Ere the Broken

Ere the Broken*"What's the point? I can't move my legs, my scalp has been left barren of hair, my muscles have atrophied away to nothingness, everything I once was has been shattered against the rocks and here I am left in pieces beneath them. A shattered glass pane dropped with no regards for the shards that remain. Why should I care any more Elder, look where caring has gotten me!"* -Ere the broken, S2 E4 during his first appearance of the season when the **Elder** goes to meet **Ere** in his home.

Ere was one of the core group during the first season, up until the finale arc where one of the group was capable of ascending to a Divine being. The two rivals of the season, Michelle and Ere were poised as the two committed to competing for this ascension and were willing to compete fiercely as friends and see who was more deserving. During the final episode of the season, it was shown that during the final challenge, Ere had slipped on a turn and fallen, not reappearing for the remainder of the episode leaving fans to speculate what happened to him and where he had disappeared to. During the miniseries between seasons, covered below, his exact situation was further expanded upon and established for his return to be a potentially bleak one in season 2.

* **Plot importance**
* **Ere- proche, mais pas de Cigarette, Tesla, ou Baguette**

During this mini series, we follow all of the events that transpired from the moment we last see Ere during the season finale until shortly before the start of season 2. During the season finale, it is reveled that the reason he fell was due to a terrible injury where in both of his acl's were entirely destroyed, leaving him incapable of using both legs from the hip down. Having been competing in a race far away from anyone, and with no one knowing where he was or his condition he was forced to slowly crawl his way back towards his home. During his travels, he would lay his head down on the ground during the night to sleep, and the abrasion with the cold hard ground rubbed his scalp bloody and raw, grating all the hair off his head. Finally as he made it back to his home, he realized that his dream of becoming the French mime he always hoped for was no longer realistic due to the condition his body as left in. With this revelation, he slowly sank into his wheelchair and accepted his fate as wheelechairnomenon, baldnomenon, uglynomenon and nobitchesnomenon. The final shot of the miniseries is one of Ere sat in his wheelchair in front of the monitor reading "Defeat" as it slowly fades to black as he stares at those words and a graphic showing that a pirate had added nothing to the chart while a lady topped the chart.

* **Ere the broken. E4-E10**

Picking up where **Ere- proche, mais pas de Cigarette, Tesla, ou Baguette** left off, the **Elder** enters the home of **Ere**, having not seen each other since the finale of the first season. It turns out **Ere** had lost motivation due to the state he has been left in from the competition and did not see any reason to try and improve from where he was at. Accepting his current situation as the new normal. After a discussion together, the **Elder** leaves having not fully convinced **Ere** to change his path, but having laid the seeds that will eventually spur change for the better. Several episodes go by with **Ere** serving as the B plot struggling to go about his day, slowly shifting from simply struggling, to getting frustrated at the current situation, before finally while struggling with his food during E10 his nuts fall under the table which he can't reach from the wheelchair and he is convinced to go back out into the world and undo his misfortune and reclaim his former glory.