Thread: Did we usurp the 2.0 "Derplander"?

So I just finished up the current patch storyline a week or so ago and it got me thinking about something that I brushed off near the beginning of the game as being an easter egg.

There comes a point where you go to speak with Momodi in her bar and she is giving the "beginning adventurer speech" (which she apperently repeats to every new adventurer she meets as a matter of canon) to a male midland hyur who is a gladiator with the familiar "derplander" (Arbert) model.

The original character so far as I know was a gladiator who started in Ul'dah then some time down the line became a warrior and famous "Warrior of Light"

So now I wonder if our characters by virtue of simply getting there first were able to essentially /steal/ all of the events that would have led to him becoming the storyline hero (with the potential for a massive downer ending) in the first place (ie: primal slaying, fighting the empire, ect)

It may just be a matter of me over thinking things for the fun of it but it seems to me that were it not for the fact that our characters exist the Ul'dahn "Derplander" may very well have awoken to the echo and could well have walked a very similar path to ours, but instead he is never seen again.

Meaning he could very well have been doomed to a life of pointless fetch quests and leves by our taking all the important work from him, leaving him stuck just imagining all of the things that "could have been" had he become an adventurer sooner, thus why he is always in the cgi intro videos representing us and how he can be both a representation of us and yet still be his own character.

(Yup.. the intro videos are all just in poor derplanders head as he does his daily leve grind and kills just enough monsters to earn some gil which he spends drowning himself in stale ale at some bar in limsa.. a bar that he had to /walk/ to because he never made a big enough name for himself to even be given an airship pass or chocobo license.. poor guy, we ruined his life)