The Red Lotus Uprising will disband earlier than the original trilogy.
The longer the story goes on, the clearer it becomes just how toxic Chloe really is, and how the more support she gets, the more she just closes herself off and makes her Train trip even longer than it needs to be. In order to truly move on, the Red Lotus Uprising will have to disband and leave Chloe alone so she can work on herself
and only herself. As for why they'd leave:
- Atticus does his best but being able to talk with Chloe doesn't work when any progress she makes is not only slow but gradual, but easily obliterated every time she snaps back, which is pretty easy. Even if that wasn't an issue, though, Hewie being on the team makes him redundant; sure, he can't talk, but that's a small price to pay for a canine member who can actually fight on equal ground as the rest of the team.
- Lexi doesn't have his idolization of Chloe like in the original trilogy, so he has no issue seeing how bad a person she can get. Eventually, even he will get fed up over how easily Chloe backtracks and sends herself right back to square one. Plus, Lexi is a prince; he could always just return to Azada in order to learn how to be a proper king for his people, or if not, a better Denizen.
- Amelia currently has the most valid reason to split off from the team: the Palimpsest Car was all about calling her out over not only how bad a Bystander Syndrome she had, but how pathetic she had to be to let children handle her problems. By sticking with the team, it doesn't matter what she does, she'll only prove her naysayers right. Splitting off from the team and heading to do things on her own is her best chance to prove herself that she's not a pathetic coward the rest of the Train condemns her as.
Goh's Pokemon will be exiled from the Cerise Institute.
They already did the grave faux pass of grabbing lots to punch Chloe
after she risked her life to save them. Given how backpedaling and its consequences seems to be a big theme in
Crocus, it wouldn't be surprising that after another faux pas, the returning Professor Cerise would eventually get fed up with their ungrateful behavior and release them to the wield, Goh being their owner be damned. It would also be a decent ending to Professor Cerise's arc,
finally forgoing focusing on Pokemon in order to focus on what really matters: his one and only daughter.
The Cerise Institute will shutdown.
With Professor Cerise
currently in the Infinity Train and the institute being under heavy fire for what happened at the Unown incident, and the current watcher being the heavily inexperienced Talia, it wouldn't be surprising if things eventually get so out of hand that the institute is forced to shutdown, either until new notice or permanently, forcing the Cerise family to adapt to a institute-less life.
Goh will give up on his "dream" by the end of the story.
Goh having tunnel vision on wanting to catch Mew has done nothing but bring pain and misery to
a lot of characters in the story, so if he ever wants a chance to finally achieve happiness, he
will abandon his quest to catch Mew and settle down like a
normal person would do.
Class 5-E bullied Goh when he was younger.
The story brings no mention to it, but what if Goh was bullied by the members of Class 5-E
before they were Class 5-E? And before you say "wouldn't he remember them from when he was younger"? Well, given how he can't keep his promise to Chloe to save his life, perhaps he
also can't remember people he doesn't care about to save his life.
Goh will eventually collapse from "untreated curry-to-the-face" injuries.
Chloe slapping Goh with a boiling plate of curry did happen here, and he seemingly recovered with no lasting issue. Given how him getting his karmic payback is a constant thing in the story, Goh will eventually pay for
not getting his supposedly minor injuries treated by collapsing from either shock or untreated pain.
Tomie will die from old age.
Her being around is the
only reason why Goh hasn't woken up and realized he has to grow up in order to be happy. Given how old she is and all the stress she
has to be dealing with right now, she may end up passing away at her deathbed, giving Goh the incentive to finally "man up" and become a normal person.
Yeardley will become more important.
His insensitive words were the
catalyst for the entire story, and yet he's got even less of a role than in the original trilogy. Given he already has to deal with the fact that Chloe will
never forgive him for being a piece of crap, he might get his chance at a character arc in order to become a decent human being.
The Apex will be completely gone by the end of the story.
Grace has become insane and Simon can do little to stop her, and the children are in the hands of Elipzo. It's only a matter of time before Elipzo or somebody else does what the Cage of Flauros failed to do and get rid of them once and for all.
The Cage of Flauros will be dealt with offscreen.
Given how little prominence the Cage of Flauros has had since the beginning of the story, and how the current threat is Elipzo, it's possible that the Cage of Flauros will be destroyed offscreen, either by Elipzo or somebody else, to ensure that they don't clog the plot any further.
Simon will survive, and Grace will die.
Given how Grace is now gone mad beyond repair and Simon is making an effort to better himself, it's only natural that a role reversal will happen, with Grace kicking the bucket and
not reincarnating and Simon being left to attend to whatever remains of The Apex.
The rest of the Blossomverse will be shown to take place into alternate timelines.
This can happen using the tree metaphor, saying that the branches diverge in some way, shape or form. The
Wake Me Up branch will be the most distant from the rest, since this version of Chloe and the Pokémon world is more accurate to canon, thus distant from the Blossomverse. The "tree" will also be shown to be on the border of
The Multiverse, allowing to expand beyond the Omniverse.
- Alternatively, the most distant branches are the 'Cherry' and 'Orange Rose' universes, where elements of another universe entirely blend and merge with the Blossomverse into something distinct from the rest.
Chloe will snap back against after the Palimpsest Car
If there's one thing the story has made clear beyond reason, is that Chloe's fervent belief that she's innocent and everyone else is to blame is near unbreakable; Sycamore's help didn't change it, Specter's words didn't change it, talking with Ash and Goh didn't change it, and so on. And sure, Tres' therapy seems to do the trick, but considering what has happened before this point, who's to say Chloe isn't gonna fall back on old habits yet again?
The Demons of the Infinity Train don't want Chloe to change
Isn't it a little suspicious that Marchosias, one of these demons, would show up just as Chloe is getting therapy from Tres, and give Chloe praise, which has been shown to
massivel feed her ego and boost her pedestal? Perhaps this is a hint that the demons of the Train simply don't have Chloe's interest in mind, and simply want her to stay the same spiteful little brat for some unknown goal.
Victor and Gloria will be forced to return to Galar
Okay, maybe not
forced, but it's clear that their presence in Vermillion City has done little to actually improve things over there, with them pulling off the
exact same things that gave Trip so many call outs when they first arrived. Once they come to realize this, they'll go back to Galar to do some
real soul searching, and actually work on thinking before speaking.
Trip will return and call out Gloria and Victor over their actions
It would be quite cathartic, in a morbid manner, if the very same guy that got called for not thinking before speaking and making things worse at the institute, would get to call out the people who were supposed to fix his mistakes, only to do the same things he did,
without getting called out and, in Gloria's case, even being
praised for it.
It's more than a little suspicious that when the truth about Goh nearly drowning while hanging out with Chloe is revealed, Tomie almost immediately puts it in the backburner to focus on
Chloe. Maybe she's actually biased in Chloe's favor, seeing her as the granddaughter she wanted, and sees Goh as a loser whom she gave up on years ago.
It would also give another layer to Kurune and Ikuo's hatred of Chloe; how can you not hate a person who not only didn't care about your child after they nearly died while hanging out with them, but keeps being favored by your own parent even after the fact?
Tomie is the one gaslighting Goh, not Kurune and Ikuo
With his parents almost always away for work, the only person at his home he interacts with who's not a Pokemon is his grandmother, who's the kind of person to disregard her grandson nearly drowning to focus on his friend's issues.
With this in mind, it's possible that Tomie has been secretly feeding Goh ideas that Chloe's problems are greater than his own, and that he needs to downplay them in order to truly atone for not being there for Chloe.
Chloe has a god complex even before entering the train
She fits almost all the criteria; she has an inflated sense of ego, is incredibly self-centered at all times, and demands special attention from everybody else, without ever actually telling them anything and expecting them to just figure it out themselves.
The train just worsened this complex, as being labeled an a goddess has caused her to detach herself from reality and believe herself to be above men.
Chloe doesn't want to leave the Train
The longer the story goes on, the longer it becomes clear that for all of her talk about going home and making ends with everyone, Chloe would rather stay on the Train than ever become something like a normal person. There's also the issue of Chloe seemingly resolving her problems with Goh in Ninjala Car, only for another one to surface out of nowhere in Harvest Moon Car. However, there may be couple of reason why:
- A. Chloe keeps making up stuff about Goh being a bad friend and what not because she either secretly still has doubts about him, or feels like she isn't ready to face him yet after everything she's done to him. She's backpedaling on purpose to prolong the inevitable.
- B. Giving Chloe the benefit of the doubt, it may also be because she doesn't want to leave Atticus and Lexi yet, since they have been helping keep her afloat during her more difficult moments and fears what may happen to them once she's gone.
The Kurune and Ikuo we met aren't the real Kurune and Ikuo
The multiverse exists in this setting, and interdimensional travel is possible. Not to mention that Elipzo Is a multiverse-spanning cult with agents all across it.
This could very well mean that the Kurune and Ikuo we meet in chapter 45 aren't the real deal, but alternate versions from another world.
The reason Goh doesn't remember the drowning incident is because it never happened there; it happened in Kurune and Ikuo's original dimension, to their Chloe and Goh, and pulled it out in a desperate attempt to drive Goh to despair for the hope of Elipzo.
Chloe was never going to commit suicide in the Harvest Moon Car
Let's be perfectly frank here, at this point, it's
impossible to tell when Chloe's being honest and when she's being melodramatic, especially since she seems to
invoke suicide as a means to get attention or sympathy.
When Sycamore tried to approach her, she claimed she wanted to kill herself because her classmates bullied her. Bullying that Chloe brought upon herself by trying to force them to enjoy horror like she did.
Every other time Chloe mentions suicide, she mentions it in big monologues, as if trying to get the last laugh and deny anybody else a change to correct her.
Who's to say the Harvest Moon Car wasn't another grandiose display in order to gather sympathy and attention? Especially since it only ends when she gets what she wants.
So far, we heard two sides of the story, each giving their own account of what happened: the Fujihachis believe Chloe endangered Goh's life and disregarded his health and wellbeing. Chloe, meanwhile, says that Goh fell in the river while chasing a Vivillon in spite of her warnings, and she risked her life to bring him back. However, there may be some truth behind each story, and they do have a some things in common. A third party could show up, (be it a person or a Pokemon who was there at the time of the incident) and explain what really and truly happened.
Chloe has a Martyr Complex
Let see: She exaggerates her own misery to make herself look good, doesn't try to better herself and refuses to take responsibility for her own actions. This complex is common with females due to a poor background, mainly from codependent and abusive relationships.
Chloe's telling of the ghost incident is true, but the events depicted are not.
Chloe's telling of the event has several moments that break the suspension of disbelief: the idea that she'd be able to carry another 7 year old by her own, camping in danger all the while, with Shiny Pumpkaboo in the area.
Given Chloe's track record of dishonesty and blowing things out of proportion, plus the mention the power fantasy she's been living for months now, it's safe to say that either a few, or even a good deal of things she mentioned in her retelling of the story are things she either remembered incorrectly, or fabricated in order to make herself look good, and Goh look bad, especially since this retelling takes place before her epiphany that makes her decide to drop the spite and biased point of view.
Talia won't snap at Kurune and Ikuo
While she sounded angry when she learned of their connection to Chloe's strained friendship with Goh, considering the fact the last time she made an angry outburst at someone was against
Un-Cerise, which lead to
her husband being taken by the Infinity Train, she might decide to make a compromise instead to avoid repeating her previous mistakes.
Renji and Chryssa will be fired from Cerise Institute
Not only have they served little purpose in the story so far, but Renji gave Chloe a copy of
No More Heroes that ended up shaping her dark humor, and Chryssa
outright stated that she never liked Chloe, which is the equivalent of telling a school bully that you don't like their attitude. Once the professor returns, there's no doubt he's going to remember this and kick them out of the institute in order to ensure that Chloe has as little reason to ever return to the train as possible.
There's more to the lost reflection incident than Victor and Gloria are telling us
It'd be one thing to reveal this during a hectic statement or when they tell people about their train trip, but the fact this event only comes up during Gloria's meltdown, and ultimately serves more as a way to justify her behavior, makes it seem as if there's more to the story that isn't being told to us, with Victor having probably omitted a detail or two about the full picture. Alternately...
Gloria never left the Infinity Train properly. Instead, she cheated the system like MT once did.
Gloria's behavior is the exact kind of thing that would get somebody train-snatched, and yet she's already been through the train and, from the looks of it, her behavior hasn't changed much. What if, just like MT once did in season 2, she managed to find a way to trick the system into
thinking her number was zero, then took advantage of that in order to get a free exit from the train, thus allowing her to go home without actually working on herself.
Chloe either misremembered or doesn't know about Goh's reputation at school.
Chloe claims during her talk with Goh in the Harvest Moon Car that his quest to catch Mew made him popular among their classmates, which flies in the face of the story constantly claiming that they straight up hate him. Considering the fact she's been in a power fantasy high for a few months, and that her memories of school focus solely on her, she probably either forgot or outright didn't know how badly Goh was disliked back at school.
At present day, Goh has only given the okay to Raboot to give Chloe a hit for everything she did to him, with the rest of his Pokemon still reeling from Parker's accidental mob shaming and Goh's
intentional tearing them a new one. If Raboot tries to communicate this with the other Pokemon, they could very well not believe him or, in the worst case scenario, drive him away, believing he doesn't deserve to be by Goh's side anymore.
Chloe will disapprove of the comparison between her and Raboot
Goh makes a point to compare Raboot to Chloe in how they've both hurt him and yet haven't been punished for them. Considering the different circumstances between these events, and Chloe's newfound determination to actually work on herself, she'll most likely call out Goh over comparing Raboot to her, and convince him to cut the rabbit some slack.
Chloe's shedding of the "Chloe of the Vermillion" title will be the beginning of the train changing perspective of her
Chloe was worshipped by the denizens of the train as a goddess of sorts, but they always made it clear they venerated "Chloe of the Vermillion", not Chloe Cerise. Given she's decided to drop that title and work on herself for good, the worship she had will evaporate, and the train will no longer give her special treatment like before. Alternatively...
The whole "Chloe-worship" deal is part of a bigger conspiracy
A citadel of alternate versions of Chloe somehow managed to hack into the denizen database and brainwashed them all into worshipping Chloe regardless of behavior or knowledge about her.
Chloe's separation from the "Chloe of the Vermillion" title will also make her no longer the Lady Destiny of the Cage of Flauros
When the prophecy of the Cage of Flauros was made, Chloe was pinned as Lady Destiny back when she was a spiteful spoiled brat who believed the world owed her an apology, and was trigger happy to attack anybody who defied her. In other words, before she got her
Character Development.
Now that she has had development and dropped the "Chloe of the Vermillion" spiel, her role as Lady Destiny will change, placing someone else in the role and allowing the Cage of Flauros to succeed in their goal before the Windchasers and RLU can stop them.
Grace will kill herself
Considering the fact that the Train has no interest in giving her a second chance, and that
Simon is being given more of a chance to turn his life around than her, who's to say Grace won't decide to end it all? She might even be
allowed to do it, compared to the close calls everybody else gets, just to further drive the point that she's a lost cause?
Most, if not all, of Chloe's abrasive behavior towards Goh, Professor Cerise, Ash and so on was originally aimed at Sara
It doesn't happen every chapter, but a few times when recounting her past, Chloe either mentions Sara or compares the situation to something related to her.
Given she was her primary bully, it's pretty likely that the majority of Chloe's negative behavior was originally meant for her tormentor, but the paint can incident convinced her she wasn't worth her breath, so she instead targeted people whom she believed had wronged her in order to vent her frustrations towards her.
The Denizens' hatred/fear of The Apex was added by Amelia herself
Granted, The Apex
have done enough bad things to earn their reputation, but it's still rather odd that despite being an endless train with infinite worlds, there's a not insignificant portion of Denizens who not only are aware of The Apex, but are terrified or furious with them.
Considering that in the original trilogy, Amelia left The Apex alone as scapegoats as a way to justify herself and come across as morally superior by comparison, this could be Crocus' take on the idea, but instead of being a passive idea that gets revealed later, it's an active problem that will put Grace beyond saving.
The story has many references to
Infinity Train: Boiling Point, and one plot point later in that story involves
Boscha being split into copies of herself as an alternative method of going through the therapy part of the Train. One of these is the embodiment of their anger and spite, and were they to merge back with
Boscha, they'd be impossible to help.
Chloe has already repeatedly shown herself to go right back to her spiteful ways as soon as she comes across either any adversity, or excuse to fall back into her spite-filled mindset. And even when she calms down and promises to be better, she still falls back to her old habits rather easily.
Therefore, a later part in the story will have her spiteful side separated from her, possibly taking on a more demonic form in the process, and will then be killed off in an attempt to free Chloe from her spite once and for all.
Goh's phone wasn't actually ruined when he nearly drowned
A part of the camping trip flashback in Chloe's retelling details that Goh kept his phone in his pocket, and it became unusable after he got out of the water. However, considering the fact that Goh didn't end up electrocuted as well, it's entirely possible that phone was actually still unusable but in her panic Chloe never thought to try use the phone to call for help, simply assuming that "water + phone = dead phone."
The security cameras in the Cerise Institute didn't actually film anything, or the footage was otherwise lost in the fight
The climax of Act 1 involves a giant brawl between Unown, Shadows, and a visiting Chloe and Specter among other people. When it's all over, Specter snaps at the perpetrator that the security cameras around the building filmed everything, and should it go live, it would doom them.
However, considering the fact the fight was fairly volatile, alongside the fact that Chloe and the others came from Train-related shenanigans, which are known to interact badly with technology, whose to say that the security cameras weren't affected, either shutting down when they arrived or having the footage corrupted from Train interference?
Vermillion City School forces its students to go to school
It's constantly brought up how Class 5-E are allegedly dumb because instead of leaving the school to begin their own Journeys, they stood there and tried to circumvent the issue. However, considering how terrible Vermillion City school is shown to be, and how many students remain there despite being visibly miserable about it, it's likely that those who enter the school
can't leave until they either complete their school years, or get expelled, with even that not working if Class 5-E are anything to go by. Alternately...
Class 5-E's parents forced them to attend school because they tried the Trainer lifestyle, and failed miserably
Nothing says that the parents of the Class 5-E kids didn't at least try the Trainer lifestyle before their kids were born, but, and this is important to remember, not everybody manages to become a professional Trainer. People like Ash Ketchum are the exception, not the rule, and most people who fail to become a Trainer tend to return home empty-handed at best, and with broken hopes and dreams at worst.
With this in mind, who's to say that the parents didn't see their children's aspirations to become Trainers, but rather than reveal their humiliating past as Trainers, they just tried to keep their kids at school and get the idea out of their brains for their own safety.
Yeardley is an impostor.
Considering the many changes the verse has done for many characters, having Yeardley remain a mysoginistic bully is more than a little suspect, especially considering how his classmates are more than aware of this and more than capable of kicking his butt. However, considering how Elipzo has been shown being able to get people from other universes into their ranks, who's to say that the Yeardley we meet in the flashback isn't just a copycat agent of Elipzo whose purpose is to destroy Yeardley's social standing, in what he believes to be the best for his character?
Sara isn't native to the Pokemon World
Even without considering how much meaner and dumber the Pokémon World characters are turned, Sara's case of malice and stupidity comes across as too much even by their standards, especially considering how laser-focused she is on hurting those who get on her bad side.
However, considering how we have not only Elipzo, who mess around with people from the multiverse to expand their cult, but canonical interdimensional travel introduced in Alola, maybe Sara is actually a Faller from a universe where her brand of malice is the norm, not the exception, and her being unable to change her act is because it's the only thing she's ever been taught.
Goh never properly renounced his idea of quitting the Cerise Institute
Goh has gotten nothing out of working for the institute outside of being labeled a jerk who'd rather focus on his screens than to help Chloe, who never even implied that she needed his help at all. So, once Chloe returns, she'll discover that Goh left the institute as a research assistant and never returned, allowing the two to actually be friends for once.
Professor Cerise has become suicidal, and his Train trip is his final hurrah before killing himself
The sheer brutality the man faces during the Cyan Desert Car, which eventually leads to him being trainnapped, would've caused anybody else to simply kick their own bucket and be done with it. However, considering the sheer
Lack of Empathy that most people in Vermillion City have shown him, and how even his own family (or at least Parker and Chloe, who are the only ones who matter anyway) seem to not have him in high regard, killing himself in the Pokemon World would've simply given them a chance to use his death as a defamation against his institute.
So, rather than end his life where people can see him, he willingly entered the Train, hoping to get a second chance at a life he could've had before offing himself, freeing himself from the shackles of the Vermillion torture porn once and for all.
Chloe didn't send that many messages to Goh, or was just as insensitive as the first one
The story likes to point fingers at the Fujihachis for separating Chloe and Goh, with the former trying to ask the parents to deliver her messages to the latter only for them to ignore them and lie to him.
However, considering the fact that her very first message to them clearly showed her being more interested in having another adventure with Goh than the fact he nearly drowned, and that her Lack of Empathy would go untreated for years, who's to say that Chloe's ensuing messages weren't just as insensitive, if not moreso than the last one, giving the parents the impressionthat she didn't actually care about Goh at all so long as she had her fun?
It becomes pretty clear pretty fast that
Crocus leans much more heavily on the
Power Fantasy aspect in Chloe's story than it did in the original trilogy, and not only that, but Chloe being suicidal and her suicide being specifically jumping off the school rooftoop is also given more attention.
But what if these were both connected?
In truth, the Infinity Train doesn't exist: Chloe actually did jump, but wound up comatose rather than dying, and the Infinity Train and the adventures within it are just a coma-induced dream she's having to try and cheer herself up after such a traumatic survival.
The general jerkassery of Vermillion City and the suffering the Cerise family goes through is Chloe's recollection before jumping off, assuming those at the school were evil sociopaths and her family uncaring jerks who deserve to suffer for not doing more for her.
It would also explain the multitude of people who jump to Chloe's defense despite either not knowing her or having a bad impression of her: because in her mind, Chloe has to be pitied and those who wronged her must be torn apart, because otherwise she has to face the horrifying reality that things weren't black and white, that she's not innocent, and she just completely traumatized many people for something they genuinely knew nothing about.
The constant backpedaling is Chloe subconsciously trying to steer away from the idea that she may be wrong so that she can continue her power trip uninterrupted.
The Palimpsest Car is the biggest clue to this: the street cleaners that beat her up not only represent her own self-doubt and self-hatred over being such a petty and spiteful person, but a desire to die in her sleep, either so she doesn't have to explain herself to her family and friends and expose her dark side, or because she'd rather die believing she's an innocent god-like heroine than continue living knowing she can make mistakes and has to face the consequences like everyone else.
The lightning strike that saves her isn't the Train, but an electric shock being delivered to her heart in order to restart it, which proves successful and allows Chloe to continue dreaming until she manages to fully shed away her horrible persona in the Harvest Moon Car.
Chloe actually would've been ticked off about Tokio had she been told prior to Act 2
When Chloe finally learns about Tokio in her talk with Goh, she takes it surprisingly well, and this is used to demonstrate how if Goh had told her about him much earlier, their problems would've been mitigated.
However, by the time Chloe had been told about him, she had received such a big helping of Humble Pie and been made to see how her situation was more complex than she thought, that she didn't see any point in trying to twist Tokio into being solely his fault and not hers, something that she was prone to doing back when she entered the Train.
So, even if she had been told about him way earlier, she'd have used Tokio as another excuse to paint Goh as socially incompetent, rather than being mature about it like she did when Goh told her later.
Now that Chloe is finally deciding to discard her "Chloe of the Vermillion" persona and work on truly improving herself, she will begin to feel that all the powers she's acquired during her Train trip have made her overpowered, thus preventing her from using her own natural strength and abilities. She will then request to have all of her powers removed while choosing to keep only her donut holer.
Chloe isn't human
And neither are Ash, Goh, Gladion, Professor Cerise, or anyone else from the Pokemon world. With a very different biological history and tendency towards strength and endurance that a normal human can't have, if Chloe was to be examined by a medical professional on the Infinity Train or compared to Grace and Simon she wouldn't actually register as a human, but as a species of the
Human Aliens variety.
Chloe begged the Gourgeist to make the flower task challenging.
Chloe is very adamant in claiming that the Gourgeist she met in the Kalosian forest wouldn't give her the flowers to cure to Goh's fever or take them back to their campsite unless she went into the cave to retrieve them herself. Goh himself later points out that Chloe could've saved both him and herself a lot of time and trouble had she just outright demanded that the Pokemon give her the flowers, since there was a moment where it could very clearly see that the boy was sick.
Given Chloe's Self-Serving Memory, it's possible that the Gourgeist was actually willing to hand over the flowers without issue, but Chloe felt that it was too easy and, desperate to prove herself, insisted that she be given a more difficult challenge.
Chloe is a psychopath
The more we learn about how Chloe used to act toward Goh, and how she's acting now, the more it seems like Chloe might suffer some form of Psychopathy, if not be an outright sociopath:
She's very impulsive and doesn't think things through, is a Compulsive Liar to the point where she can't even tell the truth without twisting it around in some way, detests being ignored, her friendship with Goh is very superficial (i.e never wants to hang out with him unless she benefits from it), gets extremely violent when she doesn't get her way, and would rather bite her own tongue off than admit she made a mistake. Her apologies are also rather backhanded and insincere, too.
While her extreme remorse once she realizes she's messed up doesn't fit the criteria, not only does she never show remorse prior to learning about what she did, but she also has a tendency to rationalize her abusive behavior of Goh by claiming he deserved it for not being grateful or noticing her problems, even though Chloe never gave any indication that there were problems in the first place).
Penny will show up as Tiffany's very unimpressed cousin
With the last part of Indigo Disk heavily hinting that Penny is Peony's daughter, and thus Rose's niece, and thus Tiffany Rose's cousin, if she is still Tiffany Rose, her own history with bullies will leave her very unimpressed with the Apex's actions.
Not initially, of course, but this applies once Chloe actually enters the picture.
For starters, her personality is nothing like the one she has in canon, but fits more along the lines of what the co-author wanted Chloe to be like. She's made out to have an unrealistic set of talents (being a good softball player, fashion designing, decent cooking, good performer, and so on), as well as a living goddess on the Infinity Train despite being another Passenger, and is almost never in the wrong even when people say she is (sometimes to her face no less), which can easily come across as Chloe being turned into a mouthpiece/avatar for the co-author.
The bullying that Chloe goes through, as revealed in trivia regarding Blossoming Trail, is based on similar bullying the co-author suffered during their time at school. The fact that the bullying is intensified could also be seen as the co-author basing it on worse bullying they went through that wasn't in the original story.
While Sycamore is initially the main character, once Chloe shows up, she takes away all of the focus and the spotlight just like she did in the original trilogy.
While school itself barely played a part in the original anime, it was a big sore point for the co-author, which would explain why the school not only gets more focus here but is made out to be a terrible environment.
Goh and Chloe's relationship being strained came from the co-author's belief that the two weren't really friends, which is why the story repeatedly questions it even long after canon has given plenty of clear evidence that the two truly are friends.
Finally, the general plotline of calling everyone out over their stupidity and inactivity, especially towards Chloe, is the same set of grievances that the co-author had with the anime back when Blossoming Trail first started, which returns in this story even though it's been YEARS since the original story and those grievances have either been rectified (even when they weren't even problems to begin with) or rendered null and void.
- To add to this, many of the issues that Chloe has with Goh are ones that Green references being from her own life, like an incident involving a kid she was teaching only reading a few pages of Holes, which Goh replicates quite uncannily in story. There are several reviews of this nature (including one where Green mentions having 'autistic traits' which she applies to Chloe herself, despite that not being how such things work.)
