I personally think that Chloe is at fault since the story still try to paint her in a sympathetic light despite being a Designated Heroine, I also don't plan in reading this story, I'm only going to work in my story.
This story is Blossoming Trail 2.0, having many of the faults of the original (Professor Cerise Bashing, Spite in everyone, the infamous Blame Game, favoritism toward Chloe, portraying Goh in a bad light AGAIN and Parker's Creator's Pet status) and now have more faults (Gladion and Specter being suicidal, new unsympathetic characters like Gloria and Victor, humongous chapter that rival Cross and make him blush and the divisive explanation of how the Cloak of Marchosias is very OP by introducing gods on the Train).
Sycamore is also on fault because of his exaggerated reaction since he decided to fricking Restart The World because his attempts to calm Chloe down backfired, but his reaction is the In-Universe reaction of the readers who are also sick of the growing darkness in the story.
Specter, not soo much.
That my opinion.
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I feel like I'm opening a can of worms here, but I'm literally gonna go mad if this doesn't get discussed soon so here we go.
So, I stopped reading this little spin off from the Blossomverse a long time ago after a lovely response by Green_Phantom_Queen from one of my criticisms, but after reading updates about the latest chapter (or more specifically the one before it) I feel like this needs some serious discussion:
So. to make a long story short: Chloe goes absolutely apesheet after Sara. with the power of the Unown, cripples Parker (oh no), merges Professor Cerise with an unown-made copy of himself to create a perfect version of her father (OH NO!) and is about to pull a Parker on all of Vermillion City all of spite. Professor Sycamore, the main character of the story, tries to talk her down, but not only does she rebukes him, but does so by tearing down his optimistic point of view and stating she's going to kill the culprit to stop them no matter what he said.
This hurts him bad enough, but then Specter (from Yu-Gi-Oh) talks her down by appeasing to her pessimism and does so in a way that makes the professor looks completely useless, which in turn causes him to go nuts.
The Professor merges with his shadow and intents to either destroy everything or Restart the World because he's grown sick of the story's growing pessimism and his inability to do jacksheet despite being the freaking main character, and he has to get his madness sealed before he kills everyone.
After all of this... the story tries to paint Chloe as having done nothing wrong, and instead show that Professor Sycamore is the one who needs to learn a lesson, not her.
Now, I don't know about you, but this looks to me like co-writer Green_Phantom_Queen (Spinnerette is the main author, but I haven't read her works that much, and even if I did, all this writing just reeks of Queen's traits) has learned absolutely nothing about the previous year or two writing the Blossomverse, but I do feel like this situation is a bit too complicated to see it like that.
So, what do you guys think? Is Chloe at fault? Is Professor Sycamore at fault? Is Specter at fault? Is nobody at fault? Just... let's try to reach a consensus here.
And note: Green_Phantom_Queen and Shady Missionary are not allowed here. This is for unbiased, third person opinions only.
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