Erec Rex: Difference between revisions

[[Character Name and Thethe Noun Phrase|Erec Rex]] has only one eye. His foster siblings are all unique; one [[Ill Girl|can't walk,]] one [[Cute Mute|doesn't talk]], and one a little bit wild, plus two older twins, who are just teens. Not even [[Teens Are Monsters|monstrous]] ones. They're also all adopted, collected like stray cats by a kindly woman named June O'hara. (Erec himself was abandoned at the age of 3 by his father.) She [[Perpetual Poverty|works multiple jobs and moves around a lot just to care for them]], but for the most part, their lives are happy, if a little weird--theirweird—their mother has a habit of ordering strange, oddly lifelike electronics from a company called "Vulcan."

Erec, however, has a strange gift--hegift—he gets "cloudy thoughts" which compell him to do things he wouldn't normally know/want to do, like saving someone in trouble. One day, shortly after his mother goes out to a job interview, he gets such a thought to go look for her. He tries to resist it, but inevitably it leads him into the companionship of a girl named Bethany, and together, they go down--beneathdown—beneath the sidewalk, into a strange, subterranian mall, on a ski lift that takes them into a place called Alypium. Alypium is one of three worlds near our world "Upper Earth," that still remember magic. And Erec has a few more ties there than he'd suspect.

At first, given the impovrished life he comes from, the magical Alypium seems like a paradise--andparadise—and he even has a chance to enter a contest to become a King. But as time goes on, he begins to realize that this whimsical [[Magical Land]], while pleasant on the surface, is [[Crap Saccharine World|stewing in vileness just beneath.]] Only he can right it, and he isn't even sure ''why.'' Luckily, he has the assistance of his mother, Bethany, and a number of friends ranging from the small (like Jack and Oscar) to the really, ''really'' big (like the dragon Aosqueth). Too bad they seem to be his ''only'' friends, and as the world quickly turns against him, he must combat both his enemies ''and'' his bad publicity to save all the worlds once and for all.

* '''Erec Rex: The Dragon's Eye''' (2006)

* '''Erec Rex: The Monsters of Otherness''' (2007)

* '''Erec Rex: The Search for Truth''' (2009)

* '''Erec Rex: The Three Furies''' (2010)

* '''Erec Rex: The Secret of Ashona''' (2012)

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* [[Good Withwith Numbers]]: Bethany's specialty.

* [[Heart Is an Awesome Power]]: Many of the magical talents showcased in the book are a lot more epic and have better applications than it initially seems. For example, King Piter's ability to talk to plants actually gives him [[Surveillance Asas the Plot Demands|lots of insider information.]] Being good at math {{spoiler|helps make you a seer.}} And Jam's ability to "always be ready to serve" makes him an invaluable sidekick.

* [[Hero Withwith Bad Publicity]]: Poor Erec. Alypium really has it out for him.

* [[Humans Are Bastardsthe Real Monsters]]: Happens ''hard'' in Book 2.

* [[Villain Withwith Good Publicity]]: Baskania.