as her knowledge of the Goetias becomes important during late Act 1/Act 2.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Initially played straight, as Professor Cerise refused to give his daughter therapy for fear of it being a scam or something that would hurt her. Thankfully Tres, a licensed therapist himself, not only talks to her about her problems but also downloads an app onto her phone where she can talk to other trauma survivors and get help that could've prevented her train trip in the first place.

* ThisLooksLikeAJobForAquaman: Normally, Chloe's interests and hobbies do not help her in life. Knowing a lot about horror is useful if you run into Ghost-types or want to write or make horror material, but Ghost-types are rare and Chloe's too young to explore a career in writing or developing games. On a day-to-day basis, Ash and Goh, whose interests and talents are more useful, are much better off. Chloe being in a magical train filled with horror makes her skills much more useful to her than they otherwise would be, where they would be a future career at best and a hobby at worst. Of course this also ends up being PlayedForDrama since she'd rather stay in a cage where her skills will actually make her noticed than to go back home and return to be ignored and bullied for her interests.

* TroubledAbuser: Chloe lashes out at others and gets overly dramatic with how horrible life is...but that's also due to the fact she's been traumatized and on the verge of suicide and has no other way to confess she's a scared, broken girl who just wants to be told to keep hope alive and actually ''be helped'' in that regard, instead of being told to "take it easy and hope for the best" and then left to figure it out on her own.

* UngratefulBitch: A big problem for her as shown throughout Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2; Chloe constantly chides people for not showing appreciation for what she does for them, yet when they try to do things for her, ''she'' never thanks them due to it not being only on''her'' terms.
* UninvitedToTheParty: Chloe is so disliked by her class that no one invites her to their parties. In fact, they go so far as to either claim they "forgot" to invite her, or ''just shred her invitation up in front of her face''.

* UnknownRival: PlayedForDrama. Goh stopped making human friendships and maintaining his with hers because of Tokio "seemingly" abandoning him and cementing in his mind that human friends are worthless compared to Pokémon ones, which is part of the reason why Chloe has so many issues to begin with since she's ''always'' been by his side and he never showed gratitude for it. However, because they both ''equally'' didn't know about each other's existence (Tokio was on the Train at the time and Goh shot down Chloe when she asked about Ilex Forest) Chloe focused solely on making Goh pay for what he did to her, even when it was being made clear ''she'' wasn't as innocent as she made herself out to be. In a case of irony, Goh is ''always'' worried about what happened to Chloe than what Tokio has been going through.

* VictoriousLoser: While initially a SoreLoser over how she lost to Ash, she unknowingly ends up as the victor in regards to her and ''Sara''. Sara wanted it burned into Chloe's ''soul'' that everyone would mock her and she should just kill herself and be forgotten. In truth, when a few classmates learned of the battle, they can't help but say she was amazing for fighting a losing battle. She also has friends on the Infinity Train and has started to rekindle her love of Pokémon, while Sara proves more and more that she only sees them as status symbols, not living beings. Even with the whole "Tackle on Gengar" thing, an upperclassman notes that that ''would'' be a move any newbie would make and she's instantly forgiven for her blunder.

* FaceDeathWithDignity:

* FairWeatherFriend: As much as she doesn't want to admit this, Chloe herself was no better of a friend than Goh was. While the latter ''did'' have [[NoSocialSkills serious social problems]], she also rejected ''every single instance'' of actually hanging out with him and Ash whenever they asked, never told him about her problems in the first place, and never supported his dream to find Mew. She later admits she didn't know ''how'' to be supportive.

** While her father could have better worded his reason why Chloe couldn't go to softball camp, and she did fulfill her end of the bargain to behave for a week ''and'' offered alternatives, she just decided to not speak to him and refuse to ask him for anything else, seeing him as someone who won't have time for her at all.
** In regards to Augustine's mental breakdown, she was directly responsible for it. Chloe herself also knows no amount of being "It's not [her] fault" will erase her sins and her mistake any time soon, deciding to accept she will work on making up for this.

* {{Foil}}: To Goh. Both are socially awkward, isolated young children whose hobbies are major parts of their lives, and have a lot of history that makes them that way. However, while Chloe is extroverted about her interests and tries to drag others into them with constant chatter, Goh keeps to himself and focused on his interest in Mew. When Goh met Ash, he started to change his approach and improved himself, opening up to new people and experiences despite the risk of being hurt again, while Chloe repeatedly refused Ash's invitations to hang out and do things with him because they were not things that ''she'' wanted to do.

* ForgivenessRequiresDeath: She assumes the ''only'' way people will ever forgive her is if she just kills herself, and is ready to end her life in the Harvest Moon Car because she knows for a fact that everyone hates her and she will ''never'' find peace even if she did a 180. It's only thanks to Goh and Buné giving her gentle reassurance, the latter whom she requested to kill her, that she can start forgiving herself without having to commit suicide to do so. Moreover, Buné shows Chloe how no one in the Harvest Moon Car is mad at what happened and are just glad she is okay.

** During a camping trip in Kalos, Goh's parents blamed Chloe for their son catching a fever after falling in a river, despite running herself ragged trying to get him back to safety. This left her feeling unappreciated by those around her.

* FriendlessBackground: Chloe has no friends to speak of prior to entering the Train, as Goh is (seemingly) too busy with Ash and his endless chase for Mew to notice her struggles. Parker tells Goh that on her last birthday, no one at school bothered to show up (and Chloe herself admits that she didn't invite him because she thought that he wouldn't be interested). Even then, outside of the Red Lotus Uprising, the denizens of the Infinity Train aren't so much "friends" as they're "blindly obedient sycophants who worship the ground she walks on".

* GaveUpTooSoon: As revealed in a later chapter, her FreudianExcuse that is the professor promised to take her to softball camp one time, but a last-minute conference came up and he had to cancel those plans. Despite arguing for alternatives, honoring her promise to behave for a week, ''and'' being reassured she could just try again in the future, she just gave up on him altogether when Sara cruelly told her that this was ultimately proof that her dad never loved her.

* GrewASpine: Thanks to Augustine's support, Chloe becomes able to stand up for herself and accept who she is. This comes to a test when Anubis gets angry at how she's into demons and she tells the Lord of Judgment to just stuff it. She also tells Aligheri when he goads her for a challenge that she will ''not'' fight him to prove her worth, finding it utterly ridiculous at this point.

* HatesBeingAlone: All of her worries and flaws come from her fears of being utterly alone solely because she doesn't follow the crowd and the actions (and inactions) of people at school, home and the Institute pound it to her head that she will never be loved for who she is and she is afraid of being mocked for not being "enough" of a know-it-all in the field of Pokemon because of her dad's job. The Train gives her the freedom to be noticed by denizens who won't be so quick to judge her if she makes a mistake and allow her the chance to breathe and make a new identity for herself.
* HealTheCutie: Act 2 is focused on this; in order for her to truly grow, she must learn to forgive others for their mistakes, admit the fault she played in causing her SelfInflictedHell, and understand and empathize with others.
* TheHeart: While she's initially seen as the leader of the Red Lotus Uprising, Harvest Moon Car actually reveals this is her true role. Atticus, Lexi, and Amelia would never have joined on their quests without her, especially since Atticus and Lexi have justified beef with Amelia for being responsible for their traumas. Amelia herself only joins because Chloe is the ''only'' passenger who has ever stood up to her defense instead of pushing her away or told her she is at fault for everything going wrong. Hewie wouldn't even ''be'' a part of the Uprising, let alone have a name, if Chloe hadn't befriended him or saved him and the other Mirage Pokemon from Yung's control. It's her kindness and empathy for them that keeps everyone together and all of them care for her well-being, enough for them all to tell Alighieri to shut up when he tells them to ditch her and save themselves.

** A literal example of heart being a strength. Barring Chloe's cloak and amulet, the things Ash likes about her is how she's "nice to Yamper," and in the orienteering event hosted by the Cerise Institute, she was the one keeping focus and getting people out of trouble. Chloe is dismissive of these traits [[OvershadowedByAwesome because it's not like anyone actually notices them]] over Ash's battling skills, Goh's dream for Mew and ability to capture so many Pokemon at once, and her father's research. But in Act 2, Goh finally admits Chloe's kindness and concern for him ''are'', in fact, her best traits. If it wasn't for Chloe watching out for him, Goh probably would've had it worse off/be dead because it's shown that without ''someone'' keeping an eye on him, he'll end up recklessly endangering himself (see SpannerInTheWorks for more details). Not to mention that being kind is how she gained practically every single member of the Red Lotus Uprising except Atticus. Taking a blow of hot water for Lexi, standing up for Amelia when Henry and Walter mock her, and taking the courage to befriend Hewie.

* HeroicLineage: Averted. Despite sharing many traits with a previous passenger named Alec Cerise -- red hair with flower highlights and green eyes, same surname, love of nightmares, and mint chocolate desserts, prolific at writing, possessing a title with "Demon" it, and having a power associated with light/flames -- Chloe is ''not'' related to him.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Her hair color isn't popular with her classmates, to which Sara screams her hair is ''fugly'', and Ikuo (Goh's ''father'') even calls her hair "freakishly garish".

* SunkCostFallacy: Despite being shown ''multiple'' times her negative behavior is only hurting everyone around her, and the situation isn't as black and white as she thought, Chloe still seems to default into spitting and yelling at everybody over how ''she'' is the victim of their neglect and ''they'' deserve her forgiveness. In particular, ''both'' her apologies to Ash fail because of this trope, as they quickly devolve into either a BackhandedApology the first time around, or a pity meltdown that forces Ash and Goh to tell her to stop the second. After everything that happened in Palimpsest Car, especially how Casimira's entitled victimhood nearly destroyed the city itself and [[spoiler:almost let a train ''kill the two of them'']], she realizes she can't rely on this anymore and vows to be better.

* TameHerAnger: One of Chloe's flaws is her wrath, brought on by her refusal to speak up about her issues under a belief that no one would listen or help her. Throughout her trip, she must learn that she can't solve her problems through anger and violence, lest she cause even more problems from them. Buné helps her understand that her anger is actually her hiding so much grief due to how she feels the entire world is against her, and how she can never catch a break or have ''someone'' get the hint that she needs help and not a few kind words. He allows Chloe to finally feel her rage and hatred for herself in one loud cry of agony, connecting to that side of herself she hates and to start healing. She also is given a tattoo as a visual reminder to take a pause before she flies off the handle.

** Sara loved bullying and insulting her. Chloe invites Specter to do the exact same tactics to see how ''she'' likes it.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Ironically for a girl whose primary trait is writing horrific fates in her diary and threatening to kill people if they make her mad, Chloe rarely, if ever, actually follows through on her threats.

** For as much as Chloe doesn't realize it, she and Goh are ''very'' similar. Isolated, friendless, NoSocialSkills, horribly misjudge others' intentions, and never express what's going on with them even if it would be in their best interest to do so. Goh himself theorizes that this is why his parents hated Chloe so much; she has all the same flaws and faults ''he'' has.

* VirtuousCharacterCopy: Bizarrely enough, She's one to ''[[WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug Lila Rossi]]'' of all people. Both of them are redheads with green eyes who [[ConsummateLiar lie like there's no tomorrow]], [[BitchInSheepsClothing act nice but are actually rather nasty on the inside]], [[NeverMyFault refuse to acknowledge their faults]] [[TheUnapologetic or apologize for those they hurt]], [[EntitledBastard feel like they're entitled to whatever they want without questions]], and [[AesopAmnesia never learn their lessons no matter how often they learn them]]. However, Lila is fully aware of her actions, shows no remorse for them, and clearly enjoys hurting people, while Chloe is capable of acknowledging her flaws and making an honest effort to fix her mistakes. And for an extra comparison, it turns out [[spoiler: Lila is also going under a fake identity, just like how Chloe adopted the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona once she entered the Train. However, Chloe created "Chloe of the Vermillion" in order to be the ideal best friend she thought Goh wanted, and later ditches it in order to go back to her real identity after realizing she wasn't being herself. Lila, meanwhile, has been living a double life for who knows how long, and she only ditches that disguise when she's been found out, with no indication her current persona, ''Cerise'', is her real one.]]

** In general, Chloe's aspirations of being a brave and heroic badass of a girl stem from she ''believed'' Goh wanted from her since she didn't have a dream to pursue like he constantly boasted or was a coward who could never be as great as him. But in reality, Goh honestly liked her true self as someone kind and ''supportive'' of him when he was at his lowest point and just wanted her to be more open with herself. The only reason it takes forever for him to get to that realization is that he struggled to acknowledge this.

* IgnoredEpiphany: In the Harvest Moon Car, Atticus admits to Yuri there were a few times that he saw how Chloe's enthusiasm for what awaited in a future car was exactly like Ash and Goh wanting to look for Pokémon, but she never made the connection due to it involving, you know, ''Pokemon''.

** She made a big deal when Goh didn't show enough appreciation for her bringing him his homework (Goh even admitted he never thanked her because, and he quotes, "It's just homework"). By the time he finally decides to do the same for her, she's too broken and suicidal to care for something so ''minor''.
** Cerise refused to give her the therapy she needed, which got her onto the Train. She starts getting better right around the time she meets up with an ''actual therapist'' on the Train.

* NoSocialSkills: Chloe's idea of trying to get her classmates to share her love of horror and demons was to constantly harass them over it with her favorite books, paintings, and her OC. This instead gave Sara all she needed to turn them all against her by getting back at her with their constant talk about Pokémon.

** Subverted with her wanting to be a Pokémon fanatic friend to Goh, or at least a replacement for Tokio (whom she didn't know at the time because Goh refused to bring up the Ilex Forest incident and told her to shut her mouth about it). Unfortunately, Goh was ''[[ObliviousToHints completely incapable]]'' of seeing her as a true friend due to multiple factors ranging from his angst, to his parents spiting her by making sure they never hung out, and ultimately because he never liked doing "normal" friend things even when prompted. When Chloe is about to end her life and admits her suicide fantasy of an apathetic Goh hanging up on her because he always prioritizes Ash (who is more of a SuperiorSuccessor to both her and Tokio) over her about to die, Goh finally tells her she never ''had'' to be Tokio to get his attention. He ''always'' cared for her as she was, but was incapable of expressing or acknowledging it until it was almost too late.

* RightForTheWrongReasons: Chloe assumed Goh hated her because she wasn't the friend he wanted. Goh later admits that he ''does'' like her; it's just that he didn't want ''any'' human friends after a kid so similar to him just "ditched" him that he's afraid of getting close.

* SpannerInTheWorks: For all of Ash being there for Goh to open up and finally start chasing his dreams, Goh probably wouldn't even be ''alive'' if Chloe didn't stay by his side.
** "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Goh was ready to bolt out of school because he was traumatized from Tokio betraying him, demanding that Chloe never abandon him and to shut up about Ilex Forest. Chloe promising to still be his friend, thus making him not do something drastic like get onto the Infinity Train. Speaking of which...
** On his birthday, 8-year-old Goh was about to run off in shame because he was still so heartbroken over "losing" Tokio and rejected Chloe's Mew magnet in his despair due to it not being perfect...which means ''he'' could've entered the Infinity Train or even run away from home in general if no one looked out for him. Because Chloe convinces Goh to keep searching for Mew, he stays in one place.
** Finally, Goh would've drowned during a camping trip in the Kalos region because he ignored Chloe warning him to ''not'' chase a Vivillon over a river were it not for Chloe jumping in to pull him out and try to get him back to safety.

* RedheadsAreUncool: Her hair color isn't popular with her classmates, to which Sara screams her hair is ''fugly'', and Ikuo even calls her hair "freakishly garish".

** Chloe has had it spelled out to her several times that Goh was never ''intentionally'' being a bad friend to her and even his worst actions were all due to him simply not knowing any better, yet she has it stuck in her head that Goh deliberately neglected her. It's not until the Harvest Moon Car when he tells her off for acting just like Sara that she finally abandons this mindset for good.

* SkirtsOverSlacks: When she wears skirts, there are also leggings underneath them. Uncle Howdy even proves this by showing a collection of photos that has her wearing "dresses, leggings, and skirts over leggings".

** Finally, Goh would've drowned during a camping trip in the Kalos incident because he ignored Chloe warning him to ''not'' chase a Vivillon over a river were it not for Chloe jumping in to pull him out and try to get him back to safety.

* WhatYouAreInTheDark: In the flashback to the camping trip, Chloe could've walked off and left Goh alone after he repeatedly refused to listen to her. Instead, the instant he misses falls in the river, she immediately jumps in to save him and spends an entire afternoon struggling to get back to the camp, even going as far as braving a spooky cave to get flowers from a Gourgeist.

** In general, Chloe's aspirations of being a brave and heroic badass of a girl stem from she ''believed'' Goh wanted from her since she didn't have a dream to pursue like he constantly boasted. But in reality, Goh honestly liked her true self as someone kind and gentle and ''supportive'' of him when he was at his lowest point and just wanted her to be more open with herself. The only reason it takes forever for him to get to that realization is that he struggled to acknowledge this.