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Hi, all. First of all, I had to google “headcanon,” so thanks for the vocabulary lesson.

I would never restrict readers from developing their own interpretations of my characters and stories. I love that. The more the merrier. That said, I don’t personally see Chase as exhibiting NPD. Classic NPD usually means self-referential, which Chase is not. He’s capable of empathy – in fact, as he discovers his prior behavior, he’s even capable of shame.

As for the “old” Chase, it’s left to the reader to decide whether he exhibited NPD prior to the accident. In fact, that would be an even larger “restart” – to overcome something like NPD because of amnesia. A lot to think about!

Glad you’re all out there, taking my story to lengths even I hadn’t considered.

——–Gordon Korman——–