Talk:Blades of Light and Shadow Miscellaneous Characters/@comment-3452092-20200604024825

I quite like this quote from King Arlan "Perhaps it was within their ability to do so, but you're the one who forged the path. You're the one who pressed on."

I've heard people describe the chosen one trope as a story about a random nobody who was picked by destiny or whatever to do something, but I think they have it backward. The chosen one trope isn't about a random anyone. It's about THE one who was that and their story. They were never random, because that's always who they were or, as some cases might be, that's who they chose to be because they wouldn't give up. If you told the story of Joe Blow instead of John Hero, it wouldn't be the same story, because Joe Blow had a different story to tell. It might be just as interesting. It might not. Either way, it isn't the same story, because it wasn't random.