History Fanfic / InfinityTrainBoilingPoint

* BaitAndSwitch: Early in Chapter 4, Amity points out that Luz needs to study for all the exams she has to take, then points out she has a classmate who can teach her. Luz then says several things Amity takes as compliments, believing she's talking about herself... only for it to turn out she's talking about ''Willow''.
** Less comedically, the end of Chapter 6 sets up a HostageSituation with Amity's family. Next chapter reveals [[spoiler: they were just invited for lunch.]]
* BewareTheMindReader: Boscha has the power of {{Psychometry}}, letting her see the memories of someone as long as she makes physical contact. And you can bet that she has enough power to make you ''suffer'' if she sees something she ''doesn't'' like.
* BeamOWar: One happens between [[spoiler: Boa]] and [[spoiler: the Red Lotus Trio in their collective SuperMode]] in "The Boiling Underworld Car".

* OurWitchesAreDifferent: Alongside what's already known from canon, a Witch's blood [[ThePowerOfBlood has magical properties]] depending on the witch, being able to either [[GreenThumb sprout plants]] or even [[HealItWithBlood heal injuries]].

* OurTitansAreDifferent: Besides the obvious GiantCorpseWorld, the Titan also has a functioning stomach ''somehow'', which serves as the foundation for the Boiling Underworld.
* OneSidedArmWrestling: When Hazel and Tuba play Todd's TestYourStrengthGame, the game's heavily one sided both times: Hazel gets easily beaten as soon as the game starts, while Tuba easily destroys the game without even trying.

* OminousVisualGlitch: A Passenger's number glitching is the first sign that they're a [[StaticCharacter Static Passenger]].

* SpiritualAntithesis: To ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'' (in which the author stated that this story was inspired from): both stories deal with red-haired girls with fiery tempers and abilities to cast fire dealing with a friend who has moved onto someone uplifting and positive. However, both girls couldn't be any more different:
** Chloe Cerise is struggling with problems of fear and self-worth and being bullied for something she didn't want, whereas Boscha ''herself'' is the bully who has a twisted view on what is considered "Strong" and "Weak". Chloe is a human girl who is into witches and later gain powers to cast fire and summon demons. Boscha herself is already imbued with fire magic, and is a member of a WitchSpecies.
** Both girls end up confronting the Apex, but Chloe is a MartialPacifist who takes a long while before she even meets them in person, while Boscha encounters them shortly after she arrives and is willing to break people's arms and burn their skin to make a point.
** Moreover, both Boscha and Chloe have partners who ended up being critically injured by the Apex (Phos and Lexi). The difference being that Phos was actually destroyed but still conscious, whereas Lexi was found BuriedAlive.
** ''Blossoming Trail'' plays the InsecureProtagonistArrogantAntagonist trope straight, with Chloe having a fair share of insecurities while the Apex act like arrogant assholes. In this story, Boscha's the Arrogant ''Protagonist'', and after her encounter with the Apex, the latter are at their lowest point.
** The mirorring goes with additional casts with various characters from Owl House coming off similar but different to their nearest counterparts in ''Blossoming Trail'': Luz and Amity to Ash and Goh.
*** While Luz and Ash are both outsiders with naïve personalities whose arrival shakes up the status quo that Boscha/Chloe had, Boscha managed to be both ''more'' antagonistic, ''and more'' fair and reasonable to Luz than Chloe was to Ash at the start of the story. Ash is also much more conventionally the ace than Luz is due to years of experiece that Luz herself lacks at this point and unlike Ash she is not the more skilled of the two (that being Amity).
*** While Amity manages to be the former close friend grown distant that Goh was while having very different reasons, motivations, and reactions. The two's friendship was never as healthy as Goh and Chloe's was, and the scenarios of Amity/Goh's first friends (Willow and Tokio) are ''vastly'' different and distinguish how they approach others. Unlike Goh, Amity is the more skilled one compared to Luz. [[spoiler: While both Goh and Amity get kidnapped Goh was kidnapped later over his own characteristics while Amity was kidnapped earlier in relation to the Skara case.]]
** Both Chloe and Boscha have different animal motifs: Chloe is represented by the wolf, a canine, while Boscha is represented by the lion, a feline.
** Atticus joined Chloe to protect her and also to find the whereabouts of King Aloysius. Chris joins Boscha to ensure she's kept on a leash.
** Both girls have to deal with feelings of inadequacy and someone who ''genuinely'' wants to be their friend: Chloe assumes that Ash doesn't want to do anything with her and refuses his offers while Boscha assumes the Cursed Princesses are mocking her with fake kindness.
** The Infinity Train's existence to the passenger's homeworld is also opposite: ''Blossoming Trail'' has a former passenger ([[spoiler:Trip]]) eventually explain what the Train is, and its existence quickly spreads through the world. ''Boiling Point'' doesn't have the same luxury, so the Train's existence remains a secret.
** People's ''reaction'' to the passenger going missing are also different: ''Blossoming Trail'' initially has nobody notice Chloe's gone, but once they do, they make a campaign to spread awareness about it. In ''Boiling Point'', the number of people who actually care that Boscha's gone can be counted on one hand, as Boscha was so brutal and malicious that nobody would really miss her.

* RealityEnsues: See [[RealityEnsues/InfinityTrainBoilingPoint here]].

** "The Ends Justify the Means" is essentially the "Things We Shouldn't Have Said" of Act 2 and it ''shows''. [[spoiler:Odalia forced her husband to rape Persephone, Skara's birth mother, to give birth to another Blight -- Amity. Persephone is so angry that she asks Prometheus and Amirani to ''murder every other Blight'' and then have Skara be adopted by Warden Wrath via mind magic to make her not remember the truth and it ends with Admity meeting up with her ''birth'' mother and her ''sister''.]] Holy shit.

* WeaponOfXSlaying: [[Franchise/KingdomHearts Keyblades]] are turned into this, being artificial constructs created by the Train, made from the same soul that creates Denizens [[spoiler: via the Heart System]], allowing them to hurt said Denizens.
* WesternZodiac: Chapter 5 includes a couple signs during the author's note, though it only covers four specific characters:
** Boscha is a Leo.
** Luz is a Gemini.
** Amity is an Aries.
** Skara is a Scorpio.

*** While Amity manages to be the former close friend grown distant that Goh was while having very different reasons, motivations, and reactions. The two's friendship was never as healthy as Goh and Chloe's was, and the scenarios of Amity/Goh's first friends (Willow and Tokio) are ''vastly'' different and distinguish how they approach others. Unlike Goh, Amity is the more skilled one compared to Luz.

* FingerInTheMail: At the end of Chapter 20, Luz sees an open box [[WhamShot containing [[spoiler: Cat's broken, bloodied glasses, and some of Amelia's hair]], leaving little to the imagination as to how their trip to the Boiling Underworld went]].

* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Like in ''Blossoming Trail'', the chapter titles are divided into two to represent the dual nature of the narrative: the first title usually has something to do with what happens on the Boiling Isles, while the second title represents the Car that's going to be visited. If a chapter has a single title, it means that the events are gonna take place mostly or exclusively on one side of the plot.

* DeconstructionFic: Like its inspiration, ''Boiling Point'' isn't afraid to take apart certain bits and pieces of the show it's based on.

* CoverInnocentEyesAndEars: Grace eventually covers Lucy's eyes and ears as the fight between the Apex and Boscha at Mana Academy progresses. [[BloodierAndGorier Given how much more violent it gets]], ''it was a good call''.

* TheDreadedPretendTeaParty: Inverted, Skara assumes that the Cursed Princesses are making her do a 'pretend' tea party...only to be horrified to learn that it's a ''real one''.

* {{Portemanteu}}: The "[[spoiler: Boschazens]]" are called like that as a mix between [[spoiler: Boscha and Denizens.]]