Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-25266931-20161112032800/@comment-4010415-20161114193324

Good/great stories commonly start out slowly and take the time for us to get to know the characters and see them grow.

By the way, one instance I've seen of "Chosen one just wants to be normal" that was done pretty well was Buffy Summers from Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In the beginning of season 1, she was trying to get out of the whole "You're the chosen one, the Slayer" thing and live a normal life, and her reasons for that were


 * The whole reason she and her mother moved to Sunnydale is because she got expelled from her previous high school for "arson". What really happened is that she was fighting vampires in the school gym, and the fight accidentally led to the gym burning down. How do you explain "I was fighting vampires" without getting admitted to a mental hospital?


 * She was the new girl in school, and the supernatural evil stuff following her around and putting her on edge led to some situations where she made herself look like a freak and a weirdo, thus leading to her being an outcast.

Really doesn't help that the prophecy about her said she was gonna die that year. Technically, she did, and she was revived. After that, she accepted that she's the Slayer/Chosen One and tried to juggle slaying and her school and social lives. It certainly helps that her friends ended up helping her fight evil, so she could still hang out with them. Though, she was breaking the traditional Slayer rules that "The Slayer has to fight alone and can't let her friends and family know about this stuff." Slaying frequently got her into trouble at school and home, though, and she had to sneak out to go slaying when she was grounded.

Anyway, "I don't wanna be the Chosen One" doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing.

And it's immensely important to let the audience be there for character growth and get to know the characters.