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Dreamwalkers | Infinity Train | Pokémon World

The group formed between Professor Fennel, Chloe, and a Denizen they met at the Dream Forest Car, called Baku / Bakku.

The Main Trio

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In General

Aerith and Bob: There's Chloe (normal), Professor Meridian Fennel (rather uncommon), and Bakku.
Appropriated Appellation: The team went completely nameless until the end of the Horsegirl Race Car, wherein they finally decided to get named. After several attempts, eveyrone decided to accept Haru Urara's suggestion: Dreamwalkers.
Badass Adorable: Professor Fennel is a total sweetheart who can become a little bit of a romantic when prompted, Chloe is a bundle of energy waiting to see the rest of the world, and Bakku is a funny-looking chimeratic creature who willingly becomes an equally funny-looking fairy. They're all also capable of kicking butt by having the latter merge with the former two.
By the Power of Grayskull!: To activate their fusion with Bakku, they say their name and then "Good Morning!" to activate it and "Good Night!" to deactivate it.
Cincinnatus: As the wielder of the Dream Miraculous, Professor Fennel can temporarily bestow it upon others if she desires, which she does to Chloe while they're temporarily staying at the Horsegirl Race Car.
Cosmic Motifs: Professor Fennel and Chloe's superhero personas, Dreamland Shepherd and Twilight Sleepover, are adorned with motifs centered on the moon, stars, and sun.
Domino Mask: Both Professor Fennel and Chloe get these while donning the Dream Miraculous; while Professor Fennel's eyes remain unchanged, Chloe's gain star-like pupils.
Fusion Dance: How Professor Fennel and Chloe become superheroes; by shouting the specific phrases, they can merge with Bakku to become either Dreamland Shepherd (Professor Fennel) or Twilight Sleepover (Chloe).
Giver of Lame Names: Professor Fennel and Chloe both show difficulty picking superhero names for themselves: the former cycles through "Sandwoman", "Dust Princess", and "Dreamcatcher" before finally setting on "Dreamland Shepherd", while the latter cycles through "Slumber Party", "Sleepover", and "Sleep Fest" before finally sticking to "Twilight Sleepover".
Hair-Contrast Duo: Chloe has red hair and is a clear example of a Fiery Redhead, while Professor Fennel has dark blue/purple hair and is significantly more down to earth.
Henshin Hero: How they become superheroes is by shouting a phrase and fusing with Bakku.
Intergenerational Friendship: Professor Fennel is a young woman while Chloe is a ten year old girl, and the two get along rather well.
Light Feminine and Dark Feminine: Chloe is the Light Feminine, being an energetic and joyful young girl with a love for ponies, while Professor Fennel is the Dark Feminine, carrying herself with a calm aura and possessing a connection to the mysterious through her study of dreams.
Long Hair Is Feminine: Professor Fennel and Chloe both have long hair and are pretty feminine.
Locked Out of the Loop: None of them know about the Vermillion Citadel and their plans for Chloe.
Magical Girl Warrior: By shouting the magic words, either Professor Fennel or Chloe can turn into one of these by fusing into Bakku, transforming into either Dreamland Shepherd or Twilight Sleepover, respectively.
The Nicknamer: Professor Fennel and Chloe name themselves upon becoming superheroes, though granted, it's not an immediate success...
The Quest: They have a slight one in finding the Nightmare Weaver responsible for the Dream Forest Car nightmares, but it's treated more like a sidequest, with their main goal still being to get their numbers down. They eventually do encounter the one responsible in Angie at the Horsegirl Race Car, or at least Chloe does.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: Chloe is the red oni, being a very energetic girl, while Professor Fennel is the blue oni, staying calm and collected most of the time. Bakku is somewhere in the middle; being more emotional than Professor Fennel, but more subdued than Chloe.
Rule of Symbolism: Both Professor Fennel and Chloe's numbers possess a deeper meaning.
- Professor Fennel has an 85 on her palm. This is the TM Move number for "Dream Eater" from Generation VI onwards, showing not only how Professor Fennel has a lot of issues despite looking so happy, but also tying her connection to her research of dreams into it.
- Chloe has an 44 on her palm. This is the TM Move number for "Rest" from Generation I to VII, referencing how she was found asleep when Professor Fennel first met her, and how this iteration of Chloe has a lot less issues to deal with than her usual Blossomverse self (as her initial number was 151, Mew's Pokedex number).
Stunned Silence: This is Professor Fennel and Chloe's reaction seeing Baku's true form when they first meet them.
Superheroes Wear Capes: Kinda inevitable, given the Dream Miraculous' true form is a cape. Both of them gain this cape when they turn into their superhero form, though in Chloe's case it's more like a mantle because of how small she is.

Professor Fennel

Professor Meridian Fennel / Dreamland Shepherd / Fast Traveler

The main character of this story. A message from her girlfriend, Professor Juniper, sends her onwards to Vermillion City, changing the story we're all familiar with.

Absent Animal Companion: In the anime, Professor Fennel's Pokemon of choice is Munna, but in this story she's accompanied by a Musharna instead, with no indication as to whether it's the Musharna she encountered before, or if it's her Munna post-evolution.
A Boy and His X: In this case, it's A Pokemon Professor and her Pokemon; she's accompanied by a Musharna when she arrives at Vermillion City and until she enters the Infinity Train.
Abandoned Catchphrase: While musing about their past, Colress mentions how Professor Fennel used to say "Follow Your Dreams" often. The Horsegirl Race Car would only go on to confirm this to be true, but that the reason Professor Fennel stopped saying it is due to the guilt she felt from helping him when they were younger.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: While we don't know what happened exactly, she's on a bad enough place at the start of the story that she ends up on the Infinity Train. We eventually find out she accidentally encouraged Colress when she saw him being down in the dumps, unaware of what his ambition was or the horrible lengths he'd go to in order to achieve them.
Adaptational Badass: Professor Fennel is not a fighter in canon, and while the same holds true here, she gets to wield a Miraculous that allows her to turn into a superhero. She also gets to use Musharna and pull some moves to wake up the Cerise Institute team from their shared nightmare.
Adaptational Backstory Change: Professor Fennel's backstory isn't elaborated in the games beyond she and Professor Juniper being friends from college, and Adventures has those two and Professor Burnet as college friends. In Wake Me Up, the latter option is taken, with the relatively minor change of Professor Fennel having also accidentally helped Colress get back up on his feet when he felt his research was going nowhere, even helping him to do so herself.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Professor Fennel and Juniper were college friends, but outside of Professor Fennel being rather affectionate with Juniper, there's no indication they're anything more. In here, they're girlfriends.
- Professor Fennel and Colress didn't interact in either the Black and White games or the Adventures manga, but here it's implied they have some sort of connection. The Horsegirl Race Car eventually reveals that a younger Professor Fennel encountered Colress while he was down in the dumps, and decided to not only encourage him to continue, but help him do so, which makes her feel responsible for all the horrible things he would go on to do in the future.
- In the games and anime canon, there's no indication that Professor Fennel and Burnet even know each other. This story, however, adapts the Adventures idea that they were college friends alongside Professor Juniper.
Adaptational Sexuality: She was Ambiguously Gay in canon, being very affection with Professor Juniper while never interacting with an adult male for comparison. In here, she's straight up into women, and is in a relationship with Professor Juniper.
Advice Backfire: As it turns out, this is the reason why she stopped saying "Follow your dreams" a long time ago: she told this to a downtrotten Colress, who then went on to convince her to outright help him achieve his goal when he proved that the words wouldn't suffice. This, coupled with the sudden realization she could've possibly encouraged other people with bad intentions, prompted Professor Fennel to abandon this phrase of hers.
All Bikers are Hells Angels: Subverted. Despite her second identity, Fast Traveler, having the imagery of a tough biker woman, Professor Fennel remains the same nice woman that she is at her core, if only with a bit more confidence.
All-Loving Heroine: Outside of one notable exception in Colress, there doesn't seem to be a person that Professor Fennel outright hates; she gets along fine with the Cerise team, quickly gets along and becomes good friends with Chloe and Bakku, and even after Angie turns out to be Night Mare and attacks her in order to force Chloe to be a hero, she's completely polite and reasonable when she and Chloe go visit her in the prison, with her even chiding Chloe when she tries to prode more than necessary. This ends up becoming one of the reasons for why Grand Master Nooroo has her and her team join forces with the remnants of the Apex; Fennel herself is nice and understanding enough to not immediately judge them like the rest of the train has.
Always Save the Girl: As soon as ship hits the fan during the Horsegirl Race Car, Professor Fennel quickly decides to go save Chloe/Twilight Sleepover from danger, going so far as to don the Miraculous of the car and become Fast Traveler just to be able to get to her faster. She also wastes no time saving a random girl when her tower collapses due to the nightmares' machinations.
Ambiguous Situation: Not she herself, but her Musharna. Is it the same Musharna that she once helped with Ash and co. before, or is it the evolved form of her Munna?
Anime Hair: As Dreamland Shepherd, her hair turns into Girlish Pigtails that end in star-shaped braids.
Appropriated Appellation: After saving Chloe from one of the demons, Professor Fennel, in her then-unnamed Race Miraculous persona, tasks the redhead to give her a name. While she's quick to ditch "Speedo" as her first option, she quickly accepts "Fast Traveler" instead.
Ascended Extra: Even in the games and manga her personality comes from, she's a very minor character who's only really involved for one sidequest and not much else. Wake Me Up, meanwhile, turns her into the main character, taking over the spot normally reserved for Chloe.
Atrocious Alias: Defied. When she asks Chloe to give her second super identity a name, the redhead's first suggestion of "Speed-O" is immediately shot down. She eventually picks "Fast Traveler" as the name.
Badass Fingersnap: Snapping her fingers is the way she cancela out her powers as Fast Traveler, something she demonstrates while facing off against Night Mare's hybrid monster.
Badass Longcoat: Her Labcoat of Science and Medicine turns into one of these as Dreamland Shepherd, turning into a long-sleeved jacket with a moon motif. It changes as well when she becomes Fast Traveler, with it transforming into something resembling a biker's jacket.
Beautiful Dreamer: At least according to Chloe, she looks very cute when she sleeps.
Behind Every Great Man: As she eventually confesses to Haru during the Horsegirl Race Car, Professor Fennel, back when she was younger, spotted a man on the edge of giving up his ambition to help Pokemon grow stronger, and she not only gave him encouragement, but decided to help him get back on his own two feet. Unfortunately, this man turned out to be Colress, who would go on to do horrible things in his search for Pokemon's full potential, which she feels responsible for.
Beneath the Mask: On the surface, Professor Fennel looks like a pretty nice woman with a serene disposition, and though she can get angry at times, she remains calm and helpful at all times. However, as she reveals to Haru during the Horsegirl Race Car, she's actually a Stepford Smiler who's holding a lot of guilt and regret over her connection to Colress, specifically the fact that she encouraged him to get out of his funk, which indirectly led to his experiments on Pokemon.
Beware the Nice Ones: Professor Fennel is a legitimate sweetheart of a woman, and while she wouldn't hurt a fly in general, as soon as she becomes Dreamland Shepherd, she doesn't hesitate to get her hands dirty.
Beware the Silly Ones: She's a hopeless romantic whose Miraculous is a blanket that she uses as a cape. She can also use said cape blanket to transform into a superheroine that can use the power of exhaustion to great effect. Her Fast Traveler form, meanwhile, is an energetic cocky gang leader-looking woman, but has the power to essentially manipulate time itself to her advantage.
Because You Were Nice to Me: She invites Haru Urara to join her team alongside Chloe and Bakku after the horsegirl takes the time to listen to her Dark Secret regarding her previous relationship with Colress.
Big Damn Heroes:
- She arrives at Vermillion City just in time to awaken the Cerise team from their shared nightmare and stop Colress from getting away.
- Later, during the Horsegirl Race Car, she arrives just in time to stop one of the living nightmares from hurting Chloe.
Blue Is Heroic: Her outfit as Dreamland Shepherd is primarily blue, and she's a Nice Girl who wants to do good.
Blunt "No": She tells Angie in no uncertain words that she's not getting the Fear Miraculous back from her anytime soon, fearing that it could land in the wrong hands even if Angie didn't use it to become Night Mare once again.
Brutal Honesty: She doesn't mince words when telling Chloe her boast about "not having any hopes or dreams" for Bakku to eat in case they get angry isn't boast worthy, which the redhead agrees with.
Canon Foreigner: She has no counterpart in the Blossomverse.
Celebrity Is Overrated: Part of what she tells Chloe when the redhead confides on her about her "dreams" regarding her Blossomverse self, which boils down to telling her that becoming "special", the thing her counterpart desired the most, gives people nothing but pressure and unwanted attention.
Character Development: It's fairly small, but notable. Back during the Horsegirl Race Car, Bakku chided Professor Fennel for treating her Dreamland Shepherd form as a last resort, and Made the decision to temporarily loan the Dream Miraculous to Chloe despite her inexperience. By the time of the Campfire Car, Professor Fennel wastes no time turning into Dreamland Shepherd once The Narrator shows up, and prepares to deal with her head-on.
The Chosen One: Once she shows herself to be a competent wielder of the Dream Miraculous, Grand Master Nooroo chooses her to become its designated wielder for the rest of her train trip.
The Chooser of the One: As the designated wielder of the Dream Miraculous, she can choose who gets to wield it temporarily, which is how she gets the idea to lend it to Chloe while they're at the Horsegirl Race Car.
Chronic Hero Syndrome: Professor Fennel's Abandoned Catchphrase of "Follow your dreams" was this, as she told this to those she found in the dumps to try and encourage them to keep going despite the harsh times. In a more dramatic example, she also felt a moral obligation to help Colress out with his plans despite having only just met him, which would go on to be seen as her biggest failure.
Classical Anti-Hero: Professor Fennel has a degree of self-loathing that she keeps hidden behind a pleasant smile, with it only coming out when she's with people she trusts, especially once she becomes an actual superhero due to wielding the Dream Miraculous.
Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: She's the one keeping Chloe restrained from going too far into her horse-addiction while in the Horsegirl Race Car.
The Confidant: Becomes this for Chloe when the redhead decides to tell her about the dreams she's had about her Blossomverse counterpart. Later, she gains one of her own in Haru Urara during the events of the Horsegirl Race Car.
Counting Sheep: One of her abilities, Insomniac Flock, seems to be based on this trope: she summons a group of sheep that, on their own, don't really seem to do much of anything, but they nibble. They nibble hard.
Crazy-Prepared: Chapter 16 reveals that she brought her Pokedex with her, although the one time she uses it on a currently transformed Chloe, she instead imitates its voice with Nerdy Nasalness to get the same effect.
Create Your Own Villain: She helped Colress get back on his feet while musing whether to continue with his ambition or give up altogether, not realizing what he was up to until long after she helped him. This, coupled with the possibility she encouraged other unsavory people still weighs heavily on her to this day.
Curb-Stomp Battle: Once she fights Night Mare during the climax of the Horsegirl Race Car, Professor Fennel/Fast Traveler is in complete control. Not only does she undo Night Mare's merged abomination with relative ease, but she just needs to zip past them to take the Fear Miraculous away from them, rendering her them powerless. Even when Angie dons the Cloak of Marchosias and becomes a werewolf with fire powers, Fast Traveler is still on top of her, as she proves too fast for the werewolf to actually hit.
Dark Secret: She made the mistake of encouraging a downtrotten Colress to continue his goal to get Pokemon to achieve their full potential, even helping him to an extent, making her feel slightly responsible for all the horrible things he went on to do.
A Degree in Useless: Downplayed. She's a Pokemon Professor who studies the dreams of Pokemon and their trainers. While this does allow her to get accustomed faster to the Infinity Train's innate weirdness, it doesn't give her any significant advantage in either traveling the Cars or getting her number down.
Didn't See That Coming:
- When she was asked by Professor Juniper to go help at Vermillion City, she was only going to meet with Professor Hale. So you can imagine her shock when she finds the Cerise Institute trapped in a Shared Dream, but meets not Professor Hale, but Colress in his place, especially since the last time they met was several years ago.
- Later, during the Horsegirl Race Car, she grants Chloe temporary ownership of the Dream Miraculous in order to give Chloe something to do while she goes to talk with Haru Urara. Needless to say, the ensuing nightmare attack and Night Mare's arrival leaves her and everyone else stunned.
Didn't Think This Through:
- When she was younger, Professor Fennel decided to help a man down in the dumps regain his vitality for his ambition, without really asking what he was doing or verifying if the man was trustworthy in the first place. Naturally, the man turned out to be Colress, who continued to do his experiments to have Pokemon reach their full potential one way or another.
- In the present day, she briefly gifts Chloe use of the Dream Miraculous during their stay in the Horsegirl Race Car. This wouldn't actually be so bad if 1) Chloe actually had experience using the Miraculous, which she does not, and 2) Night Mare didn't appear and immediately hunt her down shortly afterwards.
Dream Weaver: Becomes this as Dreamland Shepherd, with one her main powers, Dreamcatcher, even allowing her to bring whoever it hits' dreams to reality.
Elemental Baggage: Played With. On the one hand, Professor Fennel, as Dreamland Shepherd, is constantly emitting dust-like particules from her body that allows her to empower her attacks with the power of exhaustion. On the other hand, said attacks don't automatically require the dust to function, and the one time she does, it's to use an Enhanced Punch against Lady Sindooram's creation.
Embarrassing First Name: She seems to think so, at least, as she's a bit hesitant to reveal her first name's "Meridian" when Grand Master Nooroo asks for it.
Enhanced Punch: Dishes one empowered by her dust particles to strike down Lady Sindooram's Rapidash construct.
Every Proper Lady Should Curtsy: She does this while introducing herself to Baku, and then to Haru Urara. And just like in the anime, she does so using her labcoat.
Even the Loving Hero Has Hated Ones: Professor Fennel generally carries herself as a friendly person who doesn't hold a grudge; when Angie is defeated and imprisoned over what they did at the Horsegirl Race Car, the professor is understanding about what they did and doesn't prode further than necessary, and even with Colress, who's implied to know her, she's more shocked and terrified of seeing him rather than mad. However, her former lab assistants, Maria and Kawamura, are people she legitimately can't stand, especially the latter and his judgemental tendencies.
Expy: As a Pokemon Professor who willingly aides a version of Chloe Cerise and shows shades of being a Classical Anti-Hero, she has a lot in common with Professor Sycamore.
Fantastic Science: She studies the dreams of Pokemon and their trainers. This actually helps her adapt faster to the Train, since the worlds within aren't much weirder than the dreams she normally deals with.
Floral Theme Naming: Her full name, Meridian Fennel, is also the name of a biennial plant that's also known as Caraway.
Foil:
- To Talia Cerise. Both of them are women with a connection to Chloe whose interaction with her provides a significant chapter of her development, but while Talia is a Non-Action Guy whose Advice Backfire led Chloe into the train, and was an illustrator before deciding to become a teacher at Vermillion City's school, Professor Fennel is a Pokemon Professor who specializes in the dreams of Pokemon and their trainers, and she accompanies Chloe along her ride to help her mature and earn her exit home. Finally, and humourously, Professor Fennel has been confused as Chloe's mother a couple of times, while Talia actually is her mother.
- To Grace Monroe. Both of them team up with children during their respective train trips, but while Grace surrounded herself with several kids and even currently travels with at least four of them, Professor Fennel sticks with Chloe and Bakku and that's it. Both of them have kept secrets from them as well, but while Grace did so due to genuine ignorance and not wanting to lose their attention, Professor Fennel doesn't want to tell Chloe how she accidentally helped Colress get back on his feet to avoid putting needless pressure on the girl.
- To Amelia Hughes. Both of them are teamed up with a younger girl and both possess experience that allows them to adapt to the unorthodox nature of the Infinity Train. Amelia's expertise is in engineering, and she had three decades to get a full idea on how the Train worked, while Professor Fennel's study of the dreams of Pokemon means she quickly acclimatices to the weirdness in the train's cars. Also, while Amelia's relationship with Hazel is tense at best, and she treats the girl like an assistant, Professor Fennel and Chloe get along surprisingly well and she treats her like a good friend.
- She also eventually turns into one to Lady Destiny. The two of them are authority figures with a connection to Chloe; Professor Fennel is a Pokemon Professor who entered the train to help Chloe get back home, while Lady Destiny is a version of Chloe who rules a citadel of alternate Chloes, with a desire to turn Chloe into a hero. Professor Fennel shows a hands on approach in helping Chloe get her number lowered, while Lady Destiny prefers to send minions to do her work for her. Finally, Professor Fennel is a gentle woman who leads Chloe down a less dark path, and is unwilling to hurt people if she can help it, while Lady Destiny, for all her talk about helping Chloe become a hero, isn't above threatening or even hurting innocent people in order to create situations that will force Chloe's hand.
Friend to All Children: Professor Fennel seems to get along real well with children: she quickly gets along with Chloe and becomes one of her biggest allies on the Infinity Train, she's calm with Zippy Chippy and grabs her hand to calm her down when the younger horsegirl shows worry regarding her senpai's condition after the events of the Nightmare attack, and she not only doesn't probe Angie further when the girl refuses to say more about her backstory, but proves to be understanding even after she argues she might never tell her or Chloe anything else.
Given Name Reveal: Since "Fennel" in this story is her last name, her first name is kept secret until Grand Master Nooroo requests it, the woman eventually revealing it to be Meridian.
Girlish Pigtails: Her hair turns into a pair of these, with the lower half ending in star-shaped points, as Dreamland Shepherd.
Go Through Me: When Hazel and Amelia send The Narrator to the Campfire Car, Professor Fennel instantly turns into Dreamland Shepherd and declares that if she wants to get to Chloe, she'll have to get through her first.
Graceful Ladies Like Purple: While sleeping at the Cherry Blossom Inn Car, Professor Fennel dons a sleeveless dress with sheep spread across it.
Grin of Audacity: Flashes one as Fast Traveler, right before rewinding Night Mare's hybrid Ponyta monstrosity back to its previous form using the power of the Race Miraculous.
Godzilla Threshold: Her attempt to use her Miraculous as a last resort only gets her called out by Bakku; since even if using it as a last resort is a good idea, Fennel herself has no real reason not to use it when the situation could benefit from them. Later, Professor Fennel ends up having to done the Race Miraculous, which needs to be won first, in order to become Fast Traveler and fight off against Night Mare's forces.
The Hero: Of Wake Me Up.
Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Played Straight as Dreamland Shepherd, but Subverted as Fast Traveler, the form she takes while using the Miraculous of the Horsegirl Race Car; she gains a helmet resembling a biker's as part of her transformation.
Heart Is an Awesome Power: "Exhaustion" is a pretty odd thing to empower a heroine, but as Dreamland Shepherd, Professor Fennel shows just how powerful it can actually be: bringing dreams to reality, summoning sand to distract enemies, having the ability to put your foes to sleep...
Holding Back the Phlebotinum: Despite having an item that lets her become a superhero, "The Horsegirl Race Car" implies Professor Fennel leaves it as a last resort, something Bakku scolds her about.
Honor Before Reason: Despite being able to just go to the next car acting like nothing happened, Professor Fennel decides to go back to the Kwaminitiation Car to tell Grand Master Nooroo about the fact she not only gave her Miraculous to an inexperienced Chloe, but also used another Miraculous that wasn't her own without permission, while being ready to face whatever consequences comes her way.
Horrible Judge of Character: When she was younger, Professor Fennel saw a man down in the dumps, and, with her Chronic Hero Syndrome kicking in, she decided to help him without question. Who was the man? Colress, who was not only revitalized to continue his ambition, but would go on to do horrible things to achieve his ambition to see Pokemon reach their full strength. Needless to say, this still stings her in the present day.
Humble Hero: Professor Fennel isn't the type of person to brag about her achievements; despite being the current wielder of the Dream Miraculous, which she has used to at least take down a kaiju before the Horsegirl Race Car, she insists she's just an ordinary professor to Bakku.
Ignorance Is Bliss: As she explains to Haru, this is the reason why she's keeping her past encouragement of Colress a secret from Chloe; the girl is still young and full of energy and enthusiasm for life, so why should she jeopardize that by letting her in on her Dark Secret? Unfortunately, Chloe, as Twilight Sleepover, overheard everything during the professor and the horsegirl's talk, leaving on her cloud shortly afterwards.
I'm Not a Hero, I'm...: More or less her argument when Bakku asks her why she doesn't use the Dream Miraculous more often is that she's not a superhero like Blaziken Mask, or Gligirl, or the Black Arachnid, but an ordinary professor instead. Bakku's answer is simple: You Are Better Than You Think You Are.
Impossible Theft: Right after unfusing Night Mare's monster, she lunges at her, seemingly preppred to attack... Only to instead steal the Fear Miraculous from her so swiftly that Night Mare doesn't even notice until after Fast Traveler points this out.
Instant Expert: Discussed. After getting a taste of her powers as Fast Traveler, Professor Fennel is quick to notice how she seems to know exactly what to say and what her powers actually are, compared to when she actually needed to train and figure everything out as Dreamland Shepherd.
Incompletely Trained: Downplayed. Her battle with Lady Sindooram at the Kwaminitiation Car is all about teaching her how to use her powers as Dreamland Shepherd, but as proven by Twilight Sleepover during the Horsegirl Race Car, the Dream Miraculous has more powers than the first few Fennel used, meaning she's only trained the basics of the Miraculous and nothing else.
Just in Time: She ends up arriving the exact moment when a currently-depowered Chloe is about to be attacked by one of the living nightmares.
Keeping Secrets Sucks: Professor Fennel would probably feel a lot better if she didn't keep the fact she once helped Colress bounce back from his downtrotten episode a secret, but in her defense, she didn't really have anybody to tell this to until Haru Urara stepped up to be her confidant.
Know When to Fold 'Em: When Angie refuses to add on to her backstory over being from an alternate version of the Pokemon World, Professor Fennel immediately understands and decides to cut the conversation short there. In fact, she even lightly scolds Chloe when the girl wants to try to prode just a little further to get more information out of her.
Last-Name Basis: "Fennel" in this story turns out to be her family name when her sister shows up and introduces herself as "Amanita Fennel" to the Cerise Institute team. As we later find out, her first name is actually Meridian.
Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Being a Pokemon Professor, she wears one of these all the time. Notably, it transforms with her when she becomes Dreamland Shepherd.
Like a Duck Takes to Water: It's not brought up much, but Professor Fennel's study of the dreams of Pokemon and trainers allows her to acclimate to the weirdness of the Infinity Train fairly quickly.
Lipstick Lesbian: She's a fairly feminine professor, and she upgrades from being Ambiguously Gay in canon to straight up into women, and in a relationship with Professor Juniper.
Luminescent Blush: She blushes brightly when Bakku reveals she "swatted [him] away with your hips!", with the blush intensifying when Chloe goes on to add how she has some "killer hips".
Ma'am Shock: She's caught off-guard when Colress calls her "ma'am" shortly after meeting her, which leads Professor Fennel to clarify she's the younger one between her and Professor Juniper.
Meaningful Name: Her full name in this version, Meridian Fennel, is the name of a plant whose fruit is noted to have a pungent smell like anise, as in a sweet and aromatic, and which is used as spice on bread. Professor Fennel's arrival on the Train spices things up for Chloe, and her calm and friendly personality causes her and Chloe to quickly become good friends, with their trip together so far proving to be lighter than usual Blossomverse affair.
Missed Him by That Much: Unlike Chloe, she doesn't stick around after seeing the boots Miraculous on the pedestal and goes straight to the stable at the Horsegirl Race Car, causing her to miss Angie, the one responsible for the Dream Forest Car incident coming to see Chloe.
My Greatest Failure: When she was younger, she walked up to a younger, downtrotten Colress and told him to follow his dreams, like she used to do. When this wasn't enough to cheer him up, she decided to outright help him without questioning what he was even working on. This, along with Colress going on to do horrible things to have Pokemon attain their full potential, made her not only drop the catchphrase, but be wary of rushing into things without thinking things through.
Nerdy Nasalness: While not her natural voice, Professor Fennel adopts a similar tone in order to imitate a Pokédex voice after analyzing a horsegirl-transformed Chloe.
Nice Girl: Professor Fennel is a very cordial and amicable woman, with her anger and hostility only being reserved to those who either provoke her or really deserve it.
Not a Morning Person: When morning comes at the Cherry Boossom Inn Car, Professor Fennel takes a while to wake up; Bakku's attempt to wake her up earlier are done to no avail, and she only wakes up when she notices Chloe staring at her.
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: She once used to say "follow your dreams" to those she found to be in the dumps regarding their ambitions, and left it at that, until one day she decided to go the extra mile and outright help the person she was talking with. That person turned out to be Colress, who would go on to do horrible things in his experiments.
Older and Wiser: She's calm and reserved now, but as revealed during the Horsegirl Race Car, she was not only much more excitable, but also tended to jump the gun in order to do the good thing, like giving a helping hand to the man who would become Team Plasma's main scientist...
Personality Powers: Professor Fennel not only studies the dreams of Pokemon and trainers, but she also tends to get caught up in her daydreams. Naturally, she has several sleep and dream-themed powers as Dreamland Shepherd.
Pop-Cultural Osmosis Failure: While meeting Chloe for the first time, she recognizes the setup of their meeting (Chloe is sleeping on a pedestal in a white dress and holding a bouquet of flowers, with the implicit fact that she'll wake up from a kiss) as being similar to a fairy tale, but she confuses it for The Little Mermaid rather than Snow White.
Reasonable Authority Figure: How much authority she has outside the train is debatable, but inside it, she's basically the leader of the Dreamwalkers and is the one that Chloe typically goes to when she need some advice. When Angie refuses to further explain herself regarding her status as someone from an alternate Pokemon World, Professor Fennel not only understands and ends the conversation there, but even gently scolds Chloe when the redhead tries to convince her to keep prodding the greenette for answers.
Required Secondary Powers: As Dreamland Shepherd, she's constantly creating dust particles that she can use to empower her attacks to give them the ability to put people to sleep.
Sand Blaster: One of her powers, Sandstorm, summons a literal sandstorm to keep her enemy occupied while she approaches them for an attack.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: Once Night Mare starts her assault at the Horsegirl Race Car and she gets some prodding from Haru Urara, Professor Fennel decides to take the Miraculous of the car, which need to be won through a race, and use them to become a superhero to save Chloe from the nightmares.
Second Super-Identity: During the events of the Horsegirl Race Car, Professor Fennel ends up donning the Miraculous of the car in order to become a speed-themed heroine in order to go save Chloe and stop Night Mare.
Silk Hiding Steel: Downplayed. Professor Fennel is a feminine woman who primarily acts as an emotional supporter and who prefers to avoid fights when necessary. However, should push come to shove and she's left with no other choice, she will jump into the fray, like taking the Miraculous of the Horsegirl Race Car and turning into Fast Traveler in order to go save Chloe.
Skewed Priorities: Downplayed. She entered the Train partially to help Chloe get back home, per a request from her mother, but Fennel's number is bigger than Chloe's by default and only gets bigger by the time Fennel checks it again during the Campfire Car.
So Proud of You: Tells this to Chloe after she takes the first step to overcome her fear of dogs at Corginia, by trying to pet a Corginia Cuddle Cadet.
Spanner in the Works: Her arrival at the Cerise Institute not only saves the group from their shared nightmare, but also kickstart a chain of events that lets them combat Colress' Nightmare Mist-induced plan.
Stepford Smiler: Professor Fennel is a nice woman who often wears a smile on her face, but she has an 85 on her palm, which might not sound like much... until you realize this is almost double Chloe's number. The Horsegirl Race Car would eventually confirm this, revealing she feels responsible for helping Colress and potentially other dangerous people keep going by indiscriminately telling them to "follow their dreams", then helping Colress when those words didn't prove enough.
Stocking Filler: As part of her transformation into Dreamland Shepherd, she gains black stockings that covers her legs.
Super-Speed: Gains this ability as Fast Traveler, more specifically with the power of Fast Motion.
Team Mom: She might say otherwise, but her interactions with Chloe make it clear Professor Fennel's this at least to her once she joins her tea,; she always focuses on Chloe's well being, makes sure to be supportive when possible, and when Night Mare attacks the Horsegirl Race Car, Professor Fennel's first thought is to try and rescue her from the nightmares.
Technical Pacifist: Professor Fennel is the kind of person who will only resort to violence once she has exhausted all her options available. It's actually part of the reason she doesn't use the Dream Miraculous as much as she should; because she wants to use every other option possible before diving straight into superheroism, which gets on Bakku's nerves.
This Looks Like a Job for Aquaman: This is the reason why Professor Juniper sent her alone to Vermillion City; with the implication that Dream Mist was involved, and with Professor Fennel having expertise on dealing with the thing, Professor Juniper sent her believing that she'd be able to deal with the situation at the Cerise Institute and Vermillion City.
Time Master: As Fast Traveler, three of her abilities manipulate time in some manner: Slow Motion slows down a person to a certain point, Reverse Motion makes them go backwards, and Stop Motion outright freezes them in place until she cancels it out.
Token Adult: She's the only real adult in her team, as Chloe is just 10 and Bakku's age is not stated, but the fact they were only created when their kingdom got affected by nightmares implies they're relatively young.
Twofer Token Minority: She's both the only adult in her team and a lesbian.
The Unmasking: Once Night Mare's machinations have been dealt with, Professor Fennel willingly detransforms in front of Chloe, expecting the redhead to be shocked at the fact the confident woman who helped her was her all along. Chloe doesn't, since Bakku already told her.
Unfazed Everyman: She's a fairly normal woman as far as anybody's concerned, but she's not even stunned by what most of the Infinity Train shows to her, and acclimates herself to it pretty quickly.
Unwitting Instigator of Doom: As she explains to Haru Urara, she once encouraged and even helped a younger Colress when he was down in the dumps, giving him the motivation to continue his horrible experiments to achieve Pokemon's full potential and, by proxy, cause the mess in Vermillion City in the first place.
Vague Age: Professor Fennel's exact age is never stated. The most we know is that she's younger than Professor Juniper, her girlfriend, but we don't know her age for comparison.
We Used to Be Friends:
- Colress recognizes her and uses an affable tone when greeting her, implying that they know each other to some extent, but Fennel isn't exactly thrilled to see him. The Horsegirl Race Car eventually reveals that this is because Fennel encouraged him and even helped him with his experiments when she was younger, and only realized his true intentions after the fact, which is something that still stings her to the present day.
- A much clearer example is with her former lab assistants, Maria and Kawamura. According to her, they used to be close before she began researching Dream Mist and someone, implied to be Colress, got between them, causing them to eventually drift apart in less than friendly terms.
What You Are in the Dark: The end of the Horsegirl Race Car saga has her, Chloe, and Bakku paying a visit to the Kwaminitation Car in order to tell Grand Master Nooroo about the fact she used a Miraculous other than her own, and how she handed her own to an inexperienced user in Chloe without previous training. While Grand Master Nooroo already learned about it from Zoom, nothing was stopping Fennel from simply going to the next car and pretending that nothing happened. Instead, she decides to have her team head there and reveal the truth, ready to face whatever punishment Grand Master Nooroo has for them.
White Gloves: Gains these as Dreamland Shepherd.
Women Are Wiser: Played With. On the one hand, Professor Fennel proves to be a pretty effective support network for Chloe, stikcing by her side and offering advice whenever possible, and generally proving to be a decent ally. On the other hand, it's slowly made clear that Professor Fennel has made her fair share of mistakes, chief among them helping Colress rise up to power, and she also tends to both keep secrets from others at her own expense, and even not using her Miraculous at critical moments until she feels like it's time for a last resort.
You Are Better Than You Think You Are: When Chloe confesses to Professor Fennel how she's worried she might become a monster like her Blossomverse counterpart, the woman calmly states that Chloe's concern over it, and her genuine love for her family and friends, makes her better than that counterpart could ever be.

Chloe Cerise

Chloe Cerise / Twilight Sleepover

The daughter of Professor Cerise, and the secondary protagonist. She got taken by the Infinity Train before the start of the story.

Achievements in Ignorance: She manages to summon a cloud big enough for her to ride in just by yawning, which she even notes she only tried to see if it would work.
Accidental Pervert: She ends up staring at Professor Fennel while she's sleeping and the very first thing she does when she arrives at the Horsegirl Race Car is feel up the legs of a horsegirl. While she gets away with the former, the latter ends up with her getting a kick to the face.
Actor Allusion: As Twilight Sleepover, one of her abilities lets her summon sheep. Chloe's dub VA, Cherami Leigh, also voices another kind hearted white-haired girl who summons sheep when attacking.
Adaptational Angst Downgrade: By the bucketload. Just about everything that made Chloe suffer in the Blossomverse trilogy is omitted; the bullying she suffered at school isn't present, she gets along much better with her parents and friends, and she and Goh, while not interacting much, don't appear to have a friendship as strained as they did in the original story.
Adaptational Backstory Change: Instead of the harsh bullying and refusing to talk about her problems like in the Blossomverse, this Chloe simply faced the canon events of Episode 11, including the talk with her mother, and her not knowing what she wants to do with her life is the reason she got on the Train in the first place.
Adaptational Context Change: The talk she had prior to entering the Train and its impact are different here. In the Blossomverse, the talk was between Chloe and Akemi, who brought up Ash in an innocent attempt to get closer to her, only to anger her and serve as the penultimate button before Chloe blew up at home. In here, the talk was between Chloe and her mother, whose Be Yourself and "Take it easy" advice caused Chloe to question what she wanted to do when she grew older, leaving her vulnerable to be Train-napped.
Adaptational Explanation: The reason why she got train-napped in the original story was because she reached her breaking point after a big argument with Goh and a hard day at school. In here, she got train-napped after questioning what she wanted to do with her life.
Adaptation Explanation Extrication: Since this verse has no Yu-Gi-Oh characters, and thus no Specter to use for reference, it's unknown where her Specter of the Black Forest OC came from.
Adaptational Intelligence: Because this Chloe didn't suffer the bullying that her Blossomverse self did, she's a bit more open about her problems, telling Professor Fennel about her worries at the Cherry Blossom Inn Car without much prompting.
Adaptational Nice Guy: This Chloe no longer holds her vindictive streak and trust issues from canon, and instead comes across as a very friendly Genki Girl.
Adaptation Personality Change: In what could be considered a full circle version of this trope, Chloe goes from her Blossomverse O.C. Stand-in self due to a lack of canon information about her when that story was written, into a proper canon version of herself, removing the bias, anger, and spite present in that version for a calmer, nicer and more cheerful girl.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul:
- Across all stories, Chloe has an intense dislike towards both Goh and Ash, the former for being supposedly a Fair-Weather Friend who's never there for her when she needs him, and the latter due to how him being a champion reminds her of her insecurities regarding her dislike of Pokemon. While Wake Me Up doesn't go into detail over their relationship, the removal of Chloe's angst means that her reason to dislike them isn't present.
- Common Blossomverse lore has her be friends with Lexi and Atticus by the Unown incident. In here, Lexi's nowhere to be seen, and while Chloe and Atticus do meet, the former's fear of dogs means that Atticus stays behind in Corginia.
- One-One is the one who ends up giving Chloe both the title of chosen one of the Infinity Train, and the one who will ultimately end The Apex once and for all. Wake Me Up isn't clear as to whether they've even met, but the fact that Chloe has neither role means that even if they did meet, One-One didn't immediately give her such responsibility for her journey.
- Chloe's relationship with her classmates is heavily strained in the original trilogy due to them bullying her for not liking Pokemon, among other things. Since the bullying part is removed in Wake Me Up, Chloe's relationship with them is implicitly on the neutral side.
- Speaking of her classmates, Chloe and Sara have the most vitriol-filled relationship between them all, due to the latter being the ringleader that brought Class 5-E to bully her in the first place. But since the bullying Sara did to her was removed as well, their relationship is more neutral.
- The thing that made Chloe begin to breakdown into her getting trainnapped was Akemi walking up to her and trying to start a conversation, only to bring up Ash, something she didn't want to hear. Because the original reason Chloe got on the train was changed to being done by Talia, Akemi instead is implied to have yet to meet Chloe herself.
- Chloe and Talia barely interacted in the original trilogy, before and after Chloe got train-napped. In here, Talia's Advice Backfire is the reason Chloe gets taken by the Train in the first place.
Adaptational Skill: Downplayed. According to some author notes, this Chloe doesn't put as much emphasis on writing, though she does write to an extent, and instead focuses on other skills like drawing.
Adaptational Superpower Change: Instead of getting to wield the Cloak of Marchosias, which she rejects in this version, and attain the power to control fire, she instead gets the same Exhaustion-based Superpower Lottery that Bakku provides as Twilight Sleepover.
Adaptational Wimp: Typical Blossomverse lore has it that by the time the Unown incident happens, she has both the Cloak of Marchosias and decent softball skills. This Chloe has neither, as Professor Fennel finds Chloe sleeping on a bed in a Snow White-like car instead. In fact, when Angie tries to give her a Cloak of Marchosias as part of her plan to get Chloe to become a hero, Chloe not only rejects it, but she does some intense Agitated Item Stomping to further make it clear how she wants nothing to do with it.
Agitated Item Stomping: When Angie reveals the cloak she's giving her is a result of mixing demonic energy with something else, Chloe immediately throws it to the ground and begins stomping on it furiously before she notices Angie's shocked silence.
All Girls Like Ponies: She's super excited to go to the Horsegirl Race Car and says it's Worth It to be kicked in the face by one. She then gets even more excited to actually participate in a race. It's to the point that she willingly throws out the big race at the end of the car saga in order to help Haru cross the finish line, believing that just getting to race alongside other horsegirls was enough of a victory to her.
Animal Motifs: Horses. She's a big fan of equine Pokemon, summons a horse-like companion as Lady Sindooram, quickly gets accustomed to the Horsegirl Race Car and of the horsegirl denizens around it, with her growing quite close to Haru Urara, she summons a pegasus during her stint as Twilight Sleepover after an attack from Angie/Night Mare and in order to prepare for the big race, she eats a carrot that turns her into a Cute Monster Girl based on a Galarian Ponyta.
Be Careful What You Wish For: She wanted to know Professor Fennel's Dark Secret in order to help her back, as a reward for hearing her out during the Cherry Blossom Inn Car. Come the Horsegirl Race Car, she eavesdrops on Professor Fennel talking with Haru Urara about said secret, and what she learns does indeed turn out to be much too shocking for her.
Big "NO!": Shouts one of these when she's told she and Professor Fennel arrived too late to enter a race at the Horsegirl Race Car.
Big "YES!": Shortly after the Big "NO!" above, she shouts this when she's told they can stay at the stables with a Horsegirl.
Cast from Stamina: As Chloe learns during her stint as Twilight Sleepover, Bakku's transformation, when used by a youngster, one of the side effects is that the user will have their stamina depleted when using too many powers, leaving them, fittingly enough, exhausted upon detransforming. The fact that this is something Chloe learns only after detransforming during the chaos of the Horsegirl Race Car is very bad news.
Cheerful Child: She's very happy-go-lucky, though she only really gets energetic when things she likes, like horses, enter the picture.
Chickification: A justified example. Chloe in the Blossomverse trilogy was a tried and true Action Girl who was capable of taking on everything the Train had to give her, while this Chloe primarily stays on the sidelines and the few times she's made to fight or engage in a challenge, she gets scared at best and terrified at worst. This is because not only does she lacks the skills that the original version had that could translate into knowing how to fight, but she doesn't even have most of the equipment and weaponry that allowed her Blossomverse self to be so strong in the first place.
Children Are Innocent: Unlike her spiteful, wrath-filled Blossomverse self, this Chloe is much kinder and easygoing, with her desire for the macabre and to see her classmates-and Goh-suffer horrible fates being completely removed.
Compliment Backfire: She tries to lift Baku's mood up when they first meet by claiming that the dream-eating chimera Denizen is actually a Cute Monster... while flashing a sheepish smile. Baku wastes no time telling her to get some glasses. This happens again when she tells Professor Fennel she has "killer hips" moments after waking up to learn she used said hips to throw Bakku away. This causes the woman to blush and hastily change the subject.
Cower Power: She hides behind Professor Fennel when they're talking to the dog-headed receptionist at the Cherry Blossom Inn Car, due to her cinophobia.
Cowardly Lion: She's scared off her wits when Night Mare summons a giant dog demon and she ultimately runs away from it, but Chloe, as Twilight Sleepover, at least tries to fight the dog demon before realizing how out of her depth she really is.
Cute Monster Girl: She becomes a horsegirl styled after a Galarian Ponyta after the eating the carrot that allows her to participate in The Big Race at the climax of the Horsegirl Race Car.
Decomposite Character: Her potential evil persona in Lady Destiny is a separate character here, serving as the leader of the Vermillion Citadel.
Death Glare: Has one of these the entire time Lady Destiny tries to convince her to join the Vermillion Citadel.
Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: The reason why she got taken by the Train and she decides that, if she's going to go on a life-changing adventure in an interdimensional train, why not experiment with what they have to offer?
Didn't Think This Through: During her fight against Night Mare, Chloe, as Twilight Sleepover, has the brilliant idea to use Insomniac Flock to fight the giant dog demon summoned by the former. It goes about as well as expected, with the dog demon annihilating the entire flock with ease.
Establishing Character Moment: Her introduction at the end of the prologue has her wake up from a dream with all sorts of crazy stuff that she calls mediocre, before accepting Professor Fennel's offer to come with her to help her get her number down. This establishes not only her different interests compared to her Blossomverse self, but also that she's much more trusting than her other self ever was in the original trilogy.
Evil Me Scares Me: Her Blossomverse self isn't so much evil as she's horribly spiteful, but this Chloe becomes terrified of her once she comes to learn of her existence, and worries she might become like her in the future. This gets mixed with Other Me Annoys Me once they meet at the end of the Horsegirl Race Car, as Chloe has a Death Glare the entire time Lady Destiny speaks to her.
Exact Eavesdropping: She flies over the spot where Professor Fennel decides to confide in Haru Urara just in time to learn about Professor Fennel's past with Colress.
Exotic Eye Designs: As Twilight Sleepover, she gains star-shaped pupils alongside a domino mask.
Fiery Redhead: She's got red hair, and is a very energetic young girl.
Flying on a Cloud: After spotting Professor Fennel and Haru Urara walking elsewhere, Chloe summons a cloud big enough to hold her by yawning, which she remains on for the rest of the chapter until Night Mare destroys it.
From the Mouths of Babes: When Professor Fennel asks Chloe if she really did swat Bakku away with her hips when they tried to wake her up, the redhead nods and quips: "You got some killer hips".
Get Out!: While she doesn't say these exact words, her furious glare at The Icarus during her and Fennel's visit to the prison of the Horsegirl Race Car makes it clear she wants them out of her view, which they calmly oblige.
Girls Love Stuffed Animals: Not Chloe herself, but while flying away on her cloud after hearing about Professor Fennel's past with Colress, she ponders if gifting the woman a stuffed animal might cheer her up, citing this trope as a reason.
Girly Skirt Twirl: While explaining to Professor Fennel how she became a temporary maid for the Cherry Blossom Inn, hence the maid outfit, Chloe does a little twirl before stopping and curtsying.
Glory Seeker: Subverted. Unlike previous iterations of the character, this Chloe isn't interested in becoming either a hero like the Vermillion Citadel wants or somebody particularly famous on the Infinity Train; she just wants to go home and have a little adventure along the way. She makes this clear to Haru Urara as she helps the horsegirl head to the finish line, claiming that she wasn't interested in winning first place, and only wanted to race with other horsegirls.
Got Volunteered: Subverted. While explaining the Akumatization process, Grand Master Nooroo's tone implies he doesn't believe he'll easily get someone to volunteer, only for Chloe to interrupt him and volunteer completely off her own free will, shocking everybody.
Graceful Loser: She ultimately loses The Big Race at the climax of the Horsegirl Race Car, having stopped moments before crossing the line at first place in order to go back and help Haru Urara stand up so she can cross alongside her, meaning they both share the last place.
Handshake Refusal: She rejects Lady Destiny's offer of a handshake as the first of many signs that she's not necessarily fond of her alternate self.
Heroes Love Dogs: Inverted. Unlike either her original trilogy or Crocus version, this Chloe actually has a fear of dogs and dog-like creatures, despite having a Yamper at home, and has a much closer like towards horses instead.
Honor Before Reason: Chloe's inches away from crossing the finish line and earn first place, alongside the Race Miraculous. However, seeing Haru suddenly hit the ground after injuring her leg from last night's fight prompts her to stop at the last second, and go back to pick her up and help her cross the line, causing them both to reach last place.
Humble Goal: Unlike her Blossomverse self having a mission to stop The Apex — since the Apex is already disbanded at this point — this Chloe only wants to see everything the Infinity Train has to offer and figure herself out and what she wants to be in life.
Iconic Attribute Adoption Moment: Defied. When presented with the Cloak of Marchosias at the Horsegirl Race Car, it doesn't take long before Chloe rejects the gift.
I Just Want to Be Normal: She's in no hurry to become an actual superhero or anything other than her ordinary self. Not that the Vermillion Citadel agrees with her...
In Spite of a Nail: Despite the many changes done to her, Chloe eventually ends up wearing an All-Encompassing Mantle that gives her superpowers. The catch is that instead of wielding the Cloak of Marchosias, she dons the Dream Miraculous temporarily from Professor Fennel, allowing her to become Twilight Sleepover.
Jumped at the Call: While she has some doubts about it, Chloe accepts to temporarily wield the Dream Miraculous once given the chance by Professor Fennel.
Living MacGuffin: The Vermillion Citadel have a vested interest in turning her into a hero of some sort.
Locked Out of the Loop: She had no idea about Professor Fennel's Dark Secret until the Horsegirl Race Car, and much more seriously, she's completely unaware about the Vermillion Citadel and their desires to force her to become a hero until the end of the Horsegirl Race Car.
Meido: When she goes to wake up Professor Fennel at the Cherry Blossom Inn Car, she does so donning a maid outfit, having apparently decided to work as a temporary maid there as part of her Try Everything goal. We don't get to see her do any work, however.
Most Writers Are Writers: Not nearly as pronounced as her trilogy self, but she does write a little, as she reveals to Professor Fennel while going to meet Baku.
Muggles Do It Better: Does this with herself, oddly enough. As Twilight Sleepover, Chloe could barely put a dent in Night Mare and their minions, with the most she managed to do involving stunning them before running away. After detransforming and being given the Fear Miraculous by Fast Traveler, she manages to seal away all the nightmares back into the Fear Miraculous, effectively ending the nightmares at the Horsegirl Race Car once and for all.
Mystical White Hair: Her hair turns from red to white when she becomes Twilight Sleepover.
Not Brainwashed: She gets willingly akumatized into Lady Sindooram in order to help Professor Fennel test the Dream Miraculous.
Not Like Other Girls: An actual plot point. The Vermillion Citadel desire to elevate this Chloe to a hero status, but their plans to do so operate on the idea that she's like every other Chloe in the multiverse; that is an Action Girl and Blood Knight with anger issues, violent tendencies, and a belief that she's been hurt too much by the world before being picked by the Train. By having essentially none of these traits, Chloe throws the citadel for a loop.
No Sense of Personal Space: Getting up close to a horsegirl she barely just met already made her seem too forward. The fact she promptly feels up her leg while the horsegirl is clearly shocked means that she more or less had the kick from Zippy Chippy coming.
Other Me Annoys Me: While initially on the other side of the spectrum, meeting Lady Destiny and the Chloes of the Vermillion Citadel quickly grinds Chloe's gears, and even though she's scared, she tells them to back off without hesitation. This happens again during chapter 16, when she finds out The Icarus has already gone to see Angie in her guise, and is completely stern and strict when they meet her until she eventually leaves, at which point she begins to calm down.
Pink Is Feminine: While sleeping at the Cherry Blossom Inn Car, Chloe dons a pink onesie with an image resembling a horse race on the stomach.
Power Dyes Your Hair: When she merges with Bakku to become Twilight Sleepover, her hair turns from its natural red to a more mystical, cloud-like white.
Power-Strain Blackout: Downplayed. After safely getting away and detransforming far away from Night Mare, Chloe ends up feeling a dizzy spell before she starts feeling tired, with Bakku noting it to be the side effect of her using the Dream Miraculous as a youngster.
The Promise: Makes one with Professor Fennel, promising to win the Miraculous of the Horsegirl Race Car by winning tomorrow's race at the Horsegirl Race Car.
Protectorate: Professor Fennel considers Chloe this, as she was tasked by her parents to bring her back home safely, something she even confirms to Haru Urara during the Horsegirl Race Car saga.
Refusal of the Call: When Angie tries to give her the Cloak of Marchosias, she throws it on the ground and stomps it as soon as she reveals that it's partially made of demonic energy. She then grabs it, hands it back, and rejects it in a more nicely manner before bolting away.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After her Insomniac Flock gets absolutely decimated by Night Mare's dog demon nightmare, Chloe immediately uses Sandstorm in order to distract her long enough to run away.
Security Cling: Chloe jumps into Professor Fennel's arms whenever she gets scared, whether it's because Baku interrupts their private talk, or a Corginia Cuddle Cadet suddenly starts licking her.
Significant Green-Eyed Redhead: She's got red hair, green eyes, and is the secondary protagonist of the story.
Spared by the Adaptation: Because her backstory is more along the lines of the canon series, she's spared from the extreme bullying she suffered back in school, and doesn't have as many issues with Goh.
Superpowers For A Day: A night, technically, but it's the same principle: Professor Fennel lets her borrow the Dream Miraculous for their night at the Horsegirl Race Car to give her something to do while the professor goes to see Haru Urara, allowing Chloe to become Twilight Sleepover.
Sympathy for the Devil: While not exactly accepting of what she did, Chloe can't help but feel sorry for Angie since, despite forming part of a plan to try and force her to become a hero, which involved hurting a lot of people, she can see that this was forced upon them, and that they even showed reluctance at several points.
There's No Place Like Home: While she'd like to try everything the Train has to offer her, Chloe also desires to go back home as soon as she can, which serves as a big contrast to her Blossomverse self, who even went so far as to threaten to run back into the Train if Vermillion City didn't change themselves for the better.
Tranquil Fury: When she finds out that The Icarus entered the prison of the Horsegirl Race Car before, under her identity, Chloe's calmly furious as she and Fennel confront the winged alternate Chloe and only really calms down when they're left alone with Angie.
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She has cinophobia, or a fear of dogs, despite having a Yamper back at home. This is ultimately the reason why she doesn't have Atticus join her team; while he's friendly enough with her, even being willing to help Chloe with her phobia, Chloe's fear of dogs prevents her from being able to stay too long with the corgi king by her side, a fact that the Vermillion Citadel are completely unprepared for.
Worth It: When asked by Professor Fennel if she was okay after getting kicked by Zippy Chippy, not only does Chloe say she's okay, but that it was worth it for a chance to feel a real horsegirl.
You Are Not Ready: When she suggests to Professor Fennel to tell her about her problems after telling her about her dreams regarding her Blossomverse self, the woman gently rejects her, citing this reason as to why. She finally does learn by the Horsegirl Race Car, but she winds up getting more than she bargained for.
Zerg Rush: While fighting Night Mare, she decides to use Insomniac Flock to send against the dog demon nightmare she summoned in hopes of defeating it. It doesn't go well.

Bakku

Baku / Bakku

A weird-looking Denizen from the Dream Forest Car with the power to eat nightmares, but also hopes and dreams if angered enough. They eventually decide to join Professor Fennel's team as the Kwamizen of the Dream Miraculous, renaming themselves as Bakku in the process.

Ambiguous Gender Identity: Their form doesn't really incline to them being either male or female, whether its in their original form or Kwamizen form.
Baku: What they're typically based on, and they do mostly look like the creature itself before they turn into a Kwamizen. However, they're bipedal rather than quadrupedal like the average depiction.
Badass Cape: They reside in one in the Dream Miraculous, though it looks more like a blanket when disguised.
Beware the Silly Ones: They're a mix-match of different animal parts who resides in a blanket. Said blanket is also a Miraculous, and Bakku themselves can eat your hopes and dreams if they get mad enough.
Cast from Stamina: Not they themselves, but a youngster who uses their Miraculous will end up sacrificing some of their stamina whenever they use their powers, as shown when Chloe gets a dizzy spell after detransforming.
Cute Monster: Chloe sheepishly claims that Baku's one of these after they reveal that they get comments about "expecting something more dangerous" quite often.
Deadpan Snarker: Baku's response to Chloe claiming they, a talking anthropomorphic dream eating chimera, is actually kinda cute? "I think you need glasses."
Discard and Draw: Before turning into a Kwamizen, Bakku (back then known as Baku), had the ability to, among other things, eat dreams and hopes and travel through mist. After becoming a Kwamizen, while the dream eating ability is still present, they also provide several sleep-related abilities to the wielder of the Dream Miraculous, like the ability to use sleeping dust or bring dreams to life.
The Dog Bites Back: How he took the hopes and dreams of Apedemak's kingdom; they kept going to them to get them to eat their nightmares, until Baku couldn't take it anymore and ate their hopes and dreams as well in revenge.
Emotion Eater: Like in mythology, they can eat a person's hopes and dreams if they get angry enough.
Expecting Someone Taller: When Chloe and Professor Fennel first meets them in the Dream Forest Car, the latter's quick to claim she was expecting something much more dangerous-looking. Luckily, Baku doesn't really mind.
Fairy Companion: Becomes one to Professor Fennel, and Chloe to an extent, upon becoming a Kwamizen and the woman gaining ownership of his Miraculous.
Humble Goal: They simply want to leave their car and get to become a Kwamizen, which they manage to obtain once they meet Professor Fennel and Chloe.
I Just Want to Be Free: They're exhausted from being constantly asked to eat the Dream Forest Car's kingdom's nightmares, so when given the chance to exit the Car in exchange for returning those same hopes and dreams to the animals, they take it.
Lazy Alias: When they become a Kwamizen, they change their name from Baku to... Bakku.
Leonine Contract: They make a deal with Apedemak to give back his kingdom's hopes and dreams in exchange for being allowed to leave the Dream Forest Car. Given there's no indication there's any other way to bring them back, the lion king has no choice but to accept the deal.
Meaningful Rename: Changes their name to Bakku to signify their ascension into a Kwamizen.
Mix-and-Match Critters: Like their inspiration, they look like a collection of various different animal parts, both before and after becoming a Kwamizen.
Non-Human Sidekick: Serves as this to Professor Fennel and Chloe, being their voice of reason and living transformation trinket to become superheroes.
Sleepyhead: They recharge the Dream Miraculous by sleeping.
Taking Advantage of Generosity: Not he himself, but this trope is a big Berserk Button for him; if you do this to him, no matter the reason, then next time you call him, he'll eat your hopes and dreams as well as your nightmares.
What the Hell, Hero?: He scolds Professor Fennel for not transforming into Dreamland Shepherd on the Car prior to the Horsegirl Race Car.
You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: As befitting their origin myth, if Baku gets angered enough, not only will they eat a person's nightmare, but their hopes and dreams as well.

Allies

Haru Urara

A Horsegirl from the Horsegirl Race Car, famous for having never won a single race. She's one of two horsegirls that the Dreamwalkers meet when they arrive at the car, alongside Zippy Chippy, and she ends up joining the team after not only acting as a confidant to Professor Fennel, but also helping during the nightmare attack.

Adaptational Angst Upgrade: She's a little bit more aware of her status as a the horsegirl who lost a hundred races, which prompts her to do one last race before quitting.
Adaptational Badass: Haru was strictly a racing horsegirl, with her home series having no real battles outside of racing. In here, she gets to show off some impressive leg strength by not only shattering the glass surrounding the car's Miraculous so Professor Fennel can become Fast Traveler, but also appearing right in the nick of time to kick a nightmare demon away before it can maul Chloe and Bakku alive.
Adaptation Personality Change: Haru Urara is noted to be quite energetic in canon, but is much more mellow and mature here.
Agony of the Feet: Her legs aren't in top condition for the race after the nightmare attack last night, but she continues to race regardless to try go out with a bang, eventually collapsing from overexertion during the last stretch.
Bad "Bad Acting": Her acting stunned when Professor Fennel destransforms from her Fast Traveler form in front of Chloe, that if Bakku hadn't already spoiled the surprise for her, Haru's acting would've probably done the trick.
Badass Normal: She's an ordinary horsegirl Denizen who's famous for not having won a single race, and she manages to kick open the glass keeping the Horsegirl Race Car Miraculous in place.
Big Damn Heroes: She kicks away a living nightmare demon moments before it can seriously hurt Chloe and Bakku.
Born Unlucky: She's a Denizen from the Horsegirl Race Car who has had the misfortune to lose not one, not two, but a hundred races before Professor Fennel and Chloe arrived at the Car. She doesn't even get to cross the final line on her own, being so weakened from the events of the nightmare attack that she collapses on the ground, with Chloe having to go back and help her get up to cross the line alongside her.
Bridal Carry: How she carries Zippy Chippy after her legs go numb due to Night Mare's attacks.
Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: Downplayed, as it wasn't outright broken, but her legs aren't in top shape for the big race at the climax of her introduction saga due to kicking open the glass keeping the Race Miraculous protected, and kicking away a demon monster from hurting Chloe and Bakku. While she manages to run just fine at first, kicking the tower summoned by Touko Zaizen and jumping off it causes her feet to act up, making her trip and fall to the ground, prompting Chloe to help her get up and cross the finish line alongside her.
The Confidant: Becomes one to Professor Fennel to let her vent regarding her Dark Secret.
Karmic Jackpot: Haru Urara decides to help the Dreamwalkers by not only being Professor Fennel's confidant in regards to her dark secret, but also helping her break the glass containing the Race Miraculous, and then kick away a nightmare demon that was about to attack Chloe. She gets rewarded not only with getting to join the Dreamwalkers at the end of the Horsegirl Race Car saga, but Chloe throws the race and decides to help her cross the line for her final race.
Kick Chick: Being a horsegirl, most of her strength is on her legs, which she uses to kick the glass covering the Miraculous of the car hard enough to shatter it, and then punt away a living nightmare before it hurts Chloe and Bakku. However, this causes her to not be at top condition for the race at the end of the arc, and she collapses after tumbling down Touko Zaizen's tower.
Leg Focus: Her legs get quite a bit of attention from both Chloe and Zippy Chippy.
Little Bit Beastly: Being a horsegirl from the Horsegirl Race Car, she has the ears and tails of a horse, and unlike the competitors of the race like Chloe, hers are completely natural.
Nice Girl: She's very kind and cordial, and while she's creeped out by Chloe feeling up her legs, she doesn't get angry at her. She's also perfectly happy to become Professor Fennel's confidant in order to help her ease a bit of tension from keeping her dark secret under wraps in Chloe's presence.
Put on a Bus: By the end of the Horsegirl Race Car saga, she's unable to accompany the rest of the Dreamwalkers until she heals her leg from the pressure she exerted on it due to the race and the Night Mare attack, but promises them that they'll meet again.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: The Blue Oni to Zippy Chippy's Red Oni.
Rose-Haired Sweetie: Has pink hair and is a very nice horsegirl.
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!: She destroys the glass keeping the Race Miraculous in place to give Professor Fennel a Miraculous to work with, despite knowing how this could potentially get her in a lot of trouble.
Secret-Keeper: She promises Professor Fennel to keep the fact she once encouraged down-on-his-luck Colress a secret from Chloe.
Sixth Ranger: She ends up joining the Dreamwalkers after not only having Professor Fennel confide in her regarding her secret, but also helping against the nightmare attack when Night Mare arrives.
Stronger Than They Look: She's a pretty slender horsegirl with no real toned muscles to her body, but her legs are strong enough to shatter the glass containing the Race Miraculous, kick away a living nightmare hard enough to send it flying, and even topple down a tower summoned by Touko Zaizen. Unfortunately, the latter proves to be too much for her, and she ends up collapsing before crossing the finish line.
Women Are Wiser: She not only quickly sees that something is bother Professor Fennel, but she hears her story about what she did with Colress and provides her with encouragement and support when the woman shows concern about telling this to her.

The Apex Remnants

Grace Monroe

Formerly the leader of The Apex, she's now taken the remnants of it in order to help their numbers reach zero and find a way back home.

Absent Animal Companion: Her origami bird Denizen companion is nowhere to be seen.
Adaptational Angst Downgrade: The fact that Lucy, Lindsay, Alex, and Todd chose to stick together with her after Book 3 means she's no longer completely alone in a Train who wants her dead.
Adaptational Angst Upgrade: At the same time, she's still reeling from the events of Book 3, but now she also has to worry about helping her kids get their numbers down to zero so they can go home.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Titus did not get along with Grace, seeing her as just as responsible for the situation of his son as Simon was. In here, because such an event never happened, the two manage to interact in a civil manner.
Adaptational Wimp: Grace in the original trilogy had a divine knife that made it perfect for killing Denizens. This Grace has no such weaponry, forcing her to hide alongside the kids when Amelia and Hazel arrive at Azada.
The Atoner: She's trying to be this, at the very least. She's gone from wheeling Denizens to focusing solely on helping the Apex remnants get their numbers down so they can go home.
Even the Girls Want Her: Lindsay, one of the kids under her care, has a crush on her.
Fake Wizardry: When confronted by Amelia and Hazel while disguised as a librarian, the former orders her to perform a magic trick, as all librarians are apparently magical in Azada. Grace agrees... and does the "pull your thumb off" magic trick. Amelia, being Easily Impressed, buys it, while Hazel can't believe she's falling for this.
Friend to All Children: While it was debatable how much she fit this trope before, given that she lied to these same kids for months, she fits this better in the present day, being fully focused on keeping the remaining Apex kids safe and helping them get their numbers down so they can go home.
Greater Need Than Mine: Her actions have left her number way too big to get down to zero anytime soon, and she's burnt all her bridges by then anyway. So, she focuses on helping the Apex kids get their numbers down so they can go home.
Late-Arrival Spoiler: This is the Grace Monroe of post Book 3, meaning that she has been humbled and finally learned what the Train is really about, but also lost everyone she ever cared about in the process.
Magic Librarian: Since the Azadan librarians are said to be magical, she's forced to pass off as one of these in order to hide when Amelia and Hazel come snooping around. The bad news is that the only "magic" she knows how to do boils down to a simple magic trick. Good news is that Amelia is just that easy to impress that she buys it immediately.
Opaque Nerd Glasses: Wears a pair of these as part of her librarian disguise.
Paper-Thin Disguise: Her "librarian" disguise is just her putting on a different dress, nerdy glasses and a blonde wig.
Reformed, but Rejected: She has long since abandoned her wheeling ways, but the damage she did as leader of The Apex is still felt by most Denizens, who naturally refuse to give her and her kids the time of day.
Retired Monster: She's long since left her former wheeling ways behind, and just wants to help her kids get a way home.
Spared by the Adaptation: The story takes place after book 3 of Infinity Train, and in the Blosomverse counterpart, Grace had effectively lost everything, with the Apex disbanding and Ogami killing her behind the scenes before the story even began. In here, not only does not get killed by Ogami, but she even manages to keep some companionship in the sense of the few remaining Apex kids: Lucy, Lindsey, Todd, and Alex.
Team Member In Adaptation: Grace only joined with the Red Lotus team during the climax of Blossoming Trail, a team-up that was filled with tension. In here, she joins up with the Dreamwalkers by orders of Grand Master Nooroo.
We Used to Be Friends: To anybody who watched Book 3, Grace and Hazel used to be close with one another before several bad decisions from both Grace and Simon caused the girl to grow more and more cynical, culminating in Hazel leaving Grace and Simon for Amelia near the end of the book. As a result, their relationship is very tense when they meet again.

Apex Kids in general

A group of kids who are all that's left of The Apex since the events of Book 3. They accompany Grace in hopes of getting their numbers down.

Adaptational Angst Downgrade: In the original trilogy, the children were being hunted down by the Denizens of the Infinity Train for all the Denizens they killed during their stint as Apex members. While they're still being hunted down here, they're not only with each other, but Grace and eventually the Dreamwalkers by Grand Master Nooroo's orders.
Adaptational Nice Guy: So far, they appear to lack the sociopathic traits that their Blossoming Trail counterparts had.
Adaptation Relationship Overhaul: Grace had eventually burned her bridges with the four of them, though Lucy and Todd still held some degree of affection for her. In this story, they're strictly on her side even after she reveals her lies and the true nature of the Infinity Train; in fact, two of them (Alex and Lindsay) are outright crushing on her.
Ambiguous Criminal History: They were part of The Apex, meaning they were complicit in the wheeling of at least a few Denizens and the corruption of some passengers. However, it's not clear if they wheeled denizens or corrupted passengers themselves and weren't just watchers the entire time.
Ascended Extra: While Lucy and Todd did get some focus on the original trilogy, Alex and Lindsay were nowhere to be seen. In here, all four of them are accounted for as Grace's wards.
Kids Are Cruel: They once were, but not anymore. Not that the denizens are willing to give them a chance.
Protectorate: Because Grace has long since accepted that her number means she's unlikely to ever return home, she's made it her mission to help these kids get their numbers down to zero so they can leave the Train and go home.
The Remnant: They're all that's left of all the kids that used to follow Grace's rule and chose to keep following her after the events of Book 3.
Retired Monster: Like Grace, they have left behind their wheeling ways, though they haven't been forgiven by the train just yet.
Tag Along Kid: While they could split off from Grace and travel the Train on their own, they stick with Grace for safety and also because of being the only friendly face they've known for a while.
Talking In Their Sleep: They all do this while going off to sleep in Azada, though only two are explicitly identified; Lindsay, who mumbles something about being a magical girl idol, and Alex, who promises to kill Moby Dick to avenge Lucy's eye.
Team Member In Adaptation: Just like Grace, they never formally joined the Red Lotus team in the original trilogy. In here, they join them alongside Grace.
Undying Loyalty: Despite Grace having lied to them and everything they went through as members of the Apex, they still decided to stick together with Grace and follow her until their numbers go down to zero.

Lucy

A brunette girl who was a former member of the Apex. She lost her eye during an incident with a Moby Dick-based Denizen.

Adaptational Context Change: In canon, Lucy lost her eye due to a harpoon incident that doesn't get further elaboration. In here, said incident happened because of a denizen based on Moby Dick.
Harmful to Minors: She got a harpoon to the eye during a Moby Dick incident.
Sticky Fingers: After leaving Azada with a book about Kwamizen, Lindsay claims this of Lucy, who responds that Titus gave it to her.

Lindsay

A girl who was part of the Apex once. She's now under Grace's watch.

Adaptational Sexuality: Lindsay didn't really get enough screentime to determine if she liked boys or girls, and being a kid made it a moot point, but she confesses to Todd while Hazel and Amelia look for them that she's always had a crush on Grace (right before Todd reveals he too had a crush on her).
Precocious Crush: She has one for Grace, which makes it kinda awkward when she reveals this to Alex, who also has a crush on her.

Alex

A boy who's under Grace's watch.

Precocious Crush: He has one for Grace, which makes it a bit awkward when Lindsay, a fellow Apex remnant, reveals she too has a crush on her.

Todd

One of the kids under Grace's watch. He used to like whales until the Moby Dick incident.

Animal Motifs: Whales. His pajamas during the sleep at Azada has whale imagery, Grace claims he liked whales before the Moby Dick incident, and his current nemesis is a Denizen based on Moby Dick, a famous fictional monster whale.

Characters / Infinity Train: Wake Me Up: Dreamwalkers

The Main Trio

Professor Meridian Fennel / Dreamland Shepherd / Fast Traveler

Chloe Cerise / Twilight Sleepover

Baku / Bakku

Allies

Haru Urara

The Apex Remnants

Grace Monroe

Lucy

Todd

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Professor Meridian Fennel / Dreamland Shepherd / Fast Traveler

Chloe Cerise / Twilight Sleepover

Baku / Bakku

Allies

Haru Urara

The Apex Remnants

Grace Monroe

Lucy

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