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This story is a
Spiritual Antithesis to
Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail (in which the author stated that this story was inspired from): both stories deal with red-haired girls with fiery tempers and abilities to cast fire dealing with a friend who has moved onto someone uplifting and positive. However, both girls couldn't be any more different.
- Chloe Cerise is struggling with problems of fear and self-worth and being bullied for something she didn't want, whereas Boscha herself is the bully who has a twisted view on what is considered "Strong" and "Weak". Chloe is a human girl who is into witches and later gain powers to cast fire and summon demons. Boscha herself is already imbued with fire magic, and is a member of a Mage Species.
- Both girls end up confronting the Apex, but Chloe is a Martial Pacifist who takes a long while before she even meets them in person, while Boscha encounters them shortly after she arrives and is willing to break people's arms and burn their skin to make a point.
- Moreover, both Boscha and Chloe have partners who ended up being critically injured by the Apex (Phos and Lexi). The difference being that Phos was actually destroyed but still conscious, whereas Lexi was found Buried Alive.
- Blossoming Trail plays the Insecure Protagonist, Arrogant Antagonist trope straight, with Chloe having a fair share of insecurities while the Apex act like arrogant assholes. In this story, Boscha's the Arrogant Protagonist, and after her encounter with the Apex, the latter are at their lowest point.
- The mirorring goes with additional casts with various characters from Owl House coming off similar but different to their nearest counterparts in Blossoming Trail: Luz and Amity to Ash and Goh.
- While Luz and Ash are both outsiders with naïve personalities whose arrival shakes up the status quo that Boscha/Chloe had, Boscha managed to be both more antagonistic, and more fair and reasonable to Luz than Chloe was to Ash at the start of the story. Ash is also much more conventionally the ace than Luz is due to years of experiece that Luz herself lacks at this point and unlike Ash she is not the more skilled of the two (that being Amity).
- While Amity manages to be the former close friend grown distant that Goh was while having very different reasons, motivations, and reactions. The two's friendship was never as healthy as Goh and Chloe's was, and the scenarios of Amity/Goh's first friends (Willow and Tokio) are vastly different and distinguish how they approach others. Unlike Goh, Amity is the more skilled one compared to Luz. While both Goh and Amity get kidnapped Goh was kidnapped later over his own characteristics while Amity was kidnapped earlier in relation to the Skara case.
- Both Chloe and Boscha have different animal motifs: Chloe is represented by the wolf, a canine, while Boscha is represented by the lion, a feline.
- Atticus joined Chloe to protect her and also to find the whereabouts of King Aloysius. Chris joins Boscha to ensure she's kept on a leash.
- Both girls have to deal with feelings of inadequacy and someone who genuinely wants to be their friend: Chloe assumes that Ash doesn't want to do anything with her and refuses his offers while Boscha assumes the Cursed Princesses are mocking her with fake kindness.
- The Infinity Train's existence to the passenger's homeworld is also opposite: Blossoming Trail has a former passenger (Trip) eventually explain what the Train is, and its existence quickly spreads through the world. Boiling Point doesn't have the same luxury, so the Train's existence remains a secret.
- People's reaction to the passenger going missing are also different: Blossoming Trail initially has nobody notice Chloe's gone, but once they do, they make a campaign to spread awareness about it. In Boiling Point, the number of people who actually care that Boscha's gone can be counted on one hand, as Boscha was so brutal and malicious that nobody would really miss her.
- Both stories feature a dark-skinned character being put through the wringer until they hit their absolute lowest, but how they come out of them is different: Goh is left completely broken by it, believing themselves to be utterly beyond hope, while Skara decides enough is enough and leaves the Boiling Isles before it has any chance to use her as a chew toy any further.
- Both stories have a younger sibling who have anger issues and, eventually, ends up causing much more harm than good to their older sibling. In Blossoming Trail, Parker is Chloe's younger brother, a fact made known from the start, and his anger issues and grief over his sister going missing leads to him unleashing the Unown in a fit of rage, turning Vermillion City into a hellhole and tainting Chloe's reputation in the process. In Boiling Point, Amity is Skara's younger half-sister, a fact only made known after the damaging incident was done, which is much less fantastical but just as bad, as the former beats up the latter so badly she decides to leave the Boiling Isles immediately.
