History Characters / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocusChloeCerise

** Chloe believed she would never live down losing to Ash, especially her opening move to tackle a Gengar, and decides that killing herself is better than facing being told a Professor's daughter is too stupid to tackle a Ghost-type for the rest of her school life and beyond. While Sara ''did'' laugh and mock her for it, it turns out the rest of the school was 100% on her side. After all, what mattered wasn't that she wasn't a total expert, but how she kept fighting despite the odds being against her, and many older students admit that any newbie would've tackled a Ghost as their first move.

* GoshDarnItToHeck: She calls Henry Townshend [[VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes "Mr. Sir Henry Mother-of-Furfur"]] instead of the more famous profanity-laden version ("Mr. Sir Henry Motherfucker"). Averted in her fight against Sara where she gets ''really'' liberal with the swear words.

* GuileHeroine: As she's about to face death by spiky crystal baseball bat by Sara and [[spoiler: an Unown copy of her father is strangling the life out of her]], Chloe convinces Sara she should ''personally'' kill her and no one else. Sara agrees with this statement, despite [[spoiler:the Unown Cerise]] noticing this is actually a trap. Too late, Sara takes it [[spoiler:and Asher (disguising himself as [=UnSycamore=]) swaps places with Chloe.]]
* GuiltComplex: Cyan Desert Car and onwards to Act 2 has her fall into this state, thinking ''everything'' that happened to her is completely her fault and she doesn't deserve forgiveness, but rather to be hurt and perhaps ''killed'' just for a sliver of redemption. Tres helps her to get out of this mindset before she becomes a victim and become unable to move on, culminating with her wanting to commit suicide when it gets too much for her, and Buné helps to let her forgive herself and to feel her grief.

** Goh's Pokemon despise her so much that they're lining up to take turns assaulting her when she returns. While Goh tells them off for this out of fear that it would make things worse, and Chloe initially snarking over it once she finds out, she ultimately accepts that she deserves it for how she treated Goh and agrees to let them beat her up under Goh's supervision.
** Goh's parents hate her solely because she didn't bring Goh back to the camp right away and prattled on her new Pumpkaboo friend, to the point that they lied to Goh by telling him that Chloe's requests to hang out with him were nothing and proclaimed she deserved to drown.
* 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 evidence at school, home and the Institute pound it to her head that she will never be loved for who she is. 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.

** Barring Chloe's cloak and amulet, the things Ash likes about her is how she's "nice to Yamper, and her brother, and Goh", 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 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 admits Chloe's kindness and concern for him ''are'' her best traits. In fact, 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. Not to mention that being kind is how she gained her best allies in Atticus, Lexi, and Amelia.

* HopeIsScary: She is afraid of putting trust in people, particularly adults, because every single one of them "promised" that things will get better...but they never did. Her suicide is built on this trope, believing that if she called Goh before she takes the drop, he'll listen to her and save her from her pains...[[HopeSpot but instead, he completely hangs up on her]] because he's too busy with his dreams and "best friend" Ash to come back, cementing it in her mind that he never saw her as a friend, and she would willingly end her life right then and there. She starts learning to hope again when Goh vows to return for her and apologizes for his apathy.

** Chloe always gave Goh his homework, to which he showed little appreciation for. Goh vows to gather ''her'' homework for her, but this time Chloe is too much of a suicidal wreck to even ''care'' about completing them.

** "Firefly Funhouse Car" retroactively turns her into one regarding promises: being very religious with promises and reading Goh the riot act for constantly breaking them, Chloe once promised Goh that she would never abandon him after his disastrous Ilex Forest trip. Cue her doing just that by getting on the Infinity Train, cutting off all communication with him until she was convinced/forced to interact with him again. [[HypocrisyNod She does acknowledge this however,]] feeling nauseous over breaking the promise but also knowing that she ''needs'' time away from him.

* 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 and appreciate everything she did for him. Goh realizes that Chloe copying him is actually toxic and convinces her that he liked her as the kind, gentle girl who showed concern for him.

** She made a big deal when Goh refused to show appreciation for her getting his homework. By the time he decides to do the same for her, she's too broken and suicidal to care for something so minor.

** She chooses to defend Amelia even after knowing everything that's going on with the Apex is all her fault. Amelia decides to fully throw her hat in the ring and support the Lotus Uprising, even stating Chloe was ''much better'' than Gladion and White Gestalt ever was to her.

* EarlyPersonalitySigns: If the Ghost Hunt flashback is anything to go by, Chloe has had a LackOfEmpathy and inability to properly explain herself since she was young, as she not only focused on a grand adventure to get some flowers for Goh’s sickness after he fell into a river even though he needed to go back to their camp immediately, but even when she did bring him back, her her attempt at explaining things to his parents made it sound like she was more interested in having an adventure than the fact that Goh nearly drowned, which gave them ample reason to believe she was too dangerous to keep around.

* EntitledToHaveYou: Chloe's behavior regarding Goh, especially in ''Firefly Funhouse'' is laced with this. She expects him to acknowledge her as his best friend solely because she does things for him such as attending his birthday or giving him his homework, and objects to the mere thought of him having any other friends besides her, acting like a jealous ex-girlfriend when he does eventually make a new friend. Atticus and Lexi have to help her to realize that Goh has the right to have other friends, just like she has friends in the two of them.

* FatalFlaw: Chloe's temper is easily her biggest flaw. When Chloe gets angry, she'll lash out at whoever made her angry, regardless of whether or not it was intentional, be it friend or foe, and ultimately causing more problems for both herself and those around her.

** Goh's Pokemon despise her so much that they're lining up to take turns assaulting her when she returns. While Goh tells them off for this out of fear that it would make things worse, and Chloe initially snarking over it once she find out, she ultimately accepts that she deserves it for how she treated Goh and agrees to let them beat her up under Goh's supervision.
** Goh's parents hate her solely because she didn't return Goh to the camp in time and prattled about meeting a Pumpkaboo and picking flowers, to the point that they lied Goh by telling him that Chloe's requests to hang out with him were nothing and proclaimed she deserved to drown.

* HonorThyAbuser: Subverted; she doesn't easily forgive either her classmates or Sara for all of the scars they put on her, but she decides to just move forward and give her classmates a second chance to be better and hope Sara can crawl her way out of the pit she dug for herself.

** Chloe always gave Goh his homework, to which he showed little to no appreciation for. Goh vows to gather ''her'' homework for her, but this time Chloe is a suicidal wreck to even ''care'' about completing them.

* InformedFlaw: Chloe is said to be abusive towards Goh, physically or emotionally. However, the only time it's been mentioned so far is when she reached her RageBreakingPoint over her loss towards Ash and slammed a plate of curry in his face. Even the thought of her violently beating him up is stopped by her not wanting to see him dead just cause his communication skills suck. Most of her anger with him is justified as it's repeatedly shown that Goh can't take the hint no matter how many times Chloe attempte to reach out to him.

* BulliedIntoDepression: Being thoroughly bullied by her own class just because she talked too much about her hobbies and subsequently being ignored by her sole ChildhoodFriend for Mew no matter how many times she screams at him and another boy with the same things he likes, her parents and pretty much ''every'' adult figure she interacted with has caused Chloe to become withdrawn, afraid of hoping for things to get better, [[DrivenToSuicide has contemplated the thought of ending her life a few times]] and has become cynical, irritable, anxious, and impatient about people ''actually helping or noticing her'', already expecting Asher to make a comment about her being a "monster lover" even though the shadow has never met her before. She's also lost any interest in things, particular her loves of the arts, and has anxiety attacks over not being seen as exceptional or "perfect".

** Chloe initially believed Ash was better than her in terms of being friends with Goh and just about anything else Pokemon related, but once she begins to see him for the kind, helpful boy he truly is, she admits he was a better friend to Goh than she ever was.

* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: She'd rather kill herself than to let someone else torture her and not even feel sorry about it. As she tells Goh, she'd rather off the school's rooftop than live another moment of being told she's so stupid to believe she can ever win against the Alola Champion, will never be able to achieve a dream, never be the apple of her father's eye, have her best friend prioritize his lifelong goals over her, or even ''be'' anything outside "Creepy Cerise, monster loving Professor's daughter".

* BeYourself: After many ups and downs throughout the second half of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2, Chloe has learned to start loving herself, flaws and all. Ash advises her she's not born to be ''perfect'', but to be ''her'' while Goh finally admits that she never had to be some badass BloodKnight tomboyish Poke-fanatic to ever get his attention and friendship. He ''always'' liked her as the quiet, gentle girl who supported him with homework and presents but was never able to vocalize those thoughts for the longest time due to his own issues. At the same time, she also learns to accept Goh's love of Pokemon as a part of who he is.

* CannotSpitItOut: A consistent problem for Chloe is she's just too stubborn to admit she has issues even when people are willing to hear her out. It takes Goh's ToughLove treatment, with emphasis on ''both'' the tough and love, before she confesses the truth.

* CassandraTruth: Part of why Chloe is afraid of speaking up about her problems is because she feels like no one would believe her. Thankfully, Gloria's harsh words, along with Parker's admittance of reading a poem his sister wrote about wanting to die, has her loved ones open up to the fact Chloe is in ''serious'' need of help, along with her confessing to Goh she's ready to kill herself from the sheer despair of it all.

* ChangingYourselfForLove: Platonic version. Chloe becomes "Chloe of the Vermillion" for many reasons, but she claims the biggest one was because she thought that's what would get Goh to ''finally'' notice her and see her as his perfect friend, believing he wanted a "tough, brave, badass" Chloe who leaps into action instead of an aloof, mousey ''coward'' who is afraid to try anything new. Ultimately, Goh realizes later on that's ''not'' who he wanted. While did want her to stop saying "No" and being sulky and angry all the time and just ''do something'' with her life...[[EveryoneHasStandards he never wanted her to radically change herself just to appease him.]] He truly loved Chloe's kind and gentle demeanor. The girl who kept an eye on him when even his own parents couldn't. He just had problems with expressing himself because of his own personal issues at the time.

** What got her on the Train was being dared to fight [[TheAce Ash Ketchum]] in a Pokémon battle by her classmates. She lost because she's not experienced in battling and only knows one move for Yamper from her father, while Ash has (out of universe) years traveling and battling under his belt, without considering how he's also the Alola League Champion by the time the story is in motion (or the fact her class ''knew'' she was going to fail). Subverted in Act 2; many of the students in Chloe's school found her cool that she kept fighting ''despite'' the gap in power levels.

** 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 shut the hell up about it, and his parents never thought to ever ''mention'' this boy to her face out of pure spite for an incident years ago, so she only saw Goh as a withdrawn, Pokémon-obsessed boy whom she thought never cared 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.

** Cages, both the physical and metaphorical. Chloe always felt like she was ''caged'' at the Cerise Institute because she felt like she wasn't allowed to do whatever she wanted and Gloria makes the analogy of her was like a Pidove with an injured wing, and she feels like she must conform to everyone's desires or else she will face endless mockery or kill herself to end it all. She's currently stuck in the GildedCage that is the Infinity Train and has to work through the anger and emotional trauma that's keeping her from ever being free. Fittingly, she's based on Robin Goodfellowe from ''[=WolfWalkers=]'' who shouted at ''her'' father about how his attempts in preventing her from being caged in the stifling society they live in is nothing but a SelfFulfillingProphecy -- she's ''already'' in a cage. And, last but not least, she's part of the ritual known as the ''Cage'' of Flauros.
** Falling. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a memory/nightmare of her falling into a pit when chasing after Goh, she gets thrown out of the window of a high-story building in Ninjala Car by Mirage Mewtwo, is kicked out of the sky by Aligheri in Harvest Moon Car, and her choice of suicide is jumping off the school's roof. Falling usually means helplessness, lost of control, and anxiety -- things that fit Chloe's mental state to a tee.

* NotQuiteTheRightThing: Chloe tried to cheer Goh up at his birthday by giving him a hand-crafted Mew magnet. It was a thoughtful gesture, but instead of addressing the ''real'' problem and trying to help Goh get over losing Tokio, she ended up enabling his obsession with Mew instead.

** 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 on them accurately can describe her.

* QuietCryForHelp:
** Chloe asks where Goh is when she's basically alone at school and, unknowing to anyone at the time, about to kill herself. But Goh, being the oblivious boy who only cares for Mew, Ash, and Pokemon, directly stated he was finding his dreams and stated he was so much ''better'' than her. This proved to Chloe that Goh could not empathize with her nor ''ever'' worry about herself and gets her on the Train.
** Another cry that Chloe does is getting Goh's homework and texting him to come back as soon as possible because she just wants to spend more time with him. Again, Goh doesn't care to notice.

* AimlesslySeekingHappiness: Pre-Train and On-Train, Chloe's motivation is mostly to find ''some'' sort of happiness for herself she can call her own after the entire world chewed her out and left her to rot, and she has no one who understands that she doesn't want to be caged, but rather ''someone'' to stay by her side who she can fully trust and be open about everything in her ten-year-old heart. It's only after talking with Buné and Goh that she decides her goal isn't to be happy if it means being just as bad as Sara, but to return home as a mature girl ready to start her own journey.

** She allegedly risked her life to save Goh after he nearly drowned. Her own inability to be empathetic to Goh's situation, only caring if he was ready for another adventure, caused her parents to not see the good in her heart and push her away.

* BackhandedApology: While her apology to Ash is sincere, it becomes less of "I'm sorry I treated you so badly and misjudged you" and more of "I'm sorry you didn't bend over backwards to get to know me better". The second one isn't much better: throwing away any pretense on trying to apologize to instead go onto a pity party, forcing Ash ''and'' Goh to shut her up before she digs her own grave.
* BadMoodAsAnExcuse: If Chloe ever starts acting like a violent jerk or a spoiled brat, one of the reasons/justifications given is that she's not in a good mood in that moment. Whether this justifies it or not depends on the character, but Chloe later admits it's no excuse for what she's said and done.
* BeingGoodSucks: Chloe has been doing her best to be kind, support Goh as best as she can, and try to not get into trouble. She gets nothing but people ridiculing her and little to no way of relief. As "Firefly Funhouse Car" notes, what's the point of taking the high road when you end up alone and miserable?

** What got her on the Train was being dared to fight [[TheAce Ash Ketchum]] in a Pokémon battle by her classmates. She lost because she's not experienced in battling and only knows one move of Yamper from her father, while Ash has (out of universe) years traveling and battling under his belt, without considering how he's also the Alola League Champion by the time the story is in motion (or the fact her class ''knew'' she was going to fail). Subverted in Act 2; many of the students in Chloe's school found her cool that she kept fighting ''despite'' the gap in power levels.

* DecompositeCharacter: While Goh is a CorruptedCharacterCopy of Waymand Wang, Chloe has a few of Prime Waymand's traits to her. Namely, at first glance, Goh (seemingly) saw no worth in Chloe handing him his homework, giving him birthday presents, or just texting him to see if he's doing okay compared to seeing Ash being an extroverted Pokemon lover and combatant ala Alpha Waymand. But just like Evelyn Wang comes to realize that her husband's kindness is the key to stop being a complete nihilist and to save their daughter, Goh comes to realize that Chloe's gestures are her ways of showing kindness towards him, thus recognizing this as her true strength and saving ''her'' from ending her life.

* DefeatAsBackstory: Like in ''Blossoming Trail'', the events that got Chloe on the Train had her being pressured to challenge Alola League Champion Ash Ketchum and being completely whomped by him. The shame of losing to him, is what gets her on the Train.

* AdaptationalContextChange:
** Her ImportantHaircut. In ''Blossoming Trail'', it was based off a desperate move to avoid being killed during The Dead Carnival Car before restyled after her mother's email to start changing herself. In here, she does it in a relatively safe environment, the Fashion Runway Car, in order to go "F You" to the Cage of Flauros.
** While fixing her relationship with Goh is still important to her growth, Chloe's main motivation is to repair her broken relationship with her father, since Act 2 is going to [[spoiler:focus on her trying to find him when he gets on the Train.]]
** One of the contributing factors of Chloe and Goh's friendship falling apart was Goh forgetting their childhood promise of eating homemade curry. Here, the curry promise is never brought up and instead the issue is about Chloe believing Goh doesn't appreciate her as she is. "Firefly Funhouse Car" also reveals that deep down, she only wants to learn what happened in the Ilex Forest incident that made Goh such a recluse.
** The reason Chloe decides to become "Chloe of the Vermillion" is due to her wanting to reinvent herself and have a bit of fun doing so. In ''Crocus'', it's because she wanted to become what she thought Goh wanted in the perfect best friend so that she would finally be seen as an equal in his eyes for once.

** Eventually, her entire "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona turns into this. In a bid to try become more confident and more ready to face the world when she returns, and to be the perfect partner she thought Goh wanted, the only thing Chloe succeeded in doing was use the persona as an excuse to act like a nasty bitch to everyone and refuse to change herself.

* AloofLeaderAffableSubordinate: It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim Chloe's easily the most unapproachable member of the Red Lotus Uprising. Atticus is perfectly cordial to most people, Lexi won't bother someone as long as they don't bother either him or Chloe, and even Amelia can be friendly under the right circumstances. Chloe, meanwhile, tends to get defensive at the drop of a hat at the slightest hint of mockery, and even outside that, she's incredibly violent once she gets going.

** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] when it comes to [[spoiler: dealing with the Mirage army]] compared to Ash: people initially claim she did better than him, but once the situation gets properly addressed, it's established that both were equal in how they handled it and Chloe accepts it.

** Chloe's variety of talents mean she's actually ''better'' than Goh's knowledge of Pokémon and ability to always capture Pokémon with just a single ball. Her creative mind and performance skills helps her survive the trials of the Infinity Train and rally a force strong enough to break through the despair of the Apex. Case in point, it's ''her'' doing most of the work fighting Sara in the climax of the Cyan Desert Car, with Goh's only contribution is presumably asking his Pokémon to aid Chloe in destroying the Unown, and he mostly stands there doing nothing but gawk.

** She had it bad at school, that much is certain. But exactly ''how'' bad things were isn't made clear, since most of what is known comes entirely from her word of mouth, and [[UnreliableNarrator Chloe herself is not the most accurate or honest source of information.]] At the very least, Act 2 confirms that Yeardley breaking her arm was true.

* AttentionWhore: Chloe '''hates''' being ignored and constantly acts out to get people to notice her. Goh calls her out on it and Chloe admits that she does it because she just can't stand the idea of being alone or never being noticed.

* BelievingTheirOwnLies: One of the first hints Chloe's power fantasy on the Infinity Train has taken a toll on her is the fact she takes her own exaggerated tales of how her life was back at home to be the truth, something she holds on to even as more and more evidence piles up showing not only were things not as bad as she made them out to be, but Chloe isn't as blameless for the ordeal as she thinks she is.
* BetterToDieThanBeKilled: She'd rather kill herself than to let someone else torture her and not even feel sorry about it. As she tells Goh, she'd rather off the school's rooftop than live another moment of being told she's so stupid to believe she can fight the Alola Champion, especially when her first move was Tackle, on a [[NoSell Ghost-type]], will never be able to achieve a dream, never be the apple of her father's eye so long as Goh and Ash take his attention and so long as Goh cares more about his dream than her, or even ''be'' anything outside "Creepy Cerise, monster loving Professor's daughter".

** The neck which represents how it's hard for her to breathe in a suffocating city or how she's unable to speak up when people want her to be quiet. She feels like she is pressed on her back with the numerous feet of her bullies on her neck and she gets strangled many times by villains who wish for her to shut her big mouth. In Harvest Moon Car, she's shown to be nervously scratching her neck, and even tells Goh that if his Pokémon ''do'' want to beat her up, she'll clean her neck (a euphemism for "prepare for execution"), and her suicide request specifically has Bune chop her head off.
** Shoulders are a minor motif that has her get injured whenever she tries to leap into saving someone whether it's from a hot kettle or [[spoiler:tackling Augustine and getting black flames burning her skin]].
** Hearts are her third motif in the Harvest Moon Car. Chloe gains a new tic of pressing her clenched right hand where her heart would be, Buné gives her a butterfly in a heart tattoo as a visual reminder to calm down, and her true role in the Uprising is to be the emotional center, their ''heart''. In order for Chloe to finally move on, she must heal her ''heart'' by letting go of her anger and grief that she's carried on her for so long.

* CassandraTruth: Part of why Chloe is afraid of speaking up about her problems is because she feels like no one will believe anything she says. Thankfully, Gloria's harsh words, along with Parker's admittance of reading a poem his sister wrote about wanting to die, has her loved ones open up to the fact Chloe is in ''serious'' need of help, along with her confessing to Goh she's ready to kill herself from the sheer despair of it all.

* ChangingYourselfForLove: Platonic version. Chloe becomes "Chloe of the Vermillion" for many reasons, but she claims the biggest one was because she thought that's what would get [[ObliviousToHints Goh]] to ''finally'' notice her and see her as his perfect friend, believing he wants a "tough, brave, badass" Chloe who leaps into action instead of this aloof, mousey ''coward'' who is afraid to try anything new. Ultimately, Goh realizes later on that's ''not'' who he wanted. While did want her to stop saying "No" and being sulky and angry all the time and just ''do something'' with her life...[[EveryoneHasStandards he never wanted her to radically change herself just to appease him.]] He truly loved Chloe's kind and gentle demeanor. The girl who kept an eye on him when even his own parents couldn't. He just had problems with expressing himself because of his own personal issues at the time.

* SecretlySelfish: Despite Chloe claiming that everything she did, both on the Teain and at home (i.e adopting the "Chloe of the Vermillion" moniker and doing things for Goh) was for becoming someone strong and heroic, her true motivations are very shallow; she only does those things for the sake of [[GlorySeeker garnering sympathy and attention from people]]. It takes a while before she eventually decides to do the right thing and work on becoming a genuinely altruistic and kind person.

** Chloe reflects darkly on the character of Penny from ''Scarlet and Violet''. Both are introverted nerds who faced bullying problems that would ultimately lead the both of them to be taken out of school events, afterschool for Chloe and entirely for Penny, for their own healing. Both are implied to be from well off families, as Chloe's father affords a rather large research facility in a major city while Penny is hinted to be the paternal niece of the massively rich Chairman Rose. Both are fans of mass media and both have created longstanding problems in their wake after they left, and are often paired alongside extroverts they find exasperating at times. And while Chloe herself is not directly linked to Eevee, [[spoiler: her alternate self is]]. However Penny did not intend for Team Star to cause any problems after she left, and both set to save them from themselves while also doing what she can to clean up her mistake, a level of self-reflection Chloe has shown to be unable to muster as she handles her own lingering problems back home. Penny, while she also groans at her family's antics and the antics of Nemona, does not loath or hate them in anyway similar to that of Chloe to her own family and friends and would never desire to hurt them. Ultimately Chloe is who Penny would be if she actually wanted to have people, from her bullies to her friends and family, severely hurt and ruined.

** Her ''Blossoming Trail'' self, ''Silent Hill''-wise, was based both on Alessa Gillepsie (who was bullied at school) with Heather Mason (a DaddysGirl who heads to Silent Hill tied to a prophecy to bring about paradise) but her BrokenBird status also gives her traits of Angela Orosco given how she was "abused" by her father and has a distrust of people before she decides to kill herself out of a belief she can never be saved, her otherworld based on everything set on fire. Fittingly, Augustine Sycamore is compared to James Sunderland and, thankfully, Augustine was able to reach out to Chloe. As of the end of Act 1, she has the film version of Heather Mason (real name Sharon de Silva) added onto the list [[spoiler:because her main mission is to go in search for her father as Harry Mason/Christopher de Silva is alive in that iteration.]] At the end of the Harvest Moon Car, she ends up wearing a combination of Heather and Sharon's outfits: a white vest with an elbow-length sleeved orange blouse, along with a black skirt, slacks and boots. She also decides to call herself by her real name, not her fantastic Chloe of the Vermillion title, just like Heather decided to call herself Cheryl -- the name her father gave her.

* YouShouldHaveDiedInstead: Ikuo proclaims to Goh that ''Chloe'' should've been the one who nearly drowned during the camping incident due to her insistent talk of going ghost hunting. While it's supposedly framed as a MomentofWeakness, Ikuo never apologizes to Goh about the misstep even when he and his wife tell [[spioler:Augustine]] that they don't want her ''dead'', just to stay away from them.

* 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, 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. Thankfully, it never comes to fruition as he gives her a hug instead, metaphorically killing the spiteful girl she once was.

* ThereAreNoTherapists: Initially played straight, as Professor Cerise didn't get Chloe therapy for fear of it being a scam or something that would hurt her -- Lexi describes it as "Therapy is not in the Professor's dictionary" and this was after he confessed how one of Chloe's teachers ''specifically told him'' to send her to therapy -- and there's no evidence if the school had a counselor to deal with her traumas. Thankfully Tres, a licensed therapist himself, not only talks to her about her problems but also downloads an app 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.

* 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 always love to 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 just the way she was but it took him a long time for him to properly recognize and express this.

* UnknownRival: PlayedForDrama. Goh stopped making human friendships and maintaining his with hers because of Tokio "seemingly" abandoning him and cementing it 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 bothered to show 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 refused to mention Tokio to Chloe) 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 partners. 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.

* 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 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 suffering ''isn't'' the better option for herself, and to start working on herself properly.

* YankTheDogsChain: As part of her backstory, Chloe wanted to go to softball camp and behaved herself for a whole week so her father can sigh the permission slip. Unfortunately, a conference came in at the last minute and the Professor had to cancel it, and he tried to reassure her that she could just go ''next time''. Chloe instead took it as all her work being rendered moot and saw it as her father always viewing his work as more important than her needs.

** Falling. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a memory/nightmare of her falling into a pit when chasing after Goh, gets thrown out of a window in Ninjala Car by Mirage Mewtwo, kicked out of the sky by Aligheri in Harvest Moon Car, and her choice of suicide is jumping off a roof. Falling means helplessness, lost of control, and anxiety -- things that fit Chloe's mental state to a tee.

* 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.

* 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 birthdays and 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, since friendship things aren't something he's interested in due to him still holding resentment over Tokio's betrayal three years prior. 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''. Why? 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.

* AttentionWhore: A big part of Chloe's character is that she '''hates''' being ignored and has a habit of making big spectacles to get people to notice her. Goh calls her out on it and Chloe admits that she does it because she just can't stand the idea of being alone or never being noticed.

* DesperatelyLookingForAPurposeInLife: Just like in ''Blossomverse'', Chloe is motivated in trying to find what she wants to do in life just to get people off her back about being like her dad, but she constantly (and sometimes ''deliberately'') throws focus out the window in order to instead live in the moment. It's this very trope that caused her to get on the Train, when Goh stated something that to her sounded like "I don't care about your problems because ''you can't chase a dream like I do!''" when she asked him where he is when she needs him...when in reality, he was trying to motivate her to find ''something'' and [[{{Irony}} he would've been more supportive if she spoke up.]]
* {{Determinator}}: If Chloe puts her mind to it, ''nothing'' can stop her. The Ninjala Car is her finest example. [[spoiler:If she wants to free the Mirage Pokémon from Dr. Yung's control, she will do it ''even if it costs her life''.]] This trait of hers is what makes her popular at school once they learned of her battle with Ash. It's not that she lost, it's that she kept on ''fighting'' that made her so admirable. Moreover, at no point has she succumbed to the pain of multiple injuries throughout her Train trip -- ranging from the constant strangulation attempts on her life, being telekinetically thrown out of a skyscraper, or something mundane as [[spoiler:having her father wipe the floor with her.]] She keeps getting up, and she ''keeps fighting''.

** It's eventually revealed Chloe adopting the whole "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona was so people would notice her for once -- as in, just ''Chloe'', not Professor Cerise's daughter who should totally be obsessed with Pokémon like 99% of the world. It didn't seem to occur to her not only would the Denizens only see ''her persona'' and not her real self, but going missing all of a sudden would've been enough for the people in her world to actually ''notice'' her absence for once.

* DoesNotLikeMen: Just like in the original trilogy, she has shades of this for those in the Pokémon world, being angry at Ash for unintentionally taking Goh away from her, and at Goh for getting all the privileges which ''never'' let him face a round of bullying, forced expectations to be like his parents, being humiliated for trying to Tackle a Ghost-type, or being pushed to end her life because no one, especially ''him'', cares for her garbage opinions. And the less we talk about her father, the better. She gradually learns to forgive them and is shown to get along with other males like Yuri, Specter, and Professor Sycamore.

** Chloe changes herself into Chloe of the Vermillion because that's what she believes Goh wanted from her -- this badass chick who can beat the crap out of people and be so into adventure and Pokemon that he'll ''finally'' notice her instead of dismissing her, her homework deliveries, and her birthday presents like he always does. It turns out while Goh ''could'' have been better at wording his requests and been more supportive or empathetic to his friend, all he wanted was for her to be more proactive while still being the kind and supportive friend she was in the first place.
* DramaPreservingHandicap: By far, Chloe is the most powerful passenger of the heroes with Asher and Specter/Easter below her. Not only does she have an aggressive fighting style with her donut holer, but her cloak has the powers of a god and demon fused together, letting her summon fire, turn into a wolf and fire arrows of light if she wanted. And that's not counting her demon summoning pendant either. The story has to prevent her from wrecking things by giving the pendant a one-time use policy per demon she summons.

* DyingAlone: Brought up in the Harvest Moon Car as Chloe is at her breaking point. She feels like this is her fate in the end, having no one to support her before she ends her life, ready to have Buné slice her head off so she doesn't bother anyone with her presence, or throwing herself off a rooftop because her last attempt to have Goh give her hope ends in failure since he's "too busy" with his priorities and new best friend to ever worry for her safety.

** And finally, when [[spoiler:she asks Buné to put her out of her misery, she stays still as he's about to slice her head clean off...only for him to hug her instead, effectively killing the broken, spiteful girl she once was.]]

* SecretlySelfish: Chloe claims that she adopted the "Chloe of the Vermillion" moniker to become a hero of the train who goes around doing [[GoodFeelsGood good for the sake of good]]. However, it's all too apparent that she is just using the name to [[GlorySeeker garner sympathy and attention to feel good about herself only.]] She ultimately discards the name permanently when she finally decides to do the right thing and work on becoming a genuinely altruistic and kind person.

* 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 (at least partially) the truth 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 homework with her or showing ungratefulness for the fact she gives him his homework. ''Crocus'' and its prequel reveals how Chloe is the only student at school who cares to deliver the sheets without fail both because it's a sign of her showing concern and also to subtly tell him to sit down and spend more time with her -- something that completely flies over his head because Goh never takes his schoolwork seriously.

* FireIsMasculine: Inverted. Chloe is a GirlyGirlWithATomboyStreak but she has a hard-hitting fighting style with her donut holer and is a passionate, impulsive, and determined girl ready to face off any and all obstacles. Moreover, the demon associated with her is Marchosias, the fire-breathing she-wolf, and her Mirage Pokémon partner is the Dark/Fire Houndoom.

* {{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. In Act 2, Chloe is making amends to reunite with her family, while Goh has decided he doesn't want ''anything'' to do with them until he hits 18.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: Her butterfly motif was foreshadowed as early as the Ninjala Car. After Asher freaks out over seeing the seal of Marchosias on the scabbard of her donut holer, she sarcastically says she'll replace it with a sticker of a Beautifly to make him happy.
* 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, 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 (sans Alighieri) is mad at what happened and are just glad she is okay.

* BerserkButton: A few of them include: criticizing her love of horror, being told she can do things "next time", hearing the words "Work in progress", and breaking promises with her.

* HeroesPreferFire: She's the heroic Chloe of the Vermillion and her signature element is fire like in other iterations where she gets on the Train. Bonus points for her Mirage Pokemon partner being a Houndoom, which is Dark/Fire.

** Like her counterpart from Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Chloe is a more bitter and spiteful version of Luz Noceda from the WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse. Both Chloe and Luz are outcasts from their classmates because of their interests that are looked down on because there not seen as normal. They both enter a new world, with Chole entering the Infinity Train and Luz entering The Boiling Isles; both of them find both acceptance and friends in their new world and prefer the new world to the old one. The difference is that despite it being implied that Luz is afraid of human teens because of all the time her classmates bullied her and that the only connection to her world is her mother, she continued to be a kind and forgiving person, and it implies that she does not wish harm on her former classmates. Chole, however, despite generally loving and caring for her new friends and little brother back home, has a lot of anger and spite towards her parents, classmates. and her father's co-workers. Unlike Luz, whose weird antics as a young child caused other parents to talk badly about her for benign things like collecting shed snake skins, Chloe got parents to talk and think badly of her for actions that nearly got other children killed, and unlike Luz who would also endanger others accidentally, Chloe would intentionally assault others such as Sara and Goh, and outright threaten to murder them, validating the suspicions of those who questioned them. Eventually, Chole's anger and spite have tragic consequences for her classmates and family, while Luz's actions, while causing her mom some distress, would ultimately mend friction that had started to form between them.
** Chloe reflects darkly on the character of Penny from Scarlet and Violet. Both are introverted nerds who faced bullying problems that would ultimately lead the both of them to be taken out of school events, afterschool for Chloe and entirely for Penny, for their own healing. Both are implied to be from well off families, as Chloe's father affords a rather large research facility in a major city while Penny is hinted to be the paternal niece of the massively rich Chairman Rose. Both are fans of mass media and both have created longstanding problems in their wake after they left, and are often paired alongside extroverts they find exasperating at times. And while Chloe herself is not directly linked to Eevee, [[spoiler: her alternate self is]]. However Penny did not intend for Team Star to cause any problems after she left, and both set to save them from themselves while also doing what she can to clean up her mistake, a level of self-reflection Chloe has shown to be unable to muster as she handles her own lingering problems back home. Penny, while she also groans at her family's antics and the antics of Nemona, does not loath or hate them in anyway similar to that of Chloe to her own family and friends and would never desire to hurt them. Ultimately Chloe is who Penny would be if she actually wanted to have people, from her bullies to her friends and family, severely hurt and ruined.

** What got her on the Train was being dared to fight [[TheAce Ash Ketchum]] in a Pokémon battle by her classmates. She lost because she's not into battling and doesn't know much about how battles work outside knowing only one move from her father, while Ash has (out of universe) years traveling and battling under his belt, without considering how he's also the Alola League Champion by the time the story is in motion (or the fact her class ''knew'' she was going to fail). Subverted in Act 2; many of the students in Chloe's school found her cool that she kept fighting ''despite'' the gap in power levels.

* AdaptationalNiceGuy: While she still has the same issue of always blaming others for her problems as her ''Blossoming Trail'' self, she is much more aware of her flaws and willing to be forgiving for what others have done and admit she herself is not completely innocent.
** There's also her treatment of Parker. In the original trilogy, Chloe threatened him that she'd disappear forever if things back home weren't 100% perfect, and didn't realize how badly her words affected him until ''after'' the damage was done. Here, once she's made aware of Parker going down this same path, she does everything she can to reassure him that she ''will'' come back no matter what.

* YouAreBetterThanYouThinkYouAre: As she goes through the path to healing herself after Palimpsest, Atticus and Lexi state she's strong for having to endure so much at such a young age. When she's on the verge of suicide and calls Goh to give him her final farewells, Goh ''[[LateToTheRealization finally]]'' tells her he liked her as she was: not as some explosive, violent BloodKnight, but the kind and gentle girl who always looked out for him even when he never was aware of it.

* CosplayOtakuGirl: On the Train, Chloe goes all out in cosplays of either outfits she's designed on a basic app or dressing up as girls from Kids' horror shows. "Horrorland Car" reveals that she's dressed up as [[WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}} Lydia Deetz], ''WesternAnimation/RubyGloom'', and ''WesternAnimation/ScaryGodmother''. Somewhat justified in that the Infinity Train would have plenty of cars full of outfits for her to dress up in.

* GrassIsGreener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it so much better because of one major thing: they're not being bullied and forced to play a role they hate because they're weird or because they aren't Pokémon lovers. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't harassed by bullies or are forced to follow their parents' footsteps 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 frankly ''she'' is the reason Ash had any problems at all (as any issues he had before Chloe's hissy fit was nowhere near as bad).

** She made a big deal when Goh refused to show appreciation for her getting his homework. By the time he decides to do the same for her, she's so broken and suicidal to care for something so minor.

** ''Blossomverse'' Chloe was a harsh deconstruction on a BetrayalFic protagonist, being spiteful and angry at how she was mistreated, especially when things became more and more gray as the story went on. This story reveals that most of her anger is due to her holding onto so much grief over everything that's causing her to no longer behave as the kind, compassionate girl she once was. While the story acknowledges how this doesn't give her any excuse to be mean to others, it ''also'' grants her the permission to connect with her rage and to ultimately start anew with a healed heart.

* QuestForIdentity: PlayedWith. Chloe's initial quest is to find a new identity outside "victim of Vermillion City's apathy because she's not into Pokémon despite being a Professor's daughter and thus ''should'' be a total Pokémon lover in order to belong in society" into someone who is brave, bold, and doesn't need to be associated with a guy to get someone's attention. But Act 2 has her slowly realize the identity she needs to find isn't Chloe of the Vermillion. Rather, it's to embrace that she is enough as Chloe Cerise, taking the lessons she learns about being brave to follow her dreams, but also combining that aspect with the kind and gentle self people liked about her.

* SpannerInTheWorks: For all of Ash being there for Goh to open up, Goh probably wouldn't even be around if Chloe didn't stay by his side.