User blog comment:Epic~00/Discussion: Which fanbases do you think have the most annoying people?/@comment-7084398-20140910001319/@comment-24152851-20140910020729

Exactly Christlover, I can accept Heather was a protagonist in the second half of TDWT, but I always argue with people who say she was a protagonist from the beginning. That's just obviously Heather-fan bias, for those who wanted her to be the protagonist from the very beginning.

She only took on the protagonist role when it became obvious to both the characters in-universe, AND the fans out-universe, that Heather was the "lesser of two evils".