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* AlternateTimelines: Later books reveal the existence of alternate timelines. When a person travels to one, they displace the version of themself that was already there, resulting in a person who combines traits and memories of both, and retconning the history of the new timeline to reflect that. [[spoiler:In ''Dance of the Darkeye'', Joel and Felicity travel to different timelines to use different versions of the Songshell to infuse Joel with huge amounts of power so he can defeat Marshall. But it turns out that excessive timeline-hopping can weaken the boundaries between timelines, and their actions cause all the timelines to eventually collapse into one.]]
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* ShrinkRay: In ''Dance of the Darkeye'', the Shellborn defeat invading alien ships by using a shrinking cast to shrink them to the size of a toy and then trap them in a special containment unit.
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* TubeTravel: Mono Realm's public transportation system is an elaborate network of suction tubes that can transport people between terminals in just a few seconds, although some trips require more than a dozen transfers.
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* TubeTravel: Mono Realm's public transportation system is an elaborate network of suction tubes that can transport people between terminals in just ThouShaltNotKill: Because each kill degrades a few seconds, although some trips require more than a dozen transfers. person's Aura, Wavemakers are strictly forbidden from killing under any circumstance, no matter how justified it might seem.
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* WingedHumanoid: Spectraland has nothing that flies naturally, not even birds, but in ''Dance of the Darkeye'' Joel and Felicity go to an alternate timeline where the natives evolved wings. In this timeline, some of the characters have different names, like Firefeather instead of Fireflower.
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* TranslatorMicrobes: Marshall has manipulated the Aura in Spectraland so that when the natives speak their language, Joel and Felicity hear them in English, and vice versa. The spell doesn't affect lip movements, making life look like a badly-dubbed movie.
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** Marshall has manipulated the Aura in Spectraland so that when the natives speak their language, Joel and Felicity hear them in English, and vice versa. The spell doesn't affect lip movements, makinglife every conversation look like a badly-dubbed movie.movie.
** ''Dance of the Darkeye'' features aliens with various translator devices, including collars and chips.
** Marshall has manipulated the Aura in Spectraland so that when the natives speak their language, Joel and Felicity hear them in English, and vice versa. The spell doesn't affect lip movements, making
** ''Dance of the Darkeye'' features aliens with various translator devices, including collars and chips.
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* DeadGuyOnDisplay: In Rizor Delta, the local aliens decorate the conference room of their military headquarters with decaying corpses, delivered by the office decor vendor.
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* SetRightWhatOnceWentWrong: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', Joel and Felicity time travel to before the Fourfoot War to [[spoiler:stop Blackspore from bringing Marshall over]]. They fail, but [[spoiler:they do manage to rescue some Wavemakers who would otherwise have been murdered by Marshall and bring them into the present day]].
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* DisappearedDad: Joel has barely seen his dad since his parents divorced when he was ten and he, his sister, and his mom moved from Hawai'i to Seattle.
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* IdentityAmnesia: In ''Ballad of the Bluerock'', it's revealed that [[spoiler:the scummy potion-maker Darkeye is actually the Wavemaker Boneshoot. When Marshall killed most of the Wavemakers, Boneshoot suppressed his abilities along with his memories. He doesn't get them back until the Aura explosion at Marshall's concert twenty years later.]]
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* FirstEpisodeTwist: The fact that [[spoiler:Marshall is evil]] is revealed towards the end of the first book, and is crucially important to the rest of the series.
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* TechnologicallyBlindElders: In ''Ballad of the Bluerock'', Joel tries to call his grandpa, but they have trouble hearing each other because his grandpa keeps holding the cell phone the wrong way.
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* ClapYourHandsIfYouBelieve: In ''Ballad of the Bluerock'', Joel tries to manipulate the Aura using an ordinary guitar rather than a wavebow, and succeeds in getting the headstock to light up a little. But he finds that his ability only works in front of some people. He eventually realizes that his powers only work around people who want to believe in Spectraland.
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* HatesBeingNicknamed: Felicity and her older sister Victoria both hate being nicknamed, and annoy each other by calling each other Lissy and Vicky.
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', [[spoiler:Joel and Felicity go back in time to stop Blackspore from bringing Marshall to Spectraland in order to save the many people he's killed. They overshoot their destination and end up shortly before the start of the Fourfoot War. Then Joel's presence ends up causing the Fourfoot War - Chief Fourfoot falls in love with Joel and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe orders him to marry him]], but Joel refuses. Island law allows someone from outside a village to refuse marriage to a village chief, and Fourfoot can't change that law without the agreement of the other three village chiefs, so he declares war on the other villages in order to become sole chief so he can force whomever he wants to marry him]].
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', [[spoiler:Joel and Felicity go back in time to stop Blackspore from bringing Marshall to Spectraland in order to save the many people he's killed. They overshoot their destination and end up shortly before the start of the Fourfoot War. Then Joel's presence ends up causing the Fourfoot War - Chief Fourfoot falls in love with Joel and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe orders him to marry him]], but Joel refuses. Island law allows someone from outside a village to refuse marriage to a village chief, and Fourfoot can't change that law without the agreement of the other three village chiefs, so he declares war on the other villages in order to become sole chief so he can force whomever he wants to marry him]].him. Later, Joel manages to talk Blackspore out of bringing Marshall over, but just as the timeline is starting to change, Thornleaf knocks out Joel, Felicity, and Blackspore with a stunning cast and finishes the incantation himself because he thinks it's a bad idea to mess with the timeline]].
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Riverhand was born missing some of his fingers. His parents never accepted him, and he has a difficult relationship with them because of it. [[spoiler:When Joel goes back in time to before Riverhand was born in ''Fable of the Fatewave, Riverhand tells him to tell his parents to accept their future child even if he's different from the others. Joel does, but his advice fails to have any impact on their relationship with Riverhand in the present.]]
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Riverhand was born missing some of his fingers. His parents never accepted him, and he has a difficult relationship with them because of it. [[spoiler:When Joel goes back in time to before Riverhand was born in ''Fable of the Fatewave, Fatewave'', Riverhand tells him to tell his parents to accept their future child even if he's different from the others. Joel does, but his advice fails to have any impact on their relationship with Riverhand in the present.]]
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* TheChosenOne: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', Joel learns that he is the Virtuoso. According to an ancient prophesy, he will become the most powerful Wavemaker in history, capable of traveling through space and time, and will need to save the universe.
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* {{Seers}}: Joel has the Sight, which means that by relaxing and clearing his mind, he can notice tiny details others don't. With practice, he learns to use his ability to see into the past by looking for the ghost-like traces of people's previous actions.
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* {{Gayngst}}: Redstem is a lesbian, and hasn't told anyone except Joel. Homosexuality used to be at least tolerated in Spectraland, until some time before Redstem was born, when a gay man did something horrible. Ever since then, gay people have been associated with evil and destruction. [[spoiler:That gay man turns out to have been Fourfoot, who started a civil war over an unrequited crush.]]
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* WhyCouldntYouBeDifferent: Riverhand was born missing some of his fingers. His parents never accepted him, and he has a difficult relationship with them because of it. [[spoiler:When Joel goes back in time to before Riverhand was born in ''Fable of the Fatewave, Riverhand tells him to tell his parents to accept their future child even if he's different from the others. Joel does, but his advice fails to have any impact on their relationship with Riverhand in the present.]]
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* YouAlreadyChangedThePast: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', [[spoiler:Joel and Felicity go back in time to stop Blackspore from bringing Marshall to Spectraland in order to save the many people he's killed. They overshoot their destination and end up shortly before the start of the Fourfoot War. Then Joel's presence ends up causing the Fourfoot War - Chief Fourfoot falls in love with Joel and [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe orders him to marry him]], but Joel refuses. Island law allows someone from outside a village to refuse marriage to a village chief, and Fourfoot can't change that law without the agreement of the other three village chiefs, so he declares war on the other villages in order to become sole chief so he can force whomever he wants to marry him]].
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* CalmingTea: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', after Seaberry has one of her panic attacks, Fireflower makes her some warm tea.
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Joel, a sixteen-year-old aspiring rock star on the autism spectrum, is taken by his favorite musician Marshall Byle to Spectraland, an island in another world. Joel has the right neurology to use music to make magic effects, and Marshall wants to train him, along with Felicity, another autistic teenager from Earth, so that they can become great songwriters and bring joy to the world with their music.
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Joel, a sixteen-year-old aspiring rock star on the autism spectrum, is taken by his favorite musician Marshall Byle to Spectraland, an island in another world. Joel has the right neurology to use music to make magic effects, and Marshall wants to train him, along with Felicity, Felicity Smith, another autistic teenager from Earth, so that they can become great songwriters and bring joy to the world with their music.
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* WhenYouWereInDiapers: In ''Fable of the Fatewave'', Blackspore tells Fireflower, "I was a master Wavemaker long before you even knew how to tune your instrument."
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* StreetPerformer: The citizens of Mono Realm are incapable of performing good music unless they're happy, and since the Uniter took over, they've been so unhappy that they are desperately starved for music. Joel and his allies are desperately in need of money, so they start performing Spectraland folk songs at a market. The Mono Realmers are so happy to hear good music again that the group makes lots of money. Then the manager asks them if they have a performing permit and they have to flee, but by that point they have as much money as they need.
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* EnergyDonation: In ''Legend of the Loudstone'', when Joel is low on Aura during his fight with [[spoiler:Marshall]], Auravine lends him some of hers.
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* LaResistance: In ''Legend of the Loudstone'', the protagonists discover a resistance movement of people trying to overthrow the Uniter. They agree to help them overthrow him in exchange for help [[spoiler:defeating Marshall, although the two goals turn out to be the same once Marshall turns out to be in league with the Uniter]].
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* TheOutsideWorld: In ''Legend of the Loudstone'', the titular stones allow people to store Aura, thus allowing a Wavemaker to fly out of the island even where there isn't enough Aura in the air to support magical flight. Joel, Felicity, and a group of other Wavemakers fly out over the ocean in pursuit of [[spoiler:Marshall and his cronies]]. They end up in Mono Realm, a magicless but technologically advanced society formerly known as Six States before the despotic Uniter took over the whole region and executed everyone who resisted his rule.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: No one in Spectraland has ever been able to leave the island. Once someone gets a certain distance from shore, hundred-foot waves will suddenly rise up, usually killing them. After the natives used Joel's explanation of aerodynamics to develop a flight spell, Fireflower tried to fly over the waves, but the farther she got from the island, the weaker the Aura got, until she fell into the ocean and almost drowned.
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* SmallSecludedWorld: No one in Spectraland has ever been able to leave the island. Once someone gets a certain distance from shore, hundred-foot waves will suddenly rise up, usually killing them. After the natives used Joel's explanation of aerodynamics to develop a flight spell, Fireflower tried to fly over the waves, but the farther she got from the island, the weaker the Aura got, until she fell into the ocean and almost drowned. It isn't until ''Legend of the Loudstone'' that the natives figure out how to get past the waves.
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* ThePowerOfHate: After [[spoiler:Auravine]] is killed in ''Legend of the Loudstone'', Joel's rage towards [[spoiler:Marshall]] allows him to pull off casts he could never have managed normally. He almost kills him by draining his Aura before Felicity talks him down.
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* ArtificialGravity: Cars in Mono Realm have no roofs or seat belts - instead, passengers are held in place by artificial gravity.
