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Acerola's Team
The group that Acerola forms during her trip on the Infinity Train. open/close all folders
In General
- Aerith and Bob: The team members are named Lucy, which is perfectly normal, Acerola, which is a more uncommon name, and Mimikins.
- Amazon Brigade: All of them are female.
- Anti-Hero Team: A princess-in-name-only with a blase attitude towards death, the ghost of a Shiny Pokémon whose true form can kill, and a former member of a group of psychopathic scavengers aren't exactly the most heroic set of characters.
- Covered in Gunge: They come out of their trip through The Chocolate Water Park Car covered in chocolate, which they promptly shake off.
- Cynic–Idealist Duo: This is a part of the dynamic between Acerola and Lucy. Acerola has a tendency to be cautious around people, and if they do something to wrong her, it takes a lot of effort to get on her good side again. Lucy, meanwhile, remains optimistic despite her backstory and is willing to give people another chance, assuming they don't test her patience.
- Hair-Contrast Duo: Between Lucy and Acerola. The former is a brunette who's an Action Survivor who's grounded, if a bit pessimistic, while the latter has purple hair and is a fallen princess with a slight dissonance regarding death.
- Humble Goal: They have no desire to stop some giant cult or a big evil ritual or anything you'd expect from most Blossomverse hero teams; instead, they just have the average Passenger goal of getting their numbers down to zero so they can go home.
- Locked in the Dungeon: This is what happens to them after they fail to defeat Princess Kimia and Volcanion.
- Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits: A princess from a long-gone monarchy with ghost powers, the ghost of a shiny Pokémon, and an ex-Apex member. Not the most common group of characters.
- Town Girls: Acerola is the femme, being a Girly Girl who primarily dons dresses, Lucy's the butch, being a tomboyish girl who prefers to wear more masculine clothing, And Mimikins is the neither, being essentially an Eldritch Abomination hiding under a rag.
- Tomboy and Girly Girl: Lucy and Acerola, respectively.
- With a Friend and a Stranger: Acerola and Mimikins have been together for years and have a powerful bond, while Lucy's a recent addition who appeared sometime after they started their train trip.
Acerola Pualani
Acerola Gladiolus Chamomile Cyclamen Montblanc Wisteria Sunflower Zinnia Anemone Primrose Quartz Cherry Blossom Pualani the 13th.
The main character of the story. The last in a line of royalty who once ruled Alola, her ancestors' nagging, coupled with mishaps involving infinity energy, leads her into the Infinity Train.
- 13 Is Unlucky: As her name reveals, she's the 13th Acerola in her family, and not only is she basically a poor orphan, but she's constantly hounded by the ghosts of her ancestors into continuing a legacy she wants nothing to do with.
- Action Survivor: She's a Passenger from a world that primarily uses Pokémon for battles.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Acerola was fairly well adjusted in the anime and games despite her circumstances, but she's a lot more troubled here, primarily thanks to her ancestors and their nagging.
- Adaptational Badass: This version of Acerola can use Aura, specifically Ghost Aura, when her canon counterpart has no such powers.
- Adaptation Name Change: Acerola had Only One Name in the source material, but here, not only does she have a proper full name, but it's an outrageously long one at that.
- Adaptational Personality Change: Downplayed but still notable. Acerola acts mostly the same as in canon, but she has a slightly more cynical side brought thanks to her ancestors' nagging. She's also a bit more snarky, pragmatic, and blase about matters concerning morbid subjects like death.
- Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Downplayed between her and Ash. They're friends in both canon and this story, but while that's all they are in canon, this story's Acerola's implied to have a crush on him.
- Adaptational Skill: She didn't have any particular skill in canon, but she's an Omniglot here.
- Adaptational Superpower Change: While she retains her ability to see and interact with the dead, she also gains the ability to come back from dying (somehow) and the ability to use Aura, specifically Ghost Aura.
- All-Loving Hero: Downplayed. Acerola isn't a wholehearted paragon of virtue or anything, especially when compared to Ash, but she has enough compassion and kindness to feel sympathy for an ex-Apex member.
- Always Someone Better:
- In terms of Aura, she's this to Ash. She's proficient in Ghost Aura enough to not only see the dead, but also manipulate them to an extent, while the most Ash can do is sense the dead.
- During the Passage Fair, she becomes a Downplayed one to Princess Allie. While she's good enough to have a throne of plushies by the end of it, Acerola only does moderately well. Princess Allie just happens to be so much worse Acerola looks way better in comparison.
- Ambiguously Related: Her having "Montblanc" as part of her name indicates she belongs to Lusamine's family to an extent, and she was adopted by her Aether Foundation workers, but whether she's related to them by blood or not is yet to be confirmed.
- Armor-Piercing Question: How she gets Lucy to join her, all by asking if what she's saying at the moment (that as an Apex member she doesn't deserve a second chance) is something she believes, or if it's something the Train made her believe.
- Ascended Extra: She was just one of the many trainers/Trial Captains Ash met during the Alola season, and didn't even appear in the Blossomverse proper until Knight of the Orange Lily, but she's the main character here.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: She casually asks Crumbs if the food she served her is made of arts and crafts like the rest of the Car. The doll's reaction says a lot.
- Authority in Name Only: Acerola's the last in the line of the original Alolan royal family, but given that the monarchy no longer exists by the present day, all this really gives Acerola is a bunch of washed-up ghosts pressuring her to continue the legacy.
- Back from the Dead: There was an incident where she tried hugging a Bewear, and the Pokémon returned the hug so hard that it actually killed her. Naturally, she's still around, and nobody knows how.
- Bad Powers, Good People: Acerola's skill with Ghost Aura lets her, among other things, subjugate the souls of the departed, but she's a good person who only pulls out such a tactic when necessary.
- Berserk Button: Don't touch Mimikins. Acerola was willing to tolerate Princess Allie's attitude for most of her visit, but once she tries to take Mimikins as her own, Acerola snatches them away and slaps her.
- Big Damn Heroes: She has Mimikins use Shadow Sneak to knock out Mega Gardevoir before he can "silence" Scarlet Queen once and for all.
- Bitch Slap: Delivers one of these to Princess Allie to get her to release Mimikins, and it's at that point that the hostilities begin between the two.
- Blatant Lies: She tells Princess Kimia that her family feels sorry for trying to conquer the Azoth Kingdom, while the narration casually confirms they actually could care less about it.
- Blunt "Yes": This is her answer when Burnet asks her if she believes that Ash has yet to discover she's pregnant.
- Bridal Carry: How she carries Lucy as the two and Mimikins flee from Volcanion at the rooftops.
- Category Traitor: Princess Allie, at least, sees her as this, since despite being technically a princess, Acerola doesn't really show any traits that she associates with one.
- The Confidant: Seeing Lucy partially shaken after Princess Allie's speech regarding whether she's Secretly Selfish or not, Acerola tells her to confide in her in case she feels like she needs to vent.
- The Chosen One: Parodied. Lusamine goes on a big show on how Acerola, as the last heir of Alola, has been chosen to protect the Region from evil... All just to convince her to join her ragtag power rangers ripoff team.
- Clingy Jealous Girl: Downplayed as she never gets physical and she and Ash aren't really an item, but she can clearly see Mallow, Lillie, and especially Lana's hints towards him, and she doesn't appreciate them.
- Color Motif: Purple. Both her hair and eyes are purple, her Ghost Aura takes the form of a dull shade of purple, and the dress she gets from Jewel is many different shades of purple.
- Contrasting Replacement Character: She and Chloe Cerise could not be more different.
- Chloe is a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead who doubles as an Ordinary High-School Student and daughter of a Pokémon Professor. Acerola is a purplette with matching purple eyes who's the last member of the royal family of Alola.
- Chloe doesn't have any powers until she gets on the Train, while Acerola has both Ghost Aura and her canon I See Dead People abilities.
- Chloe's a normal girl who gets called a "princess" as a sign of bullying, while Acerola is actually a princess, but has no real power or desire to get the power to use it.
- A heavy dislike of Pokémon is one of Chloe's defining traits, while Acerola doesn't seem to have a strong opinion on them outside of Ghost types, which she likes.
- They both have a bad relationship with their family, but for different reasons: Chloe hates her father and mother for believing they don't care about her since she's not "obsessed" with Pokémon like they are, while Acerola doesn't get along with her ancestors because they constantly pester her to continue the family legacy.
- Chloe becomes an Empowered Badass Normal with the items she gets on the Train, primarily her cloak, and makes a point to become a fighter without relying on Pokémon. Acerola, meanwhile, relies on Mimikins when it comes to fight, with her remaining on the sidelines as an Action Survivor.
- Their signature colors are complete opposites: Chloe's color is red which reflects her fiery spirit and passion, while Acerola gets purple to associate with her supernatural abilities and royalty. Moreover, Chloe's main outfit was her white beach dress, whereas Acerola wears a dark purple dress.
- Chloe had an Important Hair Accessory that gets lost when she's taken by the Train, While Acerola keeps hers, but isn't implied to be anything beyond her Trial Captain badge.
- Their relationship with Ash also contrasts: Chloe hated Ash with a passion and took until later arcs of the story to change her mind about him, while Acerola is friends with him from the get go, with implications she might like him romantically.
- Their reactions when they get on the Train is different: Chloe decides she wants to stay there to escape Vermillion City's atmosphere, before she suffers a Motive Decay the longer she stays, while Acerola decides to get her number down as fast as possible so she can leave and return home to help deal with her ancestors.
- Both were Born Unlucky, but while Chloe was born in a bully-infested, cynical Vermillion City, Acerola was born to a monarchy that had long been gone, and a father who sent them to poverty through his reckless gambling in a bid to regain the power the Pualani family once had.
- While both of them encounter The Apex in some form, their reactions are different: Chloe learns about them through word of mouth and decides they need to be stopped, while Acerola learns through the words of Lucy, the Sole Survivor of the group, and pities her enough to let her join her team.
- Chloe has a little brother while Acerola is an only child.
- Creepy Good: She's a girl who can talk to ghosts, hangs around Ghost Pokémon, and her Ghost Aura powers essentially lets her control someone's soul. However, she's a good person despite all of that.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Wears purple and is associated with Ghost-types, not to mention having a macabre powerset with Ghost Aura, but she's a really sweet girl.
- Deadpan Snarker: She's got quite the dry wit, most of it directed at her ancestors.
- Dissonant Serenity: She talks about bringing Lucy back from the dead should she die and her plan to determine if Volcanion's a Denizen or not with an incredibly casual tone.
- Didn't See That Coming:
- Her ancestors doing a No-Sell against her attempt to stop them with Ghost Aura leaves her stunned. Speaking of which, the Infinity Energy causing them to gain corporeal forms also completely stunned her.
- She's honestly stumped when Princess Kimia not only hands back her Mimikium Z without fuss, but actually apologizes for it.
- Didn't Think This Through:
- She tries to use Ghost Aura to stop her ancestors from bothering her again, while they're becoming more corporeal thanks to the infinity energy in Alola. It doesn't work.
- When pondering whether the Volcanion they're facing is real or not, she decides to use a Ghost Aura-empowered Sword Beam to test it. If it reacts, it's real, if it phases through, it's not... And Acerola doesn't really have a plan in case the former turns out to be true.
- Establishing Character Moment: The very beginning of the story tells you everything you need to know about her; using dry wit to get her ancestors to go away, while acting much nicer around Nanu, even cracking a joke when he explains the situation to her.
- Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: She curtsies while introducing herself to Princess Kimia.
- First-Name Basis: Most people just call her "Acerola" for the sake of simplicity.
- Floral Theme Naming: Most of, if not the entirety of her outrageously long name is named after flowers. her primary name itself, Acerola, is derived from a flower as well.
- Forgot About His Powers: She has an array of powers thanks to her Ghost Aura proficiency, but doesn't really use them much when she enters the Train. She's rather frustrated when Lucy points this out.
- Friends Are Chosen, Family Aren't: She has a rocky relationship with her ancestors due to their nagging demands that she continues the family legacy, while on the flipside, she gets along just fine with the Alolan trainers, especially Ash.
- Friend to All Children: She's at least nice enough to be well-liked by the Aether House kids, according to the narration. She also has no problem letting a former Apex child like Lucy join her team, even feeling a little sympathy for her situation.
- Genre Savvy: More like trope savvy, but she knows that dealing with a Man in the Iron Mask can only result in things going wrong, so she opts to leave them behind and not get involved with their problems after they tell their story.
- Graceful Ladies Like Purple: The dress that Jewel makes for her is all shades of purple.
- The Gadfly: Retains this trait from canon. She answers Nanu's remark that he'll go abroad to stop Debbie by saying she'll unseal his will if he doesn't return, then teases Mallow about her crushes when the greenette tries to get Ash to talk about romance.
- Going Commando: Implied; when Lana instantly changes from her usual outfit to the swimsuit she wears underneath, Acerola mentally notes that the only thing she's wearing under her dress is her 'birthday suit', which is just another way to say she's naked.
- Good Is Not Soft: Acerola is a kind girl, but if you get on her bad side, she'll pull no punches in punishing you: just ask her ancestors, who she tried to subjugate, or Furfrou, whom Mimikins made eat their own Charge Beam at Acerola's command.
- Graceful Loser: Unlike Princess Allie, Acerola doesn't seem to get too upset when she loses, given she happily claps for the little Lalaloopsy after she wins the art game in the Passage Fair.
- Hammerspace Hair: She seems to keep some odd things in her hair, like a handkerchief and her Mimikium Z.
- Happily Adopted: Once her father's gambling went too far, the Aether Foundation found Acerola and took her away from him, with the purplette being adopted by Nanu sometime after. Needless to say, she's much happier than before.
- Hates Their Parent: Her father, in this case, whose gambling and entitlement made Acerola more than happy to ditch him when the Aether Foundation found her and took her away.
- The Hero: Of "Crown of Thorns".
- Heroic RRoD: At the climax of the Usurped Kingdom Car, Acerola levitates Princess Kimia and Lucy above the void that has become of the Car, keeping them in place long enough for the Car to restart and rebuild itself. However, the ensuing backlash proves too much for Acerola to handle, and she collapses soon after.
- Homeschooled Kids: She mentions being homeschooled by her father, who believed that as a Pualani, she was above proper education.
- Honorary Princess: Inverted. Acerola actually is of royal birth, but her family has so little power nowadays that it's more like a title than anything else, and everybody back at home treats her as a normal friend and just call her "Acerola".
- Humble Hero: While Acerola has some sort of authority and status for being the last in the Alolan royal family, she doesn't use this fact to boss around the people around her, and is generally rather simple.
- I Choose to Stay: Despite the Usurped Kingdom Car being absolutely destroyed around her and knowing things could go wrong any second now, Acerola stays around the collapsing Car long enough to see if Lucy and Kimia manage to reach the exit in time, then helps them stay afloat the resulting void once the Car finally falls.
- Innocently Insensitive:
- She unintentionally annoys Crumbs when she asks her if the food she served her is made of arts and crafts like the rest of the Lalaloopsy Land Car.
- She later ends up accidentally offending Lucy when she indirectly calls The Apex and their followers, aka formerly her, about immediately declaring Denizens to be The Soulless without verifying it. To Lucy's credit, she just snarks without getting too upset over it.
- I Just Want to Be Free: Acerola wants nothing more than to be free of the expectation she has to continue the Pualani royal family bloodline, a feeling that's only intensified thanks to her ancestors' nagging and the superfluous nature of the title.
- Impoverished Patrician: Has the dubious honor of being born as one, given she was born to the Pualani family when their status and power had long since been gone, and had what little money she and her father had thrown away when the latter became addicted to gambling. Even after being adopted by Nanu, her economic situation doesn't seem to have improved much.
- It Amused Me: Right after confirming Magearna is the real deal by waving a Ghost Aura-empowered sword at them, Acerola decides to do the same to Princess Allie, just for fun. Her smile and chuckle as the princess hits the floor and she hands back the swords to Lucy says it all.
- I See Dead People: Retains this ability from canon, though she's Blessed with Suck in this case, given the ghosts she interacts most frequently with are her pushy ancestors.
- Jerkass to One: Acerola has a Sugar-and-Ice Personality by default, but even in "ice" mode she acts friendly enough to not get on people's bad side. The sole exception to this rule seems to be Princess Allie, whom she treats with hostility and disdain whenever they meet.
- Just Ignore It: How she dealt with her ancestors for so long: since they were ghosts who did nothing more than pester her to continue the family legacy and nothing else, Acerola just tuned them and acted like she didn't hear them. And even if that didn't work, she had Ghost Aura to get them to back off. Cue the infinity energy...
- Last of His Kind: She's the last living descendant of the Alolan royal family, with the ghosts of her ancestors having quite the interest in having her continue it.
- Legacy Character: She's the 13th Pualani family member to hold the name "Acerola".
- Lineage Comes from the Father: When telling Lucy about her father, Acerola explains that he was part of the Alolan royal family, with him being taught to believe that he, in a sense, was superior to everybody else. This is yet another reason she doesn't like him.
- Like Father, Unlike Son: Her father was an entitled gambler who believed himself superior to everybody else. While we don't know if Acerola gambles or not, she definitely doesn't share the same "I'm better than you" mentality her father had.
- Lost Him in a Card Game: Averted. Lucy ponders if this happened to Acerola when the latter recounts how her father was a pretty bad gambler, but she quickly clarifies the Aether House discovered and took her away before it got that bad.
- Logical Weakness:
- Her Ghost Aura lets her manipulate souls, but this is only the case for normal souls. When she tries to use her powers on her ancestors, who are becoming corporeal thanks to infinity energy, her attempt fails.
- Also, because Ghost Aura only works on things with souls, this means she's basically defenseless against regular Denizens, who don't have souls to begin with.
- Magic Is Feminine: She's a Girly Girl princess who, while not quite magic, can control Aura, specifically Ghost Aura.
- Necromancer: At the very least implied; when Lucy points out that a consequence of failing their Roofhopping idea is death, Acerola very casually argues she'll just bring her back to life if that happens.
- Mind over Matter: A soul-based variant. Acerola manipulates both Lucy and Princess Kimia's souls in order to keep them afloat in the middle of the void left after the destruction of the Usurped Kingdom Car, managing to stay in the air long enough for the car to rebuild itself, before collapsing.
- Nephewism: Kind of. She was raised by Nanu, whom she considers as some sort of "Grunkle", but the two aren't actually related.
- Nerves of Steel: While it's probably because she knows it's not the real deal, she still stays calm as a copy of Volcanion glares at her.
- Nice Girl: Don't get on her bad side, and Acerola will prove herself to be an amicable soul.
- No Badass to His Valet: Her ancestors are an assortment of famous people who once ruled Alola, but Acerola herself holds nothing but contempt for them due to their constant pressuring her to continue the bloodline.
- No One Gets Left Behind: While perfectly willing to leave Princess Kimia to die in the collapsing Usurped Kingdom Car, Acerola decides to wait for Lucy to get them so they can all leave together. And when the Car collapses outright, she doesn't leave through the portal door, but instead runs after them and uses her powers to levitate them over the void until the car reforms.
- No True Scotsman: Princess Allie is left so stunned when Acerola claims she's a princess she goes on a rant over how that couldn't be and, among other things, tells Acerola she's not a true princess.
- Odd Name Out: In her smorgasbord of a full name, "Montblanc" and "Quartz" are the only ones not based on a flower.
- Omniglot: Part of her homeschooling routine involved learning all the now-obsolete languages in the Pokemon World, including Kalosian, which allows her to understand Scarlet Queen's language.
- Older Than They Look: Acerola is 15 in this story, but retains the same youthful appearance as her canon counterpart.
- Only-Child Syndrome: While there are mentions of how Acerola's family is as... fruitful as it is messed up, and it's very messed up, there's no indication that Acerola has any siblings that could take the throne for her, which only puts further pressure on her as her ancestors focus on egging her to continue the bloodline.
- Orphan's Ordeal: As if Acerola didn't have enough on her plate, the fact her parents aren't in the picture (and her father is implied to not have been much help) leaves her pretty much alone to deal with her ancestors' constant nagging and pressuring.
- Overly Long Name: Her full name is "Acerola Gladiolus Chamomile Cyclamen Montblanc Wisteria Sunflower Zinnia Anemone Primrose Quartz Cherry Blossom Pualani the 13th."
- Pauper Patches: Like in canon, her first dress is sewn from various, patches, which Princess Allie mocks as not being very princess-like. She eventually changes them for a proper dress Jewel makes for her.
- Penny Among Diamonds: Most of Acerola's friends are either relatively well off, implied or otherwise (Ash and the Alolan group), or outright rich (the Montblanc family). Acerola, meanwhile, is noted to come from a family that's been poor for years, and even after being adopted by Nanu, she still seems to be less well off than the rest.
- Perpetual Poverty: Spent years in poverty due to her father's reckless poverty, and even after she's adopted by Nanu, she's still relatively low in the economic scale compared to her friends.
- Powerful and Helpless: In theory, Acerola should be very powerful thanks te her Ghost Aura powers giving her an edge over other Passengers. However, these powers are useless against Denizens, who are The Soulless, and would only get her more enemies should she use them on Passengers. Couple this with Acerola herself having no combat ability herself, and she finds herself relying on Mimikins more often than not.
- Pragmatic Hero: Acerola is a Nice Girl, but she's more than willing to do some more morally ambiguous actions to get what she wants: she has Mimikins knock out Princess Allie's Furfrou and threaten her to get her to leave, and after Alva explains why they're trapped in the dungeons of the Usurped Kingdom Car, she opts to just leave them behind and not really get involved with them.
- Precision F-Strike: She calls Princess Allie an "asshole" when talking to Jewel about her.
- Princess Classic: She's a Downplayed version of this trope. Acerola is a princess by birth, being the last of the Alolan royal family, is generally kind or at least amicable towards others, and is considered cute according to the authors notes. However, her royal titles mean absolutely jack since Alola doesn't have a monarchy anymore, and she has a Sugar-and-Ice Personality, with everybody who gets on her bad side getting to see the ice side.
- Princess Protagonist: The main protagonist of the story, and a princess to boot, though the latter is mostly in name.
- Psychic Nosebleed: Her nose ends up bleeding after keeping herself, Princess Kimia and Lucy levitating above the endless void left after the Usurped Kingdom Car's destruction, long enough until the Car reforms.
- Punished for Sympathy: Her decision to actually give Lucy, a former Apex member, a second chance rather than condemn her like everybody else causes Princess Kimia to become hostile towards her, and then incarcerate her when she maintains the belief.
- Rebellious Princess: Again, she's a princess mostly in name, but she refuses to follow her ancestors' orders to continue the royal family legacy.
- Refuge in Audacity: Her plan to discover what's Volcanion doing in the Infinity Train involves hitting them with a Ghost Aura-empowered Sword Beam to see if they have a soul or not.
- Refusal of the Call: She rejects Lusamine's offer to join the Ultra Rangers with nary a thought. It's only after Lusamine makes a dramatic speech does she change her mind, and even then she doesn't join, just says that she'll think about it. And then the Train comes...
- Related in the Adaptation: It's ambiguous, but the fact that "Montblanc" is in her name implies she's somehow related to Lusamine's family, of which she has no connection in canon.
- Rock Theme Naming: "Quartz" is one of her many names, and one of the few that's not named after a plant.
- Royals Who Actually Do Something: While the title is superficial nowadays, she's still a member of the Alolan royal family, and she works as both a Trial Captain and Wicke's helper at the Aether House.
- Secret-Keeper:
- She promises Burnet to keep her pregnancy a secret from Ash, though she almost flubs it out while visiting the Aether Foundation.
- In an example that's Played for Drama, she also kept the fact she was constantly pestered and haunted by the ghosts of her ancestors to continue the Alolan royal family legacy a secret.
- Single Woman Seeks Good Man: She's implied to have a crush on Ash, who's the same Nice Guy as in canon.
- Soul-Cutting Blade: Effectively turns one of Lucy's swords into one of these by empowering it with Ghost Aura. She only does it briefly, though.
- Soul Power: Not only is she a Ghost Type Trainer like in canon, but her Aura powers are stated to be Ghost Aura.
- Speak Ill of the Dead: She indirectly calls The Apex and their followers fools for just assuming Denizens had no souls instead of verifying it first. To her credit, she's being Innocently Insensitive at the moment, but still.
- Strong Family Resemblance: According to the narration, barring a few minor differences, Acerola looks pretty similar to the previous queens of Alola.
- Sugar-and-Ice Personality: With people that she's friends with, Acerola is a Nice Girl with a friendly disposition. If she's neutral towards you, she'll be a bit distant, but otherwise amicable enough. And then, if you get on her bad side... Beware.
- Super-Empowering: Does this to one of Lucy's swords by applying Ghost Aura to it so she can test whether the Volcanion they're dealing with has a soul or not.
- Surrounded by Idiots: Back in Alola, she was constantly hounded by the spirits of her ancestors, who were incredibly persistent about her continuing the Pualani bloodline and how certain things were or weren't Alolan. Needless to say, she's happy to be far away from them for the time being.
- Sympathy for the Devil: Very Downplayed as Lucy has gone from evil to neutral, but Acerola still can't help but feel a little sorry for her after she tells her how The Apex were destroyed.
- Sword Beam: Manages to do this by grabbing one of Lucy's swords and empowering it with Ghost Aura before swinging it at Volcanion.
- Talking the Monster to Death: Tries to do this with the Akumatized Princess Kimia, who now goes by Azoth Queen, but it fails to work.
- This Is Gonna Suck: Pretty much her reaction once she realizes she has to eat an apple way bigger than herself in order to go past The Giant Apple Car.
- Token Wizard: For a given definition of "wizard", but she's the only member of the team who can use Aura powers.
- Vague Age: Averted. Unlike in canon, where the only real hints to her age were the fact Trial Captains quit the position at 20 and she looks younger, she's said to be 15 here.
- Verbal Backspace: She comes this close to spoiling Burnet's pregnancy to Ash, the only person still not aware of it, until she backpedals and says Burnet's tired from the preparations for the ancestors festival.
- Useless Superpowers: Outside of the Train, Acerola would be quite strong: being able to manipulate the souls of living beings gives her an edge that nobody else has. Inside the Train, however, her Ghost Aura is essentially worthless because not only are most of the entities within it Denizens, who are The Soulless and thus immune to her powers, but the few people who could be affected, the Passengers, can't be used because it would only result in Acerola gaining herself and her team several enemies.
- Well-Trained, but Inexperienced: Acerola has been training her Ghost Aura powers since she was a child, leaving her as quite proficient in it by the present day... In theory. In practice, she mostly uses them to keep her targets at bay, encountering a roadblock when her ancestors turn tangible due to Infinity Energy. This only gets worse when she gets on The Train, where everybody is either outright immune to her powers (Denizens) or ones she can't use on at the possibility of alienating potential allies (Passengers).
- What Would X Do?: When Volcanion is glaring at her, she stays calm and mentally ponders what would Ash do.
- What You Are in the Dark: While the Usurped Kingdom Car is collapsing she has the perfect opportunity to leave Princess Kimia to die while it happens, which she even claims to be perfectly willing to do when asked about it. Even so, she decides to stay behind the collapsing Car to see if Lucy and Kimia make it out alive, then dives right in and keeps them afloat when they fail to leave before the Car is turned into a void.
- White Sheep: From what we've seen of her family, most of them are racist, jerks, or racist jerks. Acerola herself, however, is a Nice Girl with only a mischievous streak.
- Who's Laughing Now?: Has this sort of reaction after Mimikins' Shadow Sneak knocks out Mega Gardevoir in one hit, asking the Mega Evolved Pokémon how it feels to go down in one hit.
Mimikins
Mimikins
The ghost of a shiny Mimikyuu who accompanies Acerola.- Action Girl: Acerola reveals Mimikins to be female in chapter 4, and she's very capable of kicking butt when needed.
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Accidental Nightmare Fuel: When Lucy suggests trying to use laughter to cheer everybody up, she has Mimikins laugh. The resulting laugh is essentially described as like a serial killer, so Acerola tells Mimikins not to laugh like that ever again. - Attack! Attack! Attack!: She throws attack after attack at Volcanion at Acerola's command until she decides to use her Z-Move.
- Badass Adorable: The ghost of a shiny Mimikyu who can nonetheless kick some real butt when needed.
- Casting a Shadow: Knows Shadow Claw, which she puts to good use against Furfrou. The fight against Volcanion also reveals she can use Shadow Ball and Shadow Sneak.
- Combat Pragmatism:
- How does she defeat Furfrou? By slamming their snout shut just as they unleash a Charge Beam, causing it to explode.
- At Acerola's command, she uses a Shadow Sneak against Mega Gardevoir while he's charging a Dazzling Gleam, knocking him out in one hit.
- Dark Is Not Evil: Mimikins is the ghost of a deceased Mimikyu who knows Shadow Claw, Shadow Sneak, Shadow Ball, and Draining Kiss, but is loyal to Acerola And relatively friendly as long as nobody hurts her master.
- David Versus Goliath: She's the David to Volcanion's Goliath. Naturally, the latter has to be given a ton of setbacks just for Mimikins to stand a chance.
- A Dog Named "Dog": Subverted. Despite this being the norm for most Pokémon, this Mimikyu has been given the name of "Mimikins" by Acerola.
- Fairy Companion: At least partially, given she's a Fairy type.
- The Fair Folk: Partially a Fairy Type.
- Flight: Has the ability to do this, being a ghost and all.
- Fluffy the Terrible: The ghost of the shiny version of an Eldritch Abomination whose true form will kill you if you look at it... Called Mimikins.
- Forgot About His Powers: As a ghost, she can not only fly, but also turn intangible. She doesn't use either of these abilities when Princess Allie tries to take her away, or when she fights Volcanion.
- Friendly Ghost: As long as you're friendly with Acerola, she'll be good with you too.
- Glass Cannon: She's very powerful, being able to put a dent in a copy of Volcanion, but a single Dazzling Gleam from Kimia's Gardevoir is enough to knock her out.
- Gender Lift: Mimikins' gender was never specified in either the games or the anime, but this story makes her female.
- Intelligible Unintelligible: She only speaks by hissing, but Acerola seems to be able to understand her just fine.
- Kiss of Death: Knows Draining Kiss, though she doesn't get to use it on Volcanion.
- Limit Break: Like all other Mimikyu, she has access to "Let's Snuggle Forever" by Mimikium Z.
- Pokémon Speak: Averted, she speaks by hissing instead.
- Prehensile Tail: She can shapeshift her tail to function as a hand, which is how she uses Shadow Claw.
- Soul Power: Her other typing is Ghost, which is doubly notable given that she's the literal ghost of a deceased Mimikyu.
- Tail Slap: This is technically how she uses Shadow Claw: she morphs her tail into a claw and then swipes the enemy with it.
- Undying Loyalty: She's technically already dead, but she's still pretty loyal to Acerola.
- Unusual Pets for Unusual People: Well, she's more of a companion to Acerola than an outright pet, but the point still stands that she's a shiny Mimikyu ghost who willingly follows Acerola.
Lucy
Lucy
The last surviving member of The Apex, whom Acerola encounters at the Giant Apple Car.- Abled in the Adaptation: In canon, she lost an eye due to a harpoon pack related incident. Here, she has both eyes.
- Action Girl: Jumps right into the fray to distract Princess Kimia long enough for Aceeola and Mimikins to try beat Volcanion.
- Adaptational Angst Upgrade: Not only does she retain the canonical connection with The Apex, but has been through not one, but two traumatic events: the first left her with nightmares, the second pretty much left her with nobody left by her side.
- Adaptational Badass: While they're just ornamental weapons, Lucy's swords still give her much more of an edge than her canonical counterpart ever got.
- Adaptational Early Appearance: She appears in this story's equivalent to Book 1, when she wouldn't appear in either canon until Book 3.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: Canon!Lucy was never shown as anything more than neutral, and Blossomverse!Lucy was the same hellish rapscallion as The Apex until the events of The Fog Car. In here, the events of The Green Light Red Light Car have greatly humbled her, and she now tries to act as friendly and approachable as possible, with mixed results.
- Adaptational Skill: Lucy, being such a minor character in canon, never shows an affinity or skill in anything. This version of her is at least somewhat good with a harmonica, and has some degree of swordsmanship as shown in her fight against Princess Kimia.
- Adaptational Sympathy: Lucy isn't given that much sympathy in the Blossomverse, given she's an Apex member, but this story has Acerola pity her after explaining her backstory.
- All for Nothing: She stood by The Apex's side through the very end, and all this earned her was traumatic solitude when the group was wiped out and she was left as the Sole Survivor. This also means that just about everybody who meets and recognizes her connection to them hates her.
- All of the Other Reindeer: Her being a former member of The Apex doesn't make her popular among Passengers. Princess Kimia is particularly incensed once she recognizes her wavelength marking, and is pretty hostile through their interactions, and even Princess Allie doesn't treat her with respect.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: Defied; she initially plans to ask Acerola if ghosts exist in her world, but stops once she remembers one of her new teammates is the ghost of a Pokémon.
- Ask a Stupid Question...: Again, Defied; she comes this close to asking Aceeola if ghosts exist in her world while Mimikins, the actual ghost of a Pokémon, is standing nearby, but even she realizes how absurd the question is and changes it.
- Ascended Extra: From a fairly minor Apex member to the sole survivor and one of Acerola's traveling companions.
- The Atoner: Decides to become this when Acerola offers her to join her team.
- Attack! Attack! Attack!: She doesn't really have a strategy for when she fights Princess Kimia, she mostly just flails her sword around until something works. Which is inevitable, given her only job at that point is to distract Princess Kimia to make fighting Volcanion a little easier.
- Backstory Horror: Most of the trauma she experienced, from Trip's Last Stand to the massacre at The Green Light Red Light Car, happened in her backstory before we meet her proper.
- Berserk Button: Don't Speak Ill of the Dead, even if said dead are The Apex. While she's willing to cut you some slack if you don't mean it, if it's intentional, you'll get the full brunt of her rage.
- Broken Bird: Being in the company of The Apex alongside two traumatic events has left Lucy with a downbeat, pessimistic attitude.
- Cheer Them Up with Laughter: Tries to do this while the team is locked in the Azoth Kingdom dungeons... By having Mimikins laugh.
- Cowardly Lion: While she doesn't face Volcanion herself, she's still rather adamant that fighting them and Princess Kimia is a bad idea to Acerola. Nevertheless, she helps them both by distracting Princess Kimia while the duo whale on the Pokémon replica.
- Dark and Troubled Past: She got snatched by the Train at some point, and was recruited into The Apex sometime later. From there, half the people she had met would be taken out by Trip and his Pokémon, giving her a fear of the creatures, while the rest would be utterly slaughtered at The Green Light Red Light Car by the machinations of none other than The Conductor, whom they worshipped.
- Deer in the Headlights: The only reason she's alive. She was paralyzed with fear once Grace and Simon were killed by gunshots at The Green Light Red Light Car, leaving her as the only Apex member to not move during their Freak Out, and consequently, the only one not shot down in the ensuing chaos.
- Delayed Reaction: It takes her a few seconds to realize that Simon and Grace are outright dead during the green light red light game.
- Deadpan Snarker: Makes a little quip when Acerola accidentally insults her when she calls The Apex and their former followers fools for not verifying if Denizens had souls or not.
- Didn't See That Coming: Whatever she thought would happen by having Mimikins laugh, she certainly didn't expect the Accidental Nightmare Fuel she unleashed.
- Dissonant Serenity: She recalls the events that ended with The Apex being wiped out rather casually while eating a giant apple.
- Draw Aggro: A variation. During the team's fight with Princess Kimia and Volcanion, Lucy goes to the background only to strike the former during the fight, keeping her busy long enough to avoid giving Volcanion any orders, allowing Acerola and Mimikins to hit them with all they got.
- Dull Eyes of Unhappiness: Has these when Acerola first meets her, and given what she's been through, you can't blame her.
- Dual Wield: She initially uses both of her swords during the fight with Princess Kimia, before she hands her one of them to make said fight more even.
- Facial Markings: Retains the Apex wavelength symbol across her face even long after the Apex is dead. This ends up giving trouble to the team when Princess Kimia recognizes it.
- Females Are More Innocent: A female member of The Apex, and the only one who Acerola takes pity on, and even asks to join her team. Granted, being the Sole Survivor with no other Apex member for comparison probably helps.
- Female Monster Surprise: She's a little shocked to hear that Mimikins is a girl.
- Girls Love Chocolate: She doesn't go gaga over it, but she likes chocolate enough so tjat she enjoyed the team's trip through The Chocolate Water Park Car.
- Growling Gut: Her stomach begins to growl in hunger shortly after saying she's not hungry.
- Harmful to Minors: Not only is she stuck in an interdimensional train where it's impossible to escape, with her only companions being a cult worshipping The Conductor, but then she gets stuck in not one, but two heavily traumatic events, the second one ending with her completely alone.
- Hates Being Alone: Says as much about herself when Acerola asks her to join her team, and given she was alone from after The Apex were killed off until Acerola arrived at The Giant Apple Car, it's safe to say that hasn't helped at all.
- Heroic Self-Deprecation: Her time on the Train hasn't done her self-esteem any favors. She's surprised when Acerola suggests coming along with her on her Train trip, and she's adamant that Acerola should've just caved in and told Princess Kimia what she wanted to hear to earn her freedom.
- Hidden Depths: She's a surprisingly competent harmonica player, as Acerola can attest.
- Honor Before Reason:
- She could easily keep Princess Kimia on her toes just by dual wielding her swords and attacking constantly, but she decides to hand her one of the swords to make the fight fairer.
- She later tries to argue taking Alva with them Even after he explains what he did that got him imprisoned, and what his status as the Man in the Iron Mask could cause.
- Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Azoth Queen stabs her with her own shattered sword after Lucy attempts to attack her.
- Last of His Kind: She's pretty much the last member of The Apex on the train, as Drogo Denver was sent back home through the Zero Cannon.
- Miss Exposition: She tells Acerola about not only the event that ended in The Apex's destruction, but the events leading to said event, all while eating a giant apple.
- Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Well, not evil anymore. When we meet her during the present day, Lucy's a Broken Bird who simply wants to survive her Train trip and go back home. However, her former connection with The Apex means that most people who see her, like Princess Kimia, see her as the same rapscallion who ransacked cars for who knows how long.
- No One Gets Left Behind: Despite The Usurped Kingdom Car collapsing all around everybody and what she did to her before, Lucy stills risks her life to grab the downed Princess Kimia and help her escape. [[sppoiler: She nearly gets herself killed when she and Princess Kimia are ultimately too late to escape the collapsing Car, but Acerola luckily comes in and saves them both.]]
- Ornamental Weapon: She has a pair of scabbards with swords in them, but never once tries to use them against Acerola or Mimikins. It's later revealed that they actually are ornaments: she got them from The Ornamental Car, where you can get anything and everything with the caveat that it's just for show.
- Please Wake Up: Lucy initially thinks that Simon and Grace are sleeping when they stop moving after being shot during the green light red light game. Then she spots some blood running down their heads, and their eyes slowly lose their light, and it dawns on her...
- Retired Monster: She's a former Apex member, meaning she was at the very least complicit in the wheeling of several Denizens. However, by the time we meet her in the story proper, she's so downbeat due to all the trauma she barely has any energy to keep doing what she once did, let alone look to avenge her fellow Apex members.
- Secretly Selfish: Discussed. Shortly after trying and failing to convince Acerola to bring Alva along with them, Princess Allie argues that she did it to get something in return, figuring that as a "former" Apex member, she wouldn't do something for free. To Lucy's credit, she doesn't pay attention to her until she badmouths the deceased Apex.
- Sole Survivor: She's the only member of The Apex to survive the slaughter in The Green Light Red Light Car, which The Conductor takes notice of.
- Still Wearing the Old Colors: Despite The Apex no longer being around and now being associated with Acerola's team, Lucy still retains the Apex's wavelength marking... Which gets the group in trouble when they reach The Usurped Kingdom Car.
- Survivor Guilt: While talking with Acerola during their stay at the Azoth Kingdom dungeons, Lucy confesses that she suffers from this, pondering whether if it would've been better if she had died alongside the rest of The Apex that one fateful day.
- The Team Normal: So far, she's the only member of Acerola's team who's neither royalty, has Aura powers, or is a Pokémon.
- Too Unhappy to Be Hungry: Subverted. She first tries to deny Acerola's request to eat the giant apple with her, but her Growling Gut is quick to say otherwise.
- Turn the Other Cheek: Despite Princess Kimia's harsh treatment towards her, she decides to brave the collapsing Usurped Kingdom Car in order to save her. You could say it's justified, since Princess Kimia was Brainwashed and Crazy, but she still seems a little quick to forgive.
- Wrecked Weapon: Azoth Queen breaks one of her swords and stabs her with it. Luckily, The Infinity Reaper soon appears to heal her.
Allies
Magearna
A Mythical Pokémon from the Azoth Kingdom who helps Acerola's team and Princess Allie break out of prison.
- Adaptational Badass: The only move Magearna used in the Mechanical Marvel was its signature move, that being the Fleur Cannon. In here, alongside said special move, they also have access to Cut, which they use to free Acerola's team, and Heal Bell.
- Absurd Cutting Power: They know how to use Cut, which they use to great effect to help Acerola's team escape, slicing and dicing the bars keeping them in place to bits.
- Anti-Debuff: They know how to use Heal Bell. Unfortunately, this isn't enough to heal Lucy's internal bleeding from impalement.
- Big Damn Heroes: While Acerola's team is awaiting whatever will happen to them while incarcerated in the dungeons, Magearna pops out of nowhere to set them free.
- Energy Ball: Charges one of these before unleashing their Fleur Cannon against Volcanion.
- No Biological Sex: While they look quite feminine, Magearna is Genderless like the game depiction of the character.
- No One Gets Left Behind: They decide to go back and help Alva escape his confinement even as The Usurped Kingdom Car collapses all around them.
- Power Floats: They're a Mythical Pokemon with all the power that entails, and they're always floating.
- Really 700 Years Old: They were created by Nikola Tesla over five centuries ago, long before the events of both Mechanical Marvel and this story.
