Let me give you a scenario. Two characters in an established story get lost in different parts of a desert and happen to find each other. That’s not a coincidence, that’s bullshit, and it’s not good writing. Now, the protagonist we’re following just happens to be the hero of the story. What are the odds we’re following the hero and not say his bumbling sidekick? Like, 100%! That’s WHY the story is following the hero, BECAUSE he’s the hero! Also, to contradict what I just said, two characters getting lost in different parts of a desert who happen to find each other is NOT bullshit if that happens to be the sole purpose of the story. Because it’s not outrageous to think that has probably happened in real life before.

SO. Two randoms happen to find each other in a desert = okay.

One of them ALSO happens to be a hero or chosen one or other anomalous thing = NOT OKAY.

One of them happens to KNOW the hero or be tangentially related to the hero in any way = NOT OKAY.

…Forgive me, Chris could’ve explained this more succinctly. Also I’m not letting the other other narrator edit my “dialogue”.

Chris: ANOTHER narrator is involved in this mess? Good grief.

Please shoosh. And so, to make what I’ve been trying to say relevant to this comic: Chris is a twelve-thousand-year-old wizard who can create artificial humans with superpowers – that is the reason this story exists. HOWEVER, he has been doing his thing for like eleven millenia, as he said. So why is this story focused on this era? Why this batch of teens? Is it random or are these characters going to face a threat whose magnitude has not been seen in thousands upon thousands of years?? The reason we started here, with this group, is something anomalous that has to do with Jean. That fact, while significant, doesn’t make her the protagonist or even all that significant beyond that singular reason. At any rate, it turns out Andas is more fitting to be the protagonist, and so that’s why he is.

Chris: What he’s trying to say — and frankly, taking a criminally long time to do so — is that anomalies are the lifeblood of stories. You can have several, but scatter them willy-nilly or overload the plot, and the story goes pear-shaped.

Uhh, yeah.

Chris: Jean being an anomaly and not a badass tells me all I need to know. Can we skip to the part where you explain why I’m here?