User blog comment:StoryGirl83/Nerve Yield for Diamond Choices in "It Lives In the Woods"/@comment-28971091-20180421042313/@comment-3452092-20180421122924

Because that's the order their names were first mentioned in the story. It was do that or alphabetical (which for this sort of things annoys me, so not happening. Besides it wouldn't have but the main character first and that was important to me) or I suppose the order in which they were actually physically introduced (in which case Dan would obviously be last and that would have bugged me since his physical likeness was still in the story first even though it wasn't actually him) or in order of who has the first nerve gaining diamond option or who has the most diamond options, but this is the way I organize other things I do involving character appearance, so it makes the most sense to me.