A lot of events become harder to look at later in the Infinity Train: Blossomverse.
Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail
- The last thing Chloe said before she went on the Train is a bitter and spiteful farewell to Vermillion City and hoping that they get someone else to do her father's job. After everything that happened in the story, Vermillion City ends up needing a lot of revenue and someone else to take over as local Professor.
- During their blowout argument, Goh accuses Chloe of not having any dreams or goals. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that the problem isn't that she has no dreams or goals; the problem lies in the fact that the bullying she got was so bad that she suppressed her interests to try and cope with it.
- Becomes even harsher in Voyage of Wisteria, when it's revealed that Goh accusing her of not having a dream was him actually trying to motivate her to start chasing a dream, but she was too blinded by her anger and bitterness to realize it.
- The way most of Chloe's classmates pressure her to show more interest in Pokémon is cast in a whole new light with the Crayon Car's revelations about how this was how her bullies switched tactics after getting into trouble for the paint incident.
- Chloe's flashback in Chapter 11 also sheds light on why her father insisted on making her work at his lab after school, and why he was so horrified to learn about her macabre preferences. It also makes Chloe questioning where Goh was even harder to look at; while he's with Ash having fun, she's being bullied and attacked because of her father's research.
- It also makes you wonder why "Monster Lover" was only referenced in one flashback. Because Chloe threatened to kill her classmates if they ever pushed her Berserk Button ever again.
- Chloe and Lexi's argument over the latter's want for vengeance against Grace and Simon gets harder to look at when it's revealed that Chloe did give into her anger to beat Sara up with a paint can, but it did nothing to stop the bullying at all; instead of anything violent and overt, they went for pressuring her to get into Pokémon.
- Chapter 10 has Chloe worrying that her parents would become amazingly embarrassing in their efforts to support her creative pursuits. A Flashback in Chapter 12 makes clear that she only thinks they'd be supportive since she'd vanished; back then, she feared that if they found out about her writing, they'd rip it apart in front of her. This even extends to the audience finding out that on the night of the paint-can incident, her parents were arguing at each other...only to be later revealed that it wasn't out of hatred, but more frustration of what happened.
- Back in Chapter 4, Ash tells Goh that he messaged everyone he knew about Chloe's whereabouts. Then the prequel story, Knight of the Orange Lily reveals that Gladion was a former passenger. Moreover UnChloe mocks Ash's Bystander Syndrome by telling of Gladion and Lillie arguing at the beach, and Chapter 24 has him learn of Gladion's visit on the Train probably stemmed from said argument.
- In Chapter 12, Ash notes that he should call Professor Sycamore in regards to the possibility that Alain may be on the Infinity Train. Chapter 14 has Henry and Walter note that Alain was a passenger and passed through Silent Hill and three chapters revealed that he never left.
- At one point, Sara is forced to admit that Chloe once gave her lunch. A later chapter reveals that Sara once stole Chloe's lunch and dumped it in the dirt.
- All those times Chloe refused to join Ash and Goh? In truth, she was silently begging either of them to push her to try. The fact that neither Ash and Goh realized it convinced Chloe that they were never going to get it.
- In Chapter 13, Professor Cerise rightfully chews out Miss April's uselessness over doing nothing over his daughter's problems. Seven chapters later, the reader learns that Miss April's own judgement was impaired as she was trying to leave an abusive boyfriend and she's shown cutting her wrists in an suicide attempt.
- In Chapter 10, The Creature Feature cover of "Bury A Friend" plays out with the last lyric being "Bury the hatchet or bury a friend right now". In Chapter 21, Goh goes through traumatic nightmares that renders him unable to make amends and instead ends with him throwing himself into an open grave to be Buried Alive.
- Parker chewing out Ash for not coming to him or anybody else about Chloe becomes this in Act II, when it's later revealed what Parker REALLY thinks of Ash and how he hated him not just for taking his father and Goh away from him and Chloe, but fearing that he'd also take Chloe away from him as well.
- This gets even harsher once the story goes on and the sheer length of problems at Vermillion City is revealed, making it clear that Ash doing more or even being around wouldn't have mattered: things had gotten so bad that someone was going to snap; Ash being around just sped things up.
- Goh becoming a suicidal wreck after the Cyan Desert Arc mirrors Journeys Episode 62, when it's revealed that Drizzile, after evolving from Sobble, also ends up in a depressive funk, as well as the fact that Goh himself had trouble socializing as a kid at school. It makes the questioning of "Why did Goh not ask for help from his family?" throughout the story even harder to look at it; he was unable to get his point across at all to his family, thus none of them considered giving him the therapy he sorely needed.
- Upon hearing One-One unable to understand the horrors of Sean, an Apex member, drowning in the Fog Car and his body dropped off where the train first picked him up, Rashid is calling out for how One-One could be so cruel. Book 4 reveals he was much worse than this...
- Goh facing a roadblock in his goal to capture Mew; in Journeys Episode 69, when given a chance to go find Mew via "Project Mew" he declines, mostly because he doesn't like working with other people, which is a flaw he has in the fanfic.
- Go back in time to Hisui and dare to say that research into Pokémon is an "obsession" and that it isn't important. You'll not be alive for very long with that type of mindset at that time. Essentially every hobby that Chloe enjoyed only became plausible because the very research she despised so much figured out how to make the world not a death world.
Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily
- In Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail, Ash calls in everybody he can to help search for Chloe after her disappearance. Here, it's revealed that Gladion also boarded the Train... and Ash had been the person to assure Mallow that it wasn't likely anything to be worried about and that he was just off training somewhere (albeit while also being the one person other than Mallow and Lusamine who had any real thoughts on the matter at all.)
- Ash muses that he isn't going to be able to do much to help Gladion and Lillie resolve their personal matters, noting that it's not really his responsibility to fix it for them. Blossoming Trail, meanwhile, sees him developing a massive Guilt Complex over his failure to help Chloe and Goh with their personal problems.
- Mallow being taken care of Tuba during her stay on the Train is safe...but remember that the story after this takes place during Book 3...
- In Chapter 3, Mallow prays that Ash never has to experience the Train...wait till Ash emails about what's going on and she reveals her trip on the Train.
- Ash in general, since his cheerful naivety painfully contrasts the pain and angst he's going to feel in Blossoming Trail. Particularly how he wishes to not experience the Greendale Incident again...
- Likewise, Lillie's increasing pettiness is hard to watch, since it'll lead to her being viciously called out by Mallow by the time Blossoming Trail happens.
- Tokio not willing to explain more of his time on the Train to Goh in Blossoming Trail becomes this in hindsight, given that he didn't want to explain how he was brainwashed to ruling a car of rabbits.
Infinity Train: Voyage of Wisteria
- Watching Goh become a scapegoat and then be broken down in every way, shape, and form was already hard to watch, but the reveal that he was suffering from depression makes everything he went through from sickening to outright unforgivable.
- The "interview" between Chloe, Goh, Vox, and Dahlia pretty much re-contextualizes everything about Blossoming Trail, not only making it clear how much of Chloe's problems are on her, but how her decision to shut everybody away and wallow in spite didn't help. As for Goh, people come to realize he actually DID care enough about Chloe to look for her while everybody else was too busy blaming each other to do anything else.
