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What? Noooooo. This is Phoebe not just drawing a comic about herself wanting to draw a comic, but she’s also inserting herself into said comic. Therefore, Phoebe 1 is her idealized representation and Phoebe 2 is her self-reflective representation of her real self. Well, real given that it’s actually Dana drawing a comic about a girl drawing a comic about a girl who wants to draw comics, then self-inserting the first girl into the comic about the second girl—when both girls could be technically self-inserts of Dana’s.
The real prophecy was the friends we made along the way.