Board Thread:Speculation House/@comment-11188061-20131008154955/@comment-16774229-20131011051943

I actually think that the "Simple soul" is Monty's way of getting around using a chosen one prophecy. The reason you always see things like that in fantasy stories is so there can be a reason to have an everyman protagonist. Otherwise, wouldn't people want some powerful, superman to handle thingd like the fate of the world instead of a relatable farm boy?

You can avoid this by changing the nature of the quest, and how it must be dealt with. For example, in LOTR, Frodo has to carry the ring not because a prophecy said so, but because it would corrupt a more powerful person. I guessing it will be a similar case here, where there's some courptive aspect of the Grimm, and Ruby needs to be the one to fight it because she's to innocet to be afected by it. Something like that.