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Chloe Cerise

"I am the one who sparks the rebellion! I am the one whose courage brings hope to the Train. I am Chloe of the Vermillion and you will fade away and classify yourselves as...OBSOLETE!"

“I closed myself off for far too long. And while the darkness is nice, you also need light to help bring life and hope. We [her and Goh] couldn’t see how flawed and similar we really were at the end of things. And at the end of everything, we hold onto anything. But we can hold onto each other now, and become each other’s hope.”

Appears in: Seeker of Crocus (Mentioned, First physical appearance: The Twisted Lab Car) | Rey Mysterio versus the Cosmos (Mentioned) | Oak Lore (Mentioned) | The Firefly Funhouse Car

A red-haired girl from Vermillion City, daughter of Professor Cerise. She has been declared missing for two months with a campaign for her to come home and news broadcasting the bullying she went through at her school solely due to her father's name. Unfortunately, she doesn't have plans to come home at the moment as she's busy with a quest of her own.

For the tropes on her interpretation in Blossoming Trail, see here.

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• 11th-Hour Ranger: Thanks to some shenanigans on the Train, Chloe ends up joining the final battle against the Unown just in time for her to fight the ringleader herself, Sara.
• Achievements in Ignorance: She manages to transform the entire Mirage army into Denizens just by wishing to give them hope and a different path real hard. It's later revealed this was actually the result of her cloak, and the demon and god backing her up, but given this was done unconsciously the trope still applies. Lampshaded by Chloe herself as she had no idea how the heck she accomplished the feat in the beginning.
• Achilles' Heel: Chloe is extremely talented for a ten-year-old. However, she has both a dangerously volatile temper, and a bad habit of acting like she's the victim.
• Action Fashionista: In the span of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2, she has six different outfits^ExplanationHer original white beach dress, a purple hakama, a white tunic/faux fur vest/brown leggings ensemble, a black suit/skirt puppeteer, a black gothic blouse with wolf-head pauldrons, and finally an outfit which lets her look like Heather Mason. and uses an app to create attires based on the Ars Goetia demons. She also has two artifacts infused by the power of two of those demons, will bash your head in with a donut holer, and can incinerate an army with a blast of fire. Horrorland Car reveals she wore even more outfits so this is probably a quirk of hers.
• Action Girl: Much like her Blossoming Trail and Boiling Point self, she's ready to get into a brawl with a donut holer and racks up plenty of victories throughout Act 1.
• Actually Pretty Funny: When Vaillant compares her to a demon lord after she saved the Mirage Pokémon from Dr. Yung's control and her new Marchosias form gives her enough fire power to incinerate half of it, plus she herself loves demons, Chloe laughs at the comparison and decides she'll call herself "Demon Lord of the Vermillion" from now on.
• Adaptational Angst Upgrade: By the end of Act 1 and start of Act 2, Chloe has become a traumatized wreck due to Sara unleashing the Unown to hurt her brother and father, her anger and despair breaking Augustine, and having been strangled by her own father before said father gets on the Infinity Train. (and she can't message him at all as he's refusing to talk to her) And that's not counting panic attacks over her inability to properly apologize or how she nearly dies by a runaway train crashing into the house she was staying at and the irate street cleaners of Palimpsest blaming her, and not Augustine, for the meltdown while no one saves her. This culminates in her ready to kill herself in the Harvest Moon Car.
• Adaptational Context Change: In Blossoming Trail, one of the core reasons for Chloe running away was because she felt out of place due to her dislike of Pokemon. While it's still a major focus here, her other reason is she just wanted Goh to pay more attention to her for once and appreciate her for the things she's done for him.
• Adaptational Jerkass: This story puts a a lot more emphasis on Chloe's negative traits, such as having a much more violent temper and even a willingness to hurt others over minor slights. However...
• Adaptational Nice Guy: While she still has a lot of the same issues such as always blaming others for her problems as her Blossoming Trail self, she is much more aware of her flaws and willing to be forgiving for what others have done and admit she herself is not completely innocent.
  • There's also her treatment of Parker. In the original trilogy, Chloe threatened to disappear forever if things back home weren't 100% perfect, and didn't realize how badly her words affected him until after the damage was done. Here, once she's made aware of Parker going down this same path, she does everything she can to reassure him that she will come back no matter what.
  • "Firefly Funhouse Car" shows Chloe taking the the steps to talk to Goh again, texting him that she's fine and would like to try to mend fence; a sharp contrast to the girl whose texts to him were to berate him for neglecting her and then shutting him out of her life.
• Adaptation Expansion:
  • The whole thing of Goh's offhand remark on how Chloe's "not into Pokémon anymore" in Journeys episode 11 gets focus in Act 2. Turns out, Chloe actually did like Pokémon once, Ghost-types specifically; but Goh was so sheltered by his parents due to a camping incident that nearly ended with him drowning and her attempts to get her classmates into them led to her them ostracizing her, and ultimately she began to hate Pokémon and herself for not being like everyone else who didn't like monsters or creepy things.
  • While Blossomverse barely showed times of her and Goh hanging out, there's more focus on things like a camping trip and birthday parties showing how Chloe tried to be there for Goh while he was still his angsty self. "Firefly Funhouse Car" also expands more on some text messages she and Goh shared, highlighting more of her frustrations with him never getting the hint, along with a scene when she tried to ask him what happened in Ilex Forest, only for him to snap and demand she never bring it up again.
• Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
  • Her and Goh's friendship was one of the biggest focus of the original Blossomverse trilogy, focusing on both how it had deteriorated and their attempts to try and redeem it. In here, while it's still prominent, it's nowhere near as important, and it gets resolved fairly early into the story with Goh being able to focus on himself also while waiting for Chloe to return in the hopes they can restart their friendship with Harvest Moon Car having them fully apologizing for how they treated one another over the years. "Firefly Funhouse Car" expands this in stating that what she wants most of all outside of rebuilding their friendship is to learn the truth of what made Goh so broken three years ago.
  • By contrast, Chloe and her father barely shared any time together back in Blossoming Trail, and what little time they did spend consisted of Chloe yelling at him and disowning him before going radio silent under the belief that he didn't care enough to even message her. In here, while they still have issues, greater focus is placed over how the duo actually care about each other and admit they made plenty of mistakes.
  • Chloe saw Ash as someone deliberately stealing everything from her and hated him for always being better than her in Pokemon battles and in getting Goh's interests. Here, she learns it wasn't the case and is willing to see him as the kind-hearted boy he truly is much earlier than in Blossomverse.
  • In Infinity Train: Boiling Point and Melancholy Afterlife, Chloe was known to be close to Specter (who was a youkai in that iteration) to the point she could happily proclaim she wants to go back to her dream of having a romantic date with him and his death by the hands of that world's Hazel really caused her to lose it. In this iteration, while Specter does help her calm down from her mental breakdown, she doesn't crush on him, while Specter sees her as an ally to fight off against the Apex/Elipzo and is more focused on making his own amends with London and Easter and to reunite with Lampetia.
• Adaptational Superpower Change: In Blossoming Trail and Boiling Point, Chloe would gain a glowing mark which lets her summon demons if she called them — in the former it was through the power of imagination, in the latter it was via the Ars Goetia itself — but in Crocus, she gets an amulet known as the Halo of Valac and Hestia, allowing her to call upon a demon for a task. Or rather, she's summoning the soul of a Goetia to possess someone and then complete the task.
• Adult Hater: Her experiences with the adults in her life, particularly her father, didn't endear her to the idea of interacting with another adult, even if they showed themselves to be friendly. The fact Professor Sycamore is both this and a Pokemon Professor proves to be the biggest hurdle in their attempts at getting closer together. Thankfully she starts opening up to him and Amelia about her troubles.
• Aesop Amnesia: Any time Chloe learns a new lesson, it's almost a guarantee it'll take several attempts before the lesson sticks.
  • She's repeatedly been taught not to let her anger overtake her and especially not to take her frustrations out on others. Then the reveal about the Unown situation causes her to do both: getting so angry at Sara that she takes it out on Sycamore, causing him to break.
  • A big part of her arc in Act 1 deals with her coming to realize that not all the people who hurt her did so intentionally, yet she keeps insisting that people are constantly out to get her.
  • After Goh lays into Chloe about she's also at fault for their strained friendship, she apologizes and acknowledges that he's right...only to go right back to blaming him for her problems during her confrontation with Dr. Yung.
  • Chloe has had it spelled out to her several times that Goh was never intentionally being a bad friend to her and even his worst actions were all due to him simply not knowing any better, yet she has it stuck in her head that Goh deliberately neglected her. It's not until the Harvest Moon Car when he tells her off for acting just like Sara, along with vowing that he would forgo Mew and Ash to return to her if she did try to kill herself and finally apologizing for all that he did to hurt her, that she finally abandons this mindset for good.
• Aimlessly Seeking Happiness: Pre-Train and On-Train, Chloe's motivation is mostly to find some sort of happiness for herself she can call her own after the entire world broke her, believing that she has no one who understands what she really wants. Talking with Buné and Goh makes her realize that being happy is not worth acting like Sara, and she decides that her goal is to return home as a mature girl ready to start her own journey.
• All for Nothing:
  • She wanted to go to softball camp, so she behaved for an entire week so her dad can sign the permission slip. He ends up having to cancel the trip because of a last-minute conference.
  • She allegedly risked her life to save Goh after he nearly drowned, only to have his parents blame her endangering their son instead of thanking her.
  • She accepted a dare by her classmates to have a Pokémon battle with Ash in the hope they would leave her alone…and ends up humiliating herself regardless because they knew she would lose.
• All Girls Like Ponies: She apparently loved spending time in the Nightmares Car, which has gothic-looking horses, and went on the haunted carousel plenty of times.
• Alliterative Name: Chloe Cerise.
• All-Loving Heroine: Subverted. Once she gets on the Train, Chloe paints herself as a kind girl who's willing to forgive everybody who slights her, but she's only willing to extend this forgiveness to those who are on her side; her real, dark side coming out with everybody else. Part of her growth on the Train is to truly become this trope after reconnecting with her grief.
• All of the Other Reindeer: Just like in the original Blossomverse, Chloe became her class's personal punching bag solely under the basis of her father's job and her hobbies with the added caveat they (i.e Sara) were doing it so they could get Pokémon out of her when she ultimately cracked. Comments in the Cyan Desert Car and "The Firefly Funhouse Car" have Chloe note that she's so despised that the classmates don't even want to do homework with her, and she's never invited to their parties because they either pretend they "forgot" their invitations for her or just rip them up in front of her face.
• All Up to You: With Sycamore going on his own mental therapy with Auric, Harmonious Storm is fighting the Unown version of her father, Asher is in disguise as an Unown version of Sycamore and everyone else is keeping an eye on the situation, Chloe's ultimately the only one left to confront Sara and end her reign of terror once and for all.
• Aloof Leader, Affable Subordinate: It wouldn't be an exaggeration to claim Chloe's easily the most unapproachable member of the Red Lotus Uprising. Atticus is perfectly cordial to most people, Lexi won't bother someone as long as they don't bother him, and even Amelia can be friendly under the right circumstances. Chloe, meanwhile, gets defensive at the drop of a hat, and even outside that she's incredibly violent when provoked.
• Always Someone Better: Zigzagged depending on where she is and who she's being compared to.
  • No matter what Sara does in the Cyan Desert Car arc, she can never best Chloe. When the two fight, Sara has to upgrade her bat to shoot crystal spikes and set it on fire but she can never get a hit in. But this is less because she's legitimately superior to Sara and more because she simply has proper fighting experience and a true motivation to fight back.
  • Chloe initially believed Ash was superior to her in terms of being friends with Goh and just about anything else Pokemon related, but once she begins to see him for the kind, helpful boy he truly is, she admits he was a better friend to Goh than she ever was.
  • Played for Drama with Augustine. Normally in the Pokémon world, Augustine would get all the attention as an established Pokémon Professor whose field of study is notable in his home Region, and has a Garchomp capable of Mega Evolution, while Chloe is a relatively normal girl outside being the daughter of a Pokemon Professor. On the Train, however, she's so revered, justifiably and otherwise, that most denizens can't help but compare the professor to her, which doesn't help him with his issues at all.
• All Take and No Give: It's safe to say by the end of Act 1, most of her significant relationships have some degree of Chloe demanding everything from everyone and not giving anything in return: Goh has to give all his attention on her, her father needs to put her needs above his job, Ash is required to drop everything for her, and Sycamore must put his entire Train journey on hold to help her get back home without expecting appreciation in return, and so on and so forth. Act 2 has her recognize this is selfish of herself in comparison to Casimira's entitlement and she decides to undo this.
• Ambiguous Situation:
  • It's unclear whether Chloe's issue with broken promises involves them being broken to her, specifically, or just breaking promises in general.
  • Exactly how bad things were at her school isn't made clear, since most of what is known comes entirely from Chloe, who is not the most accurate or honest source of information. At the very least, Act 2 confirms that Yeardley injuring her was true.
  • Chloe is mostly aware of Goh having a "personal promise" with his schooling, but whether or not she knows that he had submitted written documents to allow for a more flexible schedule is up for debate.
• Amulet of Concentrated Awesome: In the Cyan Desert Car, she obtains an artifact called the Halo of Valac and Hestia, which allows her to call upon a demon for a task, which is essentially a necklace with a red seal. Its true power, actually, is to summon the soul of a Goetia to a vessel and then have them do a task before returning to their body.
• And I'm the Queen of Sheba: When Yugure introduces himself in the Cyan Desert Car, she snarks then she's a Lord in the Johto Region.
• Animal Motif:
  • Canines, particularly wolves, as usual. Aside from partnering with Atticus and her Pokémon partner being Yamper (later Boltund), Lexi's outfit in The Ninjala Car has her have him associate with Naberius (an Ars Goetia demon based on Cerberus) and she herself has her Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet, both based off on wolves. Lastly, the Mirage Pokémon she obtains the is a Houndoom.
  • Butterflies become her second motif after the Harvest Moon Car, representing her death and rebirth. Goh caught her a Snom, which evolves into a Frosmoth, her love of Ghost-types stemmed from Goh chasing after a Vivillon, Buné draws a butterfly tattoo on her wrist after she stops herself from committing suicide, and she gains the ability to summon fiery butterflies while the gryphon wings of her cloak are now butterfly wings.
• The Anti-Nihilist: After spending most of the story as a pessimistic, suicidal wreck, Chloe's talk with Goh and Buné in the Harvest Moon Car makes her realize that while life does indeed suck, she should still at least try to look at the bright side of things. Or in the words of Heather Mason, she chooses life over pain and suffering.
• Attention Whore: Chloe hates being ignored and constantly acts out to get people to notice her. She even admits that she knew full well that none of her classmates liked horror and were annoyed by her antics, but she kept pestering them because she just wanted someone to pay attention to her.
• Aura Vision: With two demonic artifacts on her, Chloe is capable of subtly sensing the aura of other Goetias. When she assumes a bone trinket in the Harvest Moon Car is cursed, Buné actually asks her to see if that is true (it wasn't).
• Awesome, but Impractical: Her artifacts are strong, but they have some drawbracks to them.
  • While the fire powers of the cloak are a blessing, the soul powers aren't so much. Wepwawet strictly has a once-per-person use on them, so Chloe can't use it multiple times to get into the heart of one's problems. The Alola group note that what she sees in their hearts/souls is based on her interpretation, and it doesn't necessarily mean she can fix someone (like Casimira). There are also many denizens who warn her that reading their minds is not going to be pretty, so it limits the scope of who she can observe.
  • Her Halo of Valac makes her summon a demon of any choosing, but it's mostly tailored to her being the only one who actually knows the Goetias by heart and she can only use it for one task. She's also calling upon the soul of a Goetia, meaning someone has to be the guinea pig and be knocked unconscious until Chloe figures out a request from them, which also leaves the body of the Goetia unconscious wherever they're at. Last, the request has to be worded precisely or else there will be consequences. When Chloe asks Buné to leave Augustine's body, she didn't state that he also removed the draconic transformation he left behind, to which she said she thought that was implied in her command.
• Aw, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other:
  • Chloe's relationship with her father begins much the same way in Blossomverse trilogy, with complete and utter contempt of the professor because his work blinds him to her troubles. However, as the story goes on and Professor Cerise actually owns up to his terrible parenting, it becomes clear the two really do love each other even after everything that's happened. The best example comes when the team finds out Professor Cerise is on the Train; rather than getting angry her father is now in the same place as her, Chloe becomes worried sick for him and decides to look for him and is worried as to why he's not even trying to call or text her, blaming herself for not opening up sooner.
  • In Harvest Moon Car, Chloe tells Goh that she never truly hated him in spite of everything that happened between them over the years.
• Backhanded Apology: Due to her generally unapologetic attitude, whenever Chloe does try to apologize, it's often in a manner that still shifts the blame onto others. She does better about this in Harvest Moon Car.
• Bad Mood as an Excuse: Chloe will often rationalize her jerkass behavior is her not being in a good mood in that moment. Whether this justifies it or not depends on the character, but Chloe later admits it's no excuse for what she's said and done.
• Being Good Sucks: Chloe has been doing her best to support Goh as best as she can, and try to not get into trouble. She gets nothing but people ridiculing her and showing little appreciation, if any at all.
• Be Careful What You Wish For:
  • Just like in the original trilogy, she wanted those who hurt her in Vermillion City, particularly her father, to suffer for making her life a (supposed) living hell. Lo and behold, come the end of Act 1, Professor Cerise is so broken down by the abuse he suffered directly or indirectly that he gets willingly Trainnapped.
  • Chloe tried to motivate Goh to look for Mew by giving him a Mew magnet when they were little. Guess what happens a few years later.
• Belated Love Epiphany: Platonic, familiar example. She spent most of Act 1 thinking her father didn't love her, but by the time she actually realizes he really did and simply did all he could with what little information he had, the Cyan Desert Car arc happens and the professor is left so broken he's Trainnapped.
• Believing Their Own Lies: Chloe has been exaggerating how awful how her life was back home for so long that she seems to honestly believe it to be the truth, even as more and more evidence piles up showing not things not as bad as she made them out to be and Chloe not as blameless for the ordeal as she thinks she is.
• Better to Die than Be Killed: She'd rather kill herself than to let someone else torture her and not even feel sorry about it. As she tells Goh, she'd rather leap off the school's rooftop than live another moment of being told she's a nobody.
• Better with Non-Human Company: Chloe hates living in a world where she assumes everyone wants her to be their plaything or are so focused on Pokémon that she'd rather be on the Infinity Train where there's no such things as those creatures and thus no pressure to be like everyone else. She's at her element when she's with Atticus and Lexi, but she later starts warming up to people again — particularly Professor Sycamore — after realizing she's had it wrong the entire time.
• Beyond the Impossible: She somehow turned the entire mirage army into full-blown denizens via the power of her Cloak, something which shocks One-One to no end.
• Be Yourself: After many ups and downs throughout the second half of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2, Chloe has learned to start loving herself, flaws and all. Ash advises her she's not born to be perfect, but to be her while Goh finally admits that she never had to be some badass Blood Knight to get his attention and friendship. He always liked her as the quiet, gentle girl who supported him with homework and presents but was never able to vocalize those thoughts for the longest time due to his own issues. At the same time, she also learns to accept Goh's love of Pokemon as a part of who he is.
• Big Eater: She's known to wolf down a lot of food. Then again, this is one of Green Phantom Queen's traits of being a foodie at play. However, there are hints from the narration that she eats so much because she doesn't get chances to eat at school due to her classmates constantly stealing/ruining her lunches.
• Black-and-White Morality: Before Professor Sycamore appeared, Chloe only saw the world in shades of black and white: she and those who were on her side were good. Everybody else, no matter their intentions, was bad. The idea there could be grey areas in there or that misunderstandings were possible simply did not favor into her twisted worldview. Even after she gets a little better thanks to Sycamore's support, she still tends to fall back into this thinking, like when she tries to apologize to Ash but words it as if she was solely the victim and he didn't do more for her. After her talk with Goh in the Harvest Moon Car, her morality is of black, white and grey as she understands those who did bad weren't evil, just trying to do what they can with what they were given.
• Black Magician Girl: Like her original Blossomverse counterpart, she's a caster of fire and summons demons while having a perky attitude.
• Blood-Splattered Warrior: When Gloria, Victor, and Goh see the video of her beating Sara with a paint can, she's completely covered in red paint — from when Sara and her classmates doused her in it — invoking the trope. Victor even calls her a "warrior".
• Body Motifs:
  • The neck which represents how she feels suffocated and unable to speak her mind. She gets strangled many times by villains who wish to silence her...permanently. In Harvest Moon Car, she's shown to be nervously scratching her neck, and even tells Goh that if his Pokémon do want to beat her up, she'll clean her neck (a euphemism for "prepare for execution"), and her suicide request specifically has Bune chop her head off.
  • Hearts are another motif in the Harvest Moon Car. Chloe gains a new tic of pressing her clenched right hand where her heart would be, Buné gives her a butterfly in a heart tattoo as a visual reminder to calm down, and her true role in the Uprising is to be the emotional center, their heart. In order for Chloe to finally move on, she must heal her heart by letting go of her anger and grief that she's carried on her for so long.
• Boring, but Practical: What weapon does Chloe use? A donut holer, which is essentially a rusty L-bend steel pipe once advertised by a sneaky con-artist cat to punch stuff to turn them into "donuts". It's not as flashy as a well-crafted sword from the Monster City Car, doesn't have magic like Amelia's Ice Wand and isn't made of crystal like Yuri's own sword, but a good swing of a heavy pipe to one's face is going to hurt in the morning and Chloe can easily channel her love of softball into it so she doesn't need extra training in order for her to step up to the plate.
• Break the Cutie: If we don't count everything that happened prior to her Train trip, she has, in order: been repeatedly slammed against a skyscraper window before being been thrown out of it via telekinesis, nearly incinerated by an army of Mirage Pokémon, strangled three times, had to watch her bully rain hell with the Unown, sene her mentor figure reduced to a suicidal wreck (that she herself caused), nearly crushed to death by a runaway train and then assaulted by street cleaners when she was trying to act as peacemaker. And after Alighieri accuses her of harming the Harvest King in Harvest Moon Car, she finds herself believing even Buné hates her and is ready to die instead of dealing with this bullshit for a second longer.
• Bring It:
  • In the Ninjala Car, she does this to the Mirage army when she's cornered and unleashes a Rain of Arrows attack, thinking that is where she was going to die.
  • In her battle with Sara during the Cyan Desert Car arc she shouts at her to "GET NICE AND SALTY FOR ME!!!"
• Broken Bird: Beneath her vindictive attitude is a broken girl who is simply waiting for the final push to drop off her school's rooftop where she will obtain peace and ultimately fade away from everyone else's lives since she knows that she will never be anything special to anyone. The Cyan Desert Car begins an entire new road of unending pain and helplessness she can't overcome, nearly culminating in her suicide in the Harvest Moon Car.
• Bullied into Depression: Being thoroughly bullied by her own class just because she talked too much about her hobbies and subsequently being ignored by her sole Childhood Friend for Mew, her parents and pretty much every adult figure she interacted with has caused Chloe to become withdrawn, afraid of hoping for things to get better. She has contemplated the thought of ending her life a few times and has become cynical, irritable, anxious, and distrustful about people actually helping or noticing her, already expecting Asher to make a comment about her being a "monster lover" even though the shadow has never met her before. She's also lost any interest in things, particular her loves of the arts, and has anxiety attacks over not being seen as exceptional or "perfect", and even had intrusive thoughts of wanting to attack Goh for not paying attention to her.
• Bully Magnet: Was bullied at school for her "privileged" life of being a professor's daughter and not being obsessed with Pokemon, her appearance with her red hair being the biggest bull's-eye, and her hobbies with the macabre, to the point she's unfazed by Asher freaking out at seeing Marchosias' seal on her sheath and begins listing every single thing she has had to go through at school like she's talking about the weather.
• Bungled Suicide: She's about to let Buné kill her after everything reaches its peak at the Harvest Moon Car and a Goetia calls her annoying, with her last request letting her say goodbye to Goh. Thanks to the phone call, and Buné giving her a long overdue hug and permission to finally let her cry and get everything out of her system, she is able to leave those suicidal thoughts behind.
• Butterfly of Death and Rebirth: This is a recurring motif in the Harvest Moon Car, symbolizing the death of Chloe of the Vermillion and the rebirth of Chloe Cerise.
  • Parker shows off the Snom Goh caught for her and an image of its evolved form, a Frosmoth. Notably, Chloe is cooing at the Snom, showcasing a girl honestly likes cute things despite portraying an image of a nightmare lover.
  • Chloe and Goh's camping trip went awry when Goh chased after a Vivillon which nearly caused him to drown.
  • After she comes to terms with what's really the source of her problems with Goh, along with having a chance to cry and feel grief from everything she's been through, Chloe allows herself to heal and her Cloak obtains new powers like summoning fiery butterflies and replaces the gryphon wings for butterfly ones.
  • Last, Buné draws her a butterfly tattoo to help her take a moment to compose herself.
• Caged Bird Metaphor: Gloria and Chloe think this is what her situation is like at home. In truth, she actually had plenty of chances to do what she wanted if she just asked and the "cage" was more of a safe house for Chloe to escape from the bullies in her life. In a sense of irony, despite everything she's gotten on the Train, the train itself is a Gilded Cage as it's not meant for a long-term Power Fantasy; it's only there to help you work through your issues before you are free to return home, and the longer Chloe chooses to indulge in her fantasy, the longer she stays trapped there.
• Cannot Spit It Out: A consistent problem for Chloe is she's just too stubborn to admit she has issues even when people are willing to hear her out. It takes Goh's Tough Love treatment before she confesses the truth.
• Can't Take Criticism: Chloe has no issue pointing out other people's mistakes, yet 90% of the time she can't take what she dishes out. Even if it's constructive criticism, she'll find a way to twist it around and make it seem like she's being put down. It's only after Buné helps her focus on the progress she made that she is willing to be vulnerable.
• Cassandra Truth: Part of why Chloe is never speaks up about her problems is because she's afraid of not being believed. Thankfully, Gloria's harsh words, along with Parker's admittance of reading a poem his sister wrote about wanting to die, has her loved ones open up to the fact Chloe is in serious need of help, along with her confessing to Goh she's ready to kill herself from the sheer despair of it all.
• Cathartic Crying: After a call with Goh and Buné giving her a hug (when she requested he "put her out of her misery"), the dragon tells her it's okay for her to cry and to not let her anger hide the grief she's feeling. She finally lets loose a loud cry as she allows herself to be vulnerable and begin her healing process.
• Changing Yourself for Love: Platonic version. Chloe becomes "Chloe of the Vermillion" for many reasons, but she claims the biggest one was because she thought that's what would get Goh to finally notice her and see her as his perfect friend, believing he wanted a "tough, brave, badass" Chloe who leaps into action instead of an aloof, mousey coward who is afraid to try anything new. Ultimately, Goh realizes later on that's not who he wanted. While did want her to stop saying "No" and being sulky and angry all the time and just do something with her life...he never wanted her to radically change herself just to appease him. He truly loved Chloe's kind and gentle demeanor. The girl who kept an eye on him when even his own parents couldn't. He just had problems with expressing himself because of his own personal issues at the time.
• Character Check: After the first chapter of "Firefly Funhouse Car" had her admit to wanting to murder Goh for all he did, a later chapter has Chloe question whether or not this is what she really wants. After some thinking, she decides she doesn't want him dead. She just wants answers to what he's kept hidden from her, more in line with how she's usually written.
• Character Development: She lets go of her spite much earlier than her BT counterpart and begins to open up about her emotional problems. In particular, she is taught that her anger is actually masking a lot of grief in her heart over how her life has gone wrong, while also allowing her to see how her attitude pushed a lot of people away after seeing how Casimira acted. She also learns to rekindle a love of Pokemon through Hewie, confesses her love to Yamper, and is happy to learn of the Snom Goh catches for her.
• Character Exaggeration:
  • Her love of the macabre and demons were a basis of her character in Blossoming Trail, but here it becomes much more prominent due to the fact the demons actually exist on the Train and the Ars Goetia family has been keeping an eye out on her progress. It's also treated as an obsession of hers, here.
  • Chloe did performances more to motivate the entire Train in Blossoming Trail. Here, if she finds any excuse to have a performance, she will do it, without fail.
• Chess Motif: Her Belial outfit has a little red queen chess piece on her hat. Red is her signature color and queens are known to be the powerful piece in the game, freely able to go wherever they please and helps her stand out from her dislike of being a princess.
• Child Mage: Fits the archetype out of the child heroes. Age 10, models herself after a witch, uses demons, and her cloak is equated to magic that makes her one of the strongest characters in the story.
• Clawing at Own Throat: She starts doing this throughout the Harvest Moon Car as she gets nervous and frantic over the situation with the missing Harvest King being her fault, to the point that she was ready to use this as her suicide attempt.
• Clothes Make the Superman: Chloe's talented on her own, that can't be denied, but it's clear as day most of her power and thus her reputation comes down to her Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet: pyrokinesis, wolfshifting, and many more powers within this thing make Chloe a lot more formidable than usual. Justified because it's fueled by the power of the demon and god it's named after.
• Color Motif: Aside from the red that grants her the name "Chloe of the Vermillion" and the group Red Lotus Uprising, black becomes her secondary color. The outfits she gave Asher and Lexi (before he has to settle for Seere) have plenty of black, her Mirage Pokémon partner is the black and red Houndoom, and her outfits for the final act of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2 are completely black. This helps her contrast with Augustine's white/black lab-coat. While it initially reflects her Dark Is Not Evil mentality, it also represents the darkening of her mindset as things get worse and worse for her.
• Combat Pragmatist: In her clash against Sara, Chloe isn't afraid to fight dirty. She'll kick her bully in the crotch and bitch-slap her if it means taking an advantage.
• Commonality Connection:
  • Subverted. She and Goh share a similar Friendless Background, with Goh's birthday party being the best example, as the only people who ever attended were her and Parker, who hates Goh, and nobody else showed up. However, rather than take this chance to see something she shared with him, Chloe instead focused on the fact Goh was being very ungrateful over the fact she showed up at the party at all, she gives him homework sheets that he "doesn't really need", or she was his only friend for the longest of times and he didn't appreciate her presence (it's later revealed he was never ungrateful at all, just not able to properly express it and he was always okay if Chloe was his only friend). It takes years before both of them realize the connection, and by then so much damage has been done it's a miracle their friendship hasn't fully fallen apart.
  • Atticus notes to Yuri she has a love for adventure and excitement similar to Ash and Goh's passions for Pokémon journeys. The problem is she can't see eye-to-eye because their excitement will always be centered on Pokémon and nothing else, thus bringing up the whole "you have to be obsessed with Pokémon to be loved" mentality she's developed.
• Composite Character:
  • While she's mostly inspired by Robin Goodfellowe (see Expy below), she also share traits with Mebh Óg MacTíre too, being she's a Significant Green-Eyed Redhead whose wolf form is a bright red wolf with traits of a Stepford Smiler in her.
  • Her Blossoming Trail self, Silent Hill-wise, was based both on Alessa Gillepsie (who was bullied at school) with Heather Mason (a Daddy's Girl who heads to Silent Hill tied to a prophecy to bring about paradise) but her Broken Bird status fits the newest Silent Hill protagonist in Anita — an artistic girl who is jealous that a new person who is much more talented in a field has caught the eye of their friend (Maya for Amelie and Ash for Goh) — and is ready to commit suicide (with Anita having committed it twice yet ends up surviving every single time). Speaking of The Short Message, she also has hints of Maya as well, as Maya was always symbolized with cherry blossoms, was a talented artist, and one of the aspects that made her fall to depression was her unable to leave her town to study in an art university, like Chloe was unable to head off to a softball camp.
  • Infinity Train-wise, she combines many of Tulip Olsen's traits: a Fiery Redhead with anger problems who couldn't go to a camp of their dreams (due to their fathers either getting the date wrong or were too busy and couldn't let her go) and have problems understanding others have feelings. They also have dark-skinned friends who don't really share their interests (Mikayla doesn't like games, but at least had the courtesy to play-test Tulip's, whereas Goh has shown no signs of being interested in anything outside "Pokémon" and was oblivious to anything Chloe liked for the longest time), and they teamed up with a denizen associated with the color white and Atticus. She also has Jesse Cosay's reason for getting on the Train as well — having a peer pressure moment that made her run away lest face even more trauma and bullying.
  • Author notes in the Harvest Moon Car reveals Chloe's renewed self is based on both Mirabel and Mashiro Nijigaoka. From both of them, she learns her heart and kindness are her strongest weapon and she doesn't need any special ability to prove her worth to her loved ones after she struggles to figure out who she wants to be in life/feels angst for not feeling like anything special compared to her peers and family. Additionally, Chloe gets Mirabel's butterfly motif.
• Condescending Compassion: The story tries to paint her giving Sara a second chance at redemption as being a big moment of generosity to her, but it becomes rather hollow when you actually look at the context; Sara has just had everything fall apart for her; her life, her plans, everything, with Auric going so far as to claim the Infinity Train is not coming to pick her up, which is the biggest middle finger you could give to anybody's chances at redemption. Couple this with the fact Chloe's saying this as the hero of the Infinity Train, who's loved by everyone and outright worshipped as a Living Legend, and Chloe comes across as Innocently Insensitive at best, outright tone deaf at worst.
• Conditioned to Accept Horror: She's so used to the bullying at school and no one coming to help her that not only can she list everything her class did to her in a tone of someone reading a grocery list, but she tells Asher to just speak whatever insult comes to mind because she's so broken to retaliate any further.
• Contrived Coincidence:
  • Her rise to fame on the Infinity Train is primarily grounded in the fact she would enter a Train that would have Denizens be willing to hear her very biased retelling of events, without questioning them or believing she could be lying or exaggerating, she would be chosen by One-One himself to stop The Apex, meaning she'd get several power ups and face off against enemies that would help her get a boost in both popularity and power, and where would be a whole family of Denizens based on demons who would not only take notice of her, but grant her access to a powerful cloak mixing divine and demonic magic. Had any of these factors been different, Chloe would've been seen as just an ordinary passenger at best, or become either a feared figure because of her violent temper, or straight up dead at worst. Alighieri even notes all of her success is solely because of this trope.
  • Also isn't it quite convenient her first denizen partner just so happens to have been the one who knows the Conductor's original identity? Without this piece of information, Chloe would never have been able to get Amelia on her side.
• Cool Mask: Her Amon-inspired outfit gives her a raven mask (due to Amon described as having a wolf body but a raven's head) and also because it shows how she's siding with Asher, who has a crow/raven motif and just learned he's not a shadow, but a missing bird prince.
• Corrupted Character Copy:
  • Initially serves as one to Robyn Goodfellowe for Act 1/Early Act 2. Both are girls who are an All-Loving Heroine stuck in a society in a role they don't want (Chloe doesn't want to follow her father's foosteps whereas Robyn does and hates being a scullery maid). However, while Robyn is legitimately kind and misunderstood, Chloe only extends her kindness and forgiveness to those who are on her side, while throwing anybody who's against her under the bus. And while Robyn being an outcast is a result of different values where she's living, Chloe's outcast status is as much to blame on herself as on the city, as her own refusal to own up to her mistakes, insensitive and self-centered nature, and penchant for violence when riled up enough caused people to see her as unapproachable at best and outright dangerous at worst.
  • Like her counterpart from Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Chloe is a more bitter and spiteful version of Luz Noceda from the The Owl House. Both Chloe and Luz are outcasts from their classmates because of their interests that are looked down on because there not seen as normal. They both enter a new world, with Chole entering the Infinity Train and Luz entering The Boiling Isles; both of them find both acceptance and friends in their new world and prefer the new world to the old one. The difference is that despite it being implied that Luz is afraid of human teens because of all the time her classmates bullied her and that the only connection to her world is her mother, she continued to be a kind and forgiving person, and it implies that she does not wish harm on her former classmates. Chloe, however, despite generally loving and caring for her new friends and little brother back home, has a lot of anger and spite towards her parents, classmates. and her father's co-workers. Unlike Luz, whose weird antics as a young child caused other parents to talk badly about her for benign things like collecting shed snake skins, Chloe got parents to talk and think badly of her for actions that nearly got other children killed, and unlike Luz who would also endanger others accidentally, Chloe would intentionally assault others such as Sara and Goh, and outright threaten to murder them, validating the suspicions of those who questioned them. Eventually, Chole's anger and spite have tragic consequences for her classmates and family, while Luz's actions, while initially causing her mom some distress, would ultimately mend friction that had started to form between them.
  • Chloe reflects darkly on the character of Penny from Scarlet and Violet. Both are introverted nerds who faced bullying problems that would ultimately lead the both of them to be taken out of school events, afterschool for Chloe and entirely for Penny, for their own healing. Both are implied to be from well off families, as Chloe's father affords a rather large research facility in a major city while Penny is hinted to be the paternal niece of the massively rich Chairman Rose. Both are fans of mass media and both have created longstanding problems in their wake after they left, and are often paired alongside extroverts they find exasperating at times (Ash and to an extent Goh for Chloe, the other main characters, particularly Nemona, for Penny). And while Chloe herself is not directly linked to Eevee, her alternate self is. However Penny did not intend for Team Star to cause any problems after she left, and both set to save them from themselves while also doing what she can to clean up her mistake, a level of self-reflection Chloe has shown to be unable to muster as she handles her own lingering problems back home. Penny, while she also groans at her family's antics and the antics of Nemona, does not loath or hate them in anyway similar to that of Chloe to her own family and friends and would never desire to hurt them. Ultimately Chloe is who Penny would be if she actually wanted to have people, from her bullies to her friends and family, severely hurt and ruined.
• Cosplay Otaku Girl: On the Train, Chloe goes all out in cosplays of either outfits she's designed on a basic app or dressing up as girls from Kids' horror shows. "Horrorland Car" reveals that she's dressed up as Lydia Deetz, Ruby Gloom, and Scary Godmother. Somewhat justified in that the Infinity Train would have plenty of cars full of outfits for her to dress up in.
• "Could Have Avoided This!" Plot:
  • She admits in her call with Goh in the Ninjala Car she should've been more forward about what she was feeling, but her stubborn pride prevented her from doing so.
  • A more dramatic example has her question why she just can't get it together sooner just seconds after Buné saved her from killing herself, thinking if things just "clicked" and she learned her lesson before shit hit the fan, then none of the tragedy had to happen.
• Cowardice Callout: Is on the receiving end of this twice by Goh: once during a flashback where snapped at her for trying to stop him from chasing a Vivillon, and then again during Harvest Moon Car when he chews her out for constantly running away from her problems.
• Crazy-Prepared: She made numerous outfits for Lexi (all of them based on demons) should he ever want to change his wardrobe. This comes in handy when Asher wants a new outfit for himself in the Fashion Runway Car and when Lexi is pretty much forced to drop his Specter guise.
• Creepy Child: Part of why Sara was able to get a lot of traction done against Chloe is that she's externally a very odd child. She's into macabre interests, doesn't socialize well with others, is pushy about her own interests that, due to being macabre, few if any of her classmates are interested in, and demonstrated immense potential for violence. Internally, she's also prone to fantasizing about violence and murder against even her best friend Goh, let alone people who have intentionally hurt her.
• Curb-Stomp Battle:
  • What got her on the Train was being dared to fight Ash Ketchum in a Pokémon battle by her classmates. She lost because she's not experienced in battling and only knows one move for Yamper from her father, while Ash has (out of universe) years of experience traveling and battling under his belt.
  • She delivers this on Sara in the penultimate chapter of the Cyan Desert Car as the latter can never get a hit in while Chloe has little trouble striking her opponent down with Cheshire due to having so much experience fighting on the Train.
• Cuddle Bug: Chloe loves hugs, with many scenes of people/denizens/Pokemon giving her them in order to help calm her down. Truth in Television in that hugs are proven to reduce stress.
• Cute Bruiser: Absolutely adorable and has a good swing with either her donut holer or an Iron Noise.
• Cuteness Proximity: When Parker shows off the Snom Goh captured for her, Chloe immediately starts cooing at how the little ice grub is adorable. This catches Parker off-guard because Goh also caught a Grimmsnarl that's more in line with her interests. During a camping trip, she found a small Shiny Pumpkaboo to be adorable, which would lead to her love for ghosts.
• Daddy's Girl: What Chloe wants most of all, besides Goh to finally notice her and say "Thank you" for all she's done over the years, is for her father to give her his attention and make her feel truly loved. He spends more time with his research fellows than actually noticing her desires for small things like softball camp nor has he done anything to address her mental health issues outside caging her in a place that she despises. Unfortunately, Chloe's refusal to accept any affection not done in her liking, or even see things in a different point of view, causes her to instead shun her father until he gets trainnapped due to the immense load of trauma done to him on either her behalf, or indirect creation.
  She kept crying, the tears falling down her eyes until they became as red as her hair and her cloak, as she hugged herself, wanting her father to swoop in and take her into his arms, telling her everything was going to be okay, that she was the champion of his world and he was proud of her, always would be proud of her. Because that was what she wanted right now more than anything.
• Dark Is Not Evil: By the end of Act 1, she's dressed in black, can cast fire, has two artifacts based on demons, loves dark video games, and her Mirage Pokémon is a Hellhound, but she's a sweet girl, if not one with lots of emotional baggage, who is off to stop the Apex.
• Death Is the Only Option: At the end of her ropes, accused of a crime she didn't commit, attacked by her own partners, and struggling from her previous encounter with the street cleaners in the Palimpsest Car, Chloe believes the only way she'll escape everything is to just die. She goes as far as to ask Buné to give her a painless death when it becomes too much for her. Thankfully, it's due to the dragon Goetia and Goh that she's able to find a reason to live and forgive herself.
• Death Seeker: Debatable. On the one hand, Chloe has been through enough pain that would lead her to do this, with her comments even confirming to Sycamore she did consider ending her life once. On the other hand, Chloe has such a pathological need to embellish and exaggerate things in a bid to get attention it's just as likely that, pre-Palimpsest Car, her other mentions of wanting to kill herself are her blowing stuff out of proportion for sympathy points. Given how sensitive the subject is, it can be assumed she really was ready to end her life and hoped that someone would convince her that life was worth living.
• Decomposite Character: While Goh can be seen as a Corrupted Character Copy of Waymand Wang, Chloe has a few of Prime Waymand's traits to her. Namely, at first glance, Goh (seemingly) saw no worth in Chloe handing him his homework, giving him birthday presents, or just texting him to see if he's doing okay compared to seeing Ash being an extroverted Pokemon lover and combatant ala Alpha Waymand. But just like Evelyn Wang comes to realize that her husband's kindness is the key to stop being a complete nihilist and to save their daughter, Goh comes to realize that Chloe's gestures are her ways of showing kindness towards him, thus recognizing this as her true strength and saving her from ending her life.
• Decon-Recon Switch:
  • Chloe was Goh's Only Friend growing up, but the way Goh "treats her" doesn't really reflect this. Chloe does her best to be there for him with homework and birthday presents, but he never noticed because he was too wrapped up in his own emotional problems to properly show it. Combined with the Fujihachi parents driving a wedge between them, Chloe stops talking to Goh about what's bugging her because she thinks he wouldn't understand. Or, as she puts it, "If it's not about Mew, it's not his problem." Then Harvest Moon Car reveals Goh does care about her and always did, because she supported him in his darkest moments even though he never realized it until Chloe was about to commit suicide.
  • Chloe's role as The Heart, along with showing kindness to others, doesn't seem like anything special as the skills people praise about more is her fighting style or her non-Pokémon achievements like creative writing and arts. Even in the Pokémon world, everyone loves to gush more on Ash and Goh's love for Pokémon, Ash's battling skills, Goh's goal to hunt Mew, and being extroverts while she's introverted and isolated. Harvest Moon Car reveals being the emotional core of the party has plenty of perks: the rest of the Red Lotus Uprising care for her because she cared for them first, and Goh admits how her kindness was more important to him than her kicking ass because it showed that someone cared for him. By the time Chloe has disappeared for two months, her peers at school bring up how she's a passionate and courageous soul even if she doesn't openly announce it to the world. Moreover, her stint in the Ninjala Car only happened because she wanted to show kindness and compassion to the Mirage Pokémon, with Wepwawet theorizing that the true power of the Cloak is powered by love and kindness, not anger or spite.
  • Of the Be Yourself trope usually associated with her. Her quest of identity has her disregard everything she hated about being Chloe Cerise: she's a loner with no friends or family who supports her endeavors, she's not into Pokémon "like she's supposed to be", she's the Professor's daughter who is destined to be his successor, etc. Act 2 is about her returning to being Chloe Cerise and everything that's good about her: she's determined despite the odds, she shows kindness and sympathy towards others, she is brave to express herself in subtle ways, and realizes people are supporting her. Moreover, Chloe not liking Pokémon isn't what has people at school talking about her; they like her more for her being authentic in her loves of having a thing for macabre instead of following the supposed footsteps of her father.
  • Chloe being an Action Girl is mostly portrayed in a positive light, before the story shows it's not enough to be badass on the Train when there are bigger things and more monstrous beings can and will hurt you. Not to mention the more she becomes this trope, the more toxic and aggressive she becomes. However, it's reconstructed when she learns to connect both the "Action" and "Girl" parts by combining both her inner strength and determination to stand up to the monsters on the Train with the kindness and heart Goh says are her biggest traits.
• Defeat as Backstory: Like in Blossoming Trail, the events that got Chloe on the Train had her being pressured to challenge Alola League Champion Ash Ketchum and being completely whomped by him. The shame of losing to him, and the fear of what others will think when this gets revealed, is what gets her on the Train.
• Defrosting Ice Queen: Chloe's arc through Act 1 and up to the first part of Act 2 is to help her slowly thaw out the shell she made to protect herself from an uncaring world and ignorant loved ones she thought loved Pokémon more than her, while also letting go of the spite and anger she built as a shield. It's only through Buné and Goh that she accepts she is in pain and finally feels again, melting the icy walls that kept her from fully expressing what's wrong with her.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Just like in Blossomverse, Chloe is motivated in trying to find what she wants to do in life just to get people off her back about being like her dad, but she constantly (and sometimes deliberately) throws focus out the window in order to instead live in the moment. It's this very trope that caused her to get on the Train, when Goh stated something that to her sounded like "I don't care about your problems because you can't chase a dream like I do!" when she asked him where he is when she needs him just as she's ready to end her life...when in reality, he was trying to motivate her to find something and he would've been more supportive if she spoke up.
• Determinator: If Chloe puts her mind to it, nothing can stop her. The Ninjala Car is her finest example. If she wants to free the Mirage Pokémon from Dr. Yung's control, she will do it even if it costs her life. This trait of hers is what makes her popular at school once they learned of her battle with Ash. It's not that she lost, it's that she kept on fighting that made her so admirable. Moreover, at no point has she succumbed to the pain of multiple injuries throughout her Train trip — ranging from the constant strangulation attempts on her life, being telekinetically thrown out of a skyscraper, or something mundane as having her father literally wipe the floor with her. She keeps getting up, and she keeps fighting.
• Detrimental Determination: Her determined nature causes her just as much trouble as it helps her, if not more so. Practically her entire spiel as a spoiled jerk is motivated by her determination to not only hold everybody back at home responsible for her suffering, regardless of whether they were responsible or even aware of it, but to put herself on a pedestal and the moral high ground in order to justify doing so. She breaks out of it after a round of self-loathing in Harvest Moon Car, thanks to Goh helping her realize she's acting like Sara and telling her he always liked her as she was.
• Didn't Think This Through:
  • It's eventually revealed Chloe adopting the whole "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona was so people would notice her for once — as in, just Chloe, not Professor Cerise's daughter who should totally be obsessed with Pokémon like 99% of the world, or for Goh to just stop ignoring her like he does 90% of the time. It didn't seem to occur to her not only would the Denizens only see her persona and not her real self, but going missing all of a sudden would've been enough for the people in her world to actually notice her absence for once.
  • If Chloe was really that desperate to get the flowers needed to cure Goh's fever after their botched ghost hunt, she could've simply asked or even outright demanded the Gourgeist give them to her and take them straight back to their campsite, instead of wasting all that time trying to look for the flowers herself.
  • She genuinely believes Goh wouldn't care if she decided to end her life since he's so obsessed with his dreams, and of Ash, to ever notice her. It never crossed her mind that for all Goh has trouble reading her, he's not someone who wouldn't care if she did kill herself.
• Diligent Hero, Slothful Villain: To be a hero on the Infinity Train took a lot of work, and Chloe put in the efforts required to become respected and to do cool things, whether it be in combat or stage productions to boost morale. In contrast, Sara uses manipulations to get others around her to do as she wishes and never bothers to improve herself. As a result, when on an even enough footing during the climax of the Cyan Desert Car, Chloe wins.
• Disappointed by the Motive: When she learns why Sara bullied her, she is in total disbelief her bully would sink so low. However, this motive does give reason for Chloe to admit that Sara did make a few valid points.
• Does Not Like Men: Just like in the original trilogy, she has shades of this for those in the Pokémon world, being angry at Ash for unintentionally taking Goh away from her, and at Goh for getting all the privileges which never let him face a round of bullying, forced expectations to be like his parents, being humiliated for trying to Tackle a Ghost-type, being pushed to end her life because no one, especially him, cares for her garbage opinions, and the fact that Goh is never ever grateful for anything she's done for him. And the less we talk about her father, the better. She gradually learns to forgive them and is shown to get along with other males like Yuri, Specter, and Professor Sycamore.
• Does Not Know How to Say "Thanks": For all that she chides Goh for not being appreciative for all that she's done for him, Chloe herself also has a hard being thankful or apologetic due to becoming so accustomed to everybody else having to earn her forgiveness. Her "apologies" to Ash are the best example: the first fails because she sees fit to chide him for "supposedly" not paying attention to her and how he should've been better, and the second quickly devolves into an overindulgent pity party which requires both Ash and Goh to take control of of the conversation before she digs herself deeper. After a long talk with Goh in the Harvest Moon Car, she finally is able to apologize to him for all she's done to him, most notably for her lack of support for his quest for Mew.
• Don't Create a Martyr: Discussed. After Chloe survives her near death from Sara, Specter points out because Chloe accepted her fate with grace, should the security camera footage in the Cerise Institute be televised, then everyone would have known Sara was a horrible brat and Chloe would have gotten the last laugh.
  Specter: You saw Chloe. She accepted everything she did wrong. She accepted that you wanted to kill her. And you didn’t even hesitate even though the security cameras [in the Institute] have been recording this non-stop. So if this was broadcasted to show how honorable Chloe was, you would’ve made a martyr out of her.
• Doublethink: As a result of both her past bullying and melodramatic tendencies, Chloe has a habit of believing two completely contradictory things without realizing it, as long as it justifies her bad attitude. For one example, her call to Ash to try and apologize to him has a moment where she calls him out over not doing more to help her and for seemingly hating her, with her tone of voice making it clear she honestly believes this, despite already knowing Ash didn't have the necessary knowledge to do more to help her, but never had any ill will towards her in the first place.
• Double Standard: Abuse, Female on Male: Chloe's treatment of Goh and most of the main male characters is borderline abusive: She threw Goh's phone into a bowl of curry before shoving a different bowl in his face, and generally shut him and Ash both out of her life, completely gave up on her father because of one misunderstanding, and drove Professor Sycamore, the man who helped her get some rest and comfort on the Train, into complete and utter madness because she needed to verbally trash something or someone after Sara's gloating and he happened to be nearby. She doesn't get called out for any of these, and in fact, for the Professor Sycamore one, Specter outright comforts her by telling her it's in fact Sycamore's fault and not her own. She does acknowledge that what she did to Sycamore was her fault and vows to make it up to him now matter what.
• Dramatically Missing the Point:
  • Just like in the original trilogy, Chloe completely misunderstands what the Infinity Train actually is; instead of assuming it's an eternal train of thought that will keep her there until she dies unless she develops into a mentally healthier person, Chloe takes it as a Power Fantasy meant to help her vent all of her frustrations regarding her home life, all while completely ignoring how everybody else might actually feel about her going missing in exchange for getting to overindulge herself in her revenge story.
  • Chloe changes herself into Chloe of the Vermillion because that's what she believes Goh wants from her — this badass chick who can beat the crap out of people and be so into adventure and Pokemon that he'll finally notice her instead of dismissing her, her homework deliveries, and her birthday presents like he always does. It turns out while Goh could have been better at wording his requests and been more supportive or empathetic to his friend, all he wanted was for her to be more proactive while still being the kind and supportive friend she was in the first place.
• Drama-Preserving Handicap: By far, Chloe is the most powerful passenger of the heroes with Asher and Specter/Easter below her. Not only does she have an aggressive fighting style with her donut holer, but her cloak has the powers of a god and demon fused together, letting her summon fire, turn into a wolf and fire arrows of light if she wanted, not to mention that she's been on the Train longer and doesn't have any rust on her like Specter did from his initial train trip. And that's not counting her demon summoning pendant either. The story has to prevent her from wrecking things by giving the pendant a one-time use policy per demon she summons and revealing that she's really transplanting the soul of a demon into a nearby host.
• Drama Queen: Chloe tends to get overly emotional when it comes to certain things, and/or blows certain events or actions way out of proportion, especially when she doesn't her way.
  • The biggest example is her Freudian Excuse: She wanted to go to a softball camp once and behaved for an entire week just so her father could sign the permission slip. However, a conference popped up at the last minute that the Professor couldn't cancel, despite bringing up suggestions to have someone else take her there. He tried to reassure her she could just go to camp some other time, but she took his words to mean that he didn't care about her needs, and he was not worth her time unless she was associated with Pokemon. Sara rubbing it in her face that her father's refusal to sign the slip meant he didn't love her didn't help matters, either.
  • She angsts about how Goh never keeping a promise, where he decides to always reply to her requests with half-hearted apologies where he "promises" to never do it again via text, even though he technically sees her every single day at the Institute and she could always just talk to him about what's going on if she took the courage to do so.
  • Losing to someone in your first official Pokémon battle is understandable, and it's normal to feel frustrated after a loss. But to Chloe, she feels like this will ultimately be the end of her, despite it being all intents and purposes, a completely normal Pokémon battle. On a related note, she goes on at length of the shame of using Tackle against a Ghost and acts like she needs to run away from the Pokémon world just to drown out the mockery she’ll get from that moment. No one made a similar fuss about type advantages in over twenty-five years in the anime; mistakes happen in the middle of battle- even to Ash in one of the most important battles of his life (against Brandon specifically)- and most people just move on afterwards.
• Driven to Suicide: In the Harvest Moon Car, she's dead serious about wanting to die, even using the euphemism to "clean her neck" when she learns from Goh that his Pokemon are ready to beat the shit out of her, which was used before people were sent for execution. She tells Goh about her suicide attempt of jumping off the school rooftop because she'd rather die then face another day of being told she's a loser no one will ever love, especially him who is just so busy with his goals and Ash to even talk to her for five seconds or even keep a promise with her without apologizing for being late for once in his life! She calmly asks Buné to give her one final request to call Goh before having him slice her head off so that her death would be swift and merciful. Thankfully, Buné and Goh save her before she ends up as a bloody corpse in an alleyway, helping her confront that she is angry and in grieving for everything that happened but that she also needs to confront that she needs to change if she will ever make any progress..
• Dude, Where's My Respect?: One of Chloe's biggest pet peeves is never being appreciated or acknowledged for any good deeds she does, even if it's for really minor or mundane things. She later lets go of this after dealing with Casimira's entitlement and Goh finally thanking her for all she's done and apologizing for not seeing this sooner.
• Dying Alone: Brought up in the Harvest Moon Car as Chloe is at her breaking point. She feels like this is her fate in the end, having no one to support her before she ends her life, ready to have Buné slice her head off so she doesn't bother anyone with her presence, or throwing herself off a rooftop because her last attempt to have Goh give her hope for once ends in failure since he's "too busy" with his priorities and new best friend to ever worry for her safety.

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• Easily Forgiven:
  • Despite driving Professor Sycamore past the Despair Event Horizon by not only rejecting his attempts to help her calm down, but coldly rebutting him and chiding him with extreme pessimism, which even Chloe herself believes was too much, the professor tells her she's forgiven and to forget about it. However, she doesn't feel like she deserves to be forgiven, neither does Sycamore himself when he gets hit with a truth geass. After some soul-searching throughout the Palimpsest Car, and thanks to Tres, they start working on forgiving one another and moving forward.
  • Goh has every reason to never forgive her for how much she mistreated him, but he decides to start again when he comes to realize he's equally responsible for their friendship failing due to taking so long to acknowledging Chloe's presence in his life, procrastinating on talking to her about his own fears, and failing to actually take his promises to her seriously.
• Early Personality Signs: If the Ghost Hunt flashback is anything to go by, Chloe has had a Lack of Empathy and inability to properly explain herself since she was young, as she not only focused on a grand adventure to get some flowers for Goh’s sickness after he fell into a river even though he needed to go back to their camp immediately, but even when she did bring him back, her attempt at explaining things to his parents made it sound like she was more interested in having an adventure than the fact that Goh nearly died, which gave them ample reason to believe she was too dangerous to keep around.
• Elemental Motifs: Fire, like usual. She's a Hot-Blooded Fiery Redhead who casts fire with her cloak (which is based off Marchosias, a fire-breathing wolf demon), her Mirage Pokémon is a Dark/Fire type, and she's first introduced to the Windchasers while "This Fire" by Franz Ferdinand blares in the background. However, just as fire can be used for good by giving light and warmth, if it goes out of control then it will burn everyone and everything it touches.
• Elemental Personalities: A Fiery Redhead who is very passionate about her hobbies and can be very dramatic. Initially she is shown lashing out, or burning, everyone who tries to get close to her for fears of being hurt again. But she later learns to love and forgive herself, with the gentle heat of the flames giving her warmth and thawing out the icy shell around her.
• Embarrassing Hobby: Subverted. Chloe initially thinks her love of the macabre is this, but flashbacks eventually reveal that the hobby itself wasn't the problem: Chloe was just so obsessed with it that she tried to force her classmates to like it, causing them to avoid her/give her a taste of her own medicine to make her leave them alone.
• Entertainment Above Their Age: Outside of her love of horror, she's played No More Heroes due to Renji giving her all four games to play. The thing is, NMH is a game series for people twice her age.
• Entitled to Have You: Chloe's behavior regarding Goh, especially in Firefly Funhouse is laced with this. She expects him to acknowledge her as his best friend solely because she does things for him and objects to the mere thought of him having any other friends besides her, acting like a jealous ex-girlfriend when he does eventually make a new friend. Atticus and Lexi have to help her to realize that Goh has the right to have other friends, just like she has friends in the two of them.
• Epic Fail: She was pressured to fight "Alola League Champion" Ash Ketchum...and she utterly lost to him due to having no experience of battling outside telling her Yamper to use Spark, with her opening move of Yamper tackling a Gengar. However, Act 2 reveals despite it being an utter failure, the school was pretty wowed she kept on fighting despite knowing it was a loss and forgave her for the Tackle since any newbie would've made that move.
• Everyone Has Standards:
  • While she writes stories which have lots of grizzly fates like mutilation, she will not use Mind Manipulation or anything of the sort, and is horrified when she enters Augustine's mind and learns that Asher put a trigger word that lets him puppeteer the Professor for his own use (even if it is in order to help the Professor on his journey).
  • Chloe notes her none of her classmates, including Sara, deserve to be sent on the Train and separated from their families.
  • When Yuri points out Lugh's burning spear could be equated to a nuclear bomb, she (and Specter) gets sick and vomits in a trashcan.
  • After hearing the tale of Goh's parents purposefully driving a wegdge between her and Goh out of sheer spite, Chloe doesn't get mad at them. Instead, she tells Goh not to wish for them or his grandma to get on the Train and vows to make it up to them once she leaves the Train.
    Chloe: Whatever you think of your parents, or your grandmother, don't wish the Train picked them up. I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy.
  • She also straight up tells Goh that she hated everything that led to them drifting apart, but she could never bring herself to hate him.
• Expy: According to the co-author, this iteration of Chloe is based on Robin Goodfellowe for being a Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak who keeps her hair in a braid and wishes to be free from being "caged" by her father, who is only doing this out of fear of losing said daughter, not out of any actual malice, and is seen as an outcast by society who is afraid of being stuck in a role she absolutely despises.
• Extreme Doormat: Zig-Zagged. While Chloe does have problems with fully expressing what's wrong with her, it's more because she chooses not to speak up out of stubborn pride. Another reason is because she fears no one will believe her.
• Face Death with Dignity: Due to her Death Seeker tendencies, Chloe embraces her inevitable end without fear
  • When it seems like she will die to the Mirage Army, she turns into her Marchosias form and lets out one final howl of defiance as she envisions herself returning to the Cerise Institute and Yamper. It's later revealed she ends up surviving the attack because the true powers of her cloak activated due to her determination to not run away and focus on her love for Yamper.
  • With nowhere to run and UnCerise choking her to death, Chloe dares Sara to kill her and accepts the death by spiky bat. Thankfully UnSycamore/Asher takes the blow before it comes to pass.
  • And finally, when she asks Buné to put her out of her misery, she stays still as he's about to slice her head clean off...only for him to hug her instead, finally killing the broken, spiteful girl she once was.
• Fairytale Motifs:
  • She compares herself to The Ugly Ducklett in the Ninjala Car, as she's pushed around for being "different". And just like the ugly duckling learns there was a beautiful swan in him all along and there are others just like him, she grows up to see a strong, proud girl who doesn't need to follow the same road everyone else takes and has a loving social group in her friends and family.
  • Like in Blossoming Trail, Red Riding Hood is associated with her, due to her association with wolves and her red hood. In the Ninjala Car, she does get a chance to fight off against Vaillant, a Silver Lycan.
• Fair-Weather Friend: As much as she doesn't want to admit this, Chloe herself was no better of a friend than Goh was. While the latter did have serious social problems, she also rejected every single instance of actually hanging out with him and Ash whenever they asked, never told him about her problems in the first place, and never supported his dream to find Mew. She later admits she didn't know how to be supportive since Goh is so independent.
• Fatal Flaw: Besides her temper, Chloe's biggest issue is her Lack of Empathy. She focuses only on the pain and suffering that she's felt, leaving her unable to understand people around her.
• Feather Motif: Her Cloak of Marchosias gives her feathery wings and Parker recounts a time where she wrote a poem about Icarus, which parallels her wish to be free but deep down knows it's not possible when she's always "caged". She loses the feathers after Harvest Moon Car for butterfly wings.
• Females Are More Innocent: Zig-zagged.
  • In comparison to Sara and Grace, she's the innocent one compared to them since she's neither spewing lies nor corrupting others to destroy the lives of innocent bystanders for her own amusement and attention.
  • When it comes to who is more at fault with her and Goh's friendship failing? While Goh was insensitive at times, Chloe lso kept things so tight-lipped that him telling Ash about her lack of interest on Pokemon was legitimate because it was only thing she ever mentioned.
  • While her father could have better worded his reason why Chloe couldn't go to softball camp, and she did fulfill her end of the bargain to behave for a week and offered alternatives, she decided to not speak to him and refuse to ask him for anything else, seeing him as someone who won't have time for her at all.
  • In regards to Augustine's mental breakdown, she was directly responsible for it. Chloe herself knows no amount of being told "It's not [her] fault" will erase her sins and her mistake any time soon, deciding to accept she will work on making up for this.
• Fiery Redhead: She has red hair and a very fiery personality, as Gloria points out. Bonus points that she also has a lot of firepower on her.
• Fiery Sensuality: A PG version as she's only ten. Chloe's major element is fire, and she's known to be a Badass Adorable fighter who has a passenger and denizen who crush on her.
• Foil:
  • To Goh. Both are socially awkward, isolated young children whose hobbies are major parts of their lives, and have a lot of history that makes them that way. However, while Chloe is extroverted about her interests and tries to drag others into them with constant chatter, Goh keeps to himself and focused on his interest in Mew. When Goh met Ash, he started to change his approach and improved himself, opening up to new people and experiences despite the risk of being hurt again, while Chloe repeatedly refused Ash's invitations to hang out and do things with him because they were not things that she wanted to do.
  • To Sara. Both are girls with closeness to their fathers and want out of their situations in Vermillion City. But while Chloe has shown to be spiteful and close the door on others, she doesn't corrupt others to bully someone to the brink of suicide and actually spends time working on improving herself on the Train. Sara corrupts and manipulates numerous classmates to destroy Chloe's self-worth and is too lazy to better herself.
• Foreshadowing: Her future butterfly motif was foreshadowed as early as the Ninjala Car. After Asher freaks out over seeing the seal of Marchosias on the scabbard of her donut holer, she sarcastically says she'll replace it with a Beautifly sticker to make him happy. "The Firefly Funhouse Car" retroactively hints this as well with a notebook with Vivillon on the cover that she uses to jot down her adventure on the Train.
• Forgiveness Requires Death: She assumes the only way people will ever forgive her is if she just kills herself, and is ready to end her life in the Harvest Moon Car because she knows for a fact that everyone in Vermillion City hates her and she will never find peace even if she did a 180. It's only thanks to Goh and Buné giving her gentle reassurance, the latter whom she requested to kill her, that she can start forgiving herself without having to commit suicide to do so. Moreover, Buné shows Chloe how no one in the Harvest Moon Car is mad at what happened and are just glad she is okay.
• Freaky Fashion, Mild Mind: The second half of Act 1 and beginning of Act 2 has her wear some outfits inspired by the Ars Goetia demons she loves, which involve tuxedos, top hats, tutus, sharp gloves, wolf-head pauldrons, demonic seals, etc. However her mind is still a wreck and she struggles with a lot of mental issues. After she is given a talk from Goh and Buné that help her to move on from the frustrations on herself, and to let go of the game she's playing towards others, she ditches the outfits for something more practical: a white vest, skirt, and boots.
• Freudian Excuse:
  • The reason why Chloe never asks for anything or keeps refusing Ash and Goh's invitations to go out and see Pokémon is because she once wanted to go to a softball camp in Celadon, to which her father promised she could go if she behaved for a week, which she did. But when he had to rescind it at the last minute to go to a conference and tried to reassure her she could just go some other time, she begrudgingly accepted it until Sara said that his refusal was proof that the Professor never loved her.
  • During a camping trip in Kalos, Goh's parents blamed Chloe for their son catching a fever after falling in a river, despite running herself ragged trying to get him back to safety . This left her feeling unappreciated by those around her.
• Freudian Excuse Is No Excuse: Despite the earlier trope, Goh points out that does not give her any right to blame him for their friendship failing when Chloe had just as much of a role as he did with her choosing to keep her problems to herself.
• Friendless Background: Chloe has no friends to speak of prior to entering the Train, as Goh is (seemingly) too busy with Ash and his endless chase for Mew to notice her struggles. Parker tells Goh that on her last birthday, no one at school bothered to show up at her house (and Chloe herself admits that she didn't invite him because she thought that he wouldn't be interested). Even then, outside of the Red Lotus Uprising, the denizens of the Infinity Train aren't so much "friends" as they're "blindly obedient sycophants who worship the ground she walks on". Thankfully, she starts repairing bonds with Ash and Goh and starts opening up with Victor and Gloria.
• Full-Name Basis: After she escapes her suicide attempt, Buné respectfully addresses her by her full name in the Harvest Moon Car rather than "Chloe of the Vermillion" to symbolize how Chloe wishes to become her true self.
• Fury-Fueled Foolishness: Carried over from her original trilogy self. The biggest example has to be when she finds out Sara has the power of the Unown, in which she gets so enraged at it that she not only rebuffs Professor Sycamore's attempt to console her, but scolds him hard enough to send him past the Despair Event Horizon. She heavily regrets this and spends most of the time after living in an extreme mode of guilt afterwards.
• Gamer Chick: Aside from wanting to play Silent Hill, she names a Mirage Houndoom who becomes fond of her "Hewie" from Haunting Ground. She also is apparently aware of No More Heroes given her insult to Henry Townsend which gets confirmed during the Cyan Desert Arc as Renji let her play all four games while remarking that Sara is Bad Girl and her quotes to her are similar to Travis chewing out FU in No More Heroes III.
• Gave Up Too Soon: As revealed in a later chapter, her Freudian Excuse that is the professor promised to take her to softball camp one time, but a last-minute conference came up and he had to cancel those plans. Despite arguing for alternatives, honoring her promise to behave for a week, and being reassured she could just try again in the future, she gave up on him altogether when Sara cruelly told her that his refusal to keep his end of the bargain was proof that Professor Cerise never loved her.
• Gemstone Motifs: Her Heather Mason outfit in Harvest Moon Car swaps the orange sweatbands for red coral bracelets. Red coral is used for mental clarity, helping to build courage in someone. Chloe needs the courage to accept herself, flaws and all, and learn on being the kind and gentle girl she always was. Additionally, red coral is also said to boost someone's self-esteem, something she sorely needs at this point.
• Girls Love Chocolate: The minute she learns she's in the Chocolate Car, she basically races to the entrance to see what's in store. Her favorite ice cream flavor is mint chocolate chip.
• Girly Bruiser: She has a thing for designing clothes off of demons, is a dog lover, is a romantic when it comes to true love, and has a sweet tooth. She's also the fearless leader of the Red Lotus Uprising who will knock you across the head with a heavy pipe/donut holer and is not afraid of getting dirty if need be.
• Girly Girl with a Tomboy Streak: She likes to wear dresses, has a fondness for chocolate, turns red upon learning Ryan and Min-Gi got married, adores cute things, and is in the know of what is Pokémon's equivalent of BTS. She's also willing to get into a brawl with a pipe, has a love of demons and nightmarish things, likes horror games, and her final outfit for Act 1 involves a top hat and suit jacket.
• Gosh Darn It to Heck!: Like in Blossoming Trail, she calls Henry Townshend "Mr. Sir Henry Mother-of-Furfur" instead of the more famous profanity-laden version of "Mr. Sir Henry Motherfucker". Averted in her fight against Sara where she gets really liberal with the swear words.
• Goths Have It Hard: Downplayed. Chloe does have a lot of mental issues to deal with, including suicidal thoughts and heaping amounts of anxiety and identity issues, but she's not a Goth because of it. Despite her love of demons and some of her outfits having a lot of black, she likes demons because they're interesting and her use of black is more to express herself.
• Grass is Greener: Chloe always thought Ash and Goh (and Pokémon trainers in general) have it better because they're neither judged nor considered weird by others, nor are they given high expectations solely due to their parents' jobs. It takes a while for her to understand just because Ash and Goh aren't constantly harassed by bullies doesn't mean they don't have their own problems; Goh has to deal with his own lacking social skills after all, though her actions ensured that his problems became a lot worse, and she is frankly the reason Ash had any problems at all.
• Grew a Spine: Thanks to Augustine's support, Chloe becomes able to stand up for herself and accept who she is. This comes to a test when Anubis gets angry at how she's into demons and she tells the Lord of Judgment to just stuff it. She also tells Aligheri when he goads her for a fight that she will not fight him to prove her worth, finding it utterly ridiculous at this point.
• Grin of Audacity: She sports when in the Ninjala Car when she tells Dr. Yung that his attempts in making a new and improved Mirage System and trying to shut her up will fail. All while Mirage Mewtwo is telekinetically slamming her face against a window. Repeatedly.
• Guile Heroine: As she's about to face death by spiky crystal baseball bat by Sara and an Unown copy of her father is strangling the life out of her, Chloe convinces Sara she should personally kill her and no one else since the bully has, up to this point, never gotten her hands dirty to get what she wants. Sara agrees with this statement, despite the Unown Cerise noticing this is actually a trap. Too late, Sara takes it and Asher (disguising himself as UnSycamore) swaps places with Chloe.
• Guilt Complex: Cyan Desert Car and onwards to Act 2 has her fall into this state, thinking everything that happened to her is completely her fault and she doesn't deserve forgiveness, but rather to be hurt and perhaps killed just for a sliver of redemption. Tres helps her to get out of this mindset before she becomes a victim and become unable to move on, culminating with her wanting to commit suicide when it gets too much for her, and both Goh and Buné helping her to let her forgive herself and to feel her grief.
• Halloween Costume Characterization: "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that she dressed up as Daemona Prune for Halloween when she was 9. Daemona is a girl with green eyes and red hair who has a huge love of chasing supernatural entities, which can accurately describe Chloe herself. Moreover, one of Daemona's friend, Casey, happens to be a shapeshifter and there are plenty of Ship Tease between them...which accurately reflects the bond she has with Lexi, the shapeshifting book.
• Hair-Trigger Temper: Thanks to Chloe's many issues, she's known to blow her stack at the drop of a hat, usually over very trivial things.
• Hanlon's Razor: Chloe initially has no concept of people making honest mistakes or being Innocently Insensitive, treating even minor slights against her as personal attacks, and believing everyone is always out to get her.
• Happily Failed Suicide: Chloe's suicide attempt doesn't work thanks to Goh and Buné, but she's relieved after she's allowed to realize what her problem was and the dragon Goetia helps her become vulnerable in her own skin and to start forgiving herself.
• Hated by All: Subverted. Chloe, jumping the gun yet again, assumed everybody back in Vermillion City hated her guts. However, it's later made clear only her classmates hate her, and this was only after Sara manipulated them.
  • Goh's Pokemon despise her so much that they're lining up to take turns assaulting her when she returns. Chloe initially snarks over it once she finds out, but ultimately accepts that she deserves it for how she treated Goh and agrees to let them beat her up under his supervision.
• Hates Being Alone: As stated above under Attention Whore, Chloe absolutely cannot stand being ignored and feels the only way she can get people to notice her is to do crazy, often dangerous things. The Train gives her the freedom to be noticed by denizens who won't be so quick to judge her if she makes a mistake and allow her the chance to breathe and make a new identity for herself.
• Heal the Cutie: Act 2 is focused on this; in order for her to truly grow, she must learn to forgive others for their mistakes, admit the fault she played in causing her Self-Inflicted Hell, and to empathize with others.
• The Heart: While she's initially seen as the leader of the Red Lotus Uprising, Harvest Moon Car actually reveals this is her true role. Atticus, Lexi, and Amelia would never have joined on their quests without her, especially since Atticus and Lexi have justified beef with Amelia for being responsible — directly or otherwise — for their traumas. Amelia herself only joins the group because Chloe is the only passenger who has ever stood up to her defense instead of pushing her away or told her she is at fault for everything going wrong. Hewie wouldn't even be a part of the Uprising, let alone have a name, if Chloe hadn't befriended him or saved him and the other Mirage Pokemon from Yung's control. It's her kindness and empathy for them that keeps everyone together and all of them care for her well-being, enough for them all to tell Alighieri to shut up when he tells them to ditch her and save themselves.
• Heart Is an Awesome Power:
  • A literal example of heart being a strength. Barring Chloe's cloak and amulet, the things Ash likes about her is how she's "nice to Yamper," and in the orienteering event hosted by the Cerise Institute, she was the one keeping focus and getting people out of trouble. Chloe is dismissive of these traits because it's not like anyone actually notices them over Ash's battling skills and reputation as the Alola League Champion, Goh's dream for Mew and ability to capture so many Pokemon at once, and her father's research of human-Pokémon. But in Act 2, Goh finally admits Chloe's kindness and concern for him are, in fact, her best traits. If it wasn't for Chloe watching out for him, Goh probably would've had it worse off/be dead because it's shown that without someone keeping an eye on him, he'll end up recklessly endangering himself (like the time he drowned chasing a Vivillon because he refused to listen to Chloe warning him to step back) Not to mention that being kind is how she gained practically every single member of the Red Lotus Uprising except Atticus. Taking a blow of hot water for Lexi, standing up for Amelia when Henry and Walter mock her, and taking the courage to befriend Hewie.
  • In her world, being a creative soul who likes macabre things and art only gets her negative responses because it doesn't involve Pokémon. It turns out those traits have purpose on the Train. Her open mind to the more fantastical things means she is able to integrate much faster into the weirdness the Train offers than those more close-minded and into logic like Augustine, Amelia, or Specter, which earns her lots of fans for being curious to know the Denizens better.
• Heart Symbol: Buné's tattoo for her is a crimson butterfly inside a heart.
• Heroes Love Dogs: Aside from having a Yamper (later Boltund) back at home, her first partner on the Train is Atticus, a talking corgi, and she gets a Mirage Pokémon partner in Hewie, a Houndoom.
• Heroic Lineage: Averted. Despite sharing many traits with a previous passenger named Alec Cerise — having red hair with flower highlights and green eyes, same surname, love of nightmares and mint chocolate desserts, prolific at writing, possessing a title with "Demon" it, and having a power associated with light/flames — Chloe is not related to him.
• Her Own Worst Enemy: Ultimately, the source of all of Chloe's grief is her own inability to understand others: She couldn't accept that her father had responsibilities to his family and to himself, didn't consider that constantly pestering her schoolmates with horror wouldn't endear them to it, was too stubborn to give people like Ash, Hannah and Daiki a chance to befriend her, her lack of concern for Goh's wellbeing and safety during and after the ghost hunt led to his parents trying keep them from seeing each other, and her refusal to take responsibility for her actions make it hard for her to keep what positive relationships she does have. It takes Goh telling her she's acting like Sara before she finally gets the message.
• Hidden Depths:
  • She makes an offhanded remark on how she's into a boy band she calls "Berry boy scouts" even though they have constant debates about whether or not mint chocolate ice cream should exist. (Truth in Television, BTS does debate about mint choco ice cream).
  • "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that her favorite type of food are pasta dishes, and she knows the definition of Chiaroscuro .
• Holier Than Thou: Throughout Act 1, Chloe has deluded herself into believing she's the victim of Vermillion City's assault and neglect, and thus tends to hold herself to have the moral high ground whenever it gets brought up, even after multiple chapters later prove the situation wasn't as black and white as she thought it was. By the end of the Palimpsest Car, she sees how much damage this can cause due to how Casimira acted, and begins to work on herself.
• Honor Before Reason: When she isn't being selfish or vindictive, Chloe at least tries to do the right thing, but her attempts often backfire on her because she doesn't consider other options that would save her the trouble.
• Honor Thy Abuser: Subverted; she doesn't easily forgive either her classmates or Sara for all of the scars they inflicted on her, but she decides to just move forward and give her classmates a second chance to be better and hope Sara can crawl her way out of the pit she dug for herself.
• Hope Crusher: Unintentionally acts as this to Professor Sycamore, with her verbal lashout against him during near the end of the Cyan Desert Car causing Sycamore to lose all hope and nearly destroy or restart the world out of a feeling he can't do anything right with the current state of things.
• Horrible Judge of Character:
  • Because of how her classmates treat her, she assumes those who like Pokémon (Ash) are gods to be worshipped and those who are aren't are to be thrown out like trash.
  • Due to a bad experience of her father being unable to let her go to softball camp, she thought of her father's reassurance as "My dad loves Pokémon and always love them more than me" rather than him reassuring her that she could just try again another time. This caused her to close herself off from Pokémon and anyone involved in them.
  • Chloe's idea of Goh is "so obsessed with Pokémon that it's like I don't even exist". While she's not wrong to say Goh does have problems with getting his priorities straight, she makes the mistake of assuming he wouldn't care if she killed herself. Upon telling Goh her detailed suicide plot, which involves him hanging up on her when she's about to take the drop, and him screaming at her that he'd have instantly gone back to save her, Chloe immediately takes it back and apologizes for thinking so lowly of him.
• How Do I Shot Web?: Zigzagged; while she's capable of casting fire well with her Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet, the transformation into Marchosias is something she doesn't know how to fix. When she meets Anubis in the Cyan Desert Car, he explains she'll have to ask Wepwawet himself — the little brother of Anubis — as he's the one who created the cloak in the first place. Turns out Wepwawet has no idea either — as Chloe is the first person to ever use the cloak — but assumes the overload of turning the Mirage Army into denizens netted her with enough EXP for it to evolve and change.
• Hourglass Plot:
  • When they first met in Act 1, Chloe didn't trust Professor Sycamore, and the latter did his hardest to earn her trust. Come Act 2, now it's Sycamore who no longer trusts or likes Chloe after she callously broke him in order to achieve catharsis for Sara's bullshit and now it's her turn to try and get his trust back.
  • Chloe saved Goh from drowning after he refused to listen to her warnings. Later, he vows to save Chloe from committing suicide after he finally listens to her.
  • Chloe always gave Goh his homework, to which he showed little appreciation for. In Harvest Moon Car, Goh vows to gather her homework for her, but this time Chloe is too much of a suicidal wreck to even care about them.
• Huge Guy, Tiny Girl: A platonic example but she's the tiny girl to Augustine. It varies when it comes to Lexi; his human form is based off a teenager, but his real form as a book is tiny compared to Chloe. And then there's also Specter, whom he towers over.
• Hypocrite: Much like her BT counterpart, Chloe doesn't always practice what she preaches. The most prominent example being Chloe blaming Goh (and only Goh) for their friendship suffering and for not trying harder to keep it afloat despite herself having as much of a role in it going awry as he did.
• Hypocrite Has a Point: While she is undoubtedly unapologetic, she has a right to be mad at others who are equally as unapologetic as she is.

I-M

• Identity Breakdown: Act 2 has Chloe start questioning who she really is and what "Chloe of the Vermillion" means to her. However, the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona hasn't helped her with issues, but worsened them as the denizens feed her ego by calling her a goddess. It takes Goh and Buné to help reveal that Chloe Cerise is a good person deep down, and she never had to go to such extremes to make people see the real her.
• Ignored Epiphany: In the Harvest Moon Car, Atticus admits to Yuri there were a few times that he saw how Chloe's enthusiasm for what awaited in a future car was exactly like Ash and Goh wanting to look for Pokémon, but she never made the connection (or rather, refused to) due to it involving such.
• I Hate Past Me:
  • She really hates looking at the texts she gave Goh during the Cyan Desert Car trip, realizing she was being nasty for no good reason. She also regrets how she rejected her father and Ash when they were honestly trying to help her.
  • The reason she becomes Chloe of the Vermillion is because it gave her a chance to be a better, stronger, more lovable Chloe who will never have to worry about being hurt again, never be ignored by anyone once they learn of her feats, or blowing up at other people because she didn't properly address her feelings. She also admits to Goh that she became Chloe of the Vermillion because she despised being the girl whom she thought Goh (seemingly) never cared about.
• I Just Want to Be Free: Chloe wants to no longer feel shackled to the Cerise Institute, but her refusal to open up about her issues or look for other alternatives had left her unable to do so until the Train arrived.
• I Just Want to Be Loved: Played for Drama. Chloe wants to feel loved for who she is and not solely because she's connected to a Pokémon Professor, but her insistence on being loved only on her terms, refusal to open up about her issues and abrasive response to perceived mockery causes her to come across as unapproachable to the general person, which only feeds her loneliness.
• I Just Want to Be Special: Deconstructed. By the time the story starts, Chloe's so desperate to distance herself from her former ignored and weak self that she willingly adopts the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona in hopes she'll get the attention and adoration she craves, particularly the one where Goh finally sees her as his equal instead of some afterthought who gives him homework he hates. Unfortunately, her determination to cling onto her fantasy causes her to drive away people back at home, while only accepting mindless sycophants who don't even see her as a person, just a symbol to be admired. She later grows out of this phase to return to herself after Goh finally tells her that she is special as she is and she can learn to love herself.
• I Just Want to Be You: After getting verbally torn apart by Goh in Harvest Moon Car for her nasty attitude and lack of concern for other people, Chloe breaks down and tearfully admits that her real, true motive for becoming Chloe of the Vermillion and acting the way she did during their Ghost-hunt was because she wanted to be the "perfect best friend" she thought Goh wanted and began acting more like him in the hopes that he'd acknowledge her as a true friend regardless if she's not into Pokemon like he is.
• I'm Not Afraid of You: At the climax of the Mirage Army battle in the Ninjala Car, Chloe decides she's no longer going to be afraid of the bullies in her life and stands her ground before unleashing the true power of her Cloak.
• Important Haircut: She cuts her hair while in the Fashion Runway Car so she can Screw Destiny as BROKEN Matt stated Lady Destiny was a maiden in a white dress and long flowing red hair.
• Informed Kindness: A lot of people comment on Chloe's kind and forgiving nature, and state it was her heart which led to her becoming one of the Train's greatest heroes. However, upon actually reading her exploits, she appears to be very selective with her kindness, to say the least. Initially, she's kind only to the people she meets on the Train because they coddle her and stroke her ego, while treating all the non-Train citizens like bad guys for supposedly ruining her life. Fortunately, as Act 2 goes on, she starts becoming more aware of her flaws and begins making an honest effort to be truly kind to everyone around her.
• Ineffectual Death Threats: Chloe regularly threatens to kill those who offend her in any way, but never follows through on her threats.
• Ineffectual Loner: Back before the Infinity Train came along, Chloe was generally left by her lonesome, and she wasn't capable of making any friends due to both them not sharing the same interests at her, and her own intense temper and Lack of Empathy making it hard for people to find her approachable.
• In Name Only: Fits this even moreso than her original trilogy self; at least in that Chloe's case, she was written back when the canon Chloe didn't have much of an established personality nor significant focus put on her^ExplanationBlossoming Trail was written prior to Episode 29, Chloe's second focus episode, meaning the interpretation given to her, while not flattering, was at least somewhat possible. This Chloe doesn't have that excuse, having been written long after the canon Chloe got an established personality, making both Chloes come across as radically different characters.
• Insane Troll Logic: Chloe pretty much spends most of Act 1 operating on this trope.
  • She believes people hate her simply because they tell her No or don't give her what she wants.
  • Chloe got it in her head that Goh is sexist just because two of his closest friends are boys.
• In-Series Nickname: As symbolism to represent Chloe wanting to be a different person, she's given nicknames on and off the Train. Asher likes to call her "Miss Vermillion" or "Little Witch" while Yuri and Vaillant call her "Miss Witch" and "Demon Lord". Opal in Rey Mysterio versus the Cosmos calls her "Crimson Servant of Xolotl". Augustine and Simon have both called her "Chloe Red Riding Hood". Marchosias and Wepwawet call her "Fire pup". Meanwhile, Sara and her classmates just default to the "Monster Lover" or "Creepy Cerise" and Grace mockingly calls her "Princess".
• Insistent Terminology: Chloe likes to refer her situation at the Institute as her being "caged", because she's (allegedly) not allowed to go out and do things she loves. It's later revealed her father would've been willing to let her go if she just asked, and the one time she did, he actually was willing to let her go to to softball camp, but due to circumstances beyond his control, he had to take it back and she mistook his attempt at reassurance (that she could just try again some other time) as him never caring about her needs.
• In-Universe Catharsis: Deconstructed. Chloe initially lashed out at others because she had no other means of catharsis at all due to her inability to express herself or others not even being aware of what she would want catharsis for in the first place. And even with said catharsis, she's not letting it go to focus on herself or said catharsis is actually abusive and harmful to those around her. It's only after she confronts her problems that she finds relief in a hug from Buné and crying out all of the hurt and grief she feels over her mistakes and everything else going wrong, because the catharsis helps heal her from within, compared to the toxic, corrosive, violent catharsis that's hurting others.
• Invincible Hero: At least through the first part of Act 1 on the train, Chloe never really loses a fight outside her being captured once or twice. She and Lexi demolish the competition in the Ninjala Car, she beats Dr. Yung pretty easily after converting his entire Mirage army to her side, and her final battle with Sara and the Unown is a Curb-Stomp Battle in her favor, as Sara never gets an actual good hit on Chloe, while the redhead in turn is barely even trying the whole time, mostly dealing with her donut holer to block blows and used her fire powers just once. This gets a bit lessened as the act reaches an end and Chloe's revealed to be quite brittle mentally, and there's the whole fact she lost to Ash pre-train, but the fact remains that once on the train, Chloe rarely loses.
• Irony:
  • Chloe refused to talk to her father about what was going on with her after he failed to keep a promise to her in regards to softball camp. By the time he gets on the Train, Chloe is nothing but desperate to get something from him and he's refusing to talk to her.
  • Gloria compared Chloe to an abuse victim when it's pretty clear her behavior is akin to that of an abuser. In-fact, as revealed in the prequel story, she outright wanted to murder him.
  • Chloe tried to be exactly like the extroverted Pokemon-loving friend she thought Goh wanted because he never cared for a single thing she did and shut her away when she tried to get close...when all this time he liked her as she already was in being kind, quiet, and concerned for him but was incapable of noticing any of this due to his own issues and lack of help. Moreover, while Tokio was the catalyst for Goh refusing to make friends, he actually tried searching for her for three days.
  • She made a big deal when Goh didn't show enough appreciation for her bringing him his homework. By the time he finally decides to do the same for her, she's too broken and suicidal to care for something so minor.
• It Only Works Once: Both of the artifacts she carries work out this way:
  • She can only enter the soul of a person once through the Cloak of Marchosias. She tries to break this rule in order to help Sycamore regain his sanity after her horrible words to him break him in the Cyan Desert Car, but Wepwawet rebuffs her repeatedly.
  • The Halo of Valac allows her to summon any demon she wants, but only for one task. Actually, as Anubis reveals, she can only call upon a demon's soul to host someone and then they do the task before returning.
• It's All About Me: Chloe only wants to be friends with those who think the same as her and do things that she likes to do. Anybody who doesn't share her interests is viewed as an enemy to be taken down. After she reaches this epiphany while chewing out Casimira in Palimpsest Car, and being compared to Sara by Goh in Harvest Moon Car, she learns to work on being more humble.
• It's All My Fault:
  • After Goh chews her out for not saying what was wrong with her, constantly refusing his and Ash's offerings to hang out, and putting the blame on him for their friendship going south, she breaks down and believes everything that happened is her fault because of who she is. It takes Goh to help reassure her that wasn't the case and he also should've paid more attention to what was going on instead of fully believing their classmates in nothing was wrong, and he should've elaborated on what he was trying to say when he shouted she lacked a dream or why he recorded her battle with Ash.
  • After she goes through her Freak Out and snaps at Augustine that there is no way she can be hopeful after seeing what Sara unleashed, which culminates in his black/white view of the world shattering and he ends up becoming cynical in order to be saved, she asks if this is all her fault. Everyone reassures her that it's not, as it's more a combination of what Augustine has been hiding and Sara's machinations to drive her to despair. Unfortunately, as Prelude to Act 2 shows us, Augustine really hates her for causing his trauma which becomes more and more aggravated when the street-cleaners of the Palimpsest Car also agree with this sentiment as they take turns physically assaulting her.
• Jack of All Trades: Chloe's range of skills is varied and she does them all well enough, including being able to put people and denizens into snazzy Goetia-themed outfits, being really good at story-telling and writing, has an extensive knowledge of demons, plays softball better than a boy could, and can create stage shows on a whim.
• Jerkass Realization:
  • "Firefly Funhouse Car" has her realize that she doesn't want Goh to die by her hand, or die at all, solely because he was a less than ideal friend who (constantly) said the wrong thing.
  • Throughout the Cyan Desert Car and all the way to the Prelude of Act 2, Chloe becomes more and more aware of how insensitive she's been to everyone which culminates in her wanting to be better. The moment that cements she's really been taking things the wrong way is when Grace proclaims she's been caged by her Abusive Parents. This makes Chloe understand that, in comparison to Grace, she had plenty of opportunities do more and her parents and friends really did care about her and never meant to hurt her.
  • She gets another epiphany in the Palimpsest Car. After Casimira starts ranting about how she is the "savior" who did all she could to liberate Palimpsest from the xenophobia of the denizens, just after she and Chloe were nearly crushed to death by a runaway train by a depressed Augustine, and Chloe was being assaulted by street cleaners, the latter punches her and points out how Casimira is not recognizing how much damage she caused and is still acting spoiled, entitled, and ungrateful...before Chloe pauses and realizes she's no better than Casimira herself in some areas.
  • After Goh berates her for acting like Sara despite all the progress she's made, Chloe sadly admits it's the truth and apologizes to everyone she hurt with her actions, vowing to take any punishment awaiting her back home. She gets another one prior to that, with Goh tearfully screaming at her that he would've personally stopped her from killing herself, making her realize how badly she had misjudged him for so long.
• Karma Houdini:
  • Despite her verbal lashing at Professor Sycamore nearly causing the end of the world, she doesn't really face any consequences beyond a stern lecture from Auric. Even Sycamore, who has the right to at least be a bit angry at her, immediately forgives her for it. Although it's subverted as it's revealed he never forgave her in Act 2 Prelude.
  • There's also the paint can incident. After reaching her breaking point, Chloe retaliated by nearly beating Sara to death and then threatening to murder her classmates. However, neither she nor Sara faced any major consequences afterwards. Firefly Funhouse expands more on this, where it was revealed that Chloe got a three-day suspension, while Sara got a week.
• Karma Houdini Warranty: Despite treating Goh and virtually everyone back home like dirt simply for not acting like her personal mind readers, Chloe rarely faced any punishment for her behavior, more often than not getting praised for it instead. This gets subverted in Act 2, where people start to become less tolerant of her bitchiness, and Chloe herself learns to start accepting her faults.
• Karmic Jackpot: Safe to say outside Atticus, it is through her kindness and bravery she gets rewarded with her team and the trust of other denizens.
  • She takes a kettle of hot water for Lexi — who was about to attack his father for being oblivious at how he was buried alive for years — when she could've left the two to their squabbles. She gains Lexi's trust and loyalty for this, not to mention a very powerful denizen with power over papers.
  • She chooses to defend Amelia from Walter and Henry even after knowing everything that's going on with the Apex is all her fault. Amelia decides to fully throw her hat in the ring and support the Lotus Uprising, even stating Chloe was much better than Gladion and White Gestalt ever was to her.
  • By refusing Dr. Yung's offer to get a Mirage Pokémon, not only does she prove herself as a hero by letting go of this temptation but she ends up freeing the Mirage mons themselves to turn against their abusive master. She also obtains her own Mirage Pokémon anyhow in Hewie, who is completely loyal to her because she refused Yung's offer.
• Karmic Misfire: The whole incident with the train in the Palimpsest Car came about as a result of both Sycamore going out of control, and Amelia's 30+ year neglect of the Infinity Train. However, while the two aren't punished by the denizens below, the denizens decide to punish Chloe instead, since she technically is the one who caused Sycamore to go off the rails in the first place.
• Karmic Nod: One of the biggest signs that she's learning to grow up is how she accepts a punishment from Goh's Pokémon to have them all line up and beat the snot out of her, (albeit initially snarking about it) admitting that she has no excuse for how she's mistreated others.
• Kid Hero: She's only ten and she's the heroic leader of the Red Lotus Trio/Uprising.
• Lack of Empathy: This turns out to be one of Chloe's biggest flaws. She gets so wrapped up in her own feelings and problems, that she never makes an effort to try to understand other people and their problems.
• Laser-Guided Karma: Professor Sycamore spends a long time in Act 1 focusing on helping her to get back home, and she ends up repaying him by using him as an emotional stress relief toy after Sara decides to call and mock her with the Unown. As a result of this, the professor ends up hating her.
• The Leader: The leader of the Red Lotus Trio/Uprising, much to Sycamore's shock. She's not afraid to confront villains or speak her ground (Headstrong) and she is a beloved idol on the Infinity Train because of her going up against the Apex and later dismantling the Cage of Flauros (Charismatic). By Act 2, she steps down so she can clear her head and work on herself, leaving Atticus and Amelia to share leadership duties.
• Leitmotif: "Running with the Wolves" from Wolfwalkers plays when she decides to unleash her Last Stand in the Ninjala Car. Meanwhile, she's first introduced to Augustine with "This Fire" by Franz Ferdinand.
• Lightning/Fire Juxtaposition: She's the Fire to Easter/Specter's Lightning during the Cyan Desert Car. She wields the Cloak of Marchosias, and a Halo which has the powers of Hestia (goddess of the hearth) and is a hot-blooded Fiery Redhead. Specter is fused to a lightning bolt and is calm, sometimes stoic and good at reading minds.
• Little Miss Badass: She dominated most of the matches in the Ninjala Car and many denizens are fearing for Augustine's life if he has to fight her. The Windchasers also see her in other adventures like fighting an Erlking, clashing against an Angel of Death-though he beat her-and beating up Temple Guards. And it's she who fights off an Unown-powered Sara and never gets hit by her.
• Locked Out of the Loop:
  • For all Goh is this trope, Chloe herself was this as well. She never knew about Tokio or what happened in Ilex Forest for three years because Goh ordered her to not bring it up, so she only saw Goh as someone who became a withdrawn, Pokémon-obsessed boy whom she thought just stopped caring about her. She also didn't know about Goh's parents driving a wedge between her and Goh for years and how they lied about all the messages she tried to send him on wanting to have fun together.
  • She didn't know the Windchasers talked to Walter prior to them meeting up with the Red Lotus Trio, and thus she had no idea Alain was trapped in there...just after she, Atticus and Lexi agreed to create the Cage of Flauros to seal the Apex.
• Love Martyr: Platonic love. Chloe does all she can for Goh to get his attention, but he never notices because of his own personal problems preventing him from seeing her gestures, and refused to talk about his own issues. Instead, he demanded that Chloe never ask him about his problems ever again and she complied. It takes both her confessing to how she wanted to be like him to fully get his friendship and Goh profusely apologizing for how he treated her for her to let go of this mindset.
• Lunacy: Fitting for someone based on a character who can turn into a werewolf. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a notebook of hers depicted with the cover of a swarm of Vivillon surrounded by a full moon, Bune's tattoo for her has a crescent moon next to a butterfly in a heart, and the arc that is focused on her forgiving herself and starting anew is the Harvest Moon Car.
• Made of Iron: She's been telekinetically slammed into a high-story window and thrown out of it, strangled at least three times, had her father drag her across the floor of the Cerise Institute, tackled out of the sky by a gryphon-dragon, and pummeled by a bunch of street cleaners — all of this despite being ten and some of the injuries are inflicted back-to-back without rest. Yet at no point has she shown any signs of broken bones or internal bleeding, and her cloak doesn't even have healing properties.
• Magical Girl Warrior: Chloe ticks a lot of boxes for a magical girl, minus the Transformation Sequence. She doesn't get a special uniform, outside her Cloak of Marchosias, and her main weapon is a rusty old pipe that is powerful because she's a softball enthusiast. She also is learning to become her own person through the trials of the Infinity Train. The Ninjala Car's Mirage Army event has her at her magical girl best when she taps into the true power of the cloak to convert every single member of Yung's army into full-blown denizens.
• Mentor's New Hope: She was supposed to be this to Sycamore, acting like a second apprentice that would allow the professor to feel like he can actually do something right after the failure that was Alain. Unfortunately, her verbal lashing at him near the end of the Cyan Desert Car instead turns her into a Hope Crusher for him, acting as the impetus that nearly causes the poor professor to either destroy or Restart the World.
• Messy Hair: Just like in the anime, her hair is known to be messy if it's not properly cared for. Since she doesn't have her hair scrunchie — it got blown away when the Infinity Train arrived — she's stuck with it up until her Important Haircut. It's seen as a source of mockery from her classmates, and she lampshades in the Firefly Funhouse Car that Train doesn't have a shampoo to keep it under control.
• Minor Insult Meltdown: Come the Harvest Moon Car, getting called "annoying" is enough to send her into a near-suicidal downspiral. Thankfully, she gets better.
• Mirror Character: To Aoi Zaisen. Their alias are different — Aoi goes by Blue Angel/Girl/Maiden, Chloe goes by Chloe/Demon Lord of the Vermillion — and they are also withdrawn females with a male in their lives who can be overprotective but well-meaning. Aoi is characterized with fairies (her Trickstars are Fairy-type monsters) while Chloe has a love of demons. While Aoi has a closeness to Yusaku in a Ship Tease way, Chloe sees Augustine as a teacher (bonus points as both Yusaku and Augustine are voiced by the same person in the dub). And when it comes to Specter, Aoi does not have good memories of him while Chloe sees him more in a neutral light (as she doesn't know him personally).
• Misplaced Retribution:
  • Sara is the cause of all her misery at school, yet Chloe seems to have no interest in going after her. Instead, she lashes out at those closest to her, which include Goh, Ash, her father, and even Professor Sycamore.
  • She ends up on the receiving end of this in Palimpsest Car, where she gets attacked and beaten up by street cleaners for derailing the Third Rail, which was Augustine's, and by extension Amelia's, fault.
• Missing Child: She's one of these by the time Seeker of Crocus starts, two months after her initial disappearance, and is nicknamed "Gone Girl" of Vermillion City. Not like she notices, or cares, given everything Vermillion City gave her up to that point...well, until her mother reveals what's going on.
• Missing White Woman Syndrome: Chloe going missing still brings a lot of attention to it, but people quickly find other things to worry about, alongside Professor Sycamore promising to keep her safe giving them a slight sense of relief. However, the narrative still points to her whenever people pay attention to something else, like when the Alolan students ask Professor Sycamore if he's okay when they meet him at the Alolan conference before Goh calls them out for just casually ignoring Chloe.
• Mistakes Are Not the End of the World: Due to her melodramatic tendencies, the constant bullying having destroyed most of her self-esteem and self-worth, and no mentors or friends to help her bounce back from a loss, Chloe tends to view any perceived mistake on her part, big or small, as being something she can never move on from, with her disastrous battle with Ash being a prime example. It takes several people sympathizing with her and a couple reality checks over the complexity of the situation before she realizes that just because she made one mistake it doesn't mean her social life is over. Buné helps her by telling her to focus more on the progress she made, not perfection, in that she's learning to move forward and she shouldn't compare her accomplishments to others.
• Mons as Characterization:
  • She's a girl that looks surly and aloof at first glance, and is known to have macabre interests, but is really a kind-hearted girl if someone shows concern for her, along with having a tendency for fire and the color red. Hewie the Houndoom has a reputation as the Dark Pokémon who looks like he guards the gates of Tartarus but actually is very sweet and friendly and completely loyal to Chloe.
  • As she tells Parker when she sees Snom, they're lonely and trying to find somewhere to go, reflecting Chloe feeling alone and desperately trying to find a dream of her own. Moreover, just like how Snom is an Ice-type, Chloe is known to be cold and aloof to others. Snom are known to eat a lot, and Chloe has quite an appetite.
• Morality Chain: On the Train, she's the reason neither Lexi nor Amelia have gone off the handle or fallen into despair. Lexi would have justified reasons to end the lives of the Apex for what their leaders did to him, and Amelia was ready to call it quits when the Silent Hill Trio blames her for the Train's troubles. Chloe's willingness to take a hot water kettle for the former, and her courage to stand up for the latter is what convinces them to stay and work on themselves with Amelia ultimately refusing to stay in Palimspest and shutting Alighieri up solely because Chloe has given her more kindness than anyone else has. Atticus is unwilling to team up with the woman who shot him in the face, but lets it go because Chloe wants to give Amelia another chance and because the Apex targeted the Unfinished Car (now called Turtles University Car) and King Aloysius was hurt.
• More Deadly Than the Male: When it comes to the three "leads" of the heroes — she, Augustine/Asher and Specter/Easter — she's easily the most battle ready and dangerous. Case in point: the penultimate chapter of The Cyan Desert Car has her fight her bully Sara who is empowered by the Unown at this point, she's the one who goes to town with punches, kicks and lots and lots of screaming and cursing ala a wrestling promo while a powerful shadow and sadistic cyber terrorist would rather watch in the sidelines in terror than aid her. It also says something how she is the dangerous one of Red Lotus Uprising compared to Lexi who can drown an opponent with a tsunami of razor sharp papers.
• Motifs:
  • Cages, both the physical and metaphorical. Chloe always felt like she was caged at the Cerise Institute because she felt like she wasn't allowed to do whatever she wanted and Gloria makes the analogy of her was like a Pidove with an injured wing. She's currently stuck in the Gilded Cage that is the Infinity Train and has to work through the anger and emotional trauma that's keeping her from ever being free. Fittingly, she's based on Robin Goodfellowe from WolfWalkers who shouted at her father about how his attempts in preventing her from being caged in the stifling society they live in is nothing but a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy — she's already in a cage. And, last but not least, she's part of the ritual known as the Cage of Flauros.
  • Falling. "Firefly Funhouse Car" has a nightmare of her falling into a pit when chasing after Goh, she gets thrown out of the window of a high-story building in Ninjala Car by Mirage Mewtwo, is kicked out of the sky by Aligheri in Harvest Moon Car, and her choice of suicide is jumping off a rooftop. Falling usually means helplessness, lost of control, and anxiety — things that fit Chloe's mental state to the letter.
• Motive Decay:
  • Chloe claims that she originally created the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona in order to become what she thought Goh wanted in his perfect friend, and also to ensure she was strong enough to fight back against bullies back home. By the time she's first seen in Seeker of Crocus, however, she's simply using the persona as an excuse to hurt people for their supposed mistakes, all while refusing to acknowledge her part in the misunderstandings.
  • Even the story as a whole could be seen as this. In the original trilogy, Chloe's reason for running away was at least somewhat understandable (feeling unloved and unwanted in a world she believed hated her for her dislike of Pokemon). In Crocus, she ran away just because she was tired of Goh not paying attention to her or being appreciative of her doing things for him.
• Ms. Vice Girl: She shows signs of envy over seeing how Ash and Goh (in her eyes) always get everything they want, like the freedom to travel, and her most signature sin is wrath due to generally reacting to any slight against her with a temper tantrum at best, and a violent rampage at worst. But that does not mean she is evil or bad at all and is capable of realizing she's made mistakes when called out on it. It just takes her a long time to make her confront her issues.
• My God, You Are Serious!: Chloe has severe trust issues with people because of how she has been ignored or bullied for so long, so this trope is the only way she can start putting faith in people again.
  • After hearing everything that got Chloe on the train in the first place, Augustine vows he will stick by her side to stop the Apex and help her develop into a mature girl. And if he fails, he will literally swallow a thousand needles. The fact he's stating this without hesitation and with full seriousness, and that he was the first adult she's met who actually made a promise with her in such a long time, is what makes Chloe finally start trusting an adult after so long.
  • Chloe genuinely believes Goh doesn't care about her, stating that on the day of her suicide, she would try to call him one last time...only for him to hang up on her because he's "too busy" with his job as a research fellow and hanging out with Ash to come back. The real Goh interrupts Chloe detailing her jump off the school rooftop by stating he would demand that Ash take him back to Vermillion and stop her from doing such a thing, asking Chloe point-blank if she really thought he was that horrible to her. This is what ultimately makes Chloe see Goh is a good person and he always cared about her. And earlier in the Ninjala Car, she's shocked to learn that Goh searched for her for three days without break, along with her actually hearing Goh about to cry.
• Mythical Motif: Werewolves. Aside from being based off of the protagonists of Wolfwalkers, she's got a minor moon motif associated with lycanthropy and her cloak allows her to shapeshift/astral project into a werewolf if need be.
• Mythology Gag: Her Belial outfit — consisting of a black small top hat, suit jacket and skirt/slacks combo — looks either like a masculine version of UnChloe's attire of a Little Black Dress and Cool Crown or the black Alice Liddel inspired outfit of her Infinity Train: Boiling Point self, Koharu Sakuragi. Speaking of Boiling Point, when Chloe sees an image of Frosmoth from her brother — in relation to the Snom Goh caught for her — she exclaims Snom evolves into a "Specter Moth", which happens to be her Unified Butterfly/Peacock Miraculous alias.

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• Names To Run Away From Very Fast: Few people would want to get on the bad side of the girl who calls herself Demon Lord of the Vermillion.
• Nervous Tics: Throughout the Harvest Moon Car, she's shown scratching her neck, to the point this was probably how she would die if Goh didn't calm her down.
• Nervous Wreck: The situation of the Cyan Desert Car, nearly killed in Palimpsest Car (whether by runaway train or the street cleaners having fun beating her to a pulp), and Alighieri's physical and verbal assault leaves her with only a few threads left of sanity before she asks Buné to end her life. She only holds on thanks to the dragon Goetia and Goh's intervention of making her take a good look at herself and to confront how she has been holding so much grief in her heart before she can start again. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals she had shades of this as well, since she finds herself paralyzed over the idea of performing on live TV to be a death sentence.
• Never Be Hurt Again: Chloe's deepest wish is to be strong enough to avoid being afraid for her life and be loved for who she is and not for what she thinks others "expect" her to be. Part of her journey is to understand that it's okay to be vulnerable so that others understand what's wrong with her and can start healing, while also accepting that people do care about her, and their actions are more because they just didn't know better.
• Never My Fault: Just like her usual Blossomverse self, Chloe initially refuses to take responsibility for her actions and constantly looks for excuses to blame others when things don't go her way. She thankfully admits that she was wrong in the Harvest Moon Car after Goh forces her to confront her problems.
• Nightmare Fetishist: She loves horror which can range from a collection of kid horror shows, to researching demons to wanting to play Silent Hill. Apparently she's the only one in her class who is capable of playing CarnEvil with the Junior boss whereas Yuri and Sophocles can't even go through just Deaddy^note Deaddy was made to make the game less terrifying, by the way. It should be noted in "Firefly Funhouse Car" that she, Atticus and Lexi went through numerous horror cars, one of them simply called the Backrooms Car.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: According to Chloe, when they were younger, she pulled Goh out of a river before he drowned and risked her life getting him back to their camp, even braving a cave full of Pumpkaboo and Gourgeist for flowers that would reduce his fever. Kurune and Ikuo instead blamed her for nearly getting their son killed and caring more about her own interests than about her friend's health.
• "No. Just… No" Reaction: When Chloe cycles for Ars Goetia princes for Lexi to transform into, she reacts this way upon looking at Stolas.
• "No More Holding Back" Speech: After things hit the fan in the Cyan Desert Car, it takes a talk from Specter to tell her that her angsting about what's going on will not improve the situation in the slightest. This has her wipe the tears out of her eyes and have her get ready to go to war.
• No One Could Survive That!: In the Ninjala Car, she takes the attacks of numerous Mirage Pokémon point blank in a blatant kamikaze attack and lives because her Cloak absorbed everything.
• No Social Skills: Chloe's idea of trying to get her classmates to share her love of horror and demons was to constantly harass them over it. This instead gave Sara all she needed to turn them all against her by getting back at her with their constant talk about Pokémon.
• No Sympathy: One of Chloe's biggest flaws is that she gets so caught up in how much she's suffered that she never considers people have their own problems to deal with and lives outside of her own. It admittedly takes a while for her to learn and understand she's not the only person in the world who feels pain and suffering.
• Nonchalant Dodge: During her fight with Sara, she tilts her head so Sara's baseball bat destroys a large bookshelf in the Cerise Institute.
• Not Afraid of You Anymore:
  • She states this directly to Sara in the penultimate chapter of the Cyan Desert Car and even admits it was stupid to be afraid of her bully for so long.
  • After some therapy and guidance from Buné, she calmly tells Alighieri that the feather face doesn't frighten her anymore, and throws a fireball to his face.
• Not Helping Your Case:
  • Just like in Blossoming Trail, most of Chloe's own problems are caused by her refusal to open up to others. And even with the bullying aside, people generally tended to avoid her because of her violent temper and bad attitude.
  • In the ghost hunt flashback, telling Goh's worried parents that she was picking flowers instead of bringing Goh straight back their camp while she knew he was sick with a fever did her no favors, leading them to believe she deliberately endangered him.
• The Not-Love Interest: Ironically, for all it seems Goh paid so little attention to her when she was at the Institute, she's always on his mind if it's not about Ash or Mew or Tokio or Pokémon. He feels deep regrets for not doing more or noticing Chloe's efforts, and he ultimately confesses he didn't want lots of friends, rather only having Chloe as his friend because she was always there for him.
• Not Quite the Right Thing: Chloe tried to cheer Goh up at his birthday by giving him a homemade Mew magnet. It was a thoughtful gesture, but instead of addressing the real problem and trying to help Goh get over losing Tokio, she ended up enabling his obsession with Mew instead.
• "Not So Different" Remark: Part of Chloe's growth is to understand how she's similar to others around her.
  • In "The Firefly Funhouse Car", when Lexi goes on a rant on how the Apex are jerks to the nth degree, Chloe admits that his remarks accurately describe her.
  • She gets an epiphany on how she's just like all the other entitled women in her life after the disaster of the Palimpsest Car: Amelia, Grace, Sara, and Casimira are all broken in some way, but they refuse to confront their problems or talk about them and instead become selfish bitches who hurt others just to feel good about themselves, and they have to learn the lessons the very hard way. Goh even calls her and Sara sisters because of how similar they are.
  • Atticus tells Yuri that she's quite similar to Ash and Goh in some areas. Namely, she shared their enthusiasm for going on adventures, comparing her wanting to explore what's in the next car to how they like going on research expeditions, even if she didn't realize it at the time.
• Not So Similar: Casimira says the two of them are different in standing their grounds to change the status quo. Chloe points out her saving the mirage Pokémon was for their benefit, and Chloe didn't command others to do stuff for her that ended in a civil war. Moreover, Casimira doesn't accept she shouldn't have the higher ground even as her car is utterly wrecked and she nearly lost her life to a runaway train, whereas Chloe comes to the realization she's really acting entitled and it has to stop right now.
• Oblivious to Love: Platonic love, that is. Chloe is so obsessed with adoration from everyone so she can be her "true self" and escape her anxieties and low self-esteem issues that she doesn't see she truly is loved by her family and Goh just as she is, even if they had problems directly telling her this. Her parents never pressured her to do anything she hated even if they didn't understand what was really bugging her, and Goh and Ash always respected her wishes whenever she refused to go exploring with them.
• Once Done, Never Forgotten: A recurring trope with Chloe is that whatever mistake she makes, she thinks is ingrained in the minds of everyone who sees it, and she will never be able to move past them no matter what she does.
  • Zig-Zagged in regards to her battle with Ash. Chloe challenged him to a Pokemon match in the hopes it would get her bullying classmates off her back. She ends humiliating herself anyway by fighting an opponent way above her league. Ironically, the only ones who ever actually bring it up are Sara and Chloe herself.
  • Her outburst from the Cyan Desert Car, which led to Professor Sycamore going completely insane in grief, gives all the street-cleaners in Palimpsest a "justified" reason (outside hating passengers in general) to assault her and even try to kill her, and the professor to lose all the support he was willing to give her. However, Tres convinces Augustine to give Chloe a second chance.
  • The one about her OC is zigzagged. Apparently, it's so well known that everyone who's seen what he looks like will immediately turn to Specter and say they look very similar. She's not happy to have her mom even bring up her own sketch of him, but that's mostly due to how she's proclaiming it to Specter directly (who is more confused than anything else).
  • And of course, there's the whole debacle with her father. The professor promised to take her to softball camp, but when a last-minute conference popped up and he couldn't cancel it, she failed to convince him to take another option. Chloe used this incident to justify her resentment towards her father and refusing Ash's attempts to befriend her because she saw Pokémon and those who like them as more important than her until she realizes that she could've done more by talking to him.
• Only Friend: Deconstructed. Chloe was Goh's sole friend (outside of Tokio) prior to Ash entering their lives, always doing her best to keep him company through homework. The problem is how Goh was never appreciative of everything Chloe had done for him over the years, not even willing to open about his problems when she asked, due to him still holding resentment over Tokio's betrayal three years prior. And the one time he actually tried to motivate her, it felt more like an attack because she's not what she (thinks) he wants. This gets reconstructed in the Harvest Moon Car. After Goh finally lays some harsh truths into Chloe, he also admits he didn't want lots of friends, just her....because she always stayed with him even when he wasn't aware of it and he loved her kind and gentle side more, not the temperamental badass donut-hole wielder she assumed he wanted.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • If there's one way to describe Chloe's anger, it's "explosive". The way she reacts to her fight against Sara is eerily calm.
  • Chloe usually fights with her donut holer and doesn't lay out punches, so something is seriously upsetting her when she decks Casimira with a punch to the face.
  • Throughout Seeker of Crocus, Chloe never supported Goh and his dream to find Mew, nor ever said anything good about it. Her explicitly telling Goh how proud she is of him for finding a new lease on life leaving him genuinely shocked.
• Only One Finds It Fun: Played for Drama. Chloe's interest in demons and the macabre was something her classmates didn't share, and background hints imply she tried to get them into it repeatedly. However, her difficulty in telling what people want and lackluster social skills caused her to pester them until they grew to legitimately hate it, to the point they began bothering her with their interests in order to give her a taste of her own medicine. Chloe admitted she liked ghosts because nobody in her class liked them, and she wanted to use it to make people notice her.
• Overshadowed by Awesome: When she and Ash have a talk in Act 2, Ash says that one of her best traits is being "nice to Yamper". Chloe snarks that this trait is pretty much nothing compared to what Ash, Goh, and her father do.
• Passionate Sports Girl: She loves softball and once tried to get her dad to take her to a softball camp that was being hosted by her favorite team.
• Peer Pressure Makes You Evil: Or at least, very vindictive. Chloe being pressured to fight Ash by her classmates is what kickstarted the series of events which got her on the Train. Her development is about growing out of this by standing up for herself, first by getting a text message from her father stating he always loves her that gives her the strength to refuse a Mirage Pokemon from Dr. Yung, and then calmly refusing Aligheri's challenge to fight him, stating it's pointless to prove herself or succumb to others' desires to see her suffer.
• Perfection Is Impossible: Chloe has often told herself to she has be "perfect" in order to be accepted by others, or else she has no purpose in life nor reason to live. Thankfully, Buné helps her to focus on the progress she has made on a person and to forgive herself for her mistakes while Goh tells her that he loved her as that kind supportive person she always was.
• Performance Anxiety: Zigzagged; she's not afraid to perform on the Train as she has numerous videos of her rallying the Train to fight the Apex and just having fun, but when she has to talk face-to-face in a video conference, she shrinks and finds herself unable to say anything without fear of being mocked the moment she starts speaking, especially since these are the friends of Ash, while she's still nothing than a Professor's daughter who foolishly tackled a Ghost in the Pokemon World. "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that while she can read on stage, the idea of performing on live TV paralyzes her since she is afraid of the mockery that the denizens will give her for messing up her lines or making a complete fool of herself.
• Perky Goth: Sweet and hyperactive personality? Check. Wears black? Yep. Has a love of demons and other spooky stuff? Absolutely.
• Personality Powers: The Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet was almost tailored just for her.
  • A girl with a fiery personality definitely needs the firepower to go with it. Initially, fire can be seen as destructive and Chloe lashing out and erupting into anger causes her to hurt others and later herself. However, once she's learned to forgive herself and make amends, the fire is gentle, calming and full of love, which represents the fire and the light emanating from it is a symbol of hope in the dark.
  • She is shown to have a kind heart filled with pity for others, wishing to help them like how she wanted help of her own or at least have someone notice her problems. Her cloak allows her to see into someone's soul and figure out the root of their problems and she was able to convert the mirage army into denizen thanks to her desire to free them from Dr. Yung. Plus, Chloe has a problem only seeing things in black and white and refuses to accept that people also have their own problems to deal with. By using the ability to see into their souls, Chloe starts to develop empathy for others.
• Person of Mass Destruction: When she unlocks the ability to transform into Marchosias, the first thing she does with it is destroy half of an army with her Flamethrower.
• Pipe Pain: Her weapon of choice is a rusty L-bend steel pipe — or "donut holer", aka something you punch stuff into to turn into donuts — gifted to her by Randall through Atticus which she names Cheshire.
• Playing with Fire: She has the Cloak of Marchosias and Wepwawet on her, which gives her the ability to cast fire via flamethrower, fire balls or turning her donut holer into a burning donut holer.
• Please Kill Me if It Satisfies You:
  • When she learns why Sara bullied her, she then outright tells her to just kill her if it will make her happy. Sara complies with a spiky crystal bat to the face. Thankfully Asher comes in to save her.
  • She also asks Buné to do the same with her, seeing as he publicly proclaimed her as annoying so the Train will be spared from her presence. He ends up "killing" the spiteful side of her with a hug.
• Plot Parallel: Cyan Desert Car reveals she's played No More Heroes and Travis Touchdown's journey can be used to relate to Chloe. Chloe didn't have any dream of her own until she got caught in a fight that changed her world forever thanks to a blond hair girl giving them the suggestion to fight someone (Travis was tricked to fight off Helter Skelter by Sylvia, only to realize he just killed the #11 Assassin of the UAA while Sara pressured Chloe to try to fight Ash Ketchum, Alola League Champion, and failed miserably). From there, Travis decides that he wants to become #1 Assassin mostly for the glory (and to "do it" with Sylvia) before it's revealed he wants revenge on the asshole who murdered his parents. In contrast, Chloe decides she wants to become Chloe of the Vermillion, hero of the Train, before it's later revealed she wants Goh to finally see her as his perfect friend instead of ignoring her. They later end up going on a revenge spree after someone they love is targeted (Travis's friend Bishop is murdered, Chloe's father is a broken mess) before they come to realize that Vengeance Feels Empty and they decide to become a hero by their own rules — Travis gradually morphs from villain to anti-hero and later a true hero, while Chloe lets go of the anger and spite that defined the beginning part of her journey to someone who gradually loves Pokemon and returns to the kind self she always was.
• Plucky Girl: Like most variations of her in the Blossomverse, she does her best to be optimistic and determined despite the Death World she's currently trapped in.
• Politically Incorrect Hero: She uses the term "boyfriend" in a derogatory manner when describing Ash's friendship with Goh. However, she later admits she was just angry at Goh spending more time with Ash than her and makes it a point to clear things up with Parker when he repeats this to her.
• Poor Communication Kills: A lot of her problems at home could've been solved if she was willing to talk about them, ranging from asking someone in the Institute to hear her out or just let her go somewhere. Even asking Ash to just stop asking her to go do Pokémon-related stuff and bring up her own suggestions or simply putting her foot down and telling Goh to arrive on time would have mitigated things.
• Powerful and Helpless: Despite her powerful artifacts and skills, she's left unable to console the broken Professor Sycamore in his place, and is nearly Forced to Watch as he either kills everyone or restarts the world before Auric interferes. She also couldn't stop Sara from her Unown rampage, but that's more because she's dimensions apart, nor could she stop her dad from being pulled onto the Infinity Train.
• Power Incontinence: When she tries to attack Indigo in the Boutique Street Car, she somehow turns into her wolf form by mistake. Chloe is unsure how that happened. When asked of this by Anubis, he states she'll have to go to Wepwawet (his brother and the one who created the cloak) for more answers. When she does meet with Wepwawet, he has on clue either due to no one having worn the cloak prior to her and just assumes the mirage mon conversion might've netted her enough experience points to level up.
• The Power of Love: It is her love of Yamper that lets her turn into a real flaming wolf in the Ninjala Car and unleash a Flamethrower which destroys a Hyper-Beam touting Mirage Yamper and half of an army along with it. Later she assumes her feelings of wanting to see Yamper again as she was about to die by the Mirage Army might have been the catalyst of freeing the Mirage Army from Dr. Yung's control. Wepwawet confirms this at the end of Act 1; she gave the mirage army another way to live through love and bonds. When she learns to forgive herself and love who she is, her cloak's wings become butterfly wings.
• Power of Trust: Part of Chloe's growth and being unable to address her self-worth issues are due to having little trust in both herself and in others, particularly if it's due to broken promises. It's only when she sees actual proof of people making good on their promises that she can finally let go of her issues and start trusting both herself and others a bit more.
• Privileged Rival: Subverted. She's seen as this to her classmates, living in a nice two-story house and her father has that nice Pokémon Institute so she can see all the Pokémon she likes and have a head-start in being a Trainer. But this is coming from Sara, who lives in a high-class apartment and can take a week's cruise to Slateport for Spring Break while Chloe was fine with softball camp, and is like one of the many twisted lies she used to get her classmates on her side. In truth, it's Goh who has everything they want, especially the fact he gets to travel around the world under Chloe's dad because he actually requested it from the school, but they attacked Chloe more because they see her more often and because she constantly hounded them with her hobbies.
• The Promise:
  • Once she and Goh apologize to one another, they promise to work together in order to be friends again. She later promises to help Augustine get to the Fog Car to save Alain and she will take Ash and Goh throughout a tour of Vermillion when she makes it back.
  • She made a promise to a Shiny Pumpkaboo she befriended in Kalos she'll come back for them when she becomes a proper Trainer.
  • "Firefly Funhouse Car" reveals that Goh forced her to promise to never abandon him (he was trying to hide his grief over losing Tokio) and she complied.
• Properly Paranoid:
  • In Part 2 of the Ninjala Car, she confesses to Augustine that the organizer of said car is very suspicious of wanting her group and Augustine's to beat each other to pieces. She's right to be worried, given that he's Dr. Yung in disguise.
  • Chloe is always bringing up her loss to Gengar, particularly her use of Having Yamper tackle him, as something her classmates will never let her live down. When Goh showed the recording, lo and behold, the first thing they did was indeed laugh at her and Sara continued to bring it up when the rest of the school learned about it.
• Psychological Projection: Nearly all of the problems Chloe chides Goh and everyone around her for are problems that she herself has; one of the biggest examples being about Goh allegedly spending all his time holed up in his room on his computer looking for Mew, when she is simply just projecting her frustrations of feeling "caged" at the Cerise Institute onto him.
• Quest for Identity: Played With. Chloe's initial quest is to find a new identity outside "victim of Vermillion City's apathy because she's not into Pokémon despite being a Professor's daughter and thus should be a total Pokémon lover in order to belong in society" into someone who is brave, bold, and doesn't need to be associated with a guy to get someone's attention. But Act 2 has her slowly realize the identity she needs to find isn't Chloe of the Vermillion. Rather, it's to embrace that she is enough as Chloe Cerise, taking the lessons she learns about being brave to follow her dreams, but also combining that aspect with the kind and gentle self people liked about her.
• Quiet Cry for Help: This is Chloe's usual method of trying to reach out to people, being too stubborn to just tell people directly.
  • Chloe asks where Goh is when she's basically alone at school and, unbeknownst to anyone at the time, about to kill herself. But Goh, being the oblivious boy who (in her eyes) only cares for Mew, Ash, and Pokemon, directly stated he was finding his dreams, which she doesn't have. This made Chloe believe that Goh hated her, and gets her on the Train.
  • Another cry that Chloe does is getting Goh's homework (being the only person who does it, in fact) and constantly texting him to come back as soon as possible because she just wants him to spend time with her. Again, Goh doesn't realize this until two students finally tell him how he's basically about to fail the school due to his no-showing.
• Quirky Girl, Quirky Tux: Her Belial inspired outfit gives her a suit jacket — and she also wears a skirt with leggings — and she's a plucky girl who loves nightmarish things.
• Rage Breaking Point: If she reaches this, then it's best to just run and hope you're not in her line of sight.
  • Like in Blossoming Trail, the paint can incident was her last straw that caused her to strangle her bully and bash her face in with a paint can.
  • After everything in the Palimpsest Car (particularly nearly dying to a train and nearly died by a gang-rush of street cleaners), Chloe can't take Casimira's mouthing out and I Warned You Smug Snake attitude and lays her down with a punch to the face and chewing her out how this bitch's apathy nearly destroyed the Palimpsest Car and she along with it.
• Real Women Don't Wear Dresses: Like in Blossoming Trail, Chloe is not weak just because she's feminine and not into Pokémon. She dresses up many times, with Uncle Howdy in "Firefly Funhouse Car" revealing photos of Chloe wearing "dresses, leggings, and skirts over legggings" but never pants, but more for the sake of expression.
• Red and Black and Evil All Over: Inverted. She has maroon hair, a red cloak based off a wolf, and her outfits for late Act 1 and early Act 2 give her plenty of black, plus her new moniker is Demon Lord of the Vermillion. But she's also a kind-hearted, heroic girl underneath her anger who hopes to stop the Apex threat.
• Red Baron: Chloe of the Vermillion, named off how she introduced herself to Atticus as heralding from Vermillion City. She also adds "Flame of the Rebellion" and "Demon Lord of the Vermillion" in the Ninjala Car.
• Red Heads Are Ravishing: On the Train, her red hair is her most well-known trait that coincides with her title of "Chloe of the Vermillion" and both Lexi and Tony Clark are infatuated with her. Conversely...
• Redheads Are Uncool: Her hair color isn't popular with her classmates, with Sara proclaiming how her hair is fugly, and Ikuo (Goh's father) even shouts that her hair is "freakishly garish".
• Red Is Violent: The color associated with her is red and if you give her a chance to fight, she will unleash hell. When Gloria, Victor and Goh see the video clip of her assaulting her bully while drenched in red paint and beating Sara up with a paint can, they are horrified. And when she and Sara get into a brutal baseball bat vs donut holer fight in the penultimate chapter of the Cyan Desert Car arc, they start screaming at each other's faces and spewing insults to the point neither Specter (who is known to be a sadist when breaking down others, especially Blue Angel) nor UnSycamore aka Asher want to aid her. She's not called Demon Lord of the Vermillion for nothing.
• Rejection Projection: Like in Blossoming Trail, the constant rejections she got from people, particularly Ash and Goh, were more often than not in her head rather than being what really happened. Unlike there, however, it takes her a little longer to accept this, as her talks with Goh and Ash have her still in the mindset that they didn't try to get to know her despite evidence to the contrary.
• Replacement Goldfish:
  • The reasons why Augustine is so adamant to help Chloe is because, deep down, he feels like it's his chance to do things right in regards to what happened with Alain. This does not do wonders to his sanity when she not only refused to calm down with his hope but she also accepted Specter's encouragement to stop crying and put her bully in her place. A deeper look in his subconscious even has Augustine see Chloe as Alain, reinforcing this trope.
  • Subverted with her wanting to be a Pokémon fanatic friend to Goh, or at least a replacement for Tokio (whom she didn't know at the time). When Chloe is about to end her life and admits her suicide fantasy of Goh dismissing her for Ash/his job, Goh tells her she never had to be Tokio to get his attention. He always cared for her as she was, but had trouble expressing or acknowledging it until it was almost too late.
• The Resenter: Chloe resents Ash and Goh for a number reasons: She resents Goh for allegedly not appreciating all that she's done him, Ash for being Goh's friend, and both of them for being happier than her. This resentment has at several points reached desires for violence against them, while in turn they have been nothing but cordial to her and always tried to include her in their adventures. Regardless, Chloe only saw them as inviting them to do things that they liked instead of the good intentions.
• Rule of Symbolism:
  • Her favorite demon is Marchosias, who wishes to return to heaven but has been deceived in that hope, reflecting how she is afraid to hope and have faith. Only when Augustine and her father reassure her that her loved ones will improve and love her as she is, does she regain her faith and ascends by unlocking a new power for her own to transform into Marchosias.
  • Her Important Haircut in the Fashion Runway Car symbolizes her and Augustine's relationship. She cuts her hair off as a sign of moving forward, but it looks uneven. It takes Augustine to style it to make it look presentable. This represents how Chloe must take the steps to change, but she also needs guidance from a mentor figure.
  • The concept of her changing clothes is this; outside of her wanting to dress up in outfits reflecting the media she loves, she's always not sure who she is, and wears more elaborate and stylish clothes to reflect her dithering and desires to be special instead of boring school uniform Chloe. By Harvest Moon Car, she decides to just wear something more practical — skirt with leggings, and an orange blouse with a white vest aka the attire of Heather Mason — to represent she is comfortable as herself and exposing the scars she's gained throughout her Train. Moreover, Chloe always feels like she can't measure up to Mew, a Pokémon who can shapeshift into whatever Pokémon they want, and Goh's dream as of late. She keeps trying to change herself in order to become the "proper friend" whom she thinks Goh wants.
  • She brings up the parallels between herself and the Snom Goh caught for her. A small little thing with a large appetite, unsure of who they are going to evolve into, crawling around at a slow pace, before turning into something beautiful and strong. Moreover, Snom evolves into Frosmoth via high level of friendship at night. Chloe and Goh truly reaffirm their friendship when it's the night of the Harvest Moon festival.
• The Runaway: She ran away from the Cerise Lab after being humiliated in a battle against Ash due to being dared by her classmates to fight the Alolan league Champion and told she was pretty much nothing compared to Goh's "noble cause" to chase Mew. In reality, Goh was actually trying to motivate her to find a dream and just got too excited about Ash's victory over her, which got her picked up onto the Infinity Train. By the time the story starts, she's been missing for two months.
• Save the Jerk: Or at least, try to work with them. Chloe warns Grace the danger looming in the Fog Car, and it's best they work together to save the Apex. Grace responds by raising a finger at her and tells Simon they're going to the Fog Car to spite her.
• Savvy Guy, Energetic Girl: When teamed with Yuri. Yuri is a snarky kid who knows story beats and tropes from playing too many video games while Chloe is the excited girl who is ready to race through the cars.
• Secretly Selfish: Despite Chloe claiming that everything she did, both on the Teain and at home (i.e adopting the "Chloe of the Vermillion" moniker and doing things for Goh) was for becoming someone strong and heroic, her true motivations are very shallow; she only does those things for the sake of garnering sympathy and attention from people. It takes a while before she eventually decides to do the right thing and work on becoming a genuinely altruistic and kind person.
• Self-Inflicted Hell: Same as in the original Blossoming Trail, though nowhere near as bad about it; a good deal of her issues comes from the fact she chose to stand completely still and not even try to get out of her current situation. Another major change in the original story is she's aware of these mistakes earlier on and works on being able to vocalize what she truly wants throughout Act 1. This helps her to set apart from Sara in the Cyan Desert Car, who also is put into her own version of Hell because she was unable to express her feelings except through hurting others for her own satisfaction.
• Self-Serving Memory: Firefly Funhouse has Chloe having a nightmare about Goh yelling at her to never bring up the Ilex Forest incident and then accusing her of betraying him. Whether it's truly just a bad dream, or another one of Chloe's warped memories is up for debate.
• Serious Business: Chloe tends to treat generally minor or mundane things, such as promises or bringing someone their homework, as if they're the most important things in the world, and throws a fit when they don't work out in her favor.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Let's just say there's a lot of meanings to her outfits.
  • She ditches her iconic white beach dress for a purple hakama in the Ninjala Car to better fit the setting and then ditches that to look similar to Furfur — a demon deer with wings — since it relates to her insult of Henry and calling him Mr. Sir Henry "Mother-of-Furfur". Moreover, the Furfur outfit includes leggings and boots, making it much more practical for the journey on the Train.
  • In the Boutique Street Car, she dresses up in a suit, skirt and top hat combo for a Belial inspired outfit (which Yuri assumes it was inspired by a manga) as she finally embraces herself as a girl who loves the macabre.
  • In the Palimpsest Car, Chloe's suit jacket and blouse gets burned, so she replaces it with a Gothic black blouse and adds gloves with claws at the fingertips, wolf-head pauldrons and a raven mask while ditching the hat. She says it's to invoke Amon, a wolf demon with a raven head, and also symbolically stating how she chooses to help Augustine and Asher out (as Asher's animal motif are crows and he's just learned he's really a crow prince kidnapped by the crow-like Goetias Malphas and Raum.)
  • Her final outfit makes her look like Heather Mason, making her wear a more simplistic outfit while showing off she is ready to move forward with her life, accepting who she is, and the scars she's obtained on her journey.
• Sinister Suffocation: A recurring theme is for villains to do this to her to shut her up permanently. The first one is by Mirage Mewtwo via Dr. Yung's command, the second one is by UnCerise currently possessing her father's body and the third one is by the street cleaners in Palmipsest Car along with one close to slicing her neck open. Chloe internally notes while being chased by the Mirage Pokemon that being bullied by her classmates is akin to them all pressing their feet on her neck, making her unable to breathe.
• Skewed Priorities: After Goh nearly drowned and caught a fever during a ghost hunt with her, you'd think Chloe would be worried sick about her friend's health, given that she saved him. She even constantly called this parents to ask when Goh would be better...so they could go ghost-hunting again, not to find out if he was okay after his near-death experience. Chloe herself apologizes, admitting Goh's parents had every right to hate her for that, and that she was trying to act like Goh — charging head first into things and dragging her along without thinking of the consequences.
• Soldier vs. Warrior: Chloe is the warrior, a title she was given after Gloria and others bore witness to her beating Sara with the paint can, with Ash as the soldier. While Ash does enjoy what he does, he fights within the confines of his world, as a trainer, and thus within what society and the world at large respects and accommodates not just as a socially acceptable path, but as a career. Chloe's use of violence on other humans has gotten her in trouble where doing so with a Pokemon battle would not have. Ash, while having faced many terrible and dangerous things from evil teams to rampaging gods, does not look for them, but deals with them as they come to him a la a knight errant, while Chloe choose to go after the Apex to become a more glorious figure, Chloe of the Vermillion.
• Somebody Doesn't Love Raymond: A notable Deconstruction. Chloe's past has given her many issues regarding trust and relationships, and her trip on the Train has left her with such a high opinion on herself, that despite being essentially universally loved on the Train and even the Pokemon World to an extent, if she thinks someone doesn't like her, she immediately believes they're out to to get her, regardless of whether the person in question is even aware of Chloe's reputation or if they're even in the same dimension as her.
• So Proud of You: Finally tells Goh in Harvest Moon Car that she's proud of him for being strong enough to move forward with his life.
• Sore Loser: Her response to losing to Ash in a Pokémon battle is to insult him. Kurune essentially calls her this in Harvest Moon Car.
• Soul Power: Both of her artifacts work like this. Her Cloak of Marchosias can let her enter the soul of a person to figure out what's troubling them, while her Halo of Valac gives her the power to summon the soul of a Goetia to possess someone for one task.
• Sour Outside, Sad Inside: When she's not showing her fiery self, she's cynical and aggressive at others...because she's a lonely girl who is ostracized because she's different, her childhood friend doesn't know she's in pain since he loves Mew more than spending time doing homework with her, no one seems to give a damn about her outside being "the freakish monster loving daughter of Professor Cerise", and she's been contemplating suicide by the time the Harvest Moon Car reaches its peak. Buné helps her to understand that her anger is actually hiding so much grief she carries in her heart for her mistakes and everything she has endured before and during her Train Trip, and to start healing from within.
• Spoiled Brat: Though not as bad as her Blossomverse, Chloe's issues here still stem from people not paying attention to her or giving her what she wants, ignoring the fact that she has a roof over her head, parents who are present if a bit oblivious, and people who'd be willing to listen to her if she actually spoke up. The beginning of Act 2 has her let go of this trope after she has to deal with Casimira's spoiled and entitled attitude.
• Spotlight-Stealing Squad: Despite being allegedly just a Supporting Protagonist this time around, a good deal of Act 1 still focuses heavily on her and her development, with the final confrontation of Act 1 even being a fight between Chloe and her long time bully Sara. However, this trope gets deconstructed pretty harshly, since not only does she get the brunt of both good and bad attention, but Professor Sycamore neglects his own problems in order to focus on her growth and quest to stop the Flauros, causing him to become more and more fragile as the story goes on until he cracks when she rejects him. This is addressed in the author notes for Horrorland Car, where the co-author explains out that the reason why Chloe is getting a big chunk of focus in Act 2 is because nearly everyone in the story up to this point has connections to her in some way, and also to set things up for when Augustine succeeds her.
• Squishy Wizard: Chloe has a lot of magic power wrapped around her little finger and she's the one who deals the biggest blows in the Ninjala Car. Her only downside is she's still a ten-year-old girl so those with more physical strength can attack her without question. For example, while she can fight off against Sara blow for blow the second UnCerise steps in, her face is literally wiping the floor before she's gasping for air.
• Stealth Insult: One of the things Chloe calls Sara is "Salt Princess" which is an allusion to the character Veruca Salt (as Sara calls Chloe "Chloe Bucket"), the fact there's a fairytale called "The Princess who Loves Salt" and Sara is being very salty (Chloe even demands for her bully to "Get all nice and salty for me"). The fairytale talks about how a princess stated she loved her father just as much as she loved salt, so she's essentially telling Sara she loves being a spoiled bitch just as much as she has so many daddy issues.
• Stealth Pun:
  • She's into supernatural things, and later revealed to have found a love of Ghost-types, who got onto the therapy train because she felt invisible to others. When they finally start feeling worry and concern about her, she decides to ghost them back in retaliation.
  • Chloe is The Heart of the group and using her cloak to see what's bugging someone allows her to get to the heart of the matter. Additionally, both her artifacts are associated with souls, so she's both the heart and soul of the Lotus Uprising.
  • She has a canine motif and was a bitch pre-Character Development, is a Big Eater who wolfs down food, and is prone to Crying Wolf for attention.
  • Chloe is known for her information about the Goetias, which are essentially members of demonic royalty. At the same time, she's struggling to fight her inner demons.
• Stepford Smiler: There are hints that most of her positive attitude at the end of The Twisted Lab Car is to hide her insecurities, mainly in returning back home to be "caged" into a role she doesn't want or ending up dying to end it all. This is especially noticeable at the end of the Cyan Desert Car as she knows her dad's about to be Train-bound and she's focusing more on Augustine performing for the crowd than the inevitability her dad's a broken shell of a man who needs the Train's help. This becomes more and more prominent in Act 2 as she's trying to make people not worry about her mental health and focus on the bigger picture before it breaks and she decides to kill herself because she can't take it any longer. The narration in the Cyan Desert Car when Goh sees how Chloe is completely alone at school without him shows her smile looks forced.
• Stock Light-Novel Calamity Princess: To contrast Augustine's light-novel everyman hero, Chloe ticks numerous checkboxes for the trope: she has a plucky attitude related to her issues of being "privileged", her most well-known attribute are fiery red hair and personality, she has the power to unleash a blast of fire which destroys half an army, and is given the badass title of "Chloe/Demon Lord of the Vermillion" that plays with her signature color being red. However she is no Love Interest to Augustine due to the age-gap and calling her a princess is the fastest way for you to be pummeled to death with her donut holer.
• Stock Shoujo Heroine: Zigzagged. Back in her world, she's just a normal girl who has no idea who she wants to be (especially since she's 10, when kids are allowed to become Pokémon trainers). She is shown to be a romantic (as she squees at the idea of Ryan/Min-Gi being a couple) and even has a date with Tony but the closest ties she has are in regards to her father, Childhood Friend and Parental Substitute Augustine. On the Infinity Train, she's more proactive and willing to charge first into battle even though she slowly developes a All-Loving Heroine side to her that most girls who fit this trope use.
• Story-Breaker Power:
  • Chloe's cloak is much more powerful here than in Blossoming Trail due to it actually being empowered with the strength of the deity and demon it's named from. It's capable of absorbing a barrage of Mirage Pokémon attacks, convert the same mirage Pokémon into denizens and she can see into the soul of a person outside of the Train. In the Elephant Teapot Car, both Yuri and Amelia ban her from using the last skill since something that powerful has to have a drawback (outside the It Only Works Once factor and Wepwawet refuses to budge on that one) and she has to be dragged to the hot springs so she doesn't use it in the upcoming conference call with Specter. Chloe also internally admits in the Boutique Street Car chapter that it's best not to use any of the skills outside casting fire until they learn more about its origins. Later attempts are usually witheld by other people and the one time she tries it on Kaito who is in his "Enlightened" state, there's a mental barrier which knocks her on her back.
  • The Halo of Valac is broken with how Chloe can summon any Goetia she can think of. Combined with Chloe's extensive knowledge of them, and she can wipe through any challenge with ease. The only drawbacks preventing this are how she can only summon one Goetia at a time, and she's specifically calling upon their soul to possess someone, knocking them unconscious until she finally makes do on the request.
• Stress-Induced Mental Voices: Has this twice in the Palimpsest Car and Harvest Moon Car as the stress and panic of being assaulted and misblamed for actions that cause chaos — being blamed for the Third Rail going off course when Sycamore and Amelia are more to blame and accused by Alighieri of hurting the Harvest King when she had no idea what he's talking about — has her believing that everyone hates her for being who she is and nearly culminates in her suicide.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: When paired with a male like Augustine, Yuri, Specter or Lexi, she's usually the powerhouse who barrels her way through any and all problems with a donut holer in one hand, and a fireball in the other. However, by no means is she dumb as her knowledge of the Goetias becomes important during late Act 1/Act 2 and her lack of battling experience is due to her never showing interest in it or just never having been in a position to battle before.
• Suicide by Cop: While Chloe seeks death, she's unwilling to do the deed herself, and instead tries to goad others into doing it for her.
• Suicide for Others' Happiness: Chloe ultimately decides to end it all in the Harvest Moon Car to ensure everyone can be free from her so-called "annoying" presence, both on and off the Train, and wants Buné to behead her so it's swift and painless. She also requests this so others can rejoice over how she won't ruin anyone's lives anymore just for the crime of existing. Thankfully, it never comes to fruition as he gives her a hug instead, metaphorically killing the spiteful girl she once was.
• Supporting Protagonist: The author notes reveal this is her role in the fanfic as the main focus is on Sycamore's quest to save Alain and his birth to becoming a true hero.
• Talking the Monster to Death: After her Cloak of Marchosias refuses to work on Sycamore's corrupted self, Chloe's reduced to begging the professor to come back and calm down, even apologizing for her earlier behavior. Unfortunately, seeing as Chloe running her mouth on him is one of the reasons why he went nuts in the first place, the professor isn't in the best state to listen to her.
• Tame Her Anger: One of Chloe's flaws is her wrath, brought on by her refusal to speak up about her issues under a belief that no one would listen or help her. Throughout her trip, she must learn that she can't solve her problems through anger and violence, lest she cause even more problems from them. Buné helps her understand that her anger is actually her hiding so much grief due to how she feels the entire world is against her. He allows Chloe to finally feel her rage and hatred for herself in one loud cry of agony, connecting to that side of herself she hates and to start healing. She also is given a tattoo as a visual reminder to take a pause before she flies off the handle.
• A Taste of Their Own Medicine:
  • Prior to her mother calling her, a little more than two months after she disappeared as a reminder, she responded to Goh finally asking if she's okay, begging to talk to her and asking her where she is by ghosting him and refusing to even show a single iota of concern for him. Just like he (albeit unintentionally) always did to her whenever she asked him to come back.
  • She herself ends up on the receiving end of this when her excessive talking about her love of demons and horror led to her classmates getting back at her by trying to get her into Pokémon.
  • After her father gets taken by the Train, Chloe tries to contact him to see if he's doing okay. Professor Cerise, who's had a long history of both being ghosted all because of one incident that was beyond his control, responds by ghosting her.
• There Are No Therapists: Initially played straight, as Professor Cerise refused to give his daughter therapy for fear of it being a scam or something that would hurt her. Thankfully Tres, a licensed therapist himself, not only talks to her about her problems but also downloads an app onto her phone where she can talk to other trauma survivors and get the help that could've prevented her train trip in the first place.
• They Just Dont Get It: Even after numerous people, both human and denizen alike, have explained things to her, Chloe just can't get it through that thick skull of hers that her situation is not that black and white, she's not completely faultless in it, and people are NOT eager to tear her down. Oak Lore at least tries to explain this with Gary claiming how for this trope to go away, Chloe needs to go through a "Melissa" moment: an event that shakes her worldview so hard, she has no choice but to face reality and stop making excuses for her behavior. Said "Melissa" moment comes just when she's about to die, when Goh berates her for acting just like Sara and she finally allows herself to just feel her sadness over everything going wrong. Chloe herself tells Buné that she wishes she could've just made things "click" sooner.
• This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: Normally, Chloe's interests and hobbies do not help her in life. Knowing a lot about horror is useful if you run into Ghost-types or want to write or make horror material, but Ghost-types are rare and Chloe's too young to explore a career in writing or developing games. On a day-to-day basis, Ash and Goh, whose interests and talents are more useful, are much better off. Chloe being in a magical train filled with horror makes her skills much more useful to her than they otherwise would be, where they would be a future career at best and a hobby at worst. Of course this also ends up being Played for Drama since she'd rather stay in a cage where her skills will actually make her noticed and beloved by the masses than to go back home and return to be ignored and bullied for her interests.
• Throw the Dog a Bone: After everything she dealt with starting in the Cyan Desert Car, Harvest Moon Car gives her a breather when Goh realizes how much he hurt her over the last three years and apologizes, making a Declaration of Protection to finally come back for her before she killed herself. Bune also gives her a hug to kill the spiteful front so she can properly start again, with no one in Little Paws (except Alighieri) blaming her for the disaster that struck.
• Tired of Running: As she's being chased by the Mirage Pokémon army in the Ninjala Car, she realizes how she's always running away to escape her pain and decides to stand her ground even if it kills her.
• Took a Level in Cheerfulness: Augustine's influence has her become much more positive and optimistic, willing to try out new things without being ashamed of herself.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Or at least, return to that level in kindness. Chloe is said to be a kind girl but has devolved into spite, anger, and self-loathing due to no one caring for her. It takes Augustine's support, and Goh helping her realize how she was also at fault for her own problems, to help her open her heart up to others and be a more mature version of herself. While she still stumbles, she does work on becoming more self-aware of these tendencies. Act 2 has her slowly return to the kind self that she was before everything went to hell, especially when Goh says how he loved that version of Chloe the most.
• Too Much Alike:
  • For as much as Chloe doesn't realize it, she and Goh are very similar. Isolated, friendless, No Social Skills, horribly misjudge others' intentions, and never express what's going on with them even if it would be in their best interest to do so. Goh himself theorizes that this is why his parents hated Chloe so much; she has all the same flaws he has.
  • She also comes to the realization she and Sara are exactly alike, regarding their nasty attitudes and parental issues. Goh even calls them sisters.
• Town Girls: She's the Neither out of Lampetia's bubbly Femme and Amelia's stoic Butch. Chloe can be cheery one moment and fiery another, she initially wore her hair long before cutting it, and her wardrobe ranges from dresses to tuxedos and skirts. She likes cute things but her favorite things to research are monsters and demons.
• Tranquil Fury:
  • Outside of telling Sara to "get nice and salty for her", their fight mostly has her being very calm even as she's throwing fireballs, which is a huge contrast to her exploding like fireworks.
  • When Alighieri outright demands Chloe to fight him, which is taking place after Chloe begged for Bune (Alighieri's boss) to kill her, all Chloe does is whisper a single "No" before calmly telling him she won't stoop so low into worthless fights before waving a hand and letting a fiery butterfly strike him down.
• Trauma Button: Has two: being called "monster lover", and, as of the Harvest Moon Car, being called "annoying".
• Trauma Conga Line: Everything was looking well for her throughout Act 1. Then Sara destroys everything with the subtlety of a meteor killing the dinosaurs and she's struggling through keep calm while having to deal with Augustine's blunt honesty telling her she's selfish, nearly being killed either by strangulation or a spiky baseball bludgeoning her brains out, and [[spoiler:her father stuck on the Infinity Train with implications that he's a stone's throne from throwing himself onto the wheels. By the end of Palimpsest Car, she's already gone through at least six near death experiences and is seeking out therapy through Tres...which doesn't help because she's ready to commit suicide by the end of the Harvest Moon Car.
• Troubled Abuser: Chloe lashes out at others and gets overly dramatic with how horrible life is...but that's also due to the fact she's been traumatized and on the verge of suicide and has no other way to confess she's a scared, broken girl who just wants to be told to keep hope alive and actually be helped in that regard, instead of being told to "take it easy and hope for the best" by every single adult in her life and then left to figure it out on her own.
• Troubling Unchildlike Behavior: 'Firefly Funhouse Car establishes that Chloe, a ten-year-old girl, fantasized about murdering Goh by beating him to death, after already having beaten Sara with a paint can prior, establishing this to be a routine pattern and desire of hers.
• Tsundere: Gary Oak in Oak Lore calls her one at her best, and it's easy to say why. She was initially aloof to those she doesn't trust or those she perceives as seeing her as worthless, built up to protect herself from the harsh bullying and belief that no one likes her unless she's a Pokémon lover. She can be cheerful and sweet when she's with the Red Lotus Uprising, but she still plays it safe when it comes to trusting others.
• Turn the Other Cheek:
  • Chloe has every right to forever hate the Fujihachis for purposefully driving a wedge between her and Goh. Instead, she understands why they did it, and decides to work on making amends, even telling Goh not to spite them to the point they get on the Train.
  • Subverted with her classmates. There's too much bad blood spilled between them for an instant forgiveness, but she's willing to try again when things are calmed down.
• The Unapologetic: Chloe is capable of apologizing to people, but often only when she's forced to. This gets Played for Drama at the start of Act 2, since her breaking of Professor Sycamore during the Cyan Desert Car has forced Paimon to reset him, and she can't apologize to him, even though she really is sorry for her mistakes, lest she sends him right back to square one again. By the time Palimpsest Car starts, she becomes nothing but apologetic and believes everything is her fault for not knowing when to keep her mouth shut, and Harvest Moon Car has her break down over everything she's done as a person as she awaits for her executioner to end her life.
• The Unfavorite: Subverted. She thinks she's this to her parents and Goh because they focus more on their own problems than her, but this is eventually revealed to be all in her head: her parents didn't favor her any more than they normally did, and Goh always liked her the way she was but it just took him a long time for him to properly recognize and express this.
• Ungrateful Bitch: A big problem for her as shown throughout Act 1 and the beginning of Act 2; Chloe constantly chides people for never showing appreciation for what she does for them, yet when they try to do things for her, she never thanks them due to it not being on her terms.
• Uninvited to the Party: Chloe is so disliked by her class that no one ever invites her to their parties. In fact, they go so far as to either claim they "forgot" to invite her, or just shred her invitation up in front of her face.
• Unlimited Wardrobe: Chloe loves changing her outfits all the time depending on her mood, even more so than any hero on the Train.
• Unknown Rival: Played for Drama. Goh stopped making human friendships because of Tokio "seemingly" abandoning him and cementing it in his mind that human friends are worthless compared to Pokémon ones, which is part of the reason why Chloe has so many issues to begin with. However, because they both equally didn't know about each other's existence (Tokio was on the Train at the time and Goh dismissed Chloe when she asked about Ilex Forest) Chloe focused solely on making Goh pay for what he did to her, even when it was being made clear she wasn't as innocent as she made herself out to be.
• Unreliable Narrator: Given Chloe's track record of exaggerating and embellishing things about her and her home life, especially early on when she's willing to glorify herself while demonizing everybody else, by Act 2, it's near impossible to tell whether she's being honest or not.
• Unwitting Instigator of Doom: She nearly causes the end of the world by snapping at Professor Sycamore so hard he breaks and then accepting Specter's Dare to Be Badass, and thus concludes he only has two choices: kill everyone, or Restart the World so it stops being so pessimistic.
• Victorious Loser: While initially a Sore Loser over how she lost to Ash, she unknowingly ends up as the victor in regards to her and Sara. Sara wanted it burned into Chloe's soul that everyone would mock her and she should just kill herself and be forgotten. In truth, when a few classmates learned of the battle, they can't help but say she was amazing for choosing to fight a losing battle. She also has friends on the Infinity Train and has started to rekindle her love of Pokémon, while Sara proves more and more that she only sees them as status symbols, not living beings, along with losing any and all "friends" she's had.
• Virtuous Character Copy: Bizarrely enough, She's one to Lila Rossi of all people. Both of them are redheads with green eyes who lie like there's no tomorrow, act nice but are actually rather nasty on the inside, refuse to acknowledge their faults or apologize for those they hurt, feel like they're entitled to whatever they want without questions, and never learn their lessons no matter how often they learn them. However, Lila is fully aware of her actions, shows no remorse for them, and clearly enjoys hurting people, while Chloe is capable of acknowledging her flaws and making an honest effort to fix her mistakes, even if it takes a while for her lessons to stick. And for an extra comparison, it turns out Lila is also going under a fake identity, just like how Chloe adopted the "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona once she entered the Train. However, Chloe created "Chloe of the Vermillion" in order to be the ideal best friend she thought Goh wanted, and later ditches it in order to go back to her real identity after realizing she wasn't being herself. Lila, meanwhile, has been living a double life for who knows how long, and she only ditches that disguise when she's been found out, with no indication her current persona, Cerise, is her real one.
• Wants a Prize for Basic Decency: One of Chloe's biggest frustrations is not being appreciated for the things she does for people. The problem with this is that she always expects to be rewarded for very mundane things that aren't worth fussing over.
• Wants Versus Needs: Same as the original trilogy, but slightly more notable due to Chloe's ping-ponging whether she learns her lesson or not. Chloe starts the story wanting everyone back home to apologize to her and make up for mistreating her so badly, but the longer the story goes on, the clearer it becomes that most of Chloe's issues are either horribly exaggerated, or at least partially her own fault. However, it takes until Act 2's Harvest Moon Car before she finally learns what she needs to do: drop the pretense that everyone else is at fault for her problems, and accept the fact she's responsible for her own failings, and start working on bettering herself.
• What You Are in the Dark: In the flashback to the camping trip, Chloe could've walked off and left Goh alone after he repeatedly refused to listen to her. Instead, the instant he falls in the river, she immediately jumps in to save him and spends an entire afternoon struggling to get back to the camp, even going as far as braving a spooky cave to get flowers for a Gourgeist.
• Whole Costume Reference: Her final outfit for her Train Trip makes her look like a combination of Heather Mason/Sharon de Silva, who are prophesized to bring about paradise in Silent Hill, and also embracing who she is on the inside.
• Why Did You Make Me Hit You?: Initially, any time she's called out for her abusive behavior towards others, she tries to rationalize that they deserved it for not being "good friends" to her, or whatever her excuse is. She gets better in the Harvest Moon Car
• Wipe the Floor with You: During her fight with Sara, the Unown copy of her father drags her across the floor of the Cerise Institute in an attempt to shut her up.
• Wonderful Werewolf: As she's based on Robin and Mebh from Wolfwalkers, this is a given. She can turn into a wolf with gryphon wings which later evolves into letting her soul turn into a wolf and can bite someone turn them into a lycan after some time.
• Worshipped for Great Deeds: Deconstructed. While in the original trilogy, Chloe was seen as a hero to the Denizens, in here she's straight up identified as a goddess both because of her kind nature towards the Denizens and her quest to end the Apex, along with having the Goetias keep an eye on her progress. However, the constant coddling only ends up feeding Chloe's ego, which leads her to continue believing she's a flawless girl who was a victim of her "unfair home world".
• Would Rather Suffer: Inverted. Chloe claims she'd rather kill herself than to continue living in a world she feels is against her. It takes several back-and-orths between people letting her know they do like her, and that her situation isn't what she thought it was, for her to be convinced that suicide isn't the better option for herself, and to start working on herself properly.
• The Xenophile: Compared to the other heroes, whose opinion of Denizens range from neutral to dislike with very few exceptions, Chloe's shown to not really have an issue with them for the most part, with some of them even managing to become some of her biggest allies. This is particularly notable when compared to her opinion with Pokémon, as she simply cannot get used to them despite the fact they're nowhere near as weird as the average Train denizen, although this is more due to people pressuring her to like them and Goh constantly chosing them over her.
• Yandere: A platonic example, but the more we learn about Chloe's side of her relationship with Goh, the harder it is to not view her as borderline obsessed with him: she wanted his attention 24/7 and, while she was patient and willing to wait for him, she developed a hatred for those to whom Goh paid more attention, such as Mew and Pokemon Trainers. Furthermore, when Goh made another friend in Ash, Chloe came to resent him, painting him as a black hole who stole Goh away from her. This is without mentioning Chloe's history of mental instability and violence to the point that, as revealed in the "Firefly Funhouse Car", she actually fantasized about killing Goh for not "appreciating" everything she did for him, from the minor to the major.
• Yank the Dog's Chain: As part of her backstory, Chloe wanted to go to softball camp and behaved herself for a whole week so her father can sigh the permission slip. Unfortunately, a conference came in at the last minute and the Professor had to cancel it, and he tried to reassure her that she could just go next time. Chloe instead took it as all her work being rendered moot and saw it as her father always viewing his work/Pokemon as more important than her needs.
• Yaoi Fangirl: A throwaway comment in narration states she ships boys, but does not see Henry Townsend and Water Sullivan in that light. She squees in excitement upon learning Ryan^note In canon, he dated and got dumped by three girls, thus he is considered bi in this adaptationand Min-Gi tied the knot.
• You Are Better Than You Think You Are: As she goes through the path to healing herself after Palimpsest, Atticus and Lexi state she's strong for having to endure so much at such a young age. When she's on the verge of suicide and calls Goh to give him her final farewells, Goh finally tells her he liked her as she was: not as some explosive, violent Blood Knight, but the kind and gentle girl who always looked out for him even when he never was aware of it/cared to notice.
• You Are Not Alone: Chloe has been isolating herself after the end of Act 1 after everything has hit the fan and she's ready to kill herself. It takes Goh and Bune to reach out to her, telling her she's not alone in her struggles, for her to finally open up over her life turned upside-down and for her to finally start healing.
• You Remind Me of X: During dinner in the Ninjala Car, Vaillant says that Chloe's stunt with her cloak reminds him of the Demon Lord Milim. This is where Chloe gets the idea to become "Demon Lord of the Vermillion".
• You Were Trying Too Hard:
  • Deconstructed. Chloe was the only one in her class who liked horror and other scary things, and because she felt lonely, she tried desperately to get them involved by constantly bringing it up. However, she ultimately wound up alienating her classmates even further. Chloe admits that she was stubborn about this because she wanted to be like Goh in the way that he handled things in regards to his passions of wanting Mew.
  • Chloe believed no one at school would ever care about her unless she was into Pokémon. It turns out it's not Pokémon they were interested in; it was actually the fact Chloe was brave enough to do the things she loved and how she kept fighting back when things were difficult. They don't care she lost to Ash, they were impressed by how she kept fighting back despite it. They don't see her as a creep; they're wowed at how she still performed at a talent show even after Sara and her cronies tried to ruin it with paint on her costume, or she can draw and write whatever she likes when others get cold feet trying to submit a poem to the school paper.
  • In general, Chloe's aspirations of being a brave and heroic badass of a girl stem from what she believed Goh wanted from her since she didn't have a dream to pursue like he constantly boasted or was a coward who could never be as great as him. But in reality, Goh honestly liked her true self as someone kind and supportive of him when he was at his lowest point and just wanted her to be more open with herself. The only reason it takes forever for him to get to that realization is that he struggled to acknowledge this.

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