Anvilicious / Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail

• You do not have to forgive someone who has done horrible things to you. No matter how much Goh tries apologizing to Chloe, Chloe refuses to give him any sort of forgiveness because of how he had treated her in the past. It also doesn't help that Goh isn't trying to change himself as he is "bring Chloe back to maintain stability".
  • On the other hand, it is also incredibly important to know that you cannot let your own biases about yourself and/or someone you know blind you to the point of being close-minded about the other person's flaws, intentions, thoughts, actions, and even their views about you. From the Pokemon world, Parker raises the solid point that Chloe's classmates, teachers, and parents should have been more proactive and compassionate about getting to know Chloe as a person regardless of whether she liked Pokemon/Pokemon-oriented things or not. But his actions towards getting those people to learn that lesson cross the Moral Event Horizon when he and UnChloe (with assistance from the Unown) turn on the more innocent 5-E classmates and teachers who had varying degrees of knowledge about what Chloe was going through, Ash's group, Professor Cerise, Renji, and Chryssa. And during her journey on the Train, Chloe's own negative paradigm about people she knew in the Pokemon world not caring about her as a person are constantly challenged when she re-establishes contact with Ash, Parker, Trip, and Professor Cerise. Moreover, even though people did only bother to get to know her after the Calling Chloe campaign was created, it proves that she is unique as a person, and that she wouldn't face ostracization from everyone around her if she let herself open up to people outside her near-friendless social bubble.
• Parents and adult figures have a hand in how children are raised and ignoring them will lead to harsh consequences. Given how most of the problems could've been solved if Chloe's parents or teacher paid more attention to Chloe's problems or how her class was treating her, if they did take more time to talk to her or do something, then Chloe would never enter a therapy train.
  • On the flip side, there's only so much blame that can fall on a parent's shoulder, and no matter the justification, children have to take responsibility for what they do. Chloe's actions get re-examined in Act 2, and people begin to realize she had her own skeletons in the closet regarding the situation. And Parker failing to understand that he was in the wrong for going on a rampage until his court date causes no shortage of trouble for everybody.
• There’s nothing wrong with having a passion for something, but if you put your focus on it and not on the world around you, you end up hurting yourself in the end. Goh's pursuit of Mew closed him off on his friendship with Chloe, leading the latter to focus on her love of horror as an escape and prevented her from telling people what's going on.
• On that note, while it's fine having a love of something, you shouldn't force someone to become interested in what you like as it just drives people away. All of Chloe's problems stem from being forced to "like" Pokémon like everyone else does under the assumption of her being the daughter of a Professor, preventing her from doing what she loved and feel like she would never be accepted.
  • Two wrongs don't make a right. After gaining the power of the Unown, Parker uses his newfound abilities to essentially Mind Rape people, guilty or innocent, into loving horror much like they tried to force Chloe to like Pokemon.
• Sometimes people call you out on your mistakes not to help you get better, or because they even care, but to pat themselves in the back and act like they're superior.
• Stopping the Blame Game is much easier said than done, especially when all parties involved are too stuck up on their own anger, pride, resentment, or need to feel in the right to sit down and talk things out.
• Words, one of the most powerful weapons in human history, are very easy to misuse or misunderstand if they're said without a clear mind.
• Romanticizing something to the point of wanting a more glamorous life can have a negative effect on your perspectives. The life of a Trainer is not a celebrity life as Chloe has internalized and what her classmates have pushed onto her and it takes three other Trainers telling her that it's not as pretty or clean as what she thinks. The author lampshades that she was finally dropping this anvil as she was sick and tired of the Journeys anime just giving Chloe one Double Standard after another on why she must be forced into this kind of life.
• Venting about your frustrations is fine, but there's a very thin line to cross before it turns into straight up Wangst, especially if it's done so much you stop making progress just to wallow in it.
• While you don't have to be sympathetic to other people's problems, that's no excuse to act like you're the only person going through stuff. That'll only make people find you annoying at best, and unbearable at worst.
• Sometimes, bullies will find any reason to single you out, even if you try to change yourself or adhere to what they say: Sara and Yeardley had personal vendettas against Chloe, so even if she did get into Pokémon and had conformed to their expectations, they'd still bully her just because they can.
• No matter the relationship, if neither party makes an effort to maintain it or open up, it's doomed to fail, and blaming one party over the other will not fix anything.
• You reap what you sow, no matter how justified you are. Chloe spent most of the story being angry at everybody and unwilling to forgive them until she's made certain that they're being genuine, and this mentality caused her to set off a chain of events that led to the disaster of Act 2, which ended with everybody realizing how much of a prick she is and how she has nobody to blame but herself for being so stubborn.
• Those who are unwilling to let go of their grudges are bound to receive little sympathy. Chloe, Goh, Parker, Sara, Yeardley, almost everybody in this story has a grudge against someone else, and once this grudge gets discovered, they're lucky to be given a chance to explain themselves before being called out on how petty and childish they're being.
• Most people have a reason to act the way they do, but that almost never justifies the extent they go for their ends.
• A Double Standard doesn't always come from nowhere: sometimes there's a legitimate reason for its existence. Delia refuses to forgive Chloe for hurting Ash like she did, but doesn't give Trip as much crap for not being a good boyfriend to Ash. This is because, while Trip has taken a few steps to help Ash even before things got out of control, Chloe spent years wallowing in self-hatred and loathing before she could even begin to think that Ash isn't in the wrong, and she only reaches out to him after things have boiled over.

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