Just how many things have gone wrong in the Infinity Train: Blossomverse? Let's count the ways.
In General
- Practically everything that happens in the original Blossomverse, Train-wise, can be chalked up to two people: Amelia Hughes and Grace Monroe.
- Amelia: By only thinking about her own desires to live peacefully in a car with the memory of Alrich in her mind, she doesn't care about using the Train to directly benefit passengers and help them in the long run. This leads her to the fateful encounter with Grace Monroe in the Pumpkin Car and Grace creating the Apex.
- Grace: She tells Simon that she "knows" how the Train works, creating the Apex to hurt others and raid cars, leading to the death of a certain rabbit, gets the ire of so many denizens that they're ready to kill her and the Apex, Vox and Ogami can manipulate things so it looks like the Apex are the main villains on the Train and one of the children she put under her wing just so happens to be the daughter of Chairman Rose, who enacts Darkest Day to derail the Train and put thousands of lives in danger.
Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail
- Chloe running away isn't without reason as there are a lot of factors that caused her to snap.
- Akemi innocently talked about a match that happened months ago during the Alola League that involved Professor Kukui and a boy with a Pikachu. Unfortunately, this caused Chloe to realize that this same boy is Ash Ketchum, had her classmates pressure her to go battle him, and would eventually lead to Chloe running away from home and entering the Infinity Train.
- Chloe's Home Economics teacher, Mr. Pepper, also contributes to this when he tells Chloe she needs to make her own curry recipe alongside telling her that she has plenty of time to make up for it (because she doesn't participate in school clubs) which aggravates her more when Mr. Mime makes plenty of curry for her, Ash and Goh.
- While most of Chloe's classmates also play a role in this, it's Yeardley who first brings up the suggestion of Chloe fighting Ash.
- And of course, Goh and her own father are Innocently Insensitive in how they react to the match, as they suddenly show plenty of interest in her...performance as a trainer.
- On the whole, Tokio being sick on the day he was supposed to meet up with Goh to find Celebi three years ago is the reason why Goh has problems with making friends and became obsessed with chasing Mew. This also bleeds into his friendship with Chloe fading along with Chloe's insecurities and low self-worth.
- Ash is this for Chloe and Hop. For the former, his presence to charm her father and Childhood Friend makes her feel insignificant to someone as great as the Alola League Champion. For the latter, Leon mentioning how Ash might be the one who defeats him in battle causes Hop to lose it and the Train to sense his angst and torment.
- Bede also is one too; by mocking how pathetic Hop's skills were, this caused a lot of self-doubt and frustration to boil over, leaving him to enter the Train.
- Sara's inability to sit idly by and let anyone speak kindly about Chloe without making some snippy, nasty comment about it is what tips Parker over the edge and awakens the Unown, resulting in all of Vermillion City about to face his wrath.
- Chloe unwittingly becomes this for everyone in Vermillion, with her support and encouragement of Parker's darker tastes giving the boy almost everything he needs to make Vermillion a living hell in her name. Her reply email to Parker at the beginning of Arc 2 might have aggravated it when she states that she doesn't want to go back home if she's going to be met with disappointment that nothing has changed. When Ash and Trip tell her about this, she is horrified at what has happened.
- Had Professor Cerise taken the advice from Mr. Bradbury to get his daughter into a counselor, Chloe might have been more stable. He decides the best course of action is to drop her in the Cerise Institute and ignore her. This bites him hard.
- Played With at the ending: While Goh’s entry onto the Infinity Train was inevitable, Delia makes the mistake of leaving him alone to ask Chloe if she was going to go back to the way she was after a Moment of Weakness. Also in Delia’s defense, no one told her that Raboot and Sobble wouldn’t be able to stop Goh’s entry.
Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily
- Lillie Montblanc got her brother stuck on the Train because of her idea to gift him orange lilies. Mallow even warns her to not go through with it and now Gladion is another passenger about to fight a cult and will chew her out on this months later in Blossoming Trail that Gladion could've been dead all because of her.
- Grace Monroe murdered Utahoshi in the 400 Rabbits Car right in front of Tokio over the excuse that she was "protecting him". This leads to Tokio's guilt complex and wish to become the new White Rabbit and is brainwashed by Kisaragi who also decides to create Project Solitaire to send denizens and passengers into the path of the Apex in an attempt to have them killed and thus have the cult wake up to what their actions have caused.
Infinity Train: Melancholy Afterlife
- Discussed; Yeardley blames himself for annoying Chloe with paper balls behind her head in regards to the Safari Zone trip — when he sits directly behind her — that caused her to run away and disappear. In the same vein, Mrs. Asphodel only telling Chloe to go to the Principal instead of both her and Yeardley aggravated it as Chloe assumes that Yeardley was "proudly boasting on making Chloe look like a fool". Yeardley even points out that Mrs. Asphodel is in loads of trouble for Chloe vanishing.
- Professor Cerise, Goh, and Ash are all responsible for Chloe's problems in some way shape, or form due to them either giving lame excuses as to why Chloe can't be into research or downright not even listening to her requests and heading off to their own dreams.
