History Fanfic / InfinityTrainSeekerOfCrocus

** Also PlayedForDrama in the Ninjala Car. After Parker reveals that Alex Shepherd can become Pyramid Head -- he tried mentioning this earlier but was told to be quiet -- everyone reacts in shock because they assumed that Sycamore can ''trust'' Alex to protect him from Pyramid Head.

** Goh ultimately concludes that both he and Chloe were at fault for their camping trip that was explained in Harvest Moon Car. Chloe was being insensitive when he got a fever, only asking if he can come have more ghost adventures with her. Goh then admits to his parents that ''he'' also messed up -- the only reason he got sick in the first place was because Chloe ''warned him multiple times'' not to chase after a Vivillon floating in the river, which led to him getting sick with a fever in the first place.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: This becomes the dynamic between Goh and Gloria when they meet, since Goh's currently in a HeroicBSOD after Chloe's message and Gloria, being a former Passenger, gives him InUniverseCatharsis to at least help his mental problems somewhat. This later becomes reversed during the second half of Act 1, with Goh and Victor hoping to console Gloria after her honesty caused Professor Cerise to snap. In Act 2, this is reversed again with Chloe the brooding girl ready to [[spoiler:end her life]] while Goh is the ToughLove gentle boy who convinces her to change her act and find a reason to live again.

* DeconReconSwitch: While Act 1 continues the trend of ''Blossomverse'' stories of destroying tropes with a donut holer, the second act takes time to reconstruct them.
** Goh and Chloe's dynamic when they were younger were BroodingBoyAndGentleGirl. But Goh was so absorbed in his brooding and incapable of expressing his feelings towards Chloe, that he was unable to be grateful for all that she did for her and Chloe eventually got fed up and became the brooding girl to his gentle, albeit energetic, boy prior to the start of the story. In their talk in the Harvest Moon Car, Goh admits that even in his darkest moments, he was grateful for Chloe's presence and Chloe herself is incapable of actually hating him -- rather she hated how they treated one another. This also is the same for Chloe's OnlyFriend status. While Goh originally looks like he could care less about her, Act 2 is about him admitting that he always cared, just didn't have the proper avenues to express it.
** Goh's focus on hunting Mew and the general idea that PassionIsEvil. The story initially goes down the same route as the original trilogy, claiming that Goh's focus on Mew and not Chloe was for the worse, and generally making it seem as if having a strong focus on the wrong thing is a horrible thing, despite an early claim that having a goal wasn't so bad. Later in Act 2, however, the trope gets reconstructed once an interesting side effect is pointed out: since those with single-minded goals are almost always focused on said goals, they're almost never at a crossroads on what to do, meaning that people like Goh and Ash ''are immune to being Train-snatched''.
** Speaking of Ash, his whole character gets reconstructed in Act 2, though in different context compared to the original trilogy. Like there, Ash's kindness and charming nature making him easily approachable is made to look like him being a black hole who doesn't care about Chloe, and whose mere presence is making things more problematic for her. However, these exact same traits end up helping the two connect; as his kindness and patience means he doesn't hold a grudge to her, and he's willing to hear her out and try to talk things out even as Chloe constantly fumbles being honest about her feelings to him.
** Goh and Chloe's talk during the Harvest Moon Car does this with the FairWeatherFriend. ''Both'' of them claimed to be each other's friends, but thanks to a variety of factors, including Chloe and Goh's own issues, they barely even qualify as acquaintances by the time the story began, with Chloe's power trip-fueled spite and Goh's spiraling inability to keep his mouth shut not helping things. However, once the two eventually get enough development to break away from their black-and-white mentality, and learn to ''shut up'' and listen to each other for once, they manage to convince each other that they can still make the friendship work.
** NoSocialSkills is taken a swing at too. Chloe's reactions to Goh's piss poor social skills is to be so ''annoyed'' at how Goh can't take a hint and how he has so little awareness of when he's putting a giant foot into his mouth. However, Chloe ultimately states for all that Goh said to her, she doesn't ''hate him'' and honestly wished that they were able to vocalize their feelings better. And just because Goh can't properly vocalize his problems, it doesn't make him a complete asshole. He ''always'' cared for Chloe, but just had problems properly putting it into words.

* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the anime, Goh jumping off onto Lugia was a triumphant moment with a bit of comedy sprinkled in over how he and Ash wonder what they're doing. In the story, once she hears about it, Tomie points out how dangerous such a stunt actually was, and how Goh could've been hurt as a result of it.

* AdaptationalSeriousness: In the anime, Goh jumping off onto Lugia was a triumphant moment with a bit of comedy sprinkled in over how he and Ash wonder what they're doing. In the story, Tomie points out how Arceus-damn ''dangerous'' and ''stupid'' that was, because Goh could've easily died and how Goh is so focused on his dreams that he barely recognized Chloe is waiting for his homework.

** NoSocialSkills is taken a swing at too. Chloe's reactions to Goh's piss poor social skills is to be so ''annoyed'' at how Goh can't take a hint and how he has so little awareness of when he's putting a giant foot into his mouth. However, Chloe ultimately states for all that Goh said to her, she doesn't ''hate him'' and honestly wished that they were able to vocalize their feelings better.

** As the story eventually reveals, both Chloe and Goh's parents caused a lot of damage to many people as a result of letting their anger and grief get the best of them. However, while Chloe is given unconditional support from most people, with even her detractors seeing the reason why she did what she did, Kurune and Ikuo are lambasted by their own family for their hands-off parenting.

** Goh and Chloe's talk during the Harvest Moon Car does this with the FairWeatherFriend. ''Both'' of them claimed to be each other's friends, but thanks to a variety of factors, including Chloe and Goh's own issues, they barely even qualify as acquaintaces by the time the story began, with Chloe's power trip-fueled spite and Goh's spiraling inability to keep his mouth shut not helping things. However, once the two eventually get enough development to break away from their black-and-white mentality, and learn to ''shut up'' and listen to each other for once, they manage to convince each other that they can still make the friendship work.

** Augustine gets blamed for what happened in the Palimpsest Car even though he was depressed and not thinking straight. Does ''Amelia'', who spent thirty years as the Conductor, get '''any'''' sort of punishment or accusations thrown at her face? Not in the slightest -- One-One completely brushes her usurping under the rug and hires her to make the videos that ''should've'' been made all those years ago. However, Tres points out that One-One also has some blame to it; Amelia has only been Conductor for thirty years, so she should be blamed for what she did during that time span alone.
** As the story eventually reveals, both Chloe and Goh's parents caused a lot of damage to many people as a result of letting their anger and grief get the best of them. However, while Chloe is given unconditional support from most people, with even her detractors seeing the reason why she did what she did, Kurune and Ikuo are lambasted by just about everyone in the story: ranging from Tomie, to the people on the Train, to ''even their own son''.

* DoubleStandard: While this trope is in play yet again, it is at least acknowledged and people work on fixing them.

** When Goh chooses to focus on friendship with Pokémon over human ones, it's treated as him willingly closing himself off from true social interaction, and something that needs to be called out on. When ''Chloe'' focuses more on her friendships with Denizens than humans, it's portrayed as her just enjoying time with people who truly understand her, which is perfectly fine. Act 2 has Chloe acknowledging how she was in the wrong and sees Goh's friendship with Pokémon in a more positive light.

** As the story eventually reveals, both Chloe and Goh's parents caused a lot of damage to many people as a result of letting their anger and grief get the best of them. However, while Chloe is given unconditional support from most people, with even her detractors seeing the reason why she did what she did, Kurune and Ikuo are lambasted by just about everyone in the story: ranging from Tomie, to the people on the Train, to ''even their own son''. However, Chloe tells Goh that for all that they did, she doesn't wish for any harm to befall them and asks Goh to not wish that they get sent onto the Train.

** The Infinity Train willingly lets murderers, cyber terrorists, mechanical overlords, and other unsavory characters who would be considered unworthy of redemption a second chance, but a broken girl who went mad with power and just wanted an escape from her abusive home life? No, ''that'' girl is definitely BeyondRedemption and ''deserves'' to stay in her world to suffer for the rest of her life.

* DoubleStandard:

** Amelia has been on the Train for over thirty years, and has brought complete and utter chaos and hurt who knows how many Denizens and Passengers along the way... and yet people would rather point fingers at Grace, who hasn't even been there for a decade and had no real idea what she was doing, compared to Amelia being ''very'' aware but not really caring about it. Moreover, White Gestalt had three of its members kicked out for [[spoiler:the plot that almost caused the train to stop due to a fight with the Apex]] and yet Amelia, once again, has ''not'' been punished for creating the Apex and not even lifting a finger to stop them except for the large number on her body.

** When Goh chooses to focus on friendship with Pokémon over human ones, it's treated as him willingly closing himself off from true social interaction, and something that needs to be called out on. When ''Chloe'' focuses more on her friendships with Denizens than humans, it's portrayed as her just enjoying time with people who truly understand her, which is perfectly fine.

** Speaking of Kurune and Ikuo, the story doesn't hide at all the contempt most people have for them regarding their lackluster parenting skills towards Goh once it's made public, with many believing that they should've done more to straighten him out. This sentiment isn't given to Tomie, Goh's grandmother, despite the fact that not only is she ''also'' one of Goh's caretakers, but she doesn't even have the excuse of having a demanding job like Kurune and Ikuo; as far as anybody knows, she stays at home all the time, but didn't take said time to help Goh at all.

** While keeping a promise is important, make sure you understand which promises are more important.
** Don't make promises you can't keep.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Are you a ten-year-old child who has issues with punctuality and generally limits your texting for quick updates on when you'll arrive? Prepare to have [[DramaQueen your childhood friend]] denounce you to ''everyone she meets'' as [[TheOathbreaker an unreliable flake]] because of your [[InsistentTerminology "broken promises,"]] and a five-year-old labeling you as a {{Hypocrite}} for responding [[NeverBeHurtAgain irrationally]] to a broken promise in ''your'' backstory. This gets subverted later on as Goh starts standing up for himself and Chloe and Parker apologize for slandering Goh without getting the facts straight.

** Adding onto this, because Gloria and Victor are here to help, this means Parker never becomes mentally unstable as he has supportive older sibling figures who won't tolerate his anger and spite but also reassure him that his sister will return. Moreover, because Chloe properly calls her mother and assures Parker she ''will'' come home when she's in the Elephant Teapot Car, this means the latter never goes off the deep end.
** Trip decides to leave the Institute upon realizing he's not doing anything to help in the situation.

** The whole ghost hunt debacle described in Harvets Moon Car would've gone down a whole lot differently if A.) Goh had listened to Chloe's warnings to not chase after a Vivillon over a river, and B.) Chloe hadn't dawdled in trying to get him back to camp and then been more considerate of his health and wellbeing afterwards.

** Like in in the original trilogy, Ash falls into this thanks to the negativity regarding Chloe. Forunately, he eventually climbs back out.

** Alighieri is a humongous asshole whom no one, not even his own boss, likes. But the heroes ultimately admit that many of his complaints and critiques about Chloe ''are'' accurate.

** The story eventually deconstructs Chloe's "Chloe of the Vermillion" person as a case of this: before she got on the Train, Chloe was a kind and gentle girl who closed herself off from bullying and perceived insensitivity to her problems. Once she gets on the train, she adopts the persona in order to reinvent herself as a strong, independent woman who wouldn't let people stomp on her again... only to get utterly lost in the idea and drive herself further and further away from a trip home. The Harvest Moon Car primarily involves her learning about this and deciding to ditch this false interpretation for her real self.

* AnAesop: Promises play an important part of the CentralTheme of ''Seeker of Crocus'' and there are numerous lessons in regards to them.
** If you keep a promise, be ''serious'' about actually keeping them. If you keep breaking a promise yet never do anything to change it, you only prove to others that you cannot be trustworthy.
** While making a promise is important, make sure you understand which promsies are more important than others.

** Just because people have "privileges" or living their best lives, it doesn't mean that they ''aren't'' full of psychological traumas, and it is cruel to view them as one-dimensional beings who can't feel.
** A bit of isolation is good to connect to yourself, but you shouldn't be alone. Humans are social creatures and ''need'' to connect with others if they ever want to grow.

** Goh ultimately concludes that both he and Chloe were at fault for their camping trip that was explained in Harvest Moon Car. Chloe was being insensitive when he got a fever, only asking if he can come have more ghost adventures with her. Goh then admits to his parents that ''he'' also messed up -- the only reason he got sick in the first place was because Chloe ''warned him multiple times'' not to chase after a Vivillon floating in the river, which would've gotten him sick with the fever in the first place. He then points to his parents that while Tokio could've done better with the delivery on why he was sick, Goh isn't a saint either. After all, he could've gotten better if he actually ''explained'' his angst properly and appreciated what he had.

** '''Therapy'''. It is an understatement on how the cast frequently mentions how therapy is hard to find when others refuse to actually help their loved ones. However, even when therapy is shown to help with ''some'' of the problems, it's not eliminating '''all''' of the problems. The only way for people to get help is if they're willing to work on themselves.

* FelonyMisdemeanor: Are you a ten-year-old child who has issues with punctuality and generally limits your texting for quick updates on when you'll arrive? Prepare to have [[DramaQueen your childhood friend]] denounce you to ''everyone she meets'' as [[TheOathbreaker an unreliable flake]] because of your [[InsistentTerminology "broken promises,"]] and for a five-year-old to denounce you as a {{Hypocrite}} for responding [[NeverBeHurtAgain irrationally]] to a broken promise in ''your'' backstory. This gets subverted later on as Goh starts standing up for himself and Chloe and Parker apologize for slandering Goh without getting the facts straight.

** Goh bumps into Gloria on his way to the Cerise Institute after Chloe's goodbye message, and she stays with him even after he snaps, even giving him some InUniverseCatharsis in the form of a smash game. Because of this, Goh's on a more stable mental place, at least for the moment. It's thanks to her and Victor's influence that he can tell Chloe straight that she's also at fault for their deteriorating friendship problems, which has Chloe admit that she's in the wrong and the two to forgive each other and ultimately [[spoiler:has Goh reach out to Chloe before she commit suicide in the Harvest Moon Car]].

** When Victor calls Tokio, he tells the boy that if he just told his parents to call Goh's parents, instead of his convoluted plan to leave a letter at Celebi's shrine or asking Celebi to travel back a year before, it would've prevented Tokio from getting on the Train, prevented Goh from being isolated from others and later saved ''Chloe'' from her own bullying.

** The whole ghost hunt debacle described in Harvets Moon Car would've gone down a whole lot differently if A.) Goh had listened to Chloe's warnings to not chase after a Vivillon over a river, and B.) Chloe hadn't dawdled in trying to get him back to camp and then been more considerate of his health and wellbeing afterwards. The fall out for their friendship also could've been avoided if the Fujihachi parents didn't ultimately decide to just shove their son into their room and leave it at that.

* HolierThanThou: Chloe and Parker just love to claim the moral high ground over [[NoSocialSkills Goh]] by accusing him of ''only'' caring about people who love Pokemon (i.e., Ash and Tokio) and being a FalseFriend to Chloe. Now, no one can deny that Goh ''[[HypocriteHasAPoint does]]'' have a lot to learn when it comes to friendship (since he cared more about a boy who he met for ''one day'' compared to the girl he's known for three years and sees every single day)... But then again, neither of ''them'' showed any concern over the issues ''Goh'' was facing over the past few years (such as [[WhenYouComingHomeDad his parents never being around]] and [[FriendlessBackground having zero friends outside of Chloe]]) and there was no indication that ''they'' were any better about celebrating birthdays or even asking about ''his'' day (until Harvest Moon Car reveals that Chloe did come to his birthdays, except Goh was insensitive about wanting "friends" over which was actually him trying to say that he was happy that ''Chloe'' came to celebrate). [[DoubleStandard It just goes without saying]] that Goh bore ''all'' the responsibility for maintaining his and Chloe's relationship - and besides, as he's [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys a Pokemon enthusiast]], the Cerise children would consider Goh [[PrivilegedRival privileged]] until proven otherwise. Thankfully, both siblings realize that they ''also'' were in the wrong with Chloe admitting that she's also at fault for not seeing Goh's point of view and Parker tearfully apologizing about seeing Goh as a monster.

** Goh also blames himself for not seeing Chloe's problems sooner because of his obsession with Mew and his bad habit of making empty promises, but Gloria and Victor tell him there's still a chance to make things right. He ultimately learns that even if his social skills were better, Tokio and Chloe had to make the decision to let go of their faults on their own. He also tells his parents that while Tokio blames himself for his no-show, Goh messed up in not letting go of the angst sooner.
** Like in canon, Ash falls into this thanks to the negativity regarding Chloe. Unlike it, he eventually climbs back out.
** The entire Cerise Institute (and Parker) falls into this when they note how they're ''all'' to blame for why Chloe ran away from home since they had every chance to talk to her but ''didn't'' because they either didn't care or assumed things would work out for the better.
** Once he [[spoiler:gets his memories back]], Gladion repeatedly state this over how [[spoiler:his actions nearly destroyed the Infinity Train.]] In the same vein, Lillie blames herself for Gladion's state because she decided giving him a bouquet of orange lilies was better than just ''admitting'' her feelings to him and also states that everything in regard to her trauma and Lusamine not knowing about it is because ''she'' never said anything and has no excuse for keeping this quiet for years.

** Ryoken's methods are harsh, but the Knights of Hanoi note that he's not wrong to keep Specter in his room for fears of him disappearing again (as it was implied that the Train got to him ''while he was in the Hanoi boat'').
** George Gore did kidnap the Earth Ignis, destroy his Crystal Heart, have him be vivisected by Queen and then gets implanted with a Duel Chip based on his data, but he states that Specter has done ''far worse'' than Gore himself. Sure, Specter is sad at ''one'' Ignis dying, but did he care about the thousands of people tortured and absorbed into data to power up the Tower of Hanoi to destroy '''all six''' at the time? Did he care about breaking Blue Angel into bits by mind raping her and tearing up the book that kept her afloat? Did he show pity when Ryoken defeated Gore? Not in the slightest. Specter internally notes that Gore is ''100% accurate'' about everything.
** When Cecilia, Grace's mother, calls her daughter to demand for answers, she is in hysterics and screaming at her daughter to showcase that she's still the emotionally abusive woman that made Grace want to leave for the Train. However, what she says isn't ''wrong'': Grace is in a lot of trouble if this ever gets leaked out to the parents of the children she brainwashed. Grace's father also points out that for all of their hands-off parenting, they did ''not'' teach Grace to kill or injure people.
** [[TinyTyrannicalGirl Sara]] spits out a ''lot'' of points towards her classmates. At any point after the suspension, they could've stopped being assholes to Chloe and make amends with her. Instead they continued the bullying anyway, so it's all ''their'' fault that they got expelled. And she tells Chloe that the reason she hates her is because she is ignorant, so obsessed with her likes and is so ''annoying''. Chloe admits that Sara actually makes good points on that. However, just because she makes accurate points, it ''doesn't'' make her better than everyone because she could've used them to make people become ''better''. Instead, she uses it to make herself ''look'' better even though she 100% ''isn't.''
** Alighieri is a humongous asshole whom no one, not even his own boss, likes. But the heroes ultimately admit that many of his complaints and annoyances about Chloe ''are'' accurate.

* {{Motifs}}: Isolation, especially if people are left in empty buildings or with little contact with others. Specter was left in his room without anyone to help him go through his geass-amnesia, Goh was always stuck in his room searching for Mew before he became a research fellow, and while Chloe had people and a loving family, along with a safe haven in the Cerise Institute, she was still alone and had no one to open up to because she had been told and shown time and time again that no one cared to notice her problems. [[spoiler:Paul]] is stuck in the Fog Car in an empty room to be tortured. Grace gets herself captured in the Harvest Moon Car, [[spoiler: Hazel and Tuba]] are in a playroom isolated from everything else. The Apex are isolated in the Mall Car and don't know anything outside "survival" since they never bothered to improve themselves and Grace refused to see that her worldview was wrong. This highlights how isolation doesn't necessarily help problems and it's only when there are people who reach out to make connections that they can be better. And those that enforce the isolation are shown to either be flawed or apathetic.

* SchoolIsForLosers: This is Goh's opinion of Vermillion School at least, and the story does little to give him a counterargument; those who are shown to attend the school are always shown to be miserable, and would rather be out being Pokémon Trainers than stay any second longer there. Unfortunately, this doesn't help Chloe -- who is stuck at school -- who only wants him when she's on the verge of giving up on her life. This trope is also played with since Goh does meet up with a few upperclassmen who seem to be doing okay and the nastiness ist mostly centered on his and Chloe's class. In Harvest Moon Car, Goh decides to go back to school not only to catch up on what he's been missing (since Chloe was the only one who ever gave his homework, no one in his class has picked up the slack and it's been more than two months since she ran away) but also to gather all of Chloe's art projects as proof that she was well liked by her classmates.

** Goh bumps into Gloria on his way to the Cerise Institute after Chloe's goodbye message, and she stays with him even after he snaps, even giving him some InUniverseCatharsis in the form of a smash game. Because of this, Goh's on a more stable mental place, at least for the moment. It's thanks to her and Victor's influence that he can tell Chloe straight that she's also at fault for their deteriorating friendship problems, which has Chloe admit that she's in the wrong and the two to forgive each other.
** Adding onto this, because Gloria and Victor are here to help, this means Parker never becomes mentally unstable as he has supportive older sibling figures who won't tolerate his anger and spite but also reassure him that his sister will return.

** Because Chloe properly calls her mother and assures Parker she ''will'' come home when she's in the Elephant Teapot Car, this means the latter never goes off the deep end.

** The whole ghost hunt debacle would've gone down a whole lot differently if A.) Goh had listened to Chloe's warnings to not chase after a Vivillon over a river, and B.) Chloe hadn't dawdled in trying to get him back to camp and then been more considerate of his health and wellbeing afterwards.

* GratuitousSpanish: Frequently used in ''Rey Mysterio vs The Cosmos''. Justified because Rey and Aerostar are Spanish and the show that the story is based off of is a Spanish cartoon (as it will be first broadcasted on Cartoon Network Latin America).

* HealingPotion:
** Sycamore is given possession of a Full Potion when he accompanies Rimuru to the werewolf village, and is told to use it if he sees someone who desperately needs it. Then the village chief is wounded...
** He is later given numerous potions for his travels courtesy of Rimuru.

* HolierThanThou: Chloe and Parker just love to claim the moral high ground over [[NoSocialSkills Goh]] by accusing him of ''only'' caring about people who love Pokemon (i.e., Ash and Tokio) and being a FalseFriend to Chloe. Now, no one can deny that Goh ''[[HypocriteHasAPoint does]]'' have a lot to learn when it comes to friendship (since he cared more about a boy who he met for ''one day'' compared to the girl he's known for three years and sees every single day)... But then again, neither of ''them'' showed any concern over the issues ''Goh'' was facing over the past few years (such as [[WhenYouComingHomeDad his parents never being around]] and [[FriendlessBackground having zero friends outside of Chloe]]) and there was no indication that ''they'' were any better about celebrating birthdays or even asking about ''his'' day (until Harvest Moon Car reveals that Chloe did come to his birthdays, except Goh was insensitive about wanting "friends" over). [[DoubleStandard It just goes without saying]] that Goh bore ''all'' the responsibility for maintaining his and Chloe's relationship - and besides, as he's [[DoesntTrustThoseGuys a Pokemon enthusiast]], the Cerise children would consider Goh [[PrivilegedRival privileged]] until proven otherwise. Thankfully, both siblings realize that they ''also'' were in the wrong with Chloe admitting that she's also at fault for not seeing Goh's point of view and Parker tearfully apologizing about seeing Goh as a monster.
* HourglassPlot: Chloe and Goh's friendship in a nutshell. When they were younger, Chloe tried to reach out to Goh but he refused her. In the present, ''Goh'' wants to reach out to Chloe, but ''she'' refuses. Chloe was the one giving him the homework to which Goh could care less. Now Goh is going to get the sheets while Chloe is too busy trying to escape her suicidal thoughts to even care.

* JerkassHasAPoint:

** The Nurse Joy who visits Tokio is very smug about what he's gone through, but she makes a valid point that Tokio keeps making excuses for himself even when people tell him how he could've done things differently and refuses to change despite having so much help.

** When Cecilia, Grace's mother, calls her daughter to demand for answers, she is in hysterics and screaming at her daughter to showcase that she's still the emotionally abusive woman that made Grace want to leave for the Train. However, what she says isn't ''wrong'': Grace is in a lot of trouble if this ever gets leaked out to the parents of the children she brainwashed.

* MenUseViolenceWomenUseCommunication: The Cerise parents have different ways to interact with Chloe and her problems: Professor Cerise cuts the knot by having her go to the Institute as a rest and thus helping to end any attempts of bullying by giving her a place to breathe. Meanwhile, Talia's only contribution is talking to Chloe about "finding something you love and not pushing it". However, the problem comes from that each parent only contributes to ''one'' side of what is needed: Professor Cerise is [[ToughLove tough but concerned for his daughter]] yet never seems to talk to her about what's going on. Meanwhile, Talia gives advice but [[AccompliceByInaction fails to actually do more]] like go to her husband about her concerns or even get involved in Chloe's interests, focusing on drawing smiles on ''drawings'' than making Chloe happy.

* {{Motifs}}: Isolation, especially if people are left in empty buildings or with little contact with others. Specter was left in his room without anyone to help him go through his geass-amnesia, Goh was always stuck in his room searching for Mew before he became a research fellow, and while Chloe had people and a loving family, along with a safe haven in the Cerise Institute, she was still alone and had no one to open up to. [[spoiler:Paul]] is stuck in the Fog Car in an empty room to be tortured. Grace gets herself captured in the Harvest Moon Car, [[spoiler: Hazel and Tuba]] are in a playroom isolated from everything else. The Apex are isolated in the Mall Car and don't know anything outside "survival" since they never bothered to improve themselves. This highlights how isolation doesn't necessarily help problems and it's only when there are people who reach out to make connections that they can be better. And those that enforce the isolation are shown to either be flawed or apathetic.

** If you keep a promise, be ''serious'' about actually keeping them. If you keep breaking a promise yet never do anything to change it, you prove to others that you cannot be trustworthy. Chloe's problems at school and her trust issues stem from not having people actually keep their promises. Gloria points out that people all around her never do anything to maintain their promises which ultimately makes it feel like Chloe will never find peace.
** If you can't keep a promise, make sure to apologize as soon as possible through direct communication. Tokio decided to ask Celebi to rewind time to a year ago and leave a letter at Celebi's shrine instead of doing the smart thing and tell his parents to call Goh's about it so they have proper closure, the same with Goh and his parents.
** While making a promise is important, make sure you understand which promsies are more important than others. Goh is able to keep a promise to go to testing once a month; but he can never keep a promise to be on time for Chloe and always makes excuses to never do it again...yet he keeps repeating the cycle all while ignorant to Chloe's problems.
** Don't make a promise you can't keep or you have to resort to hurtful methods to achieve. Sara "promised" her classmates that she could all get them a Pokémon...by having them bully Chloe until she gave in to their demands. There was no way that this would be successful or that this wouldn't have severe reprecussions on both sides. On that note, don't believe a promise that involves having to hurt others, else you end up losing everything in the end. Right Class 5-E?
** And finally, don't just ''say'' "Things will get better, I promise". Actions always speak louder than words so make sure you're actively ''willing'' to keep a promise.
** Harvest Moon Car has plenty of these: Don't use anger to hide the grief you feel when things go wrong. Focus on the progress you made instead of seeking perfection. Showing kindness to others is strength. Don't constantly AccentuateTheNegative because it makes you just as bad as the people you're spiting on.
** If someone is going through a mental health crisis, ''don't shove them off to the side'' and call it "healing". Specter, Chloe, and Goh at some point were just left by well-meaning caretakers who assumed that this is better for their health. It turns out that these actions only ''aggravated'' their problems, with Chloe nearly killing herself out of sheer despair. It's only when someone actually talks to them , or in Chloe's case she gets a therapy app to talk to others, that they can start working on themselves. Yuri himself notes that the Train needs to do more to address how many people have probably ended up ''killing themselves'' out of sheer despair over having so little to work with. When someone is going through a mental health crisis, constant attention and care is needed.
** Just because people have "privileges" or living their best lives, it doesn't mean that they ''aren't'' full of psychological traumas and it is cruel to see them as one-dimensional beings who can't feel. Chloe and Parker may hate Goh for how he's oblivious to everything that's not Mew or his job, but neither of them knew that Goh had abandonment issues thanks because of Tokio. Chloe's classmates didn't see anything ''wrong'' with how they were treating Chloe so long as this monster lover could shut her flying feather mouth and she caters to her needs with Sara admitting that she constantly bullying because she never fought back. Goh himself didn't see anything ''wrong'' with Chloe except not having an interest in Pokémon, while Talia struggled with the ''concept'' of her daughter in pain when she's too busy drawing smiley faces to pay attention to how the real one is frowning.
** A bit of isolation is good to connect to yourself, but you shouldn't be alone. Humans are social creatures and ''need'' to connect with others if they ever want to grow. Those on the Train are willing to heal once they are able to connect and talk about their issues. Whether it's Goh and Chloe over their friendship problems, Yuri talking to his parents about the fall-out that got him on the Train, even Simon starts his HeelFaceTurn after talking to his mom, these bonds are what is necessary for people to develop.

* CerebusCallBack:
** Victor and Gloria are bewildered over the idea that the only thing Goh cares about Chloe is that "she's no longer into Pokémon" and barely recognized anything ''else'' about her, as if to say that he's just like her apathetic classmates in that Chloe being into Pokémon is the only thing that matters. Turns out Goh was somewhat correct -- Harvest Moon Car reveals she ''was'' into Pokémon, and uncovering that is the key to her hobbies and depression issues.
** Chloe running away after Goh screams at her for lacking a dream is bad enough, but Harvest Moon Car reveals this wasn't the ''first'' time Goh spat that back at her. When she tried to warn him not to chase after a Vivillion, he called her a coward in response.
** Chloe saying that she felt like to be like Goh, Ash or her father in order to be loved also gets harder to look at once it's revealed how she wanted to bring Goh on her own adventures and he was too occupied with his own issues regarding Tokio to notice.

** Trip's reason to not tell Goh about the Train boiled down to "The boy can't listen to reason so why is this any different?" While Gloria proves him wrong that Goh was understanding, Trip was proven to be valid to be wary of Goh's lack of listening skills. Harvest Moon Car reveals that Goh didn't bother to listen to Chloe's warnings to not catch a Vivillon over a river which nearly ended with him drowning.

** Trip's reason to not tell Goh about the Train boiled down to "The boy can't listen to reason so why is this any different?" While Gloria proves him wrong that Goh was understanding, the fact that Trip made a valid point that Goh really doesn't think about others' warnings is valid. Harvest Moon Car reveals that Goh didn't bother to listen to Chloe's warnings to not catch a Vivillon over a river which nearly ended with him drowning.

** Chloe running away after Goh screams he has a dream and she doesn't is bad enough, but Harvest Moon Car reveals this wasn't the ''first'' time Goh spat that back at her. When she tried to warn him not to chase after a Vivillion, he snaps back that she's a coward who can't chase a dream.
** Chloe saying that she has to be like Goh, Ash or her father in order to be loved also gets harder to look at once it's revealed how she wanted to bring Goh on her own adventures and he was too occupied with his own issues regarding Tokio to notice.

** When Chloe and Parker are revealed to have some serious revenge fantasies, from Chloe writing stories that has her torture her classmates to Parker wishing to make everybody pay for hurting his sister, the characters act like this is a result of their own incompetence and neglect and that, while the two are wrong, they have a reason to feel that way. When Goh's Pokémon ''allegedly'' grab tickets as to who gets to beat up Chloe when she returns for everything their trainer has suffered indirectly or directly because of her, they get called out and made to be solely in the wrong; first by Parker guilt tripping them without meaning to, then by Goh reading them the riot act, all while putting Chloe on a pedestal and tearing himself down. However, Chloe later admits that she kinda deserves their punches and agrees to it, with Goh supervising it.

** Adding onto this, because Gloria and Victor are here to help this means Parker never becomes mentally unstable as he has supportive older sibling figures who won't tolerate his anger and spite but also reassure him that his sister will return.

** When Victor calls Tokio, he tells the boy that if he just told his parents to call Goh's parents, instead of his convoluted plan to leave a letter at Celebi's shrine or asking Celebi to travel back a year before, it would've prevented Tokio from getting on the Train, prevent Goh from being isolated from others and later save ''Chloe'' from her own bullying.
** Because Chloe properly calls her mother and promises to Parker she ''will'' come home when she's in the Elephant Teapot Car, this means the latter will have zero chances to go off the deep end.

** Most of Chloe and Goh's problems with communicating could've been solved if Kurune and Ikuo didn't ''deliberately'' prevent their son from hanging out with Chloe after Chloe asked if she could hang out with Goh despite him being sick at the time, along with Professor Cerise and Talia stepping away from their work to properly talk to their daughter. Moreover, if Goh didn't foolishly try to catch a Vivillon over a running river, it wouldn't have ended with Kurune and Ikuo's extreme measures due to Chloe deciding to have Goh go on another hunt for Ghost-types (also caused by Goh's foolish jump) and not showing concern that he got a fever from the whole ordeal. Moreover, the entire Gourgheist/Pumpkaboo situation wouldn't have happened if Goh didn't put his cellphone in his pants' pocket; when he got in the water, it became useless.

** Most of Chloe and Goh's problems with communicating could've been solved if Kurune and Ikuo didn't ''deliberately'' prevent their son from hanging out with Chloe after Chloe asked if she could hang out with Goh despite him being sick at the time, along with Professor Cerise and Talia stepping away from their work to properly talk to their daughter. Moreover, if Goh didn't foolishly try to catch a Vivillon over a running river, it wouldn't have ended with Kurune and Ikuo's extreme measures due to Chloe deciding to have Goh go on another hunt for Ghost-types (also caused by Goh's foolish jump) and not showing concern that he got a fever from the whole ordeal.

** Because Professor Sycamore decides to not tell Ash about his problems, he never learns about the Infinity Train and that Alain is most likely on it. He instead stresses himself out to the point that the Train picks him up [[spoiler:and finds out about Alain's train trip for himself]].

** Most of Chloe and Goh's problems with communicating could've been solved if Kurune and Ikuo didn't ''deliberately'' prevent their son from hanging out with Chloe after Chloe asked if she could hang out with Goh despite him being sick at the time, along with Professor Cerise and Talia stepping away from their work to properly talk to their daughter.

** If Professor Sycamore and Chloe appear together to people who know they went missing, the latter ''must'' be focused on over the former; the Alolan students gets scolded by Goh when they focus on if Professor Sycamore is doing okay on his trip over Chloe, [[SarcasmMode because an entire city and hashtag focusing on her going missing apparently isn't enough]]. Thankfully, this dies down as Chloe begins to realize how insensitive she's been to Augustine.

** If Professor Sycamore and Chloe appear together to people who know they went missing, the latter ''must'' be focused on over the former; the Alolan students gets scolded by Goh when they focus on if Professor Sycamore is doing okay on his trip over Chloe, [[SarcasmMode because an entire city and hashtag focusing on her going missing apparently isn't enough]].

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: [[spoiler:Simon, a white man, is allowed a second chance and the ability to work on himself despite years of wheeling Denizens ''willingly'', while Grace, a black woman who didn't know any better, is lambasted, insulted, driven a past mistake over her head, disowned by her own parents, and just generally forced to go through mental and psychological torment until she snaps and turns insane beyond repair.]]

* ThereAreNoTherapists: PlayedWith. Many of the problems people have could be solved if therapy was in someone's dictionary, but this time there are ''actual'' therapists and discussions on this trope. Tres is a licensed therapist who helps Augustine and Chloe talk about their issues before handing Chloe a medical care app to help her talk with other trauma victims. Tokio mentions that he went to a therapist after his initial Train Trip, and Yuri even suggests that One-One creates a therapy program with the denizens since the Train's views on mental health are ''heavily'' outdated.