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There are many moments in the Infinity Train: Blossomverse stories where characters have standards and limits despite the situation in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, and Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria.


In General

  • Zig Zagging. Nobody takes the message revealing how Grace died well. While she had those who care for her, whether out of standards or sympathy, some are not sympathetic to her death, for understandable reasons that she committed another number of crimes and traumatized many people while alive. Grace's former victims are still dealing with their scars and trauma she inflicted on them, and are not sympathetic and even say they are glad she is dead. But they are gently called out on being told they should not be glad she died despite what she did to them, to which they agree. In fact, the characters who do think it's good (Mad Ben and Kisaragi) are reprehensible assholes with no moral high ground at all.
  • The Knights of Hanoi are not happy to learn how the Apex like to wheel sentient denizens (even though they once had a plan to put people into comas in order to destroy the cyber world to eradicate the Ignis).

Red Lotus Trio

  • The four want to take down the Apex, but they don't want the kids to die and then have their souls repurposed as denizens.
    Atticus: You [Olmec] want a bunch of children to be killed off to become ghosts and roam around hurting other people?!
    Olmec: Do you wish for the Apex to continue as they are?
    Lexi: We all don't want that. Scare them? Yes. Murder them? No.
  • In the Cyan Desert Car, Both Atticus and Lexi disapprove of Chloe saying that she will run away again unless everyone apologizes to her, giving her disappointed looks when Parker reminds her of it.
  • In Le Chat Chalet Car, none of them give The Cat any ounce of pity for how she abandoned Simon to a Ghom, had every chance to back for him, allowed himself to kill and injure Nulls and never told him that the numbers were supposed to go down.
  • In the Fog Car, the Red Lotus Quarto are cringing at how Walter has Paul like a tamed animal, devoid of any sort of fight.

Chloe Cerise

  • For all of her desires to kill her classmates for their pranks, her stories having people ending in gruesome fates and to not speak to Goh again, she states that wishing that someone was stillborn is a bit too much, when Lexi relates the letters in Goh's name to the lyrics of "A Gorey Demise"Explanation .
  • Even if she hates her father, she doesn't want him dead and does not approve of the torture Parker has inflicted on people and hastily texts him to stop. She is mortified to learn that it went far as Miss April cutting her wrists.
  • For all her hate on Goh abandoning her and being incredibly insensitive, she is shocked to learn that he's been put in a suicide ward due to what Parker did to him.
  • Chloe winces at the torture she sees Paul go through when she looks through his memories and is just lucky to see even one good memory.

Lexi

  • Lexi hates the Apex for their actions but he considers the idea of denizens wanting to murder the Apex and repurpose their souls for their own use as going too far.
  • Lexi has an understandable hatred for Grace for betraying him and leaving him buried alive for years, trapped just a few feet away from his father. Even with Simon dead and Grace gone in the sequel, he can't let it go since neither of them (particularly Grace) didn't apologize for the trauma they gave him. He initially lets go of his hatred of Simon by his father's urging, but when he learns that Grace was murdered, he did not openly say it was a good thing, as some of her former victims or people who are just as horrible as her (Mad Ben and Kisaragi) got joy from the Apex leader's Karmic Death. Later, when Lexi learns that Hazel, Lucy, and Toby build a small memorial for Grace, at first angry, he was surprised when they said they were afraid he would destroy the memorial (since it's shown that he shattered Grace and Simon's photo in Azada). Reflecting on this, Lexi decides to offer a tribute to Grace and moves on from his hatred.

Amelia Hughes

  • She agrees that the Apex should be stopped but is relieved that The Fog Car isn't some endless car filled with fog that would keep people trapped inside forever, forcing them to starve. She also does not take the news of an Apex child who drowned in the lake very well.
  • For all that she did in trying to recreate her old life, she wouldn't go as far as remolding someone else's soul into being Alrick.
  • Once she realizes what the Cage of Flauros will result in, she immediately states that no one, not even the Apex deserve that fate. Even she is horrified at the Cold-Blooded Torture that Paul had to go through.
  • Amelia, understandably, greatly dislikes Grace for all the atrocities she committed in her name (the biggest ones being this close to indoctrinate Hazel, who is her daughter, along with her actions that led to Simon going to murder Chloe) and was not sympathetic to the cult-leader at all at the ending of Blossoming Trail. However, in Voyage of Wisteria, when Amelia learns that Grace was murdered, she's horrified at how Ogami relentlessly stabbed her to death all while Grace apologizes for all she did. She hastily messages One to spread the word about Ogami and to make sure that Grace's death is not celebrated as a good thing. She also is not pleased to have One-One not understanding the horrors of Grace dying outside her getting a chance to atone for her sins.
  • When she learns of Grace's backstory, she is shocked that the Train had the gall to take Horace (a terminally ill patient) into a dangeorus location and Mark Kessler (the boy who would become Ogami) murdering Horace and then cutting his own head off.

Isaac "Zack" Foster and Rachel "Ray" Gardner

  • Zack is a serial killer, but he at least admits that he's a killer. He finds it disgusting what the Apex does and how Grace and Simon lie and manipulate children to murder denizens.
  • Zack is a serial killer who relishes in seeing the despair in one's eyes, but even he thinks that the situation with Chloe and Goh is rough.

Alex Shepherd/The Bogeyman

  • He agrees to the plan to trap the Apex, but feels somewhat uncomfortable that Henry and Walter don't even call their prisoner or patient by their names.
  • He's disgusted at Specter's treatment of Easter, so disgusted that he plans on torturing Specter in retaliation.

Paul Drangea/The Prisoner

  • He tries to state that he didn't mean to let the Apex member drown in the lake and he's shown to have some sort of moral code in the anime. That said, Walter doesn't believe it for a second and gaslights him to make it so that it was all his fault for the deed when it was all an accident from Electivire knocking Sean into the water in self-defense and him lacking Gastrodon.

Bede

  • For all the puppies he kicked when he broke Hop, he realized he crossed the line when Goh has a breakdown over Chloe's disappearance and the fact that she's also heading off to the same place where Hop is at.

Ash Ketchum

  • Even a ditz like him realizes that Goh has dug himself way too deep about his obsession over Mew making Chloe uncomfortable.
  • Ash does not like Team Rocket but even he hopes they stay far away from the Parker and Unown powered mess for their own safety.
  • Despite having every right to want the worst to happen to him, Ash does not want Parker, the mad with power five-year-old who mind raped him and his friends arrested or in jail. His specific situations make all of those problematic. He just wants to be far away from him after it is all over and never see him again. He also specifically doesn't feel guilty per his Guilt Complex over his betrayal because it was not something he should have ever had to suspect from him.

The Adults of Pallet Town

  • They had no issue going along with Carl's scheme to ruin Ash's reputation, but when it's revealed that said scheme involved starting a forest fire that could've killed a dozen children, and that Carl abandoned his own son Kris for not being able to enter the Indigo League, they are all horrified and turn against him.

Goh Fujihachi

  • Goh is the last person who can read the room, but even he can see that what Sara and Chloe's classmates did was utterly wrong.
    • In his nightmare therapy, he's horrified to see what would happen if Chloe never left the Train and was like he wanted her to be: her giving up on life and jumping off the school's roof when he ignores a cry of help from her.
    • Parker's visions confirm that he wouldn't have gone through with outing Ash on having a boyfriend unless Ash was completely negligent in talking to him.

Class 5-E

  • Deconstruction; they all claimed that they didn't want Chloe dead, but that didn't stop them from bullying her to the point that she could be dead for all they know. Even when their teacher Miss Jenny April called them out for being apathetic to Chloe's disappearance, some of them show remorse, they all later bragged about how much they love to bully Chloe, and they don't miss her in the slightest. Because of that, no one is willing to forgive them for their actions because they have effectively traumatized her family and shown how they were absolutely apathetic to her.
    • Played straight when they had time to process how horrible they were, get called out by their families, and their futures get destroyed. And when Chloe's little brother Parker tortures them with the Unkown and gets Sara Diktaylis to confessed that she both manipulate them to bully Chloe and never considers them her friends. They realize that they become bullies and hunt someone who never did anything to them, all for the real spiteful bully just using them.
  • On a smaller note, none of them bullied Franklin for his Asperger's syndrome showing that they wouldn't aggravate someone with a mental disability. Subverted, it turns out that's more because Franklin's mother promised the last bully who tried it that they wouldn't have a future. Also they did like insulting the dark-skinned Goh who is known to have something akin to ADHD or autism...
  • Julie notes that she's not entirely fond of Yeardley but she didn't want to see him dead when Parker came close to battering him to death with Silver Knight.
  • Chloe's former bullies, Julie and Gard, were pretty nasty pieces of work back in Blossoming Trail, but even they find the farewell texts Chloe sent to Goh to be a little much.

Mr. Pepper

  • Is annoyed that the school didn't approach him in the aftermath of Chloe and instead used Miss April as the scapegoat. He doesn't want to lose his job, but he recognizes that blaming Miss April alone is stupid.

Zeno

  • He may be a construct made to force Goh to learn his lesson through very traumatizing scenarios, but even he is sick and tired of Goh's inability to accept his faults and how he constantly runs away from problems, only wanting the boy to just apologize and learn to understand Chloe's point of view.
    • He calls Parker (his "creator") out on how this "nightmare therapy" was utterly wrong, and puts him through a similar scenario in order to show the extent of the pain Goh went through.
    • For all the nightmares he put Goh into, he tells Goh that his situation (kidnapped, tied to a chair and said kidnapper wielding a gun) is not a dream and that he's in real danger.

Gladion Montblanc

  • He hates the Apex but even he is appalled at Kisaragi's idea to use passengers as footsoldiers for the Apex to murder in an attempt to shock them about what they're doing along with the bunny's manipulations on Tokio.

Specter/Easter

  • Specter’s not a nice person, he loves playing mind games to break people down, and his attitude towards Blue Angel is somewhat unsettling. But even he thinks the situation with Kisaragi and White Rabbit is disgusting and finds the Apex to be uncivilized.
  • In a Played for Laughs version, Specter is shocked to hear London questioning if he has a kink for electric torture (since Easter revealed that Specter survived six months of electric torture in the past).
    Specter: (horrified) There are children [Gladion and Tokio] here, London!

Paul London

  • Despite all the stuff he did in the name of the White Rabbit (particularly about offering his Rabbit Tribe members to Matanza for the White Rabbit's "Guidance"), even he finds it horrifying at how Tokio willingly went through a brainwashing procedure for a crime that was never his fault. He tells Tokio that sacrificing himself for guidance and leadership to the point of suicide is not worth it. He will also not kill anyone under assisted suicide as he tells Lampetia, and reluctantly does it when he hears that she'll form a new body after some time and that doing so is the only way to prevent the rabbits from prying information out of her.

Kisaragi

  • He did brainwash Tokio but it was never for his personal desires (he's quite disgusted when Specter takes "friends with benefits" the wrong way). He treated them well, called them by their name, gave a chance to walk out, and just made them be the White Rabbit, not a replacement Utahoshi.
  • Kisaragi may be a lot of things, but he's smart enough not to try and kill someone who is connected to the Conductor and even saves Amelia from getting her head cut off.

Project Solitaire

  • When Ryugen notes that he would've killed Gladion if he had the chance, as opposed to his brother accepting the loss, Gaim notes that they're rabbits, not savages.

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