Trivia / Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus

• Creator Backlash: The co-writers of the previous continuity have generally negative views of Crocus, disliking its choice of plotlines and how Crocus either repeats old ideas that were seen as best left behind, or perform changes that are... questionable at best. Notably Cross outright wrote his own version of how the Rainbow Arc should end out of sheer disgust out of how poorly he thought of the decisions taken.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Cross mentions having completed a second side story a la Oak Lore and gotten a lot of progress on a third that would have covered such ideas as 'exploring Pokemon Journeys without Professor Cerise', 'a fighting tournament with battles against Bea and Greta', and 'training with Ralts and helping the Pallet Town congressional rep', but due to how the Rainbow Rocket arc depicted Ash posting them would be impossible without massive overhaul, as they'd been written with the idea that Ash wasn't ignoring Alola in a completely out of character actions in mind as well as the idea that Rainbow Rocket wasn't openly invading and the world was overall oblivious to what was going on in Alola.
  • Tres was originally written as a cisgender male, but the authors decided to make him as a trans man instead.
  • The story was originally supposed to reach a climax involving a crossover with the original Blossomverse trilogy, but the massively negative reception that Fury of Thistle, which set the seeds for idea, received caused the writers to retool the entire story.
• Writer Revolt: When Cross wrote a segment to try and resolve the Rainbow Arc's Ash handling, in an end of chapter note he makes it very clear that he thinks the idea is stupid but is stuck with it and just trying to make something vaguely feasible out of it.

---