History Fanfic / InfinityTrainFanfic

* AmnesiaLoop: [[spoiler:Tulip gets her memories erased each time she fails to beat the Conductor. And this has been happening to ''infinite versions of herself'' for over a hundred years across multiple {{alternate timelines}}. The only reason Tulip manages to gain access to the [[PastLifeMemories memories of all her alternate selves]] in each loop is because a previous one figured out a way to trigger a form of RippleEffectProofMemory by leaving a secret message in the library all of them inevitably pass through.]]

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9646229/ Infinity Train FANFIC]]'' is ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately enough]]) an ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' Alternate Universe fanfic. Written by [=SirSpoder=], it is the earliest piece of fanfiction created for the series on both [[Website/FanFictionDotNet FFN]] and [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]], with its first chapter being posted in February 2017; just months after the release of the original 2016 pilot. As such, while some of the author's guesses and theories about character backstories and the functions of the train manage to be [[IKnewIt on the mark]], others diverge so much from the eventual show that the setting borders on InNameOnly.

* BalefulPolymorph: Several passengers that Tulip meets end up being this, with it later revealed that [[spoiler:they were all passengers.]]

* MassiveMultiplayerScam: [[spoiler:Tulip coming up with one of these on her previous attempt was the closest anyone on the train had ever come to defeating the Conductor.]] In Chapter 13, [[spoiler:she meets that version of herself, who claims it failed because she couldn't get past the Orchestra Car. Tulip immediately calls her out on the lie, saying that she just valued the "game" with the Conductor over actually helping fellow passengers.]]

** When Atticus happily states that families built on trust and faith in one another, Tulip despondently replies that she wishes that was always true, hinting that her parents are divorced, and that she and her dad have issues themselves.

** Tulip notes the irony of the Corgi Car being filled with Greek architecture after Atticus mocks the idea of democracy.

* PointOfNoReturn: [[spoiler:The Conductor is treating this loop as his final game with Tulip, and The Multiverse Hall iss Tulip's final chance to leave the train without having to attempt defeating him.]]

** Chapter 6 has the group witness what is basically a scene from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' reenacted by frogs, with Tulip even lampshading that she feels like recognizes the scenario from a movie.

* TookALevelInJerkass: Tulip in Chapter 8. While she was already pretty abrasive in previous chapters, the others [[spoiler:forcing her to run while Atticus makes a heroic sacrifice]] at the end of the last chapter has her be particularly rude here, insulting and attempting to belittle Dee Arr and One-One at very turn.

* MusicalTrigger: Tulip's FinalBattle with the Conductor in the Orchestra Car is this. [[spoiler:She must perform Music/DuekEllington's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkLBSLxo5LE Caravan]]" on the drums, lest she and her comrades get murdered by an approaching army of Stewards. He doubted she'd be able to accomplish thanks to her DaddyIssues.]]

* StockAnimalBehavior: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. When Krow the Magpie insists that he must count all the gold coins in his vault because his species loves shiny things, Tulip points out that this is a myth and that magpies in particular are actually unnerved by shiny and unfamiliar objects. Upon this revelation, [[TooDumbToLive Krow]] immediately asks his companion Koo the Owl why he never told him this for so many years.

** Koo's reaction when [[spoiler:Tulip manages to get a door in the Multiverse Hall to led back home on her first try, only to slam it shut and reject the offer.]]

* StockAnimalBehavior: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]]. When Krow the Magpie insists that he must count all the gold coins in his vault because his species loves shiny things, Tulip points out that this is a myth and that magpies in particular are actually unnerved by shiny and unfamiliar objects. Upon this revelation, [[TooDumbToLive Krow]] immediately asks his companion Koo the Owl why he never told him this for so many years.

** Koo's reaction when [[spoiler:Tulip manages to get a door in the Multiverse Hall to led back home on her first try, only to slam it shut and reject the offer.]]

-->- '''Klyde''', giving a vital piece of advice

''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/9646229/chapters/21792842 Infinity Train FANFIC]]'' is ([[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin appropriately enough]]) an ''WesternAnimation/InfinityTrain'' Alternate Universe fanfic. Written by [=SirSpoder=], it is the earliest piece of fanfiction created for the series on both [[Website/FanFictionDotNet FFN]] and [[Website/ArchiveOfOurOwn AO3]], with its first chapter being posted in February 2017; just months after the release of the original 2016 pilot. As such, while some of the author's guesses and theories about character backstories and the functions of the train manage to be [[IKnewIt on the mark]], others diverge so much from the eventual show that the setting borders on InNameOnly.

* AnimatedTattoo: Like in the show, Tulip and other passengers have these. Unlike the show, it doesn't purely represent their personal problems; while having such issues to deal with means you'll have a higher number, the number here additionally represents [[spoiler:how much one knows the true nature of the train and of the Conductor]], with lowering the number being based on discovering new information related to those things. [[spoiler:[[AntiClimax Getting it to zero doesn't absolutely nothing]].]]

* {{Epilogue}}: The final chapter has [[spoiler:all the modern day characters back on Earth getting together at a rundown saloon to dig up a time capsule left by Klyde and catch-up with each other. Zero and One-One also show up to bring apology gifts.]]

* LockedOutOfLoop: Tulip isn't told about her own identity by Klyde or Koo, who are both fully aware of [[spoiler:her 100+ year history on the train]]. The former didn't say anything because [[spoiler:he always hopes she'd be a better person on each new loop and actually take her exit instead of continuing her game of XanatosSpeedChess with the Conductor]], while the latter thought she didn't know enough about the train yet for a reveal to be worth it.

-->- '''Kylde''', giving a vital piece of advice

* AdaptationalAngstUpgrade: The second half of the fic is unquestionably darker than anywhere the first season of ''Infinity Train'' went.
* AdaptationalIntelligence: While Tulip in the series is pretty smart for a twelve-year-old, having a strong interest in game design, this fic's version of Tulip is a TeenGenius with a talent for computer engineering. [[spoiler:Gaining the memories of all her alternate lives results in her becoming one of the smartest humans to ever live.]]
* AdaptationalPersonalityChange: While Tulip can be a bit of a {{jerkass}} in the show, this version of Tulip always has a rude remark or quip at the ready for anyone she interacts with, can be quite self-centered in her actions, and holds a [[HairTriggerTemper short fuse for any and all silliness]]. [[spoiler:And she's one of the ''nicer'' versions of herself.]]
* AlternateUniverseFic: Inevitable. Being written before the show was even ''greenlit'' means how the train functioned and what its purpose is in this fic diverge greatly from the Creator/CartoonNetwork/Creator/HBOMax series.

* AnimatedTattoo: Like in the show, Tulip and other passengers have these. Unlike the show, it doesn't purely represent their personal problems; while having psychological or behavioral issues to deal with means you'll have a higher number, the number here represents [[spoiler:how much one knows the true nature of this train and of the Conductor]], with lowering the number being based on discovering new information related to those things.
* ArcSymbol: The ouroboros starts appearing regularly starting from Chapter 6, at which point the story shifts from a light {{dramedy}} to a darker psychological drama.

* BalefulPolymorph: Several passengers that Tulip meets end up being this, with it later revealed that [[spoiler:they were all members of a robbery gang led by Tulip.]]

** Atticus mocks the idea of democracy in Chapter 1, joking that coups d'état and rebellions would result from such a system. In Chapter 4, Tulips encourages Atlantis to try democracy, which results in a violent civil war that's only quelled by the previous monarchy becoming a full-on totalitarian state.
* BubbleBoy: Dee Arr, a scatterbrained inventor who never left the car she awoke in.
* CentralTheme: One shouldn't forget, ignore, or try to rewrite their past, which Dee Arr directly esoupses to Tulip.
-->'''Dee Arr''': Doing these kinds of things will never do anybody any good. Your memories are there for a reason, both good and bad. They are there so that you can learn from them. But if you forget certain things from your mind then how can you ever learn? Listen, Tulip… I’m here for you. Don’t block other people out of your life.
* ConnectedAllAlong:
** The wars that Fredrick the Third speaks of fighting in the first chapter turn out to have been battles fought against the Kingdom of Atlantis encountered in Chapter 4.
** Dee Arr's son is [[spoiler:the usurper Conductor]].
* TheDreaded: The Conductor is seen as this by some denizens, though none can actually agree on his identity. Kylde describes him as a "guy with white hair wearing a coat", while Krow and Koo claim Kylde himself is the Conductor, with him also fitting the description.

** When Atticus happily states that families built on trust and faith in one another, Tulip despondently replies that she wishes that was always true, hinting that her parents are divorced.
** Krow and Koo are obsessed with stealing gold from the train. [[spoiler:They were a pair of thieves when they were still human.]]
** Tulip's vignettes in Chapter 9 appear to jump around her life far more than those of the other characters, which focus solely on the day they boarded the Infinity Train. [[spoiler:Tulip has boarded the train [[AlternateTimeline in multiple timelines]] for several different reasons.]]
* GreatBigLibraryOfEverything: The library car in Chapter 7,

** She's then thrown into StunnedSilence when Atticus states he'll leave Corginia in the safe paws of a young corgi named ''UsefulNotes/{{Nero}}''.
* KilledOffForReal: [[spoiler:Atticus, who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices his life]] fighting an eight-headed dragon so the others can escape.]]

* LizardFolk: Kylde, the sheriff of the Sand Car.
* MadScientist: Dee Arr, who has spent who knows how long building robots and such in her robotics lab car.
* MassiveMultiplayerScam: [[spoiler:Tulip coming up with one of these on her previous attempt was the closest anyone on the train had ever come to defeating the Conductor. The only reason it didn't work is because she herself sabotaged it.]]
* MoodWhiplash: Chapter 6. While the beginning is dramatic, as Tulip is made to question what she's doing on the train, the middle of the chapter is a humorous homage to ''Monty Python'' and gets even Tulip to lighten up for once... at which point [[spoiler:the original Steward appears to attack everyone, Tulip reveals that her father might have died prior to her entering the train,

* ObfuscatingStupidity: [[spoiler:One-One, to an extent. They really ''are'' as goofy as they seem, but they additionally explain their behavior as this in Chapter 6, since keeping their head down in-between occasional train car manipulation has proven to be the best way to survive on the train. As for why they never revealed this to Tulip, they claim it's because YouNeverAsked.]]

* TheReasonYouSuckSpeech: In Chapter 10, after Tulip is pushed to view some of her past memories and demands to know why she's being tortured like this, Koo calls her selfish. When she attempts to rebut this, asking if he thinks being stuck on the train is just because she threw a tantrum, he has this to say:

* RidiculouslyHumanRobot: Dee Arr became this upon awaking on the train, only existing within the computer monitor that serves as the head for a humanoid robot body.
* ShockingSwerve: Subverted. In Chapter 4, One-One talks about how they miss eating. When Tulip quips that they can't eat, One-One appears to lucidly respond that he wasn't always a robot and used to be a human. Tulip is shocked but completely believes the revelation... until One-One starts describing themselves as having been 13 feet tall and doing activities like "jump[ing] over the rainbows and waterfalls with just a single leg stretch."
-->'''One-One''': That ''IS'' what normal humans do… right?

** Tulip's constant use of a screwdriver to get herself and others out of scrapes is a blatant nod to the Sonic Screwdriver in ''Series/DoctorWho''.
** Chapter 6 has the group witness what is basically a scene from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' reenacted by frogs, with Tulip even lampshading that she feels like recognizes it from a movie.

* TimeyWimeyBall: The train exists outside of time and space, with infinite timelines (past, present, and future) existing simultaneously and collating into a single one. Characters from multiple eras of history also co-exist with each other, though [[spoiler:once everyone successfully leaves the train, they're returned to their proper time periods]].
* TookALevelInJerkass: Tulip in Chapter 8. While she was already pretty abrasive in previous chapters, the others [[spoiler:forcing her to run while Atticus makes a heroic sacrifice]] at the end of Chapter 6 has her be particularly rude here, insulting and attempting to belittle Dee Arr and One-One at very turn.

* WasTooHardOnHim: When Tulip breaks down sobbing after the above "Reason You Suck" speech, Koo apologizes and admits that he might have taken things too far.
* WhamEpisode: The second half of the fic is arguably nothing but a string of them.
** Chapter 10: [[spoiler:Tulip has been on the train and attempting to escape [[ReallySevenHundredYearsOld for over a century]], being mind-wiped by the Conductor after every failure.]]
* WhamLine: At the end of Chapter 8, after decoding the secret message someone in the library left, [[spoiler:Dee Arr is suddenly dismantled, One-One vanishes, and (out of nowhere)]] Koo appears to complain about her not yet figuring out what has been going on. Leading to this realization:
-->'''Tulip''': I… was the one… who left the message?

* WholeEpisodeFlashback: Chapter 9 is a series of vignettes of the day several characters were transported to the train
* TheWildWest: The desert in the Sand Car serves as this, being a desert town populated by cowboy reptiles that Tulip feels wouldn't be out of place in an old cartoon.
* YouHaveGotToBeKiddingMe: Tulip's reaction that one of the train cars is ''{{Atlantis}}'' of all places. Ironically, the Conductor holds the same exasperated feelings towards that car himself.
--> Every ounce of logic in her body refused to believe it. But like some kind of omniscient god, the train continued to take pages and ideas from fictional realms, mythical realms and shove it into her face, as if mocking her.

-->''"You are Tulip. And that is everything you need to know… for now."''

* YouWakeUpInARoom: In Chapter 2, Tulip reveals that she doesn't remember how she got on the train, with [[AmnesiacHero some of her other memories also being fuzzy]].

* AdaptationalIntelligence: While Tulip in the series is pretty smart for a twelve-year-old, having a strong interest in game design, this fic's version of Tulip is a TeenGenius with a talent for computer engineering. [[spoiler:Gaining the memories of all her alternate lives results in her becoming one of the smartest humans to ever live.]].

* AmnesiaLoop: [[spoiler:Tulip gets her memories erased each time she fails to beat the Conductor. And this has been happening to ''infinite versions of herself'' for over a hundred years across multiple {{alternate timelines}}. The only reason each one eventually manages to gain access to the [[PastLifeMemories memories of all their alternate selves]] during this recurring cycle of failure is because one Tulip figured out a way to trigger a form of RippleEffectProofMemory by leaving a secret message in the library all of them inevitably pass through.]]