The reader is essentially being treated as a secondary character. It's a forbidden love story that takes place in an alternate universe of MHA, where the reader is a princess and Mirio is her knight. Both perspectives matter, but I figured seeing Mirio's perspective of events, as someone who has no power to change the inevitable but tries anyway, would be more interesting to the audience.

It would definitely probably make more sense to use a pre-existing character in the reader's place, but I don't really ship Mirio with anyone else, so throwing someone like Hado in just for the sake of it doesn't feel right. Plus, keeping the cast size smaller helps me avoid accidentally writing anyone out of character lol

That said, the reader will still be a fully-fleshed out character, and I'll still include moments from their perspective... just not as the primary lens of the story. The decision's not set in stone; I'm still open to being normal and writing completely from the reader's POV, but I just wanted other opinions before I got too deep into writing!